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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 15h

Stories are one of the most effective technologies for connecting one mind to another.

VLAD-ventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 17h

"Pillaiyār lives in the vacuum cleaner. Although a god is supposedly eternal and omnipresent, this is a recent development as far as the family is concerned." www.adventitious.net/stories/god-...

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God in the Vacuum by Tehnuka

A household god gets trapped in a vacuum bag. As he explores his new surroundings, a grieving refugee family’s luck falls apart because of his absence.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 20h

The New York Public Library is making a selection of 25 new horror books available to borrow with no wait through October 31st!! How many have you read?

NYPL Recommends Best New Horror for Adults

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VLAD-ventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 22h

"Look, everyone should have a TBR pile. And if your TBR pile is only the one book, then you don't really have a choice when you go to it, do you?" -- @liamjhogan.bsky.social Another 3.5 Questions with a truly delight author. Build your TBR piles high, people. www.patreon.com/Adventitious...

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3.5 Questions With Liam Hogan | Adventitious

It's the start of the witching season (October 1 - September 30), and I hope all of you are dressing wildly, cackling at those who oppose yo

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/10/2026

HYPERSCALE tells the full story of the data center buildout and the backlash it’s facing. It’s out in just two weeks — but I need a favor! If you’re planning to buy it, it would make a huge difference if you place a preorder. Get your copy today: bookshop.org/a/18331/9798...

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Hyperscale is out in two weeks!

Preorder your copy to get the full story on the AI-fueled data center buildout

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From Bat Conservation International: a moment of Zen with the white-lined broad-nosed bat (Platyrrhinus lineatus) a fruit-eating bat native to South America. We think the 'racing stripes' are camouflage, breaking up the bat's outline to avoid predators. Let's talk about the fruit-bat /lifestyle/.

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 06/10/2026

hey if any graphic designer out here has some spare few minutes to do some odds and ends graphic designery things to help out with a couple of things as I try to fix up this website, I would pay you some dollars for your time please email sean @ the website that this is. thx

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October issues of The Dark, @nightmare-magazine.com, Dirty Magick, @locusmag.bsky.social, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @adventitiouswords.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and Sally Port are here and en route to subscribers: weightlessbooks.com/2026/10/

Cover art for The Dark issue 137, featuring an undead person with long black hair hanging from the ceiling in a doorway open on a checkered corridor

Flash Fiction Online October 2026 issue cover, featuring abstract white-on-black lines and textures

Cover art for Adventitious Issue Five, featuring a Black person wearing a great great horned owl head as a hat up to their shoulders in waves with a huge moon and another owl behind them

Cover for Locus Magazine #789, featuring a row of white doors in a blank white hallway, one of them open on a glowing red room

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have a new poem out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social today! It’s my first new poem of the year. “Butterfly Effect” is inspired by all the unfinished stories and all the things I wish we could take back. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/butt...

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Butterfly Effect - Uncanny Magazine

I always liked this idea: how we’d walk to the end of the subway tunnel and there’d be a door where everyone was waiting on the other side with all the things we’d ever lost. I always liked how to d...

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They're saying there's an anti-prime day sale. They're saying you might pick up a short story collection for the anti-prime day sale. Is that true bookshop.org/p/books/unce...

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Uncertain Sons and Other Stories

LOCUS AWARD WINNERWORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALISTNEBULA AWARD WINNER ("Uncertain Sons" Novelette)PHILIP K. DICK AWARD SPECIAL CITATIONBRAM STOKER AWARD(R) NOMINEE ("Uncertain Sons" Novelette)BRITISH SCIE...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026

Raytheon Unveils Military Robot Capable Of Composing Poignant Poems About Horrors Of War theonion.com/raytheon-unveils-milit…

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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VLAD-ventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm starting to think there's a cellar below the cellar.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My interview in the new issue of @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social is now free-to-read! I talk about my story "Brainstem Disco, 2191," how I write flash vs. poetry, and thinking in multiple languages. www.orions-belt.net/archives/int...

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Interview with Angela Liu — Orion's Belt

by Linlang Zhao

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H. Marin @hanmarin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Holy cow, baby’s first author signing! Hoping some more authors in @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ‘s “Your Body is a Fever Dream” are interested in attending so we can turn it into a whole panel! For anyone in the vicinity of CT 💜

Friday, November 20, 2026 at 5 PM - 6 PM
H. Marin (Your Body is a Fever Dream) Author Talk and Signing
Public • Event by Bank Square Books

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As always, when a devastating new report about book bans in America is published, I challenge you to think less about the most banned author — Stephen King is fine — and more about the banned authors who are trying to scrabble together a living from their art. pen.org/report/book-...

