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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy Fall! Spooky season is upon us! I'm excited to share that my cutely horrific angel flash story "EVERYTHING IS FINE" will be published in the first volume of the Baneberry Book of Horror. Preorder link is here www.amazon.com/dp/1068054611
A promotional poster with a graphic of a baneberry plant, its white blossoms, serrated leaves, and dripping blood-red berries. Top text reads: "Available October 6, 2026" and bottom text reads: "The Baneberry Book of Horror featuring new work by Caroline Hung"
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Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Issue 6 of Tractor Beam is out! The water issue: www.tractorbeam.earth/issue/hell-o... #scifi #clifi #solarpunk #soilpunk
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Hell or High | Tractor Beam
A seasonal publication of soilpunk fiction: Radical visions rooted in soil
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If There's Anyone Left @iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BEHOLD! Dive into the world of Unhidden: Infinite by @elismontgomery.bsky.social www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/unhiddeninfi...
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 11/08/2026
I've talked about the Sameer Project before—an excellent life-saving on-the-ground initiative in Gaza. Since April 2024, they've distributed nearly a quarter of a million meals alone (plus water, medical care, and shelter). But funding has dropped so much that they'll have to shut down without help.
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Food & Water x The Sameer Project
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...
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Spec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Site updates, so "love note from my guardian angel" by @carolinehung.bsky.social is now freely available to read there early (or the link to the folder where broadsides + audio will appear): speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#poems 🫶🏾 If ya enjoy, share with us or anyone you thinks alright and would too.
Screenshot of webpage headed by "Poems" then subhead "2026" then bullet point: [Dkéama Alexis’s “MOKO” (Jun), Caroline Hung’s “love note from my guardian angel” (Jul)](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11lh7N5iXWGxs2yUu7MBkY9mwaNFaHiht), Nilā’s “The Song of the Interdimensional Traveller” (9/4), & Abigail Guerrero’s “Fungal Avocation” (11/6). Beneath that an image showing "Our 4 Core Considerations" (authenticity, imagination, wow factor, and language) and then statement: (If you have access needs [e.g., plain text] or be a reviewer/hyper-of-poetry type,
you can email us: speccolorwaysinverse [at] gmail [.] com).
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🔥eBOOK SALE🔥 I (Matt) am currently locked indoors w/150+ AQI & forest fires ablazin' across the PNW. We know that's been a lot of you all over the world too. We need some instant gratification sooooo: 50% ALL EBOOKS! Emailed instantly. Read Weird🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
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Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I received cute stickers from @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social 😊🌈 thank you so much!!
"Spec Colorways In Verse" and "Centering & Celebrating Queer BIPOC Speculative Poetics" with logo of a raised fist holding onto a wavy rainbow pattern, featured on three sticker designs.
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Spec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Our second poem "love note from my guardian angel" by Caroline Hung is shocking and tender. When we designed broadside, had ideas for adding accents but it naturally came together minimalist, its words' artistry plenty 'nough. www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... #WriterShareWednesday #WeeknightWriters
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Poem 2: “love note from my guardian angel” by Caroline Hung | Spec Colorways In Verse
Poem 2: “love note from my guardian angel” by Caroline Hung by Spec Colorways In Verse on Patreon. Join Spec Colorways In Verse's community for exclusive content and updates.
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
it's a double release week for me! celebrating the Weird and Queer with @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social, please do support these amazing presses if you can! (1/3) 🧵
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!! so honored and happy to be part of Spec Colorways!!! 😊💜
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Spec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's almost time to feast 🔔, who's hungry?
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
👽💀Into the Weird we go once again💀👽 BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4, is OUT NOW! 23 of the finest & Weirdest stories of 2025. Congrats to all this year's winners🖤☠️ Get BRAVE NEW WEIRD wherever books are sold, or direct from us: store.tenebrouspress.com
Red and black graphic box featuring cover art by Matt Blairstone; a human form seated, one hand on a book emblazoned with the Tenebrous skull & laurel. Where the screen cuts from red to black, the flesh is stripped from the human, exposing its skeleton. It thrusts its harm into the air, transforming into a death's head moth. It looks pretty cool.
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Spec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Our 2nd poem/broadside, “love note from my guardian angel” by @carolinehung.bsky.social, is live Jul 17 at noon! 💌🫦🍽️ Not subscribed? Purchase the individual post (including an author recording) when it's up for $4—or right now, the '26 Poems + Q&As Collection for $14: www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor...
Preview of Spec Colorways broadside for "love note from my guardian angel" by Caroline Hung, a haibun/blackout, showing title and first line of blackout: "Hail [blacked out], full of [blacked out] you;"
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We have hit 20% of our fundraising goal and there is only two weeks left to donate! Help support the next year of khōréō here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
gods this new story by Boon Carmen is WILD.... khōréō just keeps publishing the best of SFF/H from immigrant & diaspora authors The era of genAI slop is a great time to support indie mags !! As a nonprofit led by volunteers, khōréō relies on donations to operate➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
what an emotional and musical piece from Dkéama! support Queer and Black poetry 🫵🌈
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Spec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🌠❤️Happy Juneteenth! And what dis?! Our first poem! Do add "MOKO"'s liberation rhythm to your celebration playlist: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... 💚🌊 💐Dkéama Alexis💐 Support queer BIPOC spec poets by sharing, subscribing, tipping on ko-fi.com/speccolorway... #CaribbeanHeritage #Juneteenth #Pride
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Poem 1: “MOKO” by Dkéama Alexis | Spec Colorways In Verse
listen to Dkéama read “MOKO” below! 🖤💚♥️✊🏾♥️💚🖤 Dkéama Alexis is a Black trans—writer, dreamtender, death doula, and bricoleur living on unce
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"love note from my guardian angel" is my god-eating poem that combines Haibun and Blackout poetry. Available July 17th only for Patreon members of @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social ! Audio included narrated by the Angel itself 🙂 www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...
