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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 19h

LOVED ”Jigi” by Nnamdi Vin-Anuonye at Lolwe Magazine. The lovesick grief, the crimes, the crushing force of capitalism, it’s all so fraught and moving. The ending is enough to make a person just wail. lolwe.org/jigi/

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Jigi - Nnamdi Vin-Anuonye | Lolwe

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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ICYMI -- Monstrously Massive March is open for submissions. Send us your best monster or "big bad" weird horror now, please. Closing after 100 submissions. submit.foofaraw.press/guidelines#p...

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Submission guidelines — Foofaraw

Send us your work and track your place in the pile.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very honored to have my story "Light Amidst the Plains" featured in YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, alongside so many talented authors.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Once again heroically leaping in front of scam emails for some other Gabrielle out there

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm so glad! Thank you for using my work! I'm really so delighted.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Beyond elated to learn that my play-by-mail game from 2020 was used in a classroom! Wow! Extremely cool, and I hope the students enjoyed it.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whoa, what?! I’m honored you used my little story game, this is incredible! What a cool class. What did the students think of it?

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Why aren’t more artists speaking out about Gaza?” This is why. The rich and powerful will torch your whole career if you utter any criticism of the state of Israel.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My author copy of “Your Body is a Fever Dream” published by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social came in the mail! It’s beautiful! My horror story “Light Amidst the Plains“ is inside! It’s not too late to preorder if you also want a beautiful copy! store.tenebrouspress.com/products/you...

The book “Your Body is a Fever Dream” sitting in a grey background. The book cover has a swan extending its wings in front of a pink, blue, and white sky. Two stickers of a skeletal cat and a trans pride flag-colored cat reading the book sit on top of the bottom portion of the book.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Shoutout to @feudalismbot.bsky.social bot for reposting. Really making me reflect on my hobbies of longsword and and sewing.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

About a year ago I got a concussion at longsword practice, and not realizing, I went to my library for a program on making a stuffed cat and couldn't figure out how to do a blanket stitch. Just finished the cat this morning and the stitch is so easy! Almost like I had a concussion last time I tried!

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Extremely wild to me that the song which plays near the climax when Stanley gets got - “Footsteps of Horror” by Merrick Farran - is also deployed in the ovaltine scene of A Christmas Story and in a SpongeBob episode

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a classic reading of the story. Really charmed by the casual lean against the windowsill during the lead up to the scariest part. m.youtube.com/watch?v=M5k8...

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"Wailing Well" by M.R. James | Told by Robert Powell | Classic Ghost Stories (BBC, 1986) Ep03

YouTube video by Tyne Valley A/V Studios

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Idk if this is because of my general boredom with vampires or (more likely) that the story consistently scares me to the point of my genre brain turning off. Can’t even comprehend what is being telegraphed about the figures

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I only recently learned that this is generally considered a piece of vampire fiction. Which makes sense with the draining of Stanley’s blood and the figures being joined by a boy at the end. I always read them as regular wretched undead, corpses or ghouls, and perhaps a witch.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Once again, I am compelled to reread “Wailing Well” by M. R. James. I do this every three or four months. The figures crawling along the track always gets me.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have FUCKED UP the tenses in this short story draft in a way where I can tell it’s bad but not how. The protagonist is just time traveling now, it’s fine it’s part of the story

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I love seeing those even when I haven’t submitted. It’s neat data!

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Final KS campaign weekend and very near our first stretch goal to add additional authors to both books. www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sff #booksky #ks #kickstarter #book #fsf. Spread the word

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Two Intriguing AaN Anthologies: One Campaign

Two Anthologies: "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings"

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This was always going to be the next step. There are no trans players in the WNBA so instead they're going after cis women who are insufficiently feminine for them.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is it. This is the year we all get into Gormenghast. The homies out there all "remember the stones" and turning into a freaky owl and stuff.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Aôthen magazine accepts fiction up to 1000 words related to ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The consideration for space environments and the way they affect human bodies is incredible. Scavenger's Reign's cancellation left a big parasitic void in my heart, and Sing really fills it with its fantastic and considered aliens, wild body horror, and deeply human fears and desires.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I've been reading "Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction" edited by Margrét Helgadóttir. It's quite good, and I really like the range of genres represented. In particular, I'm in love with the story "Sing" by Karin Tidbeck.

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Astral, Alien Fiction @astral-af.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Okay! It's been a long time setting up, but we're finally ready to start accepting submission for issue 3 starting November 1st! astral-af.org Send us your strangest, most alien fiction!

