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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Hey in case you missed it, while we aren't actively producing new issues at the moment, we Are sporadically releasing a fantasy western serial by writer @michaelswaim.bsky.social that has 8 chapters available for the low low cost of a single American dollar(ooh degraded by global economics!)

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Did you know that Impossible Worlds has an ongoing serialized story available right now on Patreon? It's True! Not only that, but now we're putting chapters 1-5 all in one place! purchasw it for the merr pittance Of $4! Link below!

Cover art for Once Upon a Time in the West- by Michael Swaim. A skull with wide horns sticking out either side in a void of aged paper

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

As of Right Now, the first half of the published issues of Impossible Worlds are available in their entirety for free at ImpossibleWorlds.net why not take a gander and consider supporting future issues?

Impossible Worlds issue I cover. A tiny planet cracked open like an egg with a hand pulling its core out like the yolk

Impossible Worlds issue 2 cover. A pizza woman summoned to the chamber of a dark wizard with a skull helmet who is looking for change.

Impossible Worlds issue 3 cover: a t rex on smoke break behind a restaurant, a triceratops bringing trash to the alley

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Monday the new chapter of @michaelswaim.bsky.social 's ongoing story from our publication drops! You can read the first 3 chapters in the full issue 6 of Impossible Worlds and get the 4th for a dollar by subscribing to our Patreon! #fantasy #western

Cover art for chapter 5 of Once Upon a Time in the West, by Michael Swaim. A hand holds a short whip with several tails and metal spikes in the tip.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

New! From Impossible Worlds and @michaelswaim.bsky.social ! Chapter 4 of his story is now available for $1! Read 1-3 in issue 5 of our publication to catch up, or Head straight into the newest solo release! www.patreon.com/posts/once-u...

An overweight bearded man with an ill fitting red jacket sitting at a desk, there is a mounted skull with horns behind and above him. Swords and maces and other weapons sit attached to the ceiling, and a shelf flanks either side of the narrow room.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

𝕌𝕡𝕠𝕟 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝔹𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔼𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕙 - By nickbadot.bsky.social Art by @artbygarth.bsky.social

A snail the size of a building on a rock surrounded by lava, in the foreground stand three tiny human figures, and the sky is grey with ash as they marvel at its size

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Just in time to stuff your stocking! It's Impossible Worlds Issue 6! Only $5 in our shop, or free to our Impossible Dreamer and Unlikely voter patrons! Six new fantastic tales! www.patreon.com/impossibleworlds/shop #scifi #fantasy #magazine #indiebooks #speculativefiction #sff #indiepub

Cover art for issue 6 of Impossible Worlds. A yeti is screaming at a fire pit which is being pelted with kerosene that a smaller child yeti is gleefully spraying. There are clearly human body parts on the grill of the fire pit, and the smoke spells out "Impossible Worlds 6"

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Awww- ain't he just darling? Art for "The Curious Case of Starfall Valley" by ianfortey.bsky.social and with art by artbygarth.bsky.social

A semi-transcluscent space caterpillar type creature , pale green with pink spidery long limbs coming out of its abdomen while shorter green limbs with nubby fingers handle the walking. Through its skin you can see internal organs, and it's face has mandibles on a squishy face with black eyes. Adorable yet terrifying.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Monday- ISSUE VI of Impossible Worlds! And within its pages, six new tales of the fantastical and strange! Pick it up on Dec 23 for just $5 and in the meantime check out our backlog on our site! Impossibleworlds.net

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hey remember this? Well our voting booth closed and now it's time to Congratulate our winner! @voicesofvalhoon.bsky.social came in with a great story; took the money, the poster, and will soon be featured in our winter issue with "Dust over the Dunes" based on our 5th issue cover!

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Just got our first $10 subscriber! Remember you can also submit the $5 and $1 levels to help us make what we love! The more the better! www.patreon.com/c/Impossible...

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Want to listen to something about spoopy stuff? How about #Supernatual ? The End of Supernatural? Give Fan-Fixion a try! Available for free on our Patreon for all! Special guest @thelogantrent.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/115047...

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

People should absolutely read the short story "Mrs Merlin Defeats the Mad Scientist" by Lydia Sheppard in our fifth issue . Impossibleworlds.net , it is Exactly what it says on the tin and is merely the inaugural adventure of its protagonist who has more to come!

