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Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The light is on for Stuart Docherty! @doc12345.bsky.social 💡 “Sky’s Falling” is a brilliant story about the mingled aches of grief, loss, and family. Read Stuart’s beautiful fiction over at the site!
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Sky’s Falling - Stuart Docherty — Bulb Culture Collective
There’s something wrong with my sister, Sky.
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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026
“Two for Joy” 🎨 Bryan Angus
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Check out this short fiction I wrote over at Quotidian Bagatelle.
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology
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Emma Burnett
Writer of stories
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KEEP PLANNING @keep-planning.net · 08/05/2026
#045 – "Currency" by Ivy Grimes (@ivygrimes.bsky.social)
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KEEP PLANNING – Ivy Grimes
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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A Great Big Fuss (2025) #Books #Fiction foofaraw.press/a-great-big-fuss-2025 〄
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A Great Big Fuss (2025)
a 30-story anthology
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Check out my flash fiction over at Mister Zine: www.misterzine.com/issue4/i-am-...
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I am Mother, She is Me — MR.
Mother slows as she climbs the hill. From inside her abdomen, her torso scraping against the rock, I feel all the little undulations as she moves. I knock again Gerald. “You’re getting too big,” Gera...
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'm in this: foofaraw.metalabel.com/big-fuss-202... It's a very odd little story. The collection has some very good writing in, so please check it out.
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A Great Big Fuss (2025)
a foofaraw anthology—don't go making a huge deal about it, that's what we're here for...
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Help ARB become a paying venue for ruthless criticism of all that doesn’t exist
Principal Skinner, labeled ARB, is rubbing his fingers together and the crowd is saying THE FUNDRAISING! THE FINGER THING MEANS THE FUNDRAISING, while Mrs. Krabappel, labeled “billionaires, squares, people with bad taste” glowers at him
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
My weird flash piece about an Italian reincarnated as a glob of old hair conditioner is out today in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social. It’s the first time my names appeared on a cover so I’m absolutely chuffed. Check it out here: www.amazon.com/Colored-Lens...
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The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025
Amazon.com: The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025 eBook : Brinegar, Rachael, Newkirk, David, Hoyt, Ellie, McIntosh, Parker, Klass, Judy, Vance, Michael, Clairval, Gio, Morrey, Josh, Apsley, JS, Docherty, Stuart: Kindle Store
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
@perfidiousscript.bsky.social this came in the post yesterday and I’m very excited to start reading.
Copy of The Veldt Institute by Samuel M. Miss
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
@slashnburnett.bsky.social What an awesome cover! Congrats! I'm looking forward to reading.
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Dead chuffed to have a story in this excellent anthology. Haven't finished reading all the excellent writing in it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Releasing August 7th!
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Full cover reveal of This Exquisite Topology!
Full cover of this Exquisite Topology. A sphere orbiting a planet filled with various colors with fire in the background.
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Really enjoyed this one over at scaffold: www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
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perv mayor by john pinto — scaffold literary magazine
micro fiction
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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🍝 Marinara, Marinara by Stuart Docherty foofaraw.press/marinara-marinara-by…
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🍝 Marinara, Marinara by Stuart Docherty
a messy mix-up
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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 02/07/2025
My story "Small Sacks of Children" is out now in After Happy Hour's second chance issue, featuring work from magazines that are now defunct. This story was in Daily Science Fiction and is about building a wall with small children. Read it (and the rest) here (via downloadable PDF).
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AHH! Issues
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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 09/06/2025
Unpackaging: @doc12345.bsky.social reviews Thomas Morris's OPEN UP (@unnamedpress.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/06/09/u...
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Unpackaging: Review of Thomas Morris’s Open Up
Stuart Docherty Under Review:Open Up. Thomas Morris. Unnamed Press, April 2025. Thomas Morris’s Open Up depicts a host of male outsiders with parental issues ostensibly trying to fit in. Morris’s s…
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"And my grandmother said: I’ve never wanted to do something so badly in my entire life. It was such a wonderful thing. Such a wonderful, wonderful thing." Today on ergot.: 'A Wonderful Thing' by Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Jack...
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innovative + experimental horror
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
OUT TODAY - THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION! Thanks to @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social and cover artist @lukespoonerartist.bsky.social!
Book on a mossy rock with some green leaves. Book title - The Ghost of Blaubart Mansion. The cover features a young woman approaching an ominious-looking house. Book on a mossy rock next to a little gray dog that is looking up. Book title - The Ghost of Blaubart Mansion. The cover features a young woman approaching an ominious-looking house.
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I am so super excited to be guest editing a FamPunk FFO! Take a break from the big-picture. Casually incorporate science & technology. Embrace quotidian else-when life. Give us alternative families in alternative spaces. Read more (& feel free to ask questions below): ffo.submittable.com/submit
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Flash Fiction Online Submission Manager
Update 4/10/2025: We are OPEN for submissions to our Wilderness Horror call!We are OPEN to: April 1-30th - special call for "Wilderness Horror" for Oct 2025 issue, guest edited by C.R. LangilleApril'...
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Check out my story, The Pat Test, and all the other great writing in this issue of The Hooghly Review! I wrote this story a couple of years ago based on some of my own experiences living in mountain towns.
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I have a soft spot for metafiction and this one is fantastic. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Really enjoyed this short story from a Apex. A little old but still fantastic. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
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Keep Talking
Gerald’s stomach clenched as he approached his daughter, Sarah. She sat at her computer, her back to the world, as intent as a...
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Good news everyone: my least-publishable story has been published. It's only a thousand words and I promise that, while reading it, you will mutter "what the fuck, Sasha" under your breath. CW: butt plugs and body horror. Butt plugs and body horror. www.twinpiesliterary.com/fuck-us-up/m...
