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Aggie Novak

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Reader and writer of silly little words. Published stories: aggienovak.com

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Bullet Points @bulletpoints.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
COVER REVEAL: Bullet Points 14, fantasy-themed issue, coming July 15, with stories from @catrambo.bsky.social, @tomdoyle.bsky.social, @underpope.com, @grindhauselektor.bsky.social, @aggie-novak.bsky.social, @keirakr.bsky.social, @joelgloverauthor.bsky.social, @mlmat.bsky.social, and more!
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Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
My story "His Soul Lives in the Air" is live on MetaStellar! I originally wrote this for a Writing Battle competition back in January. read it: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas... & my blog post: www.scmills-books.com/blog/open-vein Thank you @metastellar.bsky.social & @writingbattle.bsky.social!
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His Soul Lives in the Air
Racing to see her dying grandmother, Rebecca confronts her fear of flying only to discover that some passengers carry more than just luggage from the past.
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Excited to share my piece for Augur's micro fiction contest! @augursociety.bsky.social l #AugurMicros2025
Soothsayer for the 21st Century
by Aggie Novak

You come to me—
(fabric draped, costume jewelled, incense clouded).
You ask me real questions, but you don’t seek real answers.
You want—
Comfort. Platitudes. 
It’s not your fault, there was nothing you could do.
Tell me, you ask—
What the future holds. Where I will be in 20 years.
How successful. How loved. How normal.
I draw the cards—
The Star, reversed. All hope gutters out.
The Tower. Cities, fire in their bones.
The World, reversed. The circle breaks.
Well? Your eyes wide, full of—
Hope, I say.
New constellations. Collapse clears the way.
The world resets.

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Super excited to have a story out in this anthology!
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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Do you need a rundown of the SFF books out this week? Because I have TEN new books to ft! Incl 🏳️‍🌈 📚 queer witches and book nerdery by @charliejane.bsky.social! ☠️ 🐍 poison via the scientific method with @tkingfisher.com! 📖 🚀 librarians in starships, coming from @tychebooks.bsky.social!
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Must-Have Monday #250 - Every Book a Doorway
Librarians on spaceships, several queer witches, and a world where people don't die!
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Check out this awesome fantasy mystery story by S.C!
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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Beware of harvesting your fields on a hot day. Lady Midday will emerge from whirling dust clouds in the form of an old hag, a lovely woman, or a young girl, carrying a scythe. If you can't answer her riddles, she'll kill you by beheading or heat stroke. #FolkyFriday
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚀 TWO of my stories made it into the Afrofuturism Short Stories anthology 🥹 co-edited by Isis Asare! With foreword by @nisishawl.bsky.social. Out October 2025✨ #Blacksky #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #ShortStory #Blacksky #Afrofuturism #Anthology
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
So excited to have a story in this upcoming anthology from @tychebooks.bsky.social !!
A black cover with a small part revealed where you can make out the word "librarian". Text to the side says: Cover reveal coming soon. Tychebooks.com.
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Ready to test my writing skills in the Twisted Teams challenge "Twisted Teams 1"! Looking forward to the creative prompts and team collaboration. Any other writers joining me? twistedtournament.com/homepageteams #TwistInTaleContest #writingcontest
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Twisted Teams - A Writing Competition with a Twist
Join Twisted Teams - A Writing Competition Balancing Individual Creativity with Team Collaboration
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Slightly belated, but so happy to have a story out in the lovely Howl Anthology from Graveside press. Available from a range of places: graveside-press.com/product/howl/
Howl: A Shapeshifting Anthology. Shows a werewolf hunched over on a log by a pond.
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I have a story out in this one! All proceeds go to Scares that Care.
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Just won Writing Battle!!! So excited and touched by all the lovely feedback 💜
An image saying congratulations for having the winning story, including a picture of my three prompts: time travel romance, rebel, doll
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A beautiful story!
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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “In the Slipstream” by @sarlynh.bsky.social is now up! Art by @keelyhoneywell.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/01/13/i...
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In the Slipstream by Sarah Lynn Hurd
We filled our arms with cool bottles of syrupy soda, strawberry licorice, peanut butter crackers, crinkle-cut potato chips—as much as we could carry. Throwing our heads back under the fluorescent l…
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Congrats @cuylermeade.bsky.social !!
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A second little story out at Hawthorn & Ash ironfaeriepublishing.com/2025/01/27/h...
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Hawthorn & Ash #68
Welcome to this week’s installment of many micro stories, ranging in length from 100 words to 500 words. With each story we hope to deliver a little whimsy into the lives of our readers. A TH…
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Little flash piece out with Hawthorn & Ash ironfaeriepublishing.com/2025/01/16/h...
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Hawthorn & Ash #65
Welcome to this week’s installment of many micro stories, ranging in length from 100 words to 500 words. With each story we hope to deliver a little whimsy into the lives of our readers. THE …
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
My short story “Svalka” is out in the beautiful Other Anthology from Bannister Press bannisterpress.com/other-anthol...
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OTHER: the 2024 speculative fiction anthology
Release date: December 12, 2024 Many of us feel that we are other; that we are on the outside looking in, wanting desperately to be over there while tethered to the here. T…
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My friend made this I feel so seen
A Spotify playlist titled ‘Songs giving energy of an Aggie Novak story about a woman unhappy with her lot in life’ including songs by Paris Paloma, Kiki Rockwell, and Florence + The Machine.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th” When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn
The excerpt from William and the Werewolf showing singular they spelled with a Thorn
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lyndi @lyndishere.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Could tonight be the night?
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 15/11/2024
Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/11/2024
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.
An example of Acción Ortográfica Quito doing the Lord's work (graffiti on a wall corrected with red spray paint)
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Today, I translated four poems by Sophia Parnok, an out, horny Russian lesbian poet who lived and loved through a revolution, a civil war, and the rise of a repressive dictator. In style. buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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How to Stay Alive and Horny Under Authoritarianism
Sophia Parnok (1885-1933) was born in Taganrog, Russia—Anton Chekhov’s hometown, on the sea of Azov—two decades or so before her country exploded. Born into...
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
The arms of an octopus used by a reader/owner of this manuscript to mark parts they thought were important or of interest - 2nd half of the 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 13/11/2024
I don’t believe there is enough fanart of Strega Nona actually
An illustration of Tomie dePaola’s beloved children’s book heroine, Strega Nona. She is an old Italian lady depicted here in bust, her gaze bearing to the left of the image. Strega Nona has a large nose, kind eyes, a prominent chin, and wrinkles all over. She’s wearing a white head scarf adorned with little yellow stars, a green dress with a magenta sleeve. Her magic pasta pot is superimposed in front of the portrait, a round, green thing with three legs and a handle like a pail’s.
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
No koalas spotted yet but there are some excellent trees
Forest of thin trees in algae covered water
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Kelsey Huse @kelseyhuse.com · 12/11/2024
Cute shrooms I saw today
Tiny tan mushrooms with thin stems growing on a tree trunk
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Ollie @keldel.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
If a book kinda matches my nails, then I have to buy it right?
Black and gold cover of the Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks
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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
New story day! I'm pleased to present my @clarkesworldmagazine.com debut! This story began as a spinoff of my PhD dissertation, right when I started to veer toward translation studies. It's been very hard to balance my academic & creative sides, but here, I felt for the first time like I did it. 🥹
Picture of the magazine cover, a person in a strange astronaut-like suit. Text: I'm in this month's issue of Clarkesworld Magazine! "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being" (a sci-fi novelette).The pitch: a human “doctor”  must treat a very rare alien species using only AI assistance and translation machines. But the corporatization of medical technology and a history of genocide means nothing is as it seems.

