> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.andrewliptak.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Table of Contents: August 2025 - URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/sci-fi-fantasy-short-fiction-asimovs-analog-clarkesworld-uncanny/ - Published: 2025-08-04T13:00:06.000Z - Updated: 2025-09-03T15:12:23.000Z - Description: A rundown of this month's short genre fiction - Author: Andrew Liptak - Tags: Table of Contents, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror Short fiction is one of the best places to find some of the best storytelling in the science fiction and fantasy genres: it's where you can find some incredible experimentation and up-and-coming authors (as well as familiar favorites!). Here's the latest installment of Table of Contents, which rounds up this month's short fiction releases. You can check out last month's installment [here](https://www.andrewliptak.com/sci-fi-fantasy-short-stories-july-2025/). (I've just updated it with links to stories that have since this was originally published.) You can also find prior roundups [here](https://www.andrewliptak.com/tag/table-of-contents/). If you read a story that you enjoyed, let us know in the comments! Okay, here's what's coming out this month: --- ## [*Apex Magazine*](https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine?ref=andrewliptak.com) (July-September, Issue 150) Subscribe [here](https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/apex-magazine-one-year?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - ["As Ephemeral as Bubbles"](https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/as-ephemeral-as-bubbles?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Akis Linardos (8/7) - ["A Final Song for the Ages"](https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/a-final-song-for-the-ages?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Pedro Iniguez (8/14) - ["Denizens of My Face"](https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/denizens-of-my-face?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Emil Morel (8/19) (Flash) ### Nonfiction - [Interview with Author J.S. Oriel by Marissa van Uden](https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/interview-with-author-js-oriel?ref=andrewliptak.com) (8/12) --- ## [*Analog Science Fact and Fiction*](https://analogsf.com/?ref=andrewliptak.com) (July/August 2025, *Vol. XCV No. 7 & 8*) Subscribe [here](https://analogsf.com/order-now/?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - "Analytical Laboratory Results out of "Some Warm Little Pond," Part 1: "Rifters" and the RNA World" by Kelly Lagor - "Biolog: Kelly Lagor" by Richard A. Lovett - "The First Velodrome on Mars" by Marie Vibbert - In Times To Come - "Desert Soul" by David Gullen - "Hidden Achievement" by Shane Tourtellott - "Patient Was the Doctor" by Victoria N. Shi - "Last Dam Standing" by Dawn Vogel - "If the Algorithms are Gentle" by Bernie Jean Schiebeling - "Low-Tide Salvage" by Matthew Claxton - "Unknowns Edited by Alec Nevala-Lee: Back to Square One" by Rachel Fabi - "Eri" by James Dick - "Mother Hubble's Elegy for Rhessi: (2002-2023) April 19, 2023 by Sandra J. Lindow - "Jennifer Does Pushups" by Joseph Weber - "Imaginary" by Daniel D. Villani - "Your Entry to Paradise Memorial Experience" by Robert Morrell Jr. - "The Marks We Leave" by M. Ian Bell - "Ready for New Arrivals?" by Sean Monaghan - "[Under the Moons of Venus: A Tale of a Princess Altivolant](https://analogsf.com/current-issue/story-excerpt1/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Jay Werkheiser and Frank Wu - "[North Station Blues](https://analogsf.com/current-issue/story-excerpt2/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by David Gerrold - "[Our Lady of the Atom](https://analogsf.com/current-issue/poetry/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Josh Pearce (Poetry) ### Nonfiction - [Guest Editorial: Three Gates](https://analogsf.com/current-issue/editorial/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Steven Barnes - [Alternate View: LUCA, Earth Life’s Universal Common Ancestor](https://analogsf.com/current-issue/the-alternate-view/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by John G. Cramer - [Reference Library](https://analogsf.com/current-issue/the-reference-library/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Rosemary Claire Smith - Brass Tacks --- ## [*Asimov's Science Fiction*](https://asimovs.com/?ref=andrewliptak.com) (**July/August 2025** *Vol. 49 Nos. 7 & 8*) Subscribe [here](https://asimovs.com/order-now/?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - "[The Chronolithographer’s Assistant](https://asimovs.com/current-issue/story-excerpt1/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Suzanne Palmer - "Most Things" by Rich Larson - "[Another Mother on Mars](https://asimovs.com/current-issue/story-excerpt2/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Dominica Phetteplace - "In the Gardener’s Service" by Michèle Laframboise - "Pirates of Highship" by Stephen Case - "Perri’s Fate" by Robert Reed - "In the Halls of the Makeshift King" by Tobias S. Buckell - "Worm Song" by Derek Künsken - "Aftermath" by William Preston - "The Courier" by Lavie Tidhar ### Poetry - "Styx Seasons" by Robert Frazier - "Try to Explain the Concept of Teeth to My Alien Roommate" by Rachel Linton - "What Death Reads" by Mary Soon Lee - "Matter/Antimatter" by Lynne Sargent - "[Vivienne](https://asimovs.com/current-issue/poetry/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by E. H. Lupton ### Nonfiction - [Editorial: The 2025 Dell Magazines Award](https://asimovs.com/current-issue/editorial/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Sheila Williams - [Reflections: Another Ancient Encyclopedia](https://asimovs.com/current-issue/reflections/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Robert Silverberg - On the Net: Writers’ Workshops by James Patrick Kelly - On Books by Peter Heck --- ## [*Beneath Ceaseless Skies*](https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/?ref=andrewliptak.com) () Subscribe [here](https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/subscribe/?