This is a cool antho that includes my story “The Ways of Plants and Spells” (and lots more fun stories to check out!) books.metaphorosis.com/anthology/20...

Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...

So, what have I been up to all month long? The One-Page RPG Jam 2026 that's what! I finally finished my project: "Y/N", a TTRPG of live, competitive fanfiction to get folks reading short fiction! It's free/PWYW, PDF downloads, with color, B&W, and text-only options. I hope you enjoy!

Y / N by Catherine Tavares

A self-insert TTRPG to help you discover and immerse yourself in stories!

cjtavares.itch.io

Digging up old music I haven’t listened to in years and came across October Project’s Falling Farther In. Beautiful voice (Mary Fahl) and hauntingly sung, with well crafted instrumentation. I used to listen to that a lot in college, but forgot about them.

I have a story in this! "The Ways of Plants and Spells" I'll have more to say about the story later, but keep your eyes on it--lots of good stories and great writers involved!

Metaphorosis Publishing@metaphorosis.com · last mo.

Coming in August! TRUNK: stories that took the long way A collection of stories that almost didn't make it.

Another new story by a fellow Codexian!

Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋@sashakielman.bsky.social · last mo.

I am delighted to share that my flash story "Legacy" was published today by The Fairtales! It is free to read at the link below! (Art commissioned from BalsanA). www.thefairtales.com/legacy #WriteSky

Thrilled to share that I'll have a story in an upcoming issue of Tales & Feathers! I should know more about the timing soon, but excited to have "Ten Truths Known by the Railways' Brakers" coming out in @talesfeathers.bsky.social!

I’ve read a lot of Elis’s early drafts, poems and stories, and it’s great to see this one out in Adventitious now!

Elis Montgomery@elismontgomery.bsky.social · last mo.

Follow Nightraiser into the bone place, where a single floating candle flickers in the shadows. What fills the dark spaces left by devotion? New dark fantasy flash, free in Adventitious! 💀🐴🕯️✨ www.adventitious.net/stories/holl...

The Moth Plateau comes to its dramatic close with Of Moths and Breaking, narrated by Melle, whose story was so much fun to write. When the 15-year-old discovers her family home destroyed, nothing will stop her from confronting the corporate stooges in charge!

It's out now and free to read! One of the most personal things I've written and already kindly reviewed at Tar Vol on...

Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 2mo ago

All Of My Tomorrows by @ldcolter.com defies easy social media promotion, so please just trust me when I say that it's a gorgeously written heart-crusher with (somehow) thrilling action, a slight bit of magic, and BIG hope/heart. www.adventitious.net/stories/all-...

Guess what, the final Moth Plateau novella comes out next week! It's been an intense five months, with a new one out each month. To celebrate, the first novella, Riding the Moth Plateau, is on sale. If you've missed out, come get started on this weird Western journey: books2read.com/u/3L7rEX

I'm stoked to announce my ARC campaign for my fantasy romance trilogy! I have a certain number of free ebook and Audible codes to give out in exchange for an unbiased, honest review for books 1&2, and 3 when it comes out! If you're interested, please fill out the survey below. shorturl.at/FRnjj

LAUNCH DAY! There's no fee to enter, and on top of the winning publication, EIGHT authors will receive $100 each. THAT'S $2,300 of community-raised funds! See inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark/ for more details!

We have ‼️8 days‼️left to raise $4800 for year 6 of Tales & Feathers. And if we can get there we might even reach our Print Edition goals!! 👀 Please back if you can! And if you can't, likes and shares are a huge help. We so appreciate your support and can't wait to bring you more cozy fantasy. 💚

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

Hello friends. WE NEED YOUR HELP ‼️ Our Kickstarter runs until May 31. We've funded T&F Year 5, but here's what else we're aiming for: $13k: T&F Year 6 ✨ $15.5k: T&F Print Edition 📚 Funding 2 years is a HUGE boost to the health & sustainability of the magazine. Back & share to help us get there! 💚

And if you want more weird fiction set in this decaying, decadent city, another story was published a dozen years ago in the defunct Penumbra, but I've now posted that to my Ko-fi page: ko-fi.com/post/reprint... This goes to the opposite extreme of "Grey Eytel," imagining the end state of the city

reprint "Dream of the City's Future"

Daniel Ausema published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

Daniel Ausema@danielausema.bsky.social · 3mo ago

All this in a weird setting--a diverse city of humans, intelligent flightless birds, and the aloof selichi people; a city built into the trunks of four massive trees, dead and dying.

