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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

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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 · 12/09/2024

Go follow and read some of the best experimental horror online.

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