Happy New Story Sunday (ish)! This week, a deathbed codicil, a savage sport, a mechanical replacement, and further complications? Join us for a healthful outing in Chris Baker’s marvellous “A Duty of Care.” Happy hunting!

Archive Spotlight: Have you been a naughty scientist this week? We bring you your comeuppance (or reward, if you like) by way of Lorraine Schein's sci-romantasy, 'Nimue's Confession'. Guilty pleasure? Absolutely!

Archive Spotlight: Looking for the perfect, credible excuse to call in sick? We've got you! Just tell them you've got an infestation of 'Treebrain Fungi'. Works every time. Don't thank us, thank D.S. Carabise!

“What does it want?” “Normal.” Halfway and we realise we’ve lost all sense of what’s normal and what’s not. But, like good soldiers, we blast on through the lyrical the weird the ‘Situation Normal’!

When poetry meets surrealism meets philosophy meets alien warfare, what else can you get but the mindwarping, magnificent ‘Situation Normal’ by Josh Pearce? Just don’t forget what the last three letters of SNAFU stand for. Atten-hut!

Archive Spotlight: For the weekend, we invite you to let yourself be lost in the epic, the poetic, the tragic beauty that is Kehkashan Khalid’s ‘You Must Turn the Pages Gently’. Enjoy, gently.

Archive Spotlight: In ‘Martian Wallpaper’, Wen Wen Yang weaves a haunting tale of postpartum depression and living wallpapers in Mars. Take a break from work (do avoid the rest bay) for this one!

New Story Alert! Kim Sheard leads the petition for making user manuals more interesting with the engrossing 'P.L.U.G.' What's it mean? Well, head on to our Substack and have a fun time finding out!

Archive Spotlight: Sometimes space travel is about a young girl grappling with loneliness on a rocky planet in tender language in a story called 'In The Stars' Brilliance' by Georgina Kamsika.