Kaleidotrope

Kaleidotrope is a quarterly e-zine of sci-fi, fantasy & horror edited by Fred Coppersmith since 2006.

Read it at www.kaleidotrope.net
Support it at www.patreon.com/kaleidotropezine

Avatar and cover art by Brad Fraunfelter

2025-06-11

Be sure to include the occasional obvious typo in your story, to make your copyeditor feel useful.

2025-06-10

I've said it before, but one of the great joys of putting together a new issue of Kaleidotrope is re-reading the stories and poems and being reminded exactly why I accepted each one in the first place.

2025-06-10

Every story, every journey, every act of rebellion starts with a single seed.

“The Princess Seed” by @MaroftheBooks

kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/t

The Prince and his mother offered her a bed piled high with mattresses. Only fitting for a princess like herself, they said. If you are one at all, said the cutting look the queen cast in her direction.
2025-06-09

Mystery solved! It appears to have been a line from a different story, in another magazine, by the same author. A weird but by all appearances honest mistake!

2025-06-08

People comment infrequently enough on Kaleidotrope's stories that they don't need to start making up stories that don't exist to comment on.

2025-06-08

It's not a line from a different Kaleidotrope story, but also, near as I can tell just from googling it, not a line from *any* story. The comment doesn't otherwise look like spam, so it's a little weird.

2025-06-08

A reader recently commented on a story in Kaleidotrope... praising a line that isn't in the story... said by characters who aren't in it either... about a plot point that doesn't happen... 🤔

2025-06-08

Hot take: read Kaleidotrope.

2025-06-06

What would you walk away from to become what you really are? How much of your humanity would you give up to find the animal inside?

Read “Rosette Spots” by Ephraim N. Orji and find out.

kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/r

He'd had a name once, this man. A name he could barely remember now, a name that came to him in dreams, spoken through the cracked lips of a woman he knew he had once known but had no memory of.
2025-06-04

I have two overriding goals in any copyedit: clarity, then consistency.

2025-06-04

Oh right. There's gotta be a new issue again next month.

2025-06-04

There’s an a and an i in Kaleidotrope, but there’s no AI in Kaleidotrope.

Kaleidotrope boosted:
josh.pearcefictionaljosh
2025-06-03

Recent :

TOUCH THIS CANCER, IT PROBABLY WON'T BITE in Nightmare
nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/

LACUS ODII (LAKE OF HATE) and BUTTONS AND SOAP in @radonjournal
radonjournal.com/issue-9

TIME AND HEAT in @sfpoetry Star*Line
sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starlin

WHERE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOUR SCREAM in @kaleidotrope
kaleidotrope.net/archives/wint

Forthcoming poems:

OUR LADY OF THE ATOM in Analog

LACUS SOLITUDINIS in @kaleidotrope

FRIENDSHIP 1 in New Myths

Kaleidotrope boosted:
josh.pearcefictionaljosh
2025-06-03

Recent :

MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY in @kaleidotrope
kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/m

A CLOCKWORK GUN in Bourbon Penn
bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/a-clo

WITCHES IN COLD MOUNTAIN HALLS in Skull & Laurel
store.tenebrouspress.com/produ

Forthcoming stories:

CARINA SAGGITARIUS in @kaleidotrope

ATOMIC CHESS in Bourbon Penn

SOMEDAY SOMEONE'S GONNA STEAL YOUR CARBON in Mythaxis

2025-06-03

Set off from your home on a strange journey in Bruce McAllister’s new story “Emilio’s Tale.”

kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/e

And the rumors...that the Drinkers of Blood, those terrible, misshapen creatures that had once been men, had stormed Rome at last and taken the Holy City...
2025-06-02

Happy Pride Month! Kaleidotrope is proud to stand as an ally to the LGBTQIA+ community and to have featured writing from so many fantastic diverse voices!

Kaleidotrope
2025-05-27

Happy Recommended Kaleidotrope to Somebody Day to all who celebrate! 🎉

2025-05-26

They come in…peace? Meet the visitors in David C. Kopaska-Merkel’s new poem “The Saucer Men.”

kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/t

They carved a symbol on the moon, Earth-side, so we knew they meant business; some fools who tried to Second Amendment them, just plain vaporized, and good riddance.
2025-05-26

Find your bones—if you dare—in Karen Osborne’s new story “Osteogenesis.”

kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/o

The best time to find your bones is four hours after sundown on a festival night, when the sorcerers drink to escape the truth of what they have done.
2025-05-23

You should read the stories in Kaleidotrope. I did—and look where it’s gotten me! 😀

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