Sarah Gailey Books in Order

This speculative-fiction magazine issue combines new stories and podcast reprints with science articles, writing commentary, and reviews. Contributors include Sarah Gailey, whose story Bargain appears alongside fiction by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Fade Manley, and others.

In an alternate nineteenth-century Louisiana, feral hippopotamuses dominate waterways after a government livestock experiment. Winslow Houndstooth assembles a crew of criminals and mercenaries to reclaim the bayou, bringing his own desire for revenge into the operation.

After a disastrous caper on the Mississippi, Houndstooth's former crew is scattered. Some search for missing lovers, while others protect an infant, as years of criminal choices complicate their attempts to secure different lives and uncertain futures.

Following her father's death, a prophet's daughter must interpret divine instructions carved into ancient bones. Leading her people toward a promised home requires facing their resistance, her own uncertainty, and horrors that threaten the journey's final stages.

Fresh from a profitable job, outlaw Winslow Houndstooth encounters a problem with his hippopotamus Ruby: she refuses to stand. Handling an uncooperative mount becomes its own challenge in this short adventure set in Gailey's alternate America.

Nonmagical private investigator Ivy Gamble accepts a murder case at the academy where her estranged twin teaches magic. Investigating the students and faculty brings dangerous secrets alongside a difficult opportunity to confront her relationship with her sister.

Esther hides in a traveling librarian's wagon to escape an arranged marriage after her lover's execution. Across an authoritarian future Southwest, the librarians offer a route toward survival and a surprising connection with resistance to the state.

Six friends share secret magical abilities, but an accident on prom night leaves a boy dead. Their attempts to repair the damage create further consequences, testing loyalties already complicated by jealousy, insecurity, and unspoken romantic feelings.

Scientist Evelyn Caldwell learns her husband has been having an affair with a clone made from her research. When a confrontation ends in his death, the two women must cooperate while confronting unsettling questions about identity and control.

Joey spends the summer with her boyfriend’s wealthy family in Crestfall Bluffs, hoping to enjoy their seemingly perfect world. Discovering its horrifying secrets forces her to question whom she can save and whether she can escape the community alive.

Vera returns to her estranged mother's house, where her serial-killer father once buried victims. An artist exploiting the family's history and mysterious notes in her father's handwriting force her to investigate what remains hidden within her childhood home.

Elise works aboard a space station where billionaires have escaped a dying Earth. A series of murders draws her into a dangerous conspiracy, while worsening withdrawal and hallucinations make uncovering the truth increasingly difficult and survival uncertain.

An attempt to heal Buffy’s trauma leaves her without her powers and makes Willow the new Slayer. With monsters threatening the group and Willow struggling to manage her new identity, her friends must protect her from both external dangers and herself.

Willow continues adjusting to life as both witch and Slayer while Buffy struggles with losing her purpose. New demons threaten the group, forcing them to confront predatory enemies and the strain that shifting powers have placed on their relationships.

Buffy tries to reclaim her Slayer identity while her friends reconsider their roles and relationships. Willow’s unstable magic threatens those she wants to protect, forcing her to seek unfamiliar help as the group confronts the lingering damage of their past.

A fractured group of outsiders builds a community in a dangerous future that offers them little protection. Sharing food and care becomes their means of survival, as small acts of mutual support help them imagine and create a different life.

Research-team leader Kinsey brings a strange desert specimen into her remote outpost, breaking quarantine. As its presence disrupts her carefully controlled life, her colleagues discover that it needs a new host and may already have selected someone among them.

Lonely Celia travels to Kindred Cove for a festival promising healing and belonging. The island’s extraordinary ecology and welcoming community offer the transformation she craves, but accepting their vision of growth may demand sacrifices she has yet to understand.

Gunslinger Fletch and her outlaw crew accept a dangerous train heist targeting military supplies. As the plan develops, their pursuit of profit collides with a growing resistance, forcing them to choose between a payday and opposing the regime.