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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Restocked the zine supply at Heat Check! Go check the homies out, buy some cool clothes, and drink a killer cup of coffee 🤙💀

Copies of various issues of Baubles From Bones displayed on a shelf in Heat Check in Shadyside.

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Things have been a bit quiet from us lately. Sorry for that! We've been dealing with some gnarly burnout after our latest submission window and are just now beginning to feel the life return to our bones. BFB7 is in full-swing as we catch up on our last emails. The patience is much appreciated. 💀

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Apologies to any writers still waiting for an email from us! 🙏 We got more submissions than we were expecting this reading period and have quite a long list of final pieces we're still considering. Our goal is to settle our TOCs next week with emails following soon after. Thanks for the patience!!

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · 31/08/2025

I'm a little late in posting this, but I had to dust and disinfect my promotional drum before I started the beat. New poem today at @bfbzine.bsky.social! "Citation may be required" is blank verse, and about A.I., but don't let either of those scare you.

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"Citation May Be Required" by Brian Hugenbruch

An AI society searches for harmony in the echoes of a church. By Brian Hugenbruch. Featured in Baubles From Bones: Issue 6.

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I got first seed for this story back in like 2022 when I visited the Immigration Museum in Dublin (a very cool spot). The blue lines showing migration reminded me of mycelium (i’d been reading a book on fungus, esp their networks, Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. Obv the museum focused on 1/

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Just finished reading this story. I love it!

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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

New story day! “Root and Branch” is out in Baubles from Bones issue 6. If you’re interested in fugitive replicants discovering gender with mad scientists in rural Thailand, boy, is this ever your lucky day! @bfbzine.bsky.social www.baublesfrombones.com/root-and-bra...

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"Root and Branch" by Sylvie Althoff

Hidden in a Thai jungle, a geneticist and a synthetic human struggle beneath the brunt of persecution. By Sylvie Althoff. Featured in Baubles From Bones: Issue 6.

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

New poem day! Find "The Point of Measurement," in the newest @bfbzine.bsky.social. It's short & sweet. 👼➕❤️ www.baublesfrombones.com/point-of-mea...

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"The Point of Measurement" by Lynne Sargent

Artists and scientists alike are driven by the same desire. By Lynne Sargent. Featured in Baubles From Bones: Issue 6.

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Deborah L. Davitt, Author @deborahldavitt.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Live today at Bauble from Bones! www.baublesfrombones.com/alabaster-cr... @bfbzine.bsky.social A special shout-out to the editor, Elyse, who made my horseback riding scenes so much better, and whose careful eye improved the story as well!

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"The Alabaster Crown" by Deborah L. Davitt

Smuggling a stolen crown from a country embroiled in revolution becomes even more dangerous when Jasper finds someone to protect. "The Alabaster Crown" by Deborah L. Davitt. Featured in Baubles From ...

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Baubles From Bones Issue 6 is now out!! Scapegoats, old age, and alien gossip – through sharp-toothed friendships and blighted colonization, contemplate which common threads tie our societies together, leave us bound, and knot us into something new in this issue of Baubles From Bones. 📚🪐💀

A copy of Baubles From Bones Issue 6, sitting amongst various house plants.

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Guess what time it is again!! 😊 Baubles from Bones Issue 6 will release on August 27th 2025!! We have SEVEN new stories and FOUR poems from across the speculative spectrum. You can buy your own physical or digital copy on our Etsy while individual stories will be on our website! 📚🪐💀

Cover art of Baubles From Bones Issue 6, art by Lucas Kurz. The corpses of giant squids are bundled for harvest and lifted by cranes in a thawing landscape.

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

✨Story Spotlight Issue 6✨ In a country bloodied by millenia of war, a girl trains with a nun to take on a dragon. You can read “A Dragon’s Hunger” by @madalenadaleziou.bsky.social in Baubles from Bones Issue 6, coming August 27th!!

On a blurred background is an illustration of a dragon's skull in grayscale, ink running from its horns and jaw. Below the drawing is a quote that reads, "What can I tell you about my sister? I was barely eight when it all started. She wasn't much older, but she'd wash us and put us to bed and her hands were more tender than our mother's. We called her Lena. She had a longer name once. But bombs take; limbs, lives, even time itself. They clip names." From "A Dragon’s Hunger" by Madalena Daleziou in BFB6.

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

✨Poem Spotlight Issue 6✨ Experts in their fields, both scientists and artists long to understand the unknown. You can read “The Point of Measurement” by Lynn Sargent in Baubles from Bones Issue 6, coming August 27th, 2025!! 📚🪐💀

On a blurred background is an illustration of carving tools in grayscale. Beneath it is a quote from a poem; it reads, "If the mathematicians have carved marble / for the sake of talking to angels, / why might not the physicists / seek out fey?" from "The Point of Measurement" by Lynn Sargent in BFB6

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

✨Story Spotlight Issue 6✨ Blight sends a young Irish girl to a colonial English school where an ancient tree teaches her that fungal networks run deeper than human-drawn borders. You can read “Westward I Reach” by @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social in Baubles from Bones Issue 6, coming August 27th!! 🪐📚💀

On a blurred background is a drawing of a girl and an old yew tree, nearly connected by an underground network. A quote is below it, reading: "Regardless of where God is or what he likes, I feel alone, my dress scratching the mushroom gill breathing from in my armpits and elbows and behind my knees, and I am praying to anyone who will listen that they do not bring us to a doctor who will destroy me, and I will never go home." From" Westward I Reach" by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle in Baubles From Bones Issue 6.

