Kel Coleman

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Another short story from @wilwheaton.net’s podcast that makes you want to live in the world far longer than the words allow—in the best way! This one by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social.

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AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF GLORIOUS SHORT FICTION THAT I ENJOYED IN 2025 (BY PUBLICATION MONTH). his love’s ashes on his tongue, by Monte Lin, in The Deadlands (January) I love how this story explores grief and death. It’s a journey in a strange city. A journey inside our minds and the v…

Crawling back from a very nasty bout of flu by posting some of my favorite stories I read last year. Is it a perfect list? No, there's a ton of amazing stuff out there. But I am happy with it and I hope you can find something in here for you <3

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Choose Your Own Damnation - Lightspeed Magazine You’ve gotten a C-minus, and it isn’t your fault. It is also not your fault that your parents are anal, Pakistani immigrants who came to this country with nothing and think a C-minus in tenth grade sp...

My spectacularly talented friend Kehkashan Khalid has a new story out now from LIGHTSPEED!!! If you’d like to laugh and cry in only 1300 words, I cannot recommend “Choose Your Own Damnation” enthusiastically enough: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/choo...

thank you!!

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: November 2025 - Reactor Add some of the best new short fiction stories to your end of year reading lists!

It's my last short speculative fiction spotlight column of 2025 (my Dec picks will come out in Jan). I have 10 stories to tide you through the long, dark nights and short, cold days. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Escape Pod, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Review by Charles Payseur Escape Pod 8/21/25 Lightspeed 9/25 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/4/25, 9/18/25 The 8/21/25 Escape Pod features “35 / F / Lane’s Creek, Oklahoma” by Hans Ege Wenger, a story about Sandra, a remote bot o…

“Last Meal Aboard the Awassa” by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, “Compass Rose, Running” by Julie Reeser from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social

One more day folks!

Send us your queer speculative flash fiction!

@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social's Those Beyond the Wall is EVERYTHING I could've hoped for in a sequel. A new protagonist—as well-developed as the first one—took me deeper into the characters, settings, and storylines I grew to love and blew my mind!!

Don't sleep on this series, y'all. It's gold.

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Students touched me so much with their words and deeds during our last classes this week.

One told me I was her favorite professor. I joked, "Darn it! That means I can't quit."

"Don't quit. We need you."

(Give me oil in my lamp. Keep me burning, burning, burning. Give me oil in my lamp, I pray.)

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Putting up my editing shingle!

I offer constructive developmental editing, and authenticity/sensitivity reading of short and long form prose fiction. I’m an Ignyte and Ember award winning editor. There’s room for a few clients this month and after January. Get in touch! soniasulaiman.com/contact/

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

DEBUT Ellie visits her comatose mother every weekend. That is not enough for her older sister, Chris, who reminds Ellie constantly she will never live up to Chris's own filial piety, which seems to include using random people to harangue Ellie and repeated assassination attempts. When Chris sends Ellie into the skunkworks-the physics-defying apparatus that creates and maintains universes—for a minor issue, it turns into a cascade of discovered problems, which include her cousin Daniel finding a device that is keeping Ellie's mother alive but creating destabilizing errors that jeopardize the universe. As Ellie and Daniel investigate the source of the illicit device, they find that their family's past is much more convoluted than known, and Ellie may need to choose between saving her family or the universe itself. Intricate worldbuilding, generational trauma, and reports relayed as food are woven into a story that has great action and engaging characters. VERDICT Chu finds a delightful and poignant intersection between the multiverse, family dysfunction, and dim sum in his debut novel. Reviewed by Kristi Chadwick, Dec 01, 2025

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The Subtle Art of Folding Space got a starred review from Library Journal!
"Chu finds a delightful and poignant intersection between the multiverse, family dysfunction, and dim sum in his debut novel."

I didn't know this had been announced! I'm excited to be teaching at Clarion next summer with all of these cool people.

Ooo congrats! Have fun!

Last Meal Aboard the Awassa - Lightspeed Magazine Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and t...

This story is so short and yet you'll fall in love with all the characters as a whole and their attitude in the face of absolute catastrophe. With what humans could have been if we were more like them.

by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com

Thanks for reading and sharing, Eugenia! 💜💜

“Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head” is available now in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s about a homeless orphan girl who discovers she can speak to one of the severed heads mounted over the city gate.

When I was a submissions editor, I really enjoyed the feeling of sending up work from new writers. I think most editors do. Today, I learned that someone has their first pro sale because I told them about a call for submissions.

This is what it’s all about.

Good news! You can read an oldie but a favorite of mine in Apex today! "Before, After, and the Space Between", first published in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, is about the fraught relationship between a daughter and her mother and their magic 💜🖤

2025 Awards Eligibility Post Cindy Phan “All Her Darling Little Ones” - Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology. “Ron, Howard” - Baffling Magazine, Issue 19.4. “What to do When a Demon is Talking Shit at You” - Inner Worlds, Issue 8. more stories and links at cindyphanauthor.com

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Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨

AWARDS CONSIDERATION Jennifer Hudak "Written On the Subway Walls" in The Sunday Morning Transport "Echo Syndrome" in Small Wonders "The Last Time Gladys Howled At the Moon" in Strange Horizons "Holding Patterns" in Escape Pod links and more stories at JenniferHudakWrites.com

Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills

Happy release day to the very special Orbit Gold edition of the trilogy of my heart. 💚 Thank you @orbitbooks.bsky.social and @tommyarnoldart.com (Last day to take advantage of the 20% preorder discount! Link below.)

Big news! My second collection of horror stories, NOCTIVAGANTS, is coming out in 2027 with Lethe Press!

Cover reveal coming soon!

Hey look at that! My story “Bloody Muddy Water” is featured by Locus Magazine!

John Wiswell 2025 Awards Eligibility Post Novel: WEARING THE LION (DAW Books) Novelette: PHANTOM VIEW (Reactor) Short Story: An Asexual Succubus (Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabres) Non-Fiction: Breakout, Ripoff, Genre: How Fiction Outgrows Originality (Uncanny Magazine)

I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.

Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted “This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...

Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.

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