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GNS Back on Pause Until January 2026

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

Hello friends, As you’re noticing, there’s no story this month. Instead, have a little editorial from me. Consider it a tiny state-of-the-magazine address. This month marks the official fifteenth anniversary of GigaNotoSaurus. I’ve been editor, and more recently owner, for about six years now. It’s been fun, and I am overjoyed when I come across […]

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A Good King

by Sarah McGill

In the last blush of autumn, the King of the Forest requested an audience with the King. The King was so delighted that he agreed at once. The audience was held in the King’s hall, the burnished tile laid in gold and green, the fire stoked high with ash logs and cinnamon sticks. The amber […]

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Water to a Goose

by Sonia Focke

CW: grief, disassociation, presumed death of a child “Why give water to a goose at dawn if it is being slaughtered in the morning?”                   – Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, Papyrus St. Petersburg 1115 (ca. 2000-1750 BCE) ~~~ The light seared into my eyes like a knife. I closed them again. They weren’t much […]

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The Starter Family

by Sage Tyrtle

Around the time the boys in my class turn eleven, we start asking where the Starter Boys have gone. We start asking why there are grown-up girls, but no kids who grow up to be girls. Why our moms never leave Rexford. And that’s when Civics Class starts. I’m standing in the auditorium line in […]

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Shadow Jack

by CL Hellisen

Content Note: aftermath of sacrifices, blood, body horror, offscreen abuse, suicide There is a hole in the wall by Shadow Jack’s bed. It is no bigger than a pin prick, and the wind that blows from it is cold and bitter and smells of death. Shadow Jack knows that smell better than his own. He […]

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Behind Glass

by Christi Krug

Abi / Yakima Washington, July 1970 She finds the fairy in a suitcase. It’s the start of Abi’s weekend at the Bumping River cabin, and Nana tells her hurry up eat your breakfast while it’s hot. She should be home having cereal: Mama with Special K, Abi with Lucky Charms, the milk turning a sugary […]

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2024 Award Eligibility Post

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

It’s a snowy day here in Wisconsin. I got my tea, I got my blankets. And as promised, here are all the stories we published in 2024 for your award consideration. This year, we’re also indicating each story’s eligible award category. We are going by the Nebula Award categorization rules: short stories are less than […]

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Dead reckoning in 6/8 time

by Sabrina Vourvoulias

Señores, venga el aviso.                                                             Good people, here’s the notice. In my thirty-third year, this Spanglish-speaking, feet-in-two-worlds, gringa Latina realized it was time to go to Mexico and save my mother. To be clear, my mother had died shortly after I […]

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