Table of Contents, June 2026

More SF/F short fiction to read this month!

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
"Who Tells Your Story?" by Clint Hannah-Lopez
"By The Wings Of An Albatross" by Abigail Kemske
"Lindy Bot" by Anna Kahn
"The God of the Leftmost Door" by M.R. Robinson
"The Laws of Thermodynamics as Applied to my Dead Mom" by Christopher Blake
"Kings_Gambit.exe" y Yelena Crane

Nonfiction

For Sale: If You Can Catch It — A Rare Ambulatory Freehold Opportunity!

Amazing Stories (June 2026)

Fiction

"Diaschisis" by T.R. Brooks
"Headhunter" by Dennis Kohler
"Time Saves" by Femi Salami
"They Are Vast" by Duff McCourt
"The Hidden Parliament" by Ian Brazee-Cannon

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 (This story was taken down because it was suspected of being written with AI assistance.)

Nonfiction

Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
Why it Matters When I Write About Space Janitors by Marie Vibbert
Weird Girl Fiction by Ivy Grimes — 6/4
Interview with Author Claire Jia-Wen by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Author Debbie Urbanski by Marissa van Uden — 6/16

Aurealis (Issue 190)

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Fiction

"Faultless" by Brendan Cottam
"Unnatural Selection" by Donna Lee Austin
"To Feel the Sunby Dominic Deveny-Borg

Nonfiction

From the Cloud
‘The Lonely’: The Twilight Zone Episode That Parallels the 2020s by Joseph Sullivan
The Paradox of Nothing: The Anthromorphism of Aliens by Todd Sullivan
Ignorance Is Creative Bliss by Dr PH Court

Beneath Ceaseless Skies (Issue #459 and #460)

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Fiction

"The Ecstasy of the White Sea" by KJ Kabza
"Waiting for The Yellow Ships" by Edward Hodge
"A Stranger Goes Ashore" by Adam R. Shannon
"A Candle for Her Tireless Dead" by Louis Inglis Hall
"Fletcher’s Flights" by Jonathan Olfert
"Let the Gods Drown With Us" by R.K. Duncan

Clarkesworld Magazine (June 2026, Issue 237)

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Fiction

"Up the Line to Death" by Carrie Vaughn
"The Potential Side Effects of Roleplay Stimulation Therapy" by Claire Jia-Wen
"The Floating Republic" by Rebecca Campbell
"Three Cases from the Cosmic Psychiatric Clinic" by Pan Haitian, translated by Blake Stone-Banks
"A Life Measured in Seconds" by Anne Wilkins
"Burning Day" by Samantha Murray
"Ice, Rock, Empathy" by Damián Neri

Nonfiction

Finite Resources & Congestion Charges: What Will EV Technology of the Future Actually Look Like? by Kyle Tam
When The Future Catches Up To You: A Conversation with Naomi Kritzer by Arley Sorg
To Know, and to Have a Choice: A Conversation with Isabel J. Kim by Arley Sorg
Editor's Desk: One for the Team by Neil Clarke

Cosmic Horror Monthly (June 2025)

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"There’s Something on Her Face" by Mary Magagna
"How to Deal with Fallen Gods" by Matthew MacDonald
"Only the Troll Wife Remains" by Leonora Lewis
"Jamieson" by Margaret St. Clair

The Dark (June 2026, Issue 133)

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“The Sunflowers” by JL George
“The Beach House with Its Back to the Sea” by Íde Hennessy (reprint)
“Magpie Rhymes” by R. K. Duncan
“The Black Fox” by David Demchuk

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

“The Sharp Cry of the Winterlarks” by Arden Baker
“The Monster’s Wife” by Stewart Moore

Flash Fiction Online ()