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - "[The Brittle Terrain](https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-brittle-terrain/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Stephen Case - "[The Forgotten](https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-forgotten/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Trae Hawkins - "[Bloody Muddy Water](https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloody-muddy-water/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Jonathan Louis Duckworth - "[Postman,](https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/postman-soldier-traitor/?ref=andrewliptak.com) [Soldier, Traitor](https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/postman-soldier-traitor/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Vijayalaxmi Samal --- ## [*Clarkesworld Magazine*](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/?ref=andrewliptak.com)(August 2025, Issue 227) Subscribe [here](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/donate/?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - [A Shaky Bridge](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen%5F08%5F25?ref=andrewliptak.com): by Marissa Lingen - "[And The Planet Loved Him](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chan%5F08%5F25?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by L Chan - "[Sleeper](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ester%5F08%5F25?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by R.T. Ester - "[Memories Are Only Valuable if They Can Be Lost](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/jiang%5F08%5F25?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Ai Jiang - "[Sea of Fertility](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/han%5F08%5F25?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Bella Han - "[Heart of Thunder](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/alvi%5F08%5F25?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Raahem Alvi - "[A Dream of Twin Sunsets](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cole%5F08%5F25?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Ryan Cole - "[Vwooom!](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/nwaka%5F08%5F25?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Uchechukwu Nwaka ### Nonfiction - [The Rebellion is Real: 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale in 2025](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/sessarego%5F08%5F25?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Carrie Sessarego - [Women, Technology, and the Future: A Conversation with Brenda Cooper](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cooper%5Finterview%5F2025?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Arley Sorg - [Tactical Ballgowns and Genre Turduckens: A Conversation with Fran Wilde](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wilde%5Finterview%5F2025?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Arley Sorg - [Editor's Desk: The Future of Dealing with AI Submissions](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke%5F08%5F25?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Neil Clarke --- ## [*The Dark*](https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/?ref=andrewliptak.com) (August 2025, Issue 123) Subscribe [here](https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/support-us/?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - “[They Must Be Angels](https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/they-must-be-angels/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Elle Zi Dong - “[The Ocean Vomits What We Discard](https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-ocean-vomits-what-we-discard/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by J.A.W. McCarthy (reprint) - “[Husk](https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/husk/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by James Bennett (reprint) - “[The Taint](https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-taint/?ref=andrewliptak.com)” by Anne Wilkins --- ## [*Dark Horses Magazine*](https://darkhorsesmagazine.mystrikingly.com/?ref=transfer-orbit.ghost.io) (August 2025) ### Fiction - "The Bite of the Cherry Blossom" by Lawrence Dagstine - "Black Magick 101" by Gray McClary - "Gladiators in the Sepulchre of Abominations by Alexander Zelenyj - "Lex Talionis (the Rule of Cord) by R.c. Bramhall - "Sadie by Wayne Kyle Spitzer - "Norman Nodding by Stephen Mcquiggan - "The Crooked Road by Stephen Shewmake - "The Good Shit by Brian J. Smith - "Beyond Unknown by Barry Vitcov - "Wisp" by M.P. Strayer[](javascript:void%280%29) --- ## [*The Deadlands*](https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/?ref=andrewliptak.com) (Issue 39, Summer 2025) Subscribe [here](https://psychopomp.com/grave-goods/?