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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying

@cmsullivan.bsky.social
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queer speculative author, library dweller. viable paradise '25, taos toolbox '24. stories in apex magazine and the daily tomorrow, forthcoming in kaleidotrope. SFWA associate and codex member. she/they. 🚫 to AI, now and always. www.cm-sullivan.com

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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 5h
AMINA AL-SIRAFI x SONG OF ACHILLES: A dying thief swaps fates with a noble destined to end the worldwide flood—then must race against time to save the man he’s both doomed and fallen for. 🔥 slow burn romance 🌊 flooded world ⛵ high seas hijinks 🐉 sea-dragons 🏛️ floating libraries #dvpit #A #F #W #Q
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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I jumped out of my seat and had to take a lap around the house when I first saw FOUR recommendations for @othersidespec.bsky.social stories in this issue of Locus. If you haven’t yet, give these stories a read! They’re “devastating,” “luminescent,” “heartbreaking.” othersidespec.com/issues/issue...
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Recommended Stories
"Before She Knew About Magic", Joshua Geller Schwartz (Otherside 6/26)
"First To Rot", J.N. Howell (Otherside 6/26)
"Remade, Reshaped, Remembered", Sydney Paige Guerrero (Otherside 6/26)
"This Is C(lone)-Pop", Lia Lao (Otherside 6/26)
"Fletcher's Flights", Jonathan Olfert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/11/26)
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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Seneschal of Shattered Tor" is a postcolonial high fantasy about a society trying to Be Better* and the leaders dragging them into the future. I hope you enjoy it! * T&C apply
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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
back in martha's vineyard on an author fellowship with MVICW and there's really nothing like being surrounded by a bunch of other writers 🥲
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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New poem release for me! "There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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There are lonely things in the forest / Rukman Ragas / Psychopomp
Read There are lonely things in the forest, by Rukman Ragas, a poem from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026.
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Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
ime nonviolent communication can solve a lot of relationship problems. but, um. not all of them. at least, not problems that ride in with the storm and settle into the whites of your girlfriend's eyes ...anyway, please enjoy Kaitlin's and my cowritten sapphic horror story, it's free to read!
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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"That Summer at Aunt Jackie’s Alpaca Farm" was written at Viable Paradise with the prompt of cottage core and alpacas. I added eldest sibling angst and magical wool. Enjoy!
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from  August 24 to September 7!
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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭 referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...
poster with the words “revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”, “fantasy”, “3500 words”, “history from the bottom-up, emperors get decapitated, but we keep farming rice” “@thelialao”

