i43 ToC

25 peppercorns – Emma Burnett
Murmurations – AM Sutter
Body Parts – Anna Koltes
For Giving – Olufunmilayo Makinde
The Sugar Wife – Christina Ladd
The Twelve Blackened Slippers – Siobhan Ekeh
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino – Mattia Ravasi
Short Reviews – July to September in 2025

In addition to the above, there's also our usual short short-story reviews article by editor @noumenon.bsky.social - who also for the first time contributed to the issue's audio content by reading one of the stories!

i42 ToC

Tag, You’re It - Sean MacKendrick
Listen, Don’t Touch - Cheryl Ntumy
Lay-offs - Anna Ziegelhof
Swimming With Elephants - Travis Ezell
The House We Built Together, Yesterday - Charlie Winter
Someday Someone’s Gonna Steal Your Carbon - Josh Pearce
Strange Pictures, by Uketsu - by Bill Ryan

Thanks for the profile raising - but in fact we're going to pause on submissions until early 2026. We've got some great pieces lined up in advance, and we don't want to keep authors waiting for more than a year to see their work published. We'll be on the hunt again Jan 23rd...

We happen to know the editor (falsely pictured railing against bad punctuation, poor grammar, unspeakable dialogue, pseudo-Greek mythology, AI slop, etc) was, in fact, reading a cosy-sinister story about why grandsons shouldn't help their grandmothers with chores around the house. To about 3 people.

Mythaxis i41 ToC

Dhuni, Murderer of Mountains – Finale Doshi-Velez
Sunnyside – Stephen S. Power
The Culling – Addison Smith
Beyond the Sudden Door – Lyra Meurer
Seal-Skin – David Stephen Powell
Safe in the Dark – Helen French
Metallic Realms, by Lincoln Michel – Mattia Ravasi
Short Reviews #9

Glad you "liked" it! Our editor tackled it the exact same way... and our imminent issue 41 has something with a similarly visceral sf hook to it. Elena Sichrovsky and EMBRYO kept coming to mind all over again.

If you want to sub, you have roughly six hours left:

* We're open to all speculative genres and crime
* Length ideally between 1k and 5k words
* Pay 1cpw, $20 min, via PayPal only

Sub to mythaxismagazine@gmail.com

Window closes Jan 31st!

In addition, you can also find editor @noumenon.bsky.social Andrew Leon Hudson's short reviews of six crime stories available elsewhere in 2024, and his editorial, in which mention is made of a certain crime publication forthcoming from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social in 2025...

Mythaxis i40 ToC

Downsizing – Jess Simms
The Vanishing Diminutive Girl Trick – David Sheskin
The Amazing Mermaid – Arlen Feldman
Crunch Thump Thump – P.R. O'Leary
American Hitsuzen – Michael Bettendorf
Wendigo – Kirk Bueckert
Cruel is the Night, by Karo Hämäläinen – a review by Bill Ryan