Welcome to this special guest-edited issue, featuring flash recommendations by Patricia Q. Bidar! Patricia is a longtime friend and a consummate writer, from flash to novelettes. Her collection, Pardon Me for Moonwalking, came out in 2025 (I reviewed it here). If you want a taste of her flash, check out “Science,” in Variant Lit! She’s … Continue reading Special Issue * Flash Recs from Patricia Q. Bidar →

Jendia Gammon is a Nebula and three-time BSFA Awards finalist. She writes horror, fantasy, thriller, and science fiction novels, and short stories. She’s also CEO of Roaring Spring Productions, LLC and Editor-in-Chief of its first imprint, Stars and Sabers Publishing. And she has multiple books coming out in 2026, including, Godfestation and The Dawn of … Continue reading Author Interview * Jendia Gammon →

Jo Miles has a lot of fantastic credits, including stories in Uncanny, Lightspeed, and Fantasy & Science Fiction. Their books include the Gifted of Brennex space opera trilogy and the Infinite Pantry cozy fantasy series. Huge thanks to Jo for talking with me about their (fun!) new novella, The Final Chronicle of Yeneh, which came … Continue reading Author Interview * Jo Miles →

Welcome to this special guest-edited issue, featuring poetry recommendations by Loren Maria Guay! I fell in love with Loren’s writing when I read “The Last Goodbye in the City of Electric Longing” in Small Wonders. I’ve continued to be wowed by their writing, and I appreciate their generosity in visiting the Electric Sheep group and … Continue reading Special Issue * Poetry Recs from Loren Maria Guay →

A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count isn’t as important as the emotion, the adventure, the sense of wonder. Including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and the spaces in between. *** Several of the stories … Continue reading Flash Roundup * May/June 2026 →

Dave Alcock’s new flash collection, Things Like This, was recently released by Arroyo Seco press. The early reviews are brilliant! I’m looking forward to diving into the book. Thanks to Dave for answering my questions! *** Myna: Tell us about Things Like This! Who are your characters? What themes do you explore? Dave: Things Like … Continue reading Author Interview * Dave Alcock →

A snippet of incredibly weird poetry, posted on Bluesky, led me to Piżama Press. The poetry excerpt came from Disintegration Made Plain and Easy, a collection by poet Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi published by Piżama. Reading this collection was a wild experience – I kept showing it my family & friends, saying “WTF? Read this!” I’m happy … Continue reading Publisher Interview * Piżama Press →

Ten Years of Sword & Kettle Press is a gorgeous new anthology featuring fairy tales, myths, speculative poetry, horror, solarpunk, and sci-fi. The pieces are drawn from Sword & Kettle’s library. Big thanks to the S&K team, Kay Marlow Allen, Naseem Jamnia, and Jude Gardner, for answering my questions! ***   Myna: Tell us about … Continue reading Publisher Interview * Sword & Kettle Press →

  Check out this cool new award: The InkMark, for small and mid-sized speculative magazines. Help us spread the word! From the sponsors: There’re a lot of spec magazines and journals out there publishing very cool stuff that gets overlooked by the major awards, and we’d like to fix that. This is a goal I’m … Continue reading Cool New Award! →

Caroline Bock is one of the culprits who turned me on to flash fiction years ago. She’s a great teacher! She’s also skilled at launching and managing all sorts of projects, as you’ll see in this interview. Her new novel, The Other Beautiful People (Regal House), will be released in June. I appreciate Caroline sharing … Continue reading Author Interview * Caroline Bock →