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Table of Contents, August 2026

Table of Contents, August 2026

It's a new month: 2026 is speeding right along. That means a new crop of short fiction across the SF/F world.

You can check out last month's (newly updated!) installment here, and the prior installments here.

Here are the short stories coming out this month:

Adventitious (August 2026, #4)

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Fiction

  • “A Game of Go” by P.A. Cornell
  • “No Iron Can Resist” by Aimee Ogden
  • “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter” by Audrey Zhou
  • “Life Imitates” by Rio Lombana & Kaitlin Schmidt
  • “Bath Bomb” by Liam Hogan
  • “A Hole in My Heart the Shape of the Multiverse” by Ruth Joffre
  • “The Spacefarer’s Guide to Connecting with Your Daughter’s Descendants” by Stewart C. Baker
  • “The Fruit Is Very Acceptable Here” by Kari Maaren
  • “Heartwood” by Moira Richardson
  • “Hello” by Jeanna Cammarano
  • “All Aboard” by Hannya Kay
  • “The Unnamed City, As Seen at Three Points” by Adrian Ward
  • “How to Lose to Death” by Priya Sridhar
  • “The Grammar of Jespersen-b” by Holly Schofield
  • “Saul & Noah’s Hot Bouleutophagy Summer” by Elijah J. Mears

Aurealis (July 2026, Issue #192)

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Fiction

Nonfiction

The Dark (August 2026, Issue #135)

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Fiction

Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction (Summer 2026, #39)

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Fiction

  • "What The Lotus Said To The Water Lily" by Jahid Wilson Jr.
  • "The Great Proxima Agricultural Fair" by K.W. Onley
  • "The House" by Ann Michelle Harris
  • Pixels" by T’asia Driggs

Poetry

  • "various —cides" by Clifton Gachagua
  • "Dispatch from Watchmakers" by Abu Bakr Sadiq
  • "Kwan" by Natasha McDonnell-Tanoh

Flash Fiction Online (August 2026)

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Fiction

  • "Milk" by Caitlin Devlin
  • "The Alien You Love" by Jonathan Huston
  • "iron & garlic & salt & blood" by Nico Martinez Nocito
  • "Eyeballs of My Eyes" by Abigail Guerrero
  • "Meatball" by S.L. Harris
  • "Pomegranates" by G.M. Mitchell

Nonfiction

GigaNotoSaurus (August 2026)

Fiction

Interzone (Issue 305)

Fiction

  • "Scelerat" by E.G. Condé
  • "Cops and Robbers #2: Negative Space" BY Rachael Cupp
  • "A  Perfectly Good Train: A Supermamadou Story" by Mame Bougouma Diene
  • "The Spider at the Heart of It" by Josh Pearce
  • "Unhomely" by Ben Tufnell
  • " Nowhere Town" by Corey Jae White
  • "Philoctetes" by Rebecca Zahabi

Nonfiction by

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

Lightspeed Magazine (August 2026, Issue #195)

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Fiction

  • "Legs" by A.M. Maris (8/6)
  • "Infinite Wishes" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (8/6)
  • "Fragments of the Whole" by Brooke Bolander (8/13)
  • "The Age of Cancer" by Vajra Chandrasekera (8/13)
  • "What Do You Mean the Nanobots Formed a Union??" by Joel W. D. Buxton (8/20)
  • "Of All Who Dream" by Adelehin Ijasan (8/20)
  • "Ladd’s Robot Repair" by David Anaxagoras (8/27)
  • "The Goddess of Not Enough" by Susan Palwick (8/27)

Nonfiction

  • Editorial: August 2026 by John Joseph Adams (8/6)
  • Announcement: We’re Launching a New Kickstarter Soon. Sign up to be notified when it launches! by John Joseph Adams
  • Author Spotlight: A.M. Maris by Robin Jeffrey (8/6)
  • Author Spotlight: Brooke Bolander by A. Humphrey Lanham (8/13)
  • Book Review: The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope by Melissa A Watkins (8/13)
  • Author Spotlight: Joel W. D. Buxton by Phoebe Barton (8/20)
  • Author Spotlight: Adelehin Ijasan by Delia Cullity (8/20)
  • Book Review: Forged in FIYAH by DaVaun Sanders, ed. by Arley Sorg (8/20)
  • Book Review: All We Have Is Time by Amy Tordoff by Chris Kluwe (8/27)

Nightmare Magazine (August 2026, Issue #167)

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Fiction

  • "The Dark Follows Me" by Quincy Lee (8/5)
  • "My Parts, Collected" by Melissa A Watkins (8/12)
  • "Room 602 at the Hotel In-Between" by Georgina Kamsika (8/19)
  • "Shapeshifting Recovery Staff" by Bogi Takács (8/26)

Nonfiction

  • Editorial: August 2026 by Wendy N. Wagner (8/5)
  • Author Spotlight: Quincy Lee by Alex Puncekar (8/5)
  • The H Word: The Revolution Will Be Horrorized by Kurt Fawver (8/12)
  • Author Spotlight: Georgina Kamsika by Alex Puncekar (8/19)
  • Plumbing the Depths: Beasts in the City—Horror Meets the Gangster by Matthew Sorrento (8/26)

Uncanny Magazine (July/August 2026, Issue #71)

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Fiction

  • "A Hundred Ways the Story Ends" by Tara Sim (8/4)
  • "The Cinema of Babel" by Sam J. Miller (8/4)
  • "Judar of the Island: A Story Told in Four Feasts" by Rida Altaf (8/4)
  • "enough johnnie blue" by E. A. Bourland (8/4)
  • "I called the swan down" by Laura Cranehill (8/4)

Nonfiction

  • Interview: Rida Altaf by Caroline M. Yoachim (8/4)
  • Middle-Aged Love: Rereading in Your Forties and Beyond by Marissa Lingen (8/4)
  • This Is Not About AI by Hana Lee (8/4)

As always, check back towards the end of the month for an updated list as new stories come out.