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Added on July 11, 2026:
Jana Bianchi: … Your Little Light (Clarkesworld #201, June 2023)
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Added on July 11, 2026:
Jana Bianchi: Of Brackens and Cowries (Apex Magazine #153, July 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Jana Bianchi: Death Is for Those Who Die (Clarkesworld #170, November 2020)
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Added on July 11, 2026:
Jana Bianchi: Do Houses Dream of Scraping the Sky? (Uncanny Magazine #56, January 2024)
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Added on July 11, 2026:
Jana Bianchi: This Is Just Another Carnaval Love Story (Uncanny Magazine #71, July 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Jana Bianchi: Not Quite What We’re Looking for Right Now (Fireside, October 2021)
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Added on July 11, 2026:
Marie Brennan: I Cut Off a Monster’s Arm. AITA? (Lightspeed, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Adam-Troy Castro: The Sharing of Some Familiar Song (Lightspeed, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Beth Cato: 133rd Live Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance (Flash Fiction Online, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
P. Djèlí Clark: Learning the Loom (Uncanny Magazine #71, July 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
P. A. Cornell: 440 Broad Street, Apartment 4C (Frivolous Comma, January 2023)
Available as part of this magazine.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on July 11, 2026:
AnaMaria Curtis: The Gift of Her Light (Podcastle, June 2026)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on July 11, 2026:
Scott Edelman: Staring Out the Window at the Undeniable Stars (StarShipSofa, July 2026)
Available as part of this magazine.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on July 11, 2026:
R. S. A. Garcia: This Is an Emergency Broadcast (Clarkesworld #238, July 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Thomas Ha: Our Revels Now Are Ended (Clarkesworld #238, July 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Louis Inglis Hall: A Candle for Her Tireless Dead (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #459, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Carlos Hernandez: Focus (Clarkesworld #238, July 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Alex Irvine: An Oral History of the Schooner Key Invasion (Lightspeed, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Claire Jia-Wen: The Bathhouse for Long Life (Apex Magazine #153, July 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
K. J. Kabza: The Ecstasy of the White Sea (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #460, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
James Patrick Kelly: No Agency Without Identity! Stay In Character Always! (Reactor, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Rich Larson: In the Hours Preceding the Fall of Tau-Sants (Reactor, July 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
R. L. Meza: Nesting Behavior of Imported Species Troglodytes aedon on Planet Americearth (Clarkesworld #238, July 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Fiona Moore: Cliff’s Girl (Clarkesworld #238, July 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Mari Ness: The Best of Intentions (Lightspeed, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Jonathan Olfert: Fletcher’s Flights (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #459, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Marisca Pichette: For a Handful of Salted Teeth (Strange Horizons, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Cat Rambo: A Single Breath, Heard Only in My Dreams (Shapers of Worlds Anthology #3, 2022)
Available as part of this magazine.
Isfdb:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on July 11, 2026:
Benjamin Rosenbaum: Memeostasis (Lightspeed, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Tia Tashiro: Leavetaking (Uncanny Magazine #71, July 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Natalia Theodoridou: The Keyhole (Strange Horizons, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Catherynne M. Valente: White Lines on a Green Field (Uncanny Magazine #71, July 2026)
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Six.
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Added on July 11, 2026:
Izzy Wasserstein: Patterns of Dentition in Transgender Adults (Nightmare Magazine #165, June 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Bree Wernicke: The Oil King (Flash Fiction Online, March 2026)

