Tag: speculative fiction

Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Story Sunday

The Alphas of Minor Consequence

Ryo Whitefish fishes a depleted stretch, resents the system that fixed his life in place, and risks everything on illegal runs to Minor Consequence, a correctional moon where the descendants ...

by Litro Magazine • 7th June 20267th June 2026

Fiction, Flash Friday, Future Archives

Flash Friday: Systems Under Strain (Four New Stories)

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by Litro Magazine • 30th May 202630th May 2026

Fiction, Flash Friday, Future Archives, Story Sunday

The Cancellation of Michael Z

One morning, Michael Z. wakes to silence then to scandal. T.L. Huchu’s story is a cutting, darkly comic portrait of literary culture, AI authorship, and the speed of public ruin.

by tenhuc • 30th May 202630th May 2026

Six Months More

By Gull Ditta A data gardener confronts the zero-sum ontology of prediction markets—brilliant speculative fiction that reads like philosophy. Leo’s world was made of percentages and they were the first thing he ...

by Litro Magazine • 22nd April 20265th June 2026

Fiction, Story Sunday

Extinction

At the entrance of the restaurant, she hesitated a little. Out of cautious habit she looked with feigned disinterest first to the left and then, to the right—to appear lost, ...

by Ryan Kwek • 12th April 202614th April 2026

Cervical

“I awoke dead.” From there, Cervical unfolds into a compact nightmare of bodily estrangement, luxury death, and a future where even dying has terms and conditions.

by accounts • 20th March 202620th March 2026

The Kingdom

A satirical dispatch from a world where faith is a product and obedience is enforced with a smile.

by accounts • 8th February 20268th February 2026

FastTrack Editorial Review