Free Spec Fiction Recs

Poetry

Netting Scents by Sultana Raza in Abyss & Apex. Luckily, her sharp nose caught the layer / of decaying bones, shredded memories

Nymph by Kailee Pedersen in Uncanny Magazine.When she was young my sister would turn herself into a locust.

Short Stories

How Should I Feel? by Chad Gayle in Cosmic Horror Monthly. My new skin doesn’t fit.

Funerary Habits of Low Entropy Entities by Damián Neri in Clarkesworld Magazine. His wings flutter without flight, his legs shift without step

House Traveler by Thomas Ha in Bourbon Penn magazine. In the worlds before this one, who did you lose?

The Village of the Sleeping Dead by Blue Guldal in Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. They were dressed in liquid armor the color of nightsky and took her mother in a floating, oilslick lighteater.

Light on the Dark Side of Mega Corp Moon by Jason M. Harley in Baffling Magazine.  “I congratulated myself along the way for my successful seduction, and all the Helium X trade secrets I would soon extract from him at just the right moment.”

The Odd Couple by Alastair Millar in A Coup of Owls. Love can’t be built on lies.

The Lighthouse Keeper by Melinda Brasher in Diabolical Plots Magazine. The wind shoves its arms through the cracks around the windows.

All Her Rows of Teeth by Jordan Kurella in Three-Lobed Burning Eye Magazine. The water is so dark it’s like bathing in fear.