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Some Queer Short SFF - January 2026 | Charles Payseur Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JANUARY 2026🏳️‍🌈
I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @coreyjwhite.com @thedescenters.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @victormanibo.com @seraph76.bsky.social @remedy.bsky.social & MANY MORE!!!
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PseudoPod 1018: The Polyamorous Heart of Death You took her story like an organ removed in the night by a stranger she thought she knew. Victorian mummy unwrapping parties move in parallel to the kind of destruction you casually did.

“You took her story like an organ removed in the night by a stranger she thought she knew.”

The Polyamorous Heart of Death, by M. Lopes Da Silva

Narrator: Jordan Kurella
Host: Kat Day
Audio: Graeme Dunlop

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Some Queer Short SFF - January 2026 | Charles Payseur Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JANUARY 2026🏳️‍🌈
I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @coreyjwhite.com @thedescenters.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @victormanibo.com @seraph76.bsky.social @remedy.bsky.social & MANY MORE!!!
www.patreon.com/posts/151830...

Ah Yes, the Trick by Mari Ness

So, yes, everyone, the delightful folks over at Interstellar Flight Press have just published my latest poem, "Oh yes, the trick," as part of their Queer Speculative Disability Poetry in Conversation project.

You can read it for free here:

medium.com/interstellar...

i've probably read 7,000+ short stories in/from the last decade. I love you all.

:inhales:

Well....

:launches into a three hour Animaniacs-style song of every short fiction writer I've read three stories from over the last 10 years:

I'm Still Not Over Losing My Book Review Gig You can still get the Humble Bundle of every book by Annalee Newitz and myself published by Tor Books for a pittance — please select adjusted donation! — and...

"The notion of making a living with A.I.-generated books appears to be based on the belief algorithms will be serving up book slop the same way we are force-fed other kinds of slop"

I'm still not over losing my job as a book reviewer. Here's why we need book critics:

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Deathcap - Reactor Two space marines trapped in a doomed spaceship confront the desires that will destroy them both.

IT LIIIIIIIIIVES

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2025 favorite anthologies and collections! | Bogi Takács Get more from Bogi Takács on Patreon

My favorite speculative fiction anthologies and collections from 2025!

Post: www.patreon.com/posts/2025-f... (free, but you can subscribe to support this type of material from me 🥰 )

Threading the books below!

I often see posts saying name an author who you've read 5 books by.

I'm interested in short stories. So how about, name an author you've read 3 short stories by?

Also, the stories have to be published in the last 10 years.

Also, don't say me. 😂

Antediluvian | Reckoning Your house isn’t flooded in the conventional sense. It’s an unconventional flood. You knew about the rising seas and that, but this was faster, like the kind of disaster movie that pisses off your mat...

And at the end of January my story 'Antediluvian' in Reckoning X! reckoning.press/antediluvian/

Thank you!!! <3

Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back

Thank you!

I forgot but in December I had a sapphic sci-fi short story 'And Time' in Lesbians in Space 2: www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/lesbian...

This February I got COVID for the first time and now have food poisoning. I'd like to lodge a complaint

Thank you!!! <3

Slake In this month’s third, free, story, Victor Manibo brings a skin-crawling, unquenchable horror story to your doorstep.

Slake, by moi, at SMT — www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/slake

Upload in Progress - Tall Tale TV- Short Story Audiobook Blog Upload in Progress by R. F. Daniels R. F. Daniels (they/he) is a queer nonbinary writer and software engineer living and working in Finland. When they aren’t arguing with computers or getting lost in ...

New story out on @talltaletv.bsky.social - "Upload in Progress" explores the complicated feelings that come from being able to upload yourself to the cloud. talltaletv.com/upload-in-pr...

Thank you!!! <3

Adventitious | A Speculative Short Fiction Magazine - Adventitious. Adventitious is a speculative short fiction magazine publishing boundary-defying stories, novellas, and unclassifiable work.

My flash fic "A Place to Grow" in Issue One of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social feels queer to me! An alien plant eschews all societal norms and evolves into something unique and essential. If that fits your list, I'd be so happy for it to be included! www.adventitious.net

Thank you!!! <3

The Soundtrack of My Afterlife A soul reincarnated as a car narrates this haunting, music-soaked speculative short story by P. A. Cornell.

Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but my novelette “The Soundtrack of My Afterlife” includes a queer character that’s integral to the story. I’ll let you decide if that suits your needs. Here’s the link: www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...

Thank you!!! <3

Hell Itself also has an incidentally queer piece from @cjtavares.bsky.social called "The Goblin on my Shoulder" which is quite lovely. hellitself.com/the-goblin-o...

First chance to join Club Serpentine 2026 and get ALL THE NEON HEMLOCK BOOKS FOR THE YEAR!!!!

Thank you!!! <3

My story "District 69, or, How Trixie Learned ASL: A Drag Alien Occupation Story" in Hell Itself probably qualifies.

Thank you!!! <3

Hello Charles! Thank you :)

I have "The Tell-Tale Tail" out with @trashcatlit.bsky.social here: trashcatlit.com/the-tell-tai... (sic :) )

Thank you!!! <3

Sin Crouches at the Entrance — Full Story By Sylvie Althoff

My story “Sin Crouches at the Entrance” appeared in The Daily Tomorrow! dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/sin-crouch...