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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 22h
My poem "Why We Give" just dropped in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social! Super exciting for me because this is my first sale in one of the fancy venerable magazines! asimovs.com/current-issu...
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Poetry - Asimov’s Science Fiction
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Poem about my dog just out in @smallwondersmag.com!
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Contract signed! My poem "Pictures of My Dog" is coming out in Small Wonders. It's my first work about my dog; also my first work with a conspiracy theorist as the speaker.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My good friend Luke Wildman is agented by Writers House who represent(ed) such luminaries as Tom Clancy, Nora Roberts, Neil Gaiman, etc.! He's been blogging about the process lukewildman.com/2026/06/12/t...
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That Time a Literary Agent Called Me
So. A literary agent asked to speak on the phone. The first words that spring to mind are ones like, “panic attack”, “euphoria”, and “queasy bowels”.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I have a moral opinion. I thought morality reserved for fanatics, prudes, and AI trained to be "kind." But there it is. When faced with the opportunity to eat octopus, I felt revulsion and indignation(!) that octopus would be on offer. I will eat everyone else. But octopuses--I'm there for you.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Two goodies in @pseudopod.org : speculative language (or at least phonetics?) horror in "Othertongue" by @rajivmote.bsky.social and HP Lovecraft/tourism humor in "Six Best Things to Do in Dim (and/or Lost) Carcosa" by Rich Larson pseudopod.org/2026/06/05/p...
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PseudoPod 1032: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVIII (78): Terraeque urbesque recedant
“We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.” “Again?” “Every damn time,” Kate said, running a hand through her hair. “Aren’t there supposed to be satellites checking the routes all day long?
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I made a language this weekend! At least if you count morphology and syntax. It's like Sanskrit, if Sanskrit were agglutinative, and what I wanted it to be, and meant for cyberspace, and not a hot mess.
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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
My favorite story on the identity perils of telepathy, by @andydibble.bsky.social is featured today on @diabolicalplots.com The Submission Grinder: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
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DP FICTION #103A: “Every Me Is Someone Else” by Andy Dibble – Diabolical Plots
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Calendar of Fools @calendaroffools.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cal...
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Missed-Fits: A Calendar of Fools Anthology
An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.
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Calendar of Fools @calendaroffools.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The Kickstarter for our "Missed-Fits" anthology is live! We have great rewards and add-ons for writers and readers alike, so come check them out. Plus, we have bonus rewards for anyone who backs in the first five days and our first 100 backers, so get in early to snag those! Link in the comments.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Apparently adult pandas spend 10-16 hours of the day eating. They have to because of the low nutrition content of bamboo and their size. Imagine needing to eat almost constantly just to survive. It's like the villain of a horror flick. Except these cursed villains are adorable, so we protect them.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Kickstarter for new @calendaroffools.bsky.social anthology dropping soon! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cal...
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Coming soon: Missed-Fits: A Calendar of Fools Anthology
An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
What's the weirdest protagonist of a story you've written?
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"Evil lemon" planet with carbon atmosphere! www.newscientist.com/article/2508...
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Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation
A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Get your flu shot! Chance of heart attack 6 times greater in confirmed flu patients and 300,000 yearly world-wide deaths due to heart disease are a result of immune response to flu www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
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Flu’s link to cardiovascular disease shows why vaccination is essential
Influenza isn’t just a respiratory disease. Measures to stop its transmission, such as vaccination, could prevent thousands of heart-attack deaths.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
My first Omelas response story is out! www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20... So glad I could contribute to the tradition started by Ursula Le Guin and carried on in some of my favorite stories by Isabel Kim, NK Jemisin, and others.
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The Ones Who Walk Away From New Jerusalem - Sci Phi Journal
A spiritual sequel to Le Guin's Omelas, by Andy Dibble.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
One of my writing groups, @calendaroffools.bsky.social, is going to be running another Kickstarter for a Missed-Fits anthology. Follow if you're interested in when it launches. If the KSer funds, there will be an open call in March or so. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cal...
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
My saddest poem "Cultured Methodologies" is out in Worlds of IF #179. So cool to share a table of contents with @aijiang.bsky.social, Robert Silverberg, and others! worldsofifmagazine.com/home
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Worlds of IF
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Just sold my "The Ones Who Walk Away From New Jerusalem" to Sci Phi Journal. This isn't one I expected to sell because it's probably my most blasphemous story (generally in keeping with the character of the #UrsulaLeGuin story it's a response to).
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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
This is my first issue as poetry editor and it features poetry by Michael Butterworth, @andydibble.bsky.social, Robert Frazier, @bugthewriter.bsky.social, @cybergodwrites.bsky.social, @jennahanchey.bsky.social, Howard V. Hendrix, @aijiang.bsky.social, Lauren McBride, & John Reinhart + lots more
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I'm going to slush for UFO 10 (Unidentified Funny Objects), but only if the Kickstarter funds. So chip in if you can and you want to support an under-appreciated sub-genre of spec fic. Only 5 days left. It's going to be close! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...
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Unidentified Funny Objects 10
After a three-year hiatus, a new volume of this iconic anthology series of humorous science fiction & fantasy is finally in the works!
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Another writing first for me: had a swear word censored by an editor!
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
My Bible translation into alien languages story out in @penumbricmag.bsky.social! First time that I'm #1 in a table of contents! :)
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Just received an acceptance on a story I submitted 22 months ago. Interesting year of firsts for me.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
My Writers of the Future winning story "A Word That Means Everything" is out in @penumbricmag.bsky.social. New achievement for me because it's the first time my work has been first in a ToC!
