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Added on June 3, 2018:
Joan Aiken: Furry Night (The People in the Castle Collection, 2016)
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Added on June 3, 2018:
Joan Aiken: Reading in Bed (The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories Collection, 2011)
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Added on June 3, 2018:
Joan Aiken: The Cold Flame (The Fifth Ghost Book, 1969)
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Added on June 3, 2018:
Joan Aiken: Girl in a Whirl (The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories Collection, 2011)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 3, 2018:
Joan Aiken: The Gift Giving (Up the Chimney Down Collection, 1984)
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Added on June 3, 2018:
Joan Aiken: The People in the Castle (More Than You Bargained For Collection, 1955)
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Added on June 3, 2018:
Alex Irvine: Black Friday (Tor.com, May 2018)

Added on June 3, 2018:
James Patrick Kelly: Grace’s Family (Tor.com, May 2018)

Added on June 3, 2018:
Ian McDonald: The Guile (Tor.com, May 2018)

Added on June 3, 2018:
Lavie Tidhar: Yiwu (Tor.com, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Elizabeth Bear: The Deeps of the Sky (Edge of Infinity Anthology, 2012)
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Added on June 2, 2018:
Lauren Beukes: Pop Tarts
Available as part of this magazine.
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Added on June 2, 2018:
David Brin: The Crystal Spheres (Analog, January 1984)
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Hugo for Best Short Story 1985.
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Added on June 2, 2018:
Tobias S. Buckell: Sunset (Patreon.com, 2017)

Added on June 2, 2018:
O. J. Cade: Gone to Earth (Shimmer #43, May 2018)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 2, 2018:
O. J. Cade: We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice (Strange Horizons, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Vajra Chandrasekera: Heron of Earth (Clarkesworld #140, June 2017)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Jonathan Edelstein: The Examination Cloth (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #251, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Carolyn Ives Gilman: We Will Be All Right (Lightspeed, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
John Grant: His Artist Wife (Black Static, January 2014)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Ada Hoffmann: Variations on a Theme from Turandot (Strange Horizons, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Nalo Hopkinson: Ally (Nightmare Magazine #68, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Xia Jia: Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse (Invisible Planets Anthology, 2016)
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Added on June 2, 2018:
L. S. Johnson: We Are Sirens (Sirens Anthology, 2016)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 2, 2018:
Stephen Graham Jones: Till the Morning Comes (The Ones That Got Away Collection, 2010)
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Added on June 2, 2018:
Rich Larson: Fifteen Minutes Hate (Apex Magazine #108, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Ann Leckie: The Endangered Camp (Clockwork Phoenix Anthology #2, 2010)
Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010’.
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Added on June 2, 2018:
Jane Lindskold: A Green Moon Problem (Lightspeed, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Ken Liu: An Advanced Reader’s Picture Book of Comparative Cognition (The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Collection, 2016)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 2, 2018:
Christian K. Martinez: The Ghostpotion Games (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #252, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Mari Ness: Memories of Monsters (Daily SF, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Charles Payseur: Humans Die, Stars Fade (Escape Pod, May 2018)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 2, 2018:
Cherie Priest: Mother Jones and the Nasty Eclipse (Apex Magazine #108, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
A. Merc Rustad: Now Watch My Rising (Fireside, May 2018)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 2, 2018:
Nisi Shawl: Luisah’s Church (Apex Magazine #108, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Matthew Sanborn Smith: Stars so Sharp They Break the Skin (Apex Magazine #108, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
D. A. Xiaolin Spires: Vault (Clarkesworld #140, June 2017)

Added on June 2, 2018:
D. A. Xiaolin Spires: DNA Exchange (Nature #557, May 2018)

