Today's SFF story: Like a Scorched House on Fire by @hlfullerton.bsky.social in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social. I probably shouldn't be rooting for this protagonist (for multiple reasons), but I really am. www.nightshadesmag.com/ns-like-a-sc...

Like a Scorched House on Fire

by H.L. Fullerton He'd burned down the house three times, and yet still it stood. White-skinned. Two stories squatting over a grave-deep basement. Nine eyes and devil-black mouth in the front; a set ...

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Today's SFF story: Ananconfabulation by @marofthebooks.bsky.social. "We sleep whenever we want since we don’t have day or night anymore." I love the narrative voice here: a literally limited perspective that gives just enough detail to make it fascinating. podcastle.org/2026/03/24/p...

Today's SFF story: The Homeowner's Bride by @ayidashonibar.bsky.social. Ooh, this one was so fun. Snappy, angry, and downright romantic. I especially loved the pacing. It could have easily been twice as long, but it packs so much into its 4000 words... 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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Today's SFF story: Leygr by @prioryruins.bsky.social in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social "To them, that place is sacred—do you know why? There is a story that, long ago, a village child nearly drowned there, but was saved by a stranger." I said OHH MY GODDD out loud! magazine.trollbreath.com/leygr/

Leygr - Trollbreath Magazine

Leygr

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Today's SFF story: Plum Century by @srinivassimo.bsky.social. I'm learning a lot about my reading (& writing) as I turn my saved story list into these posts. For example, I love powerful, ambiguously alive ladies who show up in some kind of mysterious between-place. psychopomp.com/fantasy/nove...

Today's SFF story: The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social. Of course, as a Hadestown fan, I loved this story about people trapped in stories. What if our feline Hermes actually could say something that changed the ending? www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night

I was not there at the beginning of Lietta’s story (I am never there for beginnings) so I will tell it to you as I imagine it. Not from the very start—the...

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Today's SFF story: Chlorophilia by @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social. Love a gleefully gruesome tone and a character who is ALSO gleeful about the ghastliness. I assume spinningjenny is still thriving in the woods behind my old dorm at Bennington. augursociety.org/chlorophilia/

Today's SFF story: Protectors of the Red, Red Earth by @avramargariti.bsky.social. Two neat story arcs in a very short narrative, one secretly nestled inside the other just like....well, never mind. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/prot...

Protectors of the Red, Red Earth - Uncharted

“There is an animal,” I tell my young apprentice, “that can make other species protect it to the death.” Clay keeps notes as we crouch low in the dugout, watching the ant-wasp hill under the soft redl...

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Today's SFF story: Beartrap by Lesley Warren. One of those stories that immediately got me to search the author's name to see if she'd written a book to buy. Compelling 1st person POV, haunted prehistoric-tinged world, narrative that is absolutely sure of what it's doing. moondaymag.com/beartrap

Moonday Mag - Beartrap

Lesley Warren

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Today's SFF story: How To Remain Safe In A Conversation If You're Somebody's Wife by @debbieurbanski.bsky.social. One of my favorite horror types is "what if it's actually *not* just your anxiety." Lots of terrifying dialogue here. Fun!! Good luck, Katie. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/how-...

How To Remain Safe During A Conversation If You’re Somebody’s Wife - Uncharted

“Don’t leave me home alone today,” she says. “You’re home alone every day. You work at home,” he points out. His name is Johnny or, more informally, Jon. Hers is Katherine, or Katie, or Kat. They sit ...

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Today's SFF story: The Somnambulist by @mckatie.bsky.social. “I knew you’d be here,” he says. Something troubled and uncertain distorts his schoolboy vowels. “I had a dream about it.” I love bogs and mysteries and main characters who are in way over their heads. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

3LBE Magazine - The Somnambulist by Katie McIvor

It was supposed to be a simple job. I fly into Edinburgh and get the gun from a contact in the Grassmarket. All smooth. I check into my hotel near the mark's flat and spend a couple hours scoping out ...

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Today's SFF story: Just listed: Hardwood Floors and a Generous Curse by @valeriesirenko.bsky.social. This one made me cry. Granted, anything related to the terrible absurdities of rent & mortgages can make me cry, but this time I think it was because of the story. www.orions-belt.net/archives/jus...

Just Listed: Hardwood Floors and a Generous Curse — Orion's Belt

The other noises are less trivial.

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Today's SFF story: The Claywife by @tanadrin.bsky.social. This story fascinated me, and I immediately loved it. The punctuation shows as much about the main character as the prose: a mechanical rhythm can hide a great depth of feeling. othersidespec.com/pieces/the-c... @othersidespec.bsky.social

The Claywife - OTHERSIDE

I am bringing a rind of bread to the daughter in the lamp-house again. This is the third time. In the path along the garth-wall a hortulan stops me and demands to know my errand. I hesitate and he dem...

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Today's SFF story: Brincando Charcos by @benfrancisco.bsky.social in Strange Horizons. I was rooting for Javier and Mateo so hard. A tender, honest story about what magic is and isn't, and people learning how to get out of their own way. strangehorizons.com/fiction/brin...

Today's SFF story: Me an’ Streeter (an’ Vince) Chase a Comet by Christopher Degni in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social. Oh my gosh I loved this whole issue, and it starts with a banger. Some very talented voice actor should read this one out loud. flashfictiononline.com/issues/febru...

February 2026 - Flash Fiction Online

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Today's SFF story: Everyone Hates It When The Alien Shows Up At The Club by @elijah.mea.rs. 1. Every so often I find myself thinking "(Yuck (yuck (yuck (yuck (yuck)))))" and chuckling. 2. I would say I'd watch this show, but it's also so fun to read?? flashfictiononline.com/issues/febru...

February 2026 - Flash Fiction Online

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Today's SFF story: The Prison-House of Language by @mor1233.bsky.social. I love a great first-person POV and this was no exception. "Language, to me, is a dangerous and unwanted thing, a brutal intrusion into my inner space. I became a linguist." www.penumbric.com/archives/Dec...

Today's sff story: The Garden by Emma Törzs. One of the MANY from Uncanny that made me think, "huh, I've never read anything like this." The setting and narrator are both wonderful mysteries, and I loved how they solve each other. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

The Garden - Uncanny Magazine

Most mornings, the woman sits in her garden. Most mornings, I sit on my roof. In this way, looking down over the tall stone walls of her courtyard, I can see her grey head bent over her grey hands. Sh...

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Today's fantasy story: The Voice And Her Knife by @anamariacurtis.bsky.social. I love beautiful stories about terrible people. Raw meat and devotion. What else could you want? beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Voice and Her Knife by AnaMaria Curtis

The ambassador takes a bite of her fish. It rolls across her tongue, rich and sweet with the barest hint of salt. It is not the flavor that she savors. She can feel the burst of energy from it almost ...

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I love a) reading speculative short stories and b) making lists. Every day, starting today and going for as long as I feel like it, I'm going to post about one story that I've recently read and loved.

The Spear Cuts Through Water got quite a bit of recognition, but I want to be able to talk about it with random people on the street.

Marty Cahill@mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 3w ago

What's a book you love with all your goddamn heart that you believe did NOT get the love and attention it's due? I'll go first, and it's abso-LUT-ely THE CITY IN GLASS by Nghi Vo. There are moments from that book that live in my blood and wake me from the dark.

My lesson from September so far: stop choosing audiobooks that make you think "jeez, are there really still 5 hours left?" instead, choose audiobooks that make you think "OH GOODY I GET TO LISTEN TO JADE CITY BY FONDA LEE"