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
My microessay "Orality and Respawn" about how oral traditions can address a problem in game storytelling is out in @crepuscularmag.bsky.social. It's one of the few works I've had two absolutely bomb titles for, the other being "Retold and Replayed" www.patreon.com/posts/microe...
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Microessay: Andy Dibble | Crepuscular Magazine
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
When visiting family in Cally this past week I learned that there are people who refer to themselves as "coastal elites" with a straight face.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
More writing news! My "Migration" (originally in What Remains anthology by @inkedingraypress.bsky.social ) is coming out again in "Win in the End" anthology by @knightwritingpress.bsky.social!
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Big writing news for me. Just signed for my poem "Why We Give" to appear in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine! Selling "Why We Give" taught me you can turn any kind of experience into saleable words, even bleeding into a bag for the @americanredcross.bsky.social! #givingblood #poetry #scifi
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Best line I wrote yesterday didn't drop while I was writing: "Morality's above our paygrade, isn't it?" Also perhaps my best six word story.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Have a poem coming out in #worldsofIF ! "Cultured Methodologies" is my saddest poem. Also my first anthropological piece. Lots of impressive names in the last issue. I wonder who my neighbors will be.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Today's idea for novel in progress: crafting gear from character's own body parts.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
My take on why AI utterances don't mean anything: andydibble.com/2025/04/26/w...
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What AI Say Doesn’t Mean Anything At All – Andy Dibble
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Today's idea for novel in progress: rebirth and self-destruct abilities.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Today's weird idea for novel in progress: intestinal worms on hospice bed in living room in soul.
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FurPlanet Productions @furplanet.com · 20/04/2025
Happy Easter! 🐺
Photo of a grey wolf walking away from the camera, holding a basket of Easter eggs in their mouth. The caption reads "The really badass kids get visited by the Easter Wolf"
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
My "Letter to a Christian Nation Not Sworn to the Elder Dark" just dropped! www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20... Inspired by Matt Dovey's "Why Aren’t Millennials Continuing Traditional Worship of the Elder Dark?" in @diabolicalplots.com. Also satire of some Christian apologetics.
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Letter To A Christian Nation Not Sworn To The Elder Dark - Sci Phi Journal
Take heed and flagellate like the world is ending, by Andy Dibble.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I've determined that in hell's zoo, people are in cages and animals *are* the cages.
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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 13/03/2025
ok sincere post: im so fucking pumped to be able to post that im a nebula finalist. look at my boy go. by boy, i of course mean my "scathing critique" and "short story" and "riff on ursula k le guins the ones who walk away from omelas"
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Good advice for writing fiction: "If We ever abrogate a verse or cause it to be forgotten, We replace it with a better or similar one." (Qur'an 2:106). Reminds fiction writers that we can break promises made to readers and expectations set up, but only if we give the reader something better.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Contract signed! My "Parent Reborn in a Hell Realm?" is coming out in @crepuscularmag.bsky.social this spring! This is my first time getting a second acceptance in just a few days, and this one is a pro-rates :)
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The Submission Grinder
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Contract signed! My "Letter to a Christian Nation Not Sworn to the Elder Dark" is coming out in SciPhiJournal! Most significant inspiration for this is Matt Dovey's "Why Aren’t Millennials Continuing Traditional Worship of the Elder Dark?" @diabolicalplots.com www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-5...
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DP FICTION #50A: “Why Aren’t Millennials Continuing Traditional Worship of the Elder Dark?” by Matt Dovey – Diabolical Plots
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Just got a major poetry acceptance! Just waiting for the contract.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My story "Pro-Vote" set in an automated future where the only job left for the common man is voting is included in the Inner Workings anthology in this bundle put out by Writers of the Future and Arc Manor press. It's a great deal 14 books for the suggested price of $20 www.arcmanorbooks.com/bundle
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Bundle | Arc Manor
ARC MANOR
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I just bought a lifetime license to software and in a confirmation email it informed me that the it would expire "November 2064." Which is insulting because I only buy this stuff because I plan on living forever. I worry it's more prescient than I like to imagine.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Just read "Death and the Librarian" by Esther Friesner. Stories are really funny and still have a lot of heart. Best were "Jesus at the Bat" and "How to Make Unicorn Pie." Recommend for anyone who likes funny fantasy. www.amazon.com/Librarian-St...
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Death and the Librarian and Other Stories (Five Star First Edition Science Fiction and Fantasy Series): Friesner, Esther: 9780786246823: Amazon.com: Books
Death and the Librarian and Other Stories (Five Star First Edition Science Fiction and Fantasy Series) [Friesner, Esther] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Death and the Librarian and Other Stories (Five Star First Edition Science Fiction and Fantasy Series)
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Just read "The Devil's Library" by Joachim Glage. The stories seem to contribute to a single idea: the Devil "writes in the dark," ie God has given the Devil leave to influence half of all writing, including scripture. Great for Borges fans. www.amazon.com/Devils-Libra...
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The Devil's Library: Glage, Joachim: 9781956907117: Amazon.com: Books
The Devil's Library [Glage, Joachim] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Devil's Library
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
My flash story about AI translation and indigenous language death was a finalist in the Unicorn Mech Suit Flash Fiction Contest. Didn't quite make it but it's good to see the flash I believe in most getting attention.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
In my seven years as a fiction writer, I've learned three things: Don't bore your reader. Show more than you tell. And real men write tentacle porn.
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Andy Dibble @andydibble.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
I just voted for @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social for the Ignyte Award! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/about-the-aw...
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About The Awards, The Ignyte Awards
How Voting Works THE LONGLIST Ignyte Awards juries are comprised of 20 individuals; a mix of avid readers, reviewers, FIYAHCON staff, and winners from...
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