And it looks like my @clarionucsd.bsky.social student Micah Giddens has a story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social !

Austin Dewar@austindewar.bsky.social · yesterday

In this unsettling (love?) story by Micah Giddens, Magic Eye books and early-2000s internet unlock a child's ability to perceive alternate realities within the grotesque, violent, & violating. "I Saw the TV Glow" meets "Donnie Darko" meets wendigo creepypasta! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

In this unsettling (love?) story by Micah Giddens, Magic Eye books and early-2000s internet unlock a child's ability to perceive alternate realities within the grotesque, violent, & violating. "I Saw the TV Glow" meets "Donnie Darko" meets wendigo creepypasta! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

MR_MR_CENTICORE

In the screen glow of the witching hours you see a silhouette flit in and out of the doorway. Your first meme and your first violation.

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"Why did they go away, do you think? If there ever were such things." "Who knows? Times change. Would you call this a good age for unicorns?" "No, but I wonder if any man before us ever thought his time a good time for unicorns." --The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle

Up to $26,647!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Can we get them to $30k and paying contributors 10¢ a word? Share! Donate! Share!

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‼️ It's the final 10 hours of the Strange Horizons Fund Drive! ‼️ Help us with this final push! You can still support a poem, review or short story as a pledge or as an add-on! Link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

If you can help us reach just $110 more, you can ensure emerging science fiction and fantasy writers make ABOVE the SFWA professional rate! Know any patrons of the arts who love SFF and want to take it to the next level beyond that...? 👀 All money goes to the authors so they can write even more!

Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣📣LAST 54 HOURS of the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive! 📣📣 - $110 away from raising author pay to 9c/word for 2027! - $5110 away from raising author pay to 10c/word for 2027! Support us here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Celebrate Bastille Day and International Non-Binary People's Day in one swift blow by transing the guillotine 🔪 This messy-queer time-traveler retelling of “The Green Ribbon” by @goosemixtapes.bsky.social suggests the “T” in “LGBT” may stand for Terreur: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Guillotine

The guillotine was conceived as swifter, painless, more humane. You touch your throat. You wonder.

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UPDATE: The Strange Horizons fund-drive has completed one week; we're just over 70% base funded. Still a LOT of rewards left to pick up: signed book bundles by your favourite authors, patches, SH wallpaper, and some surprise add-ons coming up. Back us here: 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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Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵

Next writing course I teach will have this on the syllabus! 💚 " ... anti-colonial epistemology releases the individual pressure of god-like creation that leads to extraction and dehumanization, and instead [..] writing as a collaborative process with the world itself." #worldbuilding #writing

Mia Tsai is on hiatus@itsamia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fantastic essay by @jennahanchey.bsky.social in Strange Horizons on being against worldbuilding. Highly recommended. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Perhaps my favorite short story of all time is "A Family Supper" by Kazuo Ishiguro. It should get more recognition as a masterpiece of contemporary gothic fiction--the dread, the understated family horror, the perfect ambivalence of the ending! magicbarrel.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... #shortstories

Want to be a “patron of the arts”? Want to sponsor a short story, a poem, or a piece of art, and be publicly credited when we publish it? Back the Strange Horizons fund-raiser here! 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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Mary Soon Lee@marysoonlee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Chose the Poetry Patron level, no surprise there :-) Proud to be the 189th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Please take a minute to support your favorite free-to-read, Hugo Award-winning speculative fiction magazine! 😈 Strange Horizons is entirely volunteer-run, so we depend on this annual drive to publish stories; your donation directly supports writers on the cutting edge of SFF around the world! 💜🚀🌑

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.

My toxic editing trait is googling "en dash" and copy-pasting it from the Merriam-Webster article on dashes because I can never remember what hotkey I assigned to it. #amediting

This story that does cool stuff exploring gender, migration, and alterity through entering the entirely non-human-centered POV of a creature that matures across deep time and space. We're also pleased to be the ones to host aegor's first spec fic publication! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Senescence

Without a name or need for one, he arrives scattered at the base of a tree and he rests like that, in pieces, for sixty-odd years. He is forty-nine sticky droplets of impulse and intelligence, tuck…

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When you can't afford a computer stand because big books ate all your money

Stumbled on the Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast and can't recommend it enough! The hosts are OG Wolfe fans and have special insight into his work from also being Catholic, former military, medieval history scholar, etc. so they pick up on fascinating allusions! open.spotify.com/episode/1DGx...

Ep. 8: How the Whip Came Back

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ICYMI! my story about reproductive freedom and dragons is out now🐉

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Underneath the Underneath  by Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social "Dragons are not violent by nature, but they hunt what hunts them." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

I love the spec fic community because everyone is just so sincerely supportive of each other--watching the Hugo finalist announcements roll out and seeing all the congratulatory comments is so sweet 💜

Couldn't be prouder--I'm new to staff, but a longtime fanboy of SH 💜

Los Angeles Worldcon@laworldcon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

(37/55) Best Semiprozine 🚀 [4 of 6] Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @darthj.uno, @gautambhatia88.bsky.social, @danhartland.bsky.social, @vanessajae.bsky.social, austindewar.com

Out now! @audreyzhou.bsky.social uses the beautiful and fantastic to illuminate the devastatingly real interiority of one woman's struggle for autonomy, and the impossible dilemma she faces in a society bent on controlling women's bodies (sound familiar?) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Underneath the Underneath

The dragons are beautiful even when they’re dead, their serpentine bodies stacked up and up, their metallic blue scales glinting under the sun. This close, Mina can see how blank their eyes are thr…

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It's my favorite time of year in Texas :)

Excellent hopeful speculative fiction poem! "Sometimes, hope is more painful than enduring: but now that we’ve survived, we live our lives at a ship’s helm of our own beginning."

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Eventually, America became an afterthought, easily mistaken for the rush of wind that picked up pollen and carried it to other lands..." —Ashia Ajani :: “After” alocasia.org/2024/12/21/a...

Can't pass through national poetry month without sharing something from my favorite poet, Kay Ryan. A nice reminder for those of us who struggle with stubborn self-reliance to know our limits and accept the gift of help: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

It feels wrong to call this poem delightful, but I got a kick out of it. Love the balance of humor and sincerity tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...

I love the gentle, mesmerizing voice of the narrator in this story, "The Houses of the Stars In Heaven" by @ferdwrites.bsky.social, who guides a young navigator through a speculative (subtly sci fi) reimagining of the afterlife in Polynesian myth. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

The Houses of the Stars in Heaven

Breathe. Breathe. Even though you are dead you must breathe— Oh, you are running. I suppose you could run. Run, then, if you never want to know what killed you, and why, and where you are now. For …

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Finally got around to officially announcing my new role as fiction editor at Strange Horizons :) Just a little reflection on what Ursula K. Le Guin called the "duty" of escapism, and how happy I am to get to be a part of such a meaningful jailbreaking effort. austindewar.com/2026/04/04/i...

It’s our duty to escape: Becoming a fiction editor at Strange Horizons

Six years ago, during the Covid shutdown, I found myself with a lot of time on my hands and facing the sudden collapse of what I had thought my future would look like. I was living in Pittsburgh at…

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The #Artemis mission is giving me a renewed childlike sense of wonder about space exploration irl 🧡

🍄 Strange Horizons fungus special issue!!! 🍄 As a big fan of fungal themes in speculative fiction I'm nerding out. I especially loved chewing over the imagery in this poem by Sonya Taafe:

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Cryptogamists by Sonya Taaffe "Queer lot that we were with our notebooks crusted like churchyards, did we breed in secret" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #fungi