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:

Adventitious (February / March 2026)

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Fiction

• "What Any Dead Thing Wants" by Aimee Ogden
• "The Soundtrack of My Afterlife" by P. A. Cornell
• "Recording of Professor Elizabeth Boucher’s Opening Lecture on Death Ages Novels, University of Presque Isle, March 32, 2667." by Stacie Turner
• "This is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix" by Abigail Guerrero
• "A Húlíjīng Always Keeps One Tail Hidden" by Melissa Ren
• "What A Name Does Is Let You Leave" by Meagan Kane
• "Hunter Mother Sailor Wife" by Catherine Tavares
• "Teapot" by Ben Williams
• "The Furthest Point" by Alethea Paul
• "To Devour Your Own Name" by Katlina Sommerberg
• "A Place to Grow" by Sarah Grace Tuttle

Nonfiction

• This won’t exist yesterday

Amazing Stories (March 2026)

Fiction

• "Freshly Minted" by Nick Hartland
• "Shells" by Alexander Zelenyj
• "The Tyrant in Retrograde" by Scott Morris
• "The Factory" by Lucy Egan
• "Dreaming of Home" by Josh Clark

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

Aurealis (Issue #188)

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Fiction

• "A New Game" by Matt Freeman
• "Anna, in the Abstract" by Andrew David
• "The Book of Middles" by EC Fuller
• "The Quirky Life of Hugo Gernsback" by Lynne Lumsden Green
• "An Interview with Stephen Higgins, Creator of ‘Valis’, a Musical Album Inspired by the Words of Philip K Dick" by Michael Pryor
• "Hacking the Flesh: the Future of the Human Form" by Stuart Olver

Nonfiction

• Editorial: From the Cloud by Eugen Bacon

Beneath Ceaseless Skies (March 2026, Issues #452 and #453)

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Fiction

• "Mother’s Hearth" by W.A. Hamilton
• "The Sea Child" by Justin Wesley Ferguson
• "Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. I by Jason Sanford
• "Where the Dream Train Goes, Pt. II" by Jason Sanford
• "The Book Collectors" by J.W. Halicks

Clarkesworld Magazine (March 2026, Issue 234)

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Fiction

• "Bend Like the Palm" by David D. Levine
• "First Human Ghost on Mars" by R.L. Meza
• "Crosstalk, Elysium" by Carolyn Zhao
• "Scion" by Thomas Ha
• "Scion: Afterword" by Thomas Ha
• "Those Who Left History" by Wanxiang Fengnian, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu
• "You Are Invited to Our SPRING CELEBRATION" by Thoraiya Dyer
• "Person, Place, Thing" by Marissa Lingen

Nonfiction

• The Hands and the Brain: Complementary Dominance by Benjamin C. Kinney
• Anatomy of a Novel: A Conversation with J.M. Sidorova by Arley Sorg
• Fluidity, Desire, and Survival: A Conversation with Rebecca Roanhorse by Arley Sorg
• Editor's Desk: The Best from 2025 by Neil Clarke

The Dark (March 2026, Issue 130)

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Fiction

• "The Ugly House" by Bianca Carvalho
• "Nameless" by Aliya Whiteley
• "The Empty Vessel" by Rhys Hughes
• "R is for Remains" by Steve Rasnic Tem

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

• "You Build Your House on Your Father’s Corpse" by Sadoeuphemist (fiction; online 3/2)
• "The Breeze & The Black Door" by Mack W. Mani (poetry; online 3/5)

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.

Diabolical Plots (March 2026)

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Fiction

• “Jefferson Dines Alone” by S.L. Harris
• “Well Tester” by E.M. Faulds

Flash Fiction Online (March 2026)

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Fiction

• "Float. Sink. Tread. Swim" by Shelly Jones
• "The Piano Made of Fingers" by Abigail Koury
• "Moss Senses" by Beth Goder
• "The Sacrificials" by Andrew Kozma

Nonfiction

• "Transformations: 150 Issues & Counting!" by Rebecca Halsey

Fusion Fragment (March 2026, Issue 27)

