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Ani King (they/them)

@aniking.bsky.social
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Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck. aniking.net — Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63 — SmokeLong Subs Editor — EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me
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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 7h
🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - AUGUST 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 10 stories by @elijah.mea.rs @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @mariness.bsky.social @thelialao.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @chpearcewrites.bsky.social @tinaconnolly.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...
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Some Queer Short SFF - August 2026 | Charles Payseur
Hi all! The year continues to be a difficult for me personally but I’m still happy to be able to help spread the news about some recent quee
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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 7h
Happy to have three haiku up in @havehashad.com today!
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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 6h
My @khoreo.bsky.social story TOOTHPASTE FEELINGS has an excellent new audio edition on the IT'S STORYTIME podcast by@wilwheaton.net! (Available on all podcast platforms, not just the one I linked) Check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Fiction Podcast · Updated Weekly · You may recognize Wil Wheaton's name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985's timel...
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 1h
Next week is Banned Book Week. Check out @penamerica.bsky.social for events and ways to get involved: (The preview image says 2025 but it links to this year!)
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Banned Books Week 2025
We invite readers, authors, educators, librarians, and everyone who opposes censorship to get involved during Banned Books Week 2025.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 7h
My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 8h
ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/
White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!
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HAD @havehashad.com · 7h
kicking off acceptances from Cletus Crow's haiku call today with three from @ezhang77.bsky.social ! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/thr...
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Three Haiku
Elena Zhang

Opulent
Opulent
hunger for missing 
teeth, tonight.After

After many years,
aliens contort the long
memories of fish

 

 
 

Family Attitude

Our fun shadows confess to crimes
I have yet to commit
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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 8h
Sent out a newsletter because I'm going to be GoH at Capclave this weekend (along with the amazing @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social) AND teaching a horror-writing class at Queens Collaborative in a week and a half. That, a progress pic of my next zine, & many links here: buttondown.com/ninocipri/ar...
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Where to find me this fall
Capclave! Horror 101 classes! Links!
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 8h
These are all amazing stories, congrats everyone!!
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 11h
"Do you think Janeway would strap me? Oh, Kathryn, my Captain, I’m locked in your quadrant. And no, Neelix, you can’t watch." —George Violet Parker beestungmag.com/issue28/spac...
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Space Fuckin’ by George Violet Parker
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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 8h
Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially into: birds, big storms, Stardew Valley, socks, love poems, lists, harbor seals, friction, ghazals, balloons, The Crane Wives, fall vibes, footprints, chronic illness, and cobwebs.
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 9h
IT IS WEDNESDAY MY DUDES! Run With the Hunted! it's my ongoing, female-led cyberpunk heist novella series! 8 books are out now! book 9 coming 10/31! with: Bristol, the self-made socialite Bits, the hacker Dolly, the violence authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/run-with-h... itch.io/c/5506291/ru...
image of Vine user JimmyHere, dressed in a spiderman onesie and wearing goggles, saying the phrase then proceeding to mimic the Budgett's frog's scream, with the phrase "It is Wednesday My Dudes Run With the Hunted"
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Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop right now 🚨 and read this stunning piece by @sagreene1.bsky.social ❤️ So dark and brilliant!
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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 9h
I wanted to share my grandmother’s story but Native people shouldn’t have to share our trauma for non-Native people to care about all the ways Canada has harmed and continues to harm us.
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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 15h
Revision isn't correction; it's where the real artistry happens @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/r... #writingcommunity #authorlife #creativewriting #skywriters
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Revision Can be the Best Part of Writing
If your first draft is imperfect, you haven’t failed —you are exactly where you need to be. By Dinty W. Moore One of the most difficult lessons we have to learn when writing our first book is this:…
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 23h
The "AI is coming for jobs" narrative contributes to a scarcity mindset that destroys worker solidarity. I think we can look at anti-trust, tax policy, regulation, consumer protection, labor rights, and rights to housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without mentioning "AI" at all.
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Monarch Queer Literary Awards @monarch.gay · 23h
A reminder: we also accept visual art nominations! Send us your faves. Here's "Unfinished Tree" by Kyrico from the 2026 anthology, first published by Artists From Maryland.
a promotional slide featuring "Unfinished Tree" by Kyrico, a dark and foreboding illustration of a tree in the dark with red eyes emerging from the darkness
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do not care what Leo says into a mic until it's "all the total trans healthcare bans in the Catholic Church's massive hospital networks are immediately repealed."
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 29/09/2026
Meet OKD’s Best of the Net 2027 nominees! Read the nominated pieces in the thread below.
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Best of the Net
OKD nominees

