The Latest Short Fiction from Reactor (formerly Tor.com)
Winter & Spring 2024
Welcome back, readers! Thank you for your patience — we know it’s been a minute since our last newsletter, but we think you’ll find it was worth the wait!
We're excited to share TWO new bundles full of Reactor's latest short fiction with you! Download the January/February 2024 and March/April 2024 bundles, featuring stories from C. L. Polk, Rachel Swirsky, Maureen McHugh, Jordan Kurella, Karen Heuler, Chris Willrich, Kemi Ashing-Giwa, S.L. Huang, Kelly Robson, Congyun “Mu Ming” Gu, Renan Bernardo, Veronica Schanoes, and Lavie Tidhar!
Evan is suddenly coughing up bones, like, A LOT of bones, but that’s not even in the top ten strangest things that have happened to him since he moved into his new (possibly haunted) duplex . . .
In a post-nuclear event Silicon Valley, a man grieving the loss of his wife struggles to find comfort when he is forced to communicate with his neighbors’ AI devices, rather than the people themselves.
A Brazilian freelance journalist confronts the grim reality her past choices created when she covers a community of people living in a landfill and what they must do to survive . . .
In this prequel novelette to the critically acclaimedThe Water Outlaws, nine-year-old Li Li is introduced to a web of community secrets and family intrigue when she helps her mother bury a corpse . . .
A professional caregiver’s commute takes an unsettling detour when car trouble forces her to pull over on the highway, where she begins receiving distressing phone calls from strangers . . .
