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  "description": "More SF/F short fiction to read this month! ",
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    "here",
    "Adventitious",
    "Non Plus Ultra",
    "For Sale: If You Can Catch It — A Rare Ambulatory Freehold Opportunity!",
    "Amazing Stories",
    "Diaschisis",
    "Apex Magazine",
    "The Bathhouse for Long Life",
    "Glass",
    "In Your Diminishing Tongue",
    "Musings from Maryland",
    "Why it Matters When I Write About Space Janitors",
    "Interview with Author Claire Jia-Wen",
    "Aurealis",
    "Faultless",
    "Unnatural Selection",
    "Donna Lee Austin",
    "To Feel the Sun",
    "Dominic Deveny-Borg",
    "From the Cloud",
    "‘The Lonely’: The Twilight Zone Episode That Parallels the 2020s",
    "The Paradox of Nothing: The Anthromorphism of Aliens",
    "Ignorance Is Creative Bliss",
    "Clarkesworld Magazine",
    "Up the Line to Death",
    "The Potential Side Effects of Roleplay Stimulation Therapy",
    "The Floating Republic",
    "Three Cases from the Cosmic Psychiatric Clinic",
    "A Life Measured in Seconds",
    "Burning Day",
    "Ice, Rock, Empathy",
    "Finite Resources & Congestion Charges: What Will EV Technology of the Future Actually Look Like?",
    "When The Future Catches Up To You: A Conversation with Naomi Kritzer",
    "To Know, and to Have a Choice: A Conversation with Isabel J. Kim",
    "Editor's Desk: One for the Team",
    "Dark Horses Magazine",
    "Diabolical Plots",
    "The Sharp Cry of the Winterlarks",
    "GigaNotoSaurus",
    "How the Waters Returned to Apicuya",
    "Nicholas Schorn",
    "Kaleidotrope",
    "Once Upon an Invasion",
    "Outbreak",
    "Out to Sea",
    "Ponyhenge",
    "The Tipping Point",
    "Diamonds",
    "Astral Source",
    "A Life in the Day: with Chris Wheeler, CEO of Tricentennial",
    "Ma’anu Wei: What We Know Thus Far",
    "A Tree That Can’t Be Chopped",
    "Wolftongue",
    "Rara Avis",
    "Awakening",
    "Even in Our Sleep",
    "Bridge and Tunnel",
    "Lightspeed Magazine",
    "Luna Station Quarterly",
    "The June issue has docked for the summer",
    "Nightmare Magazine",
    "Otherside",
    "Small Wonders Magazine",
    "Laundry Lives",
    "Uncanny Magazine",
    "Immigrant Girl from the End of the World",
    "HumansOfMars",
    "Magical Girl Eater",
    "Lincoln and the Harvester C-100",
    "electric in the silver stormchain that burst behind my wings",
    "Quorum",
    "Nature, Monsters, and the Responsibility of Larger Things",
    "An Absolute Crisis: DC’s Big 7 Have Been Stripped Down and Relaunched for the Present Age",
    "Interview: Angela Liu"
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  "textContent": "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.\n\n* * *\n\n## Adventitious (Issue 3)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Non Plus Ultra\" by M.A. Carrick\n  * \"All of My Tomorrows\" by L.D. Colter\n  * \"alleles\" by Amanda Helms\n  * \"Hollows After Bones\" by Elis Montgomery\n  * \"Sunday on the grass\" by John Saul\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * For Sale: If You Can Catch It — A Rare Ambulatory Freehold Opportunity!\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Amazing Stories (June 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Diaschisis\" by T.R. Brooks\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Apex Magazine (Issue 153, June/July 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"The Bathhouse for Long Life\" by Claire Jia-Wen\n  * \"Glass\" by Beth Dawkins\n  * \"Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation\" by Chris Campbell — 6/2\n  * \"My Suicides\" by Debbie Urbanski — 6/9\n  * \"Seventeen Beats, the Chirping Stopped\" by Christian Ramirez Ramos — 6/23\n  * \"In Your Diminishing Tongue\" by Indigo Rue\n  * \"The Vigil of the Tenth Air\" by Surya Ramkumar — 6/30\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner\n  * Why it Matters When I Write About Space Janitors by Marie Vibbert\n  * Weird Girl Fiction by Ivy Grimes — 6/4\n  * Interview with Author Claire Jia-Wen by Marissa van Uden\n  * Interview with Author Debbie Urbanski by Marissa van Uden — 6/16\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Aurealis (Issue 190)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Faultless\" by Brendan Cottam\n  * \"Unnatural