Chloe Smith

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

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“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

Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and a pen-and-ink illustration of a woman sweeping dirt under a rug.

Whelve [welv]
(v.)
-To conceal, hide or bury something beneath something else.
-To turn over and hide something underneath; to bury something.

Used in a sentence:
“Housekeeping around here is basically a frantic scurryfunge where I whelve everything under the coats in the hall closet.”

ok here's my dung beetle love poem

I have a story in this! I'm excited that it's in such fine-feathered company.

Such a good reminder

A meme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In the top panel, one man labeled "literally every company" hands a plate labeled "AI" to a man labeled "me." In the bottom panel, the man labeled "me" nonchalantly tosses the plate down the hallway, discarding it with casual disdain while the first man watches.

Time to post it again.

Foolproof

Jane Eyre
Jane Watir
Jane Erthe
Jane Fyre

Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye...

Until the Fyre Janes attackid.

A detail from the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. It features a giant owl with huge black eyes staring into the middle distance while a naked man hugs and shows off the owl with the expression of a man showing off his cool new car or something. There is some sort of spiky flower thing in the foreground.

it’s #SuperbOwl Sunday and this guy is very proud of his owl

"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution."

Ursula K. Le Guin / The Dispossessed

I embrace my fate

I have so many comments that say “fix this”…

Dearest writers,

Updated submissions info!

We plan to open Jan 22-29

22-25 to works by BIPOC authors

26-29 open to all

Short fic!
Flash fic!
Poetry!

Please check guidelines; apologies for any confusion.

We are eager to see your words!

psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

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