on the left side are picture of rice paddies and on the right side are two men wearing hanfu
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Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez @a-ornelas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very happy to say I’m going to @viableparadise.bsky.social this fall ✨ I received a Writer of Color Scholarship and am fundraising for the rest. Earning in pesos makes getting to a U.S. workshop its own exercise in speculative economics, so any help (or share) means a lot! gofund.me/198c28fdb
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Donate to Fund Anaïs' Dream Workshop Experience, organized by Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez
Hello! I’m Anaïs, a Mexican speculative fiction writer, and I’m hoping t… Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez needs your support for Fund Anaïs' Dream Workshop Experience
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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Contract is signed! I'm excited to share that my medieval fantasy story “Holly and Axe,” a sapphic reinterpretation of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, has been acquired by @kaleidotrope.bsky.social for publication. 🪓🌲
The graphic shows a misty forest. The text reads: Holly and Axe by C.M. Sullivan, medieval fantasy, 2,000 words, featuring monstrous Arthurian romance, the power of stories, and a sapphic retelling of The Green Knight.
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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My latest story is available to Orion's Belt subscribers now! Grief, connection and some special candles.
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"In the hospital, they say my brain is melting out my nose. They don’t say it like that. They say I’m dying of a prion disease." 🦠🦌🧫 New fiction today by @anjbaker.bsky.social: "Cervidae, New and Sharp" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...
"Cervidae, New and Sharp" By Anj Baker. Apex Magazine, Issue 154.
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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
my story, “The Light Below,” is available to read today in apex’s issue 154!! otherwise, you can catch it online october 20 🕯️🤍 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape...
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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So excited to be a part of this issue!! Especially such an honor with this TOC and beautiful art.
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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
thank you guys so much for the love on this project!! i’ve been drafting it in isolation since september 2024, and it makes me a little less nervous to query 🥲 excited to catch up on other folks’ pitches!! #questpit
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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
AMINA AL-SIRAFI x QUEEN'S THIEF A dying thief switches fates with a man prophesied to end the worldwide flood. What's worse than death? Oh, consigning the guy you love to it. 🐉 sea-dragons 🏛️ floating libraries 🌊 flooded world ⛵ high seas adventures 🔥 slow burn romance #questpit #A #F #W #Q
A graphic depicts the text "THIEF OF THE VASTBORN" by C.M. Sullivan. The graphic shows a dragon statue; a marble column with an ocean view; a red-haired man with a blue eye gazing skyward; a grotto filled with seawater; part of a scarred man's face; a mosaic sun insignia; the statue of a half-veiled woman; a ship-rope and the open sea; and Greco-Roman style columns with an orange tree.
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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Starfall: a queer space opera heavy on the intimate-stakes character drama, elfy science-fantasy, and swashbuckling starship adventure about a telepathic space elf who joins off-brand Starfleet. He's a stabby cinnamon roll who doesn't want any friends! (This is a lie.) #Questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF
Title slide that reads "Starfall, Queer Space Opera Adventure, 139,000 words, R. J. Howell."Slide that reads: "Pitch: Erendesirel was raised for two things: political marriage and political skirmishes. Sadly, the galaxy doesn’t have much call for a well-trained ornamental husband or sword-wielding duelist. Banished from his technologically-hostile homeworld, unskilled, and entirely broke, he applies to the Galactic Survey and Security Fleet, 
a company of space-faring scientific contractors.  

He just has to somehow pass a basic competency exam he is woefully unprepared for. And agree to a 10-year debt contract to pay for his tuition. And avoid being driven insane by the thoughts and feelings of a crew of a hundred and twenty souls serving on a very small starship. And navigate all the well-meaning people trying to be his friend.

Oh, and not get kidnapped by pirates." There is another section below it that reads "Comps" and show the covers of Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell, Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, Slow Gods by Claire North, and Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. There is also an illustration of a space elf named Eren.This slide reads: "Excerpt:  Erendesirel—the nameless, the houseless, the planetless—had tracked his quarry down to a victuals shop on the outskirts of the space station’s medical district. From his hunter’s hide on a public bench opposite the establishment, he glowered at the incongruously-wooden door, breathed in the smell of roasted nuttiness and sticky sugar wafting out through the open bay window, and fought for equanimity.

 His hand tightened on the hilt of his family sword, the blade pressed against his leg to accommodate the rather unfriendly design of the bench. Galactic architecture was, as always, crafted for comfort and unobtrusiveness but singularly failed to take into account a full-length sword at one’s hip. It didn’t matter that of all the peoples of the galaxy, there was only one that insisted on carrying true steel swords instead of some technological marvel that, oh, made the sword shrink or disappear or be constructed entirely out of light. 

 He would never stoop to touch such a thing. No, the sword and dagger set of his clan would serve him for this purpose just fine. 

 No matter that they were considered contraband. By both his people and station security, if for rather different reasons."This slide reads "The Trope Nebula" and contains a series of trope-related terms: All the feels, found family, to boldly go (but contractually), swords but space, touch-adverse telepathic space elves, starships!, stabby cinnamon roll, disaster bisexuals, qu3eer, student debt?, lesbians with laser canons, and friendship! (whether you want it or not).
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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
wrapping up edits so here's an updated agent's guide for #questpit! :)) [BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN #A #Litfic #SF #LGBT #OV #Q
slide that reads "an agent's guide to FACELESS". line under reads "literary speculative fiction / 95,000 words @thelialao)

background is a blurry photo of an asian woman with a blue tint
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[BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN

the opulence of CRAZY RICH ASIANS 
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the futuristic atmosphere of LOCAL HEAVENS & THE BOOK OF RECORDS
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 the socio-satirical tone of THE IMMORTAL KING RAO




set in a floating city owned by tech conglomerates, in a world ravaged by climate change

inspired by Silicon Valley & East/Southeast Asia

@thelialao

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It’s a beautiful night to die.

