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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 06/10/2026

heck yeah!!!!!! happy release day to this terrific anthology of trans cosmic horror, featuring new stories and reprints! it is out now and as gorgeous as you are

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 06/10/2026

Buy my books as I am presently without income and royalties could really help me get through. Woo cancer!! Free shipping at Bookshop, anti-Prime days. share.google/hLyufbIZeBVR...

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm prouder about being part of this anthology than any place else I've been published. I wove my grief and fury into fiction that comes from some very real places and I am so grateful to 10P for giving it a home in this particular book whose profits will go to support a cause very dear to my heart.

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DEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anyway. Love a good restorative solution.

"Judith Slaying Holofernes," by Artemisia Gentileschi, famously raped and then dragged through a traumatizing trial after the fact, only to make a painting (this one) that shows EXACTLY how she'd have preferred to deal with the problem

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One last preview for FF#28 and it's time to play Match the Quotes from @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social's reviews of @escapepod.org stories in this issue's From the Archives column. Which is which? Stories by @keffy.bsky.social Alex Dally MacFarlane @natania.bsky.social @kijjohnson.bsky.social!

Quote 1: “This story is as rip-roaring a good time of a genre mashup as a fundamentally tragic tale can be.”

Quote 2: “This is a deliciously and deliriously strange story, in which advertising and eroticism intertwine in ways I would never have dreamed.”

Quote 3: “The writing is lovely, clear and forthright and wholly sympathetic to the existence of someone who, by the accounting of everyone else in the story, should not have ever come to exist.”

Quote 4: “It feels phenomenally strange to list these various death-mat ing rites as potential works of art, and there is something so lingering about that way of framing these pictures.”

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

this is so brutal, @ecatherine.com I am sending you all of the well wishes in the world 🖤🖤🖤

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🏳️‍⚧️ Huh. This feels like something y'all should be preordering, reposting, & generally losing your minds over🖤☠️ YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, companion to our beloved YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY 40~ 🏳️‍⚧️+GNC creators deliver the best Weird Cosmic Horror of the year. Out Oct 6. Get: store.tenebrouspress.com

Publisher holding a test print of YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The sheer number of times I have listened to this since it wandered across my feed though youtu.be/IJeRUcv33lU

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XINA - indiviDuality (Live acoustic)

YouTube video by XINAVEVO

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is so thorny! So complex to navigate how to write the work that is *your work* and find a way for it to exist outside of your own notebook/laptop in a world that cares more for easy money than for thorny art. I love your work and I hope I get to read more of it and I am sorry that capitalism 🖤

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's not only FF that's open! Saros SF #7, edited by @thompsinator.bsky.social, is open for the month for any stories with a theme of "terminally online". Full guidelines here: sarossf.com/submissions/

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'm profoundly moved to see the pre-orders rolling in for my first book. Nowhere else will you see a woolly mammoth go head-to-head with such an array of power and thought and cruelty, trampling the great questions of our age into the crevices of a Weird Ice Age. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

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Seers in a Broken Season: A Stone And Sorcery Novella

Primal meets The Man with No Name in this Stone-Age fantasy tale. Walks-like-a-Rockslide, wandering warrior of the mammoth-people, seeks an end to the ice choking the world. Instead he finds war, whal...

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

this is how I feel every time I get rejected

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

That's exactly how I feel about the whole thing!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

An unprecedented happening: I came out of a heat wave with a massive CFS/ME flare that kept me mostly in bed for 10 days. Then I came out* of the CFS/ME flare with a full first draft of an unplanned novel. *not really, I'm still in the flare, but the novel is a real thing that did come out of it

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Aw, thank you for reading my review! I'm glad it spoke to you. I loved your book so much I had to start a newsletter just to have a place of my own to put my feelings about it 🖤

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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Just a little over $2000 to go before we're FULLY FUNDED! We're down to the wire folks, with about three days to go, so let's get this over the hump and across the finish line! 🙌

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

is there anything more upsetting* than a good @seanbirnie.bsky.social story no I do not think so oh wait there is it is two of them *complimentary

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🏔️💀this is the perfect story to read during a heat wave 💀🏔️

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Fusion Fragment is now open to submissions! Full details at www.fusionfragment.com/submissions/

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thank you! I wasn't sure if the footer was the right place or if there was a designated spot. That's so helpful.

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thank you! I've gotten a fair few recommendations for Buttondown so I'm going to try it for now. Maybe you know this--I'm trying to figure out how to deal with the mailing address requirement and I see you can use Buttondown's but I cannot figure out where/how to include it?

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So I started a blog/newsletter/something to enthuse about things I adore without the constraints of writing for magazines. I'm a tiny bit obsessed with @allysonshaw.bsky.social this summer so the first book I've chosen to enthuse about is her brilliant Ashes & Stones: buttondown.com/SongsFromaRi...

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001: Ashes & Stones

I have rarely been as moved by a work of nonfiction as I am by Allyson Shaw’s marvellous book Ashes & Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches &...