Emily Rinkema

Chris Scott

Lynne Jensen Lampe

Daniel Lurie

Julia Ross

Danna Schmidt

Alexandra Nwigwe

Emily Wittenhagen

IMAGE:
A mountain landscape that is tinted sky blue is the background of this image. In the foreground is a green-foiled Sad Jack silhouette holding a trophy, and Sad Jack is being pushed up the mountain by a human silhouette. The names of the nominees are also present in the foreground.
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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big congrats to our Best of the Net nominees!! ✨Kailum Graves & Mary Anne Griffiths✨
Green flier with photo of two green frogs hanging onto a plant. Text is listing the Best of the Bet nominations: Kailum Graves and Mary Anne Griffiths
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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Behold. Rejoice. Exclaim. Stanchion's 2027 Best Small Fictions nominees are here. What another banner year for flash writing. Read all 5 pieces in full here: www.stanchionzine.com/post/stanchi... @brechtdp.bsky.social @travisshosa.bsky.social @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Newsletter day! Highlights: -- Come to my launch party! -- Some books you really want to read -- a quick note on the lordship house residency, which was delightful. buttondown.com/mxaniking/ar...
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Way More Than Five-ish Things
Hi Folks! It’s been a super quick September here, I can’t believe the month is almost gone. Lot’s going on in these parts: Pre-orders of Family Night have...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
This part of the muse privacy and security debacle manages to be worse than it agreeing to lowball offers in your name on marketplace, giving the buyer your address, and then telling them you're home when you're not; because this part? The "it reading messages you explicitly told it not to" part?…
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Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Forged in Fiyah' is here. Behold, the table of contents. If you don't want to be left out there faking the funk, get thee to your favourite retailer and buy it.
Cover 'Forged in Fiyah' shows man and woman with hammers on an anvil with a holy grail looking thing with sparkly glowy magic swirls, in a forest Table of contents
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To put it another way, you can’t just tell your sons they need to take accountability—you need to hold them accountable. Start with small stuff. Don’t shield them for the consequences of their actions. Walk them through the process of doing the wrong thing and turning it into the right thing.
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flash friends, I’m trying to find a story I was sure I bookmarked that is somewhat about a conversation with the narrator’s father and uses nested parentheses as a part of the form and it’s fantastic- help! I need it—anyone know the one I’m talking about?
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They look awfully (gorgeously) Weird together 🏳️‍⚧️🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com
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Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Order this brilliant book that I had the privilege to get an early glimpse of!! Not just for the werewolf sex!! (But also, the BEST werewolf sex!!)
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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nominations for Best Small Fictions are due tomorrow, end of day, EST, 9/30! Looking for noms from 1/1-7/31, '26, but also all of '25, back-noms: 1.5-year issue. 5 noms from each, 10 total. Editors should throw your authors' hats into the ring! blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit/36331...
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Black Lawrence Press - Best Small Fictions Nominations
Open Call for Best Small Fictions 2027 The 2027 issue of Best Small Fictions will be a 1.5-year issue representing the best flash fiction published in 2025 and the first half of 2026.  This is an open...
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please join us this Friday for our last Summer School session of the season! We are hosting a SELF-PROMOTION CLINIC. Bring us your problems. Bring us your hesitation. Bring us the little voice inside your head telling you that you aren’t worthy. WE’LL CRUSH THEM WITH MALLETS!
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Self-Promotion Clinic
We will help you get out of your own way and put your best self out there.
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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wrote this in Greek five years ago and shelved it after a single rejection, so it makes me incredibly happy to now have it published in translation in the very very cool Asymptote Journal's blog! www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/09...
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Translation Tuesday: “Desperado Grandma” by Kleopatra Olympiou - Asymptote Blog
‘Dad,’ I say staring into the barrel, ‘I’m here, I’m with grandma, everything’s fine.’
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flash friends, I’m trying to find a story I was sure I bookmarked that is somewhat about a conversation with the narrator’s father and uses nested parentheses as a part of the form and it’s fantastic- help! I need it—anyone know the one I’m talking about?
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What helped me was realizing that Ishmael is funny and also gone on Queequeg, though he has no idea
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay! Enough of the AI grims for me today — I’ve been doing a ton of reading while scouring for flash stories to use for class, and I wanted to share a few that are, to quote the kids, fucking killer. (The kids are from the past…) 1/?
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The Skiffy and Fanty Show @skiffyandfanty.com · 29/09/2026
Friday at 7pm central, live on Twitch, we talk to Shane Hawk! Join us! twitch.tv/alphabetst...
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm rereading a bunch of T. Kingfisher and still happily noodling through Inventing the Renaissance, which is just so brilliantly engaging. What are you all reading these days?
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think the fact that talking (politely) about AI and tech online for thirty minutes made me want to smash my electronics and walk into the ocean is proof I made the right choice leaving the industry.
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NG, rising use of AI-driven AI checkers makes me want to never submit another story online ever again; I don’t want ANY of my work fed into ANY of the tools used to check because they are the same tech used to create the problem in the first place. No solution here, just frustration.
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@fionamckay.bsky.social said some incredibly cool things about Family Night, but I’ll be forever the most pleased with “the best werewolf sex you’ll ever read.” Family Night (@masonjarpress.bsky.social) is available for preorder here: masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...
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“FAMILY NIGHT is a vivid kaleidoscope of visceral detail that animates surreal stories of transformation, love, and grief. Family is slippery here, squirming from the reader’s damp, sweaty fingers: fathers are absent-present, mothers are sometimes-absent, sometimes-bloody. Grandmothers and aunts do the real work of parenting. We get lost in the intricacies of buildings that are mazes of the past, and mazes that are metaphors for love. There are awakenings. There is so much blue in sky and water. There are cars that shelter, cars that harm, and fire, fire, fire everywhere. And the best werewolf sex you’ll ever read.” — Fiona McKay, author of The Lives of the Dead
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Kissing, Still by Pat Foran
after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICYMI!
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BlackCatRanch @blackcatranch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey #booksky - I just finished a lovely book by @annaleen.bsky.social -- and I think you should read this #book too! www.livegreenwearblack.com/2026/09/revi...
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