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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ICYMI my flash story "12 Things I Wished Happened at the Louvre Heist" published in @trampset.bsky.social last week and is free to read!

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't believe I have to keep doing this, but time to tap the sign again. Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing me and others. Read my original report for details. New details in following thread. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...

Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing Jason Sanford. Read Jason's original report for more details. https://www.patreon.com/jasonsanford/posts/genre-grapevine-161758874

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Such a lovely and thoughtful review of my flash story! Thank you for reading and sharing!

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had a sick 5yo yesterday so I am late to posting, but I am SO excited and grateful to have my latest flash story "12 Things I Wished Happened at the Louvre Heist" publish in @trampset.bsky.social! It's now up and free to read!

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This whole thread. None of the promises publishing made in 2020 came to pass. Yes, they gave a handful more Black authors deals, only to shrink that number even more afterward and fail to promote them so they could shrug and go "See? No interest!" And that's not even getting into editorial.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

they are stealing your tax money for this and doing irreversible damage to children along the way.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thank you so much for the lovely shout-out, @storyhour.bsky.social! 😊

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E. Catherine Tobler @ecatherine.com · 02/09/2026

My bones need some recovery time, y'all, so @thedeadlands.com is taking a break to give me that time. 💖💀💖

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This story is fantastic! Powerful and biting.

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My latest #fantasy flash “Venom is Poison is Strength is Venom” is now free to read at Flame Tree! 🐍 I’m very proud of this story. Head on over to their newsletter archive to check it out: www.flametreepress.com/newsletters/...

Venom is Poison is Strength is Venom by Abigail Kemske
"You get your first serpent on your sixteenth birthday when you first attract the eye of men."
Now free to read at:
FLAME TREE PRESS FICTION WITHOUT FRONTIERS

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very grateful to see such a kind review and a recommendation for this bleak/weird/ugly story: “Lightspeed’s June issue kicks off in grand style with ‘Ghost in the Tank’ … It’s a vividly told story about a world, and a relationship where every good moment feels stolen, broken, and, eventually, lost.”

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Ghost in the Tank - Lightspeed Magazine

The first time you killed me, I cried like a baby. Stupid, stupid, to cry over something make-believe—stupid and ugly and pathetic, too, when already the only thing I wanted in the world was for you ...

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Ardyce Alspach @ardyce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Zero Lives Remaining, the first in Union Square & CO’s brand new novella line, Singularity, is out today! I’m incredibly proud to be working with @adamcesare.bsky.social on this and many more to come.

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Zero Lives Remaining

It's gamers versus ghosts in this pulse-pounding novella from the USA Today bