Cressida Roe

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nobody ever vagueposts about their disappointing news, have you noticed

may i offer you a sadly hopefully romantic multiverse story to y’all in these trying times?

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“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places” Fiction “Singularities” by Cressida Roe “The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice “The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes “The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox “Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos “What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman “The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris “Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti “My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity “What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen “The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen “Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed Poetry “Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens “Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon “Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce “I have been to the market” by Shana Ross “Atomic” by Jennifer Crow “Bedazzled” by Robert Borski “Bestla” by James Joseph Brown Artwork by Carly A-F

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

absolute highlight of the whole season’s recording for me was the slow dawning realisation that time city can be read as an omelas riff. what if narnia was omelas and doctor who was there.

Thank you! ☺️

Contract signed! I’m thrilled and bewildered and generally over the moon that I’ll have a story in the January issue, edited by @aijiang.bsky.social, of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! Can‘t wait to share more (also can’t believe this means my work was read and liked by THE Ai Jiang!!)

🥹🥰🫶 so glad and grateful you did!!

So excited to have your story in the issue!!! 🥺✨ I really loved it! 🙆🏻‍♀️🤍

Contract signed! I’m thrilled and bewildered and generally over the moon that I’ll have a story in the January issue, edited by @aijiang.bsky.social, of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! Can‘t wait to share more (also can’t believe this means my work was read and liked by THE Ai Jiang!!)

I think this is the best thing I have ever written: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/sile...

Purple background, white text, which says ...is there such a thing as historical science fiction? There must be science fiction set in the past... a little digging turns up enough titles to show it really is a separate genre. So, let's think about historical science fiction. Towards a Taxonomy of Historical Science Fiction -- Brenda Clough

In which @brendaclough.bsky.social explores the idea of historical science fiction as its own sub-genre, and what different strands appear...

Free to read right now! Share it with your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/histo...

after that “wuthering heights“ trailer, emily bronte actually deserves more than a cardboard tube she needs a glock

re #3, especially on a remake that looks like it’ll completely erases the race discourse in the original 💀

after that “wuthering heights“ trailer, emily bronte actually deserves more than a cardboard tube she needs a glock

One of the problems of short fiction is *finding* it. There's so much out there, it's hard to know how to find what you'll like. Enter InkFoundry. There are so many ways to search! Search by venue (Small Wonders, for example), by author, by tags... or have the site surprise you !

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Congrats, Thomas!! Such fantastic news!

if your “gothic” novel isn't at least a little freaky and subversive, the ghosts of mary shelley and emily bronte should get to rise up from their graves and hit you with a cardboard tube

I’m so awed by how beautifully you interpreted my story for this cover! 🫶

FF#26 cover. A woman's face, surrounded by broken shards of mirror and a few fragments of Noh masks. Each mirror contains a different eye. Above, two evil looking eyes peer down on the scene. Everything's rendered in light and dark blues.

The beautiful FF#26 cover by @evelynepark.bsky.social is here! In a few months, you'll get to read stories by @thesuiway.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @straith.ca, @leokaaolive.bsky.social, @eggandcressida.bsky.social, @nkereuwxm.bsky.social, Emma Russell-Trione, and Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta!

Your daily reminder that every time you ask ChatGPT a question, you're using up huge amounts of water and irreplaceable natural resources.

Calling all LGBTQ+ SFF authors! I started a new starter pack for us. Happy to add folks, please just share the link when you get a moment!

go.bsky.app/URHc5QB

thanks so much for reading, azure! :)

Such an apt story choice for our current existence. Y'all see the talent exuding from these 100 words? Whoa. @eggandcressida.bsky.social

A graphic featuring the text: "The Fifth Hourseman (Drabble Fiction) by Cressida Roe" next to the illustration on Apex's Issue 149 cover, a queen in a black dress standing beside a black wolf in a field at dusk.

"A young woman, dressed in rugged clothes, huddles in the rubble." 🐎🏚️

New drabble fiction today by @eggandcressida.bsky.social: "The Fifth Horseman"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

tysm!!

would love to be added if there’s space!

i know it's to cheer people up, but the thing about the whole "people still laughed while the roman empire fell" argument is that the citizens of the roman empire were probably largely not aware it was happening. whereas we must endure the News Cycles

Really enjoyed this lovely story by Christie Yant about intimacy and the performance of the self, @diabolicalplots.com's throwback feature for this week. Very much a recommended read!

www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-3...