Super excited to have a new story in Nature Futures!
27.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@kathleenschaefer.bsky.social
Writer and software engineer. Words in PodCastle, Gamut Magazine, and Apex Publication’s Robotic Ambitions www.kathleenschaefer.net
Super excited to have a new story in Nature Futures!
27.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Everything I Overhear When My Neighbors Argue About Their Hellhound Puppy, by Kathleen Schaefer in Tales & Feathers. Does exactly what it says on the tin and does it well. The mix of the epistolary lists and prose works really well.
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Well. Okay. I started reading for the hellhound (obviously) and found a lot more & a very smart speculative take on serious topics.
10.05.2025 13:41 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0"Everything I Overhear When My Neighbours Argue About Their Hellhound Puppy" by @kathleenschaefer.bsky.social is a DELIGHT 😂 Who's the goodest boy??? yes he is!!!
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My story is now free to read at the wonderful Tales & Feathers! Take a look!
30.04.2025 16:22 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0So excited to be part of this amazing issue alongside so many talented writers! Check out “Everything I Overhear When My Neighbors Argue About Their Hellhound Puppy”, which is—you guessed it!—about overhearing the neighbors argue over their hellhound puppy
28.02.2025 18:48 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Lastly, "What Grows on an Unforsaken Moon" was published in Infinite Worlds Issue 14 alongside a beautiful illustration in their print magazine. The story is about a colony on a distant moon trying desperately to contact Earth. www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/inf...
15.01.2025 00:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Next, "We Make the World in Our Image" was published in @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social issue #17. This one's about a mother and daughter trying to regrow the last marigold in a divided and drought-stricken version of the United States.
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First is my story "The Ossification of the Space Between Us" published on the newly free-to-read @houseofgamut.bsky.social
This one is one of my favorite stories I've written and is about a living hotel made of bones that lives vicariously through its guests.
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Visual of published stories from 2024
Since it turns out one of my stories is now free to read online, here's my 2024 eligibility post only a little bit late!
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Thank you!! I’m so glad you liked it!
15.10.2024 05:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Insatiable Life" by @kathleenschaefer.bsky.social in the ROBOTIC AMBITIONS anthology is excellent. Standout short story, I really loved it.
15.10.2024 03:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0New story out in @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social! This one is a mother/daughter story about regrowing the last marigold in a divided and drought-stricken future of the United States. Get the issue here: solarpunkmagazine.com/shop/solarpu...
11.09.2024 18:39 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Cover for Gamut Magazine February 2024
In the February issue of GAMUT:
🦅 While My Brother is Devoured by Eagles by @avramargariti.bsky.social
🪆 Daniel’s Theory About Dolls by @sgj.bsky.social
🐍 The Jaws of Ouroboros by @stevetoase.bsky.social
AND so much more!
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houseofgamut.com/magazine/
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It’s behind a paywall, so make sure to
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I would be delighted if you considered my story "Stitch" for a Hugo Award. It's available to read or listen to on PodCastle (the narration is beautifully done):
podcastle.org/2023/11/14/p...
My full awards eligibility list can be found here: www.kathleenschaefer.net/2023-award-e...
Screenshot from weather app where Friday’s weather symbol is just a moon
Looking forward to this week’s weather, which is rain, rain, rain, snow, eternal night
08.01.2024 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02023 award eligibility graphic for Kathleen Schaefer listing "Stitch", a short fantasy story in PodCastle, and "Insatiable Life", a short scifi story in the Robotic Ambitions anthology
I have two stories eligible for awards this year and would be honored if you read them! www.kathleenschaefer.net/2023-award-e...
"Stitch" in particular is available for free on PodCastle, has gotten a couple of really nice reviews, and is excellently narrated! podcastle.org/2023/11/14/p...
Such an amazing feeling to see “Stitch” on an end of year list. Thanks for reading!
28.12.2023 16:01 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0