Table of Contents October 2025

Here's the latest installment of Table of Contents, which rounds up this month's short fiction releases. You can check out the list of stories from September here (which I've updated with new links) and past installments of this series here.

Here are the short stories coming out this month:

Beneath Ceaseless Skies (Issue 442, 443 and 444)

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Fiction

• "The Last of Atlantis" by James Morrow
• "The Thirteenth Time" by Patrick Samphire
• "The Third Movement of Time" by RJ Taylor
• "Pools of Light at the Center of the World" by Will McMahon
• "A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library" by Chris Willrich
• "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" by Adrian Ward
• "The Angel Azrael Visits the Trading Post at the End of the World a Final Time" by Peter Darbyshire
• "A Librarian’s Resolution In The Land Of Demons" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

Clarkesworld Magazine (October 2025, Issue 229)

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Fiction

• "Wire Mother" by Isabel J. Kim
• The Cancer Wolves" by Fiona Moore
• Crabs Don't Scream" by H.H. Pak
• Understudies" by Greg Egan
• Giant Grandmother" by Liu Maijia, translated by Blake Stone-Banks
• The Job Interview" by Carrie Vaughn
• In Luck's Panoply Clad, I Stand" by Phoebe Barton
• "The Fire Burns Anyway" by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

Nonfiction

• Space Bears and Engineering the Next Generation of Astronauts by Gunnar De Winter
• Memory, Loss, and Memory Loss: A Conversation with Rich Larson by Arley Sorg
• Technology as a Language: A Conversation with Ken Liu by Arley Sorg
• Editor's Desk: Nineteen by Neil Clarke

The Dark (October 2025, Issue 125)

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Fiction

• "The Island at the End of the World" by S.L. Harris
• "Through the Woods, Due West" by Angela Slatter
• "Enselfening" by NM Whitley
• "Down to the Roots" by Neil Williamson

Dark Horses Magazine (October 2025, Issue 45)

Fiction

• "The Twisted Tale Of Prancess: A Modern Fairy Tale" by Jennifer Foxhoven
• "One Last Time For Marti" by Steven Roisum
• "Say All Before" by Mack W. Mani
• "The Swamp Devil" by Jim Wright
• "The Devil Drives A ‘66" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
• "Swarm" by David Castlewitz
• "The Gram Directive" by Mike Scofield
• "The Invalid And The Cave" by Ginevra House
• "The Poison Dwarf’s Comeuppance" by George Larson
• "The Highest Court" by Jarek Tomszak

Fantasy Magazine (Autumn 2025, Issue 98)

Fiction

• "All of Our Mothers are Dead" by Eleanor Ball (9/26)
• "The Memory Breach" by Christian Emecheta (10/3)
• "The Dragon and the Bog" by Sunwoo Jeong (10/10)
• "Fear is a Dagger" by Mateo Perez Lara (10/17)
• "Knife Plus" by Tracie McBride (10/24)
• "They Return" by Eleanna Castroianni (10/31)

Flash Fiction Online (October 2025, Issue 145)

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Fiction

• “To Breach a Citadel” by Jeannie Marschall
• “A Touch of the Wild” by Anne Wilkins
• “Mushroom Aesthetic” by Aggie Novak
• “Woodsong” by Arthur H. Manners
• “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill

Nonfiction

• Editorial: Mother Nature Can Be a Bitch by C.R. Langille

GigaNotoSaurus (October 2025)

Fiction

• "A Good King" by Sarah McGill 

Kaleidotrope (Autumn 2025)

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Fiction

• “Singularities”by Cressida Roe
• “The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice
• “The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes
• “The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox
• “Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos
• “What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman
• “The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris
• “Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti
• “My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity
• “What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen
• “The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen
• “Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed 

POETRY

• “Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens
• “Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon
• “Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce
• “I have been to the market” by Shana Ross
• “Atomic”by Jennifer Crow
• “Bedazzled” by Robert Borski
• “Bestla” by James Joseph Brown

Lightspeed Magazine (October 2025, Issue 185)

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Fiction

• "O Mechfighter, O Starsinger" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (10/9)
• "At the Bottom of the Bonfire" by Martin Cahill (10/9)
• "The Porniest Porn in Porntown" by Stephen Graham Jones (10/16)
• "Dirge and Gleam" by Micah Dean Hicks (10/16)
• "Everyone Hates the Auditor" by Megan Chee (10/23)
• "Dating Fortune" by Sean McMullen (10/23)
• "Thaw" by An Owomoyela (10/30)
• "Drosera regina" by A.L. Goldfuss (10/30)