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Spec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
📯Announcing our '26 lineup📯 @carolinehung.bsky.social @gailguerrero.bsky.social "Moko" by Dkéama Alexis will be available to all subscribers. (Onward, paid tiers [$3–5] & $4-post-purchasers will have access to poems—digital broadsides & audio recordings.) patreon.com/SpecColorway...
On the back of a stylistic deck of cards, Spec Colorways In Verse's logo of clay-brown fist clutching a rainbow over stars above text '26 Lineup Edition with QR in upper corner linking to Patreon (https://patreon.com/SpecColorwaysInVerse).
Surrounding cards on tabletop: June = “MOKO” by Dkéama Alexis with tagline Liberation Rhythm Callin’ (✊🏾 in corner); July = “love note from my guardian angel” by Caroline Hung with tagline Hungry for God (🫦 in corners); September = “The Song of the Interdimensional Traveller” by Nilā with tagline Experience the Pluriverse (♾️ in corner); and November = “Fungal Avocation” by Abigail Guerrero with tagline Decomposition of Life (🍄‍🟫 in corners).
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🖤☠️MEET @carolinehung.bsky.social, BRAVE NEW WEIRD AWARD WINNER🖤☠️ The plane is now boarding. Thank you for choosing to flee war with us today; we hope you have a pleasant flight. Please be sure you have your "Ticket po mamser." handy. Preorder The Best New Weird Horror v4: store.tenebrouspress.com
Red and black graphic box featuring cover art by Matt Blairstone; a human form seated, one hand on a book emblazoned with the Tenebrous skull & laurel. Where the screen cuts from red to black, the flesh is stripped from the human, exposing its skeleton. It thrusts its harm into the air, transforming into a death's head moth. It looks pretty cool.
And then there's a picture of the author next to it, who looks even cooler.
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Congratulations to all the Hugo Award finalists! Strange Horizons is grateful for everyone who helped us become a finalist in the Best Semiprozine category: authors, voters, our entire readership, and everyone else who keeps us in mind as an SFF publication to read and submit to! ❤️
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FANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
'We Palestinians Are Not Going Away' is a zine made up of first-person accounts of the war / genocide in Gaza, Palestine. Download it (it's free), print it and distribute it ✨ Available to download from the Little Zine Revolution site: lzr.life/zine/we-pale...
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
thank you so much!!😊
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I'm so grateful and honored to be in Reckoning's special issue!! Maraming salamat po!!
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "In the Video: A Woman with Her Newborn [Content Warning]" by Bahar Davoudi, a poem that goes incredibly hard affirming life in the face of violence reckoning.press/in-the-video...
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In the Video: A Woman with Her Newborn [Content Warning] | Reckoning
Why don’t these people stop having babies during a war, under the air strike? —A comment under the video In other words, why don’t they stand at their windows, watch the offerings of fire falling from...
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
IT WAS PARADISE, our long-awaited special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, is out today in ebook form, and the print edition is up for preorder! Edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social and with (terrifying) war monster art by @monarobot.bsky.social! reckoning.press/it-was-parad...
Cover for RECKONING: IT WAS PARADISE, featuring an illustration by Moníca Robles Corzo of a monstrous face with multiple sets of curving horns, exposed brain matter, serpents encircling and gorging the eyes, two sets of fanged mouths, and a warhead emerging in place of a tongue.
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
新年快樂! 🧧 Happy Year of the Fire Horse. This is my story about a mechanical horse that loves arson and revolution 🔥free text and audio available @khoreo.bsky.social issue 3.4
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RAIN FIRE CLOUD
On the seven hundredth Day of Founding, the Imperial Sun Palaces open their gates for a joyous celebration, broadcasted live to every corner of the Heavenly Empire. The sleek automobiles roll in throu...
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I'm obsessed with that cover..... so grateful to be part of the ToC!! ✈️
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones. Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed — strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
get XANAX HAMSTER!!! sick ass zines by @frombeyondpress.bsky.social 💥 frombeyondpress.com/product/xana...
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Xanax Hamster December 2024 | From Beyond Press
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Hey hey hey, SH has a call for Indigenous submissions. And I would like to read more Southeast Asian Indigenous writers! If you are Dayak, Iban, Murut, Orang Asli - please submit! Also I would like to see more Asian Indigenous: Taiwanese aborigines. Ainu. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Indigenous Author Submissions
On November 3rd, we will be opening for speculative fiction stories written by Indigenous authors. We will be capping submissions at 500.
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
super happy and grateful that people have read "Ticket po mamser." I remember being worried about writing some of the dialogue in Tagalog. It must have been gibberish to everyone else but I'm just glad I got the chance to do something like this
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
(1/?) 🧵 I'm doing #Peacetober2025 a daily artivism challenge run by @/CoffeesForGaza on IG with their prompt list www.instagram.com/p/DOz9c_9iEl0/
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Coffees for Gaza - Open Collective
Creative community collecting mass micro donations for 25 families in Gaza.
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Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
CFG is running #Peacetober again this year, an awareness-raising artivism initiative to help drive funds for the 25 families the collective is supporting. Artists, writers, crafters, if you're looking for an October project, consider joining. More info here: www.instagram.com/p/DOz9c_9iEl... #art
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Will Buckingham @willbuckingham.com · 20/09/2025
Why translate from Taiwanese to Gaelic and back again? Here, @drhannahstevens.bsky.social and I try to give an answer on #Taiwan Insight. Do read the other essays in this special issue as well (from Elissa Hunter-Dorans and Lisa MacDonald, with the final one soon to land from Naomi Sím).
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Tâigael: Orchids, Maternal Care, and a New Rosetta Stone
Written by Hannah Stevens and Will Buckingham. The article introduces Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic, a translation project linking two minoritised languages through English and Manda…
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Two months ago a car nearly pancaked me to death. This is Day 25 of #1000DaysOfDrabble, so in each drabble I write about an unnamed narrator who escapes cruel and unusual and silly deaths, over and over. I hate to clog your feed. I'll be moving them to my personal blog! keyboardcrumb.wordpress.com
This is Day 25.

