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Short stuff I’ve liked, second quarter 2026

As always, I am nowhere near reading everything, so please feel free to recommend more lovely things in the comments.

The Dream of Jeannie, Marie Brennan (Strange Horizons)

Expendable Me, P.A. Cornell (Gavagai)

Hell Is Empty, J.R. Dawson (Lightspeed)

This Is Not My Timeline, J.R. Dawson (Reactor)

Remade, Reshaped, Remembered, Sydney Paige Guerrero (Otherside)

The Stone’s Choice, Anaea Lay (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

obsolesce, Macey Levington (Otherside)

In the Foothills, Rajiv Moté (Reckoning)

The Best of Intentions, Mari Ness (Lightspeed)

The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub, Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons)

Once, I returned Tulip, Once I became, C.P. Nwankwo (Reckoning)

Reap the Rules, Sonya Taaffe (Reckoning)

Song, Skin, Sea, Tamara Vardomskaya (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

A Mermaid Looks at 40, Fran Wilde (Uncanny)

Welcome to Heroism, John Wiswell (Uncanny)

Immigrant Girl from the End of the World, Hannah Yang (Uncanny)

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