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Reactor Short Fiction Highlights 2025
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Best of 2025

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All of Reactor’s Short Fiction in 2025

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An illustration of a woman swimming through long green organic tendrils containing the shapes of birds and other creatures.
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post-apocalyptic

All That Means or Mourns

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An illustration of a small child with an orb-like robot peering up at several cats on a counter.
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Science Fiction

Regarding the Childhood of Morrigan, Who Was Chosen to Open the Way

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An illustrated recursive image of a man gripping large garden shears as he creeps up behind a couple.
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Science Fiction

The Belle of the Ball

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An illustration of black birds picking at a barnacle covered rock against a bright red sky.
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dystopian

Barnacle

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An illustration of a person’s head tilted back and exploding as it forcefully ejects the fabric of space and time, which takes the form of a femme face.
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Science Fiction

Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves

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An illustration of a reddish orange blur resembling a human face peering out from a dusty window pane.
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Paranormal

Phantom View

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A colorful illustration depicting a Buddhist heaven using elements of classic Thai art styles.
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fantasy

Where the Hell Is Nirvana?

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An illustration of two small figures facing a colorful jumble of giant abstract lines and shapes.
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Horror

Model Collapse

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An illustration of two people reaching for each other in space, one is wearing a spacesuit and the other is not.
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Science Fiction

Freediver

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An illustration of a colorful group of insects at a party.
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fantasy

Laurie on the Radio

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“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic.”

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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