Trollbreath Magazine
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Quarterly speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction Unapologetically antifascist and feminist. NO AI!!!! Spec SFF magazine.trollbreath.com https://ko-fi.com/trollbreathmagazine https://linktr.ee/trollbreath
"I remember the before times, in 2020, when words were written upon our skulls by the hands of god, to be painfully reaped with ink and quill. Now such times have passed and our harvest..." Sorry! Shall I write that in a more more modern form?... "AI is dope, kids! Do AI!" #AuthorsNotAlgorithms
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 18h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Congratulations to all the brilliant finalists, and a shout out to @renanbernardo.com , whose story "Prayskin" graces our current issue! locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...
2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists
The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…
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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...
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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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Welcome to August! Only one month to go until our 9th issue drops. Edits will be going out to authors soon (probably today). In the meantime, we can finally reveal the absolutely gorgeous cover, slightly revamped from our previous style, with original art by Tobias Roetsch. Ain't it beautiful?
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...
Tomorrow is Free Fiction Friday, when we'll release 2 poems from our latest issue to the public. Meanwhile, here's a Throwback Thursday story by Louis Inglis Hall from issue 3. Your subscription helps us pay fabulous authors like Louis! $5/issue, $20/year magazine.trollbreath.com/founders-kee...
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Founders Keepers
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Psssstttt ... three more days* .... Pass it on! * (until the cover reveal for issue #9!)
Cover reveal! No release date set, but we're drawing closer to finalizing our first anthology! 60 stories and 24 poems published in Trollbreath Magazine over the course of our first two years. It will be available in ebook & print. Cover art: Betidraws Trollbreath Magazine: Volume One (2024-2025)
Featuring stories from @fusionfragment.bsky.social, @othersidespec.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, @lunastation.bsky.social, @unchartedmag.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @pseudopod.org, @trollbreathmag.bsky.social, @flashpointsf.bsky.social, and @escapepod.org.
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2w agoNew short speculative fiction time! My picks from June: reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
Free Fiction Friday! The angel stirred in her crystal egg, unfurling her six greater limbs ... while the smaller appendages arrayed down her long abdomen ... twitched into life, filaments of stray starlight whisking around their spinneret tips. magazine.trollbreath.com/the-burning-...
Congrats to Plangdi Neple ( @plangdi.bsky.social ) whose story, "Somewhere Among Fallen Leaves," was among Alex Brown's notably stories for June! Issue 8 is available via subscription today, or you can wait until August 7th for Plangdi's Free Fiction Friday debut. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: June 2026 - Reactor
Ten great SFF stories featuring fox spirits, dystopian puppets, and TEETH
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ICYMI: My pirate fantasy short story “The Way to Treasure” is free to read in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social! 🏴☠️ ✨ magazine.trollbreath.com/the-way-to-t...
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The Way to Treasure
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My new story ‘Or Forever Hold Your Peace’ is now free to read! The more time passes, the prouder I am of this one. It’s not at all my usual style, so please do give it a try. It’s got tall towers, true love, and a DJ who has seen such terrible things.
Trollbreath Magazine@trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 3w agoFree Fiction Friday is here! "I love a wedding as much as the next man. The food is good and I’ve already mentioned the entertainment. But the fatality rate these days is almost eighty percent. It simply is not worth the risk." magazine.trollbreath.com/or-forever-h...
Free Fiction Friday is here! "I love a wedding as much as the next man. The food is good and I’ve already mentioned the entertainment. But the fatality rate these days is almost eighty percent. It simply is not worth the risk." magazine.trollbreath.com/or-forever-h...
It's Tuesday, July 14th. Do you know where your wombat is? While you're waiting for it to return, spend your time with a Tuesday re-Tale. Given the horror unfolding in Maine this week involving our current gestapo thugs, here's "Day One" by R. K. Duncan. magazine.trollbreath.com/day-one/
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And please help keep one of our spectacular sibling magazines solvent for another year! There's always ALWAYS room for more short fiction, and more markets means a more vibrant and healthy industry!
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
Cosmo and the staff are back from #Readercon and had an absolutely delightful time listening in on all the great panels and hanging out with friends. We'll see you at all at #Can*Con in October! www.can-con.org
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Happy Free Fiction Friday… er Saturday. Deepest apologies to Chey Rivera for a late open- your trolls are at Readercon having too much fun! A roaring pirate adventure of finding your power! magazine.trollbreath.com/the-way-to-t...
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The Way to Treasure
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4. Schema by Wren Douglas. sheep!!! a doctor goes to visit a flock rumored to be touched by the fair folk. kind of the opposite of the sheep detectives, conceptually. magazine.trollbreath.com/schema/
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Schema
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Oh, that’s awesome! Here’s my most recent publication—its fantasy, but still pretty representative of my more current stuff: magazine.trollbreath.com/the-memory-o...
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The Memory of Tigers
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Once we get caught up on submissions tomorrow morning (Thursday, July 9th), we're heading off to Massachusetts for Readercon! We'll be floating around, enjoying the great panels and readings, though we don't have any events planned. But we will have bookmarks and Cosmo pins to give away!
Let's show them some love, friends! Go pick up a subscription asap.
M. L. Krishnan@emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 4w agoAll right, I’ve kept quiet for a bit because of real life crap, but come on guys. Our KS is moving at a snail's pace, and we can do better. And I’m not just saying this because I’m the marketing director of @khoreo.bsky.social, or because khōréō is my ride or die fam (which they are, ALWAYS)
We hope everyone is having a joyous holiday weekend. We know it's tough right now, and it's not just our country teetering, but take a moment with friends and family and remember... We, the People... and strive for a More Perfect Union. And read short fiction! magazine.trollbreath.com/day-one/
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Day One
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Happy Free Fiction Friday!!! In this story of sacrifice and choices, a woman wears her love, pain, and duty in her skin. magazine.trollbreath.com/prayskin/
For the afternoon crowd (evening, night, wherever you are!) Free Fiction Friday poems from magazine.trollbreath.com magazine.trollbreath.com/dust-from-my... magazine.trollbreath.com/coronal-mass...
It's time for another edition of Free Fiction Friday! This is our twice per issue two-fer, where you get two poems for the price of one! Today we have “Dust from My Distant World” by Devan Barlow, & “Coronal Mass Ejection” by Spencer Keene. magazine.trollbreath.com/free-fiction...
Free Fiction Friday, June 26th, 2026 – “Dust from My Distant World” by Devan Barlow, & "Coronal Mass Ejection" by Spencer Keene - Trollbreath Magazine
Free Fiction Friday, June 26th, 2026
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Perhaps some of you missed our Free Fiction Friday? Well catch up with it now on Solstice Sunday!
Trollbreath Magazine@trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt's noir, it's urban fantasy, it's dark, it's as big as a Cthulhuesque god, it's as small as one struggling fanatic mess of a girl. And it's free to read today - Happy Free Fiction Friday! magazine.trollbreath.com/hire-intelli...