New story out today! "Grey Eytel and His Band of Birds" is in the magazine Hell Itself. It's a story of history and how we remember it, telling the true story of a key moment in the city's past through the lens of a historian trying to correct the record.

Hell Itself Magazine@hellitself.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New, from Hell Itself, @danielausema.bsky.social brings us an origin story in "Grey Eytel and His Band of Birds." hellitself.com/grey-eytel-a...

The moths are falling from the sky like catastrophic precipitation. In other words, Moth Plateau 4 is out! Days of Sagebrush and Absence tells the story of the doubting priestess and hermit Milliva trying to offer comfort to a people lost and confused and cut off from the world below.

The fourth novella of my Moth Plateau series comes out this weekend--Days of Sagebrush and Absence tells of a catastrophic environmental collapse in a weird wild west and the doubting priestess who ends up leading the cowpokes and messengers through trying times: www.danielausema.com/p/moth-plate...

Moth Plateau

Fantasy writer Daniel Ausema's page of Lyrical Worlds filled with Strange Wonder

danielausema.com

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good morning! It's #WriterShareWednesday! Share a project you've published OR a pitch for your WIP and we'll give it a boost! (No AI, and please add alt text to any images you post)

A rejection, a hold notice, and an acceptance all in a single day! (Before lunch, even.)

I just read this one yesterday and loved the way the story was constructed--a very imaginative story!

Kaleidotrope@kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Ma’anu Wei: What We Know Thus Far" by Eliezra Schaffzin (Kaleidotrope, Spring '26) "delivers a wonderfully atmospheric reading experience and a fascinating setting where spoken language is impossible."

slightly diminish a book: I assume someone's already done The Lesser Nobleman of the Rings (Hidalgo of the Rings? ooh, that could work) so I'll go with Titus Whimper

annika barranti klein@noirbettie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

slightly diminish a book: We Have Always Summered in the Castle

Hello friends, we are 🎉✨LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!! ✨🎉 WE'RE FUNDING: 🌟 T&F Year 5 💫 T&F Year 6 and, if we reach $15k: our first ever Tales & Feathers PRINT EDITION! 🎊📚‼️ Check it out below! Like, share, and back the campaign to help us bring our dreams into reality. 💚

Tales & Feathers: A Pro Slice of Life Fantasy Mag | Year 5+

Fund the next two years of our pro-rate slice of life fantasy magazine—and help us create our inaugural print edition.

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"Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli." Easy mode: Princess Bride, of course, but for a lesser known one...

a man in a hat and red shirt is standing in a dark room with the word orale written on the screen .

Alt: Edward James Olmos as el Pachuco, in a hat and red shirt, is standing in a dark room with the word "órale" written on the screen.

media.tenor.com

Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Ephemeral Village, my poetry chapbook from Island of Wak-Wak, has been nominated again for the Elgin Award (in its second year of eligibility)!!! www.islandofwakwak.com/ephemeral-vi...

Another behind-the-scenes look at the Moth Plateau series. Sakehin, a daredevil who is far more impressive in his own mind than in reality. And yet...kinda charming: www.danielausema.com/2026/04/intr...

Introducing Sakehin, a daredevil with delusions of grandeur

Fantasy writer Daniel Ausema's page of Lyrical Worlds filled with Strange Wonder

danielausema.com

@emmiechristie33.bsky.social identified "language as magic" as one of the hallmarks of my stories. So, I decided that this month's reprint for my newsletter (&Ko-fi) would feature language as magic, "Excavating Lost Languages," which originally appeared in Frozen Wavelets: ko-fi.com/post/Flash-F...

Flash Fiction reprint: Excavating Lost Languages

Daniel Ausema published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

Emmie Christie@emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Whoops, forgot the link: Spotlight review for Daniel Ausema! www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...

Setting my alarm and using complex statistical divinations to get that 95th slot

Kaleidotrope@kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The ninety-fifth story received every other odd day after 11:37 pm is an automatic acceptance, that’s just a little pro-tip. 😉

I have canoed this backwater—Croton Pond in Michigan—many times and portaged that dam. Would not want to be in an open canoe below that dam now. But would love to make some of those floodwaters appear here in our Colorado reservoirs now, if I could safely (photos from an Mlive article yesterday)

Moth Plateau #3 is out today! Time with its Tricks follows the daredevil Sake, exiled from the upper plateau for...distractibility and an utter, unfounded certainty in his own greatness. Instead he winds up in the Misbuilt City. Links to Amazon and others here: www.danielausema.com/p/moth-plate...

Fun thread on fish and gravity--give it a read.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story? Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of. Ready? Off we go, then.