Stephen Granade
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Science presenter, robotics researcher, fiction writer, interactive fiction person, award-winning Virgo. Co-editor of @smallwondersmag.com SFF magazine. website: https://stephen.granades.com
New post up today about what I’m working on this month! 🧶 #ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings
Misty Granade@handle.invalid · yesterdayWhat I’m working on – August 2026 Here’s an update on what I’m working on in August 2026. How can play and iteration be a part of my daily practice?
fr the choice of pre-movie trailers was bizarre. “you’re gonna watch a Tony-winning musical about the cost of being an artist and also labor rights with banger music, care for a movie in which a strung-out pop star learns to write Christian glurge thru the power of a cancer girl’s pluck and death?”
Stephen Granade@granades.com · 3d agoWild that the film version of Hadestown added a mid-credits scene where old Orpheus is visited by vampire Eurydice.
For all the knitters among us, and also the non knitters who will recognize the knowing nod in this story.
Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · 2d agoMaking something, anything, is an act of defiance. Today we offer you "Ragescarf: A Knitting Pattern for a World Unraveling" by Amanda Saville Try it out. When things are coming apart, knitting things together can feel so satisfying...
Wild that the film version of Hadestown added a mid-credits scene where old Orpheus is visited by vampire Eurydice.
I know a lot of y’all had stories in DSF. Do a search on their site for one of your titles, then click on your name to get the entire list, and send takedown notices as the spirit moves you.
Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 6d agoHey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com
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Notes from the Studio - July 2026
What happened in July
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💿 EARLY ACCESS the new Twine template is a little tool to make your own iterative goal-tracking tool, whether you're working toward a specific deadline, wordcount, number of pages, or something else 🔑 find the link & password here: www.patreon.com/posts/158128...
🪄 GRIMOIRE: Early Access! "Countdown" Goal Tracker Template | Grim Baccaris
Fresh new template ready to taste test! This one doesn't require a local asset library (yet), so you can eat the .html file raw. Try this l
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The week after one month’s pieces drop and the next issue comes out is SUBSCRIPTION WEEK! I have access to canva and a propensity for puns. You have been warned.
Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · last wk.Every time someone subscribes to a SFF magazine, a wonder gets its wings. And also, authors and artists get paid. It's pretty neat. Subscribe to Small Wonders today! store.smallwondersma...
I am only now seeing this because none of you sickos thought to inflict it on me.
Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 3y agothrowback to the time I went to the Tate Modern and the words “Piet Mondrian’s ‘loss’” washed over me like a vision of God in all Their glory
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Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · last wk.Subscriptions help keep magazines like Small Wonders alive! If you'd like to find other venues to support, check out @sffmagazines.bsky.social! And if you haven't subscribed to us yet, we'd love to have you on board! store.smallwondersma...
This story is on the sweeter end of what we publish, and not just for the baking.
Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · 2w agoThe taste of "Ashes and Buttercream" will linger with you for a while after you read this story by Malina :
Time for a road trip! Today, let's "Visit the Last Gas Station in the World," and see sights of another age with our poem by Lesley Hart Gunn:
Visit the Last Gas Station in the World - Small Wonders
It’s tucked behind what used to be the Colorado River, / created by deep fake panels hiding cyber homes and solar drones.
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For my money, this bit in @jeannethornton.bsky.social’s “A/S/L” is the bestest, most saddest expression of going back to a virtual space that was the center of your life decades ago.
Let "The Metabolism of Grief" pull you down, down, down, under the waves today. Elitsa Dermendzhiyska's story is a beautiful and disquieting contemplation on grief:
The Metabolism of Grief - Small Wonders
The comma of you nestles against my aching body as if you’re merely asleep and I wonder what you might be dreaming of.
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Are you interested interested in appearing on a panel or giving a presentation at Flights of Foundry this year? Want to host a meetup or run a workshop? Whatever the activity is, let us know who you are and what your interest is! Sign up: flights-of-foundry.o...
Queer authors, today is the FINAL DAY to submit your speculative fiction and/or poetry for Issue 3! Spread the word and send your work our way—we can’t wait to read it! 🪐 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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Kaleidotrope is now open to fiction and poetry submissions, closing again after July 25. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/
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Alt: Sorry, We're Closed then Sorry, We're Open Sign Flip
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"Sealskin" by L. Chan is a different kind of selkie story. Let yourself be transformed and read it today in our 13th issue:
Sealskin - Small Wonders
She stops you with a glance. The weight of her gaze pins your hand to the sealskin, a blood-warm puddle of skin and fat.
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This story by @thisisguan.bsky.social has lived in my head since I first read it, which may be a bad thing…
Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · 3w agoIf you're reading this, it's already too late. You might as well embrace it and read all of "Take Root" by Guan Un. Trust us. It's fine.
The places we come from can have a hold on us that lingers, long after we've left. Do you belong to the place, or does it belong to you? Does it matter, when it calls? "Little Fish, Big Fish" by Jennifer Hudak dives deep into all of this:
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I’d managed to convince myself that the creek was just a creek, and that everything I thought I’d felt was nothing more than an adolescent delusion.
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Continuing my hedonistic night with a Dusk & Drizzly.
Stephen Granade@granades.com · 3w agoI’m home alone this week so I’m free to eat unhealthy dinners.
Avra Margariti casts a spell with the words of "In a Cradle of Antlers." Fall in love with a deerskin darling today:
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One touch of her silver antlers, / a precious cure-all; a bony fork chopped off— / black-market riches beyond belief.
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Close your eyes a moment, imagine salt on the breeze and water licking your toes. Then read today's poem, "I am the Ocean's Dreaming" by Jenna Hanchey :
I am the Ocean’s Dreaming - Small Wonders
I dream of the ocean / When I wake, I refuse to wash the salt from my hair / carrying her close
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