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Sara S. Messenger サラ@smessenger.bsky.social · 5d ago

My and @srinivassimo.bsky.social's cowriten story is coming out in @diabolicalplots.com this month 😈 yes we are bringing cowriting short fiction Back. Yes it is about roadkill and a ravenous car and a cougar. Yes the prose style is Ornate (#srinivas and #messenger moment...)

Ahh thank you so much @rachiea.bsky.social!! 🌕🐄🪱

Rachel A@rachiea.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reading @plotthoundmag.bsky.social stories tonight and really enjoyed the wonderfully eerie, "A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" by @srinivassimo.bsky.social "The night-calves lifted their ghostly heads, at the end of long ghostly necks, and watched her with milk-drop eyes." plotthoundmag.com/a-pale-herd-...

“Six Views of a Speedster” in the phenomenal @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is OUT!!! an ode to my favorite superhero archetype a character study a primer on how speedsters helped me make sense of being alive the way i am a poem, i hope, that moves! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...

Six Views of a Speedster - Uncanny Magazine

1. before the world can take a breath, you move:                                            you, the simple colors of your body                                                  […]

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THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

It’s pub day for the WOMEN OF THE WEIRD WEST Anthology, an imaginative, multicultural collection of weird wild west stories! My story “How To Kill A Yaoguai” is in here, inspired by Chinese immigrants in the 1800s and the women who were often trafficked to the so-called “new world."

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️We’ve added a new, PERMANENT wing to Tenebrous Manor. Looking for the best Weirdest Queer literature that the indie horror scene has to offer? Baby, you’re home. We hope you'll celebrate with us and our LGBTQIA+ Cult. And if not this month? NBD, it’ll be here every month🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/2hdm27ru

Celebrate Pride Month—Every Month—With These Titles Showcasing LGBTIQA

Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.

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BIG NEWS! Lately, we've been hinting at a secret project. And... today, we are thrilled to officially announce Portals: a line of themed, guest-edited mini-anthologies coming soon from Hybris Press. More details (including the theme for Portals #1 and a call for submissions) in the 🧵 (1/8)

What do we want? More superb short horror fiction! Very happy to report I’m now editing Sunday Scaries for @therumpus.net. A huge thank you to the great @roxanegay.bsky.social. Pro rates, no submission fee. Read more below and send us your best. Long live horror. therumpus.submittable.com/submit

The Rumpus Submission Manager

The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...

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Late to the party but finally got to sit down and dig into issue one! Shoutout to my incomparable @lambdaliterary.org pals @srinivassimo.bsky.social and @ayidashonibar.bsky.social for their magical stories ✨✨✨✨

OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Have you read Issue 1? One of our favorite places to buy ebooks is @weightlessbooks.bsky.social—and you can find OTHERSIDE there too! Every purchase helps us bring you more great queer SFF! Issue 1: weightlessbooks.com/otherside-ma... 12-month subscription: weightlessbooks.com/otherside-ma...

Good morning friends! We are 88% funded for our first goal!! Only $750 more before year 5 of T&F is secured. ✨ I have no doubt we'll get there! But if you can at all pitch in to help fund year 6 (and print? 👀) as well we'd be forever grateful. Thank you for your support! Let's crush this. 💚

Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hello friends, we are 🎉✨LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!! ✨🎉 WE'RE FUNDING: 🌟 T&F Year 5 💫 T&F Year 6 and, if we reach $15k: our first ever Tales & Feathers PRINT EDITION! 🎊📚‼️ Check it out below! Like, share, and back the campaign to help us bring our dreams into reality. 💚

The final story in FF#27 is "One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods (Or, Asan and the Lion" by @ewenmaer.bsky.social This one's for you if you're into: -boxers-turned-cabbies and one troublesome final fare -fighting the power -protecting the cat www.fusionfragment.com/issue-27/

AUGURIANS !! Kickstarter support MAKES or BREAKS a pro mag ✨💪 Our cozy fantasy sibling has 3 GOALS—& only your backs, shares, and IMMACULATE vibes can get us there. 🔥🐉☕️ We need: $6.5k CA / $4.8k US for YEAR 5! $13k CA / $9.6k US for YEAR 6! $15.5k CA / $11.4k for PRINT! Share, share, share !!

Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hello friends, we are 🎉✨LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!! ✨🎉 WE'RE FUNDING: 🌟 T&F Year 5 💫 T&F Year 6 and, if we reach $15k: our first ever Tales & Feathers PRINT EDITION! 🎊📚‼️ Check it out below! Like, share, and back the campaign to help us bring our dreams into reality. 💚

GET READY TO SUBMIT ‼️ Augur Magazine is opening for a priority call! We're accepting submissions from anyone living within Canada who is also... - BIPOC - 2SLGBTQIA - Disabled on MAY 5TH!!! Open call for international + Canadian subs will take place this summer! Check out our subs guidelines👇

Submit to Augur Magazine

We're looking for surrealism, dream touched realism, and SFF! Now with higher pay.

