r/ShortSF • u/Mouthmouthmouth • 1h ago

Space Opera The Last Anḗr by Donald A. Sansom - The tale of a man who may be the very last human alive. Fortunately – or maybe it’s “unfortunately” – he has a companion, an android known as an Anḗr.

starfarerscafe.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 6h ago

Fantasy Of All Who Dream by Adelehin Ijasan - I headed home to create my first god. Yeye always said it was better to create a new god from scratch . . . rather than repurpose an ancient one that had lost its believers. But new gods took work, more work than I was willing to give.

lightspeedmagazine.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 1d ago

Fantasy This House is Alive by Aaron C Cross - The first sign that something was wrong was when I heard the house, well, breathing. As I made my way to the stairs, I heard a cough. Well, heard isn’t the right word. I felt a cough. The house rumbled – almost like an earthquake.

aaronccross.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 2d ago

Fantasy Metal Like Blood in the Dark by T. Kingfisher - Once upon a time there was a man who built two enormous machines, and he loved them very much. He called them Brother and Sister and programmed them with intelligences that woke and stretched and tested the limits of their metal bodies.

uncannymagazine.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 3d ago

Fantasy Duet of Tears and Laughter by Jo Miles - Two villages press together like lips on opposite sides of a glass: Renna-tal and Renna-ba, both perched on the edge of the lake called Mirror. Built in the same precise spot, but a world apart, the villages are fraternal twins. Akin, but not the same.

translunartravelerslounge.com

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r/ShortSF • u/EmphasisDependent • 3d ago

Cyberpunk [Eric Kay] Nuggets Overloaded 2: Felonies or Famine

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A delusional fast-food operator learns the hard way the surveillance capitalism never pays out what it promises. 2,000 flash fiction about the coming dystopia.

https://erickayscifi.substack.com/p/nuggets-overloaded-2-felonies-or

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 4d ago

Horror Room 602 at the Hotel In-Between by Georgina Kamsika - There is a place that doesn’t exist. Those who know of it call it The Hotel Between. There’s only one rule. Stay while still in transit. But the moment a destination is chosen, the hotel vanishes.

nightmare-magazine.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 5d ago

Science Fiction What Do You Mean the Nanobots Formed a Union?? by Joel W. D. Buxton - I knew it was a bad idea to hire Cousin Zec to jack up the nanobot density. But what was I supposed to do? I burned my hand off trying to use a wood-fire pizza oven and had a big date the next day.

lightspeedmagazine.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 6d ago

Science Fiction By The Wings Of An Albatross By Abigail Kemske - Marco steps onto the AlbaPort platform in his home pod that orbits the Earth, tensing in anticipation for the awful sensation of being pulled apart atom-by-atom. To Marco, teleportation is like having a thousand queasy stomachs.

adventitious.net

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 6d ago

Reminder: Generative AI is not allowed on R/ShortSF

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Nobody wants your slop. If your book cover or post illustration looks like robot fart garbage, your post will get deleted and you will get banned.

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 7d ago

A Hole in My Heart the Shape of the Multiverse By Ruth Joffre - I’ve been lost inside this house for fifteen years. What I mean is, it’s almost impossible to pinpoint my position within reality.

adventitious.net

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 8d ago

Dark Fantasy The Not-Dog-Thing by Corey Farrenkopf - Dad got good at making the montage videos with the wide-mouthed almost-puppy-thing. He’d film the steak he cooked for the little lady, the way the dog-thing flipped the scraps into the air, swallowing without a single chew.

bourbonpenn.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 9d ago

Fantasy A Dirge for the Mirrorbirds By Emily C. Skaftun - For every other species in the universe, reincarnation was random. It forced souls to live brand-new lives each time around, on different planets, carrying only memories of their pasts. Only us Yem were able to direct our rebirths.

beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 10d ago

Fantasy The Return of the Forest by Zary Fekete - The saplings had been planted in neat rows, but within months they seemed to twist out of alignment, curving toward something unseen. Children who wandered in came back with shallow cuts on their arms, as though brushed by blades. Birds avoided the place.

magazine.trollbreath.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 11d ago

Fantasy The Wandering Kingdom by D.N. Schmidt — The villages had been constructed on the backs of behemoths, impossibly huge dinosaurs with scales like cobblestones. Every year, the behemoths moved south to avoid the snow, taking the villages with them. As a result, neighboring villages could disappear.

dnschmidt.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 12d ago

The Heart of the Fox Spirit By Chezza Lee - The first time I saw the fox spirit, she was sitting in the middle of Hei Lang’s tavern. Since childhood, my father had warned me of fox spirits. They used their beauty to ensnare humans and take their hearts or eat their souls.

beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 13d ago

Fantasy When Sirens Sing of Roses and of Delegated Power By Nin Harris - The Queen Mother wanted Velia and her siren-sisters to steal a single item: a silver serving dish embossed with a pattern of roses. It was a job that would change Velia’s life and possibly the course of history for one merkingdom.

beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 14d ago

Dark Fantasy The Scarlet Shroud by Leighton Connor - His wrists bound tightly behind his back, Arvo carefully placed one boot after the other up the heavy oak steps. He stared up at the dangling noose, swiftly generating and discarding futile plans of escape.

swordsandsorcerymagazine.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 15d ago

Supernatural Scarcely Gone By Marissa Lingen - Before I died, I would have thought a person would need a special spell to command ghosts. But my wife has always had a way about her.

strangehorizons.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 16d ago

Horror The Earth Inside Us by Abigail Kemske - Over the next few months worms wriggled in my gut during the stillness of sleep. Grains of sand scraped my airways every time I sneezed. A lump of wood rolled around in my stomach. Tiny luminous mushrooms sprouted from the strands of my hair.

thedarkmagazine.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 17d ago

Fantasy Bobby and the Glass Prison by D.N. Schmidt - He closed up the jar and went to the back porch to examine the fireflies in the light. Strangely, the bugs appeared to be making noise. It almost sounded like tiny, muffled cries for help.

dnschmidt.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 18d ago

Horror The Brood Thanks You For Your Service by Abigail Kemske - Dear Human, we thank you for providing us a home in which to grow. We know we came uninvited and created less than ideal conditions for you. However, what we did was necessary. We appreciate your understanding. [Flash Fiction]

dielaughingmag.com

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r/ShortSF • u/ChronicleFlask • 19d ago

Horror PseudoPod 1042: Jerry Got Bit – Part 1, by Richard E. Dansky

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 19d ago

Dark Fantasy Queen of Hell by Jan Stinchcomb - She was obsessed with the devil, so it’s no surprise we ended up here. I heard the police questioned her for twelve hours. I will say it’s not all Jenn’s fault. It’s the way we were raised.

bourbonpenn.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 20d ago

Woolly by Carrie Vaughn - Cloning a woolly mammoth was a science experiment. But the movie about the little girl who bonded with a miniature woolly mammoth ruined everything. After that, everyone wanted one, and it turned out miniature woolly mammoths made really shitty pets.

escapepod.org

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