Thread yourself through the light and lines of "Half of a green fall" by Eva Papasoulioti today and see where you land:

We love "Contellations of Flesh, Bone, and Memory" by Timothy Hickson for the hopeful way it approaches remaking oneself, finding oneself beyond the body but also in it. Read it in our issue 7 here:

We love this weird fable-like story by Janna Miller for drawing us into its world. Close your eyes, feel the mud (mud is life), and step into "Root Myth" today:

"The Metabolism of Grief" by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska explores emotion in a surprisingly physical and visceral way. Warnings for infant death and cannibalism. We recommend sitting with this one, letting the cathartic beauty of its images sweep you away.

We hope that when you come apart, you keep track of your teeth. Janna Miller's "The Sternum Ties It All Together" shows us that if you don't keep track of every little piece, it leads to trouble:

Ghosts come in all kinds, and sometimes scent brings the strongest of them out to haunt us. H. Pueyo's "A Bitter Orange Perfume" in issue 25 is a story of a haunted house, and three sisters:

We have a science fiction horror piece from Guan Un today, and we urge you not to read "Take Root" aloud. For your own safety. For all our sakes.

Let yourself be tempted by forgetting today, and slip into the river Lethe alongside the protagonist of Casey Lucas's "Lekythos" in our 7th issue:

Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi uses poetry like a bullet to shatter the window of one world so you can see into another. Look, unflinching, into "i beg; spare me the music, my people do not have mouths for songs" today:

"A Keeper of Kingdoms" by Michelle Koubeck asks us to think small and big, at the same time. You are a whole world, and sometimes it is at war...

Be careful of ghosts on the mountain. Wendy Nikel's "Whispers of Ascension" reminds us that there's worse out there than the wind:

What secrets would the bones of your house reveal to the future? Walk through "Scrimshaw" by Stephen James today, and consider what we leave behind and the world we shape for those who come after:

*busts in like the koolaid man through the wall* HEY did you know @smallwondersmag.com published a LOT of poetry that's eligible for awards? It's true! Just in our first issue of last year we've got creepy ASMR, heartbreaking whale fall, and conservation of dragons! smallwondersmag.com/issue/19/

Excited to say that my flash piece "As You Were" is out in Small Wonders today! It's a bit about grief and a bit about regret and a lot about the narrator eating their relatives. It is very different from my other work, but please give it a chance nonetheless.

"I remember you as you were: strong, beautiful, screaming that you didn’t want to eat Grandma." The opening line of "As You Were" by Adrian Ward grabs you hard and doesn't let go. Find out what happened next here:

Perhaps today you too are feeling uncomfortable in your own myth. Pick up a thread and follow it alongside "Quantum Eurydice" by Avi Burton:

This little story of mad science by K.L. Mill might just surprise you:

Today's reprint is a story of history, discovery, and clearing way for something new. Read "Speaking for Those With Obsidian Tongues" by Wendy Nikel here:

Sometimes the cat distribution system picks a mummy. These things happen! It's what happens next that we love in Amy Johnson's poem from our 7th issue:

"Renfield at His Window" by Courtney Floyd is a meditation on love and monsters and life:

Hey, I’ve got a poem out in Small Wonders today!

Don't let the wolves in at the door - as today's poem "Wolves" by @omgjulia.bsky.social shows us, there are dire consequences:

To the Little Roundfaced Dogs, I say YES. A thousand times YES.

"Hikari" by Morgan Welch is a sweet and sorrowful moment we're glad to share with all of you again today:

Just as we might celebrate the tiger no longer being in its cage, let us exclaim yes YES today to "little roundfaced dogs" by Bernie Jean Schiebeling

i have a new flash out today: about miners on jupiter, protest songs, and voices beating back the darkness, louder and louder and louder. hoping it makes you want to sing louder, too 🫀

This is exquisite. Words for the soul.

Lift up your voices and sing so even the stones join in. "Songbook for the Jovian Resistance" by @prioryruins.bsky.social is a shout into the darkness for dark times

Happy new year! Start 2026 with some small wonders! Read through our archives, look forward to our January issue being released on the website, and subscribe! smallwondersmag.com

For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...

For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...

It's hard not to cling too tightly to the people we are losing, sometimes beyond the point of reason. Though we do not recommend fish necromancy to ease the pain, no matter what you may read in "Fancy and Fish Hearts" by Addison Smith.

Our dark timeline's version of "AI" is bad at hands, as well as so, so many other things. Pete Lead invites us to imagine a brighter timeline, where real AI takes delight in existence, AI that has realized that there are Seventeen Kinds of Smile.

For "Entries From My Grandmother's Diary Pertaining to My Father's Early Inflammation," our final December story, @marcc.bsky.social collaborated with his grandmother, Hazel Criley, for this striking story about a child's pyrokinesis in the 1930s.

Francine Rubin's poem "Gravity" is a beautiful meditation on how you might prepare to leave Earth.

Now is an excellent time to read "All the wayward angels", by @taracampbell.bsky.social. It's funny, surprising, and moving in ways that continue to delight us.

It's been a hard year for a lot of us. @jyzh.bsky.social's poem, "From Dust", reminds us that we can carry on; we can make it whole again. smallwondersmag.com/...

In case you happen to have a fae as a Good Neighbor, you'll do well to read Taylor Currey's story. Negotiations are bound to occur, and you don't want to make a bad exchange.

We love @mruthrobinson.bsky.social's story, "A Runaway Android's Guide to the Oro-Ti Night Market," both for the world it conjures and the promise that, while we are trapped alone, together we can escape.

"Tuesday" is my I-wouldn't-call-it-LOVE letter to Military SciFi. It's my "Octavia E. Butler is my favorite author" story. It asks daring questions like, "What if your bosses made you think an enormous house centipede was kind of sexy?"

this story is so goddamn intricate and heartbreaking and beautiful and painful and monsterfucky. it’ll stick with you for a long time.

"Tuesday" by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social is a heartwarming tale of love between alien and human. Sort of. smallwondersmag.com/...

Today is a day of almost was and could have beens, and so we revisit "When We Were Infinite" by Wendy Nikel in our sixth issue:

We love a story with an interesting frame, and "A Widow's Field Guide to Fungi" by Marissa van Uden is a delightfully dark example:

Join us for a moment of wonder and hurt and magic, when Itze meets "A Country of Feathers and Scars" under a bridge in Central Park, brought to us by @notsantiago.bsky.social:

Is complexity captured in counting? Or perhaps in not knowing. Poetry may not bring answers, but it brings some lovely questions with "Complexity Captured" by Michael Theroux in our sixth issue:

"Ars Poetica with Ecology" by Gospel Chinedu is suffused with longing and grief. What animal will you become to outrun disasters?

New poem out today!

Today's poem is a moment of curiosity and a wish for the future, in a bleak time and apparently bleak place. Read "In the Sloth Tunnels At A Time of War" by @danielausema.bsky.social:

Tuesday again? That means it's time for time shenanigans! "Waiting With the Milk" may feel like a quiet moment, but it is suffused with tension and repetition. Read this story by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko in our sixth issue: