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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 5h

Check out Sheldon's collection Where the Pavement Turns to Sand from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social here: malarkeybooks.com/store/pavement

Sheldon Birnie is a writer, dad, and beer league hockey player from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of the short story collections Where the Pavement Turns to Sand (2023) and More Strange Visions (forthcoming), both from Malarkey Books.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 5h

Saros SF #6 story preview! The issue kicks off with "Wristwatch" by @badguybirnie.bsky.social where, in between ginos and apples and filthy dangles, the boys happily sign their humanity away for the latest gadgets. Our hero feels differently. sarossf.com/issue-6/

"Wristwatch" by Sheldon Birnie: beer league hockey / everything's computer / touching grass

Me, I don’t say anything. Not at first, anyhow. Just shake my head, raise my eyebrows to my buddy Neil sitting next to me, which gets a laugh. Ernie and Max, though, they don’t pay no mind. They’re geeking out over their biometric wristwatches like they’re the best things since sliced frickin bread. With the data they’re collecting, the behaviour they’re modifying as a result of the information the computer’s feeding back to them, they’ll live forever.

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Beth Goder @bethgoder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My Kickstarter for my debut short story collection is live! If you back in the first 48 hours, I'll send you a bonus sticker! Thanks for your support! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bet...

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An Expression of Silence: A Short Fiction Collection

Beth Goder's debut collection of her celebrated short fiction, with accompanying author notes.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I hope to see you there! Maybe I need to get myself a really obnoxiously obvious FF shirt or something so I'm easily identifiable.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hope to see you there! Are you going to be doing a table in the vendor room, or just in full attendee-only mode?

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I gotta put myself on a Vitamin C regimen or something this year. No getting sick again this time!

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OK people, it's coming up fast, so who do I know here on Bluesky who'll be at @canconsffh.bsky.social? I missed out last year, so excited to get back and meet some folks in person for the first time!

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you see this, recommend a short book The Arrival of Missives by Aliya Whiteley

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One last preview for FF#28 and it's time to play Match the Quotes from @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social's reviews of @escapepod.org stories in this issue's From the Archives column. Which is which? Stories by @keffy.bsky.social Alex Dally MacFarlane @natania.bsky.social @kijjohnson.bsky.social!

Quote 1: “This story is as rip-roaring a good time of a genre mashup as a fundamentally tragic tale can be.”

Quote 2: “This is a deliciously and deliriously strange story, in which advertising and eroticism intertwine in ways I would never have dreamed.”

Quote 3: “The writing is lovely, clear and forthright and wholly sympathetic to the existence of someone who, by the accounting of everyone else in the story, should not have ever come to exist.”

Quote 4: “It feels phenomenally strange to list these various death-mat ing rites as potential works of art, and there is something so lingering about that way of framing these pictures.”

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

September's over and it's also Bandcamp Friday today (where you can buy most of these) so some shoutouts to the albums I had playing the most last month while working on FF#29 and Saros #7.

Albums on repeat at FF HQ:

#1. Cinephile - Ten
#2. Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark
#3. Velvet Two Stripes - Sugar Honey Iced Tea
#4. Rose Windows - Rose Windows
#5. Greylag - Greylag
#6. All Them Witches - House of Mirrors
#7. Just Mustard - Heart Under
#8. Nico Vega - Make It Out Alive EP
#9. Hana Vu - Romanticism
#10. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

36. A fantasy novel that I won't name because although it started off great, I thought it had a difficult final third and an absolute disaster of an ending.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two weeks left to get those stories in!

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saros SF #7 is nearly here! Release date coming soon, so get ready for stories by @adamdelrey.bsky.social, Alexandra Nyx, Mir Rainbird, Mathew Lebowitz, Becks Simpson, and @kirkvanderbeek.bsky.social. Edited by @thompsinator.bsky.social, this issue features cover art by @chpearcewrites.bsky.social!

The cover of Saros #7 shows a woman on her phone, while faces peer at her. A small wormy caterpillar type insect emerges from her mouth.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a sudden uptick in downloads of FF#26. No idea why, but I'm old, I don't have to understand trends anymore. What's most important is that you, too, jump on the bandwagon. www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

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Issue #26

“A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above” by Nkereuwem Albert: the city above and the city below / spirit bots / revolution”A White Day Comes” by A.D. Sui: solar destruction…

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ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Today and every day we encourage you to reflect on the painful legacy of residential schools and colonization in Canada, support Indigenous businesses and creators, engage in community events, and listen to Indigenous voices.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let the writers of FF#28 pile your TBR stacks even higher! Find out which of these books was called "Surreal, deadpan, and marvelously truthful" and which had a "big shimmering horrible emptiness" and which was *garbage truck noise*. Read all about these recs at: www.fusionfragment.com/issue-28/

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You'll wanna check this one out! I swear, M.R.'s been publishing one banger after another the past couple years.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Inside the issue, you can also find links to Francis's work in @ergot.bsky.social and CRAFT Literary, as well as notes on why they think you should check out work by Mariana Enríquez and E.Y. Zhao.

Francis Van Ganson is a bookseller, organ donor, and fiction writer. Their writing explores violence in movies, sex on tv, and what grief, trauma and mental illness do to narrative. They live in Chicago. Follow @boooooks or @fire.motif on Instagram or visit francisvanganson.com.