Cover for "Mrs Merlin Defeats the Mad Scientist" a woman shrouded in black with suitcases and a hat box in her arms standing in front of a brownstone apartment from which through the covered windows, blue light Is emanating while the sky is overcast.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

There is nothing we love more than being able to help writers and artists put their art out where people can see it, read it, enjoy it. And you can help them too by buying the work we publish from them. So please if you can, lend a hand! Impossibleworlds.net

Every cover from year one of Impossible Worlds. All of them

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

It's Here! Go buy it! Or read if you're subscribed! From Writer @ianfortey.bsky.social it's "The Trial of Eternity" available on our store for just $3 or free to patrons on our Impossible Dreamer tier! www.patreon.com/posts/113947...

Courtroom sketch of a sloppy alien in a suit with Devito proportions sitting next to his human lawyer before the judge.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

So we're just gonna drop a brand new story on Monday from @ianfortey.bsky.social with cover art by @artbygarth.bsky.social in case anyone was interested in the legal rights of Kaiju from a hell dimension.

Cover for the upcoming story "The Trial of Eternity" by Ian Fortey with art by Garth von Ahnen. A hand is holding up a cell phone looking up at a skyscraper with a giant crustacean like Kaiju bearing down on the city with tentacles and claws.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

"The Day My Mum Chucked a Bloke From the Government at the Wormhole in Our Garden" by Michelle Ann King, available with the rest of Issue IV for just $5! www.patreon.com/posts/imposs...

Cover Art for "The Day My Mum Chucked a Bloke From the Government at the Wormhole in Our Garden" by Michelle Ann King, available in Issue 4 of Impossible Worlds. A man with a mustache and suit, having been flung, in a backyard over a small pond, with pink and blue swirls as he is falling into the titular wormhole.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Just in time for the skelly month! Of last year! Don't worry we got something coming soon but in the meantime, why don't you go buy Issue III of Impossible Worlds and read "How Does Your Garden Grow" by C.L. Siddel www.patreon.com/ImpossibleWo...

Cover art for "How Does your garden Grow" art by Garth von Ahnen
A skeletal hand holding up a jar of flowers to the blue skyline

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

From our first issue, when death is eliminated by science the last man to cross the river Styx finds himself in the strange position of helping the last ferryman to find proper compensation for their centuries of service. Available for free! Impossibleworlds.net

Cover art for "The Last Senator to Die" by Garth von Ahnen
A senator's portrait distorted by two white vertical lines blocking his eyes from view

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Adventure! Science! Familial disagreements! Inter-dimensional Implications! Find all these and more in Issue V of Impossible Worlds! www.patreon.com/ImpossibleWo...

Cover for "Mrs Merlin Defeats the Mad Scientist" by Lydia Sheppard
A woman in shadow, dresses in Edwardian mourning garb with a large hat carrying two suitcases in front of a three story brownstone in New York City with strange blue light coming from behind the windows while the sky is cloudy overhead in stormy portent.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Sometimes you have to pitch an idea, and sometimes the title does it on its own. Read Impossible Worlds IV: Dessert at Impossibleworlds.net www.patreon.com/posts/imposs...

Cover for "The cat who Loved David Duchovny" by James Blakey, available in Impossible Worlds Issue IV: Dessert

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Cover for "Run | Time" One of the first stories we published and so far still one of the more experimental in presentation. Michael Swaim really outdid himself with this as did our artist @artbygarth.bsky.social Read it for free here! Impossibleworlds.net

Cover for "Run | Time" by Michael Swaim. On the left the word Run with a boy running towards the viewer wearing shorts, t shirt and a baseball cap. On the right, the word Time, a girl in a bubble in a simple dress while scientists look on her in the dark.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Bianca when you don't support independent SFF Fiction vs when you subscribe to Impossible Worlds on Patreon www.patreon.com/ImpossibleWo...

Bianca, a black furred feline, sitting on a desk and staring with a bemused expression

Bianca the cat, smiling toothily with teeth visible

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Oh wow! This guy looks nice! He even likes puppies! I wonder what else he's done! Surely not galactic warcrimes right? ... Right??? Read Humanizing Rex by Sean MacKendrick in Issue III of Impossible Worlds! Impossibleworlds.net

Cover art for "Humanizing Rex" by Sean MacKendrick
A man with a black and gold vest and an eye patch holding a dalmatian puppy while rainbow lights that also form the title beam out from a planet behind his head, evoking divine imagery.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Buy our books! They're affordable, delightful, and also distract you from the weird businesswoman clutching a briefcase while she stands in your houseplant and hums showtunes! www.patreon.com/impossiblewo...