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Added on June 2, 2018:
D. A. Xiaolin Spires: Twisted Knots (Clarkesworld #131, August 2017)
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Added on June 2, 2018:
D. A. Xiaolin Spires: Before the Burst (Fireside, April 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
D. A. Xiaolin Spires: Prasetyo Plastics (Clarkesworld #134, November 2017)
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Added on June 2, 2018:
Ian Stewart: Blue Sky Research (Nature #557, May 2018)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on June 2, 2018:
Steve Rasnic Tem: Field of Shoes (Daily SF, May 2018)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Steve Rasnic Tem: A Space of One’s Own (Clarkesworld #140, June 2017)

Added on June 2, 2018:
Sean Williams: Loopholes in Light (Daily SF, May 2018)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Bo Balder: A Vastness (Clarkesworld #140, May 2018)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Bo Balder: Skin Hunger (Nature #537, September 2016)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Bo Balder: I Die a Little (Nature #543, March 2017)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Bo Balder: The Bridgegroom (Clarkesworld #130, July 2017)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Bo Balder: A House of Her Own (F & SF, September 2015)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Bo Balder: Follow the White Line (Clarkesworld #122, November 2016)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Bo Balder: The Meaning That You Choose (Crossed Genres 2.0 #35, November 2015)

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on May 5, 2018:
Bo Balder: A Cigarette Burn In Your Memory (Clarkesworld #136, January 2018)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Steven Barnes: Mozart on the Kalahari (Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities Anthology, 2017)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Ray Bradbury: I, Rocket (Amazing, May 1944)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Ray Bradbury: The Pendulum (Futuria Fantasia Collection, 1940)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Ray Bradbury: Perchance to Dream [vt Asleep in Armageddon] (Planet Stories, Winter 1948)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Ray Bradbury: The Last Night of the World (Esquire, February 1951)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Ray Bradbury: The Flight of the Good Ship Clarissa (Futuria Fantasia Collection, 1940)
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In the public domain.

Added on May 5, 2018:
Ken Brady: Since We’ve No Place to Go (Daily SF, April 2018)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Maurice Broaddus: The Valkyrie (War Stories Anthology, 2014)
Available as part of this magazine.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on May 5, 2018:
Adam-Troy Castro: Pitcher Plant (Nightmare Magazine #67, April 2018)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Adam-Troy Castro: A Place Without Portals (Lightspeed, April 2018)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Ian Creasey: Ormonde and Chase (Asimov's, June 2014)
Available as part of this magazine.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on May 5, 2018:
Aliette de Bodard: In Blue Lily’s Wake (Uncanny Magazine #22, May 2018)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Evan Dicken: When We Go (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #223, April 2017)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Evan Dicken: Cold Comfort (Daily SF, December 2014)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Evan Dicken: Paradise Left (Daily SF, April 2013)
Alternate link.
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Evan Dicken: The Uncarved Heart (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #212, November 2016)
Alternate link.
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Evan Dicken: Citizen of the Galaxy (Analog, December 2014)
Available as part of this magazine.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on May 5, 2018:
Evan Dicken: How I Killed Your Mother (Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores, July 2016)
Available as part of this magazine.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Added on May 5, 2018:
Evan Dicken: The Redshirt’s Daughter (Daily SF, March 2017)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Evan Dicken: All of Us Told, All of It Real (Strange Horizons, April 2018)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Evan Dicken: Nothing Less Rare, Nor Precious (Flash Fiction Online, May 2016)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Evan Dicken: How Lovely Is the Silence of Growing Things (Apex Magazine, May 2017)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Evan Dicken: An Open Letter to the Rulers of Erathon from Xagaz Widowbane, Eater-of-the-World, Arch-Hypnocrat, Despoiler Magnus, Empress of Weeping Skulls, Defender of Filth, Defenestrator General, and so forth (Daily SF, September 2016)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Jasper Fforde: The Button Guy (Prospect Magazine, December 2013)

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Added on May 5, 2018:
Michael F. Flynn: In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon (Mission: Tomorrow Anthology, 2015)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Sarah Gailey: Worth Her Weight in Gold (Tor.com, April 2018)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Tom Holt: The Thought That Counts (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #250, April 2018)
Alternate link.
As by ‘K. J. Parker’.