Added on July 11, 2026:
Bree Wernicke: How I Did Not Make Friends With Teniel eu Letxie (Baffling Magazine #14, January 2024)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 6, 2026:
Chris Barzak: The Last Season of Your Life (Lightspeed, May 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Stephanie Burgis: Mail-Order Magic (The Sunday Morning Transport, March 2025)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 6, 2026:
Rebecca Campbell: The Floating Republic (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
J. R. Dawson: This Is Not My Timeline (Reactor, May 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
R. S. A. Garcia: Lincoln and the Harvester C-100 (Uncanny Magazine #70, May 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Sarah Grey: Hollow Cast (Nightmare Magazine #164, May 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Ada Hoffmann: Ten Unsent Letters to the Dark Lord (Lightspeed, May 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Kenneth Mark Hoover: Whales of Amber (StarShipSofa, May 2026)
Available as part of this magazine.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 6, 2026:
Claire Jia-Wen: The Potential Side Effects of Roleplay Stimulation Therapy (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Isabel J. Kim: The Perpetual Post (Reactor, May 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Yoon Ha Lee: The Aerialist (Lightspeed, May 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Angela Liu: Magical Girl Eater (Uncanny Magazine #70, May 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Bruce McAllister: A Magic Kingdom (Nightmare Magazine #164, May 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Samantha Murray: Burning Day (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Damián Neri: Ice, Rock, Empathy (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Damián Neri: To Serve the Emperor (Flash Fiction Online, October 2024)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Damián Neri: Symphony of the World’s Roots (Deadlands #33, February 2024)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 6, 2026:
Damián Neri: The Face of God: A Documentary (Clarkesworld #217, October 2024)
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Added on June 6, 2026:
Damián Neri: Funerary Habits of Low Entropy Entities (Clarkesworld #222, March 2025)
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Added on June 6, 2026:
Kristine Kathryn Rusch: The Test of Time (Lightspeed, May 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Lavie Tidhar: #HumansOfMars (Uncanny Magazine #70, May 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Carrie Vaughn: Up the Line to Death (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Anne Wilkins: Intertwined (Apex Magazine, July 2024)
Isfdb:

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 6, 2026:
Anne Wilkins: A Good Brother (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #447, December 2025)
Isfdb:

Added on June 6, 2026:
Anne Wilkins: The Cold Burns (Clarkesworld #231, December 2025)
Isfdb:

Added on June 6, 2026:
Anne Wilkins: A Touch of the Wild (Flash Fiction Online, October 2025)
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Added on June 6, 2026:
Anne Wilkins: A Life Measured in Seconds (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

Added on June 6, 2026:
Hannah Yang: Immigrant Girl from the End of the World (Uncanny Magazine #70, May 2026)

Free Speculative Fiction Online

New Additions

Updates and news via Mastodon.

Jana Bianchi: … Your Little Light (Clarkesworld #201, June 2023)

Jana Bianchi: Of Brackens and Cowries (Apex Magazine #153, July 2026)

Jana Bianchi: Death Is for Those Who Die (Clarkesworld #170, November 2020)

Jana Bianchi: Do Houses Dream of Scraping the Sky? (Uncanny Magazine #56, January 2024)

Jana Bianchi: This Is Just Another Carnaval Love Story (Uncanny Magazine #71, July 2026)

Jana Bianchi: Not Quite What We’re Looking for Right Now (Fireside, October 2021)

Marie Brennan: I Cut Off a Monster’s Arm. AITA? (Lightspeed, June 2026)

Adam-Troy Castro: The Sharing of Some Familiar Song (Lightspeed, June 2026)

Beth Cato: 133rd Live Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance (Flash Fiction Online, June 2026)

P. Djèlí Clark: Learning the Loom (Uncanny Magazine #71, July 2026)

P. A. Cornell: 440 Broad Street, Apartment 4C (Frivolous Comma, January 2023)

AnaMaria Curtis: The Gift of Her Light (Podcastle, June 2026)

Scott Edelman: Staring Out the Window at the Undeniable Stars (StarShipSofa, July 2026)

R. S. A. Garcia: This Is an Emergency Broadcast (Clarkesworld #238, July 2026)

Thomas Ha: Our Revels Now Are Ended (Clarkesworld #238, July 2026)

Louis Inglis Hall: A Candle for Her Tireless Dead (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #459, June 2026)

Carlos Hernandez: Focus (Clarkesworld #238, July 2026)

Alex Irvine: An Oral History of the Schooner Key Invasion (Lightspeed, June 2026)

