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Sara S. Messenger サラ

@smessenger.bsky.social

pensive writer clown. Nebula Award Winner. work in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, more. read the novelette pubbed somewhere that doesnt accept novelettes. Jennifer's Body-inspired weird teen gator horror in Nightmare, pinned. https://sarasmessenger.com/

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Sara S. Messenger サラ@smessenger.bsky.social · yesterday

For this year's SFF novelette awards, please consider my horror novelette in @nightmare-magazine.com (rarely pubs novelettes) — Jennifer's Daughter! Sad teens, first crush, Florida gators, mom furtively dripping blood in the hallway. & Jennifer's Body. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/jenn...

Jennifer’s Daughter - Nightmare Magazine

My mom was sixteen when a band of boys took her out to the woods and bound her to a tree and tortured her to death, like in Jennifer’s Body, so you see her womb was kinda already out of commish by the...

nightmare-magazine.com

Sara S. Messenger サラ@smessenger.bsky.social · yesterday

For this year's SFF novelette awards, please consider my horror novelette in @nightmare-magazine.com (rarely pubs novelettes) — Jennifer's Daughter! Sad teens, first crush, Florida gators, mom furtively dripping blood in the hallway. & Jennifer's Body. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/jenn...

Jennifer’s Daughter - Nightmare Magazine

My mom was sixteen when a band of boys took her out to the woods and bound her to a tree and tortured her to death, like in Jennifer’s Body, so you see her womb was kinda already out of commish by the...

nightmare-magazine.com

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃@wnwagner.bsky.social · 3d ago

Folks, Lightspeed & Nightmare magazines need your support. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/a...

Announcement: We're Launching a New Kickstarter Soon. Sign up to be notified when it launches! - Lightspeed Magazine

On September 15, 2026, we’ll be launching our first Kickstarter campaign in more than a decade, to fund Year 17 of Lightspeed and Year 15 of Nightmare. Join us for a year of new short fiction from som...

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Esther Alter@esther-alter.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yesss @neonhemlock.bsky.social met its initial funding goal for the novella series! Another 2k and you’ll get my novella. You want to feel really uncomfortable about roommate dynamics, right? You want to process your pre 2024 election feelings, right? Well: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven

Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly

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tina s. zhu@tinazhu.bsky.social · 4d ago

hello friends I have a story in The Dark this month!! it’s a reprint from an anthology that I hope is spooky heheh (cw toxic relationship, racist character) www.thedarkmagazine.com/portrait-of-...

Portrait of a Woman in a Red Qipao - The Dark Magazine

Most everyone has heard the Ben Franklin saying that death and taxes are the only constants in life. But there’s one more. I call it the Law of the Door. If someone tells you not to open a door, you a...

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Seoung@seoungkim.bsky.social · 6mo ago

21 - Jennifer's Daughter by Sara S. Messenger. ohhh i had fun hanging out in the florida swamp with these sad teens... rly got a sense of the isolation that comes with having overprotective parents (who have their reasons! but that doesn't help the kids!) www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/jenn...

Jennifer’s Daughter - Nightmare Magazine

My mom was sixteen when a band of boys took her out to the woods and bound her to a tree and tortured her to death, like in Jennifer’s Body, so you see her womb was kinda already out of commish by the...

nightmare-magazine.com

Sara S. Messenger サラ@smessenger.bsky.social · last wk.

At Readercon I ran into Casella doing some on-the-ground reporting with @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org. We talk about weaving, the technicals of word count with my recent @nightmare-magazine.com novelette, and a flash fiction reading I enjoyed. Thank you for my first podcast interview!

A Meal of Thorns@mealofthorns.bsky.social · last wk.

New Episode! Reporting back from this year's @readercon.org, w/interviews with @lisajune.bsky.social, @smessenger.bsky.social, & @englelaird.bsky.social. Plus, talks with Katherine & @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social of @portersqbooks.bsky.social and their new review project!

sean guynes@guynes.bsky.social · last wk.

Among other things, @casella.bsky.social visits Porter Square Books and discusses their new Review of Books. This was, for a few years, my local bookstore so I've been chuffed to see all the attention it has gotten lately.

A Meal of Thorns@mealofthorns.bsky.social · last wk.

New Episode! Reporting back from this year's @readercon.org, w/interviews with @lisajune.bsky.social, @smessenger.bsky.social, & @englelaird.bsky.social. Plus, talks with Katherine & @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social of @portersqbooks.bsky.social and their new review project!

Sara S. Messenger サラ@smessenger.bsky.social · last wk.

At Readercon I ran into Casella doing some on-the-ground reporting with @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org. We talk about weaving, the technicals of word count with my recent @nightmare-magazine.com novelette, and a flash fiction reading I enjoyed. Thank you for my first podcast interview!

A Meal of Thorns@mealofthorns.bsky.social · last wk.

New Episode! Reporting back from this year's @readercon.org, w/interviews with @lisajune.bsky.social, @smessenger.bsky.social, & @englelaird.bsky.social. Plus, talks with Katherine & @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social of @portersqbooks.bsky.social and their new review project!

A Meal of Thorns@mealofthorns.bsky.social · last wk.

New Episode! Reporting back from this year's @readercon.org, w/interviews with @lisajune.bsky.social, @smessenger.bsky.social, & @englelaird.bsky.social. Plus, talks with Katherine & @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social of @portersqbooks.bsky.social and their new review project!

A Meal of Thorns 55- Readercon & the PSRB

In this con-coverage episode, Casella talks to folks at Readercon in Boston, including Lisa from Narrated, author Sara S. Messenger, and editor Carl Engle-Laird. We also visit Porter Square Books, …

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Lynne Sargent@lynnesargent.bsky.social · last wk.

And the vote passes! We now have a #specpo Hugo through 2029 at least, at which point it will go through a re-ratification process. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported this effort & to my dear community of poets. Here's hoping translation is next.

Lynne Sargent@lynnesargent.bsky.social · last wk.

Today is the day! (Probably, we can't know 100%) but the vote on a Poetry Hugo is scheduled at today's WSFS meeting, 12EDT/9PDT. If you're attending #LAConV you can come and vote! Please do. More info at the link about the business meeting: www.lacon.org/businessmeet...

Esther Alter@esther-alter.bsky.social · 2w ago

I WROTE A NOVELLA AND IT'S GETTING PUBLISHED. Quiet Hours is queer housing horror. Have you ever had a bad roommate? If so, you know how bad it can get. This is a novella that (I hope) we need and deserve: we're all trying to defend each other from the enemy, but sometimes the enemy is in the house

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 2w ago

The finalfinalfinalforreal.doc title is @esther-alter.bsky.social's QUIET HOURS, a truly disturbing and keenly rendered literary queer housing horror. Esther's book will be added to this novella series as our first STRETCH GOAL, so please help us fund!

QUIET HOURS Esther Alter Neon Hemlock