Astrolabe

I’m still pinching myself that my small story is in this year’s Best of the Net alongside so many amazing pieces. Many thanks to the good folks at COMP for nominating it.

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Great list of stories I need to search out - and litmags! @grist.org
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One week from today! Free / zoom / mid-day break

New micros up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social!! Thank you for giving these micros a home! 🥰❤️

Each day this week, I’m sharing why I loved one of the pieces we published last week on @astrolabe.ooo as part of the Retrograde.

Sorrow for Youth • fiction from Guan Un There’s no one else in the beach parking lot. You turn off the engine and the silence rushes in but for the hum in her throat, the tick of the engine cooling.

ICYMI, I have a new flash story out at @astrolabe.ooo.

It's about leaving a party with someone you just met, driving on highways at 1 am, the music up so loud you could sink into it forever.

Annual Review • fiction from Shana Ross You could have put in an escalator. Or better yet, you could have invented an elevator. That would have been Exceptional.

Honoured to have materialized in the Astrolabe universe today: www.astrolabe.ooo/ross-annual-...

Astrolabe Summer 2025 --- Amanda Yskamp - "Gathering" Shana Ross - "Annual Review" Guan Un - "Sorrow for Youth" Eli Dowd - "They Buried Their Dead in Sitting Posture" Carter Lappin - "Sometimes You Can't Help but Feel Like He Does These Things on Purpose"

A touch late, but never forgotten, the Retrograde has arrived! With it comes signs of yellowing and desiccation, omens from the sun, but also some things Exceptional and worth gathering around.

As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo

New story day! It's not everyday I get to join a Universe, but I'm so thrilled to join the Astrolabe Universe.

A flash story about leaving the party at 1am, driving down the streets with the music up loud, and that girl beside you, whose song you want to hear the end of ...

Featuring work from Amanda Yskamp, @shanaross.bsky.social, @thisisguan.bsky.social‬, Eli Dowd, and Carter Lappin.

Astrolabe Summer 2025 --- Amanda Yskamp - "Gathering" Shana Ross - "Annual Review" Guan Un - "Sorrow for Youth" Eli Dowd - "They Buried Their Dead in Sitting Posture" Carter Lappin - "Sometimes You Can't Help but Feel Like He Does These Things on Purpose"

A touch late, but never forgotten, the Retrograde has arrived! With it comes signs of yellowing and desiccation, omens from the sun, but also some things Exceptional and worth gathering around.

As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo

I’m so excited to be a part of this anthology with so many amazing writers. Many thanks to @astrolabe.ooo for originally publishing my story.

"The Destination" by Heather Kamins: www.astrolabe.ooo/kamins-the-d...

"Oh Me Oh My Oh" by Amelia K.: www.astrolabe.ooo/amelia-k-oh-...

We're shimmering at the sight of two Astrolabe stories on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2025 Longlist—congrats to @shakieranthem.bsky.social and Amelia K., whose work both live within the Errants asterism!

our next issue will materialize on July 17th for Mercury Retrograde

For all sorts of reasons, we're pushing back our summer issue to July 17th, and our next open reading window to the autumnal equinox. We got a quite a few submissions this spring, and we want to make sure we're giving each of them attention before we open for more. Thanks for bearing with us.

"I hear an ice cream truck ringing around the corner. Children are shouting. The seasons bleed into one another." Mr. Bear! And this issue of @astrolabe.ooo is transporting, as always!

Self-hypnosis, or Dig Deep In There Until the Bottom of the Ocean of Your Childhood • fiction from Georgia Bellas I see her hands cup a grasshopper. I see her sweep with pine needle brooms. Can you smell the lilacs, purple and white?

! this flash by @mrbearstumpy.bsky.social is so sweet and sorrowful and gorgeous 💙 @astrolabe.ooo

www.astrolabe.ooo/bellas-self-...

Astrolabe A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

Spring is here! The Stitches materialized today. Explore these worlds by @mrbearstumpy.bsky.social, @l42r.bsky.social, @maryloubuchi.bsky.social, Robin Steve, Jessica Richardson, Devan Murphy, and Angela Mihm.

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Featuring new writing from @mrbearstumpy.bsky.social, @l42r.bsky.social, @maryloubuchi.bsky.social, Jessica Lee Richardson, Devan Murphy, and Robin Steve, plus two pieces of springlike artwork from Angela Mihm.

Astrolabe A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

Spring is here! The Stitches materialized today. Explore these worlds—the wounds and the healing, the birds and the walnut shells, the tusks and the possibility of berries.

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New Flash CNF piece in @astrolabe.ooo. Joel Jae, and Astrid were amazing to work with and thank you to @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social for the class that brought this piece to life.

Astrolabe Best Small Fiction nominees --- Heather Kamins "The Destination" Khalid Mitchell "This Is What Always Happens" Erika Walsh "On Your Twenty-Sixth Birthday, You Receive Twenty-Six Instructions"

Profoundly proud of this year's nominations for Best Small Fictions—long journeys wished and real; a house or a home or a meteor; an agenda of ribbons and balls and fairies.

Light of My Life • fiction from Ian Li We grab coffee. She’s a physicist. Light is a particle, etching our each encounter on speckled film.

5. "Light of My Life" in @astrolabe.ooo is a prose poem that tells the entire arc of a love story with a physicist through wistful metaphors of light

www.astrolabe.ooo/li-light-of-...

This story began in my notes app with a concrete uterus. I figured that was too heavy for my main character. Thank you Allison Field Bell and The Rumpus for publishing this “lighter” version.

Astrolabe A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

We reached our cap for wintry submission window, so we'll close things down either tonight or first thing tomorrow morning. If you've been thinking about sending us your work, now is the moment!—until we open to submissions again in March.

www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions

We're open to them! We don't have a formal structure to handle translated works yet with our contract and so on, but we'd be happy to figure out those processes for the right piece.

Many talented people follow me that should submit! Send your words to this little universe.

Astrolabe A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

As is our way, we opened for submissions yesterday and will keep them open until January 21 or we get 150 in the queue—whichever comes first! We'll be reading for both the spring and summer 2025 issues and we can't wait to peek at all your wonderful words and art!

www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions

On this winter solstice, two years after the Universe began to form, we have another materialization in an entirely new form: new prose from @lgeccles.bsky.social, @ianli.bsky.social, @forestfarmer.bsky.social, ~in orbit~ around artwork from Jacelyn Yap.

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I hope you'll love my micro/prose poem in Astrolabe as much as I do. "Light of My Life" is a wistful love story materialized in flashes of light: www.astrolabe.ooo/li-light-of-...

@astrolabe.ooo also animated it as an orbiting orange star on their main page—how cool is that??