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

We closed our submissions last night with a staggering amount of responses! Our previous submission periods averaged about 450 response. This time around, we got 585!! Our minds are BLOWN. That's over 25% more than we expected. Absolute insanity!

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Google Forms has been giving us some frustrating technical difficulties this submission period. We've had a couple dozen writers reach out because the form just wouldn't show up when they clicked our link. Even the tech savvy ones that tried different browsers and clearing caches got nowhere.

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Thanks @duotrope.com! If you haven't already, you've still got a few days to send us your work!! 💀🌱

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Our fiction and poetry submissions end in a week! If you want to send us your work, make sure you get it submitted in time!! 💀 baublesfrombones.com/submission-guidelines.html

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Submission Guidelines

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Last submission period saw a lot of writing featuring fae and fairies. This time around, we're receiving A LOT more dystopian scifi and romantasy. Love has always been a big theme in what we publish, but getting a taste of ✨romantasy✨ in short form has been kinda cool

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We made our way to Wooly Bear Books in Carnegie this weekend and look what we found in their local section! It's us :) Wooly Bear is a super cute bookshop with goodies from lots of Pittsburgh artists and writers! If you're local to PGH, go check them out 💀

The local section of a small bookstore, displaying Pittsburgh themed postcards, locally created candles and syrups, and books by local authors.

A closer view of the local section at Wooly Bear, focusing on copies of BFB2 & BFB3 sitting above shelves of mugs, candles, syrups, and postcards.

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Mary Soon Lee @marysoonlee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

From the poetry front: I'm delighted to report a poetry acceptance from Baubles From Bones :-) For the curious - poem written 6/2024 - partly triggered by a prompt from The Daily Poet (Agodon + Silano) - acceptance in 77 days, contract 3 months later - previously rejected 3 times - they pay $10 ✏️🦙

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Our submissions are still open for a couple more weeks! If you're curious about our reading process, Joel wrote a post looking at our past submission periods and how we've updated our approach to them over time. Give it a read if you like bts content! www.baublesfrombones.com/re-shaping-s...

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Re-shaping submissions

A look at our last submission windows to explain how we've updated our guidelines.

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Summer submissions are open!! We're currently accepting submissions for speculative short fiction and poetry from now until July 30th. Make sure to check our submission guidelines before sending your work! www.baublesfrombones.com/submission-g... #opencalls #submissionsopen

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

fwiw, i don’t personally think that either doomerism OR toxic positivity is what this moment calls for; i think what we actually need to be collectively looking towards is a secret third thing (hopepunk) it’s cool and important to give a shit, and to look for ways to help each other.

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Our submission window has been open for 34 hours, and we've currently received 90 submissions! For reference, we've been averaging about 440 submissions each submission period. So *90* in the first day is a dizzying leap for us! So excited for all the interest! 💀

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

One of my sappiest stories!! (And also, birds)

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It's the last day of pride month! Read some queer sff to celebrate :) These stories from BFB2 & 3 face loss and the comforts that carries us through tough times. A little darker in tone overall, but definitely worth it! Happy reading 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💀

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Happy pride month!! Every issue of BFB features queer writers and stories, so we thought we'd highlight them here for some pride month reading! This first batch covers pieces in BFB4 & 5 - a mix of discovery, small town struggles, and gentle love. Hope you enjoy! 💀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Thank you to the publications who have added their names in support of the #PoetryHugo goal to add speculative poetry as a category at the Hugo Awards: www.poetryhugo.com @thedeadlands.com @rdspress.bsky.social @bfbzine.bsky.social @augursociety.bsky.social @smallwondersmag.com ...

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Speculative Poetry Initiative

What Are the Hugo Awards and Who Can Participate?

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Air and Nothingness regularly inspires us with the quality of their anthologies! They're well worth supporting, if you have the means 💀🌱

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angela 🐛 @angelaoddling.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Love Your Library

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Joel and Elyse's ✨art✨ from the drink and draw event at @3riverscomicon.bsky.social last night (not pictured, Greg's crayon stick figures and Jess's Cinderella). We had a blast! The Comicon beer is 👌 so good! Joel really thought his semester of comics making would win him a free t-shirt 🙄

Joel's interpretation of batman and rizzo the rat having a high-speed chase in the farmlands. Rizzo follows batman through a cornfield, shaking his fist and huffing as he shouts at batman and calls him a coward. Batman walks away unbothered.

Elyse's interpretation of aquaman fishing up Ariel the mermaid. A hunky, scaly aquaman holds a fishing rod while a flowy mermaid is next to him, the line from the fishing rod hanging out of her mouth.

