2024 Shirley Jackson Award finalist

Fiction

The skies are a pitch-black void—cold, empty, unforgiving. Far from home, the rivers of heaven have run dry, the starlight scarce in this part of Father’s empire. Passing comets die out with a pathetic fizzle, and the migrating flocks of magpies care not to bridge the gap between star-crossed lovers.

2024 Shirley Jackson Award finalist Shirley Jackson Award finalist

In Nov. 2024 (Issue 146)

Fiction

MAMMOTH

by Manish Melwani

Author spotlight

If you haven’t seen it yet, you will. Three hooded figures sit cross-legged on the floor of a candle-lit warehouse. There’s something strange about the middle one: its torso somehow both too long and too hunched. The figure flickers, like a transcription error in crimson candlelight.

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