Just a draft for one story, but should we go all in on this style for our covers moving forward too?
Cliff Aliperti
@iephemera.bsky.social
Writing stories from https://cliffaliperti.com/ Classic movie blogger at https://immortalephemera.com - loves pre-Code! Author of "Helen Twelvetrees, Perfect Ingenue," first full length biography of the Golden Age Hollywood star.
Anyone have a good resource for seeing cool, beautiful, high-quality images of Pokemon and Magic cards? I want to find some more inspo for how to develop my cards a bit more.
Well, obviously, I'd love that one to start my collection!
foofaraw press@foofarawpress.bsky.social · 2d agoThinking about making trading card packs based on the stories we run. Here's an example for Thursday's upcoming story. Sized for instagram here, but I think it'd make a fun card. Have them in randomized booster packs, some limited edition foils, etc.
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New UK-based science fiction magazine Corollary SF is OPEN to submissions for its first issue. 1,500-4,000 words. Founded by a former Fiction on the Web Associate Editor! corollarysf.com
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Corollary SF is an online science fiction magazine publishing stories that explore the consequences of speculative ideas, technologies, societies and perspectives.
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New on the site! It's SUMMER UNDER THE STARS on TCM and there's some pre-Code pleasures to be found. -- pre-code.com/pre-code-mov...
Pre-Code Movies on TCM, August 2026
Hello again everybody! I apologize for the missing months there– my move from Germany to Colorado has been tumultuous, from having to re-purchase every appliance in my house to helping my kid…
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My new story "In Translation" is out today at New Pop Lit. Thanks so much @newpoplit.bsky.social for giving this one a home!
New Pop Lit@newpoplit.bsky.social · 6d agoIn Translation by Cliff Aliperti (image c/o CNN) The familiar man in his familiar costume, a military uniform with unfamiliar medals and ribbons, spoke in his language, unfamiliar to me, while a neutral voice translated through the TV in the break room....
Here's @newpoplit.bsky.social 's introduction to my new story "In Translation"
New Pop Lit@newpoplit.bsky.social · 6d agoArt in Today’s Insane World SHOULD art be removed from realities of this world? Or immersed in them? Today we're surrounded by narratives....
More about my story "Eat Your Catch" appearing at The Genre Society (direct link to story in the post). Plus, if you make it to the bottom, a pic of some of my own fish (& no monster is eating them!). cliffaliperti.com/eat-your-cat...
“Eat Your Catch” at The Genre Society
My horror story “Eat Your Catch” has been published in the Summer 2026 issue of The Genre Society. You can access my story directly beginning on page 36 of Issue #9 through this link. &…
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Here's a preview of my new story "In Translation" posted by @newpoplit.bsky.social - the entire story should be up on their main site by the end of the week. fastpoplit.com/2026/07/27/a...
An Excerpt from “In Translation” by Cliff Aliperti
NEW FICTION “Look, I understand,” I said, trying to sound reasonable. “You had problems over there. That’s why you’re here now. But the man said he doesn’t want any trouble.” “No,” the IT guy repea…
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My horror story "Eat Your Catch" is out in the Summer 2026 issue of The Genre Society. Just click the colorful cover top of this page, and you'll find me on page 36 - www.thegenresociety.com/readhere Something's stuck in the basement, it's hungry, and Kurt's aquarium fish just won't do!
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Doric Literary site stats show the Submissions page has been viewed 10X more than our most read story. Do more people want to be published than want to read? Honestly, reading improves your odds of acceptance. So here's our editor's favorite story in the journal: doric-literary.com/2025/04/24/t...
The Snake Stomper
Her head felt light but she resolved not to pass out in a garden with the biggest rattlesnake on earth right in the middle of it.
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Excited to have received an acceptance from @charliefish.bsky.social this morning! It will be my third appearance in Fiction on the Web & 1st since they became a paying market. Lots of stories pending the next few months, all listed here: cliffaliperti.com/publications/
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Posts with photos can be throttled down and those with links the same because everything is rigged in favor of the house so let me just say devoid of image and url that today is the final day to use code INDIE and get any Stanchion book or magazine issue free when you buy any two.
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The brief Stanchion Magazine farewell tour begins with issue 24 this September. Inside you'll find new @writesloud.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @iephemera.bsky.social & 20 more of the best writers in indie lit. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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Issue 24 of Stanchion features photographs by Stanchion editor-in-chief Jeff Bogle interspersed between original prose and poetry from some of the finest indie writers of our day, including Hannah Gri...
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I wanted to rehome my story "Playing Games" after its original disappeared (RIP Fleas on the Dog, and thank you again!). So I recorded an audio version to put with the text & posted it to my (new) Substack - cliffaliperti.substack.com/p/playing-ga... Thanks for reading (listening!).
Playing Games
A short story by Cliff Aliperti (text and audio)
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We're 2 months away from the 1st birthday of my book Street Cats & Where to Find Them. An offer: if you order a copy (from Amazon, where it's cheapest, or buy it anywhere) & send me proof of purchase, I'll send you an issue of Stanchion Magazine for FREE. Deal? Please & thank you! amzn.to/4b5i2eu
Followed by our 2nd story: A summer night, cheap beer, neighborhood gossip & a missing family. Funny, nostalgic, unsettling & packed with the kind of neighborhood folklore that never quite leaves you. Check out @iephemera.bsky.social 's cool story at the Garage: literarygarage.com/eddie-the-si...
Eddie the Simp Holds Court | Literary Garage
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I have a new story out today @literarygarage.bsky.social - take a trip back to my teen years in the late-1980s working class suburbs with "Eddie the Simp Holds Court." Hope you enjoy it: literarygarage.com/eddie-the-si...
Eddie the Simp Holds Court | Literary Garage
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So hard to ever feel like you have forward momentum when submitting stories to lit mags, but I received an acceptance from @stanchion.bsky.social earlier, which makes 3 over the past 10 days now! "Pretending to Youth" is out later this year in Stanchion #24. And now, back to work on the next one!
Had another story accepted over the weekend for July publication. Have one other pending for 2027. Having a pretty good year so far! Got to keep up the writing & submitting, I want more. Those subs can be a real time suck though. Tracking my publications here: cliffaliperti.com/publications/
Rundelania published a new story from me over the weekend, "1954 Topps Ted Williams #1." It's a look at the early 1990s baseball card show scene from the vendor's view, which I had quite a bit of experience with, so, um, lightly fictionalized - rundelania.com/1954-topps-t...
1954 Topps Ted Williams #1
by Cliff Aliperti 1954 Topps Ted Williams #1 – AlipertiDownload Cliff Aliperti wrote about classic film for many years at his site Immortal Ephemera, a project culminating with his book, R…
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