Indigo Rue

I know! @beingcam.bsky.social is so talented!

I love this story in 1000 different ways.

If you have a moment, read my friend @marjeec.bsky.social's delightfully chilling story.

Congratulations, friends! 💜💜

What Jeané D. Ridges Has Published in 2025: ~ “the south pervades even the pluriverse” (https://stoneofmadnesspress.com/jeane-d-ridges ) ~ SISTORIES Issue V: Fluid By Nature — Contributing Editor as Luminary Editorial Incubator Fellow — Short Story “com·​mem·​o·​ra·​tion” & “Telling On Ourselves: Interviews with Black, Gender Unbound, (Dis)abled/Chronically Ill Speculative Storytellers of the South” ( https://www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709b-4706-84f6-6f7dbe8b7af0 ) ~ “Writing the Space Between Here and Elsewhere: Interviews with Jennifer Hudak and Shingai Njeri Kagunda” (https://www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/writing-the-space-between-here-and-elsewhere-interviews-with-jennifer-hudak-and-shingai-njeri-kagunda/ ) ~ “Porch Pull Up Ep. 204” (https://theseventhwave.org/publication/issue-18/jeane-d-ridges/) ~ “Recipes for the Course of Living” (https://www.juliarios.com/the-february-2025-issue-of-worlds-of-possibility/)

Trying an eligibility post for the first time. I'm grateful to myself for showing up this year to tend myself, the work, and community. Thankful for everyone I've met, deepened bonds with, and/or collabed to realize something wondrously meaningful.
With and wishing care always, Jeané 🫂

Congratulations! So well-deserved!

And this review by @laurabesley.bsky.social 🥹

Lee Aeronautics On a lazy mayfly day, we sit on Grandpa Lee’s wrap-around porch, purple-tongued and sticky-fingered from the grape soda and teriyaki jerky he keeps in the pantry because they’re your favorites.&nbs…

“You name each shape in sing-song, asking me to play along, but it’s the summer before seventh grade and I’m too old for make-believe.”

Read my contest-winning story, “Lee Aeronautics,” here:

White text on black background: Indigo, extremely cool generous pretty

Today’s rejection therapy

psssssttt just found out there are 15 print copies of The Celestial Seas up for grabs in a Goodreads giveaway! If a queer Moby Dick in space sounds fun please go check it out ✨✨✨

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"Something’s in the air these days, your neighbors say, and you have a sense they don’t mean the smoke or the ash."

Happy book birthday!!!

Drawing showing the two main characters of the book, Fen and Alekhai, back to back, facing off against hidden enemies. Art by Eepz.

Twenty years ago, her parents’ rebellion failed. This is the story of what happened after.

THE KING MUST DIE comes out tomorrow!

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Mood

A powerful story I think most creatives will relate to.

Bourbon Penn 37 Stories by Lavie Tidhar, Clelia Farris, Nick DiChario, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick. Cover art by Brian Haberlin.

Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick.
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social

POETRY by Bree Wernicke Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!  Quote "Unless you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail to maintain proper quantities of teeth, you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition Association, permanently. Yay!" 13 October 2025 Strange Horizons

Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association! 
by Bree Wernicke

"Unless
you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail
to maintain proper quantities of teeth,
you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition
Association, permanently. Yay!"

Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

#poetry

I‘m going to double up on it because it’s absolutely worth reading twice: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke. For short fiction: I Am Fire by Y.M. Resnik

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Indigo, appreciate time in nature

Such great advice from my rejection email today.

Indigo, you are excellent

Inspired by @moirariom.bsky.social, I have decided to do my own rejection email editing:

Congrats friendo!

“The Kind Who Soar and The Kind Who Weave weren’t always so different. Before there were legs for climbing and wings for flying, there were just thoughts for thinking.”

Read my friend’s first published story here!

"There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—"

We are obsessed with this wonderfully weird @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social story. A manifesting of grief that you won't soon forget. A wound that's more than a wound. Do NOT miss "The Hand's Aperture"! 🐌

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Bee Kept - Small Wonders The buzzing came just before the sticky little legs on my arm. Perched there was a bee the size of my thumbnail. If it had eyelids, it would have blinked up at me.

Sometimes, the bees take you where you need to go. Find the time today for "Bee Kept" by @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social:

Dr. Hypha’s Laboratory - Small Wonders Fickle as ethyl. Explosive as magnesium. / The alchemist's cats are noble but scrappy.

Take a break today for whimsy, somewhat mad science, and cats. Discover the secret ingredients in "Dr. Hypha's Laboratory" by Brian U. Garrison:

the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force our purple clouds of delight rise above your tear gas

My poem "the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force" is up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...