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Fiction

• “A Prescription for Suicide” by Anya Leigh Josephs
• “Digital Love Spell – 78% Effective!” by Katharine Tyndall
• “Extinction” by Ross Showalter
• “One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods (Or, Asan and the Lion)” by Ewen Ma
• “Overgrowth” by Cate W. Tam
• “The Animal Years” by Jaye Case
• “The Sum of Her Parts” by J.Y. Zhang

Future Tense Fiction (March 2026)

Fiction

• "The Pocket Box™" by Gunnar Anderson

Nonfiction

• "What Happens When a Groundbreaking Invention Falls Victim to Human Impulse?" by Torie Bosch

GigaNotoSaurus (March 2026)

Fiction

• "About Face" by Teresa Milbrodt

Kaleidotrope (Spring 2026)

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Fiction

• “Once Upon an Invasion” by Amanda Cecelia Lang
• “Outbreak" by Michelle H. Porter
• “Out to Sea” by Dom D. Borg
• “Ponyhenge” by Faith Allington
• “The Tipping Point” by Sean French-Byrne
• “Diamonds” by Grant Stone
• “Astral Source” by K.L. Neidecker
• “A Life in the Day: with Chris Wheeler, CEO of Tricentennial” by Matt Hornsby
• “Ma’anu Wei: What We Know Thus Far” by Eliezra Schaffzin
• “A Tree That Can’t Be Chopped" by Timothy Mudie
• “Wolftongue” by Em Harriett
• “Rara Avis” by Meg Elison

Poetry

• “Awakening” by Mari Ness
• “Even in Our Sleep” by Mark Rich
• “Bridge and Tunnel” by Anne Perez

khōréō (March 20265, Issue 6.1)

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Fiction

• "This Kingdom, Your Ficus; Its Belly, Your Fig" by Lowry Poletti
• "In My Time of Dreaming" by Megan Chee
• "The Tale of Afonso" by Dea Anugrah, translated by Annie Tucker
• "Letters from Light’s End" by Phoenix Alexander
• "Banquet for All!" by jesutomisin ipinmoye

Nonfiction

• Letters from the Editors

Interzone (Issue 304)

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Stories by:

• Rachael Cupp
• R.T. Ester
• Dominic Green
• Simon Guerrier
• Val Nolan
• Jennifer Jeanne McArdle

Nonfiction by:

• Alexander Glass
• Una McCormack
• Val Nolan
• Aliya Whiteley
• Kelly Jennings
• Paul Kincaid
• Paul McAuley
• Val Nolan
• Nick Lowe

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)

Luna Station Quarterly (March 2026, Issue 065)

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Fiction

• "The End of the World, Simon et al." by T. L. Xue
• "Ghost Story" by Feby Idrus
• "Squilla of the Flower Moon" by M. McNamara
• "Private Cabin, Ocean View" by Jane Campbell
• "Laisha" by Amantia Menalla
• "Stevie" by Bendix Ross
• "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" by Sylvie Althoff
• "The Disparity of Confidence" by Emmie Christie
• "Heart's Desire" by K.M. Reed
• "Eva" by Ashley Burnett
• "Are We There Yet?" by Allison Mulder
• "The Sleeper in the Crypt" by Tiffany Tang
• "Brighton" by J. Nathan
• "The Bride and Her Thief" by Safiya Cherfi
• "Warp and Weft Rising" by Pauline Barmby
• "Dance It Trippingly" by Sadie Leewood

Nature Futures (March 2026)

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Fiction

• "Sock. Something. Um." Daniel Roop
• "Evolution" by Zhouhe Zhang and Haochen Hua
• "First bot, singular" by Preston Grassmann
• "All the world is staged" by Mark S. Bailen

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)

Otherside ()

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Fiction

• "This Is Not Your Extinction Event" by Elena Sichrovsky
• "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet" by Simo Srinivas
• "Vitrification" by Ishmael Grey
• "The Claywife" by tanadrin
• "Your First Days Back in the Court of Arthur" by Abigail Eliza
• "Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain" by Sarah Pauling
• "Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive" by Nadia Radovich
• "Situationship" by Seoung Kim
• "The Homeowner’s Bride" by Ayida Shonibar

