Chloe Smith

Or, how I spent last week

There’s a good moon out there too if you’ve got clear skies

🌿

“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Stop netflix from removing "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power"

c.org/KKpRjckHDY

Bahahah

Cover art for Three-Lobed Burning Eye Volume IX. Image shows a tree of red and green with faces hanging off of it, and various creepy-esque shapes floating around.

11. Three-Lobed Burning Eye Volume IX @3lobedmag.com

Part one of my favorites in this were:

"Narrative of an Unnamed Supplicant" @chloehsmith.bsky.social
"A Selection of Tissues" @klagor.bsky.social
"Kintsukuroi of the Lucky Few" @hschofieldfic.bsky.social
"Becomes the Color" @ecatherine.com

Contract signed, so I’m happy to announce that my story “Ten Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Fire Me from This Job at the Galactic Hippodrome” will appear in a future issue of @goblins-galaxies.bsky.social! It’s about surviving end-stage capitalism in spaaaaaace

The moon. Maybe a Super Moon.

Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a good grace.

Apex Magazine 2026 An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

Signal boosting Apex Magazine 2026. They’re getting down to the wire… @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Promo graphic for the LitCrawl event “The World With Different Words” at Blondie’s Bar, 540 Valencia, San Francisco, October 25, 5 to 6 PM. Featuring Gwendolyn Maia Hicks, Giovanna Lomanto, Chloe Smith, Nick Mamatas, and T. K. Rex.

Doing a LitCrawl! Months ago I was given a prompt and asked to curate a lineup. @prioryruins.bsky.social @chloehsmith.bsky.social @nmamatas.bsky.social & Giovanna Lomanto said yes! We were granted the power to change one literary event from history. What did we change? How is the world different?!

Your monthly reminder:

Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.

So great

Drag Queens Tag Sharks in Annual Florida Science Celebration The annual “Drag ’n Tag” expedition takes place amid a wave of antitransgender legislation

Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...

In The Vanguard by Chloe Smith When I’m back from a vanguard run, they all say they can’t understand me. My neighbors, my family, my lover, they all ask, how do you do it?

"Each time I align the jump ignition sequence, I feel the shipsuit respond to my intention, its answer a thrum of power I can hardly comprehend. It opens a rift in space, and I slip through."

Read 'In The Vanguard' by @chloehsmith.bsky.social

inner-worlds.ghost.io/in-the-vangu...

#SFF #SciFi

Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9

In The Vanguard by Chloe Smith When I’m back from a vanguard run, they all say they can’t understand me. My neighbors, my family, my lover, they all ask, how do you do it?

I hope you will enjoy this journey into the immense unknown: inner-worlds.ghost.io/in-the-vangu...

New story day!!!

Hoo boy

Yay! I'm so excited for this story of transformation-for-survival to be out in the world! Thank you to amazing @innerworlds.bsky.social for choosing to publish it, and in such fine company.

Space Unicorn!

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

So many little guys!

Coming soon: OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

SURPRISE! We couldn't wait until next week—our Kickstarter pre-launch page is live right now!!! Sign up to be the first to know when it launches in October, and please spread the word and tell a friend! Every sign-up makes a huge difference. We are officially one step closer to OTHERSIDE!

This is the best version of this trend

I have a new story coming soon! It will be out in an anthology from @metaphorosis.com, HOPE: The Thing With Feathers and will feature sad sibling relationships and a giant bird mom.

a crab is walking on a sandy surface with its arm up Alt: a crab is walking on a sandy surface with its arm up

This article is talking about an ideal beach body so I think it's time to grow a carapace and six extra legs.

Any tips on scuttling.

You weren’t the only one fishslapped by that unwelcome knowledge

👀

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson