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Original Fiction
Original Fiction Review

All of Reactor’s Short Fiction in 2025

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Comment number: 4
An illustration of a woman swimming through long green organic tendrils containing the shapes of birds and other creatures.
Original Fiction
post-apocalyptic

All That Means or Mourns

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Comment number: 0
An illustrated recursive 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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Comment number: 3
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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Comment number: 5
An illustration of two people floating in strands of leafy vines.
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space exploration

The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home

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Comment number: 2
An illustration of a woman looking out the window while she brushes the hair of cat wearing a dapper little outfit, who sits in her lap like a child.
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weird fantasy

In Connorville

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Comment number: 5
A group of sheet ghosts peeking out of a dark forest.
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Paranormal

Every Ghost Story

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Comment number: 1
An illustration of a space station--constructed of three stacked orbs and topped by a rink-like docking structure--in orbit around a large blue and green planet.
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Science Fiction

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy

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People dancing amid a collage of colorful fungal hyphae.
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Science Fiction

Slippernet

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Comment number: 0
An illustration of a person holding their hands up, their left arm is dripping with blood, while their right is caught in a dark swirl of tarot cards, purple flame, and assorted flora and fauna.
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Asymmetrical

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Comment number: 1
An illustration of a pair of disembodied eyes and a generic mid century modern chair at the center of vibrant swirl of light.
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Horror

The Nölmyna

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Comment number: 2
An illustration of a researcher with their back to us, a notebook tucked under their left arm. They are surrounded by red clouds of smoke, while sea birds fly overhead. The researcher's back contains the contrasting erupting volcano against a blue sky.
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Horror

The Shape of Stones

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Comment number: 3

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

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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