"When I made her angry—too many times near the end—she did this. She was usually the one to run from our fights first . . . but she always came back.

Unlike me."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Kelsea Yu in @clarkesworld.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/yu_07_23/

“No one will praise you for it. Not these days.”

She shook her head. “I don’t care about that.”

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Kel Coleman in @bcsmagazine.

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/disassembling-light/

"“See,” I say, ignoring the agony of flesh exposed to air, drawing from the other side to sustain myself. A little pain now is worth it to prove the truth."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @mattdovey in Nightmare Magazine.

https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/they-say/

"Aren’t ghosts often angry? Don’t they like to bare their scars symbolically?"

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @giselleleeb in @IZDigital.

https://interzone.digital/ghost-herds/

No #sfstoryoftheday for a few days! I'm away from home at a music festival and I just want to have fun and not think about social media very much! Daily stories will return on probably the 27th! Have a lovely weekend!

“What is that?” Jess asked.

“It’s a laser.”

Jess sighed. “What is the plan here? Put a red dot on it and hope that some extradimensional cat bats it from one apartment to another?”

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Jamie Lackey in Flashpoint Science Fiction.

https://flashpointsf.com/2023/06/02/something-we-can-do-ourselves/

"I inscribe this letter like scrimshaw on driftwood. I feed it into the flames, so my words will write themselves in the smoke of the living world."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by E. M. Linden in Orion's Belt.

https://www.orions-belt.net/archives/driftwood

"Soni opened my cage and said, “Meet Ginger.” I cat-stepped out, and saw another halved-kitten, bristly like a pine-forest, and yet flickering in and out of existence just like me."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Bidisha Banerjee in Fantasy Magazine.

https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/schroedingers-kitten-falls-in-love/

"Even then there was still time. I wanted to hold you tight in the rubble, to be giant girlfriends first and figure out the rest later."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @phoebebarton in Baffling Magazine.

https://www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eleven/all-the-things

"So I listen. To star systems and gravitational waves I listen. With two ears and two eyes and two hundred and six bones I listen."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Shaoni C. White in Lightspeed.

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/every-bone-a-bell/

"“No, really—there are more of us than you would think,” Ilana said. “But that’s not even the point.”

“Jews aren’t the point of asking me to be the Moon Rabbi,” I verified."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @debenbach in @clarkesworld.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ebenbach_06_23/

"My skin felt supple, but I distrusted this newness, this heft, because I was nothing. A nothing death for a nothing life that I couldn’t even fathom."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @emelkrishnan in @diabolicalplots.

https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-100b-interstate-mohinis-by-m-l-krishnan/

"It’s very rare that any of us is contracted to oversee the end of a known world, so I imagine you likely have many questions at present, some of which include, what is this document? "

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @ThomasHa in @IZDigital.

https://interzone.digital/on-planetary-palliative-care/

“What song is that?” she said finally.

Marcia stared. “What song?”

“The one you were humming just now.”

“I wasn’t.”

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Karl El-Koura in @Metaphorosis.

https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/anamnesis-karl-el-koura/

"“Resilience.” Thuận Lộc raised the cup to her lips, feeling it burn as it descended down her throat. “Any advice?”

A sigh, from An Nhiên. “Don’t get caught,” she said."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @aliettedb in @UncannyMagazine.

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-mausoleums-children/

“Don’t worry,” I told her. “I’ll make it work.”

“I know,” she said, not looking up from her cupped palms. “I know you will. That’s just...that’s what you do.”

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @jcho in Haven Speculative.

https://www.havenspec.com/to-call-my-own

"More than that, though, she had seen the intake of breath from the thing under the overpass, even if she tried to deny it, and she knew what it had been breathing in."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Orrin Grey in The Dark.

https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-god-of-the-overpass/

"Lightning-strike, he says, and then taking her hand, he slips through the scar slick as an eel, drawing her with him into another world."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Dafydd McKimm in Flash Fiction Online.

https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/a-tiger-in-eden/

"They were scrawled on the horizon, a beautifully simple filigree, destined to dissolve into a diffuse and luminous haze. She loved to watch them smudge away, returning like smoke to the place where the stars lived."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Tiffany Morris in @talesfeathers.

https://www.augurmag.com/teltunget-pattern-of-speech/

"We had no words for it then, no pills nor potions, no therapists nor spells. We had only our own mothers to tell us the darkness will pass, with time. How much time, they never said."

Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Nika Murphy in @lunastation.

https://lunastationquarterly.com/story/the-tale-of-the-mother-and-the-hexed-vcr/