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Victoria | How to Survive Debut Author Stress, out free! @shiwritesprose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm delighted to share that my story, The Monkey King in Orbit, is finally in the world! Thanks so much to @khoreo.bsky.social for publishing it. 🙈 inspired by John Wick's the Continental hotel— 🙉 'third place's and the sacrifices needed to protect them 🙊 DIM SUM and DEFIANCE in space 🥟🛰️🚀

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This collection is a haunting and meditative journey on losses past and to come. Some stories will leave you in tears. Others will comfort you while you cry.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

short fiction is so good and yet beloved by so few. everyone should read a short story a day. i set a goal to read a hundred this year because I like measurables and i've been slacking, and now i'm up to #317, which still doesn't feel like enough.

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This story is the weirdly warm hug I didn't know I needed.

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MarjeeC @marjeec.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hey it’s me!

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Eleanor Lennox @eleanorlennox.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ted Chiang's take on AI consciousness is 100% worth the read. I wanted to summarize it, or use flattering adjectives, but I give up. Just, read it. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Elysia Rourke @elysiarourke.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"Red didn't stand a chance against her, a rocket of the sea." Read the rest of Whale and Red's story in WHALE FALL by Elysia Rourke on September 15, 2026. Ages 10+ PREORDER NOW! #bookquote #whalefall #amreading #booksforkids #middlegrade #2026debut #debutauthor #nancypaulsen #penguin #preordernow

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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Storycrafting Sessions: Disability in Writing, our 2026 virtual conference, is happening THIS SATURDAY on May 30th! Keep reading this thread or head over to weeknightwriters.com/2026/04/18/s... for the full details! 1/?

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Storycrafting Sessions: Disability in Writing FULL SCHEDULE - Weeknight Writers

We are pleased to announce our full schedule for Storycrafting Sessions: Disability in Writing, happening on May 30th! This will be a full day of FREE virtual panels discussing various aspects of effe...

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Do you delight in words and have climate anxiety? Me too. Me too.

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This very ridiculous story by me explores a very real struggle in the world today! Thrilled to join the parade of awesome writers in @ratbaglit.bsky.social this morning.

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Super excited to read my story, Some Stories We Tell Ourselves, Others We Don't, in the pages of @templeinacity.bsky.social today. This is a quiet one about complicated grief and not-so-complicated regret. Grateful to be included in the new issue. templeinacity.com/fiction-by-c...

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Temple in a City literary journal

Fiction Some Stories We Tell Ourselves And Some We Don’t by author Cuyler Meade. Published in Temple in a City literary journal

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Turning today's rejection into something nice

Dear Indigo, you submitting God
this is the best writing

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 19/05/2026

TODAY! My novel THE COLOR OF TIME is now available everywhere good books are sold 🥳

A visual showing the book The Color of Time with labels reading: science fantasy, fairytale retelling, dune-inspired, hopepunk, space opera, and sapphic romance. Under the book is the text "releasing 5.19.26, preorder today."

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 18/05/2026

TOMORROW TOMORROW TOMORROW

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I’ve got space whales on my mind! 🐋✨ Painted this while listening to the audiobook of The Celestial Seas by @authortachan.bsky.social

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"The machinery of culture, of technology, of society, moves in the hands that sweep, paint, farm, or hammer." 💡🎨🛠️ New nonfiction today by @reasie.bsky.social: "Why it Matters When I Write About Space Janitors" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

"Why it Matters When I Write About Space Janitors" By Marie Vibbert. Apex Magazine, Issue 153

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Simultaneously the best and worst micro I have ever read. Thanks @sashabrown.bsky.social and @ratbaglit.bsky.social for this experience. ratbaglit.substack.com/p/pee-seat

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Pee Seat

By Sasha Brown

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 04/05/2026

I guarantee you’re not ready for where this story goes.

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annika barranti klein @noirbettie.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

CALIFORNIANS! we need to talk about the primary. our state is fucked up and does not guarantee a democrat will be on the ballot in november. the top two candidates of ANY party will. so we need to focus right now on making sure Xavier Becerra is one of them, no matter who you might prefer.

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is so fun! science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"At the bodyhouse, no one ever asks you what you want." Stop what you're doing right now and read the rest.

