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Some of the best speculative short fiction published every month is available online. The quality of the fiction is impressive, and there are more than enough stories to fill an excellent anthology, each month.  We’ve collected story links from several of the top sites for you here.  Give them a look.

• “Clockwork Fairies” by Cat Rambo at Tor.com
• “In Pacmandu” by Lavie Tidhar in Futurismic
• “Good Night, Moon” by Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling and Tim Bower at Tor.com
• “Hindsight” by Sarah Langan in Lightspeed Magazine
• “His Master’s Voice” by Hannu Rajaniemi in Redstone Science Fiction
• “Lady of the Ghost Willow” by Richard Parks in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• “Last of the Monsters” by Emily C. Skaftun in Strange Horizons
• “Laying the Ghost” by Eric Brown in Clarkesworld Magazine
• “More Full of Weeping Than You Can Understand” at Rosamund Hodge in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• “Over the end, and over again. . .”  by Toiya Kristen Finley in Fantasy Magazine
• “Salvaging Gods” by Jacques Barcia in Clarkesworld Magazine
• “Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots” by Sandra McDonald in Strange Horizons
• “Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)” by Ian Tregillis in Apex Magazine
• “The Curse of Chimere” by Tony Pi in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• “The Girl Who Had Six Fingers” by Brenda Stokes Barron in Apex Magazine
• “The Girl Who Tasted the Sea” by Sarah L. Edwards at Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• “The Interior of Mister Bumblethorn’s Coat” by Willow Fagan in Fantasy Magazine
• “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” by Ted Chiang at Subterranean Press (novella)
• “The Taste of Starlight” by John R. Fultz in Lightspeed Magazine
• “Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back” by Joe R. Lansdale in Lightspeed Magazine
• “Witness” by Vylar Kaftan in Redstone Science Fiction
• There are also several stories available in the Fall issues of Ideomancer and Rudy Rucker’s Flurb

The number of stories is amazing, and these links are largely to sites paying a professional rate for fiction.  There is even more work out there, waiting for us, quietly.