Claire Jia-Wen: The Bathhouse for Long Life (Apex Magazine #153, July 2026)

K. J. Kabza: The Ecstasy of the White Sea (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #460, June 2026)

James Patrick Kelly: No Agency Without Identity! Stay In Character Always! (Reactor, June 2026)

Rich Larson: In the Hours Preceding the Fall of Tau-Sants (Reactor, July 2026)

R. L. Meza: Nesting Behavior of Imported Species Troglodytes aedon on Planet Americearth (Clarkesworld #238, July 2026)

Fiona Moore: Cliff’s Girl (Clarkesworld #238, July 2026)

Mari Ness: The Best of Intentions (Lightspeed, June 2026)

Jonathan Olfert: Fletcher’s Flights (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #459, June 2026)

Marisca Pichette: For a Handful of Salted Teeth (Strange Horizons, June 2026)

Cat Rambo: A Single Breath, Heard Only in My Dreams (Shapers of Worlds Anthology #3, 2022)

Benjamin Rosenbaum: Memeostasis (Lightspeed, June 2026)

Tia Tashiro: Leavetaking (Uncanny Magazine #71, July 2026)

Natalia Theodoridou: The Keyhole (Strange Horizons, June 2026)

Catherynne M. Valente: White Lines on a Green Field (Uncanny Magazine #71, July 2026)

Izzy Wasserstein: Patterns of Dentition in Transgender Adults (Nightmare Magazine #165, June 2026)

Bree Wernicke: The Oil King (Flash Fiction Online, March 2026)

Bree Wernicke: How I Did Not Make Friends With Teniel eu Letxie (Baffling Magazine #14, January 2024)

Chris Barzak: The Last Season of Your Life (Lightspeed, May 2026)

Stephanie Burgis: Mail-Order Magic (The Sunday Morning Transport, March 2025)

Rebecca Campbell: The Floating Republic (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

J. R. Dawson: This Is Not My Timeline (Reactor, May 2026)

R. S. A. Garcia: Lincoln and the Harvester C-100 (Uncanny Magazine #70, May 2026)

Sarah Grey: Hollow Cast (Nightmare Magazine #164, May 2026)

Ada Hoffmann: Ten Unsent Letters to the Dark Lord (Lightspeed, May 2026)

Kenneth Mark Hoover: Whales of Amber (StarShipSofa, May 2026)

Claire Jia-Wen: The Potential Side Effects of Roleplay Stimulation Therapy (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

Isabel J. Kim: The Perpetual Post (Reactor, May 2026)

Yoon Ha Lee: The Aerialist (Lightspeed, May 2026)

Angela Liu: Magical Girl Eater (Uncanny Magazine #70, May 2026)

Bruce McAllister: A Magic Kingdom (Nightmare Magazine #164, May 2026)

Samantha Murray: Burning Day (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

Damián Neri: Ice, Rock, Empathy (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

Damián Neri: To Serve the Emperor (Flash Fiction Online, October 2024)

Damián Neri: Symphony of the World’s Roots (Deadlands #33, February 2024)

Damián Neri: The Face of God: A Documentary (Clarkesworld #217, October 2024)

Damián Neri: Funerary Habits of Low Entropy Entities (Clarkesworld #222, March 2025)

Kristine Kathryn Rusch: The Test of Time (Lightspeed, May 2026)

Lavie Tidhar: #HumansOfMars (Uncanny Magazine #70, May 2026)

Carrie Vaughn: Up the Line to Death (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

Anne Wilkins: Intertwined (Apex Magazine, July 2024)

Anne Wilkins: A Good Brother (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #447, December 2025)

Anne Wilkins: The Cold Burns (Clarkesworld #231, December 2025)

Anne Wilkins: A Touch of the Wild (Flash Fiction Online, October 2025)

Anne Wilkins: A Life Measured in Seconds (Clarkesworld #237, June 2026)

Hannah Yang: Immigrant Girl from the End of the World (Uncanny Magazine #70, May 2026)