Uncharted Mag

GOOD REAL HISTORY - Uncharted The silhouette of the Pharos lighthouse floats on the water in the distance, its peak is like the eye of a god, always monitoring its subjects. I can see why it’s considered one of the seven wonders o...

2nd Place Winner of our Cinematic Story Contest by A.M. Lomuscio!

"The silhouette of the Pharos lighthouse floats on the water in the distance, its peak is like the eye of a god, always monitoring its subjects."

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/good...

Sitting on Crenshaw - Uncharted When Crenshaw shoots Anneke, he’s within arm’s reach of me. I watch my hand grab him by the back of the neck. My body follows through, and I keep moving. He loses his balance. I feel the base of his s...

3rd Place in our Cinematic Story contest by Alison Jean Lester!

"When Crenshaw shoots Anneke, he’s within arm’s reach of me. I watch my hand grab him by the back of the neck. My body follows through, and I keep moving."

unchartedmag.com/stories/sitt...

Winter Love - Uncharted This 21st century has been good to us, I remind myself, while Hans and I wait in the boardroom for the meeting to start. We’ve slotted half an hour—longer than usual, but this new product update matte...

FFer Read of the Day: "Winter Love" by EC Dorgan in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/wint...

Protectors of the Red, Red Earth - Uncharted “There is an animal,” I tell my young apprentice, “that can make other species protect it to the death.” Clay keeps notes as we crouch low in the dugout, watching the ant-wasp hill under the soft redl...

"I made mistakes once, too, when I was the first historian, nobody else to teach me what to look out for, how to be gentle with the world so it would be gentle with me in turn."

@avramargariti.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social
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SUPPORT FORUM FOR THE CARE AND FEEDING OF YOUR PERSONAL SPIRIT-ANGEL - Uncharted Welcome to the forum! You have successfully registered and now have full access to the site and all its resources. And congratulations again on the summoning of your own personal spirit-angel. It’s an...

FFer Read of the Day: "Support Forum for the Care and Feeding of Your Personal Spirit-Angel" by @vanessafogg.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/supp...

We're so excited to have you on the team!

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I’ve got some fun news!

Starting next week, I’ll be the new Associate Editor at Uncharted Mag, primarily for Thriller/Mystery stories.

Can’t wait to join the fabulous team and start reading submissions!

@unchartedmag.bsky.social

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Story sale! I’m delighted that my interdimensional romance, ‘Love Story in Colored Glass,’ will be published in @unchartedmag.bsky.social!!

2025 Refractions: Genre Flash Fiction Prize Winners - Uncharted We’re so excited to announce the winners of this contest! It’s not easy to tell a story in the flash form, let alone as a genre story, which usually needs some, if not a lot, of world-building. We hop...

Thrilled to announce that my sci-fi story “By Wave” won 2nd place in Uncharted’s Refractions contest. I can’t wait to share this story because it came from a very magical place of deep meditation on the nature of cocoons 🦋
#writing
@unchartedmag.bsky.social

www.unchartedmag.com/2025-refract...

How to Curse in Thirty-Seven Languages - Uncharted “I’m in.”  Samir stands in the nexus of corridors. They recede from him in all directions, motion-sensor spotlights on the ground fading along the path he’d taken, plunging the past into darkness. He’...

Enjoyed this story by Siara Biuk in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

Thank you for reading and sharing!

When I Was Your Age - Uncharted Dear past me, Happy eighteenth birthday. It’s time. Your time. Writing this letter feels so, so strange. Believe me, you won’t know what it feels like until… well… I remember reading this in Mom and D...

"You’re gonna think, “Lazy bitch. She just copied this letter from the original!” That’s called a bootstrap paradox. It happens."

I love it when a time travel story surprises me!

Sam Brown in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

The Shortlist for August 8, 2025 - turn and work Fiction by Jhumpa Lahiri, John Jodzio, Jan Hassman, Andrew Bertaina, Stefanie K. Yang, and Quinn Green

(the shortlist 2/2):

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in @theforge.bsky.social
Quinn Green @stayquinning.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

We're thrilled to showcase your writing!