I got up from bed and went out through the front door. Still in my pajamas which, in the tropics, that means a thin shirt, short shorts. A group of people were sitting across the street, blaring the ugliest music in the world from huge stereo speakers. Every morning, like clockwork, splitting my head open. I almost couldn’t sew my skull together this morning. I grabbed my axe and smashed the stereo into pieces. The noise died into blissful silence… They watched me through eyeless sockets. Hollow, gaunt faces. Before they could get me, I ran back into my house and bolted the door.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
khōréō is an amazing magazine dedicated to sffh from diaspora folks. their stories are beautiful, haunting, gutwrenching, unforgettable subscribe ⬇️
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
cc'ing all author and artist friends! you can donate things like manuscript critiques or signed art prints too. I donated a couple critiques and sensitivity reads
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Since the year 2000, @strangehorizons.bsky.social have been trailblazers in the SFF space, advocating for marginalized creators & international writers like me. Please consider supporting their Kickstarter for 2026!
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Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
24 #1000DaysOfDrabble
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It's grocery day! Happy shopping, happy living. I met a woman in the bakery section, and she was staring a bit too long at the discount items. I might have been staring too, which the store manager didn't like. The woman offered me one of the free bread samples. I tasted one and it was poison! She admitted to dipping it in detergent. I thought it was a glaze. I didn't think she would try to kill me. The store manager came by again and threw us both out of the building. The woman turned to leave, but not before giving me a coupon for the next promo special, buy-two-take-three of bottled detergent. She still wanted to kill me! I tore up the coupon and just went home.
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
yippee!!
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
21, 22, 23 for #1000DaysOfDrabble
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They threw me into a pit of lambs. The shepherds in wolfskin robes. I didn't even know what I did so wrong. But it must have been bad, because they pointed to the blood on my hands and deemed me, a murderer. I never asked for the job. I never dreamed, that I'd grow up to skin wolf pelts for three meals a day and a roof over my head.

