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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

GUYS. I got rejected by Analog and I’m thrilled about it! Trevor said he likes my writing and suggested I try them again. You can bet I will! I KNOW IT’S A REJECTION. Just let me have this moment. 😂

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My story “Target Sixty-Three” lands in Bullet Points on Oct 15. “In mechanized war, one hesitation humanizes the enemy and plants the seed of peace.” bulletpoints.nathantoronto.com Grateful to @bulletpoints.bsky.social for giving it a home!

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Bullet Points

A Home for Military SFF

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My flash fiction, The Sunday Meter, took honorable mention in The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition! You can read it here: theghoststory.com/story/the-su...

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THE SUNDAY METER - The Ghost Story

The Sunday Meter, a flash fiction story by Mari Harrison, won Honorable Mention in the Summer 2026 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition.

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Two comments: - The #Ploughshares thing is a big deal, and I'm proud of the story. But I can only mention it now because I didn't win. - “Please feel excited about this achievement" sounds like a line from #Severance management. I will try to enjoy both emails equally. Time a waffle party!

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Honored that my story, Passage 407, won the Supernatural Fiction Award. Her fingerprints vanished first. Then the feeling in her hands. But Mia’s cells kept growing… Read the full story here: theghoststory.com/story/passag...

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PASSAGE 407 - The Ghost Story

Passage 407 by Mari Harrison won the Spring 2026 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award for short stories on a supernatural theme.

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

You really need this today, trust me.

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Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This month's drabble call is: send us your best weird.

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A post on Trump’s Truth Social said they’ve “released the first tranche of the UFO/UAP files…” Who’s posting for him? Because there’s no chance Donny used the word tranche.

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Nature Futures @naturefutures.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This is more than just dinner. This is an experience. A revolution, one bite at a time. This is food as you’ve never known it. A meal unlike any other. Truly a taste of things to come! #scifi by @javajnkie.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A slice of pie sits on a plate with two forks — everything is covered in binary code

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My Nature: Futures story is out! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

New fiction (set in Hadley, MA) in Hamilton’s philosophy journal, Book XI: www.bookxi.org/issue-xx#/fo...

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Issue XX — Book XI

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Whoohoo! I can announce that my short story is included! Pick up your copy in August at a bookstore or online retailer near you! Or directly from the publisher ( www.flametreepublishing.com/christmas-ho... )

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Christmas Horror Short Stories - Flame Tree Publishing

This collection gathers together classics such as Dickens' A Christmas Carol, alongside stories from writers working today, exploring many ways in whi

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

HusbandI’m going to the store. Can I get you anything? Me: yeah, a fainting goat. They’re super cute. Him: ok, I’ll see what I can do. Me: Two actually. Him: Of course, you don’t want them to get lonely. I take that as passive agreement and am now looking on Craigslist for fainting goats.

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I was a finalist! I mean, it’s still a rejection in the end, but I’m still happy. Congrats to the winners and everyone who entered!

Writers of the Future 1st Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 43
March 25, 2026 / 0 Comments / in Quarterly
Winners / by Joni Labaqui
And the winners are:
First Place - Casey Phillips from Tennessee
Second Place - Sandra Siegienski from
Oregon
Third Place - Caleb Bishop from Missouri
Finalists:
Mari Harrison from Massachusetts
Ethel Jean from Kansas
Kain Massin from Australia
John McLaughlin from Pennsylvania
Martijn Veltman from California

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The world is falling apart, but I’m still going to the New Orleans Book Festival next week!

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I’m breeding super mice here. This is the no-kill mousetrap in my attic. I caught a few, then the bait started disappearing. I set a camera up to see how. Now the deer mice are mocking me.

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Drabbles are fun. Try your hand at a 100 word weird Dear John letter, then submit it to @ratbaglit.bsky.social asap. I didn’t submit this one, so I’ll drop it here as an example.

A Fishy Goodbye
I’ve lived in your living room for four years, circling the same path around that dumb ceramic castle. You named me Kevin. I never corrected you.

