The Stalk Market by Sean Dowie maudlinhouse.net/the-stalk-ma...
Sean Dowie
@seandowie.bsky.social
Writer of stories, reader of more. Words in HAD, Maudlin House, hex. sean-dowie.com
I have a new story out in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social, and my ex loves it. Link in the comments.
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Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are SO close to reaching our next goal, which is to #PayJonathan. We've curated an exclusive backers-only digital collector's pack that will unlock when we hit it! Listen to audio clips from your fave authors + read vintage Locus! Unlock by backing @ http://kck.st/4wtYJ6X
“Imbecilic leeches in buxom figures!” I shout at them. “You really think I’m buxom?” asks my insecure friend, smiling and looking reassured for the first time since I’ve known her. This is so delightful! A great @seandowie.bsky.social fairy tale in @hexliterary.bsky.social today!
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 3mo ago"I need to become a wrinkly, bitter old person immediately." The hex crew is very excited to have @seandowie.bsky.social back with another strange and hilarious tale! Sean's latest is a surprising and wonderful take on youth in which everything goes... right? Don't miss Oldgirl, up now on the site!
Needed something weird to read first thing. ❤️
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 3mo ago"I need to become a wrinkly, bitter old person immediately." The hex crew is very excited to have @seandowie.bsky.social back with another strange and hilarious tale! Sean's latest is a surprising and wonderful take on youth in which everything goes... right? Don't miss Oldgirl, up now on the site!
My favorite critic loved my story Oldgirl in @hexliterary.bsky.social! I've read Huck's short fiction roundups for years. It's where I discovered my favorite authors. I dreamed of being included, but believed I wasn’t “good enough”. Well, Oldgirl didn’t get in his roundup…it got a damn video!
"I need to become a wrinkly, bitter old person immediately." Everything @seandowie.bsky.social writes is surprising and funny and wonderful, and I'm feeling SO stoked that we get to feature his third with @hexliterary.bsky.social! Don't miss this witchy wonder!!! "Oldgirl" is up now!
Oldgirl by Sean Dowie
I need to become a wrinkly, bitter old person immediately. Adolescence is such a bore. My friends obsess over boys, gossip, and grades. I’m shorter than my peers (which would be a perfect height fo...
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"I need to become a wrinkly, bitter old person immediately." The hex crew is very excited to have @seandowie.bsky.social back with another strange and hilarious tale! Sean's latest is a surprising and wonderful take on youth in which everything goes... right? Don't miss Oldgirl, up now on the site!
Oldgirl by Sean Dowie
I need to become a wrinkly, bitter old person immediately. Adolescence is such a bore. My friends obsess over boys, gossip, and grades. I’m shorter than my peers (which would be a perfect height fo...
hexliterary.com
“‘It is what it is.’ Fluff masquerading as profundity is almost always the apt thing to say.”
Corporations!
I love corporations. When I play video games, I imagine my character as a badass CEO. He’s wearing a suit, mowing down enemies without remorse, sweating from his hard-earned victory. Most people are t...
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Locus Magazine (@locusmag.bsky.social)
Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination. https://locusmag.com linktr.ee/locusmagazine
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Apparently, Thursday is the day I shout about Tuesday posts, so here we are! I'm clearly not great at doing appropriate timing. Oops XD Anyway, this week's stories are from @jennahanchey.bsky.social and @seandowie.bsky.social It's some beautiful weird stuff this time, and you should come look!
Two Fic Tuesday for March 17th
Hi, hello and welcome! I have two very different stories for you this week, but I think that's part of the fun of getting to share stuff with all of you each week. These both stirred feelings in me, though they were also very different. Still, each time I was
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This is my "Year in Review" piece at Locus, where I talk about some of the titles I enjoyed. locusmag.com/feature/the-... Also - By the Numbers 10, from F&SF, for folks who haven't seen it yet: "What are the experiences of authors of color in publishing?" arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...
The Year in Review 2025 by Arley Sorg
The Year in Review 2025 2025 has been another tumultuous, terrible year for a lot of people in this country. Hate and prejudice seem to drive the decisions and actions of individuals in power, refl…
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Congratulations to our four Nebula Award finalists: @wtalabi.com, @somtoihezue.bsky.social, @hhpak.bsky.social, and @thomasha.bsky.social! Links to their stories in thread. Full list of finalists here: locusmag.com/2026/03/2025...
