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Reactor Free Short Fiction 2022

Free short stories and novellas published on Reactor (formerly tor.com). Available for reading online on the Reactor Magazine.

Since launching in 2008, Tor.com’s short fiction program has been producing touching, funny, and thought-provoking stories, and this year was no different! In 2022, we published 18 original short stories and 13 novelettes. These ran the gamut from hard science fiction to epic fantasy, from horror to dystopia, from fairy tales to space opera. We’ve rounded them all up below, and you can also find Tordotcom Publishing’s impressive output of novellas and novels here.

We are tremendously proud of our authors, illustrators, and editors for creating such wonderful short fiction this year. We hope that you will nominate your favorites for the Hugos, Nebulas, and other upcoming awards which honor outstanding works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror—but most of all, we hope that you have enjoyed reading these stories as much as we have!

Arbitrium

Arbitrium
ByAnjali Sachdeva

2022 • 2 Readers • 23 pages 5

Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit

2022 • 8 Readers • 27 pages 3.8

Choke

Choke
BySuyi Davies Okungbowa

2022 • 2 Readers • 22 pages 4.5

D.I.Y

D.I.Y
ByJohn Wiswell

2022 • 7 Readers • 25 pages 4.2

Fruiting Bodies

Fruiting Bodies
ByKemi Ashing-Giwa

2022 • 9 Readers • 32 pages 3.8

Girl Oil

Girl Oil
ByGrace P. Fong

2022 • 3 Readers • 24 pages 2

Grow

Grow
ByCarrie Vaughn

2022 • 31 pages

Hearts of Stone

Hearts of Stone
ByEmma Newman

2022 • 4 Readers • 64 pages 4.5

Hush

Hush
ByMary Anne Mohanraj

2022 • 2 Readers • 22 pages 2

India World

India World
ByAmit Gupta

2022 • 1 Reader • 28 pages 3

In Mercy, Rain

In Mercy, Rain
BySeanan McGuire

2022 • 40 Readers • 32 pages 3.7

Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript

2022 • 6 Readers • 38 pages 4.6

Men, Women, and Chainsaws

Men, Women, and Chainsaws
ByStephen Graham Jones

2022 • 8 Readers • 35 pages 3.8

Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds

2022 • 2 Readers • 32 pages 2.5

Porgee's Boar

Porgee's Boar
ByJonathan Carroll

2022 • 2 Readers • 26 pages 5

Quandary Aminu vs The Butterfly Man

2022 • 3 Readers • 35 pages 5

Seven Vampires: A Judge Dee Mystery

2022 • 41 pages

Skeleton Song

Skeleton Song
BySeanan McGuire

40 Readers 3.9

Sword & Spore

Sword & Spore
ByDominica Phetteplace

2022 • 1 Reader 3.5

Synthetic Perennial

Synthetic Perennial
ByVivianni Glass

2022 • 1 Reader • 32 pages

The Chronologist

The Chronologist
ByIan R. MacLeod

2022 • 3 Readers • 28 pages 4.5

The Dominion of Leviathan

2022 • 3 Readers • 48 pages 3.5

The Last Truth

The Last Truth
ByAnaMaria Curtis

2022 • 2 Readers • 25 pages 4

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Reporter

2 Readers 3

The Long View

The Long View
BySusan Palwick

2022 • 3 Readers • 31 pages 3.7

The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch

2022 • 8 Readers • 34 pages 4.3

The Sufficient Loss Protocol

2022 • 5 Readers • 29 pages 4

The Tale of Ak and Humanity

The Tale of Ak and Humanity
ByYefim Zozulya,Ефим Зозуля,+1 more

1922 • 4 Readers • 24 pages 3.5

The Thief of Memory

13 Readers 4.4

This Place Is Best Shunned

This Place Is Best Shunned
ByDavid Erik Nelson

2022 • 2 Readers • 32 pages 3.5

Victory Citrus Is Sweet

3 Readers 3.7