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This week's story: On the Night Shift, by Zohar Jacobs. Published in Asivmov's Science Fiction March/April 2025

Relevant Story Details (Awards, ETC)

This week's snack: Skittles

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Next Week's Story: With Her Serpent Locks

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This week's story: Curlews by Cecilia Ananías Soto. Published in Strange Horizons

This story is one of five winners of the Stop Copaganda short story contest, run in collaboration with Fight for the Future, Rightscon, and COMPOST Magazine.

This week's snack: Deviled Eggs (enjoy this reddit thread of all the variations you can try!)

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This week's story: Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station by Ann LeBlanc Published originally in Mermaids Monthly. This cyber-mermaid time-loop story, was also selected for WE’RE HERE: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2021

This week's snack: Grocery Store Single Serving Mini Pie

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This week's story: My Mother's Daughter, by C. M. Lockhart . Published in FIYAH #32 Spacefaring Aunties

This week's snack: Hermit Bars (this is not my exact recipe, which I am guarding as a family secret, but it will get you close if you don't add the walnuts.)

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This week's story: Five Views of the Planet Tartarus, by Rachael K. Jones Published in Lightspeed Magazine

Nominations: Nebula Award for Best Short Story, Hugo Award for Best Short Story

This week's snack: Junior Mints

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This week's story: Why Don't We Just K*ll the Kid in the Omelas Hole, by Isabel J. Kim. Published in Clarksworld Issue 209

Winner: 2024 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction

2024 Nebula Award Finalist for Best Short Story

2025 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Short Story

"Required" pre-reading: Those Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin

This week's snack: Krispy Kreme Donut Dots

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I’m Liz J. Bradley, a science fiction author and poet who adores short fiction and snacks. Each episode of Sci-fi Snacks is a short and sweet (or salty!) discussion of what I loved, what I learned, and what I snacked on while reading new-to-me short science fiction. Hop on board and listen anywhere you consume podcasts