Selection\" by Donna Lee Austin\n  * \"To Feel the Sunby Dominic Deveny-Borg\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * From the Cloud\n  * ‘The Lonely’: The Twilight Zone Episode That Parallels the 2020s by Joseph Sullivan\n  * The Paradox of Nothing: The Anthromorphism of Aliens by Todd Sullivan\n  * Ignorance Is Creative Bliss by Dr PH Court\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Clarkesworld Magazine__(June 2026, Issue 237)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Up the Line to Death\" by Carrie Vaughn\n  * \"The Potential Side Effects of Roleplay Stimulation Therapy\" by Claire Jia-Wen\n  * \"The Floating Republic\" by Rebecca Campbell\n  * \"Three Cases from the Cosmic Psychiatric Clinic\" by Pan Haitian, translated by Blake Stone-Banks\n  * \"A Life Measured in Seconds\" by Anne Wilkins\n  * \"Burning Day\" by Samantha Murray\n  * \"Ice, Rock, Empathy\" by Damián Neri\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Finite Resources & Congestion Charges: What Will EV Technology of the Future Actually Look Like? by Kyle Tam\n  * When The Future Catches Up To You: A Conversation with Naomi Kritzer by Arley Sorg\n  * To Know, and to Have a Choice: A Conversation with Isabel J. Kim by Arley Sorg\n  * Editor's Desk: One for the Team by Neil Clarke\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Dark Horses Magazine (Issue 53, June 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Beyond The Beaten Path\" by Jenny Morelli\n  * \"Beyond The Breakers\" by Chris Mcginley\n  * \"Gore\" by Andrew Albritton\n  * \"Thunder Road\" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer\n  * \"How Navigation Works\" by Griffith Pound\n  * \"That Time Was The Place Where I Exist\" by Robert Pettus\n  * \"The Gathering Of The Dragons\" by Matias Travieso-diaz\n  * \"The Silver Front\" by George P. Cross\n  * \"The World Beyond The Water\" by Daniel Burnbridge\n  * \"Ghost Inquisitor\" by Bill Walthall\n  * \"Child Of Centaurus\" by R.A. Daunton\n  * \"Drains\" by David Castlewitz\n  * \"Five Soft Fingers\" by Sophia Krich-brinton\n  * \"Lisl\" by Lisa Marie Miller\n  * \"Neural Crucible\" by Ernesto Sanchez\n  * \"The Gromskin\" by Mark Nuzzi\n  * \"The Missouri Man\" by Lawrence Dagstine\n  * \"A Taste Of Truth\" by Bill Diamond\n  * Plunge\" by Anuel Rodriguez\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Diabolical Plots (June 2026)\n\nSupport here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * “The Sharp Cry of the Winterlarks” by Arden Baker\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## GigaNotoSaurus__(June 2026)\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"How the Waters Returned to Apicuya\" by Nicholas Schorn\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Kaleidotrope (Spring 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Once Upon an Invasion\" by Amanda Cecelia Lang\n  * \"Outbreak\" by Michele H. Porter\n  * \"Out to Sea\" by Dominic D. Borg\n  * \"Ponyhenge\" by Faith Allington\n  * \"The Tipping Point\" by Sean French-Byrne\n  * \"Diamonds\" by Grant Stone\n  * \"Astral Source\" by K.L. Neidecker\n  * \"A Life in the Day: with Chris Wheeler, CEO of Tricentennial\" by Matt Hornsby\n  * \"Ma’anu Wei: What We Know Thus Far\" by Eliezra Schaffzin\n  * \"A Tree That Can’t Be Chopped\" by Timothy Mudie\n  * Wolftongue\"by Em Harriett\n  * \"Rara Avis\" by Meg Elison\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * \"Awakening\" by Mari Ness\n  * \"Even in Our Sleep\" by Mark Rich\n  * \"Bridge and Tunnel\" by Anne Perez\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Lightspeed Magazine (Issue 193, June 2026)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Ghost in the Tank\" by M.R. Robinson (6/4)\n  * \"The Best of Intentions\" by Mari Ness (6/4)\n  * \"Memeostasis\" by Benjamin Rosenbaum (6/11)\n  * \"An Oral History of the Schooner Key Invasion\" by Alex Irvine (6/11)\n  * \"The Overview Initiative\" by David Marino (6/18)\n  * \"I Cut Off a Monster’s Arm. AITA?