This week’s topic is military SFFH! We’ve got some great stories lined up to discuss, plus a few recs. Read along with us! & feel free to respond with your own favorite military spec fic - I’d love to see your recs!
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Spec fic discussion group & reading series. Flash & shorts. Celebrating SFFH authors & magazines. Read along with us! https://mynachang.com/electric-sheep/
WWPH WRITES 126 is now live ...with news on submission opportunities, including for DMV writers our first-ever WORLDS BEYOND contest...judged by @mynachang.bsky.social Read on at washingtonwriters.org/wwph-writes/ #fantasy #horror #speculative #fiction #poetry @electricsheepsf.bsky.social
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Thanks you so much @electricsheepsf.bsky.social for featuring this brilliant, brilliant piece by @melissafitz.bsky.social alongside these other brilliant gems (plus one questionable choice by some bloke called Matt...)
Electric Sheep@electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 2w ago
Oh hey I wrote a review of this (something always difficult with flash fiction) nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-re...
I Read Stories: Karate Obligations by Michael Czyzniejewski
Karate Obligations by Michael Czyzniejewski in Bull DeVries cancels a Saturday date for the third time due to “karate obligations”. T...
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Electric Sheep@electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 2w agoThis week we’re looking at spec & spec-adjacent flash in lit journals! @fracturedlit.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @welkinpress.bsky.social @thecitronreview.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.
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Final day to order Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition from @apexmag.bsky.social at 30% off! The book launch is tomorrow! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...
Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition
Preorder and save 30%!Release Date 6/30/26Finalist for the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Award! Return to Jason Sanford's dark sci-fi world in Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition, newly updated and with an...
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It's my great pleasure to announce the authors and their works selected for "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Thank you to all the writers, editors, and publishers who sent in work for consideration. The print edition is now up for pre-order. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
"I’d figured Drusilla as a poisoner, or perhaps defenestrator (this turret would provide ample height). Whatever happened to Aunt Honora, though, looked positively beastly." Tidy up the scene in "For a Handful of Salted Teeth" out now in @strangehorizons.bsky.social 🦷
For a Handful of Salted Teeth
What I’d taken for white beads are actually human teeth, mixed with white crystals I identified (via taste, to Mole’s horror) as salt. Mole looks at the mixture and shudders. I don’t know how to ex…
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TEAM INTREPIDUS IN THE HOUSE for the InkMark Nom ❤️🔥Small/Med Publishers| BIG SpecFic Tales 🚀 TY @inkfoundry.bsky.social Meet our far out team: @eleanorlennox.bsky.social Sarina Dorie @matthollingsworth.com @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social J.M. Vesper & Senior Editor Allison/Editor Calie - LET'S GO ❤️🔥
Today nominations open for a bright new award in the SFF industry that aims to fill a gap left by the larger awards.
InkFoundry@inkfoundry.bsky.social · 2mo agoLAUNCH DAY! There's no fee to enter, and on top of the winning publication, EIGHT authors will receive $100 each. THAT'S $2,300 of community-raised funds! See inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark/ for more details!
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Several people have asked me recently why Analog/Asimov's/F&SF/Ellery Queen/Alfred Hitchcock still don't have Submission Grinder listings again, because the communications from SFWA on the subject have been so positive. So I thought it might be worth addressing this briefly.
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Absolutely loved this story, @emlinden.bsky.social !!
Electric Sheep@electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis week we're reading "The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead" by @emlinden.bsky.social. It's a gorgeous story and the podcast is exceptionally well done! Narrated by Louise Hewitt. @podcastle.org
And we are reading "Through the Machine" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com!
Through the Machine - Lightspeed Magazine
“Steve, over here! Turn to your right. Can we get a smile?” He falls back on his training easily enough, turns to the cameras, gives them his famous crooked smile, tilts his head just so as the flashe...
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This week we're reading "The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead" by @emlinden.bsky.social. It's a gorgeous story and the podcast is exceptionally well done! Narrated by Louise Hewitt. @podcastle.org
PodCastle 879: The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead - PodCastle
The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead E.M. Linden The living have been leaving Tawlish for centuries; this evacuation is only the latest and last. There are good reasons for it: the freshwater spr...
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Cheering for the Nebula & Stoker winners & finalists - especially our Sheep friends! Looking forward to reading more of your stories!!
Here's a great way to catch up with all the Stoker short story nominees - podcasts from @talestoterrify.bsky.social!
Tales to Terrify@talestoterrify.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe 2026 short story Stoker nominees at TtT: 745: [Ir]reversible by Anna Taborska 746: Autogas Ferryman by @champwongs.bsky.social 747: Stomata by @ledaniels.bsky.social 748: Inheritance by @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social 749: St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Reading Autogas Ferryman this week - if you're reading along with us, here is another awesome podcast of the story! @champwongs.bsky.social @talestoterrify.bsky.social
Tales to Terrify@talestoterrify.bsky.social · 3mo agoWelcome to episode 746. It’s week two of our #BramStokerAwards short fiction showcase. This week, we meet a regular taxi driver with a very special talent. (By @champwongs.bsky.social talestoterrify.com/episodes/746-stokers-champ-wongsatayanont
This week we're reading "Autogas Ferryman" by Champ Wongsatayanont in @nightmare-magazine.com ! @champwongs.bsky.social
Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine
Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...
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Electric Sheep@electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 2mo agoGood luck to all Stoker nominees - especially our Sheep friends!!
Good luck to all Stoker nominees - especially our Sheep friends!!
Horror Writers Association Releases the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot – The Bram Stoker Awards
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