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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 1h
Well, look at that fun lil guy!
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kaleidotrope re-opens to fiction and poetry submissions three weeks from today, October 18. It will be open for just one week, closing after October 24, and won't re-open again until some as yet undetermined time, probably in 2027. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/
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Monet X Change: Get Ready, Honey!
Alt: Monet X Change: Get Ready, Honey!
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H. Marin @hanmarin.bsky.social · 4h
Issue 5 is here! My story "Organs of Mortal Obstruction" will be free to read on Halloween, but in the meantime, snag a subscription/purchase/Patreon membership to @adventitiouswords.bsky.social if you're an eager beaver and like supporting small presses 💥 www.adventitious.net
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Adventitious — Literary Speculative Fiction
Adventitious is a literary speculative fiction magazine publishing science fiction, fantasy, weird fiction, and essays. Issue One is now available.
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Becky Halsey @beckyhalsey.bsky.social · 3h
My latest story — “In the Gardens of Allster Hall” — is available in Issue 5 of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social 🎉 Join the fight against time cultists! All you need is a handful of anachronisms 💪 #sciencefiction #regencyera #fantasy www.adventitious.net/product/adve...
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Adventitious — Issue Five (October 2026) - Adventitious.
The fifth issue of Adventitious. Digital edition including PDF and EPUB formats.
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 4h
If you buy a copy/sub through Weightless, it supports us AND a very cool hub for speculative fiction.
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 4h
If you found the devil woman who owns the woods, would you accept her bargain to escape a life that betrayed you? A stunning dagger of a story by @ashvalewrites.bsky.social. "Ruby Tips to Her Feathers" www.adventitious.net/stories/ruby...
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Ruby Tips To Her Feathers By Ash Vale
A runaway girl needs to escape a cruel arranged marriage. The devil woman who owns the woods offers her that escape, but it comes with the price of total, irreversible transformation into something mo...
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 7h
"The Gorilla Fighters Under Texas, or: Derek King, Age 8, Shares His Take on the Salvadoran Civil War With Classmates at Sam Houston Elementary Based on a Viewing of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings on January 19, 1988 (Confederate Heroes Day)" www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...
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The Gorilla Fighters Under Texas by Chris Baker
or: Derek King, Age 8, Shares His Take on the Salvadoran Civil War With Classmates at Sam Houston Elementary Based on a Viewing of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings on January 19, 1988 (Confe...
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a pixelated blue screen with a dancing jack-o-lantern and the words “not long!”
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 20h
The science fiction authors curse: to see the shittiest, stupidest, most exploitative version of the technology you envisioned in your story come into existence.
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 19h
This is really cool!
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 20h
Incredibly kind.
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 22h
HI YES IT'S HEERE!! PLEASE GO READ GAY MAGAZINE: FALL EDITION. issue 3 has got sapphic vampires, final girls, heartbreak, haunted vibes, amazing cover art, and MORE!! GO READ it's all on the website nowww! I continue to love all the queer skill and creativity on display every issue, every time 😭
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@tananarivedue.bsky.social JoCo?!?!?! So hyped!
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey, contract's signed, so I can say that UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES is being translated into Chinese by Science Fiction World in their book publishing division. That'll be neat. Hope it finds some new weird SF readers.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 29/09/2026
hey all!!! this Wednesday, which is tomorrow, i'll be at @storyhour.bsky.social with @megelison.bsky.social !!!! holy carps!!! you know you wanna attend this one. free author readings online, to refill the creative well! 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern youtube.com/@storyhour2020
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Story Hour
Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What to expect from Issue Five when it’s available in two days? 1. A gorgeous mystery from @emharriettwrites.bsky.social about a man whose memory was stolen, the villagers who take him into their campfire, and the witch down the road who guides him toward new meaning. Deep and delightful.
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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
new story up on hex today! a marvelous labyrinth of alternate realities in miniature: honored to feature "Sixty-One Seconds" by Martin Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social!! 👇✨
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Sixty-One Seconds by Martin Cahill
Remember the recharge time. A minute and one. A lot can happen in that time. Microjumps, they say. Alternate realities at the speed of what-if. The velocity of wondering. All I must do is make...
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amirite tho
White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One more day!!!!
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 29/09/2026
It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...
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Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.....
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Just over flash length, this is a jewel-like little story of despair and hope and connection and a fight, however small, against the dark." -- @vanessafogg.bsky.social on HELLO by @wordrat.bsky.social www.adventitious.net/stories/hell...
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HELLO by Jeanna Cammarano
Jailers broke the mage's fingers so she couldn't do magic, but she'll find resilience by building a new language with her neighbors. By Jeanna Cammarano.
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two-ish days until Issue Five drops. Two-ish days until submissions for Issue Six open. (1500 UTC/11am Eastern on October 1) www.adventitious.net/submission-g...
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Submission Guidelines - Adventitious.
Submission Guidelines: "Surprise" doesn't only mean twists. We want stories that offer a sense of wonder...
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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Time for a new pinned post! Writer pals, I host query letters and nonfiction book proposals, free, on my site. www.ericsmithrocks.com/perfect-pitch Near Philly? I host free in-person AMAs with industry pros often. www.neighborhoodliterary.com/neighborhoods Hope these resources will be helpful.
