Spencer Nitkey

Let's go! Super hyped about both these books!! Get in on preorders, folks, for some of the best weird fiction (single author, or anthology, or both, depending on your taste). I've had Thomas Ha's book on preorder for months.

Screengrab from undertowpublications.com showing 2 books for pre-order: THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR, VOL. 1, and UNCERTAIN SONS.

Reminder of 2 great books up for pre-order shipping soon. This is your late summer/autumn weird short fiction sorted, to be sure.

undertowpublications.com/shop

Acephalous by Nicholas Schorn There is a finger, a human finger in the schoolyard grass, and it has no body. It is picked up by a girl. A quiet girl who cares a lot and does her caring quietly. This girl is Little Jessie Wylan...

"There is a finger, a human finger in the schoolyard grass, and it has no body."

This week on hex, @schorn.bsky.social offers a miracle, a body built piece by piece. Obsessed with the careful writing, the excellent humor, the body horror at play here! Go check out "Acephalous," up now on the site!

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.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Composition 8 by Vasily Kandinsky, 1923 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137438

Ben Franklin Bridge sci fi???? Sign me up immediately

Because I Held His Name Like a Key When I met the young Mr Turing, I had not yet ascended as Autumn’s King. Nowadays it has become fashionable for the sons and daughters of the lesser fey gentry to improve their position in the shif…

I had “Because I Held His Name Like a Key” out in Strange Horizons last month - link below. Thank you, Charles!

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Ahh! Congrats to you, too! and thanks! Such stellar company to be keeping :D

So very thrilled that my story "At the End of Everything," originally published in Not One of Us, was selected for this sure to be haunting and beautiful anthology. So honored to be among this list of writers!!

Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents - PSYCHOPOMP.COM You've been waiting for it, and now it is here, delivered hot and fresh to your browser, a table of contents for Afterlives 2024: The Year's Best Death

PRESS RELEASE

Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!

curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social

"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."

thread/

psychopomp.com/announcing-t...

If you’re looking for some weekend read, my short story about a magical artist, obsessed with fire, haunting the gallery that hosts his posthumous works, is free to read at lightspeed.

“Breathing Under Ice” by Phoebe Billups: sisterhood / inheriting the volcano / what lies beneath “Dear New Tenant” by Jaq Evans: respawning sisters / sign the lease / going to the other side “Friendly Penguin” by Anna Ziegelhof: attack aftermath / repurposed childhood toys / the bots rise up “Margin Walker” by Tony Dunnell: post-AI apocalypse / relationship-based hacking / planting a seed “Mouth, Wormhole, Window” by Joel Hans: keeping the children safe / the void in the yard / lack “Obsolesce” by Nadine Aurora Tabing: android hospice / memory preservation / the city and the city “Shells” by Cynthia Zhang: body-swapping / making a living / thoughts of what might be “The Glass Ocean” by David Cleden: the grief of the harbor master / lost love / a sea of sand “Upon a Vast, Velvet Veil” by Marisca Pichette: constellary creation / birthday presents / childhood in the stars

FF#25 has arrived! Stories by Phoebe Billups, @jaqevans.com, Anna Ziegelhof, @tonydunnell.bsky.social, @joelhans.com, @suchnadine.bsky.social, @czwrites.bsky.social, @davidcleden.bsky.social, and @marisca.bsky.social!

Get yours (for free!) at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/

If you’re looking for some weekend read, my short story about a magical artist, obsessed with fire, haunting the gallery that hosts his posthumous works, is free to read at lightspeed.

Alex Brown listed "Dare Seize the Fire" in Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: May 2025 at @reactorsff.bsky.social !

reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Eeee! Lovely! The noms/finalist-ing was so well deserved for these two stories. Just wonderful works :)

Oh man! This is AWESOME. Great, great, great piece. qq: in footnote 1 you mention an argument that new weird could be argued as incporating new wave spec fic techniques into horror. Is this something you've written about before/an argument you've seen elsewhere?

