*chocolate melts in pocket of favorite jeans* Me: Am I having a-- *angry work caller* Me: Beginning to think this might be a-- *mistake I made brought to my attention* Me: --less than Stellar day? :/

Uncanny has 9 days left to meet their base goal!

Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 2d ago

There are ONLY 9 DAYS LEFT of the Uncanny Magazine Year 13 KICKSTARTER!! YOU make it possible for Uncanny Magazine to exist!! LET’S MAKE YEAR 13 HAPPEN!! The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Everyone back this so Morgan can quite her job.

S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman BackerKit Coming August 3@anotherindiewriter.com · 3d ago

Project Tasman’s crowdfunding is LIVE! Want to get your hands on a sapphic dystopian thriller novel where a woman has to choose who close to her lives and dies? Back now to get the book, exclusive rewards, and support my work as an indie author! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Went to a fish store with a friend and saw a fake volcano, and this relatable little fellow giving off the vibes of just, "Take Me." "I'm Done."

Folks, Lightspeed & Nightmare magazines need your support. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/a...

Announcement: We're Launching a New Kickstarter Soon. Sign up to be notified when it launches! - Lightspeed Magazine

On September 15, 2026, we’ll be launching our first Kickstarter campaign in more than a decade, to fund Year 17 of Lightspeed and Year 15 of Nightmare. Join us for a year of new short fiction from som...

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they’re so close to hitting the base goal, who wants to bring this one home so we can start tackling stretch goals? 👀👀

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What flavors would you bring to trade with "The Sauce Packet King of the West Hills"? This story by Katherine Quevedo present a post-apocalyptic vision that's different than most we see:

The Sauce Packet King of the West Hills - Small Wonders

“Heard I might find you here.” She pulled out an honest-to-goodness glass bottle of ketchup, swaddled in bubble wrap.

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If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I - Lightspeed Magazine

Green Plumed Orbital Line A; viridis metamorphos A Common sighting; Flies along the forty-fifth latitude every 12 minutes Traveler’s addendum: Last functional line along a northern latitude; southern ...

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Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

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Saw the Hadestown pro shot yesterday and LOOOOVED it. So well done. Everyone did a Great Job. And I highly recommend the experience of hearing multiple people break into sobs all around the theater.

ICYMI! Writers! If the Uncanny Magazine Year 13 Kickstarter fully funds by Aug. 1, we will be open 1 MONTH to short story submissions! If the Kickstarter funds after Aug. 1, we will only be open for 2 WEEKS to short story submissions! If we don’t fully fund, well… buff.ly/36qOb2U

Horseshoe crabs should be allowed to operate any heavy machinery they can figure out how to use.

WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Oh, hey! A vulture day! I love a vulture day! Hey, buddies!

Still plunging through all the highs and lows of DCC and just got to a battle against a nun. Glanced up on the bike path where I'm walking, at a dark-robed figure far in the distance. Me: ... Surely not. The Nun, passing me several seconds later: Me: Nun: Me: *Midwestern nod*

It's not looking good for me, folks. A tall glass jar of tahini leapt out of the fridge and knocked right into my ankle bone. "Taken out at the ankles by tahini" is too objectively funny a story for permanent injury. I fear the universe would not pass up this chance...

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Donate to Help Richard Keep the Lights On and Feed His Cat, organized by Richard Kadrey

This is painful and embarrassing, but I don’t have any choice right … Richard Kadrey needs your support for Help Richard Keep the Lights On and Feed His Cat

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"Finally!" My brother is shorter than me now, which he quickly remedies by hovering exactly three inches higher. "When we said 'live on', you sure took your time about it." "Sorry it wasn't very exciting," I say, hugging each of them. Our leader hangs on the longest, grinning. "It was Wonderful."

Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's been 20 years since you saw your group last. A whirlwind of adventure, danger, romance, bloodshed; a world-saving battle and then—you went your separate ways. You fiddle nervously with the broach on your cloak. Deep breath. Open the door. Who greets you first? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

One person in my group chat decided to see the Odyssey sometime soon, and all day it's been a steady trickle of the rest of us going "NOLAN CUT *WHAT* FROM THE ODYSSEY??" At this point What Is Even In the Thing. This is Flabbergasting.

With a little over 24h left, @strangehorizons.bsky.social's BackerKit campaign is $4500 away from raising 2027 pay rates to 10c/word (that's what they pay right now!) Strange Horizons is a pillar of the SFF community - please boost & support if you're able to help it maintain its current glory!

Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

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You, looking at all my hyperfixations lying fallow for months at a time before I pick them up again and have to relearn everything: ... Me, having just finished reading THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION: ... This is my asynchronous research. 😤

Strange Horizons is up to $25,207! good job everybody! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 at $30,000 they can pay contributors 10¢ a word! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

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It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

Up to $24,840! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 3w ago

Strange Horizons is at $24640 and their first stretch goal is JUST $25,000 (and increases contributor pay!!!) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

You could be reading fantasy noir No Gods for Drowning right now. Or "creepy old hotel" supernatural crime novella Cranberry Cove. Together they are less than the small boba tea I got the other day! Which was terrible! But these books are great!

Bad Hand Books@badhandbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's an e-stravaganza! All of our eBooks are just $1.99 when you buy direct. Limited time. Shop now. badhandbooks.com/ebooks

The notes always arrive in bubbles of ice, easy to find within the coldest current. "Oh, good, another one," my sister rolls her eyes. I angle my lighter so the contents won't catch when melted free. "Still here," the note says. My sister-the new one-glowers. I tousle her hair, looking upriver.

Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 3w ago

Filtration systems are good, but no mortal filter can handle debris that washes down the river from Faerie. The fae detritus follows the current to gather in a lake, where you dredge it by hand before anything slips downstream. What do you pull from the water today? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

*stares into middle distance after the flurry of weekend activity that was @writehive.bsky.social + a Summerween author book talk at my local indie bookstore* Want MORE shop talk with writers 😤

** I thought I'd let you know of a few SF/F magazines whose funding campaigns I've just supported. First up: @khoreo.bsky.social at www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho... **

khōréō: Year 6

Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!

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