Reactor Original Short Fiction Highlights 2025

by A.C. Wise, S.E. Porter, Hildur Knútsdóttir

Our new bundle, Reactor Original Short Fiction Highlights 2025, gathers a selection of this year’s stories in one easy-to-read place. With work from A.C. Wise, S. E. Porter, Hildur Knútsdóttir, Cameron Reed, Tade Thompson, David Erik Nelson, Wen-yi Lee, Quan Barry, Isabel J. Kim, Champ Wongsatayanont, Kate Elliott, and Ruthanna Emrys—there’s a little something for everyone!

479 pages, ebook

First published December 17, 2025

About the author

A.C. Wise's fiction has appeared in publications such as Uncanny, Shimmer, and Tor.com, among other places. She had two collections published with Lethe Press, and a novella published by Broken Eye Books. Her debut novel, Wendy, Darling, is out from Titan Books n June 2021, and a new collection, The Ghost Sequences, is forthcoming from Undertow Books in October 2021. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as being a two-time Nebula finalist, a two-time Sunburst finalist, an Aurora finalist, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. In addition to her fiction, she contributes review columns to the Book Smugglers and Apex Magazine, and has been a finalist for the Ignyte Award in the Critics category.