Small Wonders
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An online monthly magazine for speculative poetry and flash fiction! Edited by @cislyn.bsky.social and @granades.com.
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this story is so goddamn intricate and heartbreaking and beautiful and painful and monsterfucky. it’ll stick with you for a long time.
"Tuesday" by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social is a heartwarming tale of love between alien and human. Sort of.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this story is so goddamn intricate and heartbreaking and beautiful and painful and monsterfucky. it’ll stick with you for a long time.
"Tuesday" by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social is a heartwarming tale of love between alien and human. Sort of.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Tuesday" by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social is a heartwarming tale of love between alien and human. Sort of.
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Today is a day of almost was and could have beens, and so we revisit "When We Were Infinite" by Wendy Nikel in our sixth issue:
When We Were Infinite - Small Wonders
"The faster your ships, the smaller the universe. The smaller the universe, the more important it is to live harmoniously."
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December 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today is a day of almost was and could have beens, and so we revisit "When We Were Infinite" by Wendy Nikel in our sixth issue:
We love a story with an interesting frame, and "A Widow's Field Guide to Fungi" by Marissa van Uden is a delightfully dark example:
A Widow’s Field Guide to Fungi - Small Wonders
Some tooth fungi grow on the ground, some on trees, but others grow from his gums, where they gleam (yellow) when he smiles in the moonlight, in that way that makes your hand tremble.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We love a story with an interesting frame, and "A Widow's Field Guide to Fungi" by Marissa van Uden is a delightfully dark example:
Join us for a moment of wonder and hurt and magic, when Itze meets "A Country of Feathers and Scars" under a bridge in Central Park, brought to us by @notsantiago.bsky.social:
A Country of Feathers and Scars - Small Wonders
Itze found the country of México crouching and hiding and hissing underneath a stone bridge in Central Park.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Join us for a moment of wonder and hurt and magic, when Itze meets "A Country of Feathers and Scars" under a bridge in Central Park, brought to us by @notsantiago.bsky.social:
Is complexity captured in counting? Or perhaps in not knowing. Poetry may not bring answers, but it brings some lovely questions with "Complexity Captured" by Michael Theroux in our sixth issue:
Complexity Captured - Small Wonders
I am a bean counter in a beanfull universe / My success gauged by the smallness of failures
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December 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Is complexity captured in counting? Or perhaps in not knowing. Poetry may not bring answers, but it brings some lovely questions with "Complexity Captured" by Michael Theroux in our sixth issue:
"Ars Poetica with Ecology" by Gospel Chinedu is suffused with longing and grief. What animal will you become to outrun disasters?
Ars Poetica with Ecology - Small Wonders
The land is green with grief. / There are fetid flowers and // forlorn footprints across the / field
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December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Ars Poetica with Ecology" by Gospel Chinedu is suffused with longing and grief. What animal will you become to outrun disasters?
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New poem out today!
Today's poem is a moment of curiosity and a wish for the future, in a bleak time and apparently bleak place. Read "In the Sloth Tunnels At A Time of War" by @danielausema.bsky.social:
In the Sloth Tunnels, at a Time of War - Small Wonders
The tunnelers are long gone now, / known only / by the claw marks on the walls
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December 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New poem out today!
Today's poem is a moment of curiosity and a wish for the future, in a bleak time and apparently bleak place. Read "In the Sloth Tunnels At A Time of War" by @danielausema.bsky.social:
In the Sloth Tunnels, at a Time of War - Small Wonders
The tunnelers are long gone now, / known only / by the claw marks on the walls
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December 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Today's poem is a moment of curiosity and a wish for the future, in a bleak time and apparently bleak place. Read "In the Sloth Tunnels At A Time of War" by @danielausema.bsky.social:
Tuesday again? That means it's time for time shenanigans! "Waiting With the Milk" may feel like a quiet moment, but it is suffused with tension and repetition. Read this story by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko in our sixth issue:
Waiting With the Milk - Small Wonders
Whenever you’re away, I’ll go shopping and be struck that the use-by on the carton of milk I’m buying post-dates your return. Hell, I’ll think, if the milk can wait to see you, why can’t I?
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December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Tuesday again? That means it's time for time shenanigans! "Waiting With the Milk" may feel like a quiet moment, but it is suffused with tension and repetition. Read this story by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko in our sixth issue:
"A Feast for Mandrakes" by Jennifer Mace is a story with a delightfully non-human character voice. Check it out in our June 2025 issue:
A Feast for Mandrakes - Small Wonders
The summer is dying, and so are you.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"A Feast for Mandrakes" by Jennifer Mace is a story with a delightfully non-human character voice. Check it out in our June 2025 issue:
Steep a cup of tea and sit for a while with "You Cannot Help but Bloom" by @speculativekane.bsky.social. Consider, what (and who) makes you feel lighter, greener, freer? Reach out with the tendrils of your heart and let it blossom.
You Cannot Help but Bloom - Small Wonders
This isn’t her teahouse anymore. It’s yours. The warm funk of old-fashioned pu-erh and oolong has faded beneath the aromatic orange blossom of your new house blend.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Steep a cup of tea and sit for a while with "You Cannot Help but Bloom" by @speculativekane.bsky.social. Consider, what (and who) makes you feel lighter, greener, freer? Reach out with the tendrils of your heart and let it blossom.
