A 8” x 5” softcover. 152 pages. Publication date November 17th, 2026.

This anthology includes the fourth year of “speculative flash fiction with a queer bent” from Baffling Magazine, with stories by:

Stories from:
Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, Lowry Poletti, Lindsey Godfrey Eccles, Akis Linardos, Tina Zhu, Evan Peterson, Christopher Luis-Jorge, Anna Madden, j ambrose, Louis Evans, K-Ming Chang, Bastian Hart, J. Kosakowski, Anya Markov, Jason Harley, Teresa Milbrodt, Plangdi Neple, Erin Brown, Cindy Phan, C. L. Sidell, Sara Omer, Soramimi Hanarejima, Joe Koch, Divya Kernan, Morgan Wilso,n Nigel Faustino,Avra Margariti, Megan Baffoe, Caro Jansen, and Gillian Knox.

Cover illustration by Matthew Spencer.

Praise for Baffling Year One:
“There are no false notes in this strange and dazzling anthology of 26 queer, speculative stories, selected from the first year of Baffling Magazine—which is particularly impressive given the wide range of tone, subject matter, and subgenre.”
—Publishers Weekly