iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 14h

There's a new issue of Kaleidotrope today!

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Kaleidotrope - Autumn 2026

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Just Keep Up Magazine @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new story is online! Link and sample below. This one reminded me more than a bit of the Booker Prize shortlisted The End of Everything (by M John Harrison). Hope you check it out and enjoy it! www.justkeepupmagazine.com/not-this-by-...

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Jake Stein @jakeiswriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Check it out, everyone!! New story in Just Keep Up Magazine!

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

don't tell anyone this, but when you get stuck in a story, you can just make up stuff, you just make it up

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Kaleidotrope re-opens to fiction and poetry submissions for the last time this year in about a month (October 18-24). Will you be ready? Will any of us? kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

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Siap-siap, Gadis Cilik!

Alt: Get ready!

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lightspeed and Nightmare are running a kickstarter. Love short fiction? Go pick up a subscription and spread the word!

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Mark Russell @manruss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The best part of Revenge of the Sith was that fucked up bubble opera.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How did editing make me feel today? Well, if we think of writing as playing the violin, then I’m probably really good at drums.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I truly believe that the normalization of nighttime bookstores, museums, and libraries would change the world.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Apex Magazine is OPEN to short fiction submissions for the month of September! 🎉 Please review our submission guidelines and submit your work by 12 AM CST on October 1. We can't wait to read your strange, shocking, surreal, beautiful speculative fiction! 🖤👽 apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

Apex Magazine Submissions OPEN!
We are Seeking:
Strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fiction up to 9k words
Submissions Close October 1st
https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/
www.apexbookcompany.com

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 01/09/2026

The portal is OPEN! Send us your original flash fiction - hit us in the feels, give us some hope, make it weird, play with fun formats, or hey all of the above if you can manage it in 1000 words! smallwondersmag.com/submissions/

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Space Door

Alt: An open wooden door in a starry field. Through the door blue sky and clouds are visible.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Food so good you grow an extra finger!

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Burial Books @burialbooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The countdown's almost over! Strange Tales of Space and Time releases tomorrow with thirty science fiction stories and a fantastic cover by Betty Rocksteady! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX34LW34 #burialbooks #sciencefiction #scifi #scifibooks #scifianthology #spaceopera #indiescifi #indieauthors

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A curious thing. TTA Press was once publisher of Interzone, Black Static, and The Third Alternative. Domain was ttapress.com The Third Alley has claimed that domain. They say they are something new at an old address. They say the site is all original fiction.

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The Third Alley, original short horror, new every quarter

New short horror fiction every quarter, set in night shifts, stockrooms, service corridors and last trains. Original stories, no reprints.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 27/08/2026

Come to the Clarkesworld table at Worldcon today at 5pm and get a free copy of issue 226 signed by Tia Tashiro. Includes her Hugo finalist story "Missing Helen"

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Lyse McToaster @birdzilla01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have never understood and never will understand why interrupting someone while I'm reading to chat (not say something important or informative, just chat) isn't considered rude, but telling the interrupter "I'm reading and don't want to talk right now" is.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

See, you don't need to rush... #BookSky

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt

Print featuring a a view looking down on a stretch of beach and a lone figure, with clffs to the left and sea to the right

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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#booksky I’m finding Leo Tolstoy’s diary entries very relatable:

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If only anybody knew what the Beatles looked like. Unfortunately, when making a film about a subject as opaque and obscure as this, one has to use one’s imagination.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sounds like a great idea! #BookSky

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Jake Stein @jakeiswriting.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Imagine if this poet had been worried about using em dashes!

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Jake Stein @jakeiswriting.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Thank you for keeping your em dashes!!

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Em!! @emggily.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

😭😭😭😭😭

A doodle of an artist in agony as the text "I WILL FINISH THIS CREATIVE PROJECT" repeats in the background.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My way of dealing with the demoralizing publishing industry has become to ignore everything and go write. Do not think about the outcome. Enjoy the trees and plants, do volunteer work and speak up when you can, spend time with people who love you and write, edit, revise, send it out. REPEAT.

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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 10/08/2026

This explains so much; Trump and Infantino probably bonded over their shared love of refusing to make promised payments.

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World Cup Host Cities Chase FIFA as It Refuses to Pay Up

President Donald Trump remains silent as American cities are left to foot the bill.

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Peggy Bechko @peggybechko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#reading time! Stormrider - Stormrider, young woman Janissary, quests for justice and peace on her rebellion-torn world. Alone until she’s bound with the wolves, annoyed by the Bounty Hunter and enthralled by the Ancient Ones. The Journey has just begun… #booksky #SciFiBooks #IndieReads

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

gets incredible air here

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/08/2026

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/08/2026

Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!

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The Daily Tomorrow @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

New Story Alert! If you're ever in an antique space garage wanting a quick getaway, all you'll ever need is Jake Stein's witty thriller 'Rare Spaceships And How To Fly Them'.

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Rare Spaceships And How To Fly Them — Part One

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The Daily Tomorrow @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Spaceships that go nowhere; ones that never land; punch-hole fighters; fast-as-lightning-on-love's-fuel. And we're still flying through the intriguing catalogue. Head on to our Substack so you never miss a flight!

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Rare Spaceships And How To Fly Them — Part Four

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Jake Stein @jakeiswriting.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Check it out folks!! Part one of my story in @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social dropped today :) I am over the moon... which is kind of a fitting expression given the subject of this story!

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Rare Spaceships And How To Fly Them — Part One

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for. ~ Paul Krugman

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