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Jane

@janestecyk.bsky.social
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I write always weird sometimes funny sometimes dark stuff. 1st & 2nd places at Writing Battle, Twisted Champion, 3rd Place in Woodland Writers. Published in Elegant Lit, Rat Bag Lit and by TL;DR Press. Rejected by 100s of Other Places.

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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 6h
Super stoked “Ellen’s Final Foster Child” squeaked in with an honorable mention 🎉❤️ great company all around with these long and short listers 💪
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 17h
Frog Girl Fall, Frog Girl FOREVER 🐸💚 this was so fun to write and I’m over the moon the fine folks at Jerboa got it 🎉
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Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did we miss your brilliance but some other, less rat infested magazine accepted your awesome story? Name them and your story! Share a link! #LITMAGWEEK #RatBagLit #RatBag
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pluck pluck pluck read this
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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well
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Glen Creed @theglencreed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Rendered" is out in @smokelong.bsky.social Issue 93. A knife, some candles, a kitchen table. Free to read, with an audio version if you'd rather listen, and a short interview where I try to explain myself.
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Rendered - SmokeLong Quarterly
First, the knife. I pare flesh from above my left hip into the dented peppermint tin and render the fat from it. The scent rises, honey-bitter. In the corners of the room, the shadows ease back from t...
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you ever wondered what I sound like great news I recorded all of Kevin Chesser's poems for @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social and you can hear my dramatic readings of classics like "Asexual Bigfoot" and "You Cannot Stop Me" (the latter is basically me threatening you, enjoy) onlypoems.com/poems/kevin-...
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Poems by Kevin Chesser | ONLY POEMS
Read Kevin Chesser, featured poet published on ONLY POEMS. Explore their portfolio of poems, and get insight into their work via an extensive interview.
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Stoked to see 1000 Women in Horror at the Atlantic Film Fest next week and delighted to learn about everything else you’ve done and can do 👇👇👇 wow this lady knows horror and cinema folks
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kyle and I disagree on generative AI and its comedy value (don't worry, I'm sending a poisoned edible arrangement to his house) but otherwise love his smart takes and POV on the thing that we are all forced to hear about and think about 👀
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Celebrating 10 pubs today (and if journals can define pubs as "if we can find it on the internet" then goddamn it, so can I) 🤩
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I made the shortlist for the Redstone/Observer postcard prize 2026! Hell to the yes. Let’s win this one honeylamb. redstonepress.substack.com/p/shortlist-...
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I have a reputation in my writing group for disliking anthropomorphized object stories. Which I do, okay? But only because they are so often NOT GOOD. But this? Sublime. Divine. Wonderful. I love you, little tea kettle. Rest easy. ❤️
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I knew JJ before* she was cool! 😎 *ok she was always cool
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What a delight to see that one of the most direct and stringent anti-AI directives re: submissions is coming from Chicken Soup for the Soul. Boomers, you may love your AI slop on Facebook but you're not going to get it in your Chicken Soup anthologies, ya hear????
A screenshot of bold black text that reads: DO NOT USE AI. We do not accept AI-generated or AI assisted submissions. We have observed that even running your story through Grammarly or any other AI tool after you have written it does not make it better. It makes it worse. Please do not use AI to generate or “improve” your story. DO NOT USE AI AT ALL
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Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🛸 jump scare, night shades is OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS 🛸 gotta keep yall on your toes 🛸 send me your stories! 🛸 closing october 11 www.nightshadesmag.com
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Night Shades
Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
the kind of genius piece that makes you go "fuck, we can do that?!" from Ellen Kombiyil in @offbeatlit.bsky.social thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/08/20/p...
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Postpartum Intake Pop Quiz ~ questionnaire by Ellen Kombiyil
Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist and author of two books and two chapbooks, most recently The American Journal of Insanity’s Diagnostic on the Plumbing & Wiring of Females (Visual Po…
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Delightful, disturbing, de-lovely. ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/lake-of-th...
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“Lake of the Gulfs” by Nathan Holic
"It's a story that's been told a thousand times. Daddy leaves early morning, goes out to the pier. Spends the day fishing with his buddies..."
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ok so generally love Annie Jacobsen’s books. Nuclear War is the scariest horror story I’ve ever read. But why is Biological War peppered with these AI gen images done by her 20 something son @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social you couldn’t find a photo or you know…pay for one? 🥴🥴🥴
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hemingway fans I will meet you in the parking lot behind the Wendy’s at 8 pm to throw down
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Spectacular, give me 14 more of em
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So good, goddamn 🙇 open.substack.com/pub/strangep...
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The Keeper of the Last Bird Eggs by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska
“The eggs here are our last reminder.” | Flash Fiction #9
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The phrase “I Haunt The Nordic Spa” was stuck in my head for 6 months and I am very pleased it found a home 😱
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My fantasy short story “Sisters of the Holy Wild”, was just published in Elegant Literature issue #058. If you’re craving a dragon story that has no dragon riding, mind-melding, or 🫣 f#%*ing…this one’s for you babe 😘 🐉🐉 www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/
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Magazine
Amazing stories by upcoming talent. No query letters. Guaranteed acceptance/rejection timeline. Above-professional pay.
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Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Today's story is "What Feu Follet Want" by Frederick Charles Melancon. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles
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What Feu Follet Want
By Frederick Charles Melancon
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Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
LAST CALL🪿🪿🪿 sillygoosepress.submittable.com/submit
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I am seated. I am sat. 🙏
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Not Quite Write @notquitewrite.com · 28/08/2026
The July 2026 Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction longlist is here! Congrats to our talented Top 40 authors! Can’t wait to see who takes home that pointy trophy 👀 ☀️ 🌙
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
FINALLY cracked @notquitewrite.com LL 🥹 - lady getting flung into space? ❌ - guy stealing a lobster and losing a toe? ❌ - Elvis possessing a disco ball? ❌ - a book-loving monk getting shipwrecked with a donkey? ✅
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
some lovely stuff in @sillygoosepress.bsky.social 's sturgeon moon edition 🌚 — digging this poem by Isabel Flick sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moo...
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an ode to buddy guy & his well-worn blues — SillyGoosePress
on mobile? turn phone sideways!
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Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🐟🌙Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon🌙🐟 OUT NOW! Give it a gander: sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moon
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
fantastic rabbit hole on medieval recipes: medievalcookery.com/recipes/reci... May I interest you in some "Bukkenade" 🫢, "Balls or Skinless Sausages" 🙃, "Grave of Small Birds" 😱, or perhaps the deliciously named "Garbage" or "Compost" 😊
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Medieval Cookery
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Most excellent ominous funny poem nice job Kevin Chesser I am amused (and scared) open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...
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You Cannot Stop Me by Kevin Chesser
"I am making soup and I am stirring my soup with a bone."
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/08/2026
wow who could have anticipated Meta’s pervert glasses would be used to ruthlessly harass women and girls, except for literally everyone smarter than paste
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fantastic list and I didn't have to take on a student loan to get it; 10/10 Thank you for sharing @carolinebeuley.bsky.social fairytalesbycaroline.substack.com/p/i-just-com...
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I just completed my MFA in fiction writing. Here are the ten most important things I learned.
Consider this your ten-minute MFA!
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
17 is my lucky number so I'm not mad at it. Glad my alt-history tale of a drug-addled cosmonaut got some play. Thank you @tldrpress.bsky.social !
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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
a couple in bed, the woman is looking at the man suspiciously as he lies facing the other way staring into space. 