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Fiction

"Byzantium" by Robert Dawson
"Last Rites" by Cailín Frankland
"What Is Conjured Shall Vanish" by Akis Linardos
"A Runaway Android’s Guide to the Oro-Ti Night Market" by M.R. Robinson
"Herself Anodyne" by Emma Burnett
"Your Guide to the Ever-Shrinking Solitude on Planet Earth" by Jo Miles
"In the Book Grove" by Carol Scheina
"The Girls of Channel 9" by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
"Restoration" by Rich Larson
"Starve You" by Bethany Bruno
"I Am My Art" by Ayida Shonibar
"A Bag of Soldiers" by Eric Fomley
"To Face Ourselves" by Claudia Wair
"Null Empathy" by Myna Chang
"In the Name of Those Optimist Iranian Fools" by Pegah Ouji
"133rd Live Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance" by Beth Cato

Nonfiction

Editorial: The Heart of Resistance by Jeanna Cammarano

Flash Point SF (June 2026, Issue 3)

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Fiction

"How to Get a Head" by Marie Brennan
"Don’t Touch the Clones" by Andrew Kozma
"What To Expect When You’re Expectorating Bees on Hive Colony Delta" by Addison Smith
"Please Join Me on the Fourth Shift"by David M. Barry
"Pythia" by Juniper White

Forever Magazine (June 2026, Issue 137)

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Fiction

“Tool Use By the Humans of Danzhai County” by Derek Künsken
“Hello, Hello” by Seanan McGuire
“Rager in Space” by Charlie Jane Anders

Future Tense Fiction (June 2026)

Fiction

"Mirror, Mirror" by Sofia Samatar

Nonfiction

In the Blink of an Eye by Will Hellwarth

GigaNotoSaurus (June 2026)

Fiction

"How the Waters Returned to Apicuya" by Nicholas Schorn

Kaleidotrope (Spring 2026)

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Fiction

"Once Upon an Invasion" by Amanda Cecelia Lang
"Outbreak" by Michele H. Porter
"Out to Sea" by Dominic 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 (June 2026)

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Fiction

"The Post-History of a Planet" by Samantha H. Chung
"So You Want to Make a Killing" by Boon Carmen
"Tender and Sweet" by Lisobel Tang
"Godweapon" by Kel Coleman
"Museum of the Other Moon" by A. Artemis Chen
"A River Begins or Ends" by Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira

Nonfiction

Letter from the Editors by Zhui Ning Chang

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. by Chris Kluwe (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

The June issue has docked for the summer by Jennifer Lyn Parsons

MIT Technology Review (June 2026)

Fiction

"You Do Your Own Time" by Elizabeth Bear

Nature Futures (June 2026)

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Fiction

"Book of Cron Job" by Jordan W. Suchow
"Doubting Thomas" by Paul Renault
"Wah-ult in the vault" by Mark Arnold
"Garbage collection" by Aidan Lawson

Neon Dystopia (June 2026)

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Fiction

"The Purpose of a Name" by Ashley Y. Gao
"Secondhand Parts" by David Winchester

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

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine (June 2026, vol x issue 1)

Fiction

"On the Space Station" by John Grey
"A God in Binary" by A.D. Ross
"Xenowicker" by Richard Magahiz
"A Post-Times Dispatch" by Doug Donovan
"Over Time" by Amelia Gorman
"Elegy" by Andrew Fraknoi
"A Sweet Summer Melody Courtesy of Planet XR-23A" by Bailey Thomas
"Time" by O. Vrubel
"The Chaatbot" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires
"Yes Chef" by Corinne Engber
"The World Is Raining" by Mira Singer
"Questions for an Unnamed Member of the Undead" by Marcus Whalbring
"The Veiled Prophet" by Dave Hangman
"For the Piercer and the Craftsman" by John Leahy
"Erd Hated" by Adele Gardner
"The Line" by Michael VanCalbergh
"Progress" by Jamal Hodge

Reactor (June 2026)

Fiction

"Trail Cam" by Benjamin Percy
"No Agency Without Identity! Stay In Character Always!" by James Patrick Kelly
"Turn Right For Terror" by James Cooper