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - "Deliquescence" by Kelsea Yu (fiction; released 8/7) - "Plus One" by Olufunmilayo Makinde (fiction; released 8/14) - "Miles To Go Before I Sleep" by Beth Goder (fiction; released 8/18) - "Séance" by Elizabeth Wing (poetry; released 8/21) - "Little Trinkets" by A. J. Sharpe (fiction, released 8/25) - "quietude II" by Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi (poetry, released 8/28) ### Nonfiction - Blind Date With a Corpse by RJ Aurand (nonfiction; released 8/4) - Ask a Necromancer: Fun with Formaldehyde by Amanda Downum (nonfiction; released 8/11) --- ## [*Fantasy Magazine*](https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/?ref=andrewliptak.com) (Issue 97, Summer 2025) ### Fiction - "[How the road extracts an elegy](https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/issue97/how-the-road-extracts-an-elegy/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Aishat Yahkub (online 8/1) - "Silence Starved and Swallowed" by Sydney Paige Guerrero (online 8/15) ### Nonfiction - Left of Center: A Conversation with Amara Hoshijo (online 8/8) - The Interrogation of So-ssang by Seoung Kim (online 8/22) - Interview With World Fantasy Finalists, Part Two (online 8/29) --- ## [*Flash Fiction Online*](https://www.flashfictiononline.com/?ref=andrewliptak.com) (August 2025) Donate [here](https://weightlessbooks.com/flash-fiction-online-12-month-subscription/?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - “Textures” by Lisa Fox - “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark - “I Was Made for Loving You” by Angela James - “The Body, Electric” by Lauren Kardos - “Dislocated” by Stephen Granade, and - “The Color of Things” by Eleanor Lennox --- ## [Future Tense Fiction](https://issues.org/futuretensefiction/?ref=andrewliptak.com) (August 2025) ### Fiction - "[The Middle](https://issues.org/futuretensefiction/fiction-the-middle-erin-wagner/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Erin K. Wagner ### Nonfiction - [Can Flavor Make Scientific Sense?](https://issues.org/futuretensefiction/standardizing-the-senses-christy-spackman/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Christy Spackman --- ## [*Lightspeed Magazine*](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/?ref=andrewliptak.com) (August 2025, Issue 183) Subscribe [here](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/store/?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - "Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B Regarding Post-Battle Deployment of A. Thanatensis*"* by David Anaxagoras (8/7) - "It Might Be He Returns"by Fatima Taqvi (8/7) - "Feast of Famine" by Adam-Troy Castro (8/14) - "Dad Went Out to Get the Milk*"* by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (8/14) - "The Dream Tourists" by Sarah Langan (8/21) - "Savannah and the Apprentice" by Christopher Rowe (8/21) - "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" by V.M. Ayala (8/28) - "Anti-Capitalism vs. the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia (8/28) ### Nonfiction - Editorial: August 2025by John Joseph Adams (8/7) - Author Spotlight: Fatima Taqviby Alex Puncekar (8/7) - Author Spotlight: Osahon Ize-Iyamu by Mayookh Barua (8/14) - Book Review: *Mindscape* by Andrea Hairston by Melissa A Watkins (8/14) - Author Spotlight: Christopher Rowe by Alex Puncekar (8/21) - Book Review: *Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope* by Matthew David Goodwin, Alex Hernandez, Sara Rivera, eds. by Arley Sorg (8/21) - Author Spotlight: V.M. Ayala by Delia Cullity (8/28) - Book Review: *When They Burned the Butterfly* by Wen-yi Lee by Chris Kluwe (8/28) --- ## [*Nightmare Magazine*](https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/?ref=andrewliptak.com) (May 2025, Issue 152) Subscribe [here](https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/store/?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - "Bunny Ears" by Kristina Ten (8/6) - "Swallow Test" by Angela Liu (8/13) - "Eight Ball" by Martin Cahill (8/20) - "Turnip Heads" by Pedro Iniguez (8/27) ### Nonfiction - Editorial: August 2025by Wendy N. Wagner (8/6) - Author Spotlight: Kristina Tenby Alex Puncekar (8/6) - The H Word: The Waking Nightmares of Philip K. Dickby David Agranoff (8/13) - Author Spotlight: Martin Cahillby Kevin Figueroa Quiñones (8/20) - Plumbing the Depths: Archaeology in Horror Fictionby Rebecca Stone Gordon (8/27) --- ## [*Reactor*](https://reactormag.com/fictions/original-fiction/?ref=andrewliptak.com)(August 2025) ### Fiction - "[Every Ghost Story](https://reactormag.com/every-ghost-story-natalia-theodoridou/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Natalia Theodoridou - "[With Only a Razor Between](https://reactormag.com/with-only-a-razor-between-martin-cahill/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Martin Cahill - "[In Connorville](https://reactormag.com/in-connorville-kathleen-jennings/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Kathleen Jennings - "[The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home](https://reactormag.com/the-hungry-mouth-renan-bernardo/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Renan Bernardo --- ## [*Strange Horizons*](http://strangehorizons.com/?ref=andrewliptak.com) (August 2025) Donate [here](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/donate/?