PAID WORK: The @ringoawards.bsky.social's Winning Transphoria is opening submissions for a second volume! Due Date: December 23rd, 2026 lifelinecomics.substack.com/p/submit-to-... docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Abigail Guerrero
@gailguerrero.bsky.social
Author and cat lady 🐈 / Mexican / ESL / aro-ace / she|her / BSFA awards nominee and finalist / First reader at Diabolical Plots and The Skull & Laurel / Short stories and poems here: beacons.ai/abigailguerrero
I imagine if I ever gave a presentation on my family, it would be similar to this. "This is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix" by @gailguerrero.bsky.social www.adventitious.net/stories/magi... #sff #fantasy #magicalrealism #specfic #readsky #reading #shortstories
This Is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix
A classroom family tree project takes an unsettling turn in this magical realism short story by Abigail Guerrero.
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Diabolical Plots submissions are open again for one week, this time for the Diabolical Rot theme! guest edited by @amandaghelms.bsky.social www.diabolicalplots.com/guidelines/
Submission Guidelines – Diabolical Plots
If you are thinking about starting a short fiction publication and would like to discuss with someone experienced how to get started, please do contact us!
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Wondering what's next after our last poem drops in November? Here's what's cooking on the horizon—also, we have a "preorder" discount on '27 collection for first 20, and will be doing trivia giveaways for 2 free months through the end of '26 🍲🥳: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... Gratitude, 🫶🏾, 💐
Announcing Our Jan-Jun ‘27 Lineup | Spec Colorways In Verse
Before we hop on into things, a big thank you to all of our contributors, current and forthcoming. To all of our subscribers, readers, folks
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Silly me, I didn't know there was a #MushroomDay lmao but it's the perfect day to tease my new poem about a bored mushroom peeking at the secrets of the corpses in the graveyard 🍄 💀 🖤 This is a mushroom-shaped game poem when you can make your own ending by playing with the hyphae of the mycelium!!!!
Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 2w agoDid someone say it's #MushroomDay?! 🍄🧩 So, here's a broadside preview of "Fungal Avocation" by @gailguerrero.bsky.social (2026's last 🥹). We're finishing up audio this week for author approval, then it'll be time to schedule for Nov 6. 🧩🍄🟫 Subscribe or purchase www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor...
¡Tengo un cuento en este número! 💛💙
Sofón@revistasofon.bsky.social · last mo.¡Sofón 4 ya está aquí! Con textos de autores de México, Chile, Colombia, España, Venezuela, Guatemala y Honduras. Encuéntralo en Amazon MX: amazon.com.mx/dp/B0GX9C44C1 USA: amazon.com/dp/B0HL5ZMVGS ES: amazon.es/dp/B0HL5ZMVGS Y en la tienda virtual, con envíos a todo México revistasofon.com/tienda/
Oh, my story's in the list of "Best of Adventitious"!!! Thank you very much, and I'm so glad more people is discovering this magazine. It really deserves all the love and support it can get.
Bruce H. McCosar@bmccosar.bsky.social · last mo."Let’s get them on the ballot next year, eh? It’s about time for new contenders to step into the ring. I think there’s enough award-worthy material in here to break through." Read my profile of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social : bmccosar.com?p=174
El nuevo número de Colectivero ya está disponible para descarga gratuita en: colectivero.com.mx/volumen-once. El volumen físico se puede comprar en Amazon. Este número incluye mi parodia de las novelas latinoamericanas de realismo mágico. Espero que les pueda sacar al menos una risa 🐐❤️
Colectivero
Ya disponible
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I have doth made un starter park with thyne fauvourite Adventitious writers, and I dost though not understand olde tyme Englishe. Please follow them anyway (yes, thou). go.bsky.app/P6ETCHR
My story in FFO is free to read now!!! 👁️ 🦟 🩸
Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 3mo agoFRESH FICTION: “Eyeballs of My Eyes” by Abigail Guerrero hooked us with its body horror, then surprised us with its turn toward tenderness… 🥹 @gailguerrero.bsky.social #writingcommunity #horror #flashfiction flashfictiononline.com/issues/augus...
Hey, I'm in this one!!! "Eyeballs of My Eyes" is a very personal story to me, so I'm really nervous that people will be reading it, but also I'm excited that I made it into FFO so please give it a chance!!! 🦟👁️🔪
Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 3mo agoYou can grab a copy of our fleshy, horror-filled August issue by hitting up Weightless Books! Happy reading! #amreading #writingcommunity #horror #darkfantasy weightlessbooks.com/flash-fictio...
"Clarita gets up from her desk and walks to the front of the classroom, her hooves drumming on the wooden floor." This is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix by @gailguerrero.bsky.social #firstlinethursdays www.adventitious.net/stories/magi...