Nonfiction

• Editorial: October 2025 by John Joseph Adams (10/9)
• Author Spotlight: Osahon Ize-Iyamu by Phoebe Barton (10/9)
• Author Spotlight: Micah Dean Hicks by Delia Cullity (10/16)
• Book Review: All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu by Melissa A Watkins (10/16)
• Book Review: Signos: A Fiction Anthology of Filipino Supernatural by Tilde Acuña, John Bengan, Daryll Delgado, Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III, and Kristine Ong Muslim, eds. by Arley Sorg (10/23)
• Author Spotlight: An Owomoyela by Mayookh Barua (10/30)
• Author Spotlight: A.L. Goldfuss by Phoebe Barton (10/30)
• Book Review: The Lost Reliquary by Lyndsay Ely by Chris Kluwe (10/30)

Nightmare Magazine (October 2025, Issue 157)

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Fiction

• "Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead" by Sam J. Miller (10/8)
• "Stillborn" by Shantell Powell (10/15)
• "Body? Glass" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu (10/22)
• "The Versions of Yourself That You’re Better Off Without" by Aimee Ogden (10/29)

Nonfiction

• Editorial: September 2025 by Wendy N. Wagner (10/8)
• Author Spotlight: Sam J. Miller by Devin Marcus (10/8)
• The H Word: Horror Needs Hoodoo by Beatrice Winifred Iker (10/15)
• Author Spotlight: Osahon Ize-Iyamu by Devin Marcus (10/22)
• Interview: Carson Faust by Alex Puncekar (10/29)

Reactor (October 2025)

Fiction

• "Model Collapse" by Matthew Kressel
• "Where the Hell Is Nirvana?" by Champ Wongsatayanont
• "Phantom View" by John Wiswell
• "Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves" by P H Lee

Small Wonders Magazine (Issue 28, October 2025)

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Fiction

• "Oleander" by Montanna Rayne Harling
• "You’re Dead & I’m Safe & Still I Dream Of You" by S.M. Hallow
• "Birthmarks" by Gordon Brown
• "Scoop" by Rebecca E. Treasure
• "Personals Ad" by Amanda Mitzel
• "Like Sunlight, Like Poison" by Stacie Turner
• "Ink Reviews" by Rachel Gutin
• "An Aging AI Tries to Remember Its Life" by Casey Aimer
• "The Poltergeist of Fastini Crater" by Karl G. Dandenell

Strange Horizons (October 2025)

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Fiction

• "The Orchard Village Catalog" by Parker Peevyhouse
• "Bullet Time at the Kink Party" by miriam

Poetry

• pigwitch By: Rupkatha
• My Love Wails in the Mending" by Lora Gray
• Ogress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)" by Shana Ross
• Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!" by Bree Wernicke
• ERROR 404: Expiation Not Found" by CP Nwankwo
• Holy Days" by Eleanor Ball

Nonfiction

• Welcome New Fiction Editor - Joyce Wolf Chng!

Reviews

• Monday: When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift by Paul March-Russell
• Wednesday: The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott by Electra Pritchett
• Friday: It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey by Hana Carolina
• Monday: The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken by Akankshya Abismruta
• Wednesday: Inner Space by Jakub Szamalek, translated by Kasia Bedford by Dawn Macdonald
• Friday: Blood of the Old Kings (The Bleeding Empire Volume 1) by Sung-il Kim, translated by Anton Hur by Rachel Cordasco
• Monday: The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq by Kyle R. Garton
• Wednesday: Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith by Vivian Wagner
• Friday: Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce By: Tristan Beiter

The Sunday Morning Transport (October 2025)

Fiction

• "Changeling" by William Alexander
• "Two Bikes, One Red, One Silver" by A.D. Sui
• "Darwin’s Rocket" by Alan Smale
• "Excerpts from The Unauthorized Autobiography of Benjamin Brick" by John Murphy

Uncanny Magazine (Issue 66, September / October 2025)

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Fiction

• "Seven Minutes in Heaven with the Electric Seraphim" by Juliet Kahn (10/7)
• "Wend-Way-Go" by Tim Pratt (10/7)
• "The Shadow on the Nest" by Alaya Dawn Johnson (10/7)
• "Caesar Says, Earthquakes Aren’t So Manifest From Space" by Jasmine Leng
  (10/7)
• "Dear Saturn," by Susan L. Lin

Nonfiction

• Interview: Juliet Kahn by Caroline M. Yoachim (10/7)
• The Evolution of the Vampire Image, from Nosferatu to Sinners by Del Sandeen (10/7)
• Solace in Fantasy Monster Romances and My Trans Body by Theo Kane
  (10/7)

Check back at the end of the month: I'll update the links to the stories that haven't come out at the time of publication.