Yesterday you dropped a flake in and said, "You're the only one who never leaves." That was the moment I decided to leave
I’ve arranged transport via the upstairs neighbor’s cat. She’s agreed to carry me to the river in exchange for intel on your guppies. It’s a gamble, but so is staying. Flush this note when you find it. I don't want a eulogy.

Kevin
P.S. my name is Liz. Always has been.

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This editing job is due by close of business. Beta is having none of it.

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This morning, I told my husband about the dream that made me wake up unnecessarily grumpy. He came home with this.

A greeting card with a teal and gold geometric diamond pattern on the cover. Inside, handwritten in thick black sharpie ink on the left panel:
"dear dream wife,
I'm sorry I asked for a divorce. I take it back. Real husband says he doesn't want one either.
Love,
dream husband"

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Cupid has had it with us. open.substack.com/pub/ratbagli...

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Obsolescence

By Mari Harrison

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New poetry and fiction soon in AJN, Book XI journal, and RatBag.

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

My cat is 100 percent sure I control the weather and he’s mad at me about the snow.

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Should be cleaning my house. Instead I’m writing drabbles for @ratbaglit.bsky.social weird fiction themed call, “Saving Daylight.” I wrote two more than I can submit, so I’m posting one here instead of locking it in the vault forever. Enjoy the temporal horror until the sun sets on this one too.

$11:59 a.m. By M. Harrison The sky glitches. Light doubles back, overlays itself, noon stacks on noon. Shadows argue, then separate, moving opposite directions. Astronomers call it refraction. Insurance companies say it is an act of god. By evening, the sun still hasn't moved past noon. Clocks keep ticking forward, but daylight is preserved, trapped, circling the same hour, pressing against windows. Midnight passes. The sun stays, knocking on roofs, looking for exits. Finally, someone opens a door and tomorrow pours in, eight hours compressed into seconds. Night punches through. Dogs howl. Owls wake up. Everything that should have happened slowly happens all at once.$

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

REMINDER 📢 voting for the 2025 Apex Magazine Reader's Choice Awards closes tomorrow at midnight EST! Give your favorite Apex authors and cover artists some love and submit your ballot below ⬇️🗳️ www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

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2025 Reader's Choice Awards - Vote Now!

We are holding our annual Reader's Choice Awards from now through the end of January! Please vote for one piece of original fiction...

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Ever fall in love with your own words? Cutting a 2k-word story that begged to be microfiction instead. Sad about losing two sentences that sung. I’ll let you know where it lands In the mean time, go check out @claudineliterary.bsky.social for tight, gorgeous fiction. www.claudineliterary.net

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Claudine: A Literary Magazine

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Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Today's story is "Threadbare" by ML Strijdom. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros ratbaglit.substack.com/p/threadbare

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/01/2026

Akhil Sharma was unimpressed when he first read “The Sun Also Rises.” Then he began “to experience Hemingway’s language in the way that I think it was intended to be experienced,” he writes. “By the end of the book, I was a different person.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mGib6D

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The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises”

Although Ernest Hemingway’s novel makes positive claims about what one should be—brave, admiring of nature and grace—its architecture is held up primarily by hatred.

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Like short bursts of weird fiction? Check out @ratbaglit.bsky.social

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Trump pardoned Ex-Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández 31 days ago. JOH was serving 45yrs for weapons & conspiring to import 400+ tons of cocaine. If you believe the party line that #Maduro’s arrest is abt drugs & not oil or a #distraction from #Epstein files & T’s pedophilia,you may be in a cult.

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Hot damn.. yesterday took me 1:07. I shaved off 42 seconds, got a personal best, and don’t know how. I should probably do something requiring real thinking today! Shuffalo, 0m 25s 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

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Play Shuffalo: Friday, January 2, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

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Mari Harrison @javajnkie.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A viroid-like RNA “obelisk” has been discovered across species, including in human microbiomes. They challenge traditional views of viruses and life, encoding proteins called Oblins. The world is amazing. Science is bad-ass. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/12/2025

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment

I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

New Writer Spotlight 💡 “There’s an application half-finished on my laptop for an MFA program, but I can’t make myself click submit. Sometimes, being small and still feels like the only intelligent choice.” @javajnkie.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/mariharrison

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Mari Harrison | The Octopus Tank

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