iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Robyn Schindeldecker @flyrobynfly.bsky.social · 3h

How far into giving a eulogy do you think you could get before people realize you're just quoting "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"?

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Tiffany Michelle Brown (she/her) @tmbwrites.bsky.social · 11h

Tonight, we celebrate the launch of Palm Tree Punk by the incredible @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social at North Figueroa Bookshop, 7-9pm. Mitch has asked me to read, so I'll be sharing some dark verse from Under Her Skin and Under Her Eye. Join us for community, poetry, and creative magic. 🌴👊🌴👊

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 12h

Get in on this exciting project now!

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 13h

From Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear

In life, we don’t have a choice, because everything we are capable of is still not very much compared with life itself, not nearly as much as we imagine. And if we do t get this not-very-much exactly right, we will not survive. This fundamental principle can’t be terribly different even for spoiler young people in a prosperous society.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 15h

On The Project Censored Show, I talked about why the Detention Mortality Map keeps the names of people who die in ICE custody, so the scope of the problem is visible and the names are not lost. www.projectcensored.org/the-detentio... @projectcensored.bsky.social

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's time! The @apexmag.bsky.social 2027 Kickstarter is live! Help us fund another year of strange, shocking, beautiful, and surreal speculative fiction! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.

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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially into: birds, big storms, Stardew Valley, socks, love poems, lists, harbor seals, friction, ghazals, balloons, The Crane Wives, fall vibes, footprints, chronic illness, and cobwebs.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

an article that talks about Bluesky without the acknowledgment that Black users and trans users helped this place find an audience and that Blacksky was created in response to the belligerence and violence of angry white former Twitter users gentrifying the place is an article not worth reading

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🎃 The Wicker Amber 🎃 @elementalamber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"There is no real justice system." The trial for my sexual assault was one of the worst things I've ever experienced. Defense for the dr who assaulted me and raped others demanded details of my sex life and told the jury should decide for themselves if I lost my (wanted) pregnancies on purpose.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PSA! Our free-submissions window closes today.

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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience

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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 29/09/2026

Also, fellow Texans, the GOP might have put your voter status in "suspense" recently, so you should check to make sure everything is correct and you are registered EVEN IF you are pretty sure you're registered. This includes 300K in Houston alone.

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300K Houston-area voters are on Texas’ suspense list. What to know.

About 300,000 Houston-area voters are on Texas’ suspense list. Here’s how to check your status, update your address and make sure you can vote.

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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know when you open a door and there's the door you already opened, closed in front of you, and you think to yourself, Ha, I guess I must've not opened the door, and then someone opens you instead? That feeling?

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thrilled to be included in @flightlit.bsky.social! Thanks to Frances and Will for their careful editing. Check out the whole 1st birthday issue here ⬇️ 🍻

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Many of the ugly injustices of the world horrify me but don't really surprise me...the Cornell situation is surprising. I would not have expected a fancy liberal university to make these particular kinds of extremely regressive decisions. Heartless? I would expect that. But so stupid, no.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So...which James Taylor song do you want them to play at your funeral?

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“But of course when ghosts talk they’re always complaining” -“Silence” by Yasunari Kawabata (trans Michael Emmerich)

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But on the upside, I've obtained some coffeemate/flavored soybean oil, in the key of pumpkin you-know-what

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But what if churches took the money they use constructing any massive buildings used once a week and instead donated the money towards low-income housing? Or anything else?

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's time for my regularly-scheduled membership drive: ivygrimes.substack.com/p/the-new-se...

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The New Season

scales, rats, reminders

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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did you know that @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social , @aniking.bsky.social and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social all have new books out, or about to come out? And that they're all going to have REMOTE BOOK LAUNCHES? I don't know if I can get to them all, but I'm darn well signing up! Congratulations all!

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm at 95 reviews on The Cellar Below the Cellar on Greads, and for wholly irrational reasons, I've got to get it up to 100. It's numbers! If you've read it and haven't rated it yet, now's your chance. For the numbers! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

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The Cellar Below the Cellar

A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale…

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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Say—here are about 78 literary journals opening for submissions in October. Some are open now or will close soon in September or October. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well, friends.