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KGarrison @katherinegarrison.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I’m so pleased that this poem found a home. Thank you to January House Literary Magazine for publishing it. 💚 If you like birds and wish you could fly sometimes you might like it! januaryhouselit.com/2026/04/17/b...

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Birdwatching

by Katherine Garrison These birds are always raising the stakes.When I go out, I want to see a shrike,but instead, I am surprised by a hawfinchwhich are rare to see here, as in red listed,and I thi…

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

We're over the moon to reveal the cover of Violet Lichen's second annual eco anthology edited by @marissavu.bsky.social 🌙✨🪐 ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, blooming onto bookshelves November 17! Cover Art by @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design by Mikio Murakami, Silent Q Design

ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, edited by Marissa van Uden

Cover Art by Marcela Bolívar

Cover Design by Mikio Murakami

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 30/03/2026

Our subscription drive continues! When we get to 50 new or upgraded subscriptions, we'll do a Best Of Year 2 anthology. Help get us more stability so we can keep putting many small wonders into the world! store.smallwondersma...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

A very simply drawn cartoon of a very round and green smiling frog squatting down and holding a ouija board. The background is blue and the text reads ‘fuck ChatGPT. I’m asking ghosts’

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

#FundraiserPerk Kemi Ashing-Giwa will name a character after you (or use an agreed upon name). BE IMMORTAL! Comes with the April e-issue of locus and digital art. Donate at locusmag.com... or through our bio! @kashinggiwa

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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Just one more skirt and he'll love me. If I can balance one more plate, I'll be free. The last frog will definitely be the one that validates me as a princess! Embracing my witch era with all my heart. I want to trace the outline of each of my warts and find peace with every last one.

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Literary Garage @literarygarage.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

They spray-painted 666 on the fence. We counted to three. We ran. Girlhood, dares, and the things neighborhoods choose to forget. An excellent story from @marjeec.bsky.social Check it out at Literary Garage: literarygarage.com/come-join-us...

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Come Join us at the Slumber Party Behind John Wayne Gacy’s Lot | Literary Garage

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Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Sword lesbians, chivalry, and mech suit jousting (oh my) Check out my flash fiction in Small Wonders today!

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

One of the many perks to being a subscriber is early access to the winning stories of the monthly flash contest, like mine, published today: "In Your Diminishing Tongue." tinyurl.com/diminishingt...

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Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Hugo noms are open, and I'd love to put forth "Be Kind and Rewind" for your consideration. One year ago, on Valentine's day, Wyngraf published a story about queer/trans love that I coauthored with my lovely partner @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social. I'm a hack, but she made our story brilliant anyway.

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Wyngraf Romance Special 2025 by Wyngraf

Three new stories of cozy fantasy romance!

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Victoria | How to Survive Debut Author Stress, out free! @shiwritesprose.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I have 2 short stories awards eligible this year! 1. Patient was the Doctor (PDF 📝) analogsf.com/for-your-con... with @analogsf.bsky.social (Locus & SFWA recommended) 2. milt (podcast reprint 🔉) escapepod.org/2026/02/12/e... with @bsfa.bsky.social and @escapepod.org (mild nsfw 🔥)

"For your consideration" poster featuring 2 pieces of Photoshop composite art. One shows a giant octopus grabbing a man, for the short story Patient was the Doctor. The other is a red mermaid curled up in the sea, for the story titled milt.

Both stories are stated to be free to read/listen to.

QR code for milt, reprinted in audio/podcast format on Escape Pod

QR code for Patient was the Doctor, in PDF form, on the Analog Magazine website

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Victoria | How to Survive Debut Author Stress, out free! @shiwritesprose.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

✅ WEIRD ✅ QUEER ✅ HORNY ✅ HOPEFUL LET'S GO

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Listen to this story by @shiwritesprose.bsky.social if you also like weird queer horny mermaid stories

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Quill Hollow @quillhollow.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"Nothing is safe from the muck." Read "Swampland" by the talented @erinbf.bsky.social at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"I didn’t realize that’s how God worked. That he punished little girls for things their parents did." Read the rest of @marjeec.bsky.social's story at Maudlin House

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Hello and happy new year! I'm pleased to announce I'm returning to @clarkesworldmagazine.com with a sci-fi- weird- eco-horror short story that's OUT NOW! It's called "The Desolate Order of the Head in the Water." Read here and subscribe! clarkesworldmagazine.com/prihandita_0...