 From the balcony, Fay Soon stares down at the celebration: the silken gowns, the crystal chalices, the laughter resounding like shattered glass. It’s the end of semester which means yet another overpriced soirée for Chang’E National University’s elite. After seven years here, the scene is hardly unfamiliar. She studies the expanse of the university gardens.

 There’s a cyclical nature to it. Young and eager minds unfurling: the undergraduates, loquacious in their attempts to impress one another, each conversation, each gesture, carefully selected like the finest blossoms in a greenhouse.

 There are those on the other end of the cycle too. Senescence. The doctoral candidates wilting in the shadows. Hoping for their ideas to be transfigured by wind or water or even the sorghum wine they’re cradling in their hands.

 But no matter how many times Fay experiences it, she doesn’t think she’ll ever get used to the spectacle. 

 No one in the outer circle speaks like that, not in those sprawling, unmanicured streets. It’s opulent; it’s hypnotizing. It’s—

 —a complete and utter waste of funds.

@thelialao

Background is a chandelier in dim lightingEpigraph

As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever

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We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.

 – Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

@thelialao

Background is a white wall with the shadows of leaves
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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Excited to finally share my novel, THIEF OF THE VASTBORN, for #questpit!! THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI x THE SONG OF ACHILLES: Fate swap. Drowned world. Queer M/M romance. Enemies to lovers. Sea-dragons?! And more! Read the agent’s guide below. Querying soon! #F #A #RF #Q #W
An agent's guide to Thief of the Vastborn by C.M. Sullivan, adult fantasy + romance, ~112,000 words. The graphic shows a dragon and a sailboat with charts and maps as the background vector.TEXT: Pitch: In a flooded world survived by waterborne cities, young Zev is given a prophecy that he will die by the same illness that killed his mother. A decade later, when a dying Zev decides to take fate into his own hands, he accidentally swaps fates with the Prophecied Divine, a handsome and sheltered man destined to end the worldwide flood. The graphic shows a sailboat and more charts.TEXT: Tropes: Queer M/M romance, fate swap, drowned world, sea-dragons, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, slow burn, animal companion, prophecies, pirates, cults. The graphic shows a leaf, an hourglass, and more charts and maps.TEXT: Comps: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, high seas adventures; The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller for mythical doomed yaoi; The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon for dragons; The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart for drowned world. The graphic shows columns and charts.
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Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
To all staff and affiliates: please mark your calendars and save the date for the worst team-building outing of all time. OTHERLING, my second horror novel for adults, is coming your way in Fall 2028.
An announcement for my new book OTHERLING, a workplace doppelgänger horror novel
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We have decided to remove a short story from Issue 153 of Apex Magazine. After meeting with our reading and editorial teams, we'd like to share with you what happened, and importantly, how we plan to move forward from here. Thank you for sticking with us. 💜👽
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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We’re about $6700 away, and there’s 9 days left. This is doable folks, so please, help us get over the finish line so we can bring you more khōréō gloriousness!
kickstarter.com
khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
STRANGE 👽 SURREAL 👽 SHOCKING 👽 BEAUTIFUL Apex Magazine is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of July! We're seeking short spec fic up to 9k words. Closing August 1st, reopening in September and November. We can't wait to read your work! 🖤 Submit here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
"Apex Magazine Submissions OPEN!

