What are your favorite recent speculative short stories OR books about monsters/monstrosity? Please interpret this question as broadly as you would like, and please do not hesitate to recommend your own work! (Bonus points for recs that are interested in queerness or gender in some way.)
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
So, last week got away from me and I forgot to share my TFT post! So, before this week goes out, I'm gonna share the stories from @nassos.bsky.social and @eqreader.bsky.social that I shouted about last week!
Come put some good, good stories into your brain. howsweetthewords.com/two-fic-tues...
☺️☺️☺️ thanks so much, Aimee!
"Medusa's Ship, or the Thing About Bodies" in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, by @nassos.bsky.social who is SO skilled down to each omitted comma and breathless paragraph break:
we are HONORED to get shout outs from @mariahaskins.com for @locusmag.bsky.social
Work by @babblewocky.bsky.social, @klschroeder.bsky.social @joshrountree.bsky.social, @aimeeogdenwrites.com @nassos.bsky.social
and our own social media skeleton @feliciafm.bsky.social 💀
locusmag.com/feature/the-...
This “queer tales” series has been a labor of love since we founded Neon Hemlock in 2019.
GLITTER + ASHES: QUEER TALES OF A WORLD THAT WOULDN’T DIE was sorta the first, but it stole the series title from…
I’m so happy to share my SF horror flash, ‘The Worldbuilder,’ published today in @lightspeedmagazine.com! The story is an homage to Joanna Russ’ ‘We Who are About To…’, enfolding the morbid xenophilic curiosity of ‘Alien’ (hi, welcome to my work 😈)
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
Thank you so much, Aimee!
"UPDATE: The Buildings Are Hungry and the Plague Can Speak" by @nassos.bsky.social:
Hugo noms are open so it's time for me to rattle off a list of some of my fave stories from last year! These are in no particular order so let's start with a December story, "Ichythosis" by the wonderful @emelkrishnan.bsky.social:
Thank you so much Leanna -- my Ko-fi is here: ko-fi.com/evaroslinwri...; I would appreciate any re-boosts and shares. Maybe I can also add the 3k as a specific goal.
Folks, I need help. I had a severe medical incident that required ER. I'm on med leave and I have no idea if it's funded or no. Have been trying for past few months to get a workshop r3fund of 3k I'm still missing to no avail, have exhausted every opportunity. Any advice on what I can do?
I meant to do this yesterday, but this week has been a lot.
However, it's the beginning of the month and I've not properly done theis in 2026 yet. So, it's Tiny Story Time!
Leave me a prompt and get a piece of microfiction. It might be the length of a singe post, or it might longer. We'll see!
"Medusa's Ship, or the Thing About Bodies" is out now! Formally Experimental Greeks in Space, anyone? www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/medu...
@bcsmagazine.bsky.social also did an incredible job podcasting the story. Listen, I am in awe: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/bcs-35...
Thank you for reading! So glad you enjoyed it :)
"Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies" by @nassos.bsky.social, in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is a great beautiful gut punch. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/medu...
hello!
new story day!!
this one is a weird western murder mystery set on the back of a jackalope. did i say weird western? i meant WEIRD western.
it's hell living on the back of prey
“Ghosts don’t talk (if you discount the strange whistling) and sometimes immigrants don’t either, but you can always tell. I think it’s something in the way people hold themselves if they truly feel they belong. Perhaps ghosts are the same.”
By @nassos.bsky.social
reactormag.com/every-ghost-...
Hell yes, my debut novella GRIEF EATER is now live on Barnes and Noble for pre-orders!
I would greatly appreciate any help in spreading the word. Thank you!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grief-eate...
@interstellarflight.bsky.social
I also spy the magnificent NOTES FROM A REGICIDE by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social, the gorgeous and dreamlike SOUR CHERRY by @nassos.bsky.social, the creepily sexy POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ by @isabelcanas.bsky.social, & lol that new Pynchon set in 1930s Milwaukee (a time/place I also sometimes write in)
oh hey my "fuck-AI-in-the-literature-classroom" story from @lightspeedmagazine.com back in January made the Locus Recommended Reading list! rad, and also fuck AI in the literature classroom!
(story here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/tell...)
Holy hell, my novella GRIEF EATER is on NetGalley!!! Check out that stunning Dante Luiz cover!! @interstellarflight.bsky.social
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚
ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!)
tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download
Thank you so much, Vanessa!
Very late, but here are my short fiction recs from Nov-Dec 2025! A mix of old and new, with stories by @acwise.bsky.social @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @teajaysee.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social 1/2
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Thank you, Jordan!! 🖤🖤🖤
Thank you!
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