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Table of Contents: June 2025

Here's a rundown of this month's latest short fiction

Table of Contents: June 2025
Image: Clarkesworld, The Dark, and Fantasy Magazine

Last month, I kicked off a new monthly series for this newsletter, Table of Contents, which will round up the short fiction that's coming out from authors all over the SF genre. Here's the next installment for June 2025.

All of these publications work on their own schedule, so there's going to be a little variation from month to month. I'm including issues that cover the month of June, so there are some from last month with May/June issues (like Apex, Asimovs, Uncanny, etc.), and not all issues will have links to the stories right away: some publications stagger their releases throughout the month. When I begin work on the next installment, I'll go through and add in the links that have come online.

While we're talking about short fiction, check out the piece I sent out last week: they look at the future of 1 Paragraph's holdings (Asimovs, Analog, and F&SF). Hopefully, we'll be able to include links to all of their stories later this summer.

Changing of the guard
What does a change in ownership for the genre’s legacy short fiction magazines mean for the SF/F community?
Transfer OrbitAndrew Liptak

You can check out last month's installment here. Here are the short stories coming out this month:

Apex Magazine (May/June 2025, Issue 149)

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Fiction

Nonfiction

Analog Science Fact and Fiction (May/June 2025, Vol. XCV)

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Fiction

  • "Bluebeard Womb" by M.G. Wills (Novella) [Excerpt]
  • "Isolate" by Tom R. Pike (Novelette) [Excerpt]
  • "And So Greenpeace Invented the Death Ray..." by C. Stuart Hardwick (Novelette)
  • "The Scientist's Book of the Dead" by Gregor Hartmann (Novelette)
  • "Interconnections and Porous Boundaries" by Lance Robinson (Novelette)
  • "The Robot and the Winding Woods" by Brenda Cooper (Short story)
  • "Outside of the Robles Line" by Raymund Eich (Short story)
  • "Retail is Dying" by David Lee Zweifler & Ronan Zweifler (Short story)
  • "Groundling" by Shane Tourtellotte (Short story)
  • "North American Union V. Exergy-Petroline Corporation" by Tiffany Fritz (Short story)
  • "Short Selling the Statistical Life" by C.H. Irons (Short story)
  • "Momentum Exchange" by Nikolai Lofving Hersfeldt (Short story)
  • "Mnemonomie" by Mark W. Tiedemann (Short story)
  • "Methods of Remediation in Nearshore Ecologies" by Joanne Rixon
  • "Siegfried Howls Against the Void" by Erik Johnson (Short story)
  • "The Iceberg" by Michael Capobianco (Short story)
  • "Amtech Deep Sea Institute Thanks You For Your Donation" by Kelsey Hutton (Flash fiction)
  • "The Shape of Care" by Lynne Sargent (Flash fiction)
  • First Contact, Already Seen" by Howard V. Hendrix (Flash fiction)
  • "Data Corrupted" by Bruce Boston (Poetry)
  • "Homecoming" by Brian Hugenbruch (Poetry)

Nonfiction

Asimov's Science Fiction (May/June 2025, Vol. 49)

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Fiction

  • "The Hunt for Lemuria 7" by Allen M. Steele (Novella) [Excerpt]
  • "Quantum Ghosts (Part II)" by Nancy Kress (Novella)
  • "The Passage" by John Richard Trtek (Novella)
  • "The Fight Goes On" by Harry Turtledove (Novelette)
  • "The Tin Man’s Ghost" by Ray Nayler (Novelette)
  • "Trial by Harry" by Michael Libling (Novelette)
  • "In the Forest of Mechanical Trees" by Steve Rasnic Tem (Short story)
  • "The Humming of Tamed Dragons" by A.M. Dellamonica (Short story)
  • "Woolly" by Carrie Vaughn (Short story) [Excerpt]
  • "Baggus Plasticus" by Ciarán Parkes (Poetry)
  • "Introducing My Friends to My Dad" by Chiwenite Onyekwelu (Poetry)
  • "Stellarium" by Stuart Greenhouse (Poetry)
  • "Micro Circuit" by Sai Liuko (Poetry)
  • "Train" by David Rogers (Poetry)

Nonfiction

Beneath Ceaseless Skies (#434)

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Fiction

  • "Let the Gods Drown With Us" by R.K. Duncan (June 12th)
  • "Not a Fish" by Andrew Dykstal (June 12th)

Clarkesworld Magazine (June 2025, Issue 225)

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Fiction

Nonfiction

The Dark (June 2025, Issue 121)

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Fiction

Dark Horses Magazine (June 2025, No. 41)

Fiction

  • "A Carthaginian Peace" by Marcel Gabbett
  • "A Highly Combustible Man" by David Sheskin
  • "A Very Thoughtful Man" by Brian Hawkins
  • "A Quiet Miracle in an Obscure Place" by Cy Hill
  • "Beyond the Black Curtain: Liminalis" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
  • "Beyond Extreme" by AJ Becker
  • "Bossa Nova on Pluto" by Kjetil Jansen
  • "Bifurcation Points" by John W. Farrell
  • "Deliverance" by Jennifer Kause
  • "The Soul Spring of Zahbalom" by Lee Clark Zumpe

Fantasy Magazine (June 2025, Issue 97)

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Fiction

  • "Seascape w\Ṣàngó & Ọya’s Incarnations" by Mu’izz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí
  • "Corporate Policy" by Eden Royce
  • "That Time Uncle George Caused the Apocalypse" by Vanessa Kyn
  • "How the road extracts an elegy" by Aishat Yahkub
  • "Silence Starved and Swallowed" by Sydney Paige Guerrero
  • "The Interrogation of So-ssang" by Seoung Kim

