Derrick Boden

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Valor Bones by Derrick Boden Leti sat down in the mud alongside the monster-thing. Her fingers grazed the book's cover; she remembered the attic. Daka's cold and callused body. And across town, the terrifying illness that had tak...

Here's the original, in print and podcast: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/valo...

Love a good bone story, happy to see "Valor Bones" in this list (first appeared in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social a few years back). Thanks for the shout-out, @reactorsff.bsky.social!

Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper by Derrick Boden Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

And here's the original story at @clarkesworldmagazine.com: clarkesworldmagazine.com/boden_08_22/

Here's the Babelzine project: babeluo.com

Happened to be in Kyoto shortly after the release of Babelzine Vol 4, managed to track down a physical copy at the lovely @cavabooks.bsky.social store. What a joy to see my story in translation! Thanks so much to everyone involved.

Great thread and some great opening lines from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social!

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Patron by Derrick Boden Outside, the cries of the blood locusts swelled, as they would until month's end. These creatures writhed below ground for seven years before breaching the surface to feast on fruits and flesh alike. ...

BCS opening lines:

"On a sweltering winter morning, at the edge of town where the wailing desert clawed at her shanty door, the Patron held court."

The Patron
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This is sure to be a good one:

Thanks so much for the kind words, Maria!

My new "What to Read" column also features fiction by @ecastroianni.bsky.social @avgreenewrites.bsky.social @ravenjake.bsky.social @derrickboden.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social @translunarytree.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social & more.

Author Spotlight: P.A. Cornell - Lightspeed Magazine What I’d like readers to take away from this is that there’s value to art. That it is in fact an essential service that provides us with something that can improve our lives just by being exposed to i...

Honored to be @lightspeedmagazine.com’s Author Spotlight and once again be interviewed by @phoebebarton.bsky.social who always asks such thought-provoking questions. “Through the Machine” comes out next week. Meanwhile, find out what went into writing it.
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Beak - Nightmare Magazine The landlord requires proof of the infestation, and proof---per clause twelve, subsection three of the lease---must come in the form of a living specimen, safely contained. A dead specimen is insuffic...

Loved this creepy new story by Ian Muneshwar: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/beak/

I’m so glad! 😊

If you haven't read it yet, it's free at @diabolicalplots.com - check it out here: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: April 2025 - Reactor This month's stories have a little god murder, some necromancy, and some brain swapping...

Very stoked to see my story "The Unfactory" in @reactorsff.bsky.social's April roundup.

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Really enjoyed this one by @cornellwriter.bsky.social.

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Rad! Congrats, Erin!!

Wow, thanks very much!

The Unfactory, by Derrick Boden in Diabolical Plots. I've read a few other works by Boden and honestly they're pretty consistently bangers (I still think about his story in Escape Pod, Hustle, every now and then without warning). This story about unmaking is no exception.

I voted. Have you? Deadline is the 15th and anyone can vote. You can even write-in your faves! If you’re still considering short fiction, here’s a link to my eligible stories: www.pacornell.com/2024-awards-...

Thank you!! Hah yeah it's weird how they always seem to come out all at the same time.

Huge thanks to the @diabolicalplots.com team for everything you do, and in particular to Hal Y. Zhang for the incredible editing on this one.

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It's alive! Check out my story "The Unfactory" at @diabolicalplots.com today, before it gets unmade by your local occult-powered shadow bureaucracy.

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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper by Derrick Boden

#Booksky 012/500 Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper by Derrick Boden

It's not just the rent that'll get you. Imagine having to chase down your home every few days!

Cold Iron Clockwork by Derrick Boden By then, nearly every faerie in the dell made use of Alastair’s inventions, had even conscripted him to fashion machines that would aid in their tiresome reprieves - pluck their harps, finger their pipes, braid their hair. Even this had left them unsatisfied, though he could not reduce their burden of impetus any further—not without replacing their muscles with cables, their: joints with cogs. Trollbreath Magazine

It's Free Fiction Friday! Take a moment to see how things are going in the dell when machine meets faerie!

Thank you!!

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

Trolls of 34th Street - Trollbreath Magazine by Derrick Boden

Have you read?

Trolls of 34th Street by Derrick Boden at Trollbreath Magazine

The line "The rest of them laugh, like bones in a well." cinched this story for me.