Chad Gayle

A photo of me holding a copy of the book over half my face. It shows a skeleton staring through binoculars on the cover!

THE WRITHING, VERDANT END IS OUT TODAY!!!!!!

Need some weird weird eco-horror in your life?

Then look no further than this little split collection from @ericraglin1992.bsky.social, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and me!!!

Aargh I hate that!

Ian Li's 2025 awards eligibility post: Short Story: The Memory Technician, Small Wonders Poetry: Old Brooklyn Magic, Nightmare Magazine not tied down, Strange Horizons A Taste of Clean Water, Small Wonders Hotel for the Dead, Orion’s Belt +more

Awards eligibility post! I'm lucky to have 8 stories and 18 poems published in 2025, so here are just a few that I'd be delighted if you found time to read!

I'll also link them below when I get the chance

Here's my 2025 ✨ Awards Eligibility ✨ post - only 4 stories but I'm very proud of them all and would love for more people to see them 🥰 Thank you so much to everyone who has read / published / been supportive of my work this year! ❤️ 🧵

Congratulations Ruth!

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my 2025 eligibility post ~ alt text & links in thread!

Congrats Wendy!!!

Here is my 2025 award eligibility list, but it's not going to be entirely complete (for now), because I have a story coming out on... Dec 31.

* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)

Thread~

Been so busy I haven't really had any time to be on social media. As much as I miss interacting with everyone on here I've also done a *lot* less doomscrolling, which is not a bad thing.

Anyway, hope you're having a decent Monday! I still can't believe it's December.

Lanugo - Uncharted The Hunger haunts me most when I’m nauseous, which feels like it’s all the time these days. Morning sickness, my ass. I throw up at a minimum once per day, and it’s not just in the morning. The nausea...

my last story is out for this year, and it's a doozy!

a pregnant woman discovers an...interesting new symptom: an overwhelming desire to eat her own hair

(cw: vomit)

THIS IS THE WAY

A very "blarg" to you sir.

Nebula nominations are open!

I'd love it if you'd consider reading "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", which Locus called a "sharp satire" and is all my rage and desired catharsis about disability accommodations. Also superheroes. And puns.

www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

For the love of God, check with your spouse or significant other to find out if they have an interior monologue.

Learn the truth before it's too late!

The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language | Quanta Magazine Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LL...

Your brain has a "language network" that translates your thoughts into words, and now we know where it is.

(This is a great read about an amazing neuroscientist, Dr. Ev Fedorenko.)

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As a little gift, and thank you, this holiday season, I’m offering 5 free 3 month subscriptions to my Patreon. 😊

New (to me) Patrons only please.

Open until 12/31/25 or until all are claimed.

To snag one of the gifts, follow the link below.

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Graphic with there cover designs that reads: Three-Lobed Burning Eye 2025 Award Eligibility, Short Fiction and lists the following: Issue 44 “Old Wells” by Thomas Ha “First Ascent” by Ruth Joffre “The Ballad of Easy Deaths” by Steve Toase “The Thing That Ate Itself” by Aliya Whiteley “Homicidal Maps” by Joe Koch “The Bathers” by Eugenia Triantafyllou Issue 45 “The Interior” by Christi Nogle “The Barrens” by Octavia Cade “Her Shadow, Nailed to the Floor” by A.C. Wise “Without Sunsets or Snow” by Mari Ness “Nacre” by E. Catherine Tobler “The Heart is Hungry Above All Things” by Avra Margariti Issue 46 “Belly Full of Eyes” by K.S. Walker “The Subject” by Brian Evenson “Untitled #5” by Nadia Bulkin “For When the Night is Behind You…” by Corey Farrenkopf “Songs Never Sung” by Premee Mohamed “The Somnambulist” by Katie McIvor

This is our award eligibility post for 2025. We published 18 short stories this year, and love every one of them. We hope you gave them a read, were suitably haunted, and will give each one consideration. And maybe the magazine too.

