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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

👀Fiction Highlight👀 ICYMI, the short story "Fish Upon A Star" by @arfrederiksen.bsky.social is now free to read! The night sky is heavy with wishes—some we hope come true and some we'd rather forget—can the starfisher find yours? Story: buff.ly/6EZM4Bi Issue: buff.ly/sTRxEtv

Image shows Saleha Chowdhury's art of a dark figure over a red background, their organs made up of strange animals. Superimposed on the image is an excerpt from issue twenty of Haven Spec Magazine, published July 2025.

Author: A. R. Frederiksen.
Title: Fish Upon A Star.

Excerpt:

Before he died, my dad fished stars for a living. Sucked them straight out of the sky with a glorified mechanical fishing rod. Of all the possessions that I inherited, the starfisher was dad's truest legacy. I picked up where he left off, expanding on his star smuggling business as he would've wanted. All I had to do was find the people who'd wished on stars when they were children and offer them one of two options: pay me to keep their star in the sky or pay me to fish it free.