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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 02/10/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: The living have strong opinions about what the dead expect of their children. Tonight, over tea, the dead will have an opportunity to offer up their side. It's When We Venture Too Far from Family Calling by Annie ZH Sun. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 30/09/2026

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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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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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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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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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 · 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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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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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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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 26/08/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: Vinny has made a lifetime of mistakes. In a city of chill rain and colder blood, one promise is still worth keeping. It's Can't Rain All the Time by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 21/08/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: Gifts are meant to be unboxed. Some, however, may be better left locked. It's Pandora's Unboxing by Renan Bernardo. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 19/08/2026

In today's Editor Pick: A routine retrieval mission becomes anything but when a team uncovers a relic built to record a soldier’s final memories; the voice waiting inside has been calling for a very long time. It's The Ghost Frequency by Meagan Regina Thomas. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 11/08/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: After a long winter alone, a man returns to the island that has always felt more intimate than any human relationship. Among its toppled trees and exposed roots, something seems to recognize him. It's Take Him by Joe Koch. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 06/08/2026

In today's featured editor Pick: Every magical community has a taboo. Pierraux has just stumbled into theirs. It's Everybody Does Something About the Weather But Nobody Talks about It by Rodrigo Culagovski. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 31/07/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: She has orchestrated every detail of their final conversation. Except the ache of actually having it. It's Bitter Tea by Christine Hanolsy. read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 28/07/2026

The cargo is tea. The destination is a glittering city. Between them lies a desert filled with heat and strange visions. It's Brewed Tea on Cold Desert Nights by Rachel A. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 23/07/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: Some monuments are built from memory. Others demand a higher price. It's Age Cannot Wither Her by H. Marin. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 21/07/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: On the evening she meets her father for the first time, an unexpected conversation gives her the courage to step through the door. It's Eddie's Ink by Hannah Noreen Gamble. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 19/07/2026

In today's Surreal Sunday featured Editor Pick: The kitchen is crawling with roaches. The cupboards are nearly empty. And beyond the window, something enormous is moving through the sky. It's With Hungry Mouths and Beating Wings by Dana Marie Vickerson. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 15/07/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: Most travelers know better than to follow a raccoon into an airport access hatch. Knowing better, though is not quite the same as deciding not to do it. It's The In-Between Places of Terminal C by Barbara A. Barnett. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 12/07/2026

In today's Surreal Sunday featured Editor pick: In the desert beyond Sad Hill, Aggie Moss is determined to make herself useful, even if she has to lie, bluff and bleed for the chance. It's Moss and Sharps Are Partners, Conditionally by C.H. Pearce. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 10/07/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: The dare is simple. Cross the white rocks, steal three stones, and be back before anyone notices. But the farther Archer walks, the less certain he is that he’s still in the same camp. It's Past the White Rocks by Fatal Serendipity! Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 07/07/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: A maker tries to turn grief into something beautiful through thin strands and careful heat. What returns through the work is more fragile than she expects. It's Wiggle All Happy from Risa Wolf. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 01/07/2026

In today's Editor Pick: A dark folklore tale following a cursed river woman whose beauty has destroyed men for centuries. Freed into a strange new world, she finds herself drawn toward a hunger older than death. It's Do Not Walk Near the River by Noor Lovelace! Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 28/06/2026

In today's Surreal Sunday Editor Pick: A woman inherits a relative's house and a magic 8-ball that is way too eager to offer advice. It's the darkly comic Jill's Junk Drawer Journal by Angelique Fawns! Read it at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 26/06/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: The apocalypse was supposed to separate the saints from the sinners. But when it comes, it seems to choose at random. It's Numbers Count Deliverance from Yelena Crane! Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 23/06/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: At the end of the world, one scientist looks to the stars while the other turns her attention back toward Earth. It's Last Ones on This Earth by Y.M. Pang! Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 21/06/2026

In today's Surreal Sunday Editor Pick, code does more than execute instructions; it preserves traces of the people who wrote it and the dark choices they made. It's Perpetual Death by Tash J. Sutter. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 18/06/2026

In today's Editor Pick: By day, Sylana offers teas and salves. By night, she feeds the earth one drop at a time. It's The Making and Unmaking of a Witch by Celia Winter! Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 16/06/2026

