surely magazine

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surelymag.com formerly Shirley Magazine; still publishing bold, weird fiction writing three times a year; still edited by Colleen Burner and Lauren Perez. Currently closed to submissions.

Our last look-back post for the year brings us to the present—in 2025, we published 16 brilliant stories: Issue 30 was took us to new territories, with stories from Lucas Simone, Martha Hipley, Malory Antony...

A black background with two thin white outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, white text reads: "I'm working so I can't ask you. But you can ask me, he says. It's a rule he has. He gets off at 4pm, will I wait around? — Lucas Simone, '1987 Obituaries' (Issue 30, 2025)”A white background with two thin black outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, black text reads: "'How old are you?' the man asked the girl. It was the first thing he had ever said to her after a year of working the same hours in different sections of the same department store. — Martha Hipley, 'Soon Parted' (Issue 30, 2025)”A black background with two thin white outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, white text reads: "Jackson Stentham sits at the edge of the bed. He's one week into the world, and he's spent it working out. — Malory Antony, 'Slipskin' (Issue 30, 2025)”