Beth Goder

Beth Goder

@bethgoder.bsky.social

SFF author with stories in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod and more. Archivist. Member of Codex Writers Group. Submissions Reader for Fusion Fragment. https://bethgoder.com/

2,137 Followers 1,940 Following 231 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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Thank you!! 💕🕸️💕

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Arachnomorphosis - Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction At night, Olivia becomes a spider. She scurries down San Francisco streets, floats gently between cotton-candy-colored houses, and hides behind signs for trendy restaurants, like Trough and Instance.

Here's my weird spider story, reprinted in Hivemind!

hivemind.modlangs.gatech.edu/fiction/arac...

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6 days ago

This is so sweet of you. Thank you for adding me to your list. 🥰

You are on my list of inspiring writers, too! Reading your stories is one of the reasons I wanted to start reading/writing horror.

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1 week ago

Hello I have written a weird story about moss

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Flash Fiction Online March 2026 Flash Fiction Online is releasing our 150th issue! To celebrate our growth and change over the years, we’ve assembled a selection of stories depicting visceral transformations. Stories this m…

Our March 2026 "Transformations" issue is a milestone for us! This is our 150th issue!! 😃 To celebrate all the growth and changes we've made over the years, we've assembled stories that feature visceral transformations.
#flashfiction #writingcommunity
www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

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Background of a blue-filtered street at night. Written on it:
Laura Blackwell / 2025 Roundup & Awards Eligibility
- "Breathing Night" at Simultaneous Times podcast, narr. Jean-Paul Garnier (Space Cowboy Books, 10/15/2025) Fantasy, 1100 words.
- The Deadlands, ed. E. Catherine Tobler (Psychopomp). Speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction. Semipro, quarterly.
- Story Hour, cohosted with Daniel Marcus. Speculative short stories read by their authors. Fancast, weekly.
@pronouncedlahra

I didn't write a whole lot last year, but I did work on some awesome projects! Behold!

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Arachnomorphosis The city is no place for a spider.

In case you're doing some last minute reading for the Nebula awards, I'll gently place my weird spider story here.

This made it on the Locus Recommended Reading List and it will be reprinted in Podcastle soon. It's a story that's close to my heart.

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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2 weeks ago

Thank you!

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Miles To Go Before I Sleep - PSYCHOPOMP.COM The third time Zoey meets Death, she is unarmed except for a bag of twenty-seven kazoos.

FFer Read of the Day: "Miles To Go Before I Sleep" by @bethgoder.bsky.social in @thedeadlands.com

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

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2 weeks ago

I love this ask & I added some folks I think don't get enough love, so I think this is worth a THREAD of my fave stories from the folks I posted. 1/11

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2 weeks ago

Thank you!! 💕✨💕

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1 month ago

Thank you for sharing my story! : )

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1 month ago
DP FICTION #125A: “Please Properly Cage Your Words” by Beth Goder – Diabolical Plots

FFer Read of the Day: "Please Properly Cage Your Words" by @bethgoder.bsky.social in @diabolicalplots.com

www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

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1 month ago

Thank you!! 💕

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Story recs: Six SFF stories that Broke my Brain (and Heart)…in the Best Way Six of my favorite SFF short stories from 2025 that are doing something really fascinating with form and point of view! These are stories…

More SFF short story recommendations! Amazing stories by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @nadiaradovich.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @sharangbiswas.bsky.social @bethgoder.bsky.social @cjtavares.bsky.social
medium.com/@katefrancia...

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1 month ago

Just note that I'm sadly no longer submitting to Analog because of the many documented issues with the publisher. (This novella came out before the new publisher took over.)

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2025 Recommended Reading List Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…

Oh my goodness, there I was making notes about stuff I want to read from the Locus Recommended Reading List when I came across two of my stories!

"Arachnomorphosis," my spider story in Strange Horizons.
"Murder on the Eris Express," my novella in Analog.

Mind blown! 🤯

locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

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'Miles To Go Before I Sleep' by @bethgoder.bsky.social was such a powerful, surreal story with very real emotions, that I've chosen it along with two other stories for the category Most Emotional Short Story, 2025.
@thedeadlands.com

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1 month ago

This is so kind. Thank you so much! ❤️

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1 month ago

I'm so thrilled to have one of my stories make this list!

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An image of a list of stories:     Arachnomorphosis by Beth Goder (Strange Horizons)
    Half Drowned by S. L. Harris (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
    A Clockwork Gun by Josh Pearce (Bourbon Penn)
    Yarn Theory by Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld)
    The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead by E. M. Linden (PodCastle)
    Laser Eyes Ain't Everything by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots)
    Ten Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days by Samantha Mills (Uncanny)

Not finished with awards reading, but here is a batch of stories I really loved by @bethgoder.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, @reasie.bsky.social, @emlinden.bsky.social, @effies.bsky.social, and @samtasticbooks.com.

Thank you for creating these great stories.

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2 months ago

Thank you!!

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Arachnomorphosis The city is no place for a spider.

Anyway, I read @bethgoder.bsky.social "Arachnomorphosis" in Strange Horizons yesterday and it was a lovely story about loneliness and finding your way through it.

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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2 months ago

Thank you for your kind words! ❤️

I find writing stories is one of the things helping me get through These Times. Reading, too.

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Fusion Fragment | Patreon creating a home for great speculative fiction

Overall revenue was $1,738 in 2025 vs. $1,602 in 2024.

So, big shoutout to Team Patreon. FF's Patreon subscriber base is just 35 people, but they make up the majority of our revenue and help keep the lights on.

And of course, if you want to join: www.patreon.com/fusionfragment

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Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories, 2024 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Afterlives The Year’s Best Death Fiction 2024 Curated by Sheree Renée Thomas While Psychopomp aims to publish all the death fiction, we cannot possibly, so we decided to round up the best death storie...

Here's a gorgeous book, Afterlives : The Year's Best Death Stories.

It includes my story, "Labyrinth."

psychopomp.com/product/afte...

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Eating the Sun - Small Wonders The rest of her broodmates had already left for ascension. She needed fuel for the journey. She needed to eat the sun.

Our reprint today is an unexpected connection between a sun and a hungry space creature. Check out "Eating the Sun" by @bethgoder.bsky.social here:

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House Heartbeat - 100-Foot Crow By: Beth Goder. The house had a heartbeat. The walls pulsed like lungs breathing. Once inside, Clara could hear the booming rhythm. It wasn’t the biggest house on the block, or the most recently renov...

NEW STORY: "House Heartbeat" by @bethgoder.bsky.social.
100footcrow.com/house-heartb...

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3 months ago

Wow, that's very cool! Hooray for the FF reading team. I'm excited to be sharing an issue with my slushing teammates! : )

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Issue 30 - Small Wonders

Oh hey look, is that the latest issue of @smallwondersmag.com with not one, not two, but THREE members of the mighty FF reading team sharing the TOC?!?! Grab a copy to read shorts by @elijah.mea.rs @speculativekane.bsky.social @bethgoder.bsky.social and more!

smallwondersmag.com/issue/30/

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