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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... My friend Nash released an album recently! It's also pretty rad, if you like country music

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

If you're interested in a slice-of-life fantasy story about a paladin wanting to reconnect with her heritage, I have the story for you!

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My brother put out an album last week and it's pretty good! You should give it a listen, especially if you like bluegrass/folk music. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Born Into The Grey - YouTube

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m thrilled to announce that one of my previously published short stories will be reprinted next year!

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Olivia Gobert-Hicks @goberthicks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Reality Fracture pre release to all who celebrate

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m thrilled to announce that one of my previously published short stories will be reprinted next year!

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

My second Ele story is live! A young, untested warrior fresh to the wild streets of New Crezbron finds herself caught between right and wrong on a night where the line between the two is blurred . . .

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I guess I just don't understand what people mean when they say a fantasy story sounds "too modern". A romantic couple speaking casually to each other in private is apparently "too modern." Someone cursing is "too modern". What do you want? For characters in fantasy to sound like Shakespeare?

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

10 Female Characters to get to know me 1) Jirel of Joiry 2) Azula (ATLA) 3) Leia Organa (Star Wars) 4) Goatskin (created by Bryn Hammond) 5) Leela (Futurama) 6) Vraska (Magic: the Gathering) 7) Buffy the Vampire Slayer 8) Katara (ATLA) 9) Liara T’Soni (Mass Effect) 10) Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars)

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hard to believe Dolly is gone. She was an unparalleled force of good and kindness in the world. And she made some of the greatest country music of her generation. Even if you don’t care for her songs, it’s undeniable the good work she did. We should all hope to leave such a legacy behind.

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Nothing quite like waking up to four different rejection letters at the same time. Granted, one of them was my own fault because I accidentally sent in a file with my name on it instead of without like they’d asked but still. Good start to the day

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Doing my part to help Oliver's sandwich fund

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'I have come to the conclusion that, while not just anything can be Sword & Sorcery, Sword & Sorcery can be anything. There could be no more varied a collection of stories—varied in tone, in setting, in protagonist, in subject—yet all easily fit within the brawny, welcoming arms of the sacred genre'

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m playing a show tonight with my buddy in Nashville, Nash Hamilton, at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge. Link to the livestream is here and it’s completely free! volume.com/deeslounge/

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Volume

The only music streaming platform where musicians can broadcast their music, upload videos and build fan communities 🎸

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m playing a show tonight with my buddy in Nashville, Nash Hamilton, at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge. Link to the livestream is here and it’s completely free! volume.com/deeslounge/

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The only music streaming platform where musicians can broadcast their music, upload videos and build fan communities 🎸

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My brother put out an album last week and it's pretty good! You should give it a listen, especially if you like bluegrass/folk music. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Born Into The Grey - YouTube

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Three days out in the world

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My new Goatskin novella is out now amgalant.com/out-now-what... Goatskin's tales are sword & sorcery in a Mongol-world setting. In this adventure: yak nomads, were-beasts, two loves, revolution. In digital and paperback from the Brackenbury Books shop newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-tag/...

Digital and paperback covers of What Rough Beast? A Tale of Goatskin by Bryn Hammond.

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This Pride I’m (finally) reading @brynhammond.bsky.social’s Waste Flowers (published together with Dariel Quiogue’s Walls of Shira Yulan)! Sorry it took me so long!

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

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Swords & Sorcery Magazine @curtissandsm.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Issue 166 of S&SM, November 2025, is now live with four new stories for your reading pleasure! swordsandsorcerymagazine.com

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Swords & Sorcery Magazine

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Swords & Sorcery Magazine @curtissandsm.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

"Guard Duty at Pink House" by D. A. Raymond swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/guard-duty-a...

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Guard Duty at Pink House – Swords & Sorcery Magazine

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Valerie Valdes @valerievaldes.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I have the best Magic UB idea, who is ready? KPop Demon Hunters and bring back banding

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Have 24 seconds of a blissed-out duck, you deserve it.

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Sometimes all you need is a connection to home. When Ele spots the blue skin of another anthozoa, she seeks them out. Who she finds isn't what she expected, but will the old man Bardo prove to be what she needs? Read "The Old Man of the Sea" by @thelargestduck.bsky.social in this quarter's issue!

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Really liked this book when I read it earlier this year. Glad to see it's getting the recognition it deserves

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

If you're interested in a slice-of-life fantasy story about a paladin wanting to reconnect with her heritage, I have the story for you!

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I’m in this issue with the debut of my S&S protagonist, Ele Koralli! (Though this story features no swords or sorceries.) Available now for Patrons of Perseid Prophecies and available for everyone on Oct. 1!

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Autumn has arrived! And that means Issue 7 of Perseid Prophecies drops tomorrow! #scifi #sff #sciencefiction #fantasy #indiemagazine #indiezine #shortstories

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Zeynep ain't much for talking. Kawtar wants to be heard *at all costs*. At the demon-haunted barrier between our world and the outer dark, they found each other. How it started: swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/loves-red-bl... How it's going: swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-dream-qu...

A line art drawing of a high femme princess leaning against a marble pillar, with a tall butch warrior in leather armor leaning over her. They gaze at each other lovingly.

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Issue 7: Autumn 2025 is complete and ready to go! It releases on October 1st, Acolytes and higher can get it early through our Patreon! www.patreon.com/c/perseidpro... #sff #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #weirdfiction #indiemagazine #ezine #indiezine

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Weird Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Fact

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D. A. Raymond @daraymond.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

think we've reached the inevitable point in genre book discourse when i just need everyone to read things they enjoy instead of reading things they hate to get mad at. but the fact that this happens every time points to a fundamental problem with... discoverability? but also willingness to engage

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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 20/08/2025

Nothing to see here. Move along.

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Got off the subway in Georgia to see this inviting escalator. (I chose the stairs)

Photo shows an escalator in a subway with what look like blood splatters on the steps

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 27/07/2025

I hate writing and myself. It's great, really.

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Over the past three months, I learned everything I could about Final Fantasy – from its rich history to its massive cultural impact and the many in-jokes shared among its fans. In time, I understood why it has captured the hearts of players everywhere. 🎥: youtu.be/II7MQKqrcj8

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 14/07/2025

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Needed this reminder today.

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

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★ winnie ★ @winonaparadise.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I think if we take away anything from the trans medicare coverage ban being taken out of the bill it's that pressure works. As stupid and futile as "call your reps!" can feel, we saw a direct result of it. Now you have to call and email your House reps saying you need the ICE funding gone.

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Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I still kind of can't believe it, but my gruesome twosome Ilwyn & Vencario will be in SHATTER THE SUN! This is the last thing I wrote before the wheels came off my personal life again at the beginning of the year, so it carries a perhaps-disproportionate amount of my emotional freight in it.

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Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Hard to even articulate how awful today is for news, how many fucked up supreme court decisions got handed down, just fully engulfed in a tide of bullshit. A better world than this is still possible. But holy fuck is the hole we have to climb out of deep right now, and getting deeper by the day.

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Milton Davis @miltonmvmedia.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The Turning of the Bones is available for preorder from MVmedia and anywhere books are sold! Official release date: July 7, 2025. www.mvmediaatl.com/product-page...

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Oliver Brackenbury @obrackenbury.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Maybe it's the half-finished Manhattan talking, but I'm in a really good mood and fancy talking Sword & Sorcery. Got a podcast or Youtube show and wanna talk S&S with an enthusiastic evangelist? Hit me up!

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