Akis Linardos
@linardos.bsky.social
Writer of oddities, biomedical AI scientist, maybe human 🖊️ Apex, Uncharted, Heartlines, Strange Horizons, ergot., Flame Tree, Plott Hound, Cosmic Horror Monthly and elsewhere akislinardos.com he/him
you and 13 friends have the opportunity to do the coolest thing
Sean Wallace@oldcharliebrown.bsky.social · 5h agoWe’re almost there for our subscription drive: we just need fourteen more people to jump onboard and then our pay rate for authors will go to fifteen cents a word! clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
There are 18 days left in the Apex Magazine Kickstarter, and we're only 44% towards our goal. You can help us get closer towards funding and get a subscription for $27. Or get a postcard from me for only $5. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2027
An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
Read this, motherf*ckers, read this! "The Bot Who Cried 'Wolf Motherf*ckers Wolf'" @unchartedmag.bsky.social @linardos.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/stories/the-...
The Bot Who Cried ‘Wolf Motherfuckers Wolf’ - Uncharted
Content Warning: Profanity (a lot of it) Like clockwork, it rang the alarm of the space restaurant Eat the Rich every Sunday, blaring on all speakers. “WOLF MOTHERFUCKERS WOLF! WOLF! WOLF IS COMING FO...
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Each time I think of opening social media, I ask myself "will this be an improvement over doing nothing for ten minutes?" And the answer is an unsurprising and consistent "no"
Had another little horror out earlier this year 💀 "Whistle for the Wizened Child" in Cosmic Horror Monthly cosmichorrormonthly.com/store/cosmic...
"A weird mirage interrupted my train of thought. A large, dark puddle gathered mass on the roadside just ahead. It broke, flowing across the asphalt." Jennifer Lesh Fleck is joining SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM with "The Musgrave Articles." Coming in March 2027.
Yes it's a parody of exactly what you're thinking 🫣
Agita Publishing@agitapublishing.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Your left hand has been fingerless because of this 'we-only-review-hard-copies' culture." Akis Linardos is joining SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM with "Unfortunately, This Finger." Coming in March 2017.
some periods of isolation and solitude are useful to remind yourself who you are vs who you are becoming to survive socially
The tremendous @linardos.bsky.social who you can read more about here, and who has published in venues including Gamut, Strange Horizons, Apex, and more: smallwondersmag.com/author/akis-... (13/15)
Akis Linardos – Small Wonders
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"Daedalus teaches the bullboy mathematics, the language that governs the workings of the world. The bullboy carves the rocks in darkness, feeling the outline of the curves he makes." "His Horns Carry Mathematics" by @linardos.bsky.social now free to read online! plotthoundmag.com/his-horns-ca...
“His Horns Carry Mathematics” by Akis Linardos – Plott Hound Magazine
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Got a reprint of a favorite little flash of mine out 😊 Check out the anthology. I'm in good company.
Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday we are so excited to release RESIST, an FFO anthology, guest edited by Jeanna Cammarano (@wordrat.bsky.social ), whose powerful editorial really sets the tone for this collection. Check out her words and grab a copy today! #writingcommunity #flashfiction flashfictiononline.com/issues/resis...
BY THE WAY, I had a poem out in @smallwondersmag.com earlier this year Daughter was not born, but emerged from the last fox’s mouth in the last forest of the world ... smallwondersmag.com/piece/foxes-...
Foxes on Her Wrist, Fire on Her Ankle - Small Wonders
Daughter was not born, / but emerged from the last fox's mouth / in the last forest of the world
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“Spindly fingers tickle his neck, reminding him of skittering cockroaches. The massive presence latches on his back, flapping a cold draft with its wings.” - @linardos.bsky.social in She Burrows and Invites www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
She burrows and invites — Brief Ecology
Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not u...
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3rd novel done, pending a final light editing pass and I love it so much 💙👄💙
“Writing is an outlet for me, and I have both envisioned nature taking revenge, or characters larger-than-life protecting what I feel powerless to protect in the real world, and both shades are ecofiction.” - @linardos.bsky.social on Ecofiction www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
Akis Linardos on ecofiction — Brief Ecology
If we’re clinical about it, eco-fiction is any sort of story where nature plays an important role in the plot. It can’t just be a fantastical environment in a space setting unless the flora or fauna m...
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If publishing weird, unsettling, horrific pieces of ecofiction is wrong, then I don’t want to be right
The Rotting Leaf@rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 7mo ago"'Down here, you.' Feminine voice. Seductive rasp. The manchild kneels over the hole, carefully avoiding the blackened earth. An insect skitters the hole’s rim—beetle body, but a drooping antenna carries a bulb reminding him of angler fish." - @linardos.bsky.social in "She Burrows and Invites"
I have a new one out ✨
The Rotting Leaf@rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 7mo ago"'Down here, you.' Feminine voice. Seductive rasp. The manchild kneels over the hole, carefully avoiding the blackened earth. An insect skitters the hole’s rim—beetle body, but a drooping antenna carries a bulb reminding him of angler fish." - @linardos.bsky.social in "She Burrows and Invites"
"'Down here, you.' Feminine voice. Seductive rasp. The manchild kneels over the hole, carefully avoiding the blackened earth. An insect skitters the hole’s rim—beetle body, but a drooping antenna carries a bulb reminding him of angler fish." - @linardos.bsky.social in "She Burrows and Invites"
She burrows and invites — Brief Ecology
Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not u...
briefecology.com
Listen—closely, if you dare—to @linardos.bsky.social's new poem "It Could Worm Inside Your Ear." kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...
Been quieter on social media, but got several updates: Forthcoming original fiction this year in Rotting Leaf, Plott Hound, Cosmic Horror Monthly, BFS Horizons & a poem in Small Wonders Plus reprints in FFO (signed yesterday!), TtT, and No Sleep Podcast Love y'all. Back to my cave. 😶🌫️
If you're looking for a buffalo of a good tale, check out "The Buffalo Woman" by @jacymorris.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/the-buffalo-...
Stoked to be in this lovely list 💜💜 Find the recommended flash at Apex: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
As Ephemeral as Bubbles
The eyeless children appeared outside my cottage at midnight, blowing bubbles through their wands, bubbles that reflected moonlight...
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Íde “of March” Hennessy@ideofmarch.bsky.social · 9mo ago📚🚀💀🧚♂️It’s that time again! I lost track of how many stories this is (what are numbers? why are numbers?). Flash is heavily represented this year, for people who want a quick read ⏳ #speclit #scifilit #shortfiction #amreading #horrorrecs #horror #weirdlit idehennessy.medium.com/2025-recomme...
Got a horror out today at No Sleep. A village starts boiling as the sun seems to creep closer every day www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/ext...
NoSleep Podcast - Sleepless Decompositions Vol. 22 - The NoSleep Podcast
In the bleak midwinter nights of January, we have decaying tales from our Sleepless Decompositions. "Sun Approaches Every Summer" written by Akis Linardos (Story starts around 00:05:25) Produced by: C...
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Maybe I do need two careers. Nothing gets me as productive in one than using it as escape to procrastinate the other.
