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Table of Contents, March 2026

Table of Contents, March 2026

Welcome to the March installment of Table of Contents, a roundup of the latest short fiction hitting the web for the science fiction and fantasy world.

You can check out last month's installment here – it's been newly updated with the stories that came out over the course of February 2026. I've also added a couple of publications to the longer list. You can check out prior installments of this column here.

Here are the short stories coming out this month:

Amazing Stories (March 2026)

Fiction

Apex Magazine (Issue 152)

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Fiction

  • "Ascension" by P.L. McMillan — 3/3
  • "The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood" by Angela Liu — 3/17
  • "Un Lamento de Flores" by A.P. Thayer — 3/24
  • "Citizen Komarova Finds Love" by Kat Sedia — 3/31

Nonfiction

  • "Musings from Maryland" by Lesley Conner
  • Interview with Author P.L. McMillan by Marissa van Uden — 3/5
  • "Not a Scab, but a Wound" by Storm Humbert — 3/17

Analog Science Fact and Fiction (March/April 2026,Vol. XCVI No. 3 & 4)

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Fiction

  • "Consumer" by Stephen Case
  • "And Wear A Golden Sorrow" by Eric Del Carlo
  • "Rovers" by Paul Carlson
  • "False Light" by MB Valente
  • "Songbirds" by H.A.B. Wilt
  • "Shade" by David Whitmarsh
  • "Slingshot" by David Gerrold
  • "Carbon" by Jay Werkheiser
  • "The Pearl Divers Of Connell-b" by Scott Steensma
  • "The Three Billion Base Pairs Of The Prophet" by Gregor Hartmann
  • "Godspeed" by C.R. Hodges
  • "Seeking Singularity" by Joel Richards
  • "The Shiny New Folk" by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • "Conscience" by Tom R. Pike
  • "On The Origins Of The Species" by Edd Vick
  • "No Place On Earth" by Mary Soon Lee
  • "Sour Grapes" by Holly Day

Nonfiction

  • Homes Away From Home, Michael Carroll
  • Seeds Of Cities: Science Fiction Novums, M.c. Childs
  • Patterns And Plausibilities, Howard V. Hendrix
  • Guest Editorial: Artificial Stupidity, Stanley Schmidt
  • In Times To Come
  • The Alternate View, John G. Cramer
  • Unknowns: Out Of Sequence, Alec Nevala-lee
  • The Reference Library, Rosemary Claire Smith
  • Brass Tacks

Asimov's Science Fiction (March/April 2026, Vol. 50 Nos. 3 & 4)

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Fiction

  • "The Ghosts of Goldilocks" by Kevin J. Anderson & Rick Wilber
  • "Satan’s Slave" by R. Garcia y Robertson 
  • "Quest for the Corpus Mundi" by Preston Grassmann & Paul Di Filippo
  • "How to Live With Polar Bears" by Octavia Cade
  • "A Fierce Need" by James Van Pelt
  • "The Placemat at Baldy’s Diner" by Michael Libling
  • "How Else" by David Ebenbach
  • "The High Shrines" by Stephen Case
  • "Antarctic Radio" by Gu Shi (translated by Andy Dudak)
  • "Decoherence" by Jennifer Crow
  • "Ice House" by Anuel Rodriguez
  • "Spacesick" by Grace Fitzgibbon
  • "AITA for Killing All the Humans?" by Jenna Hanchey
  • "Time-Lost Stamps" by Adele Gardner
  • "Sounds of Silence" by Robert Frazier
  • "Zero-G Soliloquy" by Connor Yeck
  • "Creation" by Archie Abaire

Nonfiction

  • Editorial: Nothing Gold Can Stay by Sheila Williams
  • Reflections: Round-Robin by Robert Silverberg
  • On the Net: Impending Dooms by James Patrick Kelly
  • On Books by Peter Heck

Clarkesworld Magazine (March 2026, Issue 234)

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Fiction

Nonfiction

The Dark (March 2026, Issue 130)

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Fiction

Dark Horses Magazine (March 2026, No. 50)

Fiction

  • "Abednego Wept" by Cy Hill
  • "Devour" by Alyssa Wallinder
  • "The Tale Of The Three Sages (Metamorphosis)" by John Randolph
  • "The Tokyo Tango" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
  • "A More Perfect Union" by Edward Ahern
  • "Capture The Magic Press" by G. W. Mcclary
  • "Evidence" by Ty Cronkhite
  • "Encounter" by Nick Young
  • "Night Visits" by Matt Fox
  • "Grasshoppers" by Theodora Sterling

The Deadlands (Winter 2026, Issue 41)

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Fiction

Flash Fiction Online (March 2026, Issue 150)

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Fiction

  • “The Sacrificials” by Andrew Kozma
  • “Moss Senses” by Beth Goder
  • “The Piano Made of Fingers” by Abigail Koury
  • “Float. Sink. Tread. Swim.” by Shelly Jones
  • “The Oil King” by Bree Wernicke
  • “Moonmouse” by S.L. Harris, and
  • “Second Film” by Chistopher St. Prince.