on the woman i have written "I bet he's thinking about other women" 

on the man i have written "I used to be a bench"
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chickenblue @chickenblue.com · 11/08/2026
Deadline for The Coop is less than 3 days a way. Enter at www.chickenblue.com
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chickenblue
The Coop, a flash fiction contest. 1000 words*. €88 prize. Free to enter. Submissions for the August round are now open.
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Still finding my voice for this comp and realizing my dislike of puns and anthropomorphic animals may hamper me 😅 but @whimsyfiction.bsky.social there’s so much more to whimsy, right? RIGHT?!
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hear ye, hear ye all weirdos: Diachroneity Books' submissions open again *Sept 1–Nov 30 2026*. Send us your fiction oddities, with a special call this year for genre-bending smutty camp diachroneitybooks.com/Submit
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Submit — Diachroneity Books
SUBMIT ︎ We need to publish your weird shit, your uncanny valleys, the fiction that doesn’t fit in ✦ Diachro’s next submission window is...
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
(Complimentary) 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
More of a day job thing vs. a writing thing but I did gather up a little publication history if you scroll past the rest! Feast yer eyes
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👋🏼 Hi, I’m Jane Stecyk | Notion
Some numbers I’m proud of
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I want to read all the booker longlisters but I still haven't forgiven Douglas Stuart for putting my heart in a blender with Shuggie Bain. What to do, what to do 🤔
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Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Today's story is "What if Mick Jagger Grabbed My Arm at This High School Dance" by Nicole J. Brogdon. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros
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What if Mick Jagger Grabbed My Arm at This High School Dance
By Nicole J Brogdon
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Big fan of whatever this is
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Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Done. In it for the vague tweets. Don't let me down @akscotland.bsky.social
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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Finally dug up my favorite Odyssey tweet ever
@Owl_Meat on Twitter

Cyclops (crying): omg I'm so ugly

Odysseus:*puts hand on shoulder* Nobody cares

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