This collection brings together eighteen of the most memorable stories from the popular Exceptional Erotica publication on Medium: sharp, intimate, and unapologetically hot. Each tale is a wicked little miracle: compact bursts of desire, heat, and feeling, filthy and finely made.Stories by Megan Landon, Kat Vaughn, Crawford Hart, JK Mill, Paragonas Vaunt, Anton J. Pierce, Caffeline, Posy Churchgate, Polly Liticat, Aubrey Hawks, May Fellowbrook, D.A. Wright, Ryn Rehnard, Eli Casablan...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, Matthew Baker looks beyond ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK to imagine the future of corrections. Is his idea better than our current prison system? Decide for yourse...

A powerful collection of twenty-one SF&F short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Seattle Worldcon 2025!In partnership with Seattle Worldcon, Grim Oak Press is proud to present the third Grimoire for readers who enjoy SF&F stories of the magical and the future. Escape the country through Las Vegas beside Laura Anne Gilman. Regain the time you never know you could with Megan Lindholm. Fight back against a book thief...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, Carolyn Ives Gilman takes citizen science to the stars in her original science fiction short "On the Shores of Ligeia." Our other SF short, "My Children's Ho...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. We have original fiction from Cadwell Turnbull ("Loneliness is in Your Blood") and Carrie Vaughn ("Redcap"), along with reprints by Lilliam Rivera ("The H8te") and Ashok Banker ("Blood Mangoes"). In our nonfiction department, author Kat Howard talks about the terror of changelings in ...