In what way is knowledge accumulation a form of genocide as devastating as knowledge erasure?

A list of tropes and story elements:
Far future SF
Medical AI (derogatory)
Xenotranslation
Post-genocide heritage reclamation
Academia-induced imposter syndrome
Interspecies queerplatonic relationship
A planet inspired by the Indonesian archipelagoA snippet from the story.

“There is a” — he paused, or rather, his interpreting machine paused, blurting a second of static noise — “hole in me. Very small, but it is there. I can feel it growing.” 

“How exactly does this feel?” 

A pause. He had no face per se, but the liquidy lump that formed his head was more textured than his torso, the way the surface of a vast ocean was more textured than the surface of water in a cup. And now, the waves of his head swirled, tightening in a confused eddy. Semau decided this was his face, the waves a means of expression.Picture of the full table of contents of the issue, with "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being" highlighted in orange. It's the fourth story on the lineup.
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Today's library haul
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Don't love it, but just made this mood board about the short story I'm writing, instead of writing said short story
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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Tone shift anyone? 😅 Yesterday we released our November 2024 RURAL FANTASY issue, helmed by author and FFO assistant editor Jason A. Bartles @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social 🎉👏🎉👏 GET YOUR COPY TODAY: www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas... #fantasy #writingcommunity #flashfiction #ruralfantasy
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Flash Fiction Online November 2024
Lead by our assistant editor, Jason A. Bartles, FFO set forth to define “rural fantasy” and assemble a collection of stories that center the “countryside” and the people who…
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
My flash fiction story about a bird spirit is out in FFO's Rural Fantasy issue! www.flashfictiononline.com/issues/novem...
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Spooky season vibes 👻
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