Drawing Lines Between the Stars, by Frank Smith

[Clarkesworld]

★★☆☆☆

(New Age SF) Bexar's life changes when his ship rescues a young woman whose ship was hit by a passing comet. (6,104 words; Time: 20m)

The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex, by Tamsyn Muir

[Single]

★★☆☆☆

(Future Fantasy Mystery) Two young students are attached to a team reopening Dr. Sex’s study after 400 years. But someone seems to have got in 200 years ago and left his or her skeleton there. (8,632 words; Time: 28m)

Once More Unto the Breach (But Don’t Worry, the Inflatable Swords Are Latex-Free), by Tina Connolly

[Uncanny]

★★☆☆☆

(Allegory) You are always at a child’s birthday party, but there are monsters next door having their own party. (777 words; Time: 02m)

A Pale Horse, by M. Evan MacGriogair

[Uncanny]

★★☆☆☆

(Eco Apocalypse) A woman mourns the passing of the Scottish Gaelic language just as she mourns the death of the Earth’s ecosystems. (5,660 words; Time: 18m)

A Bridge from Sea to Sky, by Bennett North

[F&SF]

★★☆☆☆

(Hard SF) When a collision almost severs the space elevator, Aoife and her coworkers struggle to try to save it—even though Earth is thinking of defunding it. (5,821 words; Time: 19m)

The End of the World Measured in Values of N, by Adam-Troy Castro

[Lightspeed]

★★☆☆☆

(Apocalypse) The world just came to an end N seconds ago. We discuss that for different values of N. (1,959 words; Time: 06m)

Power to Yield, by Bogi Takács

[Clarkesworld]

★★☆☆☆

(Psionic Horror) The māwalēni protect the colony of Eren, but to unlock their psychic powers, they have to get implants and endure a torture program run by a self-admitted sadist. (20,135 words; Time: 1h:07m)

Three Stories Conjured from Nothing, by Shakespace

[Clarkesworld]

★★☆☆☆

(SF) Three different stories about how big changes came to three very different worlds. (7,404 words; Time: 24m)

The Night Soil Salvagers, by Gregory Norman Bossert

[Single]

★★☆☆☆

(Horror) Night Soil, of course, is human feces, but the salvagers to more than just collect that; they deliver other things too—if you’re willing to deal with them, that is. (6,617 words; Time: 22m)

Bereft, I Come to a Nameless World, by Benjamin Rosenbaum

[Asimov's]

★★☆☆☆

(Far-Future SF) An ancient transhuman fleeing a disaster of its own making comes to a distant world looking for an old friend. (5,693 words; Time: 18m)

Imaginary Children, by Janet Stilson

[Asimov's]

★★☆☆☆

(SF Drama) Peta’s rich and powerful, but her biological clock runs out in two months, and she really wants to have a child before it’s too late. (7,059 words; Time: 23m)

Mars, the Dumping Ground of the Solar System, by Andrew Kozma

[Analog]

★★☆☆☆

(SF Drama) Jonquil works with genetically engineered people who helped terraform the solar system but who, now that they’re not needed, are warehoused on Mars. Today he’s looking for a missing girl. (3,519 words; Time: 11m)

The Bee Thing, by Maggie Damken

[Strange Horizons]

★★☆☆☆

(Alternate-History Horror) When her head turns into a beehive, the narrator loses her boyfriend, drops out of school, and moves home with her family. (5,717 words; Time: 19m)

Glass Frog, by Remy Reed Pincumbe

[Strange Horizons]

★★☆☆☆

(Horror) Molly and her “friends” explore a haunted house together. (3,733 words; Time: 12m)

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.

We Chased the Sirens, by Suzanne Walker

[Uncanny]

★★☆☆☆

(Mythological) A ship crewed by women pursues the sirens across a winedark sea. (826 words; Time: 02m)

A Being Together Amongst Strangers, by Arkady Martine

[Uncanny]

★★☆☆☆

(Near-Future SF) In a partly flooded Manhattan, a woman confronts a problem on the subway. (3,079 words; Time: 10m)

Through the Veil, by Jennifer Marie Brissett

[Uncanny]

★★☆☆☆

(Science Fiction) When her project on interdimensional travel is cancelled, a researcher steals her equipment and continues her research in secret. (3,463 words; Time: 11m)

Hornet and Butterfly, by Tom Cool and Bruce Sterling

[F&SF]

★★☆☆☆

(Dystopia) When a storm destroys his raft city, former supersoldier Hornet struggles to escape with his life, but the “Butterfly” creature he helps emerge makes things even more complicated. (6,441 words; Time: 21m)