When Allaigna was seven she almost sang her baby brother to sleep — forever. She may be heir to neither her mother’s titles nor her secrets, but she has inherited her grandmother’s dangerous talent for singing music into magic. As her education proceeds from nursery to weapons ground to the rank of royal page, it becomes increasingly hard to keep her heritage and abilities hidden.Secrets, it seems, are stock-in-trade for her family, and as Allaigna works to keep her own, she uncove...

Allaigna has discovered that her family has lied to her about her parentage all her life. Fuelled by anger and spurred by her betrothal to a neighbouring lord, Allaigna has packed her saddlebags and stolen away in the night. The perils of the road test her illicit ability to sing music into magic to its limit. Unlikely allies, subterfuge, captivity, and assault conspire to change Allaigna’s status from mere runaway to fugitive. While Allaigna charts her dangerous course, the quieter tales ...

In the six years since Allaigna left home, killed her betrothed, and joined the Brandishear Rangers, she has hidden her family name and her ability to sing music into magic. Confronted with the dire implications of her grandfather's exploration into long-forbidden arcana, Allaigna must swallow her pride and summon her courage to return home with the ashes of her cousin to prevent yet another war, or worse, an arcane catastrophe to rival that of the legendary Cataclysm.The A...

When Allaigna was seven she almost sang her baby brother to sleep — forever. She may be heir to neither her mother’s titles nor her secrets, but she has inherited her grandmother’s dangerous talent for singing music into magic. As her education proceeds from nursery to weapons ground to the rank of royal page, it becomes increasingly hard to keep her heritage and abilities hidden.Secrets, it seems, are stock-in-trade for her family, and as Allaigna works to keep her own, she uncove...

Join us as we step into the blossoming spring with Superbloom, by cover artist Weiwei Xu, and disappear into future past with feature author Robert Silverberg's 'Chip Runner' and Leo X Robertson's 'Bar Hopping for Astronauts'. Take a deep breath and let the aroma of the blossoms permeate your senses because taste and scents infuse Michelle Goddard's 'Bhut', 'The Shepherdess: Merveilles' by JM Landels

Cover artist Jenn Ashton awakens summer spirits with Surfacing. But where serenity resides, so too does the risk of isolation, as seen in 'Killing Time' by feature author Leo X Robertson. Across time and space, the threat of silence looms in 'The Dark Mute' by Lee Nash and 'Frequency Eight' by Sophie Ganic. Meanwhile, magic and music flood the worlds of 'Waheela's Whistle' by Scotty Olsen and 'Their Grandfather's Chair, Part 3 by JM Landels. Welcome the end along with a new beginn...

In this issueTake a spacewalk into the unknown with American Space Force by cover artist Tais Teng and feature story 'Above it All' by Robert J Sawyer. Dare we look below?In the next Fairmount Manor mystery by Mel Anastasiou, Stella Ryman shows us how to receive the kindness of strangers, while in a new chapter of The Shepherdess by JM Landels, Toinette needs to accept the help of ...

In this issue ... The glowing yellow moon by cover artist Joyce Harumi Kamikura shines on forests, fields, and gardens in fiction by Matthew Hughes, JM Landels, and KT Wagner, while birds, ghosts, time travellers, cyborgs, and footnotes lure us away with stories by Elizabeth Nash, Mel Anastasiou, Finnian Burnett, and Mark Budman. Plus, find notable stories...

Feature author Renée Sarojini Saklikar treats us to a Bramah and the Beggar Boy side tale in prose and poetry. We welcome back Cadence Mandybura, and enjoy slipstream and superheroes from Patrick Barb and Tom Jolly. Mel Anastasiou offers more Pretty Lies and JM Landels shows us the other side of the mirror in 'Zara's Song'. Plus the winners of theHummingbird Flash Fiction...

In her search for the Answer to Everything, our intrepid Issue 42 cover heroine, Raygunne, finds dragons in the Rocky Mountains, ghosts in the 1990s, ninjas in suburbia, spies in Cathar castles, and zombie-killers for hire from Kelly Robson, Mel Anastasiou, Preston Lang, JM Landels, and Mikayla Fawcett and Gabriel Craven. Plus more moving stories and poetry from Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho

Solstice Ritual by cover artist Herman Lau challenges us in a winter landscape where myth and folklore lurk.Adopt a revolutionary spirit with feature author George McWhirter's 'Grillo, the Story of a Cricket', and defy the oligarchs in 'Baba Yaga and the Bear' by Gregg Chamberlain.Poet Dan MacIsaac takes us back to ancient Crete with 'Pholoe', while DA Cooperbrings blesse...

Under the exquisite cover Frost and Snow by Melissa Mary Duncan …Our featured author, the esteemed Evelyn Lau, offers three poems riddled with grief and stolen moments.Spencer Stevens takes a break from the front lines in the final Seven Swans instalment, ‘The Mystery of the Forgotten Soldier’, by Mel Anastasiou.Echo wanes as Narcissus waxes in Joelle Kidd’s modern retell...