GigaNotoSaurus (March 2026)

Fiction

Lightspeed Magazine (March 2026, Issue 190)

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Fiction

  • "Eat, Prey, Love: A Modest Proposal for Ensuring Gender Equality Through Selective Dietary Practices; or, a Geriatric Millennial’s Guide to #GirlDinner" by Jilly Dreadful (3/5)
  • "The Devourers of War; or, An Excerpt from the Cookbook of the Gods' by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (3/5)
  • "Espie Droger Dreams of War" by Matthew Kressel (3/12)
  • "The Tide Folk" by Jennifer Hudak (3/12)
  • "An Encounter at the Dawn of the Time War" by JT Petty (3/19)
  • "Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea" by Vanessa Fogg (3/19)
  • "Terms of Enlightenment" by Patrick Hurley (3/26)
  • "When We Loved Giants" by Sara S. Messenger (3/26)

Nonfiction

  • Editorial: March 2026 by John Joseph Adams (3/5)
  • Author Spotlight: Matthew Kressel by Erik Grove (3/12)
  • Book Review: Midnight Somewhere by Johnny Compton by Arley Sorg (3/12)
  • Author Spotlight: Vanessa Fogg by A Humphrey Lanham (3/19)
  • Book Review: The Girl Who Made a Mouse From Her Grandfather’s Whiskers by Kenneth Hunter Gordon by Melissa A Watkins (3/19)
  • Author Spotlight: Patrick Hurley by Phoebe Barton (3/26)
  • Author Spotlight: Sara S. Messenger by Delia Cullity (3/26)
  • Book Review: The Franchise by Thomas Elrod by Chris Kluwe (3/26)

Nightmare Magazine (March 2026, Issue 162)

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Fiction

  • "Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights?" by Gordon B. White (3/4)
  • "The Doll Problem" by Angela Liu (3/11)
  • "Her Dark Places" by Adam-Troy Castro (3/18)
  • "Zooming Past Shotgun Houses" by Eva Roslin (3/25)

Nonfiction

  • Editorial: March 2026 by Wendy N. Wagner (3/4)
  • Author Spotlight: Gordon B. White by Clay Vermulm (3/4)
  • The H Word: Laughing to Swallow My Screams by Ryan Habermeyer (3/11)
  • Author Spotlight: Adam-Troy Castro by Alex Puncekar (3/18)
  • Media Reviews: March 2026 by Adam-Troy Castro (3/25)

Small Wonders Magazine (March 2026, Issue 33)

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Fiction

The Sunday Morning Transport (March 2026)

Fiction

Uncanny Magazine (March / April 2026, Issue 69)

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Fiction

  • “What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom” by Angela Liu (3/3)
  • “Chimera” by Anjali Sachdeva (3/3)
  • “When Things Went Bad” by Stephen Graham Jones (3/3)
  • “The Mighty Impervious Woman Considers Retirement” by Izzy Wasserstein (3/3)
  • “machining of little moons” by Eva Papasoulioti (3/3)

Nonfiction

  • “The Uncanny Valley” by Michael Damian Thomas
  • “Bittersweet Endings (for All Who Live to See Such Times)” by Samantha Mills (3/3)
  • “Endings and Other Lies” by Jim C. Hines (3/3)
  • Interview: Anjali Sachdeva by Caroline M. Yoachim (3/3)

Weird Horror Magazine (Spring 2026, Issue 12)

Fiction

  • Chloe N. Clark
  • Roy Graham
  • Rick Kennett
  • Annika Barranti Klein
  • Rajiv Moté
  • Russell Nichols
  • Rory Say
  • R.L. Summerling
  • D. Matthew Urban
  • Aliya Whiteley

Nonfiction

Remember to check back at the end of the month for updates as new stories come online, and to let me know in the comments what caught your eye!