In today's Editor Pick: In 17th-century Delft, a boy raised among artists and merchants discovers that the most vivid forms of expression are not always made with paint. It's The Veil by Kelsey Hutton! Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 13/06/2026

Happy Saturday! Reminder that even with our hiatus we still have this month's Gavagai 1000 going strong! US$50 is on the line for the community-voted favorite, so make sure to throw your hat in the ring for June's short fiction prompt: "rift!" gavagai.com/g1000 #WritingCommunity #WriterSky

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 31/05/2026

In today's Surreal Sunday Editor Pick: Rejections have a way of getting under a writer's skin. One struggling author discovers that some opportunities arrive with far more strings attached than expected. It's Obituary of the Writer by Brandon Case! Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 29/05/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: A bittersweet and magical piece that examines the difference between being loved and believing you deserve it. It's Witness to Bad things by Vivian M. Liu. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 27/05/2026

In today's Editor Pick: A lonely college student discovers that some kinds of hunger are harder to survive than others. A fluorescent-lit story about intimacy and never being alone again. It's Cerebellion by Ray Chanteur. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 24/05/2026

In today's Surreal Sunday featured Editor Pick: A woman lingers at the edges of a famous painting in this atmospheric story of memory and reinvention. It's Blue Period, Rest by Liz Levin. read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 19/05/2026

In today's Editor Pick: A catastrophic fire leaves Dr. Renata Warren stranded aboard a dying spaceship with only one escape pod remaining. As systems fail around her, survival begins to demand choices no one should have to make. It's Expendable Me by P.A. Cornell. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 17/05/2026

In today's Surreal Sunday: Burned out by the publishing industry and another rejection, Odette enters a hotel elevator expecting nothing more than sleep. Instead, each floor peels away another layer of reality. It's An Interminable Liminal Space by Colleen Anderson. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 15/05/2026

In today's Editor Pick: In the near future, a grieving parent is called to a corporate office to make an irreversible decision under impossible circumstances. An intimate science fiction story about the fragility of identity. It's Contra Captcha by Michael Wen. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 12/05/2026

In today’s Editor Pick: Alista was taught only mirrors could open portals between worlds. But when a vine opens one instead, she discovers not every soul is meant to find itself in reflection alone. Read “Your Image in the World and the World in Your Image” by Jenna Hanchey for free: gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 08/05/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: He entered her life like a figure from an old Gothic nightmare. It would take her far too long to realize the horror was real. It's Universal Lover by Patrick Barb.

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 05/05/2026

In today's Editor Pick: When their parents vanish overnight, two sisters follow the forest path they’ve been warned about all their lives. But the deeper they go, the less the rules they grew up with seem to apply. It's Bargains for Wildlings by Meagan Regina Thomas. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 03/05/2026

For today's Surreal Sunday Editor Pick: Her brother didn’t go missing—he grew. And she’s been tending the forest ever since. It's Life and Death of an Arborist by Katja Rammer. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 28/04/2026

In today's Editor Pick: A meditation on identity and memory, where preservation becomes obsession and the past threatens to consume the present. It's Self-Preservation by Steve Capone. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 26/04/2026

For Surreal Sunday: An entity tasked with a simple directive discovers that understanding humanity is far more complicated than classification. It's "Homing" from 2026 Hugo Finalist Elis Montgomery @elismontgomery.bsky.social. Read it for free at gavagai.com #scifi #sff #WritingCommunity #Writersky

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 24/04/2026

Voting for your favorite Gavagai 1000 microfiction contest entry is now easier! Stories display in the feed with a vote control at the ready! It's faster and easier to support your fellow writers and select your favorite! We'll be rolling out the feature to the iOS and Android apps soon as well!

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 23/04/2026

In today's featured Editor Pick: A young girl arrives on a remote island with her parents, where the slow rhythms of summer begin to give way to something darker and more permanent. It's Mercy by Jack Opel. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 21/04/2026

In today's Editor Pick: He chooses the stars over the person he loves, knowing he’ll never live to see where the journey ends. What remains is the echo of a choice that cannot be undone. It's Those Who Dare by Lily Lachance. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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