iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much

Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

thankful to Jeff for offering this weird little flash a home after hearing it at Stanchion’s AWP open mic, and honored for the nomination!

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

in my sending 8-minute long voice memo screes to people who knowingly send me ai slop era

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

evening house is one of coolest indie bookstores out there right now and you should buy some books from them!

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i have two stories on this list! always thankful for the inspiration and support from the @smokelong.bsky.social workshop community

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

fyi DC friends, would take this and anything else GGW puts out with a very fine grain of salt. GGW has gone to the ai hellscape dark side 🫠

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 28/08/2026

Effigy by @rlsummerling.bsky.social cold-signal.com/effigy-r-l-s... The Palace on the Shore by JF Gleeson cold-signal.com/the-palace-o... The Procedure by @lkardos.bsky.social cold-signal.com/the-procedur... A Ways Off by @addisonzeller.bsky.social cold-signal.com/a-ways-off-a...

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"That you’ll ask me to dinner because it’s been too long and maybe, if I’m up to it, we can split a cheesecake for dessert" A stunner from @lkardos.bsky.social that makes such great use of the title as a shadow over what follows; how the ending propels you to re-read through new eyes.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And along with those things, the automation was replacing the labour with an inferior version, so it wasn't improvement at any level except wealth for the wealthy.

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Your semi-annual reminder: DIHP is Fee-Free til the end of August! www.doesithavepockets.com/subs

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“But all this light, all this blue sky and green fields around us had to come from somewhere…” the great @iamchrisscott.bsky.social has done it in 6 sentences this time, folks

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I beat this drum so often but I don't want to be "helped" by AI. I don't want AI to "work on my hobbies" for me—they're MY hobbies and the undertaking is part of the pleasure. I don't want AI to write my books for me, because they're MY books & each one let me dig deeper into my soul. FUCK OFF.

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sarah l. hawthorn (A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING '26) @slhawthorn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don't want email summaries I don't want youtube video summaries I don't want search summaries I don't want anything made by a water-guzzling liar and thief with no mind, soul, or bigger purpose other than making everything around me worse, uglier and warmer. No amount of pop ups will convince me!

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hello friends and happy Friday we are making all our ebooks free today with code FREEFRIDAY malarkeybooks.com/ebooks

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Ebooks — Malarkey

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“I crept from kitchen to bedroom, a fieldmouse in the tall grass, avoiding the talons of Mom’s grief.” @lkardos.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/laur...

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

writer buds, block these “film” and “writing” festival ai slop accounts immediately. just got three follow requests back to back. lots of mutuals I see counter followed.

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"“Why do we have to make the six-hour drive when they hate us?”" Food, family, & grief, gorgeously folded in to this new #flashfiction from @lkardos.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/laur...

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

loved the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social last year, but 2026 demands a steadier pace. trying for a poetry collection every 2-3 days in August. will create a thread for all the greatness I read here throughout the month

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It'd mean everything to me if you preorder my book. But definitely pick up some other Malarkey titles. They're all amazing reads 💙💙💙

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

one of those auspicious double publication weeks. grateful to @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for giving this one a home 🫶🏻 www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/laur...

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

first skull in a while 💀, big thanks to @havehashad.com for publishing my longing little micro

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm not letting AI horseshit maneuver me into a defensive position with my writing. I write like I write. I love emdashes. I keep using emdashes. Whatever we write, AI will take and copy it -- all you can do is keep writing the best shit you can write in the form you want it to take, and fuck it.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

AI is making everyone's life more expensive, according to CNN. "Households must spend just over $375 more to purchase the same goods and services as they did this time last year due to AI’s inflationary impact,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says. www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/e...

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AI is making your life more expensive. Here’s how | CNN Business

AI is raising prices for Americans – and not just electricity bills.

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social transports you in place and time, each flash has you feeling like the characters are people you know. wished it was longer than a chap! out from @chestnutreview.bsky.social #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Book cover for All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury by Mario Aliberto III. Cover image features a black and white photo of two dolls in tiny open graves

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

another recent fav flash collection: Everything’s Changing by @chelseastickle.bsky.social. love how each piece leans into the surreal to get at the complex messiness of human relationships. grab a copy from @thirtywestph.com #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Book cover for Everything’s Changing by Chelsea Stickle. Cover image is a monochromatic 1950s-esque woman in a white coat, sunglasses, and a scarf around her hair.

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

another banger of a flash collection, Maybe This is What I Deserve by Tucker Leighty-Phillips pub’d by @splitlippress.com. bits of wonder woven with the everyday, each story offers this childlike sense of understanding something new and weird and glorious #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Book cover of Tucker Leighty-Phillips’ collection Maybe This is What I Deserve. Cover image features a realist painting of two people conversing in a large hole in a tree with snow all around.

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hereafter by @sfreligh.bsky.social is a novella-in-flash that feels like a guiding light for the genre. a tiny book I read slowly because I didn’t want it to end, even if I cried at every other flash. head to @adhocfiction.bsky.social and get your tissues ready #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Book cover for Sarah Freligh’s Hereafter. Cover image is of a rainy city street and cobblestone at night. A red bar light creates a red reflection.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We hosted @sawers.bsky.social last month--copies still available here, too!

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Anchored World by @sawers.bsky.social is one of those collections that lingers years after reading. whether based fable or fairy tale, each flash comes with teeth. grab their collection from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Book cover of Jasmine Sawers’ The Anchored World. Cover image is a haunting gray and white face in watercolor.

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

final one of the evening, Kristen Zory King’s Ladies Ladies Ladies from the kind folks at @stanchion.bsky.social is so, so good. each flash blends the uncanny and familiar, I feel like these ladies on the page are people I know #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Book cover for Ladies Ladies Ladies by Kristen Zory King. Cover image is the title in large font over a grayscale unmade bed.

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

the lovely @bayveen.bsky.social self-published her flash collection last year. loss, love, myth, and so much more, you can contact Bayveen directly for your copy of Life Blood, Ghost Breath #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Book cover for Bayveen O’Connell’s Life Blood, Gost Breath. Cover image is two women hugging a skeleton

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I was lucky enough to hear @lumchanmfa.bsky.social read from her gorgeous collection Bitter Over Sweet at AWP, and truly every story is a fish bat to the heart. grab your copy from @sfwp.bsky.social #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Book cover of Melissa Llanes Brownlee’s Bitter Over Sweet collection. Blue background with brown centipedes and coral flowers.

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

ready your TBRs, my #smokelong #blurbchallenge recommendations are incoming tonight

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

tired: AC breaking at 9pm the week of a code red air quality heat wave wired: getting a 💀

A screenshot of an emailed submittable acceptance letter from HAD

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“I want to ask my mother, though I do not, how she believes they took a photograph of Jesus, who was not alive at a time when photography was a going concern…” everything about this James Tadd Adcox in @thedodgemag.bsky.social thedodgemag.com/summer-2026-...

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The Ascent - The Dodge Magazine

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“Your brother would stab the heart pancakes, and wouldn’t touch his “J,” silent resistance against Daddy’s silent bribe.” oof this @taracampbell.bsky.social flash went straight to the heart

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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

8. Formerly testicles 9. Pre-deer 10. Eternal non binary virgin muscle mommy born via ax-section out of a tiny fly imprisoned in a fuckboi’s skull (she’s not like other girls!) 11. Cannibal giant 12. Psychic shapeshifting part-time dude 13. Goth elevator operator 14. And Penny

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

catching up on bookmarked stories and this spooky little @iamchrisscott.bsky.social one is excellent. “I know what this means, the slow winding down, but I’m not afraid of what comes after. I’m not afraid of that.”

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

📣 3 days left and we're $210 away from 9c/word! 📣 Our first stretch goal towards keeping our fiction rates the same is almost here! (That's also $5210 away from 10c/word! 👀)

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

on a roadtrip with my mother and if you know my writing you know I need some reading material right now. any stories you’ve loved lately? drop them in the comments, I have another 3 hours to get through 🥴

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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

a gorgeous one from @chelseastickle.bsky.social “If I gathered all the fireflies into my palm, would they look like a rock glittering in the sun? Like that fool’s gold I found panning last summer. It wasn’t real gold, but I felt like I won anyway.”

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“Sensei is Japanese for ‘good father.’ He thinks. He’s not sure. But he’s probably right.”

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The hill I'll die on is believing that there's nothing cooler and more punk than caring, trying, and being kind.

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Four khoreo magazine covers over an orange background.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.

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