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Gavagai is a curated fiction and creative writing platform for readers and writers who care about the work. Founded by @timhoelscherauthor.com

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 6h
28 hours left! We are SO CLOSE!!! Who can help us cross the finish line??? A little over $100 to go! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 9h
In today's featured Editor Pick: Outside her bunker, poisoned rain eats away at the remaining world; inside, Jean struggles to hold on to a much brighter world. It's On a Hillside Overlooking Water by Liz J. Bradley.
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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 28/09/2026
More great news!! 🥳 My short film "How to Prepare for Time Travelers in the Workplace" will be part of the Indie Cine Tube Awards as well as a finalist at the upcoming National Independent Film Association Awards in Appleton, WI! :) To quote Mad Max: Fury Road, "Oh what a day! What a lovely day!" 😀
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 26/09/2026
Pleased and downright fascinated to read a review of my short story "Take Him" in Brief Ecology. The story was recently an editor's pick on @gavagai.com & I'll confess it was very difficult to place & rejected many times, which makes the interest and attention of the reviewer especially lovely.
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Mark Peters @markpeters.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Amazing story published today from @muteddragon.bsky.social . Check it out at the link below!
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 25/09/2026
Happy Friday! You could do worse this weekend than to check out some fab microfiction and reward a lucky writer with a $50 prize! Check out this month’s Gavagai 1000 and make some skillful scribbler very happy! gavagai.com/g1000 Gavagai 1000 — Monthly Prompt: Baleful Write and read
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 25/09/2026
In today's Editor Pick: A headmaster, a decorated veteran and a jackalope that won’t quite cooperate: At a school devoted to passing on the art of illusion, the students aren’t the only ones with something to learn. It's Being Enough is an Illusion by Wen Wen Yang. Read it for free at gavagai.com
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 23/09/2026
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Tim Hoelscher @timhoelscherauthor.com · 23/09/2026
Excellent piece this morning on Gavagai! Immerse yourself in some melancholy with an unsettling edge #WriterSky #WritingCommunity #scifi #speclit
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 23/09/2026
In today's featured Editor Pick: The ghosts of dead planets begin appearing in the sky, awakening a strange ache in Leigh. But holding on to a feeling is hard when even entire worlds can slip away. It's Deja Vécu by AM Sutter. Read it for free at gavagai.com
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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🍁Happy Autumnal Equinox! 🍁 Here is my most seasonally appropriate #horror from earlier this year for your reading pleasure today. 🍂 Maybe be careful when you're hanging out with the trees. 👁️
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Rachel A @rachiea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My story “Mother Moon” is in this issue. 🐍🌕 “I was born on too warm a night, egg-beaked, talon-lifted. But before the drop, before the stones far below, between those scaled toes, I glimpsed the moon, full and blazing. The first thing you see is your mother.”
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 21/09/2026
Suppose it's not much to some of the more popular authors, but 6 reviews this early means the world to me! Thank you, energetic early readers! 💛 www.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An accurate representation of my novels.
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Flights of Foundry @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Let's talk $$$ We spent 3x on the convention this year. Last year's convention raised more than $17k. This year? We're sitting at $13.5k. That sounds like a lot, but friends, we TRIPLED how much we spent on the event. And we've made a LOT less. Help us out? flights-of-foundry.org/donate/
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I truly love this convention. It's an excellent space and an almost-unbelievable resource with the level of access it provides. Writers, publishers, readers, gamers, all mixing together. A truly special org and group of people.
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H. Marin @hanmarin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
about to get freaky with a centaur that fills you up with triangles (?!), horror fishing rpgs, and sexy sexy cannibals, of course! (my story, “Devotional for the Starved”, may feature one of these) preorder @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ‘s “Your Body is a Fever Dream”, you absolutely won’t regret it
me displaying Tenebrous Press’s print anthology “Your Body is a Fever Dream”.
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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
*heavy iron trunk rattles as I pound at the inner lid* YOU THERE, BOY. WHAT DAY IS IT? Grown Urchin: WHAT DAY IS IT? Grown Urchin: *stubs his cigarette with a sigh, looking up at the swirling vortex above us* The day of your panel on Survival Fiction at 1 pm CDT and your reading at 7 pm CDT.
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today Chile celebrates its independence! If Hispanic Heritage Month is too broad for you and you’d like to very specifically support a Chilean author (kinda weird, but ok) I happen to be one. 🙂 🇨🇱 Here are some things I’ve published this year: www.pacornell.com/2026-awards-...
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I hope you’ll make time to listen to this interview. It’s one of my favorites, and I’ve done a lot of them. Trevor asked so many great questions, I even think I learned new things about myself on this one. We certainly took a deep dive into some of the stories in my collection.
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Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'M SO EXCITED my story "How to Understand Each Other" is going to be in Adventitious!!
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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
TOMORROW!!!
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excited to have sold my second story to @gavagai.com this year. “Aerial” is a story close to my heart about parents learning to accept their children for who they are. I can’t wait for you to read it!
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 16/09/2026
In today's featured Editor Pick: Nobody warned Cassie that falling apart could be quite so literal. Nobody seems particularly keen to talk about it, either. It's The Invisible Ones by Tracie McBride. Read it for free at gavagai.com
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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
September 2026, my horror short story, "I Promise You're Safe With Me" was an Editor Pick at @gavagai.com . One of my recent favorites! "Her Safe Husband had kissed her forehead. Promised to talk it over again in the morning. He’d said I love you. She woke up beside Unsafe Husband."