We are Seeking:
short sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fiction
short genre-related nonfiction
Up to 9k words

Submissions Close August 1st
https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/"
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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Some prospectors’ ghosts leave their previous clothes real easy. My laundry shop was just a railway station on their way to the afterlife." 🫧👻🌵
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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
For sake of future Viable Paradise classes, I wrote a thing. buttondown.com/wenwenwrites...
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Viable Paradise
I am writing this post for all the people who just got the special email that says “Congratulations, welcome to the Viable Paradise cult” (paraphrasing) and...
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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
so excited to announce my short story “this is c(lone)-pop” is now out in @othersidespec.bsky.social! 🥹 feat. fun normal stuff (tm) like: 🧪dissolving your celeb crush in acid ⭐️ commentary on the totally fine and not at all exploitive k-pop/c-pop industry 🎤 parasocial toxic yuri x 1000
poster with the text: “this is c(lone)-pop, science fiction, 4000 words, toxic yuri agenda/ parasocial projection / cloning your dead c-pop bias is fine right?, by the lia lao”. left side shows chrysanthemums with a neon green filter and right side shows a close up of an asian woman’s eyes as she looks between the gaps of a shelf.
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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My next novella, THE PORCELAIN SISTERS, is out Oct 27 2026--but you blogger/ booktok/ reviewer types can get it NOW. Two sisters, one of whom happens to be a haunted doll, go on the road to uncover family secrets. Is it horror-comedy or comedy-horror? You decide #horror @tachyonpub.bsky.social
Cover of my next novella, THE PORCELAIN SISTERS, above text saying that it's now available on Netgalley and Edeweiss
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵
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Strange Horizons - BackerKit
Back projects you want to see in the world.
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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
had the pleasure of betaing this and it is SO good. claire's prose and attention to detail is a scrumptious meal you do not want to miss
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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Contract is officially signed!! I'm over the moon to share that my dark spec short story “The Light Below” has been acquired by @apexmag.bsky.social for publication. 🔥🌌 Also pleased as punch that this story was written for a holiday gift exchange with my crew at @viableparadise.bsky.social. 🪼
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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Contract signed, "The Fox Spirit's Retelling" will be in Tales from the Cryptids. It's wild that I get to be in this table of contents. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera
A book of games and writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t solve the mystery. Be ...
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Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The end is nigh…or is it really the beginning? You decide! Last installment of my serialized eco-space story. Thanks very much for reading! #scifi #ecofiction #shortstory dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi...
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A Brief History of Kuiper Belt Cave Song — Part Seven
By Christopher R. Muscato
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🐋 haden 🪐 @yavin4.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
actually given the talk earlier this month about how editors at publishing houses are shying away from queer stories it’d be really cool this pride month for more established tradpub folks to shout out queer indie work. or just seek it out! there is good stuff out there
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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I have heard from writer friends that editors have directly told they don't want queer books right now, or have asked them to alter/remove queer characters, etc—a state of affairs which is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. Queer audiences exist and need to see themselves reflected in literature!
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Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Thrilled to share my very short story "Everyone Drinks at Sunrise" published by @pseudopod.org today, alongside some other creepy tales. I especially love the host's commentary. Liberal guilt, it turns out, *is* delicious.
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PseudoPod 1032: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVIII (78): Terraeque urbesque recedant
“We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.” “Again?” “Every damn time,” Kate said, running a hand through her hair. “Aren’t there supposed to be satellites checking the routes all day long?
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ivy 🌿 @ontheivyvine.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
COVER REVEAL (USA) 🩸🍐🕯️ i am so, so excited to be revealing the cover for my debut novel THIS IS NOT AN EXORCISM (yes, that’s a new title), out ❗️april 27, 2027❗️ from tor nightfire!
Cover of upcoming debut horror novel THIS IS NOT AN EXORCISM by Ivy Fang. The cover depicts a traditional Chinese-style memorial altar with plated fruit, an incense burner, and melted candles. Overlooking the spread is a portrait of a young man, weeping black blood from one eye, face mostly obscured by smoke.
