Fusion Fragment

Check out some SFF novella recs, including work by FFers @jordankurella.com and @marygthompson.bsky.social!

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@lyszflo.bsky.social @jdridges.bsky.social

Right!? Just makes me love the artwork even more!

The cover is stylized pink, blue, and orange flames.

51. A House Is A Body by Shruti Swamy

(mostly) unhappy relationships / the compassion of the celebrity-god / laughter

YouTube video by evydraws paint with me || book cover from sketches to finished illustration

Watch the FF#26 cover art by @evelynepark.bsky.social take shape in this amazing video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX2p...

Ha! Nothing fun--just an overlay I sent to Evelyne when commissioning the artwork so she could see which areas were going to be covered by text. And I hadn't finalized the lineup yet by then.

And great stories by Bobby Author, Great Writerrr, and Contributer Guy

One of my fave covers!

699 | Tabitha Lord, Bryan Carrigan & Avra Margariti – Tales to Terrify Welcome to episode 699 We have three tales for you, about a modern-day Frankenstein’s monster, a horny teen who gets […]

FFer Read (Listen?) of the Day: "Echthroxenia" by @avramargariti.bsky.social in @talestoterrify.bsky.social

talestoterrify.com/episodes/699...

Small Spec Book Award Horror Winner announcement. R.A. Busby's YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD wins the horror category.

Small Spec Book Award Fantasy Finalists announcement. Michael J. DeLuca's THE JAGUAR MASK is a finalist in the fantasy category.

ICYMI: Both Stelliform books that were in the running for a Small Spec Book Award have come out ahead! R.A. Busby's YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD is the winner for the horror category and Michael J. DeLuca's THE JAGUAR MASK is a fantasy finalist! We're thrilled to be recognized by small press readers!

YouTube video by WALLIS BIRD Wallis Bird - As The River Flows (official)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQKV...

Albums on repeat at FF HQ #1: Wallis Bird - Woman #2: Skye Wallace - Skye Wallace #3: Faetooth - Labyrinthine #4: Holy Holy - My Own Pool of Light #5: Hana Vu - Public Storage

Wednesday evening music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week.

The Church at the Edge of Time the pastor is a woman / with small birds living in the hollows of her eyes.

FFer Read of the Day: "The Church at the Edge of Time" by @angelaliu.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta is a Ghanaian writer from Takoradi. She is an avid tennis fan. Nana's recs: A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip

Nana has been published in @omenanamag.bsky.social and Lolwe, and thinks you should check out work by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social and Patricia A. McKillip.

Find links to her other work and find out more about her recommendations by getting a copy at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

"The Replacement Sister" by Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta When you were a child your grandmother used to tell you—Abena, open your ears and listen; never give someone you care about a pair of shoes. Your grandmother insisted they would wear those same shoes and walk right out of your life. the one who stayed vs. the one who left / replicas / toys

Story #6 in FF#26: "The Replacement Sister" by Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta

If you need a story with:
-Dysfunctional sibling relationships
-Trying to control a situation you don't have control over
-A parrot spitting truths

Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

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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Yeesh, well fortunately my numbers aren't quite so dire (yet).

Waaaaaaa!! Bananas is right!

Frustrated about being beset by AI slop in the reading queue and other places over the past few days. I know it's been said a million times before, but I feel like it's always worth saying again: Stories written by you will always be better than stories written by the robot.

Signed Hardcover copy of Twin Tides by Hien - Dum Boc Collective's Ko-fi Shop A signed hardcover copy of the YA speculative novel Twin Tides by Hien Nguyen. About: Hien Nguyen (she/her) is a Pushcart & Best of the Net nominat...

Dum Boc is fundraising for emergency assistance to those affected by the floods in Central Vietnam. I’ve donated a signed copy TWIN TIDES which is available for purchase online 💖👀 #yabooks ko-fi.com/s/776a3c35cb

In black and white, a woman peers over the shoulder of a man. Her eyes are green.

50. Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman

bonobo research studies / infidelity and pain / a search for home

Issue #26 “A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above” by Nkereuwem Albert: the city above and the city below / spirit bots / revolution”A White Day Comes” by A.D. Sui: solar destruction…

This Black Friday, all digital copies of FF are ERROR% off! That's right--marked down from $0 to $0!

This exclusive ERROR% deal is one day only!

www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

FF Reading Period Update

36 stories undergoing additional reads (oldest from Oct. 29)
66 unread stories in queue
Oldest unread is from 1:18 PM ET on Nov. 17
274 subs received in the last 30 days

YouTube video by Faetooth - Topic Death of Day

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Albums on repeat at FF HQ #1: Faetooth - Labyrinthine #2: Beach Bunny - Honeymoon #3: Skye Wallace - Skye Wallace #4: Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream #5: Lowrider - Refractions

Wednesday evening music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week. (Florence finally falls out of top spot, but in classic FF fashion, I just bring in another F with Faetooth)

Short SFFH reading recommendations for you! Includes recent work by FFers @eggandcressida.bsky.social and @andtatcat.bsky.social!

Things Elan Reacquainted Himself with After Being Broken Out of His Single-Day Time Loop 1. The colour ochre, painted by the city mageguard around his front door as a warning: do not enter, premises unsafe.2. His parents’ address, which is where he tells the mageguard captain to find h…

FFer Read of the Day: "Things Elan Reacquainted Himself with After Being Broken Out of His Single-Day Time Loop" by @straith.ca in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/thin...

The Temporal Displacement of the Graves - Lightspeed Magazine As dead bodies floated down the Mississippi, Mrs. Graves couldn’t shake the urge to dance. It was ingrained in her bones, dancing. Growing up in New Orleans, death was once celebrated---a spirited sec...

FFer Read of the Day: "The Temporal Displacement of the Graves" by @russellnichols.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

The cover is the outline of the state of Alabama, with a red star where Mobile is located. The borders of the state loop inward to spell out the title.

49. Eveningland by Michael Knight

short stories set in and around Mobile, Alabama / rich people, mostly / storms