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 14/09/2026
We've launched Author Subscriptions! Author Subscriptions let readers pay a monthly fee for access to an author’s subscriber-only work on Gavagai. The pilot is invite-only now, but we'll be expanding access soon! Find out more here api.gavagai.com/share/posts/...
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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm back again to remind you that @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social is coming up soon, and next Sunday I will be hanging out with the most awesome of folks talking all things Disability Futurisms: @risawolf.bsky.social, @ruesparks.bsky.social, @ravenoak.bsky.social, and @howsweetthewords.bsky.social.
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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 13/09/2026
If you're looking for something to read this Sunday and is in need to solve a mystery involving three neurominds, then join Thamires while she struggles with loss and finds out why three specific minds are failing in their jobs.
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We’re almost at the 48hr mark (two loops in) 👀 Have you checked out #OpportunityWindow and prepped your future self for a lot of good time loop fiction???
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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Let Me Out By @ QueSarahSarah1986" in @gavagai.com is an AO3-inspired fanfiction title card:
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 11/09/2026
In today's featured Editor Pick: What does spring mean when the person you love is no longer there to see it? A lush and unsettling story of grief and a world that insists on continuing to grow around us and despite us. It's Moss-Made by Samara Auman. Read it for free at gavagai.com
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 11/09/2026
In today's featured Editor Pick: What does spring mean when the person you love is no longer there to see it? A lush and unsettling story of grief and a world that insists on continuing to grow around us and despite us. It's Moss-Made by Samara Auman. Read it for free at gavagai.com
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 11/09/2026
Today is the last day to get 25% off of all B&N preorders. While you're picking out new books, please consider adding my forthcoming and perhaps my best, Dead Boys Don't Cry. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-boys-...
Dead Boys Don't Cry by Joe Koch-gold and sepia image of a blurred figure whose gesture's meaning is uncertain.
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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ICYMI!
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The people have spoken. I've added The Upper Tentacle by @amandaghelms.bsky.social to our @bookshop.org shelf. You've gotta get your hands (and any other appendages) on this one. bookshop.org/shop/adventi...
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Adventitious Bookshop
We love speculative, surreal, and literary fiction. We admire its reach, its weirdness, and its refusal to color inside any lines. We believe in the work of the magazines and writers already making no...
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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If'n you were interested in this, you should maybe circle back for a little browsearound somethin' like uhhhh Tomorrow, perhaps, maybe. 👀👀👀
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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Out Now as an Editor Pick at @gavagai.com! My horror short story, "I Promise You're Safe With Me." Read it at the link below: "Her Safe Husband had kissed her forehead. Promised to talk it over again in the morning. He'd said I love you. She woke up beside Unsafe Husband."
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A perfect example of what AI is really for: removing consent, removing the social safeguards that used to keep the worst ideas at bay, and doing racism at scale. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...
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Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”
Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles.
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Tim Hoelscher @timhoelscherauthor.com · 09/09/2026
Unsettling new piece from Allison Mulder up on Gavagai this morning. You can tell we’re heading into The Season! #WritingCommunity #horror #SpecFic #WriterSky
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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New horror story, "I Promise You're Safe With Me," is out at @gavagai.com ! It's probably one of my favorite things I've written in recent years, and I'm so excited to share it with you.
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 09/09/2026
In today's featured Editor Pick: Gabrielle has a Safe Husband, an Unsafe Husband, a Safe Dog and an Unsafe Dog. Keeping them straight is manageable, provided nothing disrupts the routine. It's I Promise You're Safe with Me by Allison Mulder. Read it for free at gavagai.com
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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Continuing my "reprint in @gavagai.com" experiment, here is "Things I Learned Today:" -- a Daily Science Fiction story from 2021.
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1. Any toddler who manages to pick up a full gasoline can and turn it upside down immediately gains the power to run at the speed of light and to pass through walls. 2. A stray cat with a burning rag ...
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Tim Hoelscher @timhoelscherauthor.com · 04/09/2026
Closing out the Gavagai week with some steampunk from JC Wildy! Happy Friday!
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 04/09/2026
In today's featured Editor Pick: In Lederpool, every choice has already been calculated. When Elisbeth Fitzjoy challenges the machine that governs the city’s future, even asking the question may carry consequences. It's The Chosen Paths We Take by JC Wildy. Read it for free at gavagai.com
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Kai Delmas @kaidelmas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Publication day! 🥳🎉🙌 My collection "After You Were Lost" was published by WATG Press today. It's a collection that means a lot to me, and I'm excited that people will finally get to read it. All of the 23 flash and micro stories within deal with grief in different ways. Something I know much about.
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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
OH EM GEE! I love this so much!! What a fun and creative way to support authors and stories you loved. COLLECT THEM ALL!!
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Atara Blake @strangeisthenight.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My latest story, “Blue Ribbons for Barbara” is out today at @gavagai.com! This is a quiet retro horror tale about the expectations society places on women and the cost of giving too much. gavagai.com/posts/6611
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Atara Blake @strangeisthenight.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My latest story is live on @gavagai.com! In this quiet horror tale about a society that demands everything from women, a homemaker offers up an unforgettable gift that can’t be returned. Featuring disturbing breakfasts, unrealized dreams, frenzied pie contests, and the dulcet tunes of Nat King Cole.
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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 02/09/2026
A reminder that Pandora's Unboxing is out at Gavagai!
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 02/09/2026
In today's featured Editor Pick: Barbara’s life is measured in polished floors and meals served on time. For the tri-county fair, she decides to make something no one will ever forget. It's Blue Ribbons for Barbara by Atara Blake. Read it for free at gavagai.com
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