I have an interview in the new issue of @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social where I talked a bit about my story "Brainstem Disco, 2191," how I write flash vs. poetry, and thinking in multiple languages. (Already peaked some of the poetry in this issue + might have found a new favorite for 2026 too 👀)

Orion's Belt magazine@orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 9h 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! 🌞

Photos cannot express my elation at the fan art this family brought me. It's INCREDIBLE. Pictures forthcoming.

Mark Peters@markpeters.bsky.social · 23h ago

It was wonderful meeting @wiswell.bsky.social tonight! He’s just as kind as you might expect from his writing. Thank you, John, for taking the time to meet with your readers!

It was wonderful meeting @wiswell.bsky.social tonight! He’s just as kind as you might expect from his writing. Thank you, John, for taking the time to meet with your readers!

Great essay! Definitely worth a read. Now excuse me while I go dust off some of my old favorites.

Marissa Lingen@marissalingen.bsky.social · yesterday

New essay out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/midd...

if you guys catch 5 quiet minutes today, please give “Age Cannot Wither Her” a read. it’s a sapphic love story that begs the question: do we really *have* to let go of the ones we love when they die? it also may or may not have a surprise beheading.

H. Marin@hanmarin.bsky.social · 2w ago

another of my creepy queer tales of grief and resurrection dropped in @gavagai.com this morning 🖤

ICYMI because I shared this in the middle of the night - I have a new story up at @gavagai.com! api.gavagai.com/share/posts/...

Bitter Tea

I have orchestrated this scene meticulously. Arranged every element. I know how this conversation will end, even if she does not. I do not wish to begin it. And yet.“I have been called home.” I refuse...

api.gavagai.com

It's Saturday! 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love.

Race Cars, Lasers, Aero Planes

Alt: Race Cars, Lasers, Aero Planes. Intro to DuckTales show.

static.klipy.com

Amy Koto, TV Fanatic Girl@tvfanaticgirl.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's Saturday! 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love.

First time read:

I did a little interview about my latest story “The Tongues of Ghosts” published in @foofarawpress.bsky.social . Check it out!

foofaraw press@foofarawpress.bsky.social · 6d ago

Abigail Kemske #Autopsy #Interviews https://foofaraw.press/abigail-kemske/ 〄

If you see this, quote skeet a pic of yourself in sunglasses.

Jennifer's TBR is huge...@jdawson001.bsky.social · last wk.

If you see this, quote skeet a pic of yourself in sunglasses.

Amazing story - helped get me out of a short story reading slump. Highly recommended!

🌻 Abigail Kemske 🌻@abigailkemske.bsky.social · 2w ago

My latest story "The Tongues of Ghosts" is now live on @foofarawpress.bsky.social ! This is probably my most personal story to date, and I'm really proud of it. (Look at the cute graphic I made too!) Check it out! 🔗 below.

“Once upon a time there was a silence that dreamed of becoming a song, and then I found you, and now everything is music.” - Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares (2018)

COVER REVEAL! 🎉 DOWN WHERE MONSTERS DWELL is a dark, historical fairytale steeped in Icelandic folklore, about the powerful bond between mother and daughter, and how quickly fear can lead to violence. The isolated fjords of Iceland await 🗻Coming 3.9.’27🗻 from Tor Nightfire

“Why are you wasting time when there’s such an increasing lack of it ahead?” Great new story from @babarnett.bsky.social ! A fun, quick read, but delivered with a sort of quiet restraint that makes the strangeness feel completely believable.

Gavagai@gavagai.com · 3w ago

In today's featured Editor Pick: Most travelers know better than to follow a raccoon into an airport access hatch. Knowing better, though is not quite the same as deciding not to do it. It's The In-Between Places of Terminal C by Barbara A. Barnett. Read it for free at gavagai.com

“Can glass get hugs?” Anyone who has loved (and lost) a pet should check out “Wiggle All Happy”, the latest over at Gavagai. @risawolf.bsky.social has created an inventive, bittersweet tale - read for free below!

Gavagai@gavagai.com · 4w ago

In today's featured Editor Pick: A maker tries to turn grief into something beautiful through thin strands and careful heat. What returns through the work is more fragile than she expects. It's Wiggle All Happy from Risa Wolf. Read it for free at gavagai.com

“After a pause she said, ’I see your magic is not good only for large things.’ ’Hospitality,‘ he said, ’kindness to a stranger, that's a very large thing.’“ Ursula K. Le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan (1970)

🌿 The first installment of Liken to Lichen! 🌿 I did a thing. abigail-kemske.beehiiv.com/p/the-first-...