Screenshot of the Impossible Worlds Shop page , Issues 3-5 for $5 apiece.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

This cover needs a story- Are you the one to write it? Check out our new Cover Story Contest! impossibleworlds.net/coverstoryco...

Cover art for Issue 3 of Impossible Worlds. A T-Rex with a leather jacket, restaurant apron, and a cigarette standing outside the back door of a brick building next to a triceratops with the same apron carrying trash bags to the dumpster near the rex.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Issue 5 may be the newest offering from Impossible Worlds, but issue three still has one of our favorite stories by the Excellent wordsmith Charlotte H. Lee, "Surrogacy" a fascinating exploration of social pressure and parentage with a little Parasitism thrown in! www.patreon.com/ImpossibleWo...

Cover art for "Surrogacy" by Charlotte H. Lee , art by Tom Nel.
A woman holding a baby with a depressed expression on her face, while in the mirror, she is holding a strange alien baby with claws and tentacles

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Another day another sale! And you too can purchase our fifth Issue of Impossible Worlds! Just go to impossibleWorlds.net or check the Patreon store!

Screenshot of purchase notification from Impossible Worlds Issue V

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Its also our (spoiler) Second foray, as Mrs Merlin will return to 𝔼𝕟𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕤𝕒𝕝 𝕀𝕟𝕤𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕤!

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

If you didn't know, our most recent issue is our first foray into Serialized storytelling! We got the great Michael Swaim to put the first three chapters of his story in Issue V of our mag, and the subsequent will be released exclusively on our Patreon! Check it out! Impossibleworlds.net

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Ok so obviously there's one or two flaws with the generation ship in Wall-e.(Misanthropic AI deliberately keeping humanity sedentary). But let's be honest, this is the only one you'd actually want to get stuck on for a few centuries right? Or do you have a counter? Reply below!

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Fun fact, both of these are set 50 years apart in the same universe

Cover for Titan's Law - by Chase Stowell. Oil style painting .
A woman with black semi curly hair is seated at a desk with a man on the other side standing with both hands on her desk. In the background a large window shows a planet with a ring looming in the distance.

Cover for Colleen & Eddie: Freelancers by Stephen Wright
A bidepal crocodile man (Swole-odile) and a blue skinned one eyed blobby alien woman (Colleen) in the foreground. The croc (Eddie) is holding a gun, and in front of them is a hairless cat type man with a switchblade. In the background is a city under a dome, and behind the dome, the shadowy figure of a man with spectacles and greying hair looming over everything.

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #424,923!

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

We here at Impossible Worlds love telling stories that defy imagination. Unfortunately they can't make our social media funnier for engagement farming. As an apology for lack of zingers, please accept this message from our head of marketing,

Bianca. Our head of Marketing. A Black cat doin a tiny blep

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

If you were gonna hang out with anyone from our cover art, who would it be?

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

For us, one of our favorite Fantasy stories comes from our second issue, At the Parting of the Way- by Oliver Smith. It's a classic chilling myth of medieval proportions, a perfect example of why you should never trust slightly too damp people in the woods, or be too willing to do their bidding...

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Hey guess what? It's Fantasy Fiction Friday! Let's take this time to shout out your favorite small press/indie Fantasy Magazines, and maybe a story or two to give each other a boost! #fantasy #fiction #indiepress #indiepublishing #magic #writers

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Issue 2 right here! Give them a look and please consider supporting us on Patreon so we can put out issues more often! www.patreon.com/posts/882326...

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Not sure if #impossibleworlds is for you? Well good news! Issue one and two are totally Free! Check out the first here and the second in the replies! www.patreon.com/posts/issue-...

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

At 1500 we'll be able to publish "Seasonings Of the Witch"! A comic that follows a would be restaurateur and the demon who's stuck waiting tables. An incu-busboy if you will

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

In case you missed it, this last Thursday we released the brand new 5th edition of Impossible Worlds over on our website! 5 great new stories, some of which are ongoing and will continue in future issues or as exclusives for Patreon supporters! Check it out! #scifi #fiction #fantasy

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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE @impossibleworlds.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

What the Actual HELL is that thing in the Snow? Find out all this and more at Impossibleworlds.net

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