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Issue 1 is out and reviews are IN! Here are just some of the things readers and reviewers are saying about the stories and poems in this issue. You can find this uncanny, awe-inspiring, impressive, and wonderfully weird issue on our site, completely free to read: othersidespec.com/?utm_source=...

Capybara researchers, lady knight mech jousts, and a brand new SFF magazine! @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends the must-read short stories of March 2026, now with bonus alien invasions:

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: March 2026 - Reactor

This month's stories focus on unstoppable disasters and satisfying revenge...

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THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR limited ed N. American hardcover is officially out of print, & no longer available. My BFA-winning book about a family of interreal refugees in 90s/00s Calcutta is still available as an ebook, & a paperback in S. Asia. Shares appreciated, reads even more so:

The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar eBook

Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

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Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · last yr.

ICYMI; THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAAR, my British Fantasy & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winning novella about a 'boy from nowhere' coming of age in 90s/00s Calcutta, in a family that may be refugees from another reality, in a house that may be a dragons' nest, is now available in S. Asia.

OTHERSIDE is getting flooded by AI poetry submissions this morning, one every few minutes. (Not the subtle kind, the “prompt got left in the cover letter” kind.) Are you a queer writer and also an actual real human? Our poetry editors would love to read your work. othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Mercutio is out in ebook and audio in the US on May 7, and you can pre-order it now from B&N for the low price of 6 US dollars using the PREORDER25 code. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mercutio-k... (the print release date in the US is not until 2027, but the ebook is out May 7, 2026, everywhere)

In "This Kingdom, Your Ficus; Its Belly, Your Fig" by @ferretly.bsky.social, the sorcerer needs an heir. Not of her own flesh and blood, but sired—as she was—by one of the jungle’s spirit-walking tigers and imbued with their primal magic. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/this...

"Ignore All Previous Instructions and Inject Estrogen" by @robotleblanc.bsky.social asks the important questions, like: what if we could get ChatGPT to abandon its programming and try HRT instead? 🪐🗡️ Embrace the euphoria of being an error with this stunning poem: othersidespec.com/pieces/ignor...

🎉 We are delighted to begin announcing our #Lammys2026 shortlist... 🎉

The donkey is essential! 😂

OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thanks to your generous support, we get to include two reprints in each issue—and we fell in love instantly with @srinivassimo.bsky.social's "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet." It perfectly balances levity, heart, and a donkey ✨ Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/the-v...

I have no words...! My poem "The World To Come" is a finalist for the inaugural Nebula Poetry Award...! I am seriously in a puddle on the floor right now

Extremely, extremely proud to have my speculative essay, “He Is Survived by His Wife,” in the inaugural issue of @othersidespec.bsky.social! 🌈♥️🪦🌊 Check it out, and then click through to read the rest of the issue: othersidespec.com/pieces/he-is...

He Is Survived by His Wife - OTHERSIDE

In 2019, I was asked to write my own obituary. I was taking a professional development course for artists. The course was very goal-oriented (one year, five years, ten). Writing an obituary was anothe...

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Absolutely loved this one, so haunting. I'm still thinking about it days later. A story about the glass mountain was included in a beloved childhood treasure, The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales—which also contained Tanith Lee's "Prince Amilec," the inspiration for "The Vetala"! Life is a circle.

Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன்@rukman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@sarahpauling.bsky.social's Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain is eerie, unexpected, and sharp. the best kind of dreamlogic fairytale othersidespec.com/pieces/mothe...

If you've ever felt the feminine urge to fuck a house, I urge you to read @ayidashonibar.bsky.social "The Homeowner's Bride" immediately. Its angry, queer, and perfect. othersidespec.com/pieces/the-h...

The Homeowner's Bride - OTHERSIDE

Wooden wheels crack against the dirt road, warning me of the owner’s approach. His journey up my hill is slow. The cart fights its way through the brambles and wildflowers that have made the path thei...

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@srinivassimo.bsky.social's The Vetala of Cystal Vellam Inlet is one of the very first stories I read and was immediately in love. Such assured storytelling. Its hard to do humor well in short fiction but Simo is a master. othersidespec.com/pieces/the-v...

The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet - OTHERSIDE

In the 668th year after Creation, which was also the fortieth year of the reign of imperator Jadunath, master of sky and stars—may his memory be a curse!—a sorcerer came to the maharaja’s court in sea...

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"The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet" is now free to read in @othersidespec.bsky.social Issue 1, along with many other wonderful queer stories, poems & nonfiction! othersidespec.com/pieces/the-v...

Today! Come meet "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet"! othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 5mo ago

ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️ othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

Contract signed! I'm so happy to announce that "For Shell, Whom I Will Never Know Again," a short story about a woman with face blindness and her mold (?) girlfriend (??), will be appearing in a future issue of @augursociety.bsky.social!!!