This Is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix
A classroom family tree project takes an unsettling turn in this magical realism short story by Abigail Guerrero.
adventitious.net
YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY's space-case sibling touches down this October! Nearly 40 trans & GNC creators take Horror & Weird fiction to cosmic dimensions never before explored. YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, out 10/6. Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com Cover art by @mxmorgan.com 🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
It’s the final countdown! Submissions for Issue 3 close tomorrow! We are looking for speculative fiction/poetry by queer authors. Please help us spread the word… and send us your work! 🪐 Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/ 🗡️ Pay: 8 cents/word, $50/poem 🌈 Deadline: July 21st, 11:59 pm Eastern
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Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
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TWO MORE DAYS until Anathema Magazine closes to submissions! We’ve been so honored to receive your wonderful stories, poems, and artworks 💜 With two days remaining, send us your best work, and tell your friends to send theirs along, as well! The clock is ticking ⏱️👀
Hi! Don't forget that Diabolical Plots opens for submissions at midnight tonight (at the location of our server). If you want to know how much there is in your time zone you can visit the submissions page and by the future window it will say how much time is left submissions.diabolicalplots.com
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Issue. Four. Cover. Reveal. On. Pa.tr.e.on......ugh. Sorry my period button got stuck. All good now. www.patreon.com/Adventitious...
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THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜
Hey, I have a little fungal poem coming this November in Spec Colorways 🍄♥️🍄 I would really appreciate it if you take a look at it when it's out 🙏 Also, please keep supporting all the new spaces for speculative poetry by BIPOC and queer authors!!! And for fiction too!!!
Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 5mo ago📯Announcing our '26 lineup📯 @carolinehung.bsky.social @gailguerrero.bsky.social "Moko" by Dkéama Alexis will be available to all subscribers. (Onward, paid tiers [$3–5] & $4-post-purchasers will have access to poems—digital broadsides & audio recordings.) patreon.com/SpecColorway...
A short and sweet review for my short and sweet goat girl 🥹 ❤️ 🐐
Adventitious@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 5mo agoOn This is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix by @gailguerrero.bsky.social" "I’m not sure if this was a ghost story, a fantasy story, a slipstream story, a magical realism story. . . but I am sure it was A LOT of fun to read!"🐐🧵 www.adventitious.net/stories/magi...
Heyyyyyy Diabolical Plots submission windows for 2026 are announced! Two weeks for general submissions in July. One week for Diabolical Rot theme guest edited by @amandaghelms.bsky.social ! max 3500 words, no AI, details at the link! www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-general-s...
My favorite story from Issue 2 ❤️ I want a Fernie too 🪴 (Or a baby triceratops 🥺)
Adventitious@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 5mo agoHere's the deal. I, too, want a sentient fern from the Cretaceous period. I want to bring Fernie home. I want to put Fernie wherever Fernie is comfortable. I want to be best friends with Fernie. (Angela Liu has done it again) www.adventitious.net/stories/fern... 🥬⌚🦕🍉👩👩👦👦
Hola todos! Abigail Guerrero's warning "This is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix" is a devilish thrill. 😁 a badass school-age girl MC 🩸 a great-great-grandma who won't die 🌳 a spine-chilling family history 🍎 con manzanas www.adventitious.net/stories/magi...
This Is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix
A classroom family tree project takes an unsettling turn in this magical realism short story by Abigail Guerrero.
adventitious.net
So, now that everybody's talking about PCOS/PMOS... I guess it's a good time to announce that I have a little body horror story inspired by the secondary effects of the hormonal treatment I've been talking for it. It's coming this summer in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social Please look forward to it ❤️
I'm in this list 💖
Chey Rivera@criverawrites.bsky.social · 7mo ago(A little late this time but!) FOUR SFFH SHORT STORIES I READ AND LOVED IN MARCH ✨ (⭐️) WARREN’S TENTACLE by @spalwick.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com CALLING ON BEHALF OF THE DARK LORD by Catherine George in @translunartl.bsky.social
I love my men like I love my women: platonically. Happy International Asexuality Day!
They crushed a planet down into a Sprite can, rattling it around with a clink-clank rhythm while screaming "We're open for submissions!" into the cool night breeze. Clink Clank: www.adventitious.net/submission-g...
Both of us at Tenebrous are deeply honored to present the 40+ badass 🏳️⚧️creators🏳️⚧️ who will comprise the Table of Contents for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, a New Weird Cosmic Horror anthology due out 10.06.26! Full deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/3/... #transdayofvisibility #tdov
So glad my story "This is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn't Mix" made it into Alex Brown's "must read" list 🥹 This silly little story is really special to me 🐐❤️ Go read it if you like parodies, magical realism, Latino lore, stories about family trauma, and goats 🐐
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 8mo agoIt's short speculative fiction time. Here are ten of my favorites from February. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...