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”).