@sffmagazines
A list of active, regularly published fiction markets, including stories by today's best science fiction, fantasy and horror writers. Visit our web page and subscribe to your favorite titles: https://www.trollbreath.com/sff-magazine-subscriptions/
In the morning, the boy woke to find a small, green turtle sitting on their chest. This was very strange, because it wasn’t the season for baby turtles, but they knew well that sometimes strange things happened. go.dfstory.com/turtle
The generation ship Adams sails through the endless ocean of space protected by a forcefield scoop that surrounds it in a white-blue halo. It glides serenely through the abyss, lonely but powerful. Inside it is a powder keg, ruled by a tyrannical Captain and a crew stirring like mad ants. With just that information, can you foresee divine intervention two galaxies away?
Consider the (infinite and infinitesimal) possibilities in @jaydeholmes.bsky.social's fun new flash story "Anything Not Impossible."
kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...
We’re sorry this wasn’t available earlier. It turns out our server slept in for Daylight Saving Time. @chasej.xyz’s excellent story is now up!
smallwondersmag.com/piece/i-once...
Magazine cover with a painting of grey and white clouds on an acid yellow background.
🌦️ It's here! Our tenth & final issue 🌦️
Feat:
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@sagemustang.bsky.social
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@zaryfekete.bsky.social
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& more!!
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-ten-ed...
#SFF #Horror
Diabolical Plots logo: a smiling begoggled face on teal background
New fiction for March:
Jefferson Dines Alone by S.L. Harris
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
The Sunday Morning Transport paddles away from the city today with a story from V.M. Ayala (@spacevalkyries.bsky.social) that invites us to visit the ocean and make a wish. Read a sample or subscribe for the whole story!
In First Words by Hap Aziz, a new translation technology decodes the unexpected. Crows ask questions, elephants remember their dead, and dolphins share acoustic maps of reefs and currents. But the animals humans raise for food also have something to say. go.dfstory.com/firstwords
"Bones" by Kathryn Ptacek, in Feb's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/ptacekBones.html
As the day hours go by, the bones
return to my body until, once more,
at night I am complete.
- from "Bones" by Kathryn Ptacek, in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#poetry #poet #poem #horror
In Julia August's story, Modern Cassandra is here to warn you, but alas, all of her warnings go to the spam folder.
Today, Jesterbells invites us to consider the circular nature of life in her piece, "They Live So Little and They Die So Fast".
“We know how to love you,” says the moss…💚💚💚
Our Friday release this week is “Moss Senses” by Beth Goder. Check it out for free today!
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #sciencefiction
@bethgoder.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/moss...
"Nature is healing."
The gargolye: "Yeah, but my balls are still freezing!"
This short story brought to you by us here at the Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscription Database! Go find Fusion Fragment on our list and subscribe to their awesome publication!
A New issue. New worlds. New tales. New questions. Same commitment to stories that matter. Read Free online : go.dfstory.com/anvil23 or BUY on Amazon: go.dfstory.com/Anvil23Amazon
Critical Friends The Strange Horizons SF/F Criticism Podcast
NEW PODCAST ALERT!
This week we have a new episode of Critical Friends for you!
This time out Dan Hartland discusses style in SFF with Paul Kincaid and Dawn Macdonald!
What do you think about style? Why does SFF have such a fraught relationship with it?
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
POETRY by Dacey Eliot You Will Disembowel the Bird (Viator) Quote i must warn you before all else before you poke and prod at your new brood of yellow chicks end Quote 2 March 2026 Strange Horizons
You Will Disembowel the Bird (Viator)
by Dacey Eliot
"i must warn you before all else
before you poke and prod
at your new brood of yellow chicks"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Trollbreath magazine The Messenger of Budapest by Amy Kitcher Image is a bridge over the Danube River with blue and green color shifts
New Free Fiction Friday! We fell in love with this one on first read and think you will too!
magazine.trollbreath.com/the-messenge...
Visit DreamForge. Check out our latest Issue 23, online now! And then start finding your new favorite authors across our archive of issues. Stories, articles on writing, hope notes, and more! dreamforgemagazine.com/digital-issu...
While our magazine primarily features short stories and flash fiction, we also love to find poetic gems such as "Feline Domestication" by @marysoonlee.bsky.social
All of Issue 3 is now available and free to read on our website!
We have four short story debuts to kick off Women in Horror Month, including tales from @cayce.zone and @moirakurtinwrites.bsky.social and the voices of @amandastribling.bsky.social and @boojums.bsky.social.
talestoterrify.com/episodes/736-wihm-new-author-feature
This week, on LIGHTSPEED:
"The Devourers of War; or, An Excerpt from the Cookbook of the Gods" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
This week, on LIGHTSPEED:
"Eat, Prey, Love: A Modest Proposal for Ensuring Gender Equality Through Selective Dietary Practices; or, a Geriatric Millennial’s Guide to #GirlDinner" by Jilly Dreadful www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/eat-...
What if we could drill past every layer of who we are — what would we find at the core? Read Core Sample by Marie Brennan. go.dfstory.com/coresample
FICTION Quote I’ll knock on your door, at which point I will most likely encounter a puzzled maidservant, who will ask who in the world I am, and I will explain that I am returning a book you were kind enough to bestow on me (generous creature that you are and clearly down-on-their-luck, weatherworn would-be poet that I am). end Quote Bitter as the Sea by M.E. Bronstein 2 March 2026 Strange Horizons
Bitter as the Sea
by M.E. Bronstein
"...(generous creature that you are and clearly down-on-their-luck, weatherworn would-be poet that I am)."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
Check out "Covenant of Echoes" by @sagemustang.bsky.social! This short story and all of Issue 3 is now free and available to read on our website.
We loved it and we hope you will, too!
"There’s nothing out there beyond the fence
except the old house and the woods.
Nothing to be scared of, I guess."
OUR FINAL piece of issue 41!
The Breeze & the Black Door by Mack W. Mani
read and enjoy here:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
"You walk down the hill to draw water, and you have to watch your footing. Navigating your father’s corpse is a perilous affair."
TODAY, beloveds!!
a new story for you 🖤
You Build Your House on Your Father’s Corpse by Sadoeuphemist
read it here:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
New podcast episode today, produced and edited by Aaron Kling, has @annapele.eu reading @wordskatter.bsky.social's "Fixing the System in Tilt Town" from Reckoning 8, a story about a neurodivergent engineer who discovers the solution for dystopia is community: reckoning.press/podcast-epis...
Start your Monday off by reviewing the seven virtues and how Chevalière Jacqueline Aridon embodies them while taking part in mech jousting in today's story by S. C. Mills .
cover image of Plott Hound Magazine Issue 3 - Fall 2025, fox surrounded by antlers
Issue 3 is now available and free to read on our website!
plotthoundmag.com/issues/#issu...
"'The Dragon and the Bog' by Sunwoo Jeong is a quirky story with a dark edge about Jimin, who seeks to die (or maybe not)."
Up at Locus! Reviews by @mariahaskins.com of:
Fantasy Autumn ’25
Bourbon Penn 11/25
Tasavvur Fall ’25
psychopomp.com/fantasy/
locusmag.com/review/fanta...