Inner Worlds

Ooooh, I love a good insight survey...

Calling all Inner Worlds writers and readers: please tell me your thoughts about mental health and speculative fiction! 🧠❤️

Wonderful by Yasmeen Fahmy Chantilly, bobbin, guipure, knotted, knitted, on and on. Where is the floor? The door?

"Chantilly, bobbin, guipure, knotted, knitted, on and on. Where is the floor? The door? The wiry buttermilk cat that led me into this maze? And how might I leave?"

Read "Wonderful" by @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social in our new issue:
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#SFF #Fantasy #Fabulism

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Hoofbeats by J. Nathan Mind the stones there. A centaur took out part of my stone wall in a hissy fit. Centaurs, what can you do, hmm?

"Confused by how you got here? Don’t fret, my dear. You found my cottage because you needed to. It looks like you’ve found me just in time. The light of your eyes has gone dull and your heart’s been worn threadbare."

Read Hoofbeats by @jamielnathan.bsky.social
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thinking abt this story 🥲

This is such a beautiful tender story about grief and loss and connection. #amreading

Exquisite.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 209:
Not all writing needs to “lead somewhere.” Joy is a valid end in itself. So is practice: everything you write makes you better writer.

No wasted words! 😊

Anne Boyer's "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't" is tattooed across my soul. "This is not your grave, get out of this hole."

billmoyers.com/story/poetry...

(Honourable mention to a whole bunch of lines from WB Yeats, but especially: "That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea" from 'Byzantium')

"I love you. I’m glad I exist."

From 'The Orange' by Wendy Cope

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Hoofbeats by J. Nathan Mind the stones there. A centaur took out part of my stone wall in a hissy fit. Centaurs, what can you do, hmm?

"Confused by how you got here? Don’t fret, my dear. You found my cottage because you needed to. It looks like you’ve found me just in time. The light of your eyes has gone dull and your heart’s been worn threadbare."

Read Hoofbeats by @jamielnathan.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-hoof...

If you liked my piece in Inner Worlds, consider checking out "Mind Palace v1.2.1," my experimental flash piece recently published in @manyworlds.place! Text-based indie horror game meets the violence our healthcare system inflicts on its workers.

manyworlds.place/issue-10/rj-...

If You Can’t Make Your Own Regret, Store-Bought Is Fine by RJ Aurand The thing about regret was that it curdled. It couldn’t stand up to the harsh salts of traditional methods of preservation.

"Regret was without question the emotion no membalmer wanted to see trickling into the basin when they tapped a skull."

Read "If You Can’t Make Your Own Regret, Store-Bought Is Fine" by @rjaurand.bsky.social in our latest issue:

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#SFF #SciFi #Fantasy

📣 📣The Open Call for submissions to Vol 2 of Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF is live. 📣📣

Details and submission link in the posts below! 👇🏼

If You Can’t Make Your Own Regret, Store-Bought Is Fine by RJ Aurand The thing about regret was that it curdled. It couldn’t stand up to the harsh salts of traditional methods of preservation.

"Regret was without question the emotion no membalmer wanted to see trickling into the basin when they tapped a skull."

Read "If You Can’t Make Your Own Regret, Store-Bought Is Fine" by @rjaurand.bsky.social in our latest issue:

inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-if-y...

#SFF #SciFi #Fantasy

Calling all Inner Worlds writers and readers: please tell me your thoughts about mental health and speculative fiction! 🧠❤️

If you have any questions feel free to ask here or drop me an email at ourinnerworlds@protonmail.com. Thank you! 😊

I've made a short survey with some prompt questions. If you have time and inclination to add any answers I would be very grateful indeed. Here's the link! www.cognitoforms.com/InnerWorlds1...

I'm not quite sure what I want to say yet, but I do know I would *love* to hear from our readers and authors that we have published about this subject.

So here's a fun (?) new thing. Perhaps unsurprisingly I think a lot about speculative fiction and mental health (my day job is at a mental health charity) and I thought I'd have a go at putting some of my thoughts down in writing in the form of a conference paper about Inner Worlds.

Congratulations!

So, yes, I'm in LOCUS, reviewing short fiction! 👀 My very first review column is in this issue and I am so FREAKING EXCITED to be part of the Locus team and this magazine!

If you like reading South-Asian Speculative Fiction, we have an opportunity for you.

Tasavvur is currently looking for enthusiastic slush readers, preferably with prior literary experience.

Email us at hello.tasavvur@gmail.com with your pitch!

🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

After a year of dreaming and a year of work, ENTER HERE: An Anthology of Portals is here!

@mstevensonbooks.bsky.social and I are so proud of all our slushers, authors, and ourselves.

Get it on Amazon now and Ingram soon! 💙📚

a.co/d/3VNdrd9

Wonderful by Yasmeen Fahmy Chantilly, bobbin, guipure, knotted, knitted, on and on. Where is the floor? The door?

"Chantilly, bobbin, guipure, knotted, knitted, on and on. Where is the floor? The door? The wiry buttermilk cat that led me into this maze? And how might I leave?"

Read "Wonderful" by @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social in our new issue:
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-wond...

#SFF #Fantasy #Fabulism

Join us for the online launch of the Winter 2025 Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social

Friday 19th December, 6pm GMT

Register here to attend:

bit.ly/Asylumlaunch...

All welcome ❤️

The Spinning Circle An old wives’ tale about love and violence.

Just remembered I wrote one too! 🤣 Though it's light on detail about the actual spinning because I don't really know what I'm talking about (it was the social history that got me) www.metastellar.com/fiction/the-...