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Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

it is of vital importance to keep a whole bunch of 80-120 page novellas around for the moments when you simply need to read a whole book in one sitting but you don’t have a whole day to do so

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Anyways can confirm from using a real website that “The Hill in the Dark Grove” by Liam Higginson is a real book that does exist and which I am very excited to read.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I loooove google’s ai it’s soooo cool how it’s at the very top and knows just enough to fuck up badly. sooo helpful how the first actual result that I have to scroll down to get to is the penguin website that gives me the real info.

A screenshot of a Google search for the book “The Hill in the Dark Grove” by Liam Higginson. The search shows three images of the cover above the ai summary which says “there is no widely recognized book or author named “The Hill in the Dark Grove” by Liam Higginson.”

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is among the most charming pieces of nature writing I've ever read. Love a woodlouse! I've been getting some rolly-polly visitors in my apartment recently and it is always a delight. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Bumbling, mumbling’ tidiers of our world: the unexpected superpowers of the common woodlouse

This detritivore – known by a range of colourful names – feeds on rotting plant matter and can withstand toxic pollution

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I would become insatiable for these

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Up next on the tour of “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” authors. Eager to hear A’Liya read their story. Listen along with me. So proud of all the authors I work with.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This story is such a wonderful blend of wry and spooky and funny and just a little stomach churning. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/07/2026

Emma Landis is the woman who was shot, and here is her gofundme. The gofundme contains a narrative about what happened: the woman was engaged in peaceful protest, spoke to an agent, and he shot her in the foot. www.gofundme.com/f/support-my...

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Donate to Support Emma Landis After Aurora ICE Shooting, organized by drew hegedus

My best friend has always stood up for what’s right, and yesterday was no e… drew hegedus needs your support for Support Emma Landis After Aurora ICE Shooting

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Really excited for August when I will be taking part in the @lambdaliterary.org 2026 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices as part of their Speculative Fiction cohort! Very honored to have been selected for the retreat amidst other excellent authors and their work!

A photo of a white person with short fluff hair in front of a brick wall. Below the photo is text that reads: Gabrielle Bleu writes luminous science fiction and fantasy. When not writing, she watches birds, admires lichens, and plays the accordion. In their work they explore the boundaries of memory, monsters and myth, and the concept of cats. Bleu lives in northern Colorado with a large plum of a kitty. Bleu's short stories have appeared in magazines such as Flash Point Science Fiction, Solstitia, and Astral, Alien Fiction, as well as in anthologies including "This Exquisite Topology: a collection of happy abstractions" by Angry Gable Press, "Fish Gather to Listen" by Horns and Rattles Press and "Gargantua" by Air and Nothingness Press, among others. Find more of Bleu's work at gabriellebleu.com, or @gabriellebleu.bsky.social‬.

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We hit our base goal, but there's still 33 hours left to go, and your continued support means the world to us! With our first stretch goal, we can pay our ultra-talented human artists more, we can increase our average story length to 4000+ words, and expand to author interviews 🧡

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

#MakeItWidelyKnownWednesday: A signal boost thread highlighting a few of our quirky projects that need a wider reach: "The Glorious Melancholy of Urgency" - 4 provocative Future History/Hard SF stories that share a common opening - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

Cover to the book: an arabian/asian architectually inspired city stronghold sits on a dusky desert mountainside. A large gray spaceship is tethered to it by cables. At the bottom an exotic caravan is kicking up dust. All oranges and red under a mauve/blue sky.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/07/2026

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

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Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I would simply live a life that did not inspire millions of strangers to share the crab rave video upon my passing

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I wish there had been an afterward or something about the historical period the stories were written in, or the effects they had on culture, or what they say about fears and preoccupations of the time. But I always want a dissertation on everything, so I can't really fault the anthology

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Just finished reading "Tales Accursed: A Folk Horror Anthology" edited by Richard Wells. Really, really fun anthology, great array of late 19th/early 20th horror. I simply love a haunted beach or heathland and a spooky figure in the distance.

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Submissions are opening today! We are seeking speculative fiction by immigrant/diaspora writers for upcoming issues. Open to short stories under 5,000 words; translations under 3,500 words from any language into English; and flash fiction under 1,500 words. Accepted stories are paid USD$0.10/word.

A typewriter in greyscale, with text “Submissions open, July 1-31” at the bottom of the image.

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thank you Anna! I was enjoying some nettle leaf tea while writing this🍵

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Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Just in case anyone else is getting these emails, this a screenshot from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s website, and an article from Writer Beware about this kind of scam: writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...

A screenshot of text reading: “ Please note that Robin does not send unsolicited emails to other authors and does not use gmail. If you receive an unsolicited email from Robin, it is not her.”

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