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Cover of the rise by Alan Baxter. Cover is an Australian back road at night, image is ruined by a lazy photographer who left a shadow caused by their phone

Inscribed and signed title page for The Rise by Alan Baxter. Photo is similarly ruined by the aforementioned photographer and a phone shadow

Good bookmail day, thanks to @alanbaxter.bsky.social

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this was great :)

Academic Neutrality - Lightspeed Magazine When Amy begins to flay herself during office hours, you aren’t quite sure what to do. You hate office hours. You used to enjoy them, actually, back before the flayings started. Sure, it’s hard sharin...

first favourite of 2026! @mruthrobinson.bsky.social's literal depiction of what it is like to work at university with absolutley no use of metaphor, just a list of facts and actual occurances, in @lightspeedmagazine.com

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Should have stayed home and watered the garden

Hardly any pride merch available compared to previous years, just the scarf, didn't get the cool gk tops we've come to expect. The merch stand on my side of the pitch was closed. Had an opportunity tonight to say despite what happened with Cavallo that we are welcome at games, that they didn't...

If there's any outlet that wants to pay a queer journalist to write about what's happened in Aus football in the last 24-48 hours from a queer persons perspective/some sort of op-ed/opinion piece, I'm available and happy to write something for a reasonable rate. Please feel free to reach out via DM.

Such a disappointing response from the club, it comes across to me as "look we can't be homophobic we'll sell you rainbows this week"

Adelaide United Responds to Social Media Claims Club Statement: Adelaide United Responds to Social Media Claims.

Disappointing response from the club at best. In the context of a week when they expect us to spend money on pride round merch it comes across as saying "we can't be homophobic look we're selling you rainbows." This is why people don't feel welcome #joshcavallo #justiceforjosh #coyr

#coyr you're supposed to better than this. Tough to ask us to spend extra money on pride cup merch when this is how you treat people

Some thoughts on the #Olyroos first game at the u23 Asian Cup #AFCU23 ⚽

Just got a take it one wHaT a tImE tO bE aLiVe at a time

@jacobstevens0.bsky.social hey man, have you heard anything about ehy Kikianis didn't play tonight?

Just had a nice falafal. Was it really worth $18. Who could say.

this is not a happy story but it does contain my favourite insult

You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb - Lightspeed Magazine Because her sudden pregnancy doomed her---as she saw it---to diapers and daycares she couldn’t afford and the same drab job she already disliked, Abby asked for Marcia’s advice. At thirty months, Marc...

The last of the celebration of my favourites that I happened to come across this year. You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb by Paul Crenshaw in @lightspeedmagazine.com

Happy New Year all, the world is dumb but this art is fantastic

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Warbler obviously. Don't type distracted people

Me? There wasnt one, did i pocket notify you or something?

A Shaky Bridge by Marissa Lingen Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

For the second last story of the celebration, I'm back off the positive vibes and on to anxiety about what capitalists would do to our brains if they could A Shakey Bridge @marissalingen.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com

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counting down to new year's, here is a thoughtful fantasy by Ruth Joffre in @podcastle.org Woodpeck, Warnler, Mussel, Thrush

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they're so good, and they joy in this is a good antidote to all the depressing stuff I've shared

Understudies by Greg Egan Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Only a few left to celebrate before the New Year. Here is the amazing Understudies by Greg Egan in @clarkesworldmagazine.com

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Now is such an exciting time for short fiction, I can't wait to see what your next selections are

thanks for the story! I'm completely in love with the phrase "manufactured dread"

Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead - Nightmare Magazine Honey, the spirits are here with us tonight and they are deeply disappointed. [audience laughter] Momma, do you not own a mirror? Did you think you looked cute when you walked out of your house tonigh...

I could share this just for the title, but the story is even better, and that's saying something. Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead by @sentencebender.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com

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thanks for the story!

The Shadow on the Nest - Uncanny Magazine “…but what is it like, having a war criminal as your past life?” Sadie Salazar, Licensed Life Speaker, should have been professionally above the prurient interest lighting her hazel eyes, and much too...

I was so excited by this story when it first came out, and I still am. The Shadow on the Nest by Alaya Dawn Johnson in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

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thanks for the story! It's the first of yours that I've come across, I'm looking forward to discovering more :)

I think my new year's resolution needs to be to get better at responding to people who take the time to reply to me on here. Is it weird that I do so haphazardly and after ill defined periods of time? Yes. But rest assured the reason for this is just that I am weird.

Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...

Some more favourite horror of the year, here is Autogas Ferryman by @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com

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