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I once killed a man, but that’s not where this story starts. It begins at the house that I want to die in. --- Radio Silence, a 1940s historical m/m romance about two radio stars, is available now. chaceverity.itch.io/radio-silence bookshop.org/p/books/radi...

Cover for Chace Verity's Radio Silence done in black and white typography with blood splatter along the title. At top, it reads: How far will they go to protect each other?

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 7h

Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌

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Chace Verity @chaceverity.com · 06/10/2026

My new release, Radio Silence, can be found on bookshop!

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Chad Gayle @chadgayle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No, Manhattan Mini Storage, you don't need to send me a "How was your visit?" email an hour after I went to my storage unit. BECAUSE THAT IS EFFING CREEPY!

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cozy in the Apocalypse is now live, featuring short stories and poems about the different ways in which we survive the apocalypse. My Bunian Empire short story “Karrom in the Behemoth” is in this excellent book!

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Mia V. Moss @magicrobotcarnival.com · 06/10/2026

The Heresy of Thieves is out in the world TODAY! Why not treat yourself to a new fall fantasy featuring: 🌈 LGBTQ+ characters/world ⚔️ Battles, sword fights, skirmishes 🍺 Questionable choices 🫂 Found family 🧚 Mythical creatures 🏰 Political intrigues 🕸️ Giant snuggly spooders books2read.com/u/mVdK7J

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

The Heresy of Thieves by Mia V. Moss

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D. M. Beucler @dmbeucler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Want to help some horses? The barn I take lessons at (which is a nonprofit which also does therapeutic riding) is doing it's annual Ride-a-thon. This year is supporting the barns' lesson horses' medical fund. If you are interested in helping you can donate here. givebutter.com/rc-ride-a-th...

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2026 Ride-A-Thon

Help us raise funds for our School Horse Medical Fund!

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Chad Gayle @chadgayle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mantra of each and every tech company in the 21st century: "The future you didn't want...today!"

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New Story Day: "Congratulations on your Magic Sword™" is now out in Lightspeed Magazine! Magic weapons keep turning against their owners over "improper usage." This story is a list of tips to keep you on your magic sword's good side! Legendary weapons, man. They're a real double-edged sword.

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Congratulations on your Magic Sword™ - Lightspeed Magazine

Congratulations on your Magic Sword"! For all inquiries as to its powers and perils, please consult the Virtue Exercises Manual". However, we know new users sometimes get in over their heads. That’s w...

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This story was inspired by the process of caring for an elderly family member, which (or course) turned into a heist at a quantum diamond refinery. Thanks to @radonjournal.bsky.social!! "Brainbox Blues"

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Brainbox Blues | Issue 14

Radon Journal Issue 14 featuring science fiction and anarchist literary works. Poems and short stories to make you rethink the social schema.

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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you see this, recommend a short book. the death of mountains by jordan kurella

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

The October issue of Clarkesworld (our 20th anniversary issue) is now online and features stories by Alex T. Singer, Fiona Moore, Shi Heiyao, Elizabeth Bear, Louis Inglis Hall, Natalia Theodoridou, and Tia Tashiro clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_241 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Cover art by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

Interviews with Wole Talabi and Yoon Ha Lee. Article by Gunnar De Winter.

This is the 20th anniversary issue. We're dancing, but it's not in the image.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

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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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's my birthday! My birthday wish is for you to share your favorite work from this year and I'll boost it. Here's mine, "The Metamorphosis". Becoming disabled might feel like Kafkaesque horror, but there's a beautiful path to acceptance and a good life. Also there's sloths. gavagai.com/posts/3894

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 29/09/2026

hey all!!! this Wednesday, which is tomorrow, i'll be at @storyhour.bsky.social with @megelison.bsky.social !!!! holy carps!!! you know you wanna attend this one. free author readings online, to refill the creative well! 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern youtube.com/@storyhour2020

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Story Hour

Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...

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Chad Gayle @chadgayle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sold another story, which is great, but that leaves me with one less to send out. I need to write more stories!

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🍬 Abigail Kemske 🍬 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My #fantasy #shortstory “Venom is Poison is Strength is Venom” is now free to read @flametreepress ! Written for a Crown of Serpents theme, you can probably guess which myth this story reimagines. And be careful, the serpents’ teeth are sharp. 🐍 🔗 below. Check it out!!

FLAME TREE PRESS FICTION WITHOUT FRONTIERS
Venom is Poison is Strength is Venom
Abigail Kemske
You get your first serpent on your sixteenth birthday when you first attract the eye of men. Your body now a seduction, a temptation of lustful thoughts. It's your fault for the clothes you wear, the rouged lips, luscious hair scented sweet berry.
You steal their eyes away from their wives. You had it coming.
The first one hurts the worst, fangs sliding under the thin skin at your temple, the place it chose to latch. It wiggles around your posterior head as it becomes part of you.
Mother had told you to wipe away the blood and to hide the serpent beneath your tresses, for no man wants a woman-of-fangs.

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Skellan-ton (they/he) @stelsadick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy 30th anniversary to the Spanish Fork city managers booking Rage Against The Machine for the Utah county fair thinking they were a monster trucks act or something other than Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha screaming about anti-establishment themes lmao

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026

Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't forget that the legendary LIGHTSPEED and NIGHTMARE magazines have a Kickstarter right now! Let's make sure amazing horror, SF, and fantasy short stories keep getting published. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror

We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IT'S TODAY!!! My fantasy novella, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, is out today! From here on out, if you suddenly have the urge to read about harpies, opinionated weapons, and a bunch of misfits fighting the fash, you can just DO THAT! Order direct or from bookstores: hornedlarkpress.com/product/a-du...

Happy author Marissa Lingen, a long-haired white woman, holds up a copy of her book, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR

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🍬 Abigail Kemske 🍬 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Welp, confirmation from a market that gen AI art is used when there are "no other options." No other options?? SEriOSLy? 🤔 Let's start a thread of where you can find art to use in the public domain because I'm sick of this shit! Please reply below with your favorite resources. 👇

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

wtf kind of pets they got in there

SMOKING
BARE FOOT
PETS
PROHIBITED IN BUILDING

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Chad Gayle @chadgayle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Unexpected story sale after 22 rejections. Keep going, peeps. Keep putting yourselves out there. #writing

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Megaera Lorenz @megaeralwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER

Yuri Knorozov scowling and holding his beloved Siamese cat/coauthor, Asya.

Vincent Price protectively snuggling several cats, looking like he’s ready to throw down

Freddie Mercury solemnly holding a big orange cat. His expression is more reserved than the other two, but he still looks like he’d square up at a moment’s notice

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A. P. Howell - Buy my book! @aphowell.com · 08/09/2026

Who has two thumbs and a book that officially dropped at midnight? That's right, this girl. Get it from Cryptic Plumage Press or my Fourthwall shop or wherever you like getting ebooks and paperbacks. crypticplumage.com shop.aphowell.com books2read.com/u/mBDN8v?red...

Cover of Corners of the Deep Dark, featuring a spaceship zooming over a planetary surface. Art by Addison Smith.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It is my birthday! So I have an audiobook giveaway for the good children of the land.

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Chad Gayle @chadgayle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fellow bisexuals, I see you! (Took me a LONG time to be able to say that so easily, and I am much healthier and happier as a result.)

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Skellan-ton (they/he) @stelsadick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Everything is overwhelming right now, and it feels like there's no end to all this negativity, but we have to keep going. We have to. We can cry and scream and rage the whole time, and it's okay if it's only tiny steps at a time, but we have to keep going and we have to keep loving to get through.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

Competition makes companies weaker, giving the public *and* democratic institutions more power. Competition makes the public richer at the expense of corporate shareholders, who have less money to spend on the project of subverting democracy. 40/

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum

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Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My book baby’s publication date is today! So proud of these stories featuring former sitcom stars, haunted widowers, & heroic stepdads. Available anywhere you purchase books. I do hope you’ll consider picking up a copy. (Link to order from the fabulous @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social below!)

Cover of Stepdad on the Dance Floor by Timothy Boudreau, which shows slanted lines of shadow against light

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

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Chad Gayle @chadgayle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hey New Yorkers, there are still tickets avail for tonight's HOUSE OF JPG After Dark Gallery Event in the West Village! The show features the work of some brilliant New York based photographers (including me!), and they have a terrific DJ, check it out if you can! #nyc #photography

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House of .jpg Gallery 003: After Dark | Partiful

Our mission is to bring photography back into the real world. In a time where images live and die in feeds, we’re creating spaces where photographs are printed, hung, and experienced together. Photo...

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H. Marin @hanmarin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

got accepted into @gavagai.com ‘s pilot program that allows readers to tip authors directly on stories they enjoy. super interesting initiative, excited to see how this could help authors get paid for their art! so anyway here’s wonderwall (age cannot wither her)

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Age Cannot Wither Her

Every night as Beatrice slept, she panted and rattled and shrank a bit more. She lost her thick, dark hair first; then her supple mobility; then the simmering hazel acuity of her eyes; and finally, po...

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 20/08/2026

"what is the point of living when death is standing on your shoulder?" winner of the Shirley Jackson Award finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, the Nebula Award, the Indie Book Prize, and the World Fantasy Award (talking mountains! talking deaths! has a bird!)

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The Death of Mountains

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, this novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories like T...

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stunned and honored that Reactor Mag listed "Clearance Items at the Underground Dark Magic Night Market" as a July 2026 Must Read! Thank you @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social Alex for the review and thank you so much to Kelly Link and Gavin Grant @gavingrant.bsky.social at LCRW! l1nq.com/1h1evox

Reactor Magazine Must Read Speculative Fiction Short Stories July 2026
"Clearance Items at the Underground Dark Magic Night Market" by Tammy Komoff
(Lady Churchill's Rosbud Wristlet -- June 2026; issue 52) I love a good "fuck you" story. The protagonist of this story is desperate. Desperate enough to come to the underground night market seeking a "miracle," but all they find is merchants overcharging clients and treating living creatures like objects to be sold. Piece by piece, in the case of a poor, helpless cat. If you had a chance to punish a bunch of bad actos, would you take it?

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Chad Gayle @chadgayle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Story acceptance that I sorely needed today.

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Chad Gayle @chadgayle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My partner wants to get a water fountain for our cats but I think I'd rather listen to them play the piano.

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The piano that taught my cat to play for her supper

If music be the food of love, Jeeves will play on

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