Nonfiction

  • An Interview with Shingai Njeri Kagunda and Arley Sorg, Conducted by LP Kindred
  • Interview With World Fantasy Finalists, Part One
  • Interview With World Fantasy Finalists, Part Two
  • Strange and Weird: A Conversation with Rivers Solomon
  • Left of Center: A Conversation with Amara Hoshijo
  • Unsheathing the Imagination: A Conversation with Eloghosa Osunde, by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
  • To Love and Be Loved Loudly and Ungovernably, Knowing We Were Never Meant to Survive: Necessary Fiction Review, by Shingai Njeri Kagunda

Flash Fiction Online (June 2025, Issue 141)

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Fiction

  • This Island Toward Which I Row and Row, Yet Cannot Reach Alone” by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
  • “Things Elan Reacquainted Himself with After Being Broken Out of His Single-Day Time Loop” by D. A. Straith
  • “It’s Become a Bit of a Habit” by Elou Carroll
  • “The Aftertaste” by Julia LaFord
  • “The Seal Wife” by Madeline White
  • “Skinfluencer” by Zeke Jarvis

GigaNotoSaurus (June 1st)

Fiction

Lightspeed Magazine (June 2025, Issue 181)

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Fiction

  • "The Twenty-One Second God" by Peter Watts (6/5)
  • "Eyes Grown Thick on the World" by Will McMahon (6/5)
  • "Multi-Spatial Apartment Complex Malfunction Results in Body Horror" by Reyes Ramirez (6/12)
  • "When the Faerie King Toured the Human Realm" by Vanessa Fogg (6/12)
  • "See Now the Misfortune of the Thinking Tenax" by Lowry Poletti (6/19)
  • "A Week at the Raven Feather Salon" by Carrie Vaughn (6/19)
  • "All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" by Marissa Lingen (6/26)

Nonfiction

  • Editorial, June 2025 by John Joseph Adams (6/5)
  • Author Spotlight: Peter Watts (6/5) by Alex Puncekar
  • Author Spotlight: Vanessa Fogg by Delia Cullity (6/5)
  • Book Review: Black Salt Queen by Samantha Bansil by Melissa A Watkins (6/12)
  • Author Spotlight: Carrie Vaughn by Phoebe Barton (6/19)
  • Book Review: The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum by Arley Sorg (6/19)
  • Author Spotlight: Marissa Lingen by Wendy N. Wagner (6/26)
  • Book Review: The Only Song Worth Singing by Randee Dawn by Chris Kluwe (6/26)

Luna Station Quarterly (June 2025, Issue 062)

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Fiction

  • Something Broken, Something New" by Caroline Shea
  • "The Family Ghosts" by M. E. Garber
  • "Through Glass" by Ziggy Schutz
  • "In the Orchard" by Erin K. Wagner
  • "Downstairs Neighbor" by H.V. Patterson
  • "Melilot Dreams" by EC Dorgan
  • "The Alliance" by T.M. Conway
  • "This Storm Won't Miss" by Sally Sultzman
  • "Lentils for Breakfast" by Maroon Stranger
  • "Mother Maggie" by Rebecca Harrison
  • "The Growing Song" by Heather Pagano
  • "Silver and Silt" by Lydia O'Donnell
  • "The Philosophy of Weeds" by Lesley Hart Gunn
  • "The Black Hill" by Keira Reynolds
  • "Our Last Celebration" by Susan Webster
  • "Fatherhood" by Vrinda Baliga
  • "A Bedtime of Fire, Alchemy and Ice" by JM Cyrus
  • "Ends and Means" by Ana Wesley
  • "Selling Chances" by Louise Hughes
  • "Asra's Magnificent Curio Shop of Clockworks and Curses" by Madalena Daleziou
  • "Oathbinder" by L. Fox

Nightmare Magazine (Issue 153, June 2025)

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Fiction

  • "Here I Go Again" by Lindz McLeod (6/4)
  • "Eleven Songs for Another Lover" by V.H. Chen (6/11)
  • "Edgar Addison, the Author of Dévorer (1862-1933)" by Ben Peek (6/18)
  • "Wet Dollars" by Daniel Oluremi (6/25) (Poetry)

Nonfiction

  • Editorial: June 2025 by Wendy N. Wagner (6/4)
  • Author Spotlight: Lindz McLeod by Devin Marcus (6/4)
  • The H Word: Free Spirits by Maria Alexander (6/11)
  • Author Spotlight: Ben Peek by Devin Marcus (6/18)
  • Media Review: Sinners by Adam-Troy Castro (6/25)

Small Wonders Magazine (June 2025)

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Fiction

Strange Horizons (June 2nd)

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Fiction

  • "Hansel & Gretel Part Ways" by: Ziggy Edwards (poetry)
  • "Customer Service Representative’s Notes on Soul Processing" by Dana Wall

Nonfiction

The Sunday Morning Transport (June 2025)

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Fiction

  • "The Green Glass Paperweight" by Katherine Addison
  • Title to come, T. K. Rex (6/8)
  • Title to come, Maurice Broaddus (6/15)
  • Title to come, C. C. Finlay (6/22)

Uncanny Magazine (May-June, Issue 64)

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Fiction

Nonfiction

What stories did you read this month? Let us know in the comments.