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"My mother tended to the springs of conception and abortion for a thousand years. Then she passed them to me." 🌬️🕷️⛲ New fiction today by @clairejiawen.bsky.social: "The Bathhouse for Long Life" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"The Bathhouse for Long Life" By Claire Jia-Wen. Apex Magazine, Issue 153.
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Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
#QuestPit #W #A #F #RF Howl's Moving Castle x The Wizard of Oz An autistic demi-girl nun and her golden retriever boyfriend track down God to demand They explain the invisible wall shoving her across the magical shifting world. Two disaster bisexuals, trapped in a sidescroller. Will they kiss??
ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT on map background.Pitch: Remi's peaceful life as a nun is interrupted when an invisible wall appears, sweeping her across her magical, shifting world like a 3D sidescroller. To escape this curse, she’ll have to break her vow of silence, not fall in love with (or murder) the chatterbox traveling with her, and confront the Mapmaker Themself—the god who created her world.HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL
bi 4 bi
neurodivergent love
golden retriever boyfriend
simulation theory for the discerning romantasy girliesFIRST LINE: The monastery's map had just gone out of date again when Remi found another crack in the world.
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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
thrilled to announce “this is c(lone)-pop” has been acquired by @othersidespec.bsky.social! this was originally written for my @viableparadise.bsky.social cohort’s secret santa exchange, which is kind of hilarious in hindsight (me: happy holidays, have TOXIC YURI and IDOLS DISSOLVING IN ACID 🤩)
poster with the text: “this is c(lone)-pop, science fiction, 4000 words, toxic yuri agenda/ parasocial projection / cloning your dead c-pop bias is fine right?, by the lia lao”. left side shows chrysanthemums with a neon green filter and right side shows a close up of an asian woman’s eyes as she looks between the gaps of a shelf.
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Natalie Zutter @zutsuit.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
My sex robot story is free to read at Adventitious! Stoked to be part of the monstrous (complimentary) Issue 2 with my anti-ode to the dehumanization of modern dating by way of a pleasure bot who's *too* entitled to his owner's data.
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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
my debut short story (and first pro rate sale) are now up in full!! read the whole thing here: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/song-for-t...
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Song for the Once-Dead Earth — Full Story
By C.M. Sullivan
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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
after a YEAR AND A HALF, i just finished drafting my second novel!! 🥳🍾 (revisions are a tomorrow problem)
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Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Surprised and pleased to see my little sapphic lady knights story featured in Reactor's Short Fiction Spotlight. Never expected to see my name sharing a list with Stephen Graham Jones! 💀
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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: March 2026 - Reactor
This month's stories focus on unstoppable disasters and satisfying revenge...
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The Daily Tomorrow @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
VEGETAL begins! Our first themed issue begins serialization today, only at The Daily Tomorrow. Don’t miss our first story, “Song for the Once-Dead Earth” by debut author C.M. Sullivan (@cmsullivan.bsky.social).
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Visions of Vines and Verdancy
VEGETAL Approacheth
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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
my debut short story, "Song for the Once-Dead Earth," is posting all week long at @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social!! check out part 1 here and follow along throughout the week: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/song-for-t... 😊🌱
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Song for the Once-Dead Earth — Part One
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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Excited to share Tasavvur's Spring 2026 issue. Huge shout-out to the writers, contributors, and team Tasavvur. Hope you all enjoy what we've put together.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 23/03/2026
Can you guess our most-published author? We'e published many folks 3 times, a couple of folks 4 times, and just one person 5 times during our nearly 4 year run.... . . . It's Wen Wen !
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/12/2025
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
can’t believe my first pro rate sale is out today in @havenspec.bsky.social! featuring: 💜 the worst sapphic situationship 5eva 👵 the existential dread of a quarter life crisis (spreadsheets! creepy directors!) 💀 “dying a hero is easy; living is harder”
a 3x3 moodboard featuring the following:
top left: an error message 
top center: business paper
top right: cherry blossom trees
middle left: a woman’s body with a purple filter
middle center: a white heart with a pink center
middle right:  a pink ocean
bottom left: a doll with the face cropped out
bottom middle: a ring
bottom right: a hand pressed against shattered glass
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