Stuart Docherty
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Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology
Emma Burnett
Writer of stories
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Check out my flash fiction over at Mister Zine: www.misterzine.com/issue4/i-am-...
I am Mother, She is Me — MR.
Mother slows as she climbs the hill. From inside her abdomen, her torso scraping against the rock, I feel all the little undulations as she moves. I knock again Gerald. “You’re getting too big,” Gera...
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I'm in this: foofaraw.metalabel.com/big-fuss-202... It's a very odd little story. The collection has some very good writing in, so please check it out.
A Great Big Fuss (2025)
a foofaraw anthology—don't go making a huge deal about it, that's what we're here for...
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Ancillary Review of Books@ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 4mo agoBig news! ARB's first fundraiser is officially live! We're shooting for the very modest goal of $1k, with lots of stretch goals in mind. Your support is of course appreciated, and any help in spreading the word would be wonderful!
My weird flash piece about an Italian reincarnated as a glob of old hair conditioner is out today in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social. It’s the first time my names appeared on a cover so I’m absolutely chuffed. Check it out here: www.amazon.com/Colored-Lens...
The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025
Amazon.com: The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025 eBook : Brinegar, Rachael, Newkirk, David, Hoyt, Ellie, McIntosh, Parker, Klass, Judy, Vance, Michael, Clairval, Gio, Morrey, Josh, Apsley, JS, Docherty, Stuart: Kindle Store
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@perfidiousscript.bsky.social this came in the post yesterday and I’m very excited to start reading.
@slashnburnett.bsky.social What an awesome cover! Congrats! I'm looking forward to reading.
@chmmagazine.bsky.social · 10mo agoCOVER REVEAL! Issue 64 includes stories from Sebastian Gray, Emma Burnett, Joule K. Zelman, Elena Sichrovsky, and more! Cover art by Lars Strömquist.
Dead chuffed to have a story in this excellent anthology. Haven't finished reading all the excellent writing in it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
Angry Gable Press@angrygablepress.bsky.social · 12mo agoReleasing today.
Full cover reveal of This Exquisite Topology!
Really enjoyed this one over at scaffold: www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
perv mayor by john pinto — scaffold literary magazine
micro fiction
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My story "Small Sacks of Children" is out now in After Happy Hour's second chance issue, featuring work from magazines that are now defunct. This story was in Daily Science Fiction and is about building a wall with small children. Read it (and the rest) here (via downloadable PDF).
AHH! Issues
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Unpackaging: @doc12345.bsky.social reviews Thomas Morris's OPEN UP (@unnamedpress.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/06/09/u...
Unpackaging: Review of Thomas Morris’s Open Up
Stuart Docherty Under Review:Open Up. Thomas Morris. Unnamed Press, April 2025. Thomas Morris’s Open Up depicts a host of male outsiders with parental issues ostensibly trying to fit in. Morris’s s…
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"And my grandmother said: I’ve never wanted to do something so badly in my entire life. It was such a wonderful thing. Such a wonderful, wonderful thing." Today on ergot.: 'A Wonderful Thing' by Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Jack...
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innovative + experimental horror
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OUT TODAY - THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION! Thanks to @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social and cover artist @lukespoonerartist.bsky.social!
I am so super excited to be guest editing a FamPunk FFO! Take a break from the big-picture. Casually incorporate science & technology. Embrace quotidian else-when life. Give us alternative families in alternative spaces. Read more (& feel free to ask questions below): ffo.submittable.com/submit
Flash Fiction Online Submission Manager
Update 4/10/2025: We are OPEN for submissions to our Wilderness Horror call!We are OPEN to: April 1-30th - special call for "Wilderness Horror" for Oct 2025 issue, guest edited by C.R. LangilleApril'...
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Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · last yr.Our next themed call is coming up May 1st. We’re calling it FamPunk, and I just uploaded all the details to our Submittable site: ffo.submittable.com/submit Gues editor will be Emma Burnett (@slashnburnett.bsky.social ) We’re looking forward to reading your work! #flashfiction #writingcommunity
Check out my story, The Pat Test, and all the other great writing in this issue of The Hooghly Review! I wrote this story a couple of years ago based on some of my own experiences living in mountain towns.
The Hooghly Review@thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · last yr.Issue 4 is live! 🥁 thehooghlyreview.com/issues/issue-4/ And it's beautiful and free. 💯 Thank you all for being lovely. Please do spread the word. 🙏
Really enjoyed this short story from a Apex. A little old but still fantastic. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Keep Talking
Gerald’s stomach clenched as he approached his daughter, Sarah. She sat at her computer, her back to the world, as intent as a...
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Good news everyone: my least-publishable story has been published. It's only a thousand words and I promise that, while reading it, you will mutter "what the fuck, Sasha" under your breath. CW: butt plugs and body horror. Butt plugs and body horror. www.twinpiesliterary.com/fuck-us-up/m...
My Stalagmite - Sasha Brown — Twin Pies Literary
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Glad to have "Dead Men's Fingernails" up on The Fabulist today: fabulistmagazine.com/dead-mens-fi...
Dead Men’s Fingernails > The Fabulist Words & Art
A series of strange phone calls sets a child on a path full of ambiguity, doubt, and fleeting dread.
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Her touch was so hot it stung. Drops of sweat gathered along my back and slid down my spine. “Oh,” I said. “My mother used to say: cold hands, warm heart.” She laughed. I did too, the way you laugh at such things. Today on ergot.: "Scorpion Eggs" by Heidi Marjamäki www.ergot.press/authors/Heid...
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innovative + experimental horror
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Great read, this. Weird, funny sci-fi with a great lead character and depth.
Six-Eyed Kitten@andrewkozma.net · last yr.My weird science-fiction story about sex with aliens is now live on Phano. Read "The Human Solution" on your local interwebs device now!
Thrilled to reveal the cover for @thomasha.bsky.social's astonishingly original debut UNCERTAIN SONS. Cover art by Ove Tøpfer. Design by Vince Haig. Foreword by @megapolisomancy.bsky.social. Praise from Kelly Link. Importantly, pre-orders open now. Get in! undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
My debut novel THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION is set for release April 21 with Cemetery Gates! Get in touch for a review copy! Quote from opening chapter: "I don’t like being made of toe. I’d rather be a swan feather or something, even though I guess that would be less human."
Cemetery Gates Media@cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social · last yr.Cover reveal for Ivy Grimes' debut novel THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION! A young woman agrees to marry a strange man, taking up residence at his haunted estate in the forest. To be released April 21st. Reviewers are welcome to email cemeterygatesmedia@gmail.com for ARCs.