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Check out as @cypayseur.bsky.social reviews short fiction from @diabolicalplots.com, @smallwondersmag.com, and @strangehorizons.bsky.social
Diabolical Plots, Small Wonders, and Strange Horizons: Review by Charles Payseur
Diabolical Plots 8/25 Small Wonders 8/25 Strange Horizons 8/4/25, 8/18/25 The August Diabolical Plots includes Lilia Zhang’s “Skin as Warp, Blood as Weft”, a surreal story about a weaver maiden, Zh…
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December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Check out as @cypayseur.bsky.social reviews short fiction from @diabolicalplots.com, @smallwondersmag.com, and @strangehorizons.bsky.social
The Brujo is down by the creek - be careful, but if you lose something, be sure to come back. "Through a Glass Darkly" is a surprising story by Micháel McCormick in our sixth issue:
A Glass Darkly - Small Wonders
Lily hesitated at the bend where Willow Creek turned brown like root beer, swirling past gnarled tree roots. People said the Brujo lived there.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Brujo is down by the creek - be careful, but if you lose something, be sure to come back. "Through a Glass Darkly" is a surprising story by Micháel McCormick in our sixth issue:
There's a draw, to messy relationships, to trainwrecks of the heart, and to the moon. Especially for the werewolf. "In Crimson, In Moonlight" by Stefan Alcalá Slater explores a breakup between moon and werewolf, and how life goes on after:
In Crimson, In Moonlight - Small Wonders
It's mutual when the werewolf and the moon break up.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
There's a draw, to messy relationships, to trainwrecks of the heart, and to the moon. Especially for the werewolf. "In Crimson, In Moonlight" by Stefan Alcalá Slater explores a breakup between moon and werewolf, and how life goes on after:
Our reprint today is an unexpected connection between a sun and a hungry space creature. Check out "Eating the Sun" by @bethgoder.bsky.social here:
Eating the Sun - Small Wonders
The rest of her broodmates had already left for ascension. She needed fuel for the journey. She needed to eat the sun.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Our reprint today is an unexpected connection between a sun and a hungry space creature. Check out "Eating the Sun" by @bethgoder.bsky.social here:
Snow on a sultry day in June heralds dark things in "The Last Snowfall" by Shell St. James. Read it in our sixth issue here:
The Last Snowfall - Small Wonders
One sultry summer day in June / Falling flakes obscured the sun / Danger cloaked in symmetry / Earth’s invasion had begun
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December 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Snow on a sultry day in June heralds dark things in "The Last Snowfall" by Shell St. James. Read it in our sixth issue here:
Take a moment today to consider so-called justice, meted out among the stars, in "Interstellar Catalog: Death Penalty" by Shana Ross from our June issue of this year:
Interstellar Catalog: Death Penalty - Small Wonders
On this world they still have the death penalty. / If found guilty of certain crimes, you / are sent into space, alone in a capsule.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Take a moment today to consider so-called justice, meted out among the stars, in "Interstellar Catalog: Death Penalty" by Shana Ross from our June issue of this year:
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December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Today's poem is a quiet moment that bridges the personal and the celestial, "Your Mom, The Space Sailor" by @pamyve.bsky.social:
Your Mom, The Space Sailor - Small Wonders
I am a speck / of stardust / dutifully folding / fitted sheets and galaxies / at their dubious corners.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Today's poem is a quiet moment that bridges the personal and the celestial, "Your Mom, The Space Sailor" by @pamyve.bsky.social:
Find room in your life for something small, something foreign, something like a "Planetisimal." If you're lucky, it will be just as heartwarming as Marisca Pichette's story in our sixth issue:
Planetesimal - Small Wonders
I rescued a meteorite last night. It fell in the backyard, sizzling and screaming and lighting up the shower.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Find room in your life for something small, something foreign, something like a "Planetisimal." If you're lucky, it will be just as heartwarming as Marisca Pichette's story in our sixth issue:
If you find yourself stuck today, take a moment for Nadia Born's "In Which the Minotaur Just Wants to Get Out of the Labyrinth, Dammit" from June of this year:
In Which the Minotaur Just Wants to Get Out of the Labyrinth, Dammit - Small Wonders
He’s tried to explain this to the maidens but his bull’s tongue only rasps and scrapes, and he ends up licking the mud-bricked walls for relief.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If you find yourself stuck today, take a moment for Nadia Born's "In Which the Minotaur Just Wants to Get Out of the Labyrinth, Dammit" from June of this year:
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In Anaheim did Worldcon
a special Hugo Award decree
where sci-fi verse
with rhymes diverse
were celebrated as best poetry
(With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Yes, there will be a Hugo for Best Poem in 2026. The press release is out. The LAcon V will be updated later today.
a special Hugo Award decree
where sci-fi verse
with rhymes diverse
were celebrated as best poetry
(With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Yes, there will be a Hugo for Best Poem in 2026. The press release is out. The LAcon V will be updated later today.
December 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In Anaheim did Worldcon
a special Hugo Award decree
where sci-fi verse
with rhymes diverse
were celebrated as best poetry
(With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Yes, there will be a Hugo for Best Poem in 2026. The press release is out. The LAcon V will be updated later today.
a special Hugo Award decree
where sci-fi verse
with rhymes diverse
were celebrated as best poetry
(With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Yes, there will be a Hugo for Best Poem in 2026. The press release is out. The LAcon V will be updated later today.
The heart knows what the heart wants, and today: it's the alien. You'll fall in love too with "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing In The World" by @elijah.mea.rs:
Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing in the World - Small Wonders
You had no idea if the alien was your kind of guy (or even if it was a guy at all), but sometimes Cupid has a funny way with those arrows.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The heart knows what the heart wants, and today: it's the alien. You'll fall in love too with "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing In The World" by @elijah.mea.rs:
Issue 30 (ISSUE 30!!!), with cover art by Amanda Yskamp, comes out tomorrow! It's not too late to subscribe and get all of our stories and poems as an ebook and in your inbox as they show up on our website. smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
December 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Issue 30 (ISSUE 30!!!), with cover art by Amanda Yskamp, comes out tomorrow! It's not too late to subscribe and get all of our stories and poems as an ebook and in your inbox as they show up on our website. smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...