Now, I lie naked amongst the little lambs of this dark, damp pit. These lambs are a bit odd. Teeth too big, eyes too bright, all-knowing. Their hooves are stained with mud. The shepherds threw us here to starve, or cannibalize each other. But little lambs have a taste for something else. Something crueler. And lambs could jump really high, too, when we really feel like it. Real high.

We won't be killed that easy, and we will have our meal as well.22

I enter the mall at dusk, and inside, it's brighter than morning. I hear children's laughter but see no one across the wide, shining linoleum. From the ground floor, I take the long escalator straight to the fifth floor, to the cinemas. The laughter has turned into piercing screams, tortured. I approach the ticket booth, and a mannequin in a suit hands me a red ticket. Admit One. I just can't wait for the show. It smells like buttery popcorn. I stop outside Theater Three. The double doors look a bit different. The teeth shouldn't be there. Human molars, the size of pews. The carpet, a deep purple velvet, shouldn't be wet and sticky.

I turn around and tear my ticket into two. Sad. I really wanted to see my show today. But they can't kill me like this...23

"That's my sundae. You're eating my sundae."
I said to the goblin in my chair. It was wearing fancy clothes, suit and tie with polished shoes, a cane that looks sharp enough to stab someone.
"Scoot over!" I shoved my way in to the booth, the seats a plush red velvet. The chandelier flickers overhead. The wood walls smell faintly of varnish, or it could be cigar smoke. I wouldn't know. I've never smoked. I just want my ice cream.
The goblin grabbed my hair and brandished a spoon to my face. It must have wanted to scoop my eyeballs out. I kicked its foot and slammed its head onto the table. My sundae scattered with the broken glass.
When the waiter came over next, I asked for another sundae. Double the whipped cream, please.
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
First published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social , my surreal airport horror "Ticket po mamser." was reviewed and recommended in the May 2025 issue of Locus Mag 🥹 thank you @cypayseur.bsky.social !
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Samovar and Strange Horizons: Reviews by Charles Payseur
Samovar 2/3/25 Strange Horizons 2/10/25, 2/17/25 February brought a new issue of Samovar, which as always focuses on speculative fiction in translation, and Mayumi Inaba’s “Flying in the Dark Night…
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
felt very moved by this www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVIX...
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CHTHONIC閃靈【ENDLESS AEONS 百萬遍】Music Video
YouTube video by CHTHONIC 閃靈
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
20 #1000DaysOfDrabble
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"Am I strange?" The mermaid asked from their tank. Gurgled, more like, with their face half-submerged and spitting foam. Small bubbles bled over the water's surface.

