In "Catastrophizing" by Katie McIvor, the narrator is dealing with a visceral form of climate grief while yearning for deep connections. Read it here in our 16th issue:

Time slips and trips and loops in "Our House" by Eleanor Lennox. Is it a loop if you forget it's happened?

A must read thread about Must Read Magazines (Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine). Authors, if you don't understand your contract: don't sign. Ask. Many folks in this community will help decipher legalese! These rights grabs are very bad.

Happy moisturize-your-undead-skin month!

They say you can never go home again - that's even more true when traveling involves relativity. Read Ian Li's "Traveling at Lightspeed is Easy, Returning to Earth is Hard" in our 16th issue:

"The Vampire Contemplates Skin Care" in our April issue is a perfect poem for an October day. Lynne Sargent lays out one of the consequences of undeath:

This is achingly beautiful 💔❤️

"The last time I saw you, you were driving a wooden spike through my eye socket. This afternoon, you were ringing up my groceries at Dillons." Sylvie Althoff's "Business As Usual" from October of 2024 is a wonderfully awful mix of the mundane and horrible:

Look, there’s therapy, and then there’s this approach, and you get to decide which seems scarier.

Don't forget to read "The Things You'll Wish You'd Known" before undergoing joining with your Selrini symbiont! Kristen Koopman's list from our April issue is a good introduction to what you're signing up for with this process (it's a lot):

We're starting out spooky month strong with "Mess" by Rose Maxwell! What if you could remove all the messy parts from yourself, literally? Would you see the appeal?