2025 Nebula Awards Ballot
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has released the finalists for the 2025 Nebula Awards. Novel When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga) The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Gr…
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Hey! "Uncertain Sons" (novelette) and "In My Country" (short story) are Nebula finalists. All thanks to @undertow.bsky.social and @clarkesworldmagazine.com respectively. These would not be there without them. Thanks as well to readers who enjoyed these stories. And congrats to all the finalists!
Cooking something weird for this day.
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis Friday (March 20), at 12pm ET, the hex gates will open once more. We will have a cap of 200 submissions, so PLEASE only one submission per writer. hex recently celebrated our 4th (!!!) year of existence and we couldn't do it without all of you incredible folks! Thank you and C u soon! <3 😈
Peeps, social media is fickle and volatile. hex is steadfast. Click here, and sign up for our email list to stay apprised of future openings. Speaking of which... Mark your calendars for March, 20th at noon. See you then 😈
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Guidelines hex publishes flash literary fiction and prose poetry with speculative elements. We welcome the surreal, the weird, and the uncanny. Scare us, surprise us, take us to space. Show us how ...
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A little nervy to share my FIRST EVER published verse poem! I feel so honored and lucky that @burialmagazine.bsky.social thought it decent enough to feature it! This one was inspired by a @toddedillard.bsky.social post! Todd is a phenom poet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THX 4 LOOKING! <3
Bathtub
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I have a new short story out in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social! I think it's pretty cool. It's my shortest one yet, so those folks with short attention spans will LOVE this. maudlinhouse.net/jack-the-rip...
Jack the Ripper
There’s been a seismic shift in the world. I’m not ripping many movie theater tickets anymore. Working at AMC was a dream. My manager called me a rip-roaring guy because I ripped customers’ tickets pr...
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New @seandowie.bsky.social RIPS and I mean that both as a fantastic pun as well as a sincere compliment because Sean continues to write some of the funniest short fiction around
Maudlin House@maudlinhouse.bsky.social · 8mo agoJack the Ripper by Sean Dowie maudlinhouse.net/jack-the-rip...
“If you don’t bind things together well they will fly away” New on hex today, a gorgeous story of flight and transcendence from Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social ! Read “Dispersal” here! 👇🪶✨
Dispersal by Phoenix Alexander
After the last one (eight years, no children) you say: enough. There are too many rules to human love and every new partner changes them, anyway. Time for something else. Apartment like a perch: glass...
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I think Sam is pretty routinely funny and great! @kylerseibel.bsky.social always manages the funny to punch to the gut short story as well! and we've pubbed some HILARIOUS @seandowie.bsky.social stories on @hexliterary.bsky.social !!
“Final Boy,” by Sam Lipsyte
“Oh, you write fan fiction,” she said. “We all write fan fiction,” I told her. “Some of us are just more honest about it.”
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REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!! www.neonhemlock.com/were-here
we're here — neon hemlock
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In 2022, 2023, and 2024 I had 0(!) publications, and countless rejections. It was a bummer, and I wondered if anyone cared about my weird stories. This year, I had 6 publications. Thanks to those who have accepted and read my work, showing me that maybe I'm not the shittiest writer.
I have a story out today titled Corporations!. It's my favorite thing I've had published this year. Thanks to @maudlinhouse.bsky.social for finding a home for it. I like nothing more than a story that's funny and has a dramatic core that's depressing as fuck. Enjoy! maudlinhouse.net/corporations/
Corporations!
I love corporations. When I play video games, I imagine my character as a badass CEO. He’s wearing a suit, mowing down enemies without remorse, sweating from his hard-earned victory. Most people are t...
maudlinhouse.net
Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social and @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for including As The Earth Dreams!! 🥹💜🩵🖤 reactormag.com/reviewers-ch...
Reviewers' Choice: The Best Books of 2025 - Reactor
Reactor’s regular book reviewers talk about notable titles they read in 2025
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"So this twink in green tights swoops through your window, drugs you, then whisks you away to an island with gnashing crocodiles and famished cannibals and some madman with a rusty hook for a hand..." It's a damn thrill to have @sethwade.bsky.social back in hex with another wonderful creeper! 👁️
See Something, Say Something by Seth Wade
So this twink in green tights swoops through your window, drugs you, then whisks you away to an island with gnashing crocodiles and famished cannibals and some madman with a rusty hook for a hand—that...
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I'm RUINED. I just started a booktube channel, and the views/subscriber count are so LOW. I'm an ugly, crying mess! Subscribe to my channel (link in the comments) if you don't want to see this face again.
