Make America Great Again, by Val Nolan

[Interzone]

★★☆☆☆

(UFO Time Travel) A reporter investigates a story of a man abducted by UFOs during World War II who returns to modern America and wonders if the Nazis won after all. (9,911 words; Time: 33m)

The Transport of Bodies, by John Possidente

[Interzone]

★★☆☆☆

(SF Thriller; Humboldt Station) The narrator is a starving journalist on a space station who might just see two big stories in a place where good stories are hard to come by. (3,106 words; Time: 10m)

Although this is the second Humboldt Station story, there's no need to read them in either order.

Those We Serve, by Eugenia Triantafyllou

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆

(Android SF) Manoli is just an android copy of the real Manoli, but for thirty years he’s been doing a good job running a resort on a Greek island. Each season it gets harder, though. (5,753 words; Time: 19m)

Night-Town of Mars, by Tim Lees

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆

(Horror) A schoolboy visits his eccentric uncle, whose house may connect to another world. (15,966 words; Time: 53m)

Recommended By: 👍STomaino+1 (Q&A)

Carriers, by James Sallis

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆

(Dystopia) In the war-torn remnants of the United States, a doctor and a revolutionary struggle to make things right again. (8,640 words; Time: 28m)

Organ of Corti, by Matt Thompson

[Interzone]

★★☆☆☆

(SF Horror) Elias works with research teams investigating the expanding deserts that are choking Madrid, but Ana’s expedition is very secretive, and their target looks like nothing he’s seen before. (9,890 words; Time: 32m)

Rocket Man, by Louis Evans

[Interzone]

★★☆☆☆

(Alternate History) In a world where atmospheric problems made guided ICBMs impossible, a young missile pilot talks about his life at base waiting for the call to fly a nuclear missile to his death. (4,025 words; Time: 13m)

Recommended By: 👍MHaskins+1 (Q&A)

Cofiwch Aberystwyth, by Val Nolan

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆

(SF Adventure) Mila and two of her friends explore the ruins of a Welsh town destroyed in a nuclear blast some years before. (8,288 words; Time: 27m)

The Dead Man's Coffee, by John Possidente

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆

(SF Thriller; Humboldt Station) A reporter on a space station describes how a religious trial involving photosynthesizing people seems to have managed to get someone killed. (3,234 words; Time: 10m)

Recommended By: 👍STomaino+1 (Q&A)

Salvage, by Andy Dudak

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆

(SF Drama) Aristy salvages souls from humans the aliens turned into statues a thousand years ago, but not everyone is thrilled with her project, and she has a dark secret. (10,528 words; Time: 35m)

Recommended By: 👍MHaskins+1 👍STomaino+1 (Q&A)

Frankie, by Daniel Bennett

[Interzone]

★★☆☆☆

(Dystopia) A soldier in a war in the mid-2030s mourns the death of his brother and muses about what his life meant. (3,315 words; Time: 11m)

Flyover Country, by Julie C. Day

[Interzone]

★★☆☆☆

(Epidemic) Immie works for a slightly suspicious company that’s fighting the custom-designed mind-modifying diseases are sweeping the world, and she finds romance with the pilot of a spray plane. (5,637 words; Time: 18m)

Recommended By: 👍ABrown+1 (Q&A)

Each Cell a Throne, by Gregor Hartmann

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆

(SF Drama; Zephyr) Phillipa Song tries to convince a dying aristocrat that the mind-transfer technology he wants to use is really a fraud. (5,932 words; Time: 19m)

Dream of the High Mountain, by Daniel Bennett

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆

(Dystopia) In a slowly dying world, Morgan attends a retreat to try to make his life seem more meaningful. (4,988 words; Time: 16m)

The Duchess of Drinke Street, by Tim Chawaga

[Interzone]

★★☆☆☆

(SF Drama) The narrator opens a restaurant on a floating city but needs a good review from a food critic to be successful. (5,351 words; Time: 17m)

Parasite Art, by David Tallerman

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆

(SF Drama) The narrator merged with an alien symbiont to create amazing art, and it’s been great, but lately he/she is feeling dissatisfied. But is there any way to remove the alien? (4,873 words; Time: 16m)

Dent-de-lion, by Natalia Theodoridou

[Interzone]

★★☆☆☆

(SF Adventure) An astronaut goes to an alien planet to find a plant that holds the cure for a deadly disease that’s ravaging the Earth. (5,301 words; Time: 17m)

She and I and We, by Timothy Mudie

[Interzone]

★★☆☆☆

(Time Travel) Nat gets a visit from a much older future self who says she’s in grave danger but won’t give any details. (4,322 words; Time: 14m)

The Kindest God is Light, by Joanna Berry

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆

(SF Drama) A depressed poet with writer’s block wonders why it’s taking so long to make a copy of her mental state. (6,835 words; Time: 22m)

Two Worlds Apart, by Dustin Blair Steinacker

[Interzone]

★★★☆☆

(SF Adventure) To earn a place in the Consortium of alien species, humanity needs to accomplish a successful first-contact mission. Ana leads it but doesn’t realize just how alien the Tarshach are. (5,781 words; Time: 19m)

This story won the James White Award, which is an annual short story competition open to non-professional writers.