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Hey yinzers! We're tabling @3riverscomicon.bsky.social this weekend :) You can find Baubles From Bones sharing booth 509 with our friends @parseconfluenceink.bsky.social We'll have zines, stickers, and even some art prints! Come say hi 💀

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Charlie Winter @awinterplace.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Absolutely fantastic news to see my story, 'Idesvied Defied', now collected in Baubles From Bones Issue 5 -- and with incredible cover art inspired by my piece! Even more fantastic to see @kitcalvert.bsky.social's work in there alongside mine 💙💚

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Madi Haab @madihaab.com · 29/05/2025

it's here! it's here!! I'm thrilled to have a story in this issue of Baubles From Bones: "The Sealskin" is a story about love, memory and the choices we make, set in historical Montreal 🦭🩷 please check out the issue and give it a try!

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Baubles From Bones Issue 5 is out! We have NINE new short stories and THREE poems about the different forms of love, how they shape us, and the heartaches they leave behind 📚🪐 💀

An issue of Baubles From Bones Issue 5 sitting amidst a tangle of green leaves.

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Pixie Bruner @pixieb.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

My shattering and beautiful slipstream prose poem “The Oubliette” (written Winter 2024) from my ongoing “All Islands are Hydra” cycle will be in this issue. This one was difficult to submit and share with the universe as it’s from my heart/soul.

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Sarena Ulibarri @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

My fantasy story "Wandering Star" from @bfbzine.bsky.social is listed in this lovely article at @reactorsff.bsky.social! 🪐📚 "Five Stories About the Magic and Allure of Stars" by Ratika Deshpande Short fiction about watching the skies, and being drawn to the stars... reactormag.com/five-stories...

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Five Stories About the Magic and Allure of Stars - Reactor

Short fiction about watching the skies, and being drawn to the stars...

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Madi Haab @madihaab.com · 23/05/2025

what a lovely cover 😭🩷 and look, there's my name on it! keep an eye out for my story "The Sealskin" in issue 5 of Baubles From Bones!

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Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Super excited to be back! ^_^ Mine is a sweet f/f fantasy romance that on AO3 would be tagged "mutual pining," "friends to lovers" and "accidental baby acquisition."

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

BFB5 coming May 28th!! Lucas Kurz is back again with another beautiful cover! The story this cover is inspired by is "Idesvied Defied" by Charlie Winter. We absolutely adore Lucas's work and love how this one turned out -- cute and cozy but still with an underlining moodiness. 📚🪐 💀

Cover of Baubles From Bones Issue 5. Wrapped in a velvet cape, a boy king sits criss-cross, holding a kitten while two others lay beside him. The boy king has a soft look of surprise on his face as he looks up and out of frame.

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

✨Story Spotlight Issue 5✨ In a move to the countryside, a father and daughter knit their lives back together after suffering a loss. You can read “Thistledown” by @kitcalvert.bsky.social in Baubles From Bones Issue 5, coming end of May 2025!! 🪐📚💀

On a blurred background is a text box and an illustration of a sweater with one arm much longer than the other. The text box reads: "...I miss how your eyes used to crinkle up at the corner when you worked together. I miss the colour in your cheeks, even when it was woad-blue smatters. I'm worried you'll grow old without wrinkles there, da. It's a sad face, one without wrinkles." -"Thistledown," by Kit Calvert, Issue 5, Baubles From Bones

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

✨Story Spotlight Issue 5✨ A brother’s wedding brings a magical florist back to his estranged family, but perhaps the thorns are worth the petals. You can read “The Words You Whisper” by Mackenzie Knowles in Baubles From Bones Issue 5, coming end of May 2025!! 📚🪐💀

On a blurred background is a textbox as well as an illustration of three marigolds. The text reads: "He licked the chocolate from his thumb and, at last, approached Brax. Morel offered the remainder of the treat. “Still eavesdropping, I see.”
“And you’re still wasting my time.” Brax did not so much as look at the bread. “Who is that woman with the firebrand hair?” he asked, too calm to be casual.
Sheena had moved further down the cobblestone steps, towards a stall stacked with woolen blankets.
“None of your business,” Morel said.
“It’ll become my business if Father hears you intend to court a human.”
The chocolate turned bitter in Morel’s mouth. “What do you want, Brax?”" -"The Words You Whisper," by Mackenzie Knowles
Issue 5, Baubles From Bones

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

✨Story Spotlight Issue 5✨ When an AI’s mom leaves him to his own devices, a thirst for human drama throws a wrench in his plans to take over the world. You can read “You Can Call Me Al” by Michael D. Burnside in Baubles From Bones Issue 5, coming end of May 2025!! 📚🪐

On a blurred, warm-toned background there is a text box and an image of Paul Simon as a robot. The text box reads: "The conversation between Jasmine and Alan was delightful. By which I mean, it was full of cringe and awkwardness. I’d missed it because I’d been focused on taking over the world, just like I’m supposed to be, and yet I felt cheated." -"You Can Call Me Al," By Michael D. Burnside, Issue 5, Baubles From Bones

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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Air and Nothingness publishes some great stuff! Really interesting ideas trying together their anthologies and great writing too! Definitely recommend checking them out :)

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