Another chance to be a slush reader, folks!

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Love reading South Asian speculative fiction? Join our team as a slush reading volunteer! We're looking for passionate, committed readers, and experience in writing or editing is a plus. Send your pitch to hello.tasavvur@gmail.com to apply. #tasavvur #speculativefiction #southasian #slushreading

"In the hospital, they say my brain is melting out my nose. They don’t say it like that. They say I’m dying of a prion disease." 🦠🦌🧫 New fiction today by @anjbaker.bsky.social: "Cervidae, New and Sharp" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

Our August opener is a dark fantasy in the style of breathless prose. “Pomegranates” by G.M. Mitchell is now free to read at FFO 🦄 #writingcommunity #flashfiction #darkfantasy #horror @gmmitchell.bsky.social flashfictiononline.com/issues/augus...

August 2026 - Flash Fiction Online

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You've already dealt with "The Nightmare Delivery Service" - even if you weren't the one contracting them for delivery. They meet everyone, eventually. Why not send them to someone else? Angela Liu's story is a quick read that lingers, like a bad dream:

The Nightmare Delivery Service - Small Wonders

We know your name and what time you sleep. You know us only by sound, the tapping in the radiator at night, a voice like old bells.

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Bakotsu says his skin is our skin by Betsy Aoki art by Romie Stott "The secret of what a horse knows still bubbles and screams inside me." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Heads up! Mark your calendars! Lightspeed and Nightmare mags are holding a fundraiser starter September 15th, so get ready to support great short fiction!

Lightspeed Magazine@lightspeedmagazine.com · 2d ago

On Sept. 15, we're launching a Kickstarter to fund Year 17 of LIGHTSPEED & Year 15 of NIGHTMARE. Visit the pre-launch page now to check out what we have in store and then click the NOTIFY ME ON LAUNCH button so you can be one of the first to back in Sept. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/kickstarter/...

Making something, anything, is an act of defiance. Today we offer you "Ragescarf: A Knitting Pattern for a World Unraveling" by Amanda Saville Try it out. When things are coming apart, knitting things together can feel so satisfying...

Ragescarf: A Knitting Pattern for a World Unraveling - Small Wonders

Yarn: 500 yards of your own wool. This is the hardest part of the whole pattern. It’s been building up inside you, day by relentless day.

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Work has been... interesting lately. So, unrelated: if we get 5,000 new subscribers, one of us can make this a full time job and the other one can run like hell from a day job that is descending into utter chaos... ahem... $5/issue, $20/year magazine.trollbreath.com/membership-a...

Membership Levels - Trollbreath Magazine

Members: there’s no additional benefits for the free Member level, it’s there for you if you’re unable to afford a subscription at this time but want to keep in touch with us. Ebook: You can chose eit...

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If you haven't read the short story "Horseland" by EC Dorgan from our 🌟June 2026 issue🌟, now's your chance! This one's about authenticity and the monsters that haunt our hearts and histories, and you can read it here: havenspec.com/fiction/hors...

The best speculative fiction doesn't predict the future. It helps us understand ourselves. DreamForge Anvil Issue 24 features stories and articles about what it means to be human. Read Free online : go.dfstory.com/anvil24 or BUY on Amazon: go.dfstory.com/anvil24-amazon

“You haven’t been gone from here for very long. Seconds, maybe,” she says. “It’s July 31st. Still summer. School’s in a couple of weeks.” July 31st is an EXCELLENT day to read “Remade, Reshaped, Remembered,” a gorgeous post-portal fantasy story by @sydneyficant137.bsky.social.

Remade, Reshaped, Remembered - OTHERSIDE

“I didn’t think the portal would choose you.” This is the first thing Ma tells you when she finds you standing in your childhood bedroom, unable to remember how you got there. You are grasping for a nonexistent blade at your waist, completely baffled by your child-soft hands and your oversized basketball shorts and the […]

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It's RELEASE DAY! Lower those shoulders, take a deep breath, and read some fantastic short fiction and poetry! www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-11/

Welcome to episode 757. First, we seek vengeance in the old West (read by @barhenslee.bsky.social). Then, the bill comes due for a man’s ruthless nature (by @frankoreto.bsky.social, read by @douglasgwilym.bsky.social). talestoterrify.com/episodes/757-adam-newnham-frank-j-oreto

Maybe the real cake is the subscribers we made along the way 🎂 www.heartlines-spec.com

Heartlines Spec

Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine focused on long-term friendships and relationships. It's the comfort of the known, the fierce hug of someone that knows you best.