Francis Recommends:
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
Underspin by E.Y. Zhao

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

FF#28 Story Preview: "Iso E Super" by Francis Van Ganson Are you up for a story about an actor playing a robot girl while also in real life dating someone who's been put into a robot body? This one was love-at-first-read for me, hope it is for you, too! www.fusionfragment.com/issue-28/

"Iso E Super" by Francis Van Ganson: bespoke perfumes / dating the robot girl vs. playing the robot girl / but how can you be sure?

I’d explained the movie’s plot in broad strokes, how it’s a classic robot movie with a horror twist: a group of scientists covertly monitor a robot girl who thinks she’s human to decide if she passes the Turing Test.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some great reading recommendations for your weekend ahead! And it contains some recent pieces by FFers @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs and @megelison.bsky.social!

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now open!! sarossf.com/submissions/

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And thanks for the great work as always!

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The cover for FF#29 by @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social has arrived! Official release date coming soon, when you can read work by @louisinglishall.bsky.social, Sarah M. Saif, Escher McDonell-Maulsby, Natasha Ali, @breewernicke.bsky.social, @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, and @elliottgish.bsky.social!

The cover of FF#29 shows a woman in black veils pondering an orb. In the background, two pillars frame a sun-ish light.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy to announce that we've acquired "understanding/familiarity incongruity pain causation" by @aimeeogdenwrites.com for FF#31! Aimee's been nominated for Ignyte, Nebula, and Locus Awards, co-founded Translunar Travelers Lounge, and has been published in I think every spec fic mag out there!

"understanding/familiarity incongruity pain causation" by Aimee Ogden: [horse] / investigating the end of life / finding meaning

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wish I'd known--maybe we could've gotten a bulk discount on deer blood.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A little over an hour from now! My very first time being on a panel! (I'm not nervous, you're nervous.)

Flights of Foundry schedule. Saturday, Sep 19th 12 PM - 12:50 PM Eastern.

Short Fiction Magazine Structure

A Humphrey Lanham, Cavan Terrill, Jeffery Reynolds, Joseph Colby Bernert, Rebecca Treasure, and Stephen Granade

Short fiction magazines now come in many forms, from monthly issues that are freely available to read all at once, to paywalled issues that then release some stories over time, to those that send stories directly to subscribers' inboxes on a regular cadence. Readers can encounter stories, poems, and articles through social media, separating them from the larger context of an issue. How do magazines structure themselves in light of this? In what ways does the concept of a "monthly issue" still hold?

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Birdguts" by @estrubbe.bsky.social in Issue 28 of @fusionfragment.bsky.social I've been loving the fiction Fusion Fragment have put out this year. "Birdguts" stayed with me because of Strubbe's knack for combining the wonderfully weird with the wonderfully human. www.fusionfragment.com/issue-28/

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Issue #28

“Birdguts” by Erin Strubbe: speculative biologies / eating stones / maybe the norm isn’t the norm”Chutes, Slides, and Ladders” by Allison Wall: surviving the board gam…

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'll be at FoF throughout the weekend! Saturday at noon Eastern, find me on Short Fiction Magazine Structure if you wanna hear me talk a bit about why FF the way it is. If you've never attended a con before, I recommend FoF: you don't have to travel and there are reduce price options!

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happy to announce that we've acquired @amaholla.bsky.social's novelette "The Silent Ambassadors" for FF#31! Amanda's previously been published in Augur, Diabolical Plots, F&SF, and had work reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy and named to the Locus Recommended Reading List.

"The Silent Ambassadors" by Amanda Hollander: philately / guilt picks your punishment / post-collapse community

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

New Patreon post up with some brief stats and thoughts on July's reading period, plus details on finding FFers (including me!) at Flights of Foundry next weekend. www.patreon.com/fusionfragme...

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FF at Flights of Foundry and July Reading Period Wrapup | Fusion Fragment

Hi there FFriends! Today, a rundown of FFers at Flights of Foundry next weekend (including me!) and some thoughts and stats on our July read

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

New Patreon post up with some brief stats and thoughts on July's reading period, plus details on finding FFers (including me!) at Flights of Foundry next weekend. www.patreon.com/fusionfragme...

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FF at Flights of Foundry and July Reading Period Wrapup | Fusion Fragment

Hi there FFriends! Today, a rundown of FFers at Flights of Foundry next weekend (including me!) and some thoughts and stats on our July read

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Abi Stevens MCM Ldn R-12 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's my birthday 🎉 so in Bluesky tradition I'd love for folks to repost my art today! 😊 #artistSupport #illustration #darkArt

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The production of FF is powered by early mornings, late nights, and turning up the volume on some great music to drown out the world. Here are the albums that were playing most frequently in August here at FF HQ. (And hey look, that's TVam in top spot for 3 months in a row! Great album!)

Albums on repeat at FF HQ

1. TVam - Ruins
2. Fazerdaze - Morningside
3. Cinephile - Ten
4. French 79 - Olympic
5. Becca Mancari - The Greatest Part
6. All Them Witches - House of Mirrors
7. Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - Mirage
8. Bass Drum of Death - Six
9. Velvet Two Stripes - Sugar Honey Iced Tea
10. Eliza Mclamb - Going Through It

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For me at the moment it's "The Stone Garden" by @elliottgish.bsky.social which I think I've read four times now. You're gonna love this one.

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