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Uncertain Stories Uncertain Stories is a new publishing house specialising in short fiction.

It’s been a fantastic first week since we launched Uncertain Stories. A huge thank you to everybody who’s followed us on here, helped us spread the word, pre-ordered our first anthology, signed up for our newsletter, sent us their own stories, looked at our website, and everything else too!

Lily mews jokes
at comedy club

the Howdy Doody Twilight Zone episode

Rusty flees scene of the crime

right next to the green cheese processing plant

47 years ago today

Patti Smith performed live in Central Park with the Patti Smith Group on August 4, 1978, as part of the Dr. Pepper Music Festival.

Photo: Richard E. Aaron

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #pattismith #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Now re-reading: William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. The first of his books set in a contemporary period (the early 2000s), as opposed to a dystopian future.
#WritingAndBooks #WritingCommunity #WilliamGibson #PatternRecognition

true. the possibilities are endless around my digs in the PNW (Tacoma)

FICTION Quote Siddhartha said softly, ‘What’s done is done. Why can’t you take the matter simply as an accident? Look, the three of us were intoxicated at that time. That’s why I am asking you to think of the entire incident as a mild error. And what do you fear so much? We should go there at the very least to get over this fear.’ Oppressed | আক্রান্ত   by Sakyajit Bhattacharya Translated by Rituparna Mukherjee 28 July 2025 Samovar Strange Horizons

FICTION Quote সিদ্ধার্থ ধীরে ধীরে বলল, ‘যেটা হয়ে গেছে, হয়েই গেছে। একটা অ্যাক্সিডেন্ট হিসেবেই ব্যাপারটাকে নে না। দ্যাখ, তখন আমরা তিনজনেই ইনটক্সিকেটেড ছিলাম। তাই বলছি, গোটা ঘটনাটাকে তো একটা মাইল্ড এরর হিসাবেও দেখতে পারি। আর এত ভয় কিসের? অন্তত ভয় ভাঙানোর জন্যও ওখানে যাওয়া দরকার। ' সুনন্দ ঠোঁটের ওপর জিভ বোলাল— ‘কাজটার জন্য এখনও আমার খুব অপরাধী লাগে নিজেকে।' আক্রান্ত | Oppressed By Sakyajit Bhattacharya 28 July 2025 Samovar Strange Horizons

New issue of @samovarmag.bsky.social is this week's issue!

Oppressed | আক্রান্ত  
by Sakyajit Bhattacharya
translated by Rituparna Mukherjee

Read the full story in translation and the original at the link to the latest issue in our bio!

#fiction #samovar #speculativefiction #specfic #sff

never hiked that but was trekking around Mount Rainier right about that time

We’ve extended the deadline for The River Styx Contest to September 1, 2025. (Announcement date is still January 1.) Enter your fiction or poetry. See our website for complete rules. www.riverstyx.org/the-river-st...

"Hotline to Heaven" - Horror Short Story A psychic medium with real horrifying visions of the afterlife finds the only way to monetize his skill is by lying.

Killer Shorts is only 7️⃣ days away from the Early Deadline on August 1st! ⛧𓃵

Did you know we also accept horror short stories (prose)?!
Check out S6 winner “Hotline to Heaven” by Andy Farrant @farrantula.bsky.social ⬇️
killershorts.com/short-storie...

Original Illustration by Bratcave Studio.

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Over the past few months, we've noticed a new echelon forming of super artsy indie cool magazines that publish particularly beautiful chaos.

Their communities are strong and their editors are savvy as hell. Allow us to introduce you to some of them🖤

crash scene from
Pink Flamingo Down

Ethyl records
Eureka moment
on TikTok

Now re-reading: Idoru by William Gibson. The second book of his Bridge Trilogy. Published in 1996, the story contains uncannily accurate insights on the impacts of Artificial Intelligence.
#WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #WilliamGibson #Idoru

YouTube video by RaoulDuke504 Tuba Skinny - Too Late

today's Tuba Skinny. worth watching for that lil dancer who comes in about midway in the piece.
#MusicSky #TubaSkinny #TooLate

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwyn...

arguably, Lady Olenna was the best character delivering the best line in GOT

I haven't submitted to them for a while, but they usually responded with a polite rejection within two months or so.

YouTube video by digitalalexa Tuba Skinny - "Going Back Home" - Royal St. -* Tip the band at Venmo.com. More at Digitalalexa

Some more Tuba Skinny. This one with Erika Lewis on vocals.
#MusicSky #TubaSkinny #GoingBackHome #ErikaLewis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBIN...

YouTube video by TheWsm Tuba Skinny - Jubilee Stomp - Royal Street I

Some vintage Tuba Skinny - Jubilee Stomp
#MusicSky #TubaSkinny #JubileeStomp

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jft3...

LINK IN BIO, CONTEST CLOSING SOON: Our Adrift Writing Contests close on July 15th! Submit your poetry chapbook or short story for a chance to get paid to be published. #writingcontest

YouTube video by MusicalProgrammer Ornithology by Charlie Parker

speaking of Ornithology...

#MusicSky #CharlieParker #Ornithology

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsAM...

Wonder if the previous tenant of the place was named Raoul

🤣 hilarious!

YouTube video by CTU51115 Full Metal Jacket - Bird is the Word

Stanley Kubrick used this piece in a scene from Full Metal Jacket.

#MusicSky #TheTrashmen #SurfinBird #Ornithology #FilmSky #Kubrick #FullMetalJacket

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQED...

YouTube video by VDJ MikeyMike The Trashmen - Surfin Bird - Bird is the Word 1963 (ALT End with Andre Van Duin) (UNOFFICIAL VIDEO)

Another crazy early '60s piece by The Trashmen, performing Surfin Bird

#MusicSky #TheTrashmen #SurfinBird #Ornithology

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4...

Thank you for the love, Chestnut family!!!

Our EIC dehardy.bsky.social got her start at chestnutreview.bsky.social as a reader in 2020, then prose editor, now senior reader.

Her love and respect for indie writers incubated there. Thank you, Chestnut!! 💚🐈‍⬛

hopefully no submission fee

i have a friend named Noel who was born on Xmas day. another writer, actually