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Emily Yu@emilyyu.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's also pub day so give her the ultimate birthday gift by supporting Heartlines Spec :D

Did you make it to end with us? The end of July, that is. If so, all aboard! 🚂 Our closer this month is “End of the World” by Nick Ekkizogloy. This story takes eschatological religious references to a personal level. #writingcommunity #litfic #religion flashfictiononline.com/issues/july-...

July 2026 - Flash Fiction Online

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ICYMI, our ✨July 2026 issue✨ is available to read right this very moment! Subscribe or buy a copy and support small presses! And please, spread the word! Issue: havenspec.com/issues/issue... Subscribe: www.patreon.com/HavenSpecMag... Buy: ko-fi.com/s/99e6ef7ea8

Cast of Wonders 692: Laser Eyes Ain't Everything by @effies.bsky.social narrated by Jairus Durnett produced by Andrew Jack CW: ableism www.castofwonders.org/2026/07/cast...

new story first story from issue 43 for you to read ON LINE Vessel, Skin, Daughter, Stranger by @clairejiawen.bsky.social "At the time, my mother hadn’t yet instilled in me that you can only implant a body with a corporeal spirit." READ MORE NOW! 👇

Vessel, Skin, Daughter, Stranger / Claire Jia-Wen / Psychopomp

Read Vessel, Skin, Daughter, Stranger, by Claire Jia-Wen, a short story from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026.

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Read Molly Tanzer's "The City of Tears" in our new anthology project, alongside a myriad of other fantastic fiction from the Locus Recommended Reading List! We could not have asked for better supporters! http://kck.st/4wtYJ6... (link in bio) #booksky #backthebook

For those of you who are writers: Reading tons is a great way of honing your own work. Subscriptions help with that. But if you can't afford a subscription, I recommend looking into becoming a first reader for a venue like Radon Journal (see below). Slush piles will teach you a LOT.

Radon Journal@radonjournal.bsky.social · 5d ago

We'll just put it out there that no matter the month or the year, no matter if we've posted about it or not Just assume we're interested in another Marketing Editor or First Reader Like friends at a protest, one can never have enough

"Concerto For Wartime" by Sean Williams www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/conc...

Concerto For Wartime - Lightspeed Magazine

The magician raises his wand. Initially, this commission seemed simple. One large country invading a much smaller one, a clear case of aggressor and victim—but nothing is ever so straightforward.

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A curious object. A mindful mystery. A story that quietly slips under your skin. Episode 511 of The Drabblecast, "Mindful Objects," is now live. Listen now and embrace the weird. www.drabblecast.org/2026/07/30/d...

Drabblecast 511- Mindful Objects

Old tech wants to stay here on the Drabblecast this week! We bring you “Mindful Objects,” by Sandy Parsons, read to you by Jonathan Lee Wilson! Art by Tierney Steele       &nb…

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So the job comes naturally to you, brushing the Undark onto the clockface -from "Over Time" by Amelia Gorman (@gormanghast.bsky.social) in June's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poetry #scifi #poet #poem

The Tu-Chuan with No Name | 沒有名字的杜鵑 by Chen-Fu Hsu translated by Coco Zhou "On the edge of the island is a city where, because it is not far from the sea, every layer of sediment has a quality of softness like water." Link ⬇️ samovar.strangehorizons.com/2026/07/27/t...

Free Fiction Friday! Two lush and haunting poems to savor before the weekend: magazine.trollbreath.com/a-garden-on-... magazine.trollbreath.com/fall-o-clean...

PseudoPod 1040: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIX (79): Ubi amor, ibi dolor • A Table Set and Waiting, by Jordan Shiveley • Third Date, by Divya Kernan • You’re Still Here, by Thea Liu • 9 Steps to Dissecting a Ghost, by Jeanna Cammarano Multiple content warnings: see website for details

PseudoPod 1040: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIX (79): Ubi amor, ibi dolor

Ubi amor, ibi dolor – where there is love, there is pain “Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.” – C. S. Lewis No one knows who found the Dark Room first. Maybe it found us?

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Print editions of FF 28 and Saros SF 6 are now available for purchase! Skull and cobwebs not included! sarossf.com/issue-6/ www.fusionfragment.com/issue-28/

The very last poem from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on environmental justice in war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, is "Nature Knows A Little About Blooming" by Prosper C. Ìféányí. We always like to end on a high note: reckoning.press/nature-knows...

A fresh start on a new world quickly becomes something more complicated. What if the ecosystem has plans for you? go.dfstory.com/whatever-man

I could wrap it in plastic like a bonbon, let the sweetness burn my tongue, my throat—addicted, like everyone else. But maybe I already am, because when Boss says “Now study,” I do. from "The Grass is Pinker on the Other Side" by Kelley Tai www.lunastationquart...