Utopia SF Vol. VII, March 2026

“The Love Story of Bex Kyle, As Reflected In the 2327 Fiscal Year” by Catherine Tavares

“The Blue Horse” by Mackenzie Robin

“The Great Un-Sticking” by Lucian Starchild

“The Commemoration of the Time Everyone Forgot What Triangles Were” by Yuliia Vereta

“The Weight of Silk” by Joseph Sidari

“Blobs of Luck” by Sandy Parsons

Reviewed by Mina

“The Love Story of Bex Kyle, As Reflected In the 2327 Fiscal Year” by Catherine Tavares builds a story out of “ephemera,” so the reader finds themselves working out Bex Kyle’s love life from a record of their spending. Clever but ultimately not very engaging.

In “The Blue Horse” by Mackenzie Robin, a blue horse rides through town. The story is told through the eyes of a downtrodden woman in a male-dominated world. As she sets out to find the horse, she does not realise that her search will lead to her emancipation. Sometimes all it takes to learn freedom is to meet a creature that has never been caged.

“The Great Un-Sticking” by Lucian Starchild posits a world where Elmer Pfaff builds a machine and accidentally creates a theory of everything. Suddenly people can ask quantum particles to behave and find that the element of uncertainty has gone from the universe. But there are those, like Barnaby, who would like some mystery in life.

“The Commemoration of the Time Everyone Forgot What Triangles Were” by Yuliia Vereta is a very light tale. It’s a skit on religious extremism which takes a ridiculous premise and runs with it. It’s all in the title.

In “The Weight of Silk” by Joseph Sidari, the narrator is changing. They will build and escape from a cocoon to escape the invisibility and drudgery of their everyday lives. A comment on dehumanising and reducing people to their roles in life.

In “Blobs of Luck” by Sandy Parsons, Wren suddenly starts seeing blobs. She manages to find Linda via the internet, who has been seeing them for years: pink for good luck and black for bad. But luck seems to be a random thing, or is it?