Table of Contents

November/December 2026

FICTION

The Tell-Tale Pulse • Avram Lavinsky 

Louie the Mailman • Jim Fusilli 

Under Pressure • S. B. Watson

Dog Person • Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Dead Droids Tell No Tales • Hayden Trenholm

Shell-Shocked • John G. Wimer

The Grammar Dick • Randy Eggert

Proverbs • Travis Cohen Acosta

Moneyland • John M. Floyd 

Looking for Caitlin • Linda Niehoff 

My Needs Run to the Simple • Pete Barnstrom

Mr. Muktod Stays for Dinner • Michael Penncavage

Advance Obituary • Kate Hohl

The Bears • Tom Ziegler

The Elephant in the Gingerbread Room • J. G. Tipton

DEPARTMENTS

Booked & Printed • Laurel Flores Fantauzzo

Mysterious Photo

Scrambled Hitchcock Stars II  Anagram Puzzle • Mark Lagasse

The Story That Won

The Lineup

Index, 2026

Solution to the Anagram Puzzle