@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
Speculative fiction writer. Words in Apex, Crepuscular, Flame Tree Press, elsewhere.
Love when a title teaches me a word 🙏
01.12.2025 17:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The heart knows what the heart wants, and today: it's the alien. You'll fall in love too with "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing In The World" by @elijah.mea.rs:
01.12.2025 17:17 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2The imagery is so rich here, just gut wrenchingly vivid. Congrats!
28.11.2025 15:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I have a story in this! The ToC is wild, the stories are incredible. If you want a weird west anthology, that's the one you NEED. Buy a copy, and check out 'Five Lemons in a Net', my story of trauma, soul-eating shadows, and of course, the importance of shopping lists 🔥
11.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0Go off! Congrats!
12.11.2025 21:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Black and white photo of a mustachio'd man (maybe a model or actor) wearing a truly sick overcoat
every time I make a short story sale on a cold day I think about spending all the cash on a gigantic polo coat like this one and then I look up how much gigantic polo coats cost and then I get bummed out and think about how cool it would be to win the lottery
11.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Did the rocks cost extra? They weren’t included with my copy
11.11.2025 16:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This technically counts as shopping local, which makes it a good decision
08.11.2025 19:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0On fire!!
07.11.2025 03:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👁️👁️ I’m Looking
06.11.2025 16:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This story by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social ruined my whole morning, and I mean that as the highest of compliments. Perfect Halloween read.
31.10.2025 17:59 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Go read Ash’s newsletter! This is not a drill!
31.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Happy Halloween! I can’t recommend you read this one while eating, but I can recommend you read it over and over for every other waking minute of your day today
31.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I want to take a sec today to talk about how awesome @apexmag.bsky.social is. They've published me twice & both have been stories that are super weird and queer and violent and tender all at once. There are other excellent mags out there, but I would argue that *nobody* does it quite like Apex.
15.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 88 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 2
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...
09.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 14 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1
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...
06.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 9 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1Huge news for fans of birds/songs/dreaming/science fiction/the obliteration of the universe: “To Dream of Birdsong” is free to read online!
03.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0thanks Chris!
02.10.2025 01:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I 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.
01.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Happy birthday, Kai!!
01.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Story 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!
01.10.2025 16:28 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0sick! congrats!
01.10.2025 03:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
30.09.2025 14:38 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
29.09.2025 14:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0we were long overdue a mushreckoning
29.09.2025 13:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People have been eating mushrooms long enough, it’s time for the tables to turn
29.09.2025 13:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In 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/
