*Natural Neon* // ALTERED CARBON x STATION 11 A nightclub dancer risks an illegal neural implant to pay for her brother's meds, but when it connects her to other lifetimes, she becomes the key to humanity's next evolution—and its extinction. #QuestPit #A #Q #S #D #U

Hey #WritingCommunity, I'm thrilled to announce I'll be appearing in this year's @tbrcon.bsky.social: an award-winning free online writer's convention! I will be a panelist for "Writing Fear on the Page". If you're looking to make your writing scarier, tune on on YouTube from 9-10:30 AM on July 28.

RECURSION x THE OTHER VALLEY When an anxious physics doctoral fellow finds her nervous thoughts have been replaced with visions of possible futures, she'll have to stop the murder of her funding stealing rival, or risk a future darker than anything she's worried about. #WipPit #A #Spec #SF #T #Up

🌙 BETWEEN YOU, ME, AND THE MOONLIT SEA 🌊 Bell is a gumiho who wants one thing: true love. Sadly, it seems out of reach-- until they meet Tae. The problem? They also want to hill him and devour his soul. 🏳️‍🌈 Genderfluid MC 💚 Aro-Pan Love Interest 💥 Complicated Bestie Feelings #WIPPit #A #F #R #LGBT

YESTERYEAR x MEXICAN GOTHIC She loved her dark romance book boyfriends, until they came to claim her. 📖 Dark Romance BookTok-er 🏰 Mansion Turned Lab Day-Job ⚗️ Accidental Portal ⚔️ Seven Unleashed Dark MMC’s 🩸 A bloody obsession 🥮 Cinnamon Roll Coworker #WipPit #A #Spec #SF #F #SFF #H #G #Up

TREASURE PLANET × FIREFLY × COWBOY BEBOP After finding an old wrist computer on a desiccated corpse, a bookish scavenger teams up with a prodigal engineer to discover its contents while going toe to toe with a ruthless pirate captain on a lawless space station colony. #WIPPIT #A #SF

The Mercies x Corrag (The Highland Witch) x Witch Child Arealia is an orphaned witch who is not liked by the kingdom’s most popular girl. Can she survive the hunt that's out to take her life? #W #A #F #WIPPIT

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror (currently drafting) 🌲 💀 🐇 Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes. #WIPPit #W #H #A

These Curses We Bear: X-MEN x BROTHERS GRIMM Hana is cursed—but she’s not alone. Misfits. Outcasts. Abominations. Sure. But they might just be the kingdom's only hope. #WIPPIT #WIP #F #YA

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

We are 2 days out from #WIPPIT! Does everyone have their pitches ready? Lists? Are we excited?! I know I am!

a bunch of minions are gathered together and smiling for the camera

Alt: a bunch of minions are gathered together excited and jumping

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Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

This is true. #WritingCommunity Don't give up. (Just in case you needed to hear that today.)

My poem is now available to read in Small Wonders! For the full experience, it's best read when you're hungry or surviving a post-apocalyptic event 😬

Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · 4mo ago

"A Fine Powder" by AMaskley tells such a story about the world with a narrow focus on one person. Read it in our latest issue today:

"A Fine Powder" by AMaskley tells such a story about the world with a narrow focus on one person. Read it in our latest issue today:

A Fine Powder - Small Wonders

the last of it drifts into a soft dune, / pale as bone dust, fine as fallout. / A ghost of a meal.

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Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

This one hurts on an extremely personal level.

Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 4mo ago

New writing hack: stop looking at your phone

It's May! Time for May goals! - Finally finish the short fic I've been working on all year and sub it to BCS. - Add 10K to CursesWIP. - Find at least two new calls to write a story for and sub to. - WIPPit maybe?

🟣AGENT'S GUIDE 🟣 🟣A GAME OF MACHINES AND MONSTERS 🟣 🟣YA SPEC FIC / HORROR 🟣 🟣STATUS: QUERYING 🟣 #WritingCommunity / #AmWriting / #AmEditing / #Querying / #AmQuerying / #WritersLife / #Writing

Eddie Fletcher thinks he’s on the wrong end of a wind up, though MI5 isn’t prone to practical jokes, but it doesn’t take him long to realise a rift in time is no laughing matter - especially when the government thinks he's responsible and wants him dead. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

Mission Brief 13/01/1972 TOP SECRET 🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar 🕵‍♂️ Take out Soviet spies 🔫 Use a gun ❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda 📃 It’s all theoretical 😕 Apart from *that* demo ✅️ Full government endorsement 👍 Nothing can go wrong 🇷🇺 💣 💥 ⬛️ Redacted #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

FIRE SAFE & BRIMSTONE SOUND The deconstruction power fantasy you never knew you needed. ✅ Contemporary & relevant ✅ Adult fantasy & dark academia ✅ Psychological & cosmic horror ✅ Romance & spice ✅ Underrepresented & #ownvoices #QuestPit #AG #A #DF

JESSICA JONES × ARCANE 🔥 vigilante with CPTSD 🧬 trauma = living glyph-code 🧠 subterranean inventor 🐀 rat seers 🩸 trafficked girls ☄️ Manhattan’s ruins fed by grief ✨ veiled rebels ⚙️ emotion-run weapons 🗡️ fighting mutation 🕯️ healing as resistance ❤️ love as presence #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #ND #MythTech

These Curses We Bear: X-MEN x BROTHERS GRIMM Hana is cursed—but she’s not alone. Misfits. Outcasts. Abominations. Sure. But they might just be the kingdom's only hope. #QuestPit #W #DF #YA

Watch this and try and convince me you aren't intrigued!

AMaskley@amaskley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NATURAL NEON / speculative noir / ALTERED CARBON x STATION ELEVEN: 🌺 Cyberpunk + Reincarnation 🔪 Morally f*cked up characters 🦾 Androids & Swamp cults ⌛️ Nonlinear timelines 📚 Literary leaning 90k words. Agent Guide📌 #QuestPit #A #Q #S

"You want to hurt me, baby? Fine. I’ll give you everything you need to make me the monster of your story.” #QuestPit #A #Q #S

Elina has never been anything but a thief, certain that redemption is a fairy tale. But as death closes in, she can’t ignore the truth: if she’s going to die anyway, her soul replaced with a legendary hero's, wouldn’t it be better to let him take her place? Click for full image #QuestPit #Q #A #F

SEVERANCE x SILO Nova feels too much, and it could get her mind wiped clean. She's a state memory technician erasing people's most emotionally volatile memories, until her grief unleashes a phantom who remembers everything she's erased. And he won't let her forget. #QuestPit #Q #A #S #SFF #SF #U

THE MAD WIFE x DON’T WORRY DARLING with a southern gothic twist What if your sleep paralysis demon is more grounded in reality than you ever thought before? (P.S. this is my first ever Bluesky post!) #questpit #A #T #amquerying #PsychologicalThriller @questpit.bsky.social

Yes, and where can I get one please? 😍

ContempraInn 🌹@contemprainn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Kingfisher Bird