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Table of Contents, June 2026

More SF/F short fiction to read this month!

Table of Contents, June 2026
Images: Adventitious, Apex, and Otherside

New month, new stories: here's a new crop of short fiction has begun dropping, and it's time for a new roundup for the month! You can check out last month's (newly updated!) installment here, and the prior installments here.

Adventitious (Issue 3)

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Fiction

  • "Non Plus Ultra" by M.A. Carrick
  • "All of My Tomorrows" by L.D. Colter
  • "alleles" by Amanda Helms
  • "Hollows After Bones" by Elis Montgomery
  • "Sunday on the grass" by John Saul

Nonfiction

Amazing Stories (June 2026)

Fiction

Apex Magazine (Issue 153, June/July 2026)

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Fiction

  • "The Bathhouse for Long Life" by Claire Jia-Wen
  • "Glass" by Beth Dawkins
  • "Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation" by Chris Campbell — 6/2
  • "My Suicides" by Debbie Urbanski — 6/9
  • "Seventeen Beats, the Chirping Stopped" by Christian Ramirez Ramos — 6/23
  • "In Your Diminishing Tongue" by Indigo Rue
  • "The Vigil of the Tenth Air" by Surya Ramkumar — 6/30

Nonfiction

Aurealis (Issue 190)

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Fiction

Nonfiction

Clarkesworld Magazine (June 2026, Issue 237)

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Fiction

Nonfiction

Dark Horses Magazine (Issue 53, June 2026)

Fiction

  • "Beyond The Beaten Path" by Jenny Morelli
  • "Beyond The Breakers" by Chris Mcginley
  • "Gore" by Andrew Albritton
  • "Thunder Road" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
  • "How Navigation Works" by Griffith Pound
  • "That Time Was The Place Where I Exist" by Robert Pettus
  • "The Gathering Of The Dragons" by Matias Travieso-diaz
  • "The Silver Front" by George P. Cross
  • "The World Beyond The Water" by Daniel Burnbridge
  • "Ghost Inquisitor" by Bill Walthall
  • "Child Of Centaurus" by R.A. Daunton
  • "Drains" by David Castlewitz
  • "Five Soft Fingers" by Sophia Krich-brinton
  • "Lisl" by Lisa Marie Miller
  • "Neural Crucible" by Ernesto Sanchez
  • "The Gromskin" by Mark Nuzzi
  • "The Missouri Man" by Lawrence Dagstine
  • "A Taste Of Truth" by Bill Diamond
  • Plunge" by Anuel Rodriguez

Diabolical Plots (June 2026)

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Fiction

GigaNotoSaurus (June 2026)

Fiction

Kaleidotrope (Spring 2026)

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Fiction

Poetry

Lightspeed Magazine (Issue 193, June 2026)

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Fiction

  • "Ghost in the Tank" by M.R. Robinson (6/4)
  • "The Best of Intentions" by Mari Ness (6/4)
  • "Memeostasis" by Benjamin Rosenbaum (6/11)
  • "An Oral History of the Schooner Key Invasion" by Alex Irvine (6/11)
  • "The Overview Initiative" by David Marino (6/18)
  • "I Cut Off a Monster’s Arm. AITA?" by Marie Brennan (6/18)
  • "The Sharing of Some Familiar Song" by Adam-Troy Castro (6/25)
  • "Ash-Shūrā; or, A Book, a Bowl, a Bag of Coins" by Beesan Odeh (6/25)

Nonfiction

  • Editorial: June 2026 by John Joseph Adams (6/4)
  • Author Spotlight: M.R. Robinson by Erik Grove (6/4)
  • Author Spotlight: Alex Irvine by A Humphrey Lanham (6/11)\
  • Book Review: My Dear You by Rachel Khong by Arley Sorg (6/11)
  • Author Spotlight: David Marino by Phoebe Barton (6/18)
  • Book Review: Goldenborn by Ama Ofosua Lieb by Melissa A Watkins (6/18)
  • Author Spotlight: Beesan Odeh by Delia Cullity (6/25)
  • Book Review: Auntie Heroes by Rita Beeman, ed. (6/25)

Luna Station Quarterly (June 2026, Issue 066)

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Fiction

  • "Backwash" by Rowan Tate
  • "Two Nights at the Doll House" by Maggie Slater
  • "Cat Steps" by River West
  • "As Per My Last Email" by Eleanor Rasor
  • "Track 19" by Lesley Hart Gunn
  • "Hazard Pay; Competence; Wyrms" by Catherine George
  • "Zig and Zag's Guide to Crash Landing" by Harklin Ashe
  • "The Dragons" by Ashleigh Rajala
  • "Time Surfing" by Isabel McKeough
  • "The Queen of Tish" by Lindsey Duncan
  • "Vestigial Speech" by Xavier George
  • "Tongue" by Denman Netherland
  • "The Last Birthday Cake" by KT Reed
  • "Spaghettification" by Lauren Ferebee
  • "The Grass is Pinker on the Other Side" by Kelley Tai

Nonfiction

Nightmare Magazine (June 2026, Issue 165)

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Fiction

  • "What Grows Back" by Aishatu Ado (6/3)
  • "NoMouth" by Marianne Kirby (6/10)
  • "Patterns of Dentition in Transgender Adults" by Izzy Wasserstein (6/17)
  • "Good Morning, Wolf—" by Stephanie M. Wytovich (6/24)

Nonfiction

  • Editorial: June 2026 by Wendy N. Wagner (6/3)
  • Author Spotlight: Aishatu Ado by Clay Vermulm (6/3)
  • The H Word: Horror Is the Metal of Books by Chris Panatier (6/10)
  • Author Spotlight: Izzy Wasserstein by Kevin Figueroa Quiñones (6/17)
  • Media Reviews: June 2026 by Adam-Troy Castro (6/24)

Otherside (June 2026, Issue 2)

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Fiction

  • "We Who Have Been Raised by Tigers" by P.V. Vamsidhar
  • "Before She Knew About Magic" by Joshua Geller Schwartz
  • "Two People" by Ben Francisco
  • "This Is C(lone)-Pop" by Lia Lao
  • "Spider Kiss" by Bree Wernicke
  • "Chī Kǔ" by J.Y. Zhang
  • "First to Rot" by J.N. Howell
  • "Crowns" by cee-cee manrique
  • "Remade, Reshaped, Remembered" by Sydney Paige Guerrero

Poetry

  • "Masquerade." by Chidera Offor
  • Ganymede" by Gospel Chinedu
  • "obsolesce" by Macey Levington
  • "girl, flogged by a false-named whip." by Amie SHen
  • "Open Your Eyes Again" by Toby MacNutt
  • "As seen through the hole of the hag stone:" by Sienna Tristen

Nonfiction

  • Letter from the Editors: Issue 2 by Ash Vale, M.R. Robinson, V.M. Ayala
  • A Noose of Purple Silk by Sidney Grady

Small Wonders Magazine (June 2026)

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Fiction

Uncanny Magazine (May/June 2026, Issue 70)

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Fiction

Poetry

Nonfiction

That's it for now: check back later in the month when I update this list. As always, let me know what you read in the comments!