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My Stalagmite - Sasha Brown — Twin Pies Literary
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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Glad to have "Dead Men's Fingernails" up on The Fabulist today: fabulistmagazine.com/dead-mens-fi...
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Dead Men’s Fingernails > The Fabulist Words & Art
A series of strange phone calls sets a child on a path full of ambiguity, doubt, and fleeting dread.
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Her touch was so hot it stung. Drops of sweat gathered along my back and slid down my spine. “Oh,” I said. “My mother used to say: cold hands, warm heart.” She laughed. I did too, the way you laugh at such things. Today on ergot.: "Scorpion Eggs" by Heidi Marjamäki www.ergot.press/authors/Heid...
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innovative + experimental horror
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Great read, this. Weird, funny sci-fi with a great lead character and depth.
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Thrilled to reveal the cover for @thomasha.bsky.social's astonishingly original debut UNCERTAIN SONS. Cover art by Ove Tøpfer. Design by Vince Haig. Foreword by @megapolisomancy.bsky.social. Praise from Kelly Link. Importantly, pre-orders open now. Get in! undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
Ove Tøpfer's art and cover art for UNCERTAIN SONS showing odd, organic, alien-like head and face and skull with neck and body of bones forming doorways.
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
My debut novel THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION is set for release April 21 with Cemetery Gates! Get in touch for a review copy! Quote from opening chapter: "I don’t like being made of toe. I’d rather be a swan feather or something, even though I guess that would be less human."
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Really enjoyed this one: booth.butler.edu/2024/02/02/p...
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Phantasmal Ric Flair – Booth
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
My very little flash fiction, "Concede", is free to read over at Grey Sparrow Journal as of today. Would love to know what you think of it. grey-sparrow-press.com/202545-conce...
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[2025:45] Concede, Stuart Docherty
When the game ended, the processor began to sizzle. Charlie pulled off the rear panel and managed to save most of the motherboard and its components. The room smelled of smoke and burnt plastic. “I…
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Caught between the expectations of society and the needs of her child, Panya must decide: can she force her daughter to conform and only eat nutribulbs? Or does she need to look outside her community for help? Because people are starting to ask questions... #2025Pit #A #SPF #WF #novella
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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Mohan's company sends him to India to test a robo-kitchen on the gated community he's been running from all his life. Now, he must confront caste, class, & gender for the first time, getting everyone to "never cook again!" to save his job, visa and the life he's built for himself #A #SF #2025pit
Cartoon with the title "The Annapoorna of Flat 808" depicting a man in a red hoodie rolling a crate into a gated community followed by laborers carrying other boxes, with residents looking on
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
another day of productive life admin doing none of the things I want to do
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Read this yesterday and I’m still disturbed and amazed by it. Disgusting and beautiful stuff.
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Check out my story, Super Leviathan Brothers, over at Androids and Dragons open.substack.com/pub/androids...
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Super Leviathan Brothers
By Stuart Docherty
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Just found this short story and love it. A fantastic, metafictional work. frightenthehorses.com/noble-dreams/
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Noble Dreams – Frighten the Horses
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Hey #writerscommunity, for anyone who is looking for a title or a prompt, I gift you my overflow list. Please use! emmaburnett.uk/the-title-pa...
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Hexagon SF Magazine @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Upcoming 2024 MYRIAD Zine submission calls! Lawless - Guest-edited by @rhinobeetl.bsky.social, subs open Oct 13-Oct 27 ⛓️‍💥 Kinship - Guest-edited by @ageedubb.bsky.social, subs open Oct 14-Nov 1 (Nov 8 for BIPOC) 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Nocturnal - Guest-edited by @thesuiway.bsky.social, subs open Nov 1-Nov 30 🌙
A rogue breaks the chains that bind them on the submission graphic for Lawless, a MYRIAD Digital Zine.
1000 word maximum, submissions open October 13 to October 27.Kinship submission call.
October 14 to November 1 (November 8 for BIPOC)
Original spec fic up to 1,000 words
The graphic is designed like an iPhone incoming call, with “slide to submit” replacing “slide to answer.”Nocturnal
Submissions open November 1 to 30
Original spec fic up to 1000 words
$20 CAD payment
Edited by A.D. Sui
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Saw "Look Back" a couple of months ago and it's still with me. A snappy, moving yet haunting movie. I think it's out in the English speaking world now and really recommend it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6HO...
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LOOK BACK | Official Trailer 1 - In Theatres October 4
YouTube video by GKIDS Films
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Really like this little poem by Adam Clay at Sixth Finch. It's really something. sixthfinch.com/clay1.html
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Sixth Finch - Summer 2024 - Adam Clay - MINUTE PARTICULARS
Sixth Finch - Summer 2024 - Adam Clay - MINUTE PARTICULARS
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Go follow and read some of the best experimental horror online.
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
My first podcast! Check out "Sky's Falling" over at Manawaker. www.manawaker.com/podcast/skys...
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Sky’s Falling – FFP 0930
“Sky’s Falling” by Stuart Docherty Manawaker Patreon: Manawaker store: More info / Contact CB Droege: The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor…
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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
My review of Ivy Grimes' GLASS STORIES is live over at ARB: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/08/21/l...
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Looking Through Glass: Review of Glass Stories by Ivy Grimes
Stuart Docherty Under Review:Glass Stories. Ivy Grimes. Grimscribe Press, August 2024. From the outset, Ivy Grimes' Glass Stories creates a sense of reality and of unreality, of both confusion and cla...
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