Issue Twenty-Six, October 2026
Issue Twenty-Six of Haven Spec Magazine is here! An issue late is better than an issue never, and in these pages you will find the spooky, nostalgic places that are lost to us, the anxious and excited songs of apocalypse that dream of something more, the prayerful remembrance of the dead that we must not forget, and so very much more!
Fiction by T. K. Rex, D. Matthew Urban, Tonja K. Johnson, Chezza Lee, and Francesca Forrest
Poetry by Mari Ness, William Shaw, and Jess Gofton
Cover Art by Corinne Reid
Fiction Reviews by Jessica Luke García
Subscribers can read it now, and the free-to-read online version goes up on November 17th!
Cover Artist
Corinne Reid
Corinne Reid is an Illustrator and storyteller specializing in publishing, editorial and fine art. Delving into the wonders of our natural spaces, she transcribes its forms and quintessential character to transport audiences to worlds of metaphor, symbol and story. Her work adopts a narrative melody with playful shapes and accentuating colors. Reid's work is award winning and globally recognized, illuminating stories for audiences in America, Europe, Asia, South America and beyond. When not illustrating, Reid is in her garden, tending to her chickens, and admiring the quiet, understated poems of our wild world.
Table of Contents
Fiction
Dirty Blues by Tonja K. Johnson
Last Shot of the Noritsu Minilab by T. K. Rex
Butterflies of Ash by Chezza Lee
Hundred-Year Storm by D. Matthew Urban
The Ladder by Francesca Forrest
Poetry
What I'm Saying Is, I'm Bad at This by Mari Ness
Eve Devours Adam by Jess Gofton
Workplace Romance by William Shaw