Tractor Beam

Open to: Human-written work only; submissions must represent an optimistic future on Earth.

Issue 6 seeks original anti-apocalyptic stories about water’s role in soil, growth, land, and ecosystems, including farming, food production, island ecologies, hybrid sea-soil technologies, drought, diaspora, and migration. Cross-genre work, complex characters, nuanced conflicts, contradictions, and humor are encouraged; submissions must be human-written and represent an optimistic future on Earth. Rolling submissions; the current deadline is June 30, 2027. Stories should be under 6,000 words, formatted in Times New Roman, 12-point, double-spaced Microsoft Word.