Small Wonders Magazine (June 2026)

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Fiction

"Laundry Lives" by Cara Masten DiGirolamo
"we are all made of star-stuff" by Ash Vale
a junk email from god" by Diya Tyagi
Photographs I Have Been Trapped In" by Beth Goder
"Your Cause and Your Effect" by Ian Li
"What Are We If I Stay" by K. S. Walker
"Familiar" by Courtney Floyd
"Waiting to Become True" by Samantha Murray
"Magnus, Who Tore Down the Night" by Cameron Blue

Strange Horizons (June 2026)

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Fiction

"Throne of Men, Wilds of Sky" by Morgan Wodring
"For a Handful of Salted Teeth" by Marisca Pichette
"Dear Trilobites" by RJ Taylor

Poetry

"look" by Eric Otto
"The Sound of Trying to Remember" by Vinita Agrawal, art by Romie Stott
"The Dream of Jeannie" by Marie Brennan
"view advertisement source code" by Nico Martinez Nocito
"The Keyhole" by Natalia Theodoridou
"How to Court a Siberian Tiger" by Izzy Toy Rettke
"Log 6324, earthdate unknown" by Rose Mary Boehm
"ἀγκυλοθάλασσος" by Sonya Taaffe
"What the Machine Remembered" by Jack Fisher
"The Glass Beach" by Nestor Walters
"Permafrost" by M. Frost

Nonfiction

The Many Metaphors of Lycanthropy by Gwen Katz
Against Worldbuilding by Jenna Hanchey

Reviews

Monday: The Climate Fiction Prize Shortlist 2026 by Octavia Cade
Wednesday: The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet by Yi-Ling Liu by Nataliia Sova
Friday: Hermits Die on Thursday: Stories of Appalachia and the Dark Ages by Gregory Ariail by Tim Lockette
Sunday: Red Sword by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur by Akankshya Abismruta
Sunday: Fantasy: A Short History by Adam Roberts by Stephanie Burt
Saturday: Nonesuch by Francis Spufford by Paul March-Russell
Monday: Kill The Poet, Save The World! by Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu by Akumbu Uche
Wednesday: Dead Boys in Space by Sara Youngblood Gregory by William Shaw
Friday: House of Margins by Tloto Tsamaase by Sinclair Adams
Monday: Vigil by George Saunders by David Soyka
Wednesday: The Young Die Old by Nguyễn Bình Phương, translated by Khải Q. Nguyễn by Rachel Cordasco
Friday: River of Bones and Other Stories by Rebecca Roanhorse by Alex Kingsley

The Sunday Morning Transport (June 2026)

Fiction

"Go No-Go No" by Alex London
"Jill & Lily" by J.R. Dawson
"Word of Mouth" by Andrea Phillips
"Always" by Karen Joy Fowler

Uncanny Magazine (May/June 2026, Issue 70)

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Fiction

"Immigrant Girl from the End of the World" by Hannah Yang (available Jun 02, 2026)
"#HumansOfMars" by Lavie Tidhar (available Jun 02, 2026)
"Magical Girl Eater" by Angela Liu (available Jun 02, 2026)
"Lincoln and the Harvester C-100" by R.S.A. Garcia (available Jun 02, 2026)

Poetry

"electric in the silver stormchain that burst behind my wings" by S.R. Ekstein (available Jun 02, 2026)
"Quorum" by Ceridwen Hall (available Jun 02, 2026)

Nonfiction

Nature, Monsters, and the Responsibility of Larger Things by Nilah Magruder (available Jun 02, 2026)
An Absolute Crisis: DC’s Big 7 Have Been Stripped Down and Relaunched for the Present Age by Alex Jennings (available Jun 02, 2026)
Interview: Angela Liu by Caroline M. Yoachim (available Jun 02, 2026)

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!