Table of Contents, June 2026

New month, new stories: here's a new crop of short fiction has begun dropping, and it's time for a new roundup for the month! You can check out last month's (newly updated!) installment here, and the prior installments here.

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Adventitious (Issue 3)

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Fiction

• "Non Plus Ultra" by M.A. Carrick
• "All of My Tomorrows" by L.D. Colter
• "alleles" by Amanda Helms
• "Hollows After Bones" by Elis Montgomery
• "Sunday on the grass" by John Saul

Nonfiction

• For Sale: If You Can Catch It — A Rare Ambulatory Freehold Opportunity!

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Amazing Stories (June 2026)

Fiction

• "Diaschisis" by T.R. Brooks

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Apex Magazine (Issue 153, June/July 2026)

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Fiction

• "The Bathhouse for Long Life" by Claire Jia-Wen
• "Glass" by Beth Dawkins
• "Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation" by Chris Campbell — 6/2
• "My Suicides" by Debbie Urbanski — 6/9
• "Seventeen Beats, the Chirping Stopped" by Christian Ramirez Ramos — 6/23
• "In Your Diminishing Tongue" by Indigo Rue
• "The Vigil of the Tenth Air" by Surya Ramkumar — 6/30

Nonfiction

• Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
• Why it Matters When I Write About Space Janitors by Marie Vibbert
• Weird Girl Fiction by Ivy Grimes — 6/4
• Interview with Author Claire Jia-Wen by Marissa van Uden
• Interview with Author Debbie Urbanski by Marissa van Uden — 6/16

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Aurealis (Issue 190)

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Fiction

• "Faultless" by Brendan Cottam
• "Unnatural Selection" by Donna Lee Austin
• "To Feel the Sunby Dominic Deveny-Borg

Nonfiction

• From the Cloud
• ‘The Lonely’: The Twilight Zone Episode That Parallels the 2020s by Joseph Sullivan
• The Paradox of Nothing: The Anthromorphism of Aliens by Todd Sullivan
• Ignorance Is Creative Bliss by Dr PH Court

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Clarkesworld Magazine__(June 2026, Issue 237)

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Fiction

• "Up the Line to Death" by Carrie Vaughn
• "The Potential Side Effects of Roleplay Stimulation Therapy" by Claire Jia-Wen
• "The Floating Republic" by Rebecca Campbell
• "Three Cases from the Cosmic Psychiatric Clinic" by Pan Haitian, translated by Blake Stone-Banks
• "A Life Measured in Seconds" by Anne Wilkins
• "Burning Day" by Samantha Murray
• "Ice, Rock, Empathy" by Damián Neri

Nonfiction

• Finite Resources & Congestion Charges: What Will EV Technology of the Future Actually Look Like? by Kyle Tam
• When The Future Catches Up To You: A Conversation with Naomi Kritzer by Arley Sorg
• To Know, and to Have a Choice: A Conversation with Isabel J. Kim by Arley Sorg
• Editor's Desk: One for the Team by Neil Clarke

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Dark Horses Magazine (Issue 53, June 2026)

Fiction

• "Beyond The Beaten Path" by Jenny Morelli
• "Beyond The Breakers" by Chris Mcginley
• "Gore" by Andrew Albritton
• "Thunder Road" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
• "How Navigation Works" by Griffith Pound
• "That Time Was The Place Where I Exist" by Robert Pettus
• "The Gathering Of The Dragons" by Matias Travieso-diaz
• "The Silver Front" by George P. Cross
• "The World Beyond The Water" by Daniel Burnbridge
• "Ghost Inquisitor" by Bill Walthall
• "Child Of Centaurus" by R.A. Daunton
• "Drains" by David Castlewitz
• "Five Soft Fingers" by Sophia Krich-brinton
• "Lisl" by Lisa Marie Miller
• "Neural Crucible" by Ernesto Sanchez
• "The Gromskin" by Mark Nuzzi
• "The Missouri Man" by Lawrence Dagstine
• "A Taste Of Truth" by Bill Diamond
• Plunge" by Anuel Rodriguez

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Diabolical Plots (June 2026)

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Fiction

• “The Sharp Cry of the Winterlarks” by Arden Baker

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GigaNotoSaurus__(June 2026)

Fiction

• "How the Waters Returned to Apicuya" by Nicholas Schorn

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Kaleidotrope (Spring 2026)

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Fiction

• "Once Upon an Invasion" by Amanda Cecelia Lang
• "Outbreak" by Michele H. Porter
• "Out to Sea" by Dominic D. Borg
• "Ponyhenge" by Faith Allington
• "The Tipping Point" by Sean French-Byrne
• "Diamonds" by Grant Stone
• "Astral Source" by K.L. Neidecker
• "A Life in the Day: with Chris Wheeler, CEO of Tricentennial" by Matt Hornsby
• "Ma’anu Wei: What We Know Thus Far" by Eliezra Schaffzin
• "A Tree That Can’t Be Chopped" by Timothy Mudie
• Wolftongue"by Em Harriett
• "Rara Avis" by Meg Elison

Poetry

• "Awakening" by Mari Ness
• "Even in Our Sleep" by Mark Rich
• "Bridge and Tunnel" by Anne Perez

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Lightspeed Magazine (Issue 193, June 2026)