"No," I said, hands pressed against the glass. "No, of course not, why would you say that?"

"But I am." The mermaid wailed, and dragged their sharp claws across pink, scaley arms. "Would it be, so wrong? That you would reject, even me?"

"I'm sorry," I said. "I'm sorry, I don't know anything."

And the mermaid closed their eyes, and hugged their tail fin close. And their body dissolved in the water, breaking down into fine sand, precious little stars unseen to the naked eye.

I sank to the ground, crying, and begging for them not to leave, don't leave me here, all alone, please, I can't live without you, don't go. I cried to the empty tank.

When the saltwater dried, years and years later, I stood to walk away, carrying a single star in my pocket.
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
16-19 while I'm in the hospital caring for mother with lung cancer #1000DaysOfDrabble
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I tripped and fell into a hole. It was a long way down. Long way. I landed on a soft, muddy pile, and I couldn't see anything, not even my own hands. The light could no longer reach me.

Then a man started shoveling soil down into the hole. Slowly, slowly, blotting out my pinprick view of the sky. There was once an old story like this. Some kind of animal would shake the dirt off its back, until the earth grew under its feet.

I was not an animal of ingenious wit, though I could not be killed from a simple burying. The man tired of the shovel. Tucked deep underground, I touched the ancient roots of a forest. And when they brought me up, a full, silvery moon was shining bright upon me.17

I'd never held a sword before. What was so special about a tool for cutting skin, stabbing into organs, slashing flesh and sinew, and not even all that well? But the evil king had given me a sword, large and heavy and double-bladed and straight edges, a really boring sword, to defend myself from attackers.

Did that make him a generous king instead? No, all kings carried a cruelty in their hearts. It's baked into the crown...

But anyway, a sword.

Is it supposed to grow spikes on the handle, piercing my hands and draining all the blood from my body?

Well, well--nice try, evil king. This won't kill me, but I'll be sure to put your blood-sucking blade to good use when I come to strike you down from your throne.18

"Ah! Bunny! It's a bunny! Cute widdol bun-bun, c'mere!"

The rabbit ran into the bushes, frightened by my enthusiasm. I sat back on the forest floor and did my very best to hold back tears.

There was a rustling in the bushes behind me, and the click of a gun, pointed straight to the back of my head. I knew even without looking. They'd always come to hunt me down. 

I turned to face them slowly, and stare down the barrel of their gun. I wasn't a little rabbit, though.

A little rabbit wouldn't have smiled, all jagged teeth, crushing bullets then a hunter's skull.

Another day.19

A butterfly paid me a visit last night. A shining, beautiful thing with powdery wings and a subtle gaze. It watched me sleep, and waited as my mind wandered off to the land of dreams. It did not care for my heart. The butterfly hovered over my head, and perched delicately upon an eyelid. I could feel it all in my sleep. The butterfly wished to let me rest, and never rise again, even as the dawn broke over and over.

My dream, warm and soft, turned into a nightmare suffering a thousand deaths.

I woke up and crushed the butterfly in my palm.
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caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
14 and 15 #1000DaysOfDrabble
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I took a nap then woke up to a boot pressed on my face. I was angry, and kicked upwards in retaliation. My assailant leapt back, he tried to kill me with a buckshot, and I knew for certain his was a terrible grudge, and I hated him too for trying to kill me in my sleep. I was literally, a harmless little kitty.

"Why do I deserve this?" I asked, bleeding all over.

He simply shot at me again, and I ran fast into the woods.15

The wings on my back, once strong, beautiful, iridescent--now crumbled and scattered in the wind. It happened while I was in the air, high in the sky. A sun beam pierced my thigh. Then another, my arm. And I was falling to my imminent death. Just my luck.

I tore my stomach out and used it like a parachute. Barely worked, and I drifted over waiting dogs on the ground, hungry dogs, hoping to rip into my corpse. Too bad. They will starve for longer.
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