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The pale yellow cover of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET by Lindz McLeod, against a background which fades from pink to green and is bordered by leaves and bright flowers.

It's absolutely wild to me that a book I wrote for the love of my life (@pegasusunder.bsky.social, if you didn't already know) woven through the language of flowers and two Jane Austen characters who frankly NEEDED their sapphic freedom, already has over 800 ratings on Goodreads.
My heart 😭

🥩🚗⛰️🐈 Wooooo go team!

Acceptance announcement! My first cowritten short story, with @srinivassimo.bsky.social

You are sweet damp roadkill. You are also a mountain lion. You are also the ravenous car.

Knife Plus - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Knife had not always been Knife. Once it had been Tree. Once it had been Rock.

oh yes, it’s Fantasy Friday! 🗡️✨

and today we have FLASH

“Knife had not always been Knife. Once it had been Tree. Once it had been Rock.”

Knife Plus by @teemcbee.bsky.social

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Props to Benjamin for sharing the details of his contract. Unfortunately no props to MRM because there's a lot of extremely outre stuff in here that I'd refuse to sign. Let's run it down. (Context: If you're negotiating a contract with Strange Horizons, I'm the person you're negotiating with.)

A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

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Fantasy Magazine - issue 98 | Psychopomp Fantasy Magazine Issue 98 features work by: Eleanor Ball, Christian Emecheta, Sunwoo Jeong, Mateo Perez Lara, Tracie McBride, Eleanna Castroianni

it's here!!✨

ISSUE 98

out NOW in full for subscribers

and check out the free roll-out here (and hit that subscribe button if you'd like to read the full issue now): psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

This was fantastic. We say “touch grass” like a curse on someone, when really the digital realm has become a place to separate us from the sensual (and I’d argue the emotional) connection we have with the world around us and those closest to us

Congratulations!!!

Our extended call for work from trans, disabled, and/or BIPOC creators closes TODAY!!

Don't wait! Get those stories in now!

Omg, and Rafael Sabatini, Jean Giono, and Simenon, how could I forget?!

Hilary Mantel, John Le Carré, Annie Proulx, Dashiell Hammett, Anthony Price.

Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity edited by Lee Mandelo: Review by Alex Brown Being queer and trans in the United States in 2025 is both a herculean effort and an experience of profound joy. Every day brings some new horror aimed at eradicating my rights as a person, putting…

“AMPLITUDES: STORIES OF QUEER AND TRANS FUTURITY is an exceptional speculative anthology.” @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social (@QueenOfRats) reviews a new anthology edited by @leemandelo (@leemandelo.bsky.social)

we made a thing for you

it's the @fantasymagazine.bsky.social back issues--those that we have online, anyway.

acquiring an older property like Fantasy reveals... quirks.

starts with issue 48... 🤷🤷🏼‍♀️🤷‍♂️

we're working on
1 - getting the older issues online, and
2 - making all the URLs prettier

njoy

Surprise double-header! "A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" from Issue 1 of Plott Hound Magazine is now free to read online!

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@thaisibir.bsky.social, your illustration is stunning and perfect, omg.

"When eels fuck, the earth shakes. That’s a hilltop saying, one I don’t use anymore."

Today! "The Hilltop Eel" joins 12 other lush and unsettling tales in SILK AND FOXGLOVE: A BIPOC EROTIC-ECO HORROR ANTHOLOGY from @hedonebooks.bsky.social, curated & edited by @pegasusunder.bsky.social!

Get your copy here: books2read.com/u/mvwAv6

Some Queer Short SFF - July 2025 | Charles Payseur Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JULY 2025🏳️‍🌈
I round up nearly 30 stories by @elijah.mea.rs @karinlow.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @johnchu.bsky.social @emnorth.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social & more!!!
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For #SapphicSeptember I offer up my upcoming story, All Her Darling Little Ones in SILK AND FOXGLOVE: A BIPOC EROTIC ECO-HORROR ANTHOLOGY, especially if you like:

- star-crossed lovers who refuse to be crossed😈
- alternative childbirth🐣
- white rich guys, but dead💀
- gourds, gourds so many gourds🎃

Three Poets in worlds of possibility —poetry are hugo finalists! come read more poems by: •Marie Brennan •Angela Liu •Mari ness

There’s a special poetry award in the Hugo Awards this year, and three of the finalist poets also have work in Worlds of Possibility —Poetry! Behold: a thread of poem excerpts! 1/8

If you read my poem "Shears" smallwondersmag.com/piece/shears/ and think "hey, that's a fun twist on a familiar tale" then you'll LOVE my collection of retellings!

no joke one of the best experiences of my life 😭💖 thank you @nisishawl.bsky.social and @lambdaliterary.org!

Very on-brand of me to have my eyes closed. I MISS YOU ALL ALREADY

The Lambda Literary speculative fiction cohort just wrapped up 5 days of magical workshop with Nisi Shawl. Help them fund their next book, The Five Petals of Thought!

"AI...is perhaps the most evil thing the corporate world has done since the invention of leaded gasoline and PFAS chemicals, and if hell exists, I hope to see every Patagonia-wearing dickhead that’s served as an apologist for generative AI there."

Congratulations!!!

Subscribe to Corey's Stories Corey Farrenkopf is a librarian and writer. His work has appeared in Electric Literature, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, The Deadlands, Bourbon Penn, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere. His two books a...

Hey friends!

Tomorrow I launch my first newsletter focused on the joy of short stories :)

Hopefully it will bring you a little joy too.

That’s the goal anyway.

If you’d like to sign up, that would be wonderful.

If not, that’s cool too.

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Submissions - Seize The Press Submissions Guidelines Seize The Press Magazine is an anticapitalist publication looking to publish dark speculative fiction. Bleak sci-fi, dark fantasy, horror and all kinds of weird, messy, genre-de...

Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words.

If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.

I’ve been so busy that all I’ve managed to do re: this news is hit repost a few times, but I’m emerging to say THE OTHERSIDE KICKSTARTER IS ALMOST HEREEE! And we just hit our third Patreon goal, which means 8 cents/word and $50/poem for queer authors. 😭 I don’t know about you, but… I am excited.