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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #461 Prashanth Srivatsa et al.

Issue #461 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Prashanth Srivatsa and Louis Morris and cover art by Tyler Edlin.

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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 194 (July 2026) John Joseph Adams

LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.

Welcome to issue 194 of LIGHTSPEED! This month’s fiction kicks off with “Waru Waru,” an original fantasy story by Ruth Joffre about the power of memory and family. In “The Punishing Animal,” B. Pladek brings the fantastic into a grim climate future. We also have a flash story (“Hungry Like The”) from E. Catherine Tobler and another (“Concerto for Wartime”) from Sean Williams. If you like your SF a little hard-boiled, don’t miss “The Assumption of Maria,” a detective story from Max Gladstone. V.M. Ayala brings us a beautiful story of love and bodily modification in “If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I.” We also have two terrific flash pieces: “You, Me, Us” from Oyedotun Damilola Muees and “FETSPACE” by Rhiannon Rasmussen. There’s all that, plus our usual assortment of author spotlight interviews and our book reviews.

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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 166 (July 2026) Wendy N. Wagner

NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.

Welcome to issue 166 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Claire Jia-Wen (“The Plague Comes From Chinatown”) and S.L. Coney (“Annette Funicello is My Dream Mouse”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash (“A Nebraskan Choir”) from Stephen Toase. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with Chloe Lauter.

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Dirty Magick Magazine Volume Two Issue Twenty-Three C.D. Brown

About Dirty Magick Magazine Issue Twenty

Dirty Magick Magazine is a monthly fantasy, urban fantasy, and gothic horror magazine first published in September 2024. The editor and publisher is C.D. Brown.

Stories by Amanda Desiree, Arden Baker, Mike McArthur, Jim Newton Anderson

Film Column: Naked Steel: The Beastmaster

Book reviews by Jennifer R. Povey

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Sally Port Magazine – Issue 07 Patrick Kidder et al.

The 2026 July issue of Sally Port Magazine #07 Long Days. . . (Even at Night) includes:
Fiction: Lean On Me, Esther Lee Deitch; The Family Business, Karen Eisenbrey; Stairs of Elsewhere, Bella Chacha; Grandpa’s Study, Aeryn Rudel, The Palace of the Tilted Mirror, Momir Iseni; The Duke’s Bowl, Bill Diamond; The Song of Dawn and Dusk, Anneli Marks; Human Night, Erin Cullen; Adam of the North, Samantha Bryant; Two Views of the Dragonslayer, Gregg Chamberlain
Nonfiction: Language for Middle Grade, YA, and General Audiences; Genre, Patrick Kidder
Cover Art: Lisa Kidder

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Flash Fiction Online Issue #154 July 2026 Rebecca Halsey et al.

Flash Fiction Online’s July 2026 issue takes us to the deepest ocean, a deserted island, an icy shore, and a paranormal beach. Travel with us to the very ends of the earth.

Stories this month include:

“Kingdom of Steve” by Nick Badot

“A Perfect Light” by Laura Duerr

“Fragments Recovered from the Wreck of the Seaglass” by E.M. Linden

“Seastrand Beyond” by Anna Clark, and

“End of the World” by Nick Ekkizogloy.

Cover art for this issue is “Dream Land” by Florence Susan Harrison.

Flash Fiction Online is a digital magazine for flash fiction stories from both established and emerging writers. We look across all styles and genres (literary & speculative) for a delicious mix of interesting characters, tantalizing plots, and wonderful world-building. Flash fiction might be small, but each piece packs an entire story arc into only a thousand words or fewer.

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The Dark Issue 134 Sean Wallace et al.

“Gas Leak at St. Gentian” by Sara Omer “The House Mother” by Kristi DeMeester (reprint) “Please Turn on Your Magic Beam” by Orrin Grey “A Thousand Forbidden Weddings and a Song for Dead Darlings” by Ai Jiang (reprint) Cover art by Tithi Luadthong.

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Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 37 Cislyn Smith et al.

Small Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 37 (July 2026) contains:

• “The Cleave” by Peter M. Ball (fiction)
• “Pictures of My Dog” by Andy Dibble (poem)
• “Ms. Anaria�s Classroom Rules for Well-Behaved Kindergartners When Alien Ambassadors Dock with the Wrong Ship” by Catherine Tavares (fiction)
• “He Washes His Sins in the River” by Elijah J. Mears (fiction)
• “I am the Ocean’s Dreaming” by Jenna Hanchey (poem)
• “Little Fish, Big Fish” by Jennifer Hudak (fiction)
• “One of Us Carries the Flute” by Jimmy Frohman (fiction)
• “Visit the Last Gas Station in the World” by Lesley Hart Gunn (poem)
• “Ashes and Buttercream” by Malina Douglas (fiction)

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Locus July 2026 (#786) Liza Groen Trombi et al.

The July 2026 Locus magazine, issue #786, has interviews with Naomi Kritzer and Temi Oh. The issue includes the 2026 Locus Poll results. Jane Yolen (1939-2026) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers the 2025 Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Seiun Award winners, as well as Subterranean Press’s planned closure, the Commonwealth Prize Regional winners and AI controversy, and much more. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Hell Is Other People”. Event coverage includes the Locus Awards, StokerCon, the SFWA Nebula Conference, the Bay Area Book Festival, and WisCon 48, as well as international reports on SF in Brazil and SF in Bulgaria. Other obituaries remember Lalana Dararutana AKA Piper J. Drake, Ted White, and James Ray Comer. Reviews cover new works by Ada Hoffmann, Lavie Tidhar, Naomi Kritzer, James Islington, Mahmud El Sayed, R.J. Barker, Paul Tremblay, Geoffrey D. Morrison, Hildur Knútsdóttir (translated by Mary Robinette Kowal), Kylie Lee Baker, Shannon Chakraborty, Grace Curtis, Luis López Carrasco (translated by Rosalind Harvey), Luis Othoniel Rosa (translated by Katie Marya), Keala Kendall, Eileen M. Ruvane, J.A. Morgenstein, Soman Chainani, Nat Cassidy, Eugen Bacon, Cheryl Ntumy & Stephen Embleton (eds.), Sarah Coolidge (ed.), Kirsten Kaschock, Alexis Hall, James Patrick Kelly, Jo Walton & Ada Palmer, and others.

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Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 238 K. J. Khan et al.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our July 2026 issue (#238) contains:

Fiction

• “The Life and Times of the Extraterrestrial Potoo” by K. J. Khan
• “Cliff’s Girl” by Fiona Moore
• “Focus” by Carlos Hernandez
• “The Animator and the Glazer” by Ju Chu
• “Our Revels Now Are Ended” by Thomas Ha
• “This Is an Emergency Broadcast” by R.S.A. Garcia
• “Nesting Behavior of Imported Species Troglodytes aedon on Planet Americearth” by R.L. Meza

Non-Fiction

• “Donut Brains and Skin Dreams: Aliens on Earth” by Gunnar De Winter
• “Art and Arcade Games: A Conversation with Tran Nguyen” by Arley Sorg
• “Horror And Absurdity: A Conversation with Meg Elison” by Arley Sorg
• “Editor’s Desk: July Is for Survivors” by Neil Clarke

Cover Art

“Constellation Field” by Alex Vede