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New essay out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/midd...
Middle-Aged Love: Rereading in Your Forties and Beyond - Uncanny Magazine
If you last reread one of your favorite books for comfort during lockdown, congratulations, that was six years ago and counting. A major event like lockdown is likely to stand out no matter how old yo...
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Still obsessed with Jimothy? Of course you are. Use that momentum to dive into some speculative fiction featuring disabled characters and support some disabled human authors while you're at it. reactormag.com/backlist-bon...
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books With Disabled Characters - Reactor
A selection of novels and stories that highlight people with different disabilities in strange new worlds
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I am joining @sarahgailey.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @tangentgeoff.bsky.social and @marieparks.bsky.social on faculty at the fourth annual Sandia Starforgers SFFH Writers Retreat + Workshop in 2027. You can save $200 with the early bird discount or apply for the scholarship. starforgers.com
Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology
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Gorgeous.
Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · yesterdayOur August opener is a dark fantasy in the style of breathless prose. “Pomegranates” by G.M. Mitchell is now free to read at FFO 🦄 #writingcommunity #flashfiction #darkfantasy #horror @gmmitchell.bsky.social flashfictiononline.com/issues/augus...
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Love the inventive structure and slicing prose of this flash by @acsaville.bsky.social at @smallwondersmag.com. smallwondersmag.com/piece/ragesc...
Ragescarf: A Knitting Pattern for a World Unraveling - Small Wonders
Yarn: 500 yards of your own wool. This is the hardest part of the whole pattern. It’s been building up inside you, day by relentless day.
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happy There Will Come Soft Rains day to all who celebrate
I have a new story out at Adventitious! I’m very excited to be part of this issue. These are some truly amazing stories here and the editorial is an interactive experience all on its own. I highly recommend! Also check out this cover! @adventitiouswords.bsky.social #amwriting #flashfiction #fantasy
This is outstanding news.
Esther Alter@esther-alter.bsky.social · 2d agoYesss @neonhemlock.bsky.social met its initial funding goal for the novella series! Another 2k and you’ll get my novella. You want to feel really uncomfortable about roommate dynamics, right? You want to process your pre 2024 election feelings, right? Well: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)
Three Parts Dead
From the author of the viral bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War..."Stunningly good. Stupefyingly good." —Patrick RothfussMax Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build ...
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This is SO good. And very short. You have time to read it right now. Right now.
Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 2d agoAn alien entity has controlled Zoe's body long enough to understand "side eye" and "cheese." But Zoe's friends are getting suspicious, so the time has come to face the confusing conversational human gantlet... of brunch. @angrykem.bsky.social DELIGHTS. www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...
An alien entity has controlled Zoe's body long enough to understand "side eye" and "cheese." But Zoe's friends are getting suspicious, so the time has come to face the confusing conversational human gantlet... of brunch. @angrykem.bsky.social DELIGHTS. www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...
The Fruit Is Very Acceptable Here by Kari Maaren
An alien intelligence inhabiting a woman's body has to get through brunch without her friends noticing the difference. By Kari Maaren.
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If you missed our submission window, this swirling hell-portal of dark delights is still open!
PseudoPod 🎙️@pseudopod.org · 3d agoThe portal is open! 🕳️ We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).
A truly remarkable story. Fiercely affecting (check the content warnings on this one for sure).
Rio Lombana@riolombana.bsky.social · 3d agoIssue 4 of Adventitious is out! In it is "Life Imitates," Kaitlin's and my coauthored sapphic horror story in which therapy speak is how they get ya, and self-gaslighting invites in more than mere self-doubt... Subscribe to read it now, or be patient and read it later—if they don't get ya first.
My Warhammer starter kit looked badass once I painted it.
Did you want to listen to "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything" read by an actual professional narrator? Here you go! Come for the superhero puns, stay for the rage and catharsis about ableism.
Cast of Wonders@castofwonders.org · 5d agoCast of Wonders 692: Laser Eyes Ain't Everything by @effies.bsky.social narrated by Jairus Durnett produced by Andrew Jack CW: ableism www.castofwonders.org/2026/07/cast...
We met our cap already, but here is another phenomenal spot to submit to!
Haven Spec Magazine@havenspec.bsky.social · 4d agoOur general submission window is now open! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/
An incredibly fun house to get lost in.
Ruth Joffre@ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 4d agosomehow, it’s August, which means I’ve got a story out in the latest issue of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social! “A Hole in My Heart the Shape of the Multiverse” is about a geographer lost in a house full of portals to parallel universes—and the version of herself using those portals to change history
What a triumph! I made it to release day without accidentally publishing the post labeled DO NOT PUBLISH.
This story is an absolute delight.
Kari Maaren@angrykem.bsky.social · 4d agoIssue 4 of Adventitious is out today. My story, "The Fruit Is Very Acceptable Here," is available with a subscription, Issue 4 purchase, or Patreon membership. My story is about brunch. Try the fruit salad; it's very acceptable. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social www.adventitious.net
Americans, finally pissed enough, start eating their politicians. (Yes, it's a love story.) "Saul & Noah's Hot Bouleutophagy Summer" by @elijah.mea.rs has: 🚗two boys in a beater at the end of society ❤️queer love 🗽courage vs American fascists 🦺a safe zone? www.adventitious.net/stories/saul...
Saul and Noah's Hot Bouleutophagy Summer
Fed-up Americans are eating politicians. Saul and Noah just want to survive. A dark comedic road trip short story by Elijah J. Mears.
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