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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It’s honestly the best book I’ve read this year. I even teared up at the end 💜 absolutely stunning writing 👏

Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I just finished listening to @alixeharrow.bsky.social ‘s beautiful novel “The Everlasting” and now I don’t want to read anything else because I want to let the story sink into my brain forever. 10/10, I plan to read it again (Thanks @roseciesla.bsky.social for recommending it 🌳🐉♥️)

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I've got BOOK TOUR NEWS! Yes, my dragon is taking flight. Join me this July for shenanigans in NYC, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington DC, and Baltimore! Where exactly can you see me? I’m glad you asked!

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Book Tour Dates for The Dragon Has Some Complaints!

Thank you all for being patient with me. You’re probably aware how profoundly sick I was for several months there, and the road to recovery ...

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Like usual (June 1) we put up our #pride flag. The other day our friendly(older) neighbour asked my husband “I saw the flag, is everything okay?” My husband,”yeah… we had it up last year too, why are you asking?” The neighbour shrugged and sputtered nonsense. Wtf was the oldguy asking?

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

If you are like me, and take medication for #ADHD, why doesn’t the pharmacy auto renew the meds for you? Because lets be honest- I consistently forget to call in time(including calling the doctor to get a new prescription)🫠

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Happy Mother’s Day. If you’re in the mood to read a an emotionally complex story about a mom, you can read mine: www.heartlines-spec.com/quintessence...

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Quintessence

by Laura Chilibeck

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

First rant of the day: I used to love Pinterest, I’m a visual person and artist- now the damn app is full of AI images and all I wanted was a real photo of a real crab 🦀 😡 this should have been easy to find- it is not… might have to go to the beach and take a photo myself

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I’m still processing the horrible mass shooting that happened in Tumbler Ridge B.C. that has shaken our nation. My children are 10, 15 and 18. Nearly all my jobs have been in one way or another supporting and/or educating children. To say my heart is broken, is not enough.

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I’ve been #parenting for over 18yrs, and I enjoy talking to my kids, but only yesterday did I wonder what it’s like for them to be raised my someone with #adhd In a 5 min walk, I pointed out daisies that reminded me of Frog & Toad, A semi like Optimus Prime, and why 9 isnt a prime number…

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

There was zero hesitation in the staff members tone. She was not putting up with drunk old man’s abuse.

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I just flew back to Canada,Im walking through the airport and overheard 3 people talking. Staff “what can I help you with” Woman “My husband is really drunk” (I’m too far away to hear what he says- Im walking to my connection) Staff “if you speak to her again like that I will call the police”

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season! There’s only one week left in the year—which means we are ONE WEEK away from opening to fiction and poetry submissions on January 1st! Get your original fiction and poetry ready ✨ othersidespec.com/guidelines/

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Into the Dark is available now! Enter an abyss of dark fantasy and fantastical horror with 34 stories by emerging and established authors. Find out where you can claim a copy at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in... We can't wait to finally delve Into the Dark with you!

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine: FANTABULOSA! Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical. & thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark anthology Kickstarter is live! Tons of goodies up for grabs: ebook/hardcover editions, bookmarks, stickers, pins, & more! So excited to have my wuxia fem rage story in this anthology 🥹 and to be in such excellent company ❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

Front and back cover of the All Worlds Wayfarer Into the Dark anthology, a collection of dark fantasy stories

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Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

A snip from my short, "The First Woman of the Qingyan Sect," in the @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark anthology 🖤 10 days left to get kickstarter rewards, such as digital/hard copy issues, stickers, bookmarks, digital art, and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

Snippet from "The First Woman of the Qingyan Sect" by Chezza Lee in the All Worlds Wayfarer Into the Dark anthology: "We were taught to protect this town from the forces that lived in the shadows. As I grew, the memories of blood, the iron-lashed stench of death, lessened in intensity. I reiterated Shifu’s words so often, they became my own personal mantra. Fight evil. Save the innocent. But it wasn’t until I descended the mountain that I realized my choices would never be that simple."

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Oooh, I’d love to try making some gf mooncakes. I have never had them, but they sound yummy.

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. 🍁 If you want to support some amazing writers in a dark fantasy anthology check out: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all... Its packed full of amazing and emotional stories. (Including one of mine)

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A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

My short story The Red Shoes is about a young girl with necromancer magic, on her own, desperately trying to reconnect with a loved one while running from villagers who blame her for the plague ravaging the countryside. #magic #necromancy #death #skeletons Check out @awwlitmag.bsky.social anthology

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

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Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

If you like dark moody fantasy stories with necromancy, and skeletons then you’ll probably like my short story The Red Shoes, which I’m so excited to have published in @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark Anthology! If you have time, please check out their kickstarter

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

WE HIT 250 BACKERS!! +1 exclusive sticker for everyone who either added a sticker or backed at a tier with sticker rewards! That is our last backer goal! We're in awe that over 250 of you have supported us. Thank you!! Sticker reveal coming soon 💜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Info for our Backer Goals! 50, 100, 150, 200, AND 250 Backers are unlocked! All backer goals are in rainbow with an open lock over a blurred version of OTHERSIDE banner art in purple, with a blurred floating fantastical head on the right.

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I was listening to History Hits, “The Ancients” podcast about #Myths. They mentioned one called “the devil and the smith” and I wonder if the Andersen’s “The Red Shoes” story is a variation of it 🤔 You can find my own original version The Red Shoes in @awwlitmag.bsky.social dark fantasy anthology.

