Chey Rivera

We have Best of American SFF, Best of Canadian SFF, Best of British SFF. I wish so badly that editors take up the task of editing an yearly Best of Latin American SFF as well. It would be great!

For the Pursuit of the Better For the Pursuit of the Better by Chey Rivera

Caribbean historical fantasy, imprisoned gods, and the complex bond between two sisters desperate to protect their home and each other.

“For the Pursuit of the Better” is free to read at @heartlines-spec.com! 🧠 🌊 🪶

www.heartlines-spec.com/for-the-purs...

Bad bunny holding a football that says “together, we are America.”

Together, we are America.

Well done, Bad Bunny.

So proud to be Puerto Rican 🇵🇷
#BadBunnyBowl 🏈

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I don’t write books with AI.

Any inconsistencies, mistakes, or broken logic are purely from my brain.

Don't practice writing to impress other people. Write to express yourself. Write to make yourself laugh, or to get something awful off your chest. Write something so weird nobody else will enjoy it--but that you enjoy, and you know it, and the page can be your psyche's confidant in that.

Congratulations to everyone on the Locus Recommended Reading List! Remember you can also add your own recommendations and vote!

I really enjoyed it! It was very well done ⚔️

I really did! ☺️
I also recently enjoyed reading “The (Mis)Fortunes of Saint Ilia’s School for Gifted Girls” in The Dark magazine.
I was inspired by the unique structure 🕵🏻‍♀️

THE DEATH OF DEMONS by @brandoncase101.bsky.social in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social

AT THE END OF THE WORLD, MEET ME BY THE VENDING MACHINES by @cjtavares.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com

Will definitely be reading more from these authors. 🙌🏼

Four short stories I read and loved in JANUARY ✨

THE SPACE BETWEEN US by @cornellwriter.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com

I MET YOU ON THE TRAIN by
@jrdawson.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

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Speaking of Jane Goodall, my favorite quote by her:

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

The Edge of Ice and Sea I wish for strong magic to protect this place

Filmmaker Jessica Plumb spent 10 days aboard a steel-hulled schooner in June of 2022. From the deck, she and her family explored Western Greenland, witnessing the effects of climate change from land, sea, and ice. These are her journal entries.

“The Death of the Angel Prince” reprinted in @conquestpublishing.bsky.social’s anthology, Monstrous Angels.

“Although my body and powers remained, the very nature of my being was altered, my mind, my heart. I had new fears, thoughts—longings.”

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“Two Paths, One Death” published in @coyhall.bsky.social’s anthology, This World of Vile Wonder.

“She was no one. It did not matter that she was leaving this world just when it had begun to unfold its secrets. And yet, tears still ran stubbornly down her cheeks.”

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“For the Pursuit of the Better” published in @heartlines-spec.com

“Karaya was eleven-years-old when Baba fused a small metal cage into her skull. He said this would give her the mind of a god, because the cage contained an imprisoned god inside it.”

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“‘Again!’ Atabey Commands” published in @tenebrouspress.bsky.social’s The Skull and Laurel.

“Atabey is pleased by the areíto. More than pleased, enthralled. The gold adornments in her headdress and neck clink as she follows her subjects’ movements.”

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“The Eyes of the Pentekonter” published in Flame Tree Press’ Achilles anthology.

“As the waves took him away from the place that had made and unmade him, Odysseus found himself tortured by the memory of a single man—Achilles.”

www.flametreepublishing.com/achilles-isb...

✨My 2025 Publications ✨

“The Saint in the Stone” published in @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social Myriad Lawless

“You never pray to the Saint in the Stone. That’s the only thing all outlaw clans in Caona Cay can agree on.”

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First book I finished reading in 2026:
The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social

A lady knight and a historian trapped in a time loop. This book is so beautifully written! It will stay with me for a long time. I loved it just like I loved her excellent short story, The Six Deaths of the Saint. 🗡️

Calling all poets: Eye to the Telescope is accepting submissions for issue 60, edited by Angela Acosta, on the theme of Paying Tribute.

Find more details and a form to submit here:

eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html

“It is what I was born for—
to look, to listen,

to lose myself
inside this soft world—“

#MaryOliver

Mary Oliver, every morning ☀️

#poetry #maryoliver #devotions

For your consideration ☺️

Congratulations!
Excited we’ll share a TOC ☺️

Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

This is FOR THE PURSUIT OF THE BETTER: www.heartlines-spec.com/for-the-purs...

My 2025 Publications! 🫶🏻✨

I am so grateful to all the editors who believed in my stories and gave them a home. 🙏🏼

@hexagonmagazine.bsky.social
Flame Tree Press
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
@heartlines-spec.com
@coyhall.bsky.social
@conquestpublishing.bsky.social

Thanks Karlo!