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SFBC is discussing Locus List stories today! Come join us to chat about some great pieces.

- "Highway 1, Past Hope" by Maria Haskins
- "In My Country" by Thomas Ha
- "Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead" by Sam J. Miller
- "Never Eaten Vegetables" by H.H. Pak

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You’re welcome! Thanks for a great read!

Blushing over this list and the honorable mention of Whale Fall of You, my lil story abt a disheveled, depressed lesbian grieving her partner while marooned under the shadow of a dieing space whale.
I'm always so appreciative of Michael Damian Thomas's edits~
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Meanwhile actual babysitters are charging $25-30/hr

I also did a ton of rereading from my 2025 Recommended Reading List and shared my top ten short fictions here: bsky.app/profile/tarv...

I reviewed February's issues of Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus and shared my favorites here: bsky.app/profile/tarv...

I don't have my usual favorites thread with my February 2026 round-up, but I still have quite a few stories to talk about, and I'd like to link a couple past threads (does that make this a thread? Okay maybe) www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/01/f...

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I also did a ton of rereading from my 2025 Recommended Reading List and shared my top ten short fictions here: bsky.app/profile/tarv...

I reviewed February's issues of Clarkesworld and GigaNotoSaurus and shared my favorites here: bsky.app/profile/tarv...

I don't have my usual favorites thread with my February 2026 round-up, but I still have quite a few stories to talk about, and I'd like to link a couple past threads (does that make this a thread? Okay maybe) www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/01/f...

There’s still time to read the ten best* short fictions from 2025

*IMO

www.tarvolon.com/2026/02/26/t...

Check out mini-reviews (without the character limit) of these and my other 2025 recommendations here: www.tarvolon.com/2026/02/26/t...

Finally, “The Starter Family” by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social is a nightmarish dystopia given fresh energy via the choice of perspective, with the lead being the beneficiary contemplating the costs of action and of silence giganotosaurus.org/2025/06/01/t...

New Niches | Reckoning Because of the heavy chop that day, there is no time for a tour. “You shouldn’t have a problem finding things,” the captain tells me. She’s wearing a neon orange vest over her life jacket and a neon o...

“New Niches” by Jackie Roberti is a meditative character study that’s also a compelling case against climate fatalism, beautifully threading the needle between naive optimism and doomerism reckoning.press/new-niches/

There’s still time to read the ten best* short fictions from 2025

*IMO

www.tarvolon.com/2026/02/26/t...

Liecraft For a long time now I’d been practicing liecraft five or six times before breakfast. I’d roll over to Khao’s side of the bed and...

“Liecraft” by @moskatanita.bsky.social features an audacious fantasy world powered by magical lies, giving rise to heart-wrenching betrayals where every revelation is experienced indirectly. A jaw-dropping marriage of premise and style www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

A bummer that this team ain’t it, but we’ve had 2021 vibes for a while. Though with a more encouraging foundation of freshmen who could plausibly stick around

Are all the sports teams I like going to blow big leads tonight?

Sci-fi Book Review: Platform Decay by Martha Wells Review of the newest novella in the award-winning Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells: Platform Decay.

The news is awful but Murderbot is still fun? www.tarvolon.com/2026/02/28/s...

Barbershops of the Floating City - Uncanny Magazine Content note: child abuse   You used to be in a band. Now you cut hair. The Institute hired you because you’re the daughter of the Floating City’s Founder’s fourth mistress, the one who always cooks u...

“Barbershops of the Floating City” by @angelaliu.bsky.social grabs you with second-person and weird memory stuff and only gets better as it peels back the layers behind a tender but tragic mother/daughter relationship www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...

“The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead” by @emlinden.bsky.social is a beautifully melancholy mosaic told by the dead left behind when a people must abandon their sinking island podcastle.org/2025/02/18/p...

The Name Ziya - Reactor A girl reckons with what she must lose--and who she has become--in order to be accepted at the empire's most prestigious university.

“The Name Ziya” by @wenyilee.bsky.social features a lead who must give up her magic and her culture to join an elite academy, but it eschews the standard revolutionary plot in favor of a character study that’s sharper and more complicated reactormag.com/the-name-ziy...

Thanks!

In My Country by Thomas Ha Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

“In My Country” by @thomasha.bsky.social is weird and unsettling. It’s a robust polemic against a totalitarian surveillance state in a way reminiscent of Orwell or Bradbury, but it’s more subtle and refuses to be limited to a single target or theme clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh by Marie Croke Outside the preburial cottage, the pier creaked. I saw no shadow under the doorway, yet I froze, afraid Adamet was listening. I imagined, yet again, an anger filtering over his calm countenance. Wonde...

“Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh” by @mariecroke.bsky.social is an emotionally and morally complicated tale of struggles within a community and within a family to a (magical) burial ground beset by lethal new denizens www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/our-...

I’m not sure anything rose on reread more than “Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed. The seven constituent folktales nail the mythic vibe while coming together into something bigger that forces the lead to act in the present kaleidotrope.net/archives/aut...

I do my short fiction almost entirely digitally. Long fiction is a mix

First off, I am absolutely delighted that Asimov’s unlocked “The Tin Man’s Ghost” by Ray Nayler. It’s an alt history nuclear proliferation story that’s also a meditation on personhood and how it gets denied. So good, so underread asimovs.com/wp-content/u...

ICYMI: I wrote up mini-reviews of my top ten sci-fi/fantasy short fictions of 2025. Check it out, and/or stick around for a thread of favorites!