I recommended only a few new stories in February. I had a lot of personal and author deadlines, and my short story reading time shrank to nothing for most of the month.
Obsidian published:
Portrait of a Young Zombie in Crisis by Walidah Imarisha
Sometimes it sucks to be a zombie and have no one to talk to.
DiVida contemplates the hard problem by Monica A. Hand
A poem about food and pain.
ASU Center for Science and the Imagination published A Room of One’s Own by Tochi Onyebuchi.
A story of the many lives and many deaths of one person.
When you left your body lying around by Keyan Bowes was published at Strange Horizons in 2005.
What did you think would happen? A humorous poem.
Grassroots Economic Organizing published They Built a Wall by Cadwell Turnbull in 2018.
We have returned to where we were-further down the regressive path, even. A reminder.
FAQ on My Vagina Dentata by Jarune Uwujaren was published at Apex Magazine in 2025.
A new take on a horror trope.
Uncanny published Presque vue by Tochi Onyebuchi in 2021.
How does Conscience and Intuition sound?
There’s few enough stories for you to read all of them quickly if you missed them when I posted about them or when they were published. Happy reading!