🌿 The first installment of Liken to Lichen! 🌿

What to expect and some cool lichen.

abigail-kemske.beehiiv.com

Eeee!!! It me!!! I am so thrilled my story "Shelley's System Data for the Play Test of Sinister Susurrations" will be in this anthology. And I cannot wait to read all these other stories. I mean, wow, those titles are PERFECTION! 😍

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · last mo.

I am SO happy to announce the table of contents for [RECORDED]: An Anthology of Found Media Stories, coming to haunt you on October 13th, 2026! 🎥 📚💙 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

You can now add DICHOTOMY to your TBR on Goodreads! www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... Make sure you've got the jump (or hop?) on this before it comes out in 2027 and pre-order your copy now. Links in my profile!

Flash Fiction rec: “How His Sins Caught Up to the Unpierceable Laoji” by @muteddragon.bsky.social What a great story! I read it yesterday and I keep thinking about it today. A cleverly written piece that hits hard and lingers after the end. smallwondersmag.com/piece/how-hi...

How His Sins Caught Up to the Unpierceable Laoji - Small Wonders

“It was the first true test of the alchemist’s work. He promised me dominion over metal in exchange for crafting seven swords. An entire year’s work!"

smallwondersmag.com

The latest story from Gavagai is a beautifully written burst of dark fiction. Despite the short length, @noorlovelace.bsky.social crafts a character who is both horrifying and sympathetic.

Gavagai@gavagai.com · last mo.

In today's Editor Pick: A dark folklore tale following a cursed river woman whose beauty has destroyed men for centuries. Freed into a strange new world, she finds herself drawn toward a hunger older than death. It's Do Not Walk Near the River by Noor Lovelace! Read it for free at gavagai.com

New issue of Clarkesworld off to a great start: “The Life and Times of the Extraterrestrial Potoo” by K.J. Khan is a moving, bittersweet tale worth checking out. “I don’t know, to be honest. You just look like a Dave to me.” clarkesworldmagazine.com/khan_07_26/

The Life and Times of the Extraterrestrial Potoo by K. J. Khan

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

COVER REVEAL! Here it is, the cover of my medieval horror novel, Devilry in Godling Wood. Coming this fall from Sentinel Creatives. Art by Yanina Nesterova.

I've FINALLY set up a newsletter. First one will go out sometime in July. 🫣 Sign up here: abigail-kemske.beehiiv.com ✍️ Will include publication updates, things I've enjoyed, cool things I saw in the woods near my home & more. 🌳 Inspired by my friend @erikgrove.com I too made a logo. 💖

”’I love whom I love,‘ Prince Lir repeated firmly. ’You have no power over anything that matters.’” - Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (1968)

In today's Surreal Sunday Editor Pick: A woman inherits a relative's house and a magic 8-ball that is way too eager to offer advice. It's the darkly comic Jill's Junk Drawer Journal by Angelique Fawns! Read it at gavagai.com

This Pride Month, Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein has invited guests to review classic works of gender transition and identity. As a mid-week special, please enjoy: Ultimately and Irrevocably Tragic: Robert Aickman’s "Choice of Weapons" (1964) by Stina Patton deepcuts.blog/2026/06/27/u...

Ultimately and Irrevocably Tragic: Robert Aickman’s “Choice of Weapons” (1964) by Stina Patton

“I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes—the left—saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight …

deepcuts.blog

contract signed! a story that means a lot to me sold to @gavagai.com last night: the cold of grief and the warmth of love undying will meet to create a thick, low-hanging, mist; one where monsters will surely awaken, but it almost reminds you that the world can be beautiful, even after she’s gone…

Guess what?? I did my FIRST podcast interview recently and now you can listen to it on @jessicapixie.bsky.social Substack! On this episode I also read my story “Six Things I Wish I Had Brought From Earth.” Tell me I did alright. 😅

jessicapixiestudios@jessicapixie.bsky.social · last mo.

Enjoy @abigailkemske.bsky.social reading her short story in the recent anthology Tea or Coffee, Stars and Gravity published by @aanpress.bsky.social Next up, @leootherland.bsky.social 🤍 open.substack.com/pub/jessicap...

"I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know that for some things there is no comfort." - Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)