Out now! A post-apocalyptic sci-fi
weird horror short story, "The Desolate Order of the Head in the Water" by A.W. Prihandita. There's a picture of the magazine cover, Clarkesworld issue 232, featuring the torso of a huge robot covered in moss in a forest. In the background of the graphic, there are the words "new year, new story" in big fading text.

If you like that scene from Pluribus where everyone speaks at the same time, saying the same thing, in the same cadence because they’ve been taken over by aliens—only in this story, it’s AI that has hijacked everyone around you.

There’s a screen capture of the aforementioned scene, with the female lead character standing by a truck outside a hospital, a crowd of doctors, nurses, and other patients (none of whom are quite alive or conscious because they are victims of a virus that enables aliens to control them). The crowd chants as one, “We just wanna help, Carol.”

If you like this opening paragraph of Lauren
Berlant's Cruel Optimism:

“A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. It might involve food, or a kind of love; it might be a fantasy of the good life, or a political project. It might rest on something sim-pler, too, like a new habit that promises to induce in you an improved way of being. These kinds of optimistic relation are not inherently cruel. They become cruel only when the object that draws your attachment actively impedes the aim that brought you to it initially.”

... and think our relation with Al is maybe, definitely, a relation of cruel optimism.

As in, why do people hope Al will help them find connection-through chats, storytelling, advice, therapy, whatever-when all it has ever done is further sever us from our humanity, our fellow humans, and our land, leaving us alone and parched?

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year's Eve, y'all!! This just in: THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY is 1.99 on Bookshop and Rakuten Kobo too! ✨ Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ✨ Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Illustration of Enitan (a Black woman with brown skin and short black hair in a green tunic) and her sibling Xiang (a Chinese person in a reddish-brown tunic) by @ashcremated on Tumblr.

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Read this heartbreakingly gorgeous micro by my friend @lyss-b.bsky.social

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Mizuki Yamamoto @mizuki-yama.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I have a new prose poetry piece, "Subway Surfing," out today at the lovely @lostballoon.bsky.social. Thank you to Chelsea and the editors for giving this one a home.

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I love this story in 1000 different ways.

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

If you have a moment, read my friend @marjeec.bsky.social's delightfully chilling story.

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Jeané D. Ridges @jdridges.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Trying an eligibility post for the first time. I'm grateful to myself for showing up this year to tend myself, the work, and community. Thankful for everyone I've met, deepened bonds with, and/or collabed to realize something wondrously meaningful. With and wishing care always, Jeané 🫂

What Jeané D. Ridges Has Published in 2025:
~ “the south pervades even the pluriverse” (https://stoneofmadnesspress.com/jeane-d-ridges )
~ SISTORIES Issue V: Fluid By Nature — Contributing Editor as Luminary Editorial Incubator Fellow — Short Story “com·mem·o·ra·tion” & “Telling On Ourselves: Interviews with Black, Gender Unbound, (Dis)abled/Chronically Ill Speculative Storytellers of the South” ( https://www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709b-4706-84f6-6f7dbe8b7af0 )
~ “Writing the Space Between Here and Elsewhere: Interviews with Jennifer Hudak and Shingai Njeri Kagunda”
(https://www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/writing-the-space-between-here-and-elsewhere-interviews-with-jennifer-hudak-and-shingai-njeri-kagunda/ )
~ “Porch Pull Up Ep. 204” (https://theseventhwave.org/publication/issue-18/jeane-d-ridges/)
~ “Recipes for the Course of Living” (https://www.juliarios.com/the-february-2025-issue-of-worlds-of-possibility/)

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Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

“You name each shape in sing-song, asking me to play along, but it’s the summer before seventh grade and I’m too old for make-believe.” Read my contest-winning story, “Lee Aeronautics,” here:

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Lee Aeronautics

On a lazy mayfly day, we sit on Grandpa Lee’s wrap-around porch, purple-tongued and sticky-fingered from the grape soda and teriyaki jerky he keeps in the pantry because they’re your favorites.&nbs…

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