Aigner Loren Wilson

Aug 6, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Jamie Boyd |Aigner Loren Wilson

Love notes written on parchmentby a gay sorcerer who swore eternal fidelity. The quill pen script is splattered and smearedby the blacksmith’s tears. Matching wedding bands cast by the blacksmith. Their union blessed by a full moon. Silver that used to glimmer is as tarnishedas love smothered by malevolent magic. His dead husband’s stained wool hat. Three years after the sorcerer’s murder,the brim still stinks like the quicksandthat swallowed his body.

Aug 6, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Sonya Taaffe |Alicia Hilton |Jamie Boyd |Aigner Loren Wilson

Out of its waxed and rotted stringsit unfolded, shedding earthas a sleeping horse’s flank sheds flies,so soft in our hands it felt like slippingto catch it, a sudden more silvereven than the birches’ sentinel. No one named who must have buried it,some rich woman we imaginedher furs and pearls and papers outlastingeven as time ate their tarnish green,their ink to rust, her name to saprising like a candle’s year-lit flame.

Aug 6, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Jamie Boyd |Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Aigner Loren Wilson

When she finds him, her boy is no longer a boy. He’s a blister about to pop. His heart hammers, and his skin burns beneath her fingertips, his body already grotesque. She trembles as she calls the doctor and describes her son’s symptoms. The man arrives at her home within the hour, examines her child as he lies in bed, and removes a syringe full of fluid from what used to be his abdomen. “It’s all right,” the doctor soothes. “The change is proceeding normally.”“But he’s too young.

Aug 6, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Aigner Loren Wilson |Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Jamie Boyd

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions on October 1st, 2024, at 9 a.m. UTC! To keep our response times manageable and submission windows more frequent, there will be a 1,000 story cap on submissions. Once we receive 1,000 stories, we’ll close our portal while we work through the submissions. If our portal is open, we are still accepting stories, but once it is closed, please do not send us your work.

Oct 16, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Aaron Heil |Aigner Loren Wilson |Devin Miller |Soonest Nathaniel

Elements of fantasy, science fiction, and espionage blend together in a mishmash in Scotto Moore's Wild Massive. Moore's latest novel presents a multiverse set in—to be as purposefully inclusive as possible—an area known as the Building, as individuals struggle against the crushing weight of both the corporate and political interests trying to dominate their lives.