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A Spotlight on School Book Bans

Nearly 12,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans.

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E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog · 05/10/2026

I am hereby bogposting as far as that's possible, short of posting from nearby or within an actual peat bog. Anyway, please enjoy my extended take on what peat bog and bog body stories tend to have in common beyond really tremendous motifs.

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From the bog, an exhumation: Towards a paradigm for bog-centric speculative fiction

Understanding common themes and motifs in fiction about peat bogs, bog bodies, and the secrets exhumed from them.

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kelly knowles art @kellyknowles.art · 05/10/2026

piranesi courtyard view maybe #digitalArt

unfinished 3d environment screenshot in blender. the camera looks out a window into a courtyard in a large 3-story building lined with more windows.

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Oh, you need your precious Chatbot to help you be creative? These freaks made a giant, tactile troll by hand that has taken up residence as my new sleep paralysis demon, born of their own sick minds.” The best review I’ve ever received. 😭🤌🏼

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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Writer friends: don’t give up. I was rejected 299 times before I got my 300th rejection.

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VLAD-ventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Pashi shut her mouth and scrubbed at her heart for a blessed few minutes in the tiny stream in front of her." How to Understand Each Other by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social. 🫀community rituals ❤️sisterly love 🦌deer-cat spirits 🌊lonely goddesses www.adventitious.net/stories/how-...

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How To Understand Each Other by Emmie Christie

When cleansing their hearts in the river no longer protects her sister, Jasa must journey to confront a sad goddess with a severed connection to the people.

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For reasons, I pasted all the craft essays I've written for my newsletter No Failure, Only Practice into a single document to see what was there. Turns out I've written 125,000 words about creative writing since March 2020—which adds up to four times the length of Refuse to Be Done.

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Chris Baker @chrisbaker1337.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"It's a lot, but it's also clever." I'll take it! Read my story in issue #5 of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...

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Tar Vol’s Magazine Minis: Adventitious, Lightspeed, Otherside, and Strange Horizons
September 30, 2026

Also, while I’m not necessarily a sci-fi comedy fan, it’s worth taking a peek at "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)" by Chris Baker to see whether the bit is up your alley. It’s a lot, but it’s also clever.

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hello and happy Fullmetal Alchemist Day! We're about ready to get started with this year's winner announcement A very special thanks to our first-ever sponsors: @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, @laworldcon.bsky.social , and @revmindi.bsky.social ! #2026IgnyteAwards

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 03/10/2026

what exactly is stopping me from starting the thing is it the fear that i won't be able to make the thing as good as it is right now in my mind

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

God this shit was cool as fuck

Still from the movie Jurassic Park showing a raptor with genetic code projected onto it

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VLAD-ventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Love to see that pup is really contemplating the work.

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

a cool thing happening later this month: I'll be reading my work at a local cinema in advance of a screening of a Guillermo del Toro film! I've been a fan of his for years and never thought I'd get an opportunity to pair our work like this so it's super exciting!!!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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VLAD-ventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How many versions of yourself in mirror realities have already purchased a copy?

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every culture on Earth has its own unique tales of terror, and reading horror in translation can be a thrilling, eye-opening experience. Here are seven recent works that demonstrate the incredible range and weirdness of international horror!

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Fear Is a Universal Language: Seven Recent Works of Horror in Translation - Reactor

Car-worshipping cults, demonic adventures, stranded aliens, and a creepy new twist on Jekyll and Hyde...

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Daniel Ausema @danielausema.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New story up in Adventitious! It's the story of a former leader of a multi-dimensional university, her legacy evoked through the changing of art styles and commemorations, with a backdrop of uncanny Provosts and Regents, student rebels and an authoritarian, usurping president.

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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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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This Story Hour, @jordankurella.com and @megelison.bsky.social read us powerful stories of things we don't expect to see (but need to). Phenomenal stories, beautifully read. You can still watch! youtu.be/Mccv-Ro6NTw

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September 30, 2026 Story Hour: Jordan Kurella and Meg Elison

YouTube video by Story Hour

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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VLAD-ventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Yes, this is happening right now, right under Texas. I saw it on the news. Oh, don’t watch Dan Rather on channel 5 — my Dad says he has a bias. Dan Rather hates the USA. He’s why Nixon got a peach." --Derek King, Age 8 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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VLAD-ventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you for including the full title of @chrisbaker1337.bsky.social’s story!

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Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So happy to be included in Issue 5! My short fantasy story "How to Understand Each Other" has deer cats, heartwashing, a mountain goddess, and one woman's determination to save her sick sister. 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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