I hate it when people misuse the word “decimate” and one tenth of me will die on this hill

2025 Awards Eligibility!
I published just one story this year, The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
but it's a very good story IMO
Dark fantasy+ Slavic folklore
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

November 15, 2025: Straith's 2025 eligibility post

"Once Upon the Crossing of Mars", in Fusion Fragment (Issue 26, October 27, 2025), www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26. Short story, dreamlike SF, Mars, vibes-forward, ultrarunning, transmasc athlete protagonist. Screenshot of Bluesky post by Straith: "hey Bluesky I hear you like sports / I have a science fiction sports story for you / it only contains a MODERATE amount of sports-induced hallucination"

"The Fishwife Who Killed Death", in On Spec (Vol. 35, No. 2, June 2025), weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-magazine-132-vol-35-no-2/. Short story, dreamlike folkloric fantasy, grandmother on a revenge quest against Death itself, gender-neutral child protag. "My memere was the one who showed me the trick of spotting Death."

If in fact you elect to nominate one of these stories for an award (THANKS...) and you are eligible to nominate for the Auroras, please nominate my stuff for the Aurora Award for short fiction since both these stories have a specific CanSpec flavour to them and (as a bonus) were pubbed in Canadian mags! Or nominate elsewhere I'm not your dad haha!!

It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!!

I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜

My micro "Borderland" is out in Fractured Lit today! I'd love for you to check it out!

Thanks @fracturedlit.bsky.social!

“Blah,” said Toad.

2025 ELIGIBILITY POST FOR SOMTO IHEZUE ANTHOLOGY: WILL THIS BE A PROBLEM? THE ANTHOLOGY EDITED BY SOMTO IHEZUE & OLIVIA KIDULA SHILITZA PUBLISHING NOVELETTE: WE BEGIN WHERE INFINITY ENDS CLARKESWORLD SHORT STORY: INTO DUTY, INTO LONGING. INTO SPARROWS BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES PATHS, LITTLINGE, AND HOLY THINGS DIABOLICAL PLOTS KINDLING STARS & SABERS: OF ENCHANTMENT, ENIGMA, AND THE INFINITE POETRY: CALL US BOY UNCANNY MAGAZINE

✨2025 Eligibility Post✨

I co-edited an anthology with @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app, published a novelette, three short stories, and one poem. You can read all these works via the link below, and your consideration is most welcome & appreciated.

somtoihezue.wordpress.com/2024-eligibi...

We, The Fleet is eligible! Here I am, actually talking about a story I did that is actually eligible! There! I've done it! Also give it a read or a listen I am very proud of it: clarkesworldmagazine.com/singer_05_25/

This is awesome! Congrats!

It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton You may recognize Wil Wheaton’s name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985’s timeless classic, Stand B…

Hey! Some fun news. "The Sort" (orig. @clarkesworldmagazine.com) was picked up for @wilwheaton.net's podcast. Went live today! Narrated thoughtfully and w/a kind shoutout for SFF mags at the end. And a surprise(!) mention of Uncertain Sons 🙏. Many thanks to Wil and his audio team. What an honor.

2025 AWARDS ELIGIBILITY - LYNDSEY CROAL Collection DARK CRESCENT Luna Press Publishing - Horror/fantasy/SF, 55k words Includes : Novella: “Daughter of Fire and Water” Original short fiction: “The Frittening”; “Dark Crescent”; “The Fiddler and the Muse”; “A Change in the Rain”, among others. Selected Short Fiction “When the Blood Runs Dry”, Blood in the Bricks, NewCon Press - Horror, 2,738 words “To Reap, To Sow”, Analog SF March/April, & SF Caledonia (forthcoming) - SF, 4,518 words “Under a Bleeding Sky”, ParSec #14 - SF, 1,258 words

I see it's that time of the year again, so here's my Awards Eligibility for 2025! Mostly shouting about Dark Crescent, if folks enjoyed these dark and strange folklore tales from @lunapress.bsky.social! If anyone would like a copy of any of the stories for awards consideration, just drop me a DM! ✨

Orange cat named Jules curled up.

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