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🚀 SF/F Magazine 👻Flash Fiction + Poetry 👁️Closed for Submissions 📒 Stories are Free to read NOW Editor Sam Asher https://bsky.app/profile/samasherwriter.bsky.social https://www.thecosmicbackground.com https://linktr.ee/thecosmicbgr

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Samir Sirk Morató@spicycloaca.bsky.social · 4mo ago

excited to have a sad, funky experimental story in this upcoming special issue! my love for museum prep and folklore will never die

This a British newspaper clipping from January 13, 1974. Its headline is "Myth of the 'Evil' Heads." A photograph below displays two haunting, apple-sized stone heads. The article's starting sentence is "WHO knows best about the two mysterious ornamental heads dug up in a Tyneside garden?"
The Cosmic Background@thecosmicbgr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are excited to announce the stories for our issue “Ghosts & The After Life” edited by Ai Jiang @aijiang.bsky.social 👻 EC Dorgan “Flehmen Grimace” Samir Sirk Morató “unwell naturalist’s historic fairy collection” @spicycloaca.bsky.social Emmi Khor “The Art of Rebirth” @emmikhor.bsky.social

Poster for the stories selected for “Ghosts & The After Life” edited by Ai Jiang: EC Dorgan “Flehmen Grimace” Samir Sirk Morató “unwell naturalist’s historic fairy collection” Emmi Khor “The Art of Rebirth” A little ghost sketch too!
The Cosmic Background@thecosmicbgr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tomorrow April 8 we open for our next Guest Editor issue... NABOKOV'S SUSPENSION Edited by Jehanne Bell 👅🧵👻🎤✍️ We are looking for flash fiction about the things that fall away, transform, and negotiate new bodies as the words that create either their home or their prison shapeshift around them.

Open submissions April 8-May 8 for "Nabokov's Suspension" - guest edited by Jehanne BellTranslations that digest their own tongues. Expressions of the ephemeral creatures that blip in and out of existence when language is toggled. Threads that weave disparate voices together. We are looking for flash fiction about the things that fall away, transform, and negotiate new bodies as the words that create either their home or their prison shapeshift around them. Our usual submission guidelines apply. We define Flash Fiction as anything under 1000 words. No AI ever. We mean it.
The Cosmic Background@thecosmicbgr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

SURPRISE! To celebrate spring break, we our extending this call for stories through APRIL 5! Kick back, get the gold on Rainbow Road, and polish up that flash fiction. Time is ticking.

Throwback Tech deadline extended to April 5!
The Cosmic Background@thecosmicbgr.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Submissions are OPEN for our special issue theme: THROWBACK TECH 🎥📺📻🎮📀📼🕹️👾 Edited by @prof-bogs.bsky.social Let's do this. You have until March 31. It's a new year, let's celebrate with old tech. ➡️ thecosmicbackground.moksha.io/publication/...

Submissions are open for The Cosmic Background's next issue: THROWBACK TECH. Edited by Jacob Baugher. Submissions are open through March 31.
The Cosmic Background@thecosmicbgr.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Cosmic Background is BACK. We know. It's been a minute. After getting lost in the static for a while, we are opening up submissions and we will soon announce the stories from our Ghost & Afterlife issue. Stay tuned for that! We are super excited about these ones 👻

The Cosmic Background@thecosmicbgr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Hellllooooo from the static! It is fundraising season for many spec mags out there. We are doing things a little differently with a small gofundme to help us into 2026. We are already at $2 and just need a little boost to help us to our goal of $2400 👻 www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

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Sam Asher@samasherwriter.bsky.social · last yr.

Locus is a vital part of our industry. If you enjoy @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social then know that they're a vital resource to us, and basically every other pro and semi-pro paying magazine. Support them if you can!

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · last yr.

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN! We have 9 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!! Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support! Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky

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