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Perfect Pitch — ERIC SMITH
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hello we the good people of Reactor have recently launched our OFFICIAL YOUTUBE PAGE!!! Sharing interviews, book recommendations, and more! Some delicious morsels are coming up soon, so you'll want to subscribe!! www.youtube.com/@ReactorMaga...
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Reactor Magazine
Quality sci-fi/fantasy/genre book coverage + short fiction + essays + news + everything else
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character theonion.com/you-can-be-anything-yo…
You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s all happening.
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Library loan for Nat Cassidy’s I Know A Place just came up! And it’s Sunday! And it’s Autumn! And it’s drizzling?
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Cast of Wonders @castofwonders.org · 27/09/2026
Cast of Wonders 700: Perfect Statues and their Broken Shapers by @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social narrated by @alasdairstuart.com produced by @jeremycarter42.bsky.social www.castofwonders.org/2026/09/cast... CW: child abandonment and abuse, war, deliberate injury, scenes of surgery
glass frog in shades of brown and gold
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Fry Futurama's Iconic Smirk
ALT: Fry Futurama's Iconic Smirk
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Christopher Blake @chrisblake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a parent, @cornellwriter.bsky.social ’s latest story, A Game of Go, in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social resonated so powerfully with me. It’s a beautiful articulation of love and devotion in every form of parenthood.
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Subscribers have Issue Five! Subscribers have Issue Five! www.patreon.com/Adventitious...
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Issue Five Is Here (plus a super early look at the Issue Six cover) | Adventitious
Can you transform without losing yourself? Let's all stare into the abyss together! The October issue is filled to the BRIM with tales of al
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What the
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now
He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 21/09/2026
Premee Mohamed (@premeemohamed.com) reads from her story collection One Message Remains, which is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
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Premee Mohamed reads from One Message Remains
YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Preach.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
if you say "The Museum of English Rural Life" three times in a mirror, nothing happens. but if you speak it a fourth time, a man in a smock appears and asks you to incant the poem on the side of this rather menacing jug
harvest festival jug featuring a rather spooky sunshine designthe reverse of the jug, featuring a poem. it reads: "Harvest is come all
busy now in making
of the Barley mow if
you the Barley mow
neglect of Good ale you
can not then expect"
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Dawn Vogel @historyneverwas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Got my brief 2026 Flights of Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social recap posted! historythatneverwas.com/2026/09/24/f...
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History That Never Was » Flights of Foundry 2026 Recap!
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Amanda Helms - Preorder THE UPPER TENTACLE @amandaghelms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TIL my book is now on NetGalley! Persons so inclined who have an account may now request my weirdo cosmic horror murder mystery corporate satire debut (and also give the glorious cover an upvote if you like it!) www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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The Upper Tentacle
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On sale for $1.99 ghost stories. Edited by Ellen Datlow openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-da...
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The Dark
<b>This award-winning horror anthology is the “yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured”—featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and others (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review).
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One week until Issue 5 drops. A major reason I'm psyched about this issue is the feature novelette by Amanda Ilozumba, a Nigerian writer whose work in Omenana was praised by Wole Talabi in @reactorsff.bsky.social. Her writing is toweringly inventive, sharp, and deep. Big action with real stakes.
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CONGRATULATIONS to our new Horror Writers Association President, Sarah Read, our new trustees, and secretary. As announced in email.
2026 Horror Writers Association
Election Results
We are excited to announce winners for this year's HWA election:
• President - Sarah Read
• Trustee - Dennis Crosby
• Trustee - Lisa Morton
• Trustee - Donna J.W. Munro
• Secretary - Becky Spratford
Thank you to everyone who took part in this year's election. Congratulations to our new President and welcome aboard to our new Trustees.
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Amanda Helms - Preorder THE UPPER TENTACLE @amandaghelms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey, my book THE UPPER TENTACLE I've been talking about? Here's Union Square's press release announcing their new novella line Singularity, of which TUT is a part! ("high-impact, one-sitting fiction! That's me [too]!) www.hachettebookgroup.com/articles/uni...
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UNION SQUARE & CO. ANNOUNCES “SINGULARITY”: A BOLD NEW NOVELLA PROGRAM DEDICATED TO HIGH-IMPACT, ONE-SITTING FICTION
The curated line bypasses traditional page counts to champion narrative velocity across genres, kicking off September 2026 with titles from Harlan Ellison, Adam Cesare, and more. NEW YORK, NY (Augu…
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's my first time sending Adventitious stories for awards and Best Of consideration, and it feels a lot like submitting pieces to mags -- I believe in these stories, hoping others will validate that belief, crossing fingers not to be rejected.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/09/2026
(Glances nervously at the closet where I keep my extra brains)
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very late, but my short fic recs for June-Aug are now up! With fiction from @dianadima.com @hhpak.bsky.social @wtalabi.com @thomasha.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social Maya Ysabel Ng @aijiang.bsky.social @wordrat.bsky.social and @apottern.bsky.social itsajumble.blogspot.com/2026/09/shor...
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Short fiction recs! June--August 2026
Very late, but here are some things I loved and read this past summer. Novelettes “The City in White” by Diana Dima in The Deadlands ...
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Same here. Because I’ll be playing it.
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