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Also in this issue, @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social digs through old episodes of @escapepod.org and recommends stories by @natania.bsky.social, Alex Dally MacFarlane, @keffy.bsky.social, and @kijjohnson.bsky.social. And once again, our cover has gorgeous artwork by @carlydraws.bsky.social !

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

FF#28 arrives TOMORROW!!!!!!!

“Birdguts” by Erin Strubbe: speculative biologies / eating stones / maybe the norm isn’t the norm

“Chutes, Slides, and Ladders” by Allison Wall: surviving the board game world / opposing ideologies / the other place

“Diet Tips for the Apocalypse” by Sophie Casarico: disordered eating / dysfunctional mother-daughter relationships / Boston under siege

“Grave Bells” by Corey Farrenkopf: family footsteps / post-apocalyptic communities / the rising water and the rising dead

“In the Wake of Whales” by Claire Jia-Wen: the dead, revived by AI / environmentalism / is it him?

“Iso E Super” by Francis Van Ganson: bespoke perfumes / dating the robot girl vs. playing the robot girl / but how can you be sure?

“(Non)deterministic Finite Automata” by Audrey Zhou: searching for survival in the multiverse / soulmates / “I know you”

“u last saw hana in the mageverse” by Tuesday Pil: immersive MMORPGs / battling mental illness / why did you choose the slime?

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I also want to reshare the Caribbean issue of Strange Horizons that @commanderrika.blacksky.app and I edited for Strange Horizons. Ever grateful to have done this project with her. (Go check her story Chicken Foot Soup in Lightspeed) Please read her editorial! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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A Few Notes on Paradise

an introduction to the Caribbean SFF Special Issue

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This one is close to my heart. What that says about my heart is a different discussion.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The final story in Saros SF #5 is "This Was the Planet of Sound" by @improbablerex.bsky.social Editor @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social says it's "simply a perfect story in its own right. This is how I want to feel when I read short fiction."

"This Was the Planet of Sound" by Rex Burrows: singing seas / searching shrieks / expectant hush

However, this last example brings to mind other primates, in particular the chattering species that delivered us—and themselves in turn—into catastrophe and collapse and ruin. This was their favored range as well, so we must humbly beg your forgiveness. We have no wish to dwell upon these sounds. We will speak of them no further.

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Did you have a queer SFF story out in May? Then let me know about it so I can get it on my list. Thanks!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller! One of my favourites. Very weird, very dark, lots of strange fantastical and horrifying body stuff, and the writing is great.

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This story really messed me up! Another one that I knew I had to have for the issue before I had even finished reading it. Wondrous, awful stuff.

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm so excited to have a story in this issue! I grew up reading and being altered by Moore's stories in my parents' motley and battered collection of old SFF anthologies so it's very special to me to get to be part of a tribute to her.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🔥SALE🔥 Prime Day is now thru the 26th? COMPLETELY COINCIDENTALLY, ALL OUR E-BOOKS & MAGAZINES ARE 50% OFF THRU THE 26TH. Buy from our webstore, get your books & mags delivered INSTANTLY, + you own them outright! (Sorry, not applicable to preorders) 🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

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e-Books

Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN MAY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's April's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

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Some Queer Short SFF - April 2026 | Charles Payseur

And I’ve made it to installment #100 of Some Queer Short SFF! Given how thoroughly I’ve fallen apart this year, I am proud at least that I c

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My nonbinary queer surreal horror fantasy story thing "Revenge Body" came out in Brink magazine No. 11: Obsession in May! www.brinkliterary.com/current-issue

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Current Issue | BRINK

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

VILLAIN DAY was such a cool event (as is proper for such a cool book + author)! I am so delighted it all went the way you hoped and I am so happy I got to be a little part of the fun 🖤

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

Anathema: Spec from the Margins is now OPEN for submissions from June 20th to July 20th! We’re looking for speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by queer creators of color! We pay a professional SFWA rate! Check the link in bio for submission guidelines!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Once again doing witcheries in the name of manifesting story acceptances / other paid writing opportunities so I can fulfill my (Quixotic?) dream of transmuting words into an electric harp 🕯️ youtu.be/pf6uNyKZtoI

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Introducing Harp-E Version 4: Smoother, Stronger, and Ready for the World

YouTube video by HARP•E

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

FFer Read of the Day: "Snow, Stars, Stone" by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com www.heartlines-spec.com/snow-stars-s...

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Snow, Stars, Stone

Snow, Stars, Stone by Ariel Marken Jack

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Heyyyyy one of my favourite magazines is coming back! I'm so excited to read the next issue!

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The 6th story in Saros SF #5 is "Gardenias Under a Temporal Window" by @kaunvijaya.bsky.social Editor @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social says it "drifts by as a wisp so delicate I didn't realize until a while after it was finished how powerful a storm of emotions it contains."

"Gardenias Under a Temporal Window" by Vijayalaxmi Samal: the past is present / she can fix it / but I’m right here

Things are difficult at home nowadays. I come back, snow-dipped, blue-skinned, to find my mother has slipped away, out of the time stream. She stands at the window, gripping the curtains and listens. She tells me she can hear conversations from ages ago, but they keep passing by her.

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