Postpartum Ballad of Wendy Rhys - Uncharted I slink down the street, rotting tot in stroller. Each clack of the wheels on the sidewalk cracks becomes a twist inside my chest. Squeals ringing from the playground. Ladies on benches in neat dresse...

I’m so thrilled to share my short story “Postpartum Ballad of Wendy Rhys” that was just published in @unchartedmag.bsky.social —be warned, it’s pretty dark! www.unchartedmag.com/stories/post...

The Shortlist for August 15, 2025 - Turn & Work There's a lot here this week. New fiction at Turn & Work, two nonfiction pieces and 10 short stories.

(2/3)
Fiction from:
Jen Conley @jenconley45.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social
J.D. Strunk in @fictivedream.bsky.social
Anna Koltes in @defenestrationmag.bsky.social AND @xraylitmag.bsky.social
Don Rath in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social
Sam Brown in @unchartedmag.bsky.social ‬

Thank you for reading and sharing!

The Demon and the Duckling - Uncharted “No, thank you.” The demon inclined her head graciously. “Pardon?” The knight blinked. He was not prepared for politeness from demons. It went against all his training. He swallowed the rising lump in...

"Also, there was the duckling to consider. None of his training prepared him for how to slay a demon while holding a live fowl."

Fun story from Amy Flanders in @unchartedmag.bsky.social !

Birds Aren’t Real - Uncharted Evan Little lives in a narrow, blue, two-story townhome. His is Model A, which is the best model. His bathroom is to the left of his closet. Models B and C have their bathrooms on the right. His back ...

Maybe Mr. Feathers fits the list?

"BIrds Aren't Real" by Rachel Luria
@unchartedmag.bsky.social

Thank you for reading and sharing!

Come Crow Come Death - Uncharted It’s rare for someone to be born with a genuine gift. I certainly wasn’t. Only thing I ever saw in a crystal ball was my own reflection, not that it stopped me taking the coins off the hopeful and the...

Does a heroic crow count?

"Come Crow, Come Death" by @madpelletier.bsky.social
@unchartedmag.bsky.social

Northern Nights — Undertow Publications TRADE PAPERBACK (Oct. 2024) 296 PAGES COVER ART: Serena Malyon "This Whitman's sampler of Canadian horror explores so many subgenres that there's bound to be something here for every reader." - P...

We also have:

The Night Birds by @premeemohamed.com in Northern Nights (undertowpublications.com/shop/norther...)

"Birds Aren't Real" by Rachel Luria in
@unchartedmag.bsky.social
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bird...

@authortrsteele.bsky.social's " The Owl-Wife" acoupofowls.com/2025/06/15/s...

We can't wait to showcase your writing!

My story "Good Real History" placed 2nd in Uncharted's Cinematic Short Story contest, it'll be live on 10/30/25!
It follows a reality TV crew that goes back in time to film historic events and create their own narratives. A huge thank you to @unchartedmag.bsky.social and @rachelharrison.bsky.social

Thank you for reading and sharing!

It’s Not...It’s Not a Planet Anymore and Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again - Uncharted I kept my demon summoning career secret from my girlfriend through six months of dating. But one week after I moved in with Diana, the fiction that I was just some goth chick with a job at the Wiccan ...

"...and I am an ante-divine, trans-dimensional concept-construct held captive inside a small wooden carving of a finger, not a demon, said the demon straight into my brain."

Mitchell Shanklin in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

Thank you for reading and sharing!

I fell in love with this story the first time I read it, and I've come back to it multiple times.

@tkrex.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

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Bone-Eater Earth - Uncharted I lose my finger during the private flight back from Japan. It isn’t the whole finger, of course, just the bone. When I drugged myself into oblivion at the start of the flight, it was totally fine. Wh...

7. Bone Eater Earth by Emma Burnett in @unchartedmag.bsky.social where a tech billionaire attempts to come to an arrangement with Mother Earth www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...