\" by Marie Brennan (6/18)\n  * \"The Sharing of Some Familiar Song\" by Adam-Troy Castro (6/25)\n  * \"Ash-Shūrā; or, A Book, a Bowl, a Bag of Coins\" by Beesan Odeh (6/25)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: June 2026 by John Joseph Adams (6/4)\n  * Author Spotlight: M.R. Robinson by Erik Grove (6/4)\n  * Author Spotlight: Alex Irvine by A Humphrey Lanham (6/11)\\\n  * Book Review: My Dear You by Rachel Khong by Arley Sorg (6/11)\n  * Author Spotlight: David Marino by Phoebe Barton (6/18)\n  * Book Review: Goldenborn by Ama Ofosua Lieb by Melissa A Watkins (6/18)\n  * Author Spotlight: Beesan Odeh by Delia Cullity (6/25)\n  * Book Review: Auntie Heroes by Rita Beeman, ed. (6/25)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Luna Station Quarterly (June 2026, Issue 066)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Backwash\" by Rowan Tate\n  * \"Two Nights at the Doll House\" by Maggie Slater\n  * \"Cat Steps\" by River West\n  * \"As Per My Last Email\" by Eleanor Rasor\n  * \"Track 19\" by Lesley Hart Gunn\n  * \"Hazard Pay; Competence; Wyrms\" by Catherine George\n  * \"Zig and Zag's Guide to Crash Landing\" by Harklin Ashe\n  * \"The Dragons\" by Ashleigh Rajala\n  * \"Time Surfing\" by Isabel McKeough\n  * \"The Queen of Tish\" by Lindsey Duncan\n  * \"Vestigial Speech\" by Xavier George\n  * \"Tongue\" by Denman Netherland\n  * \"The Last Birthday Cake\" by KT Reed\n  * \"Spaghettification\" by Lauren Ferebee\n  * \"The Grass is Pinker on the Other Side\" by Kelley Tai\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * The June issue has docked for the summer by Jennifer Lyn Parsons\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Nightmare Magazine (June 2026, Issue 165)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"What Grows Back\" by Aishatu Ado (6/3)\n  * \"NoMouth\" by Marianne Kirby (6/10)\n  * \"Patterns of Dentition in Transgender Adults\" by Izzy Wasserstein (6/17)\n  * \"Good Morning, Wolf—\" by Stephanie M. Wytovich (6/24)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Editorial: June 2026 by Wendy N. Wagner (6/3)\n  * Author Spotlight: Aishatu Ado by Clay Vermulm (6/3)\n  * The H Word: Horror Is the Metal of Books by Chris Panatier (6/10)\n  * Author Spotlight: Izzy Wasserstein by Kevin Figueroa Quiñones (6/17)\n  * Media Reviews: June 2026 by Adam-Troy Castro (6/24)\n\n\n\n## Otherside (June 2026, Issue 2)\n\nSupport here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"We Who Have Been Raised by Tigers\" by P.V. Vamsidhar\n  * \"Before She Knew About Magic\" by Joshua Geller Schwartz\n  * \"Two People\" by Ben Francisco\n  * \"This Is C(lone)-Pop\" by Lia Lao\n  * \"Spider Kiss\" by Bree Wernicke\n  * \"Chī Kǔ\" by J.Y. Zhang\n  * \"First to Rot\" by J.N. Howell\n  * \"Crowns\" by cee-cee manrique\n  * \"Remade, Reshaped, Remembered\" by Sydney Paige Guerrero\n\n\n\n#### Poetry\n\n  * \"Masquerade.\" by Chidera Offor\n  * Ganymede\" by Gospel Chinedu\n  * \"obsolesce\" by Macey Levington\n  * \"girl, flogged by a false-named whip.\" by Amie SHen\n  * \"Open Your Eyes Again\" by Toby MacNutt\n  * \"As seen through the hole of the hag stone:\" by Sienna Tristen\n\n\n\n#### Nonfiction\n\n  * Letter from the Editors: Issue 2 by Ash Vale, M.R. Robinson, V.M. Ayala\n  * A Noose of Purple Silk by Sidney Grady\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Small Wonders Magazine (June 2026)\n\nDonate here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Laundry Lives\" by Cara Masten DiGirolamo\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Uncanny Magazine (May/June 2026, Issue 70)\n\nSubscribe here.\n\n### Fiction\n\n  * \"Immigrant Girl from the End of the World\" by Hannah Yang (available Jun 02, 2026)\n  * \"#HumansOfMars\" by Lavie Tidhar (available Jun 02, 2026)\n  * \"Magical Girl Eater\" by Angela Liu (available Jun 02, 2026)\n  * \"Lincoln and the Harvester C-100\" by R.S.A. Garcia (available Jun 02, 2026)\n\n\n\n### Poetry\n\n  * \"electric in the silver stormchain that burst behind my wings\" by S.R. Ekstein (available Jun 02, 2026)\n  * \"Quorum\" by Ceridwen Hall (available Jun 02, 2026)\n\n\n\n### Nonfiction\n\n  * Nature, Monsters, and the Responsibility of Larger Things by Nilah Magruder (available Jun 02, 2026)\n  * An Absolute Crisis: DC’s Big 7 Have Been Stripped Down and Relaunched for the Present Age by Alex Jennings (available Jun 02, 2026)\n  * Interview: Angela Liu by Caroline M. Yoachim (available Jun 02, 2026)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\nThat'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!",
  "title": "Table of Contents, June 2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-02T15:53:53.134Z"
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