Added on May 5, 2018:
Rahul Kanakia: Weft (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #249, April 2018)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Cassandra Khaw: What to Do When It’s Nothing but Static (Apex Magazine #107, April 2018)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Margaret Killjoy: Into the Gray (Tor.com, April 2018)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Jamie Lackey: The Sharp Edges of Anger (Apex Magazine #107, April 2018)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Rich Larson: Playmates (Daily SF, April 2018)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Marissa Lingen: My favourite sentience (Nature #556, April 2018)

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Added on May 5, 2018:
Ken Liu: The Snow Train (Genius Loci Anthology, 2016)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Marina J. Lostetter: Discard the Sun, for It Has Failed Us (Uncanny Magazine #22, May 2018)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Carmen Maria Machado: Horror Story (Granta, October 2015)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Carmen Maria Machado: The Old Women Who Were Skinned (Fairy Tale Review, 2016)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Will McIntosh: What is Eve? (Lightspeed, April 2018)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty: Cold Comfort (Bridging Infinity Anthology, 2016)
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Added on May 5, 2018:
Naomi Novik: Blessings (Uncanny Magazine #22, May 2018)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Richard Parks: An Account of the Madness of the Magistrate, Chengdhu Village (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #250, April 2018)
Alternate link.

Added on May 5, 2018:
Margaret Ronald: Silence in Blue Glass (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #250, April 2018)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Caroline Spector & Bradley Denton: The Flight of Morpho Girl (Tor.com, May 2018)

Added on May 5, 2018:
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam: Angry Kings (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #250, April 2018)

Free Speculative Fiction Online

New Additions

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Joan Aiken: Furry Night (The People in the Castle Collection, 2016)

Joan Aiken: Reading in Bed (The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories Collection, 2011)

Joan Aiken: The Cold Flame (The Fifth Ghost Book, 1969)

Joan Aiken: Girl in a Whirl (The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories Collection, 2011)

Joan Aiken: The Gift Giving (Up the Chimney Down Collection, 1984)

Joan Aiken: The People in the Castle (More Than You Bargained For Collection, 1955)

Alex Irvine: Black Friday (Tor.com, May 2018)

James Patrick Kelly: Grace’s Family (Tor.com, May 2018)

Ian McDonald: The Guile (Tor.com, May 2018)

Lavie Tidhar: Yiwu (Tor.com, May 2018)

Elizabeth Bear: The Deeps of the Sky (Edge of Infinity Anthology, 2012)

Lauren Beukes: Pop Tarts

David Brin: The Crystal Spheres (Analog, January 1984)

Tobias S. Buckell: Sunset (Patreon.com, 2017)

O. J. Cade: Gone to Earth (Shimmer #43, May 2018)

O. J. Cade: We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice (Strange Horizons, May 2018)

Vajra Chandrasekera: Heron of Earth (Clarkesworld #140, June 2017)

Jonathan Edelstein: The Examination Cloth (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #251, May 2018)

Carolyn Ives Gilman: We Will Be All Right (Lightspeed, May 2018)

John Grant: His Artist Wife (Black Static, January 2014)

Ada Hoffmann: Variations on a Theme from Turandot (Strange Horizons, May 2018)

Nalo Hopkinson: Ally (Nightmare Magazine #68, May 2018)

Xia Jia: Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse (Invisible Planets Anthology, 2016)

L. S. Johnson: We Are Sirens (Sirens Anthology, 2016)

Stephen Graham Jones: Till the Morning Comes (The Ones That Got Away Collection, 2010)

Rich Larson: Fifteen Minutes Hate (Apex Magazine #108, May 2018)

Ann Leckie: The Endangered Camp (Clockwork Phoenix Anthology #2, 2010)

Jane Lindskold: A Green Moon Problem (Lightspeed, May 2018)

Ken Liu: An Advanced Reader’s Picture Book of Comparative Cognition (The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Collection, 2016)

Christian K. Martinez: The Ghostpotion Games (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #252, May 2018)

Mari Ness: Memories of Monsters (Daily SF, May 2018)