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Such a wild historical epidemic right? I was really excited when it fit perfectly with my plot.

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

If you missed our chill & chat at @spacemagiccon.bsky.social the recording is now live! Check it out for a peek at our magazine inspirations, Kickstarter prep—and more! 👀 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEz_... 💜 Then go register for today's panels: www.rainbowspacemagic.org/

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Chill & Chat with OTHERSIDE

OTHERSIDE is a quarterly queer-led literary magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists. Their Kickstarter, to fund their first year, launched on September 29th and they will open for submissions in January 2026.

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Have you heard of the European Dancing Plague of 1518? I hint at that strange outbreak in my dark fantasy story “The Red Shoes” which will be published in @awwlitmag.bsky.social 🎉 They’re doing a great kickstarter, you check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

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A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology

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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?" Older veteran: “87.” Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.” Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.” 🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

We are now one subscriber away from unlocking reprints!

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

🎉 Back our Kickstarter & grab awesome rewards—book & mag bundles, stickers, postcards + a surprise bonus if we hit 50% by halfway! Help a small press & its authors grow ❤️ 👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

Some of the Into the Dark Kickstarter rewards!

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

We’re 10 days from the end of the Into the Dark Kickstarter! 🌑 Thanks to all of you, we’ve crossed 40% funded — and we’re aiming for $2,500 next. If you love eerie worlds, haunting art, and dark fantasy, now’s the time to join us. 💀 👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

Into the Dark by All World's Wayfarer Anthology. Picture of an archer his cape flying, standing a top a dragon it's mouth open fire about to erupt as they fly through a sky lit by sunset

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The anthology is alive, but it needs more voices to grow stronger. 🌑 Can we reach 50% funded this week? Join us, and help unlock the darkness: 👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

In Canada today it is the National day of Truth and Reconciliation. #EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay I’m a European settler who lives on the stolen land of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. Please read and learn about Canada’s Residential Schools orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story/

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Phyllis’ Story - Orange Shirt Society

An introduction to Phyllis (Jack) Webstad and her story: her journey to residential school survivor and community leader. Get Started Here About Phyllis Webstad Founder, Ambassador, Author Phyll...

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Nathan A. Triplett @nathantriplett.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Today is Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honoring indigenous children who never returned home from residential schools, as well as the survivors, their families, and their communities. #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters

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Marina Gabriela 🇨🇦 Author @marina-gabriela.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I'd like to acknowledge the indigenous peoples of Canada today. The character limit on BlueSky is too small for what I'd like to say, so please read the images attached 🫶 #truthandreconciliation #orangeshirtday #canadianhistory #indigenous #canada

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Mawenzi House @mawenzihouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Today, we honour the children who never returned home and the survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. #OrangeShirtDay #TruthAndReconciliation

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

💀 If the Into the Dark anthology Kickstarter hits $2,500- by Monday, I'll release for free my article: "Take Me by the Hand: How the Danse Macabre Became Real" and all backers get a bonus gift! 💀 Please consider supporting this great little independent publisher!

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

❄️In Into the Dark, @devanbarlow.bsky.social Devan Barlow’s A Frozen Woman of Balecrocus weaves a tale of legacy, defiance & chilling magic. Cold needles, colder bloodlines & power that refuses to die. Support this story & 33 others! Join the Kickstarter today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

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A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This is a fantastic story by a wonderfully talented person!

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

🚨 New update! 🚨 Read our free article on the origins of dark fantasy by Ollie DeVoid! www.kickstarter.com/projects/all... For access to backer-only behind-the-scenes/non-fic articles pledge today & help fund the anthology + unlock more spooky goodies! 🖤📚 #Kickstarter #darkfantasy #horror

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Our Kickstarter launches in TEN DAYS! September 29 is in fact SOMEHOW ten days away!!! We’re nervous and excited and SO ready. We're only screaming intermittently. Sign up to be notified when it launches. We have a lot of fun rewards and goals planned… you won’t want to miss this 👀

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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Meet Flights of Foundry Guest of Honour for Prose Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors won the Nebula, Ignyte, Locus and Crawford awards, and was nominated for the Le Guin, Lammy, and Hugo awards among others.

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Two things: 1. DEVIN BARLOW is in this anthology! (that was kinda not emphasized enough, in my opinion) 2. Stretch goals here focus on increased payments to authors AND staff, and in growing the overall press - adding another small press to the world.

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Mad🔜Gateway Fate 503 🔥🔥🔥 @madbrake.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

My first properly published short story is going to be in this anthology, I’m super excited! Please take a look if you’re a short fiction fan!

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H.V. Patterson @hvpatterson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Kickstarter for Into the Dark from @awwlitmag.bsky.social went live today!! This anthology of dark fantasy and horror includes my story, "Phalanges and Flames", and 32 (!!) others. Check it out!

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Spotlighting Mariah Southworth @mariah-southworth.bsky.social, an Into the Dark contributor! Author of “The Angel in the Trunk." It brings a gritty energy to the anthology. Part tavern tale, part urban legend, and all unease Support Into the Dark on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

All World's Wayfarer presents Into the Dark: An Anthology of 30+ Dark Fantasy and Horror Stories. Picture of an archer with a cape riding on the back of a raging dragon at sunset.

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A book full of spooky stories, including one by me!

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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This is going to be amazing!!!(and not just because one of my stories is in it) there are so many talented people involved in making this anthology come to life!

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