July 2026 We open this issue with Sophia Krich-Brinton’s “Skin Thief,” in which a lonely, shape-shifting alien, grown bored with the drudgery of face-stealing, has a startling encounter with a would-be victim. In Beth Goder’s “Alas, the Storm Is Come…
By D. Matthew Urban From CHM #56 February 2025 From room to room of the couple’s house I trawl, killing spiders. They’re in every corner, along every molding, the whole place sheathed in webs. My hand grows a gossamer shroud…
By Ian Kappos From CHM #55 January 2025 I. His first night up in the foothills, Devin sat cross-legged opposite Sammy. Trough planters and square openings in the floor lined them on both sides. The trough planters contained a species…
By Scott McNee From CHM #55 January 2025 We were in the loading bay fitting a crate of sifaka lemur cadavers into one of the truck trailers when Team Leader’s order came through on the walkie. There is a leg…
By C.R. Langille From CHM #55 January 2025 Heather killed the engine to the old Tacoma and sat in silence. Only the click of the cooling motor and the rhythmic breathing of her daughter in the passenger seat gave off…
By Alex Ebenstein From CHM #55 January 2025 There’s a gale when dawn illuminates our world. The morning light arrives as though leached from my son’s eyes, his gaze cast skyward, forever in search of hope, his dreams. He’s gone.…
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