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G.M. Mitchell 🌈

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Normal Guy | Queer horror & other strange fiction | "A Rare and Exceptional Delicacy" out now with Apex Magazine.

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RJ Aurand@rjaurand.bsky.social · 12h ago

My flash story "To the Android I Saw Get Pushed onto the Tracks at the Archives Metro Station" is in this issue! It will be free in October, but you can read it now at bit.ly/orionsbelt-p.... Come experience the story that made my critique partners lose their collective shit!

Orion's Belt magazine@orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 12h ago

🌞 OB summer issue #36 is now live for our subscribers, & also available to buy (link below). This issue was made possible by powerful, transformative stories, poems, & interviews that invite us to look inside ourselves, into our past, and at the world around us. Join the read & the journey! 🌞

Megan Giddings@megiddings.bsky.social · 12h ago

Hello, my short story collection, Black Arts, comes out in 34 days. If you pre-order it, you will get 13 stories that play with form and genre delivered to your beautiful home. It's already a paperback, so you will actually want to carry it around and read it www.blackgarnetbooks.com/item/UhelvOr...

Black Arts by Megan Giddings | Black Garnet Books

The very first story collection from the critically acclaimed, visionary author of the novels Lakewood, The Women Could Fly, and Meet Me at the CrossroadsOver three genre-busting novels, Megan Gidding...

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin@miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reminder that this ships early next month! Get yer pre-orders in at filthyloot.com (US only)

Misfit Fictions - filthy loot press

Filthy Loot is a boutique press specializing in existential horror, transgressive lit, subversive art, and all things underground. Read our mission statement. We love working directly with indie books...

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin@miseryvulture.bsky.social · last mo.

Coming soon from @filthyloot.bsky.social 9 stories collected from 2020-2025.

An old anatomical illustration showing a woman in 19th century dress, her back to the viewer and unclothed to reveal some manner of pox. A single blue eye, wide as a shoulder, looks out from her upper back. Below the illustration reads the title "Cráite"
RJ Aurand@rjaurand.bsky.social · 2d ago

Psst I'm in this issue! So excited to be making my Apex debut with my flash story "In the Blue Hour" about grief and missed opportunities and cousins who refuse to stay dead.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2d ago

We're thrilled to reveal the cover of Apex Magazine Issue 154, featuring the beautiful "Dark Thoughts" by @jeleynai.bsky.social, with cover design by Justin Stewart! 🌕🐦‍⬛🌿 For the full list of contributors and other updates, check out "Apex in August 2026" on Patreon: www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

The cover of Apex Magazine Issue 154. A pale-skinned girl with long brown hair stands against a grey background. Her face is framed by a full moon. She wears a circlet of golden laurel leaves, a black earring shaped like a dagger, and a dark grey dress with sheer voluminous sleeves. She is holding out her hands, welcoming a flock of white ravens to swoop through her chest. The ravens burst out from between her shoulder blades, feathers now black. Credits on Cover read: Original Fiction By: Anj Baker, Rob Cameron, A.M. Maris, Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad, Stefan Alcalá Slater, and C.M. Sullivan, David R. Hoffman, RJ Aurand, and S.C. Pires Nonfiction By: Richard Dansky and Lesley Connor Classic Fiction By: Shingai Njeri Kagunda and Justin C. Key
G.M. Mitchell 🌈@gmmitchell.bsky.social · 4d ago

Oh hi, I'm in this. Have you ever wanted to read a nasty little ghost story inspired by the Unicorn Tapestries? "Pomegranates" has got you. This whole issue promises to be squishy and delicious, so check it out 👁

Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 4d ago

You 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...

AllThingsDre@allthingsdre.bsky.social · 2w ago

This whole Taylor farms thing and all the food being infected with parasites. It's actually a very good example of why these conglomerants and monopolies shouldn't exist. You shouldn't be able to operate under one name and own 30 brands that do the exact same thing

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2w ago

Walked by a guy talking on his phone in his car and he said “she showed me her titties and I can’t stop thinking about them” and the way he said it was so genuinely filled with pathos that I gave him a concerned look and our eyes met

Andrea Bellemare@dreabells.bsky.social · 2w ago

AI companies are destroying our collective shared history to put it into their slop buckets, because the slop they push out would destroy their models if they tried to re-input it

Text reads: This bookseller said his inventory is full of rare, foreign language, and low circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they'll be even harder to obtain.
Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

P H Lee 🪬@p-h-lee.bsky.social · 3w ago

fiction isn't (always) autobiography. it is completely possible to write resonant, powerful, realistic characters outside of your life experiences. it just involves a bit of thinking and care. which is also true for characters who do match your experiences.