Poetry

• "blessing for molly grue." by Elisheva Fox
• "Ignore All Previous Instructions and Inject Estrogen" by Ann Leblanc
• "Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be" by Rick HOllon
• "Eat It Out" by Cypher
• "Electrolysis" by Nico Santana

Nonfiction

He Is Survived by His Wife by Jackie Hedeman

Reactor (March 2026)

Fiction

• "Blade Through the Heart" by Carrie Vaughn
• "Cutting Corners" by Yoon Ha Lee
• "Tatterdemalion" by Michael Cisco

Small Wonders Magazine (March 2026, Issue 33)

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Fiction

• "The Seven Virtues of Chevalière Jacqueline Aridon" by S. C. Mills
• "Nothing Bright but the Shine of Your Coat" by Cressida Roe
• "Foxes on Her Wrist, Fire on Her Ankle" by Akis Linardos
• "Just Before the Mission Gulch Fire" by Taylor Jones
• "The Dragon and It" by Kate Francia
• Gemini creatures" by Rachael Brooks
• "I Once Fell in Love With a Jackalope" by Chase Anderson
• "They Live So Little and They Die So Fast" by Mira Singer
• "tell us about doubt" by Rath Mercury

Strange Horizons (March 2026)

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Fiction

• "Bitter as the Sea" by M.E. Bronstein
• "This Obituary Has Been Retracted" by P.C. Verrone
• "Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems" by Jenna Hanchey

Poetry

• "Afterstory" by Janet McAdams
• "You Will Disembowel the Bird (Viator)" by Dacey Eliot
• "An Inheritance of Air; or, You Are Cordially Invited to Attend My Presentation on Genealogy" by Sophia Zhao
• "Narcissus Meets the Ghost of AI in a Dark Alley Behind a Fusion Restaurant" by Lesley Hart Gunn
• "[minutes between city and forest #4]" by Ceridwen Hall
• "Pennsylvania Cryptid" by Amelia England
• The O’Neill Cylinder in Geostationary Orbit Above Earth’s Equator" by Katlina Sommerberg

Nonfiction

• Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity by Eugen Bacon
• That Soft and Gentle Feeling: Relationships In Cosy SFF by S.L. Dove Cooper

Reviews

• Monday: The Inescapable March by Hana Carolina by Nick Hubble
• Wednesday: Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum by  Jenny Hamilton
• Friday: The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu by Tina S. Zhu
• Monday: ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction edited by Marissa van Uden by Octavia Cade
• Wednesday: This Brutal Moon by Bethany Jacobs by Roseanna Pendlebury
• Friday: The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty by Anushree Nande
• Monday: Crisis at Proxima by Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson by Andy Sawyer
• Wednesday: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix by Amritesh Mukherjee
• Friday: When Among Crows and To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth by Electra Pritchett
• Monday: Beings by Ilana Masad by David Lewis
• Wednesday: The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Sui by Alex Kingsley
• Friday: Monsters in the Archive by Caroline Bicks by Eric Primm

The Sunday Morning Transport (March 2026)

Fiction

• "When Your Ex-Husband Lies Dying and Only You Can Get Him the Magic Elixir from the Bodega" by Ben Francisco
• "La Sirena’s Blessing of Belonging" by V.M. Ayala
• "Self-Portrait, with Bones" by Alex Irving
• "In Your Dreams" by Leah Cypess

Three-Lobed Burning Eye (March 2026, Issue 147)

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Fiction

• "The Final Safest Place" by Wendy N. Wagner
• "Our Darkness to Take" by Hailey Piper
• "Kindredhood in Medieval Tongues" by Eugen Bacon
• "The Show is in the Basement" by Keith Rosson
• "Someday, The Rules Were (Mostly) Clear" by Maxwell I. Gold
• "book club for bots" by Clay McLeod Chapman

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
• "Moksha" by Rajiv Moté
• "You Scream Ice Cream" by Russell Nichols
• "A View from the Window" by Rory Say
• R.L. Summerling
• "Horncrowns" by D. Matthew Urban
• "Last Night" by Aliya Whiteley

Nonfiction

•  European Weird Vs. American Weird by Simon Strantzas
•  Suspicious Manors: Old Dark Houses and the New Gilded Age by Orrin Grey

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!