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Fiction

• "Ghost in the Tank" by M.R. Robinson (6/4)
• "The Best of Intentions" by Mari Ness (6/4)
• "Memeostasis" by Benjamin Rosenbaum (6/11)
• "An Oral History of the Schooner Key Invasion" by Alex Irvine (6/11)
• "The Overview Initiative" by David Marino (6/18)
• "I Cut Off a Monster’s Arm. AITA?" by Marie Brennan (6/18)
• "The Sharing of Some Familiar Song" by Adam-Troy Castro (6/25)
• "Ash-Shūrā; or, A Book, a Bowl, a Bag of Coins" by Beesan Odeh (6/25)

Nonfiction

• Editorial: June 2026 by John Joseph Adams (6/4)
• Author Spotlight: M.R. Robinson by Erik Grove (6/4)
• Author Spotlight: Alex Irvine by A Humphrey Lanham (6/11)\
• Book Review: My Dear You by Rachel Khong by Arley Sorg (6/11)
• Author Spotlight: David Marino by Phoebe Barton (6/18)
• Book Review: Goldenborn by Ama Ofosua Lieb by Melissa A Watkins (6/18)
• Author Spotlight: Beesan Odeh by Delia Cullity (6/25)
• Book Review: Auntie Heroes by Rita Beeman, ed. (6/25)

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Luna Station Quarterly (June 2026, Issue 066)

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Fiction

• "Backwash" by Rowan Tate
• "Two Nights at the Doll House" by Maggie Slater
• "Cat Steps" by River West
• "As Per My Last Email" by Eleanor Rasor
• "Track 19" by Lesley Hart Gunn
• "Hazard Pay; Competence; Wyrms" by Catherine George
• "Zig and Zag's Guide to Crash Landing" by Harklin Ashe
• "The Dragons" by Ashleigh Rajala
• "Time Surfing" by Isabel McKeough
• "The Queen of Tish" by Lindsey Duncan
• "Vestigial Speech" by Xavier George
• "Tongue" by Denman Netherland
• "The Last Birthday Cake" by KT Reed
• "Spaghettification" by Lauren Ferebee
• "The Grass is Pinker on the Other Side" by Kelley Tai

Nonfiction

• The June issue has docked for the summer by Jennifer Lyn Parsons

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Nightmare Magazine (June 2026, Issue 165)

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Fiction

• "What Grows Back" by Aishatu Ado (6/3)
• "NoMouth" by Marianne Kirby (6/10)
• "Patterns of Dentition in Transgender Adults" by Izzy Wasserstein (6/17)
• "Good Morning, Wolf—" by Stephanie M. Wytovich (6/24)

Nonfiction

• Editorial: June 2026 by Wendy N. Wagner (6/3)
• Author Spotlight: Aishatu Ado by Clay Vermulm (6/3)
• The H Word: Horror Is the Metal of Books by Chris Panatier (6/10)
• Author Spotlight: Izzy Wasserstein by Kevin Figueroa Quiñones (6/17)
• Media Reviews: June 2026 by Adam-Troy Castro (6/24)

Otherside (June 2026, Issue 2)

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Fiction

• "We Who Have Been Raised by Tigers" by P.V. Vamsidhar
• "Before She Knew About Magic" by Joshua Geller Schwartz
• "Two People" by Ben Francisco
• "This Is C(lone)-Pop" by Lia Lao
• "Spider Kiss" by Bree Wernicke
• "Chī Kǔ" by J.Y. Zhang
• "First to Rot" by J.N. Howell
• "Crowns" by cee-cee manrique
• "Remade, Reshaped, Remembered" by Sydney Paige Guerrero

Poetry

• "Masquerade." by Chidera Offor
• Ganymede" by Gospel Chinedu
• "obsolesce" by Macey Levington
• "girl, flogged by a false-named whip." by Amie SHen
• "Open Your Eyes Again" by Toby MacNutt
• "As seen through the hole of the hag stone:" by Sienna Tristen

Nonfiction

• Letter from the Editors: Issue 2 by Ash Vale, M.R. Robinson, V.M. Ayala
• A Noose of Purple Silk by Sidney Grady

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Small Wonders Magazine (June 2026)

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Fiction

• "Laundry Lives" by Cara Masten DiGirolamo

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Uncanny Magazine (May/June 2026, Issue 70)

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Fiction

• "Immigrant Girl from the End of the World" by Hannah Yang (available Jun 02, 2026)
• "#HumansOfMars" by Lavie Tidhar (available Jun 02, 2026)
• "Magical Girl Eater" by Angela Liu (available Jun 02, 2026)
• "Lincoln and the Harvester C-100" by R.S.A. Garcia (available Jun 02, 2026)

Poetry

• "electric in the silver stormchain that burst behind my wings" by S.R. Ekstein (available Jun 02, 2026)
• "Quorum" by Ceridwen Hall (available Jun 02, 2026)

Nonfiction

• Nature, Monsters, and the Responsibility of Larger Things by Nilah Magruder (available Jun 02, 2026)
• An Absolute Crisis: DC’s Big 7 Have Been Stripped Down and Relaunched for the Present Age by Alex Jennings (available Jun 02, 2026)
• Interview: Angela Liu by Caroline M. Yoachim (available Jun 02, 2026)

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That's it for now: check back later in the month when I update this list. As always, let me know what you read in the comments!