Issue 49 Winter 2026

Under the dark sky of Jeff Sturgeon’s Jupiter Rising Over Europa, figures from modern and ancient myth come in for a landing with fiction by Robert J Sawyer, Benny Lawrence, and Russell Hugh McConnell. Smiles hold different meanings in stories by JM Landels, DP Snyder, and Emily Drake, and monsters both familiar and new inhabit horror by Lauren Stein and Cadence Mandybura. Plus a new chapter of The Extra Takes the Castle by Mel Anastasiou, and contest winners of the Kingfisher Poetry and Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize