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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Once again, a day late. Green shoots, though!

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

tfw you deserve a little treat (a trip to the homeware section of TK Maxx)

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I'm enjoying the cynicism of How To Get Away With Murder but why is it so dark?

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Oh Rob. He's so sweet. Pity about the goddess in his head, who is not.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

If anyone feels like saying yes to me, today would be a good day.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The galactic multiglobal invites you to gaze in wonder at their towering achievements in @juliaaugust07.bsky.social’s new story “Transmission Systems.” kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

This is the dam of Alta Aldeia. Do you hear what I’m saying? This is our glorious hydro future: this great raw building site, these dug-out banks and pent-up currents, these beasts of metal burden lumbering over sandy shores, this dam, this huge and splendid clean fuel generator, this glittering capstone of our benevolent National Development Plan S.p.A. 51055, is Alta Aldeia.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Why are some mirrors so much more flattering than others?

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Who else has binge-watched Will Trent and is now looking up chihuahua rescues?

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My short story “Steel Holds the Heat’s Memory” is now free to read at @kaleidotrope.bsky.social! It’s the first published story from a setting I’ve been playing with for 25 years. I hope you enjoy it! kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

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“Steel Holds the Heat’s Memory” by Rick Hollon

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Jennifer ScareCrow @writerjencrow.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

You can read my poem “Hungry Years” in the latest issue of Kaleidotrope online. kaleidotrope.net And while you’re there, don’t miss excellent poetry from @epapasoulioti.bsky.social and @mariness.bsky.social .

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“Open your window and look upon all the kinds of alive you can be” – The Weepies, “Little Bird”

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

New @kaleidotrope.bsky.social is out today with a whole bunch of great things and also my tiny new science fiction story (very rare from me) about a dam and the problem of power transmission. It's called "Transmission Systems". kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

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“Transmission Systems” by Julia August

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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“Transmission Systems” by Julia August

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

There's a new issue of Kaleidotrope today! kaleidotrope.net

Kaleidotrope header image (artwork by Katherine Souza)

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'm going to develop a single-minded obsession with snapping the peacock butterfly I saw this afternoon. I can feel it coming on already.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I went to return a book and when I got there the library was shut and when I put the book in the book box it bit me?

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I'm having one of those "should I cut off all my hair?" months.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I assume roses draw blood as a token of respect and gratitude.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The arc of interior decorating is long but it bends towards more bookshelves.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Lost. So completely lost. I'm lost in the National Gallery and seeing things I've never seen before.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My favourite thing about plants is how you might have overwatered them or you might have underwatered them.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A thread of minor omens: Starting the week with a 181 day form rejection.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

When you're an adult, they let you play with the staple gun.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Look, it's me. "Dunwich Revisited", a tiny quiet reflective walk around a Lovecraft-flavoured valley.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Look, it's me. "Dunwich Revisited", a tiny quiet reflective walk around a Lovecraft-flavoured valley.

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We're planning some cool content for our subscribers, leading up to our first issue! Get in on it here: psychopomp.com/fantasy/ Subscriptions directly pay for the work of *actual writers*! Help make Fantasy a thriving venue for awesome creatives! -A

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Our next issue features amazing short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. Issue drops June 1st, 2025!

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I think my favourite thing about giving blood is when they tell you where the blood has gone.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The Winter 2025 Kaleidotrope features fantastic new fiction by @helendecruz.net, Ire Coburn, @lindseyduncan.bsky.social, @kashinggiwa.bsky.social, @amygriswold.bsky.social, Laney Gaughan, Megan Branning, Owen McManus, @devanbarlow.bsky.social, Toby MacNutt, S. Cameron David, and Tara Calaby!

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"Am I wasting my life? No, the cat that hassles me for snacks says I'm doing fine."

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I'm not watching Lidia Poët for the outfits, but I'm not not watching it for the outfits either.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The Devil says, "You should pop into Lidls and see what Christmas sweets they have left over."

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James Everington @jheverington.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

My annual favourite short stories of the year post. 75+ make the list this year. Aren't short stories great? Please share this one, as it increases the odds of listed authors seeing it... jameseverington.blogspot.com/2024/12/favo...

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Favourite Short Stories 2024

2024 - quite a year, huh? But it means it's time for my annual favourite short stories of the year post. Same 'rules' as before (you can f...

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Pleased to say I can recognise a fake death in a mid-20th-century detective novel from the moment the disfigured remains turn up with some helpful identifying objects.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

"How's my day going? Well, I no longer own a glass kettle."

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

tfw everywhere that might have sold you chocolate is shut

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Perhaps Netflix could stop asking me how I feel about something I run for approximately 75% of the winter (Fireplace For The Home).

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

So we can go public now - @rozc.bsky.social and I will be accepting novella submissions for @wtpress.bsky.social early next year. And congrats to @queex.bsky.social @bethkesh.bsky.social @dergullen.bsky.social and Juliet Kemp!

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It's That Season: who do I get the novelty jelly set for?

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Scrolling aimlessly through the internet as I try to remember what it was, five whole minutes ago, that I meant to look up.

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Telling myself it happens to all of us: you get old, you get tired, you get really into antique pottery...

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Julia August @juliaaugust07.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I have made all the classic superglue errors, with minor elements of slapstick, and can no longer sign into things with my thumbprint.

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