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What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom - Uncanny Magazine After dinner, the woman and her husband argue about the hole in their bathroom. It’s not such a big hole. Two feet by two feet, the kind you might drop your garbage into every Thursday night and never...

I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!

“What We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroom” is about superstition, intercultural relationships, and yes, a strange hole in the bathroom.

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...

a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his eyes closed while sitting at a table . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his eyes closed while sitting at a table .

I am so pleased, and likewise!!

Honoured to share a ToC with you! I was telling you before how much I love the direction you took this vetala story—no spoilers, but it's SO GOOD. 🔥

ICYMI! Feat. strange & wonderful queer stories and poems (incl. @ayidashonibar.bsky.social's dark delight "The Homeowner's Bride" & my Indian vampire reprint "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet") + an essay by @jackiehedeman.bsky.social ("He Is Survived By His Wife") that brought tears to my eyes!

Some very fabulous writers in this issue, just sayin 👀 @ayidashonibar.bsky.social @srinivassimo.bsky.social

❤️❤️❤️!

Image header for our Patreon BTS newsletter. Text says: March BONUS newsletter. Our Wanderer is sitting on the colliseum steps so that it looks like they're sitting on the first "T" in "newsletter".

Our behind-the-scenes newsletter is out and FULL of ISSUE 1 GOODNESS! Which is to say ISSUE 1 IS HERE FOR PATRONS AND SUBSCRIBERS!!! (Also there is a dog photo, of course.)

Have you started reading yet? Let us know what you think 👀

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IT’S HERE ‼️ And yes I cried when I hit send on the issue for subscribers. I hope you love this issue as much as we do.

Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com

We've waited so long to yell this: IF YOU'RE A SUBSCRIBER OR KICKSTARTER BACKER, ISSUE 1 IS IN YOUR INBOX! 🪐🗡️

Issue 1 will be free to read online March 15th, but if you can't wait, get your hands on it RIGHT NOW!

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Contact OTHERSIDE - OTHERSIDE Contact OTHERSIDE, a quarterly literary magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

With Issue 1 out soon, a reminder that we have community copies available if you can't afford to subscribe right now, donated by lovely Kickstarter backers.

Please don't stress or feel you have to justify yourself—we don't ask questions! Simply use our contact form to request a community copy 🪐🗡️

I didn’t make an eligibility post this year, because I am out of spoons and all kitchen utensils, but Hugo noms are open, and if you consider anything from me, I’d love it if you considered my @fantasymagazine.bsky.social story “Ichthyosis," that involves the sea, a queer throuple, and a fish.

Praise for the eels! ❤️ Also, every time I see the Silk & Foxglove cover I just kind of sigh in delight.

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Thank you so much, Sasha!! I think "Most Specific Anthology Theme" should be a real award category somewhere lol.

LE CARRÉ MEETS GORMENGHAST omg

I can't believe I can finally share this story! 🥹🖤

In "The Homeowner's Bride," the protagonist is a haunted house that's DTF. Both horror and a love story, it's one of the strangest, riskiest, most heartfelt things I've ever written, and I'm so thankful that Otherside took a chance on this piece.

Ahhhh look at this epic TOC! I can't wait!

(flaming Elmo of gay excitement)

So excited that "The Vetala" gets to be part of @othersidespec.bsky.social's inaugural issue!!

✨ I’m excited to share that Orion’s Belt will reopen for submissions from March 1 to May 15! We’ll be seeking spec flash, micro, & poetry, as well as translations & reviews! Most importantly, our payment for poetry & art will increase. Follow us on this new adventure and for more exciting news! ✨

a unicorn and a hand reaching towards its nose

Check out this unicorn-in good story, "This, too, is magic" by @crossingwinter.bsky.social

We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/this-too-is-...

Fantasy Magazine - issue 99 | Psychopomp Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 features work by: Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Malena Salazar Maciá, Eleanor Glewwe, Alex Jennings, Cory Farrenkopf, and M. L. Krishnan

"'The Matriarchs' by Malena Salazar Maciá... is a harrowing and emotional story about resilience and survival."

Maria Haskins aka @mariahaskins.com has wonderful things to say about Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 in the February Locus Magazine aka @locusmag.bsky.social !❤️‍🔥

psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

Screenshot of a poem that reads: Sijo for Billionaires roll the fuckers from the time-pod pale bunker-nursed executives dole them into warm rich waters of Carboniferous coal swamps carbon returned with interest: atmosphere cleared, accounts settled

My poem “Sijo for Billionaires,” from my collection Time Travel Is Easy (2025). Apropos of nothing.

a calf surrounded by flames

If you're looking for a calfing good time, check out "A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" by @srinivassimo.bsky.social

We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/a-pale-herd-...

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

2) “The Church At The Edge of Time” (in @strangehorizons.bsky.social)
- the pastor is a woman with small birds living in her eyes (literally)

SHOWSTOPPING

! Thanks for the shout-out, Mae!!

Absolutely apropos of something, I feel it's time to share this again.

As the other Otherside poetry editor, I can't stress this enough. "Please fuck us up. Please make it gayer and more trans and stranger and more unabashedly you than you think would usually be accepted. WE want that kind of shit. We want the othered queer pieces that take forever to find a home 💜

Hi. Do you want to cry today? Do you want a reason to get up again and keep getting up? READ THIS.

To Be Merciful; or, Light After Darkness | Jennifer R. Donohue Get more from Jennifer R. Donohue on Patreon

I'd just like people to read and share (and maybe nominate for things, if they like it enough) my short story "To Be Merciful; or, Light After Darkness"

free on my Patreon!

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