Parker M. O'Neill

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

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is currently sitting at $6,717 of our $20K goal! That means we're a third of the way to funding four issues of Apex for next year! Can we hit 50% before the end of the week? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Huge news for fans of birds/songs/dreaming/science fiction/the obliteration of the universe: “To Dream of Birdsong” is free to read online!

thanks Chris!

I originally wrote this flash in February of 2024, when I had a dozen stories finished and a single publication to my name.
This is probably the first story I ever really felt proud of, so I’m incredibly hyped that it found a home.

Double pub day for me!

Check out “Instructions for Self-Reflection”, now available in Radon’s Issue 11

I love when a poem teaches me a new word! Really evocative language here, well done.

Happy birthday, Kai!!

Story release day!
“This Is What Mouths Are For” is my answer to the question: what if everything was creepy and gross?
Despite the fact that revising this story made me nauseous, I’m very, very proud of this one.

Apex is (in my completely unbiased opinion) one of the best mags out there. Throw them some support!

sick! congrats!

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

The @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter launches tomorrow! Will you help us fund 2026 and kickoff another 20 years of strange, surreal, shocking, and beautiful short fiction? I hope you will! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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.

I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

we were long overdue a mushreckoning

People have been eating mushrooms long enough, it’s time for the tables to turn

In about an hour I'm doing a reading at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social !!

I'll probably read a couple flash pieces, and if there's time, maybe a chapter from my WIP book? We'll see where the wind takes us

It's free, and there's still time to register at flights-of-foundry.org/registration/

That was gonna be my next question

No worries at all. It went great!

actual diagram of the real interior structure of the earth

does this world have Dense Earth conspiracy theorists sending each other graphics like this

insanely cool concept to start with and it just got better from there

No one talk to me, I’m hibernating until October

Super cool!

How am I supposed to get any writing done when studios keep dropping 10/10 games to distract me 😐

I wasn’t expecting to be jumpscared by this news on Bluesky but I’m here for it

Every word of this synopsis got me more hyped

You can’t tell, but as this photo was taken I was repeating the Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front manifesto in my head

Thanks so much for reading! Really glad you enjoyed it. I can’t help but sneak etymology into my work sometimes 😬

putting delight in my author bio from now on

Irrealists: join us TONIGHT at Liquid State Brewing in downtown Ithaca for readings by @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Onward!

Granted, "the 22nd night of September" doesn't have the same ring to it as the Earth, Wind & Fire line, but I'm sure @parkeriswriting.bsky.social and I will make it one to remember!

If you're around the 607, come by Liquid State at 7 pm!