@themaust.bsky.social
Recovering adjunct, Current grant writer AZ based writer, poet, and humorist. SFWA, Reader @ Uncharted Magazine Work in Radon Journal-McSweeney's-Utopia Science Fiction-Wergle Flomp TTRPG: https://ajmaust.itch.io/far-from-the-fairgrounds
It's publication day! You can find my flash piece "Eye of Newt" in @emberjournal.org!
Huge thanks to the Ember team and to @hanmarin.bsky.social for helping me out with some much-needed edits!
You can read the story here:
read.emberjournal.org/andrew-maust...
I humbly offer the #AugurMicros2025 contest forbidden foraging and blissful reawakening. @augursociety.bsky.social
28.09.2025 21:29 — 👍 32 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 1ICYMI
19.09.2025 02:48 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I know things are hard right now. But just hold on, because soon we’re going to lose an hour of sunlight every day and it’ll all seem so much worse.
19.09.2025 11:55 — 👍 46 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 0
Now live, both the print and audio versions of my story, “Through the Machine” (As featured by Gizmodo—link threaded). Again, If you only read one of my stories this year, let it be this one. And if you like it, please share. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
23.05.2025 22:28 — 👍 97 🔁 43 💬 7 📌 34
September newsletter just dropped! In which I discuss some contract woes and take a deep dive into an AI nightmare. (Aside from the usual updates).
open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...
This is an interesting and important read if you want to know about contracts, negotiations and the ongoing situation regarding MRM.
04.09.2025 09:17 — 👍 34 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2I’ve made an update to this situation.
open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...
I have a 1-pager about playing as circus kids lost in the woods Over the Garden Wall style. It's rules light and has a lot of room for shenanigans!
As a bonus, it's pay-what-you-want so you can scope it out for free!
ajmaust.itch.io/far-from-the...
Heartlines Spec and Radon meme
It's important to have a balanced SFF reading diet.
@heartlines-spec.com and Radon, when consumed together, will give you the full breadth of emotion each day
Today feels like a day for ominous positivity.
You will have a good day, you can't stop it.
Almost every time I see CNF, my mind goes to "Consensual Non Fiction" and I'm pretty sure that's not the intent, but I'm all for alternative titles and names for literary nonfiction.
10.07.2025 21:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This copy of issue 8 has traveled across multiple continents and found its way home to our editors. This was organized entirely by the Issue 8 authors themselves.
The most touching thing we've had happen in years
just to be clear, she asked me to do this for a good cause (the well-being of actual nuns)
26.05.2025 23:17 — 👍 45 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Always interesting to see posts like these. It's a hard grind out there. Keep writing, keep submitting.
20.05.2025 22:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I've worked with H. Marin before, and the edits and feedback I received was tremendously helpful. Highly recommend using this, especially if you have a piece that's isn't quite right, and you're not sure what to do with it
25.04.2025 18:36 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
01.02.2025 04:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Rhysling award nominations are open!
If anyone's in a nominating mood, I wrote a hopeful sci-fi poem last year, "How to Grow a Home" that is eligible for the long poem category! You can find it in Utopia Science Fiction's climate-themed April issue here:
www.utopiasciencefiction.com/april-2024
My fantasy flash piece, "A Kindness, A Cruelty" is now available to read for free at Metastellar! Click the link below to read it:
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
Radon appears for the first time in the favorite litmags of 2024 at slot #8!
We are humbled and surprised and delighted and a million other adjectives all at once.
In lieu of a speech we'll say thank you from here to beyond the Milky Way. Stay tuned for our next issue in January
Woah! Which two?
13.12.2024 02:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
7. Non-spec poem, "The Ministry of Broken Serpents," published by Moss Puppy Magazine in Issue 6: Sliver/Swim. This is a short poem inspired by a friend who rescued a rat snake that was too injured to be released into the wild. It can be read for free at the link below:
www.mosspuppymag.com/issue6
6. Short spec poem, "The Old Song," published in Realmwalker Lit Mag, volume 1. It can be read for free at the link below:
heyzine.com/flip-book/ce...
5. Short spec poem, "The Glory of a Cockatrice," published in Realmwalker Lit Mag, volume 1. It can be read for free at the link below:
heyzine.com/flip-book/ce...
4. Long sci-fi poem, "How to Grow a Home." This warm, solarpunk poem was one of my favorite pieces this year. It was published in Utopia Science Fiction's ( @utopiascifi.bsky.social ) April cli-fi issue. You can find the issue here for $4.95:
www.utopiasciencefiction.com/april-2024
3. Micro/flash- "The Old Wind Technician." In the middle of winter, a wind technician braves the elements and his age in this tense piece. Featured in Brilliant Flash Fiction's 10 year anniversary collection, which is available below, for $5:
www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
2. Short story- "The Second Flight of the First Dog in Space," A time-travel adventure story that's the opposite of a dead dog story, an attempt to rescue Laika, the first dog in space! Featured in Solstitia, vol 1. You can snag a copy at the link below for $3!
www.patreon.com/fictionfansp...
1. Short Story- "The Dentist of Last Resorts," a science-fiction tale about a scoundrel who fraudulently performs dentistry on a remote mining outpost. Published in @inanothertimemag.bsky.social vol. 2. Amazon link below: (Read free w/ Kindle Unlimited!)
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