Paris Review
Electric Literature
Quarterly West
Writers Space Africa
Reading Into Culture
Hoot Review
Petrichor
Encyclopedia Prismatica
128 Lit
Diamond Gazette
Brick
WayWords
The Gilded Weathervane
Shadowplay
Fiction
Amsterdam Review
Poet Lore
Room
Oakwood
Southern Quill
45th Paralelle
Apotheca Journal
MicroLit
Weird Lit
Gravity Of The Thing
Nimrod
Superpresent
Ink In Thirds
Beloit Poetry
Unbound Ink
New World Writing
Folio
Plume
The Shore
Banshee
Tractor Beam
SmokeLong Quarterly
Rome Review
Patrika Aranyak
Gyroscope Review
Letters
Forge
Two Hawks Quarterly
Seaside Gothic
The Rumpus
Westchester Review
Thieving Magpie
Kitchen Table Quarterly
Salamander
New Feathers Anthology
Shift
Portland Review
Barcelona Review
The Razor
Clockhouse
Tahoma Literary Review
Clackamas Literary
Gooseberry Pie
The Drift
Wigleaf
Craft
Pithead Chapel
Doric Literary
Reed Magazine
Harpur Palate
Trace Fossils Review
Ninth Letter
Black Fox
Redivider
The Meadow
Puerto Del Sol
Lolwe
Split Lip
Beaver Magazine
Lunch Ticket
Saw Palm
Bat City Review
Crab Creek Review

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I watched Footloose for the first time, and I'm sorry to report that the riff at the beginning of Alan Jackson's Chattahoochee seems to have been stolen from the song "Footloose"!

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Jen @jenbached.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have you caught our latest? I loved hearing about how the Russian folklore story of Vasilisa the Beautiful and the Baba Yaga played into @grimivys novel, The Cellar Below the Cellar. @itgodp.bsky.social @ivygrimes.bsky.social Listen to full episode: itgodp.libsyn.com/the-cellar-b...

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A favorite short story, movie, and way of making small talk: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Our Storygraph giveaways have begun! Enter for a chance to win one of 250 free ebook copies of Gore Poetics, featuring horror and Weird fiction for people who like their stories queer, literary, horrific, intense, and unbearably sensory. app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/56...

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cursedmorsels's giveaway for Gore Poetics on The StoryGraph

Gore Poetics is a horror and Weird fiction collection for readers who seek out both the grote...

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just learned that Spinster (laudatory) September is a thing and I am into it! Immediately placed a hold on ‘Quartet in Autumn’ (Barbara Pym), and I’ve already read and would recommend Rachel Kushner’s ‘Creation Lake’ & Tokarczuk’s ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And another Storygraph giveaway! Enter for a chance to win one of 250 free ebook copies of Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces, a collection of stories in which characters face off against forces beyond their comprehension. app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/f7...

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cursedmorsels's giveaway for Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces on The StoryGraph

Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces is a collection of Weird horror stories in which character e...

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am too lazy to decorate, yes, but I expect my hardworking neighbors to have their happy skeletons up by this point in the season.

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

'The man-boy led John through the dimly-lit house and into the dining room. “Bravo, bravo, Bem-vindo! The English gentleman has come for his supper…but will he sing for it?”' Today on ergot.: "Interview with a Spider Breeder" by David Luntz @dluntz.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Davi...

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ergot.

ergot. innovative horror

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Tales From Between @talesfrombetween.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We want your weird little fiction!

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

*SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION* THE BACKERKIT FOR STAY WOKE IS NOW LIVE! Check it NOW to get a SPECIAL OFFER for pledging early, check out our characters, the story, and help me make this special novel for me a reality! #Booksky #Writesky #amwriting #Backerkit www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“She proceeded always from the tritest of consideration — it was the ‘nice thing to do’ — into the most foolhardy engagements with the devil, whom, of course, she never recognized.” -Flannery O’Connor, “The Comforts of Home”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"You couldn’t tell there were three of them at first, not until they had almost cleared the courthouse..." Absolutely love the mysterious and ominous machines in the new @lilliekoi.bsky.social story. The machines have arrived. Will you enter? Who will you be when you emerge? Absolute banger!!!

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The Three Machines by Lillie Franks

“I think there’s something moving down there” You couldn’t tell there were three of them at first, not until they had almost cleared the courthouse and started towards the post office. The first o...

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A reminder that my collection Glass Stories is available from Grimscribe Press! Here's one of the stories in this collection, featured in @ergot.bsky.social : www.ergot.press/authors/Ivy_...

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ergot.

ergot. innovative horror

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's a great weekend to read The Cellar Below the Cellar, while not hating me! Come for the misery potluck, stay for the relatively clean water. www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

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The Cellar Below the Cellar

A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless auroras. When a wild solar storm wipes out ...

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

*SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION!* The Backerkit for STAY WOKE, my next thriller novel in the vein of GET OUT will be launching soon! Take two minutes to sign up and learn more about the story! #Booksky #Writesky www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

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STAY WOKE --- A psychological thriller

Get notified when STAY WOKE --- A psychological thriller launches on BackerKit!

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It was tough to pick which story of mine to read for this. I also really love my story from strange horizons this year but I had no idea how I was gonna do all the different voices from the forum posts 😅😅😅

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Had a great time reading with @pameladurgin.bsky.social last night! Two flavors of body horror on offer and a chance to feel that @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social vibe on our forthcoming issue, "The Academy Devours You Whole"

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