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@swagboygalore.bsky.social

it's just words (viable paradise '25, clarion west '26, granta short fiction '26)

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Anika Carpenter@stillsquirrel.bsky.social · last wk.

'The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July.' Salma in the Vase by @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social This gorgeous #flashfiction hums with the disorientation, & overwhelming love & fear that comes with being a mother. hexliterary.com?p=3557

Salma in the Vase by Yasmeen Fahmy

The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July.  It was our thing; sitting and watching the clouds build, eating fast-melting popsicles a...

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Abhijeet@bingingout.bsky.social · last wk.

Do you like video games? Past and future lives? Decision paralysis? If you answered yes to any of those, my story "New Game Plus" in Adventitious #5 is definitely for you www.adventitious.net/product/adve...

Adventitious — Issue Five (October 2026) - Adventitious.

The fifth issue of Adventitious. Digital edition including PDF and EPUB formats.

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VLAD-ventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · last wk.

And...Issue Five is now live! www.adventitious.net

WPA style poster with blocky lettering reading October's Bright Blue Weather in orange and blue at the top on a black background. In the main image, a cartoon young boy in a blue bow tie reads a book that shocks him while ghosts, bats, detectives, and a witch flying over a haunted house play as shadows around him on a blue background. At the bottom in a curly font, A good time to Read!
Abhijeet@bingingout.bsky.social · last mo.

"Seneschal of Shattered Tor" is a postcolonial high fantasy about a society trying to Be Better* and the leaders dragging them into the future. I hope you enjoy it! * T&C apply

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine@bcsmagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

New Issue: BCS #465 out today, featuring stories of leadership under threat by returning BCS authors @denzelscott.bsky.social and Abhijeet Sathe @bingingout.bsky.social, 90-min podcast of Scott read by @smaliamorris.bsky.social, cover art Sam Jumisko: beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Rio Lombana@riolombana.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Issue 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.

Adventitious | A Speculative Short Fiction Magazine - Adventitious.

Adventitious is a speculative short fiction magazine publishing boundary-defying stories, novellas, and unclassifiable work.

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee@kaunvijaya.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So glad to have had so many great instructors who approached our work with excitement and grace Most of all, i am so glad the workshop allowed me to meet all my fellow stretchy ghosts the clarion west class of 2026. Hope we will forever yearn for documents and write about bodily fluids.

Lia Lao@thelialao.bsky.social · 3mo ago

congrats to the incoming class!! unhinged but the best way i can describe vp is it’s lowkey the literary equivalent of going and training in a secluded cave in xianxia novels and suddenly your meridians are opening you will have the best time :))

Viable Paradise@viableparadise.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Notifications have been sent out. If you applied this year and have not heard from us, first check your spam filter. If that doesn’t help, please contact us here or at the contact at viableparadise.com email.

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Gibster@gibsterific.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Curse of the Golden Tattoo Thankfully, it’s not every unkind word said to Gemma that’s stiched into her skin—only from loved ones. Her family curse passes from mother to daughter. To avoid passing it down when she becomes pregnant, she must find magic of her own. #QuestPit #A #F #U #Q

Curse of the Golden Tattoo. Shows a squiggle of ink and a tattoo gun from the letter G. Golden text and a red and orange threaded carpet.Pitch Thankfully, it’s not every unkind word said to Gemma that’s stiched into her skin—only from loved ones. Her family curse passes from mother to daughter. To avoid passing it down when she becomes pregnant, she must find magic of her own. Golden text and a red and orange threaded carpet.First Lines My mother gave me my first tattoo when I was six months old—by accident. I believe that story. Accidents happen. Words slipped out. All the other tattoos were on purpose. Golden text and a red and orange threaded carpet.Comps The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Ten Thousand Doors of January. Golden text and a red and orange threaded carpet.
Lia Lao@thelialao.bsky.social · 6mo ago

that moment when your most rejected story becomes your second pro rate sale? @scyllapublishing.bsky.social 🥹😭 i first wrote “letters to a lost time” in 2022/23 and i’ve always loved the concept but didn’t have the skill to execute it until this year. i guess some stories never die after all??

poster with the text “letters to a lost time / science fantasy / 4500 words / jumping timelines / the stories we tell ourselves to survive / by lia lao background sounds a poster of a beetle against moss and an asian woman looking towards the sun
Escape Pod@escapepod.org · 6mo ago

Rejoice, sophonts! It's Thursday or Friday, and as such we bring you a fresh original for your experiential experience: "Gods and Spirits Our Witnesses" by @scmillsbooks.bsky.social. Go ahead, witness it! Though it looks like the trilobites may have eaten the link preview image...

Escape Pod 1040: Gods and Spirits Our Witnesses

We met in a public-access data booth at night, during yet another tropical storm, long after the angry god of the sea had gorged himself fat on Earth’s old icecaps. Rain hammered the booth’s cracked…

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