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - "[Poorly Salted, Well-Loved](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/poorly-salted-well-loved/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Athar Fikry - "[Yesterday](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/yesterday/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by A.M. Barrie - "[The Capture](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/the-capture/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Raja'a Khalid ### Poetry - "[A Distressing Absence of Eyes](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/a-distressing-absence-of-eyes/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Chris Clemens - "[Playing Among the Leaves](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/playing-among-the-leaves/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by M. Weigel - "[With Serviettes Upon Our Heads](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/with-serviettes-upon-our-heads/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Pixie Bruner - "[New Regime](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/new-regime/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Jeremiah Moriarty - "[The World Awaits My Little Chicken](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/the-world-awaits-my-little-chicken/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Trevor Tingle - "[\[Re: Your Failed Tonsillectomy\]](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/re-your-failed-tonsillectomy/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Em Setzer - "[Hex Supply Customer Support Log](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/hex-supply-customer-support-log/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Elis Montgomery - "[I Was A Fish](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/i-was-a-fish/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Svetlana Litvinchuk ### Nonfiction - [*Portalmania* by Debbie Urbanski](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/portalmania-by-debbie-urbanski/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by William Shaw - [*Notes from a Regicide* by Isaac Fellman](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/notes-from-a-regicide-by-isaac-fellman/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Amy Nagopaleen - [*Anji Kills A King* by Evan Leikam](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/anji-kills-a-king-by-evan-leikam/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Jacqueline Nyathi - [*Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil* by V.E. Schwab](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/bury-our-bones-in-the-midnight-soil-by-v-e-schwab/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Debbie Gascoyne - [*The Vampire Tapestry* by Suzy McKee Charnas](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/the-vampire-tapestry-by-suzy-mckee-charnas/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Ian J. Simpson - [*Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder* by ](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/justice-in-21st-century-fairy-tales-and-the-power-of-wonder-by-cristina-bacchilega-and-pauline-greenhill/?ref=andrewliptak.com)[Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/justice-in-21st-century-fairy-tales-and-the-power-of-wonder-by-cristina-bacchilega-and-pauline-greenhill/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Sally Parlier - [*Dark Worlds We Wander* by Kristin Kirby](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/dark-worlds-we-wander-by-kristin-kirby/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by David Lewis - [*Ley Lines* by Tim Welsh](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/ley-lines-by-tim-welsh/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Cameron Miguel - [I’ll Laugh As You Bury Me: New Zealand, America and Cultural Hegemony](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/ill-laugh-as-you-bury-me-new-zealand-america-and-cultural-hegemony/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Alexandra Stronach - [Stories From The Radio - The Curse Of Nagana](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/stories-from-the-radio-the-curse-of-nagana/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Kuzhali Manickavel - [*Metallic Realms* by Lincoln Michel](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/metallic-realms-by-lincoln-michel/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Paul Kincaid - [*The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction* edited by Rakesh Khanna, translated by Vishwambhari S. Parmar](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/the-blaft-anthology-of-gujarati-pulp-fiction-edited-by-rakesh-khanna-translated-by-vishwambhari-s-parmar/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Sneha Pathak - [*Ice Cream Man* by W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O’Halloran](http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/ice-cream-man-by-w-maxwell-prince-martin-morazzo-and-chris-ohalloran/?ref=andrewliptak.com) by Nataliia Sova --- ## [*Uncanny Magazine*](https://www.uncannymagazine.com/?ref=andrewliptak.com) (Issue 65) Subscribe [here](https://www.uncannymagazine.com/support-uncanny/?ref=andrewliptak.com). ### Fiction - "The Terrarium" by Jordan Taylor (Aug 05, 2025) - "Whalesong" by Daniel H. Wilson (Aug 05, 2025) - "The Garden" by Emma Törzs (Aug 05, 2025) - "Seaside Prophets" by Avra Margariti (Aug 05, 2025) - "Wishbone" by Prosper Ìféányí (Aug 05, 2025) ### Nonfiction - Precarious Employment in Precarious Futures by Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne (Aug 05, 2025) - What’s a Novel Idea? What’s a Short Story Idea? I Used to Know the Difference by Charlie Jane Anders (Aug 05, 2025) - Interview: Daniel H. Wilson by Caroline M. Yoachim (Aug 05, 2025) --- Check back at the end of the month: I'll update the links to the stories that haven't come out at the time of publication.