Charles Payseur: Humans Die, Stars Fade (Escape Pod, May 2018)

Cherie Priest: Mother Jones and the Nasty Eclipse (Apex Magazine #108, May 2018)

A. Merc Rustad: Now Watch My Rising (Fireside, May 2018)

Nisi Shawl: Luisah’s Church (Apex Magazine #108, May 2018)

Matthew Sanborn Smith: Stars so Sharp They Break the Skin (Apex Magazine #108, May 2018)

D. A. Xiaolin Spires: Vault (Clarkesworld #140, June 2017)

D. A. Xiaolin Spires: DNA Exchange (Nature #557, May 2018)

D. A. Xiaolin Spires: Twisted Knots (Clarkesworld #131, August 2017)

D. A. Xiaolin Spires: Before the Burst (Fireside, April 2018)

D. A. Xiaolin Spires: Prasetyo Plastics (Clarkesworld #134, November 2017)

Ian Stewart: Blue Sky Research (Nature #557, May 2018)

Steve Rasnic Tem: Field of Shoes (Daily SF, May 2018)

Steve Rasnic Tem: A Space of One’s Own (Clarkesworld #140, June 2017)

Sean Williams: Loopholes in Light (Daily SF, May 2018)

Bo Balder: A Vastness (Clarkesworld #140, May 2018)

Bo Balder: Skin Hunger (Nature #537, September 2016)

Bo Balder: I Die a Little (Nature #543, March 2017)

Bo Balder: The Bridgegroom (Clarkesworld #130, July 2017)

Bo Balder: A House of Her Own (F & SF, September 2015)

Bo Balder: Follow the White Line (Clarkesworld #122, November 2016)

Bo Balder: The Meaning That You Choose (Crossed Genres 2.0 #35, November 2015)

Bo Balder: A Cigarette Burn In Your Memory (Clarkesworld #136, January 2018)

Steven Barnes: Mozart on the Kalahari (Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities Anthology, 2017)

Ray Bradbury: I, Rocket (Amazing, May 1944)

Ray Bradbury: The Pendulum (Futuria Fantasia Collection, 1940)

Ray Bradbury: Perchance to Dream [vt Asleep in Armageddon] (Planet Stories, Winter 1948)

Ray Bradbury: The Last Night of the World (Esquire, February 1951)

Ray Bradbury: The Flight of the Good Ship Clarissa (Futuria Fantasia Collection, 1940)

Ken Brady: Since We’ve No Place to Go (Daily SF, April 2018)

Maurice Broaddus: The Valkyrie (War Stories Anthology, 2014)

Adam-Troy Castro: Pitcher Plant (Nightmare Magazine #67, April 2018)

Adam-Troy Castro: A Place Without Portals (Lightspeed, April 2018)

Ian Creasey: Ormonde and Chase (Asimov's, June 2014)

Aliette de Bodard: In Blue Lily’s Wake (Uncanny Magazine #22, May 2018)

Evan Dicken: When We Go (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #223, April 2017)

Evan Dicken: Cold Comfort (Daily SF, December 2014)

Evan Dicken: Paradise Left (Daily SF, April 2013)

Evan Dicken: The Uncarved Heart (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #212, November 2016)

Evan Dicken: Citizen of the Galaxy (Analog, December 2014)

Evan Dicken: How I Killed Your Mother (Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores, July 2016)

Evan Dicken: The Redshirt’s Daughter (Daily SF, March 2017)

Evan Dicken: All of Us Told, All of It Real (Strange Horizons, April 2018)

Evan Dicken: Nothing Less Rare, Nor Precious (Flash Fiction Online, May 2016)

Evan Dicken: How Lovely Is the Silence of Growing Things (Apex Magazine, May 2017)

Evan Dicken: An Open Letter to the Rulers of Erathon from Xagaz Widowbane, Eater-of-the-World, Arch-Hypnocrat, Despoiler Magnus, Empress of Weeping Skulls, Defender of Filth, Defenestrator General, and so forth (Daily SF, September 2016)