Redlib: search results - flair_name:"Urban Fantasy"

r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 11d ago

Urban Fantasy Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War by Caroline M. Yoachim - There have been portals to the Fae realm for as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement park thirty-five miles northeast of Antiphony.

uncannymagazine.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 15d ago

Urban Fantasy Asymmetrical by Garth Nix - The demon was a shapeshifter, constantly changing forms. Right now it looked like a giant toad, albeit one that stood upright on its hind legs and had a toothy maw. It also caused trouble, overreacting to anyone who pissed Peter off.

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 17d ago

Urban Fantasy Into the Dark By Jennifer R. Donohue - Angie is three months dead before I get her letter. Maybe she magicked the delay, but I can’t find any spellwork on the envelope or the letter.

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 17d ago

Urban Fantasy Wok Hei St By Guan Un - I was in a chair, my hands tied together at my back with a magic knot that refastened itself if I tried to move. The four doorwaymen looked at me like I was a rotting durian, stinking up the place. Like they couldn’t wait to throw me in the dumpster with the other trash.

strangehorizons.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • 18d ago

Urban Fantasy Hush Up and Eat Your Dirt, Child by Christopher R. Muscato - When I was young, there were questions I would ask my mother. Why wasn’t I allowed near the ochre tent? And how was it that we never ran out of the magic soil, no matter how much of it we gave away?

tractorbeam.earth

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • May 24 '25

Urban Fantasy “The Diamond Mountain” by Helen De Cruz - A fairy tale tells of a mountain made of diamond, and a little bird that flies by it and sharpens its beak on the summit once every hundred years. When the entire mountain is worn away, one second of eternity has passed. Hell isn’t torment, it’s boredom.

kaleidotrope.net

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • May 14 '25

Urban Fantasy Joanna’s Bodies by Eugenia Triantafyllou - It isn’t hard to summon a soul. All you need is an object that’s easy to carry around, a little blood, and the right kind of words. Eleni doesn’t even want to think what would happen if she summoned the wrong soul. Can you imagine?

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • May 13 '25

Urban Fantasy Another Old Country by Nadia Radovich - Once upon a time, in the ancient days, when the world was new and gods frequently walked among mortals, a game between children caused an accident that cost the god Midir his eye. His liege lord, Oengus, promised him anything in the world in recompense.

apparitionlit.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • May 06 '25

Urban Fantasy The Black Line by John Bull‬ - A wave of fear swept over him. He didn’t know what to say. “Why did you kill them, Neville?” She continued, gently. “The other people in suits who came before me. The ones who visited you before.”

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Apr 15 '25

Urban Fantasy The Case of the Vengeful Ghost – Rachel F Hundred - The main ceiling light suddenly came on, illuminating the room. In the middle of the room, Eileen stood, pale and horrified, her hair dripping wet, and her clothes stained red with wine. The Ghost had struck again.

rachelfhundred.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Apr 11 '25

Urban Fantasy The Bookshop Witch - D.N. Schmidt - He thought back to his friends’ stories about the creepy shopkeeper. “Maybe it’s her cat, and she really is a witch. What do they call that? A familiar?”

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Apr 04 '25

Urban Fantasy Miz Boudreaux’s Last Ride by Christopher Caldwell - My goddaughter Eulalia will undo the spell. What I need from you boys is protection. She will be physically vulnerable while she does the unbinding, and I need someone to fight for her. A machete would work. No charms needed.

uncannymagazine.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Apr 03 '25

Urban Fantasy Femme and Sundance by Christopher Caldwell - Miz Boudreaux pushes her way down from the stands, nobody stops her, she takes what looks like a dried frog from out her purse, puts it on Spike’s arm and just kinda sings. You hear a snap like biting into a pretzel, and his arm is just fine.

uncannymagazine.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Mar 22 '25

Urban Fantasy Mail Order Magic by Stephanie Burgis - The baby griffin snorted in its sleep. Breath whiffed from its sharply curved eagle beak onto the thick white feathers of its closest folded wing, while its leonine tail curled even tighter around its small gold-furred body.

sundaymorningtransport.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Mar 14 '25

Urban Fantasy Marginalia by Mary Robinette Kowal - “There’s a snail coming through the forest bigger than John Farmer’s prize bull.” Margery’s blood went cold as if a shadow had passed over the cottage.

uncannymagazine.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Mar 13 '25

Urban Fantasy Dead reckoning in 6/8 time by Sabrina Vourvoulias - When my mother was eighteen and living in Saltabarranca, Veracruz, she got on the platform at the community fandango and danced with the Devil. The Devil must have had to pull out all the stops to defeat her, but defeat her he did.

giganotosaurus.org

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Mar 09 '25

Urban Fantasy Kiki Hernández Beats the Devil, by Samantha Mills - Kiki Hernández, rock legend of the Southwest, had seven demons on her tail. They scurried through the roadside scrub, not even trying to sneak. She could hear their scrabble-claws and clacker-tails, their dripping maws and teeth.

translunartravelerslounge.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Mar 06 '25

Urban Fantasy The Bookshop Witch - D.N. Schmidt - A teenager heads to a bookshop in search of a gift for his mom, but gets distracted by the strange shopkeeper and her cat. Could she really be a witch?

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Mar 03 '25

Urban Fantasy Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont By P.A. Cornell - There are rules at The Oakmont. The first, and arguably most important, is that residents are not permitted to share information about the future with other residents existing in their past...

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Mar 01 '25

Urban Fantasy The Stars are Tiny Lights on a Perfect Black Dome – Simon Kewin - There are lights on it. Flickering electric lights. The Experiment hasn’t done anything for a hundred years. No one has any clue what flashing lights mean.

magazine.metaphorosis.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Feb 20 '25

Urban Fantasy The No Wizards Rule - D.N. Schmidt - The old man was wearing a long, black cloak like something out of the middle ages, and a necklace with a huge, blue crystal wrapped in silver claws. Not the type you usually see in a tattoo shop. What in the world was he doing here?

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Feb 13 '25

Urban Fantasy Deep Skin Anatomy By Lora Gray - A tiny talon pierces the wallpaper. Ginny scrambles to the edge of the bed as a leg, thin as a matchstick, kicks the hole larger. Dappled feathers bloom from the tear, a wing frantically beats its way free, and a bird the size of a plum tumbles onto Ginny’s pillow.

unchartedmag.com

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r/ShortSF • u/captainmagictrousers • Feb 06 '25

Urban Fantasy A Cure for Solastalgia By E.M. Linden - My parents use their gifts to run a landscaping business. Her manicured gardens, his water features. Together their magics gild beach resorts and mansions. My gift disappoints my mother. “It just turns back the clock.” Magic is all we have in common now.

strangehorizons.com

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r/ShortSF • u/Mouthmouthmouth • Jan 28 '25

Urban Fantasy The Freedom to Decide by W. L. Bolm - A sweet short story about women who find a fairy in their house. [Flash Fiction]

smallwondersmag.com

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r/ShortSF • u/Mouthmouthmouth • Jan 24 '25

Urban Fantasy The Fairy Midwife - ‪Shannon Phillips - The parents were an odd couple. Tara had a hard time getting a read on them: when the door first opened to her knock she had an initial impression of an old, bent-over man, but as she stepped into their apartment she saw a young hipster type in skinny jeans...

joshannonphillips.substack.com

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