The H Word: The Profane Illumination of the Weird - Nightmare Magazine Weird fiction, it seems, is having a moment in the zeitgeist; horror, we’re told, is also having a moment in the zeitgeist. It isn’t surprising, given the state of the world, that these two modes are ...

Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned to know what the difference is between weird fiction and horror. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...

Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective - Lightspeed Magazine Tyler Moore’s spells strive to exist in and of themselves. They make no excuse or justification for their existence: no promise to speak to the dead, predict next year’s grain or gold prices, or read ...

My story about a dead magic artist haunting the gallery which hosts his posthumous works is out free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com, today! The entire issue is available for $4.99, and you can subscribe for just $41.92/year.
You can read it here:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/un-p...

What if you were a pragmatic radish with a wife who feels things very deeply and you don’t always notice things like anniversaries or the quiet end of the way that people like you have come to exist. What if all of that.

The Eternal Life and Art of Maxwell Ardeen Bioart emerges where biological science, technology, and aesthetics collide. For one terminally ill artist, it offered a chance at immortality.

I'll also add... if you liked this format and wanted something similar but with hard sci-fi flavor instead... my recent @asimovpress.bsky.social story from last month uses the same structure.

press.asimov.com/articles/max...

They make a lovely pairing, I think!

Submission Guidelines - We welcome submissions by those who identify with and as any of the following descriptors: trans, two-spirit, disabled, neurodivergent, Mad, queer, crip, nonbinary, genderqueer, intersex. This is a sp...

It's almost #WomenInTranslation month! We're hungry for your translated works and will be open during our normally-closed month of august for translations ONLY. (All genders are welcome to submit!)

In the meantime, 2 weeks left to send general submissions to manywor(l)ds. what are you waiting for?

Hmm. This sounds familiar, too. I don’t think it was Milton though because he (to my knowledge) dictated the entirety of paradise lost to his daughters who did the writing, on account of his total loss of vision a few years before he started that.

Anywho, as I tell the young people in my life whom I love deeply, this is your time to create beautiful works of art, to throw the most fun parties you can for no money, and to fight like hell for a future worthy of you. This is NOT a time to retreat into yourself and to forgo the world.

Thank you!! 🧙🎨❤️‍🔥

damn 🔥🔥

Old Woman and the Girls (Ivy Grimes) Old Woman cut the girls’ hair every month and gathered up the dead fluff to make pillows. There was plenty of fabric left, rolls of stars, stripes, polka dots.  “We’ll run ou…

Ignore me if you saw this, but in case you missed it, I had two tiny stories/poems/things published yesterday -

www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

rejection-letters.com/2025/07/16/o...

Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective - Lightspeed Magazine Tyler Moore’s spells strive to exist in and of themselves. They make no excuse or justification for their existence: no promise to speak to the dead, predict next year’s grain or gold prices, or read ...

My story about a dead magic artist haunting the gallery which hosts his posthumous works is out free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com, today! The entire issue is available for $4.99, and you can subscribe for just $41.92/year.
You can read it here:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/un-p...

ergot. innovative + experimental horror

This story by @ivygrimes.bsky.social felt like reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for the very first time. Such a beautiful reimagining, and so delightfully weird and dreamy. Loved it.

www.ergot.press/authors/Ivy_...

Screen grab from Weird Horror Magazine website showing issue cover and graphic buttons to read or buy the magazine.

It's release day for Weird Horror 11. Another disquieting and disturbing foray into the Weird. Subscriber copies have begun to mail. Artwork by @strangegodsart.bsky.social

What a ToC!

Grab your copy now:

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com

Issue #24 “All the Pretty Starships Fly Like This” by J.R. Dewitt: freedom from imperial control / mindships / hot fudge cherry berry”As Big As A Whale” by Avra Margariti: obsession /…

It's been a while since I shared "Lucinda Espinosa's Twenty-Seventh Death," but if you'd like to read a story Locus rec'd as "a heartbreaking story beautifully told," Reactor called a must-read, and Amazing Stories reviewed as "one of the most original stories I've ever read," you can find it here!