K.A. Wiggins

Nov 6, 2024 | lightspeedmagazine.com | Wendy Wagner |K.A. Wiggins

At first, it was the not-quite-hidden things. Worms suspended from sticky silk, tree-trapping the unwary. Glassine jointed lines, half-helical, hardly seen vitreous shadows. Diamonds caught in fallen leaves and blades of grass under midnight streetlamps after the rain, heavier and more multitudinous than dew, glittering fields of a fleeting harvest that slicks the skin, leaving nothing behind but damp disappointment. Then it was the half-seen.

Aug 1, 2024 | lightspeedmagazine.com | Wendy Wagner |John Joseph Adams |K.A. Wiggins |Richard Thomas

Aug. 2024 (Issue 171) We have original science fiction by Richard Thomas (“The Darkness Between the Stars”) and Archita Mittra (“The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain’d”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Resistance” from Cat Rambo and “Under the Skin” by Deborah L. Davitt. Plus, we have original fantasy by Dominique Dickey (“Look at the Moon”) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (“Child of the River”).

Apr 11, 2023 | fantasy-magazine.com | Christie Yant |K.A. Wiggins

The toe wiggled at Mirella from the compost heap. She let the lid drop with a thud and a cloud of flies. Enough. Time to order an electronic composter. When she’d committed to living zero-waste for a year, she’d promised herself she wouldn’t be one of those bougie millennials buying sculpted glass jars and clean, Nordic-looking-wood-everything to support the lifestyle. No, she was going legit. Pure. Capitalism wasn’t going to benefit from her efforts to renew the planet. But the toe had broken her.