Inner Worlds
@innerworlds.bsky.social
Inner Worlds was a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives. We published ten issues between 2023 and 2026, all of which are available to read for free at https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/
If you're a fan of FF go check out these back issues because, FFun FFact: 90% of them happen to contain at least one FFer!
Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Inner Worlds archive is now available free to download in pdf and epub format: inner-worlds.ghost.io/downloads/
And my story in @innerworlds.bsky.social is a surreal read about disability and pain. Strangler Fig by Katharine Tyndall share.google/H5xGyp1iJZJ8...
Strangler Fig by Katharine Tyndall
I was born with a tree branch on one side instead of an arm. The doctor diagnosed it as a kind of parasitic infection previously known only in plants; I was the first ever human carrier of a plant-par...
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The Inner Worlds archive is now available free to download in pdf and epub format: inner-worlds.ghost.io/downloads/
Inner Worlds downloads
Every issue of Inner Worlds available to download as EPUB or mobile-friendly PDF.
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"Be more real": Inner Worlds and the possibilities of speculative fiction for exploring and communicating mental and emotional experiences inner-worlds.ghost.io/be-more-real... #MentalHealth #Madness #CreativeHealth #SpeculativeFiction #SpecFic #SciFi #Fantasy #Horror #Phenomenology
"Be more real": Inner Worlds and the possibilities of speculative fiction for exploring and communicating mental and emotional experiences inner-worlds.ghost.io/be-more-real... #MentalHealth #Madness #CreativeHealth #SpeculativeFiction #SpecFic #SciFi #Fantasy #Horror #Phenomenology
Thanks to everybody at the Figments conference for letting me talk at you about Inner Worlds! A copy of the paper will be up in the website later this week inner-worlds.ghost.io
"Subsume" by @chasejxyz.bsky.social is an enigmatic exploration of a many layered self and the different relationships we may hold within us. sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds... #Horror #DarkFiction #FlashFiction #SpeculativeFiction
"Tour" by @elliottgish.bsky.social is a sad and sinister story in the form of a guided tour around the house where a shocking crime has taken place. (Please note the content warnings.) sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds... #Horror #HorrorFiction #HorrorCommunity #ShortStories
In "Without A Tether" by @jonolfert.bsky.social Dainy Merced is facing a desperate situation on the refinery spaceship Sigurd. Luckily, as a 'counter' she has internal resources she can draw on 🚀 sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds... #SFF #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #ShortStories
"Zaferree Making Weather Forecasts with Voices" by @reggiekwok.bsky.social is a quietly wonderful fable about finding your place in the world. sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds... #SFF #Fantasy #MagicRealism #SpeculativeFiction
Author @thedescenters.bsky.social describes her Robot Wars-inspired story "Love Blooms on the Battlefield" as "a poetic exploration of love between two traumatised trans people". I love the way it balances humour, sadness, violence, beauty & liberatory joy 💖 sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds...
'Recollections of the Abyssopelagic Dredge' by @asterolsen.bsky.social is both a devastating allegory and a superb scifi horror story, layers which finally merge in an act of shocking violence (please note the CWs) sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds... #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SFF #Horror
'Death of a Thousand Paper Cuts' by @avramargariti.bsky.social is a wince-inducing medical horror story which captures the nightmare of a health system stripped of care and run for profit, access to treatment determined by productivity. sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds... #horror #SFF
'The Replay Weaver' by @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social is a short, shimmering story which will likely strike a chord with anyone who has tried to shift the pattern of their thoughts sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds... #SFF #Fantasy
In "First Genuine Contact" by Laura DeHaan a supernatural inconvenience becomes an opportunity. sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds... #Horror #HorrorCommunity #HorrorFam
"Bedtime Routine" by @camdenscorner.bsky.social is a short, sharp, sinister story about anxiety and the lengths we can go to trying to control it. sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds... #Horror #HorrorCommunity #HorrorFam
"Wandering the sandy trail, through the low scrub brushes and salt marshes populated with cormorants picking treats out of the tide pools, she hears the lapping waves call, sing, howl her name." Read "Ghosting Begets Haunting" by @joellekillian.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/ghosting-beg...
"I was an hour late to work because I couldn’t stop thinking about the roundabouts on the outskirts of town." Read "Never Odd or Even" by @beardedbetts.bsky.social in our latest issue. inner-worlds.ghost.io/never-odd-or... #SpeculativeFiction #SpecFic #Slipstream #SciFi #Uncanny
"Family is a game of genetic roulette and mine taught me that Love is a threat" Read "A Sign Hangs From My Hunger" by @amabilisohara.bsky.social in our latest issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/a-sign-hangs... #FlashFiction #MicroFiction #Poem #ProsePoem #Trauma
Hi everyone! Logging in for the first time in ages because this is happening on Monday 😄
Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'll be presenting a paper about Inner Worlds this June at Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity conference organised by the University of Glasgow and the Centre for Mad Culture UK.
Excited for this! Thanks again to everyone who shared their thoughts with me through the survey
Excited for this! Thanks again to everyone who shared their thoughts with me through the survey
I enjoyed how peaceful this story felt
Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · 5mo ago"The clinic called the procedure a softening. Not removal, not erasure—only a gentle sanding of the sharp places. The brochure showed a woman touching a window, sunlight balanced on her palm like a polite animal." The Listening Room by @sagemustang.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-10-the...
"I tended my seed alone, growing it deep within my bones. I watered and cherished it in marrow-drip and pleas. It grew into a fine sapling, reaching up into the skies. But its roots would not take." Read Rewilding by @ncmaha.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-10-rew...
Rewilding by NC Maha
My knees trembled under the weight of my jamun plant. I hefted it up my hip, wincing when the sapling twisted through my heart.
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"The Kuker mask strapped to my back beneath my coat bumps softly against my spine with every step. Wooden teeth, a painted snarl, fur around the crown. A mask meant to terrify winter itself into retreat" The Girl Who Rang Bells by @joannaobviously.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-10-the...
The Girl Who Rang Bells by J. Mildanoff
Wooden teeth, a painted snarl, fur around the crown. A mask meant to terrify winter itself into retreat. Meant to keep the things that lurk in the shadows at bay.
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I totally failed to find an accompanying image which captures the beauty of this piece, btw. Don't miss it because of that!
Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · 5mo ago"The clinic called the procedure a softening. Not removal, not erasure—only a gentle sanding of the sharp places. The brochure showed a woman touching a window, sunlight balanced on her palm like a polite animal." The Listening Room by @sagemustang.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-10-the...
An excellent short story with humor, grief, philosophy. It reminded me of how I feel when I'm desperate to get away from physical pain, how emotional pain can have the same impact, and also how disembodied some kinds of dissociation can be. Appropriately, the ending gave me chills. In a good way.
Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · 5mo ago"They are in the middle of saying grace when Emily turns into smoke. She doesn’t mean to. She tries to hold on as a courtesy to her in-laws." Read States of Matter by @elizabethcobbe.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-10-sta...
