Welcome to Lightforge City
The City waits. Come tell us a story.
Lightforge City is a literary sff publishing collective with a focus on building community through a shared love for genre-defying fiction.
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Our first anthology, "Scorched and Salvaged: Stories of Reforging Worlds," a collection of work from the City's residents, will be available in print and audio in 2026. Our upcoming podcast will expand on the stories, authors, and audio recordings for each story.
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Listen to a short excerpt from two featured stories below.
Featured Stories
The Threadwork Rituals
by Megan Lee Bees
There was a fire in Mackenzie’s gut. He couldn’t extinguish it, but it could be maintained and managed and dwindled down to a glowing coal that he could almost forget if he tried very very hard not to think of it, and it was almost forgotten until a witch asked him how many buttons he’d fastened on his shirt.
Camille; or, La Femme Endormie
by J.B. Young
He ran his hands up the knobs of her spine to the base of her neck, where whorls of hair stuck to her salty skin. He dug his fingers in, and it was like sinking into the flesh of a persimmon. He pulled. She came undone with a purring groan, edges of her skin peeling away as the hardness beneath expanded and shook.