It’s time once again for a short story recommendation post! As usual, please feel free to recommend stories to me in the comments, because I make no pretense of having read everything–if you see a magazine listed, it doesn’t mean I’ve read everything from that magazine, even.
The Velvet Castles of the Night, by Claire Eliza Bartlett, Daily Science Fiction
Time, Like Water, by Amal El-Mohtar, The Rubin
The Things That We Will Never Say, by Vanessa Fogg, Daily Science Fiction
The Guitar Hero, by Maria Haskins, Kaleidotrope
Five Functions of Your Bionosaur, by Rachael K. Jones, Robot Dinosaur Fiction
A Complex Filament of Light, by S. Qioyu Lu, Anathema
A Cradle of Vines, by Jennifer Mace, Cast of Wonders
The Thing In the Walls Wants Your Small Change, by Virginia M. Mohlere, Luna Station Quarterly
Blessings, by Naomi Novik, Uncanny
Even to the Teeth, by Karen Osborne
50 Ways to Leave Your Fairy Lover, by Aimee Picchi, Fireside
Canada Girl vs. The Thing Inside Pluto, by Lina Rather, Flash Fiction Online
The Sweetness of Honey and Rot, by A. Merc Rustad, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Sonya Taaffe’s די ירושה, Uncanny (for some reason the text box will not let me enter this in the opposite order…)
Dear David, by Yael van der Wouden, Longleaf Review
Small Things Pieced Together, by Ginger Weil, Robot Dinosaur Fiction
In the End, It Always Turns Out the Same, by A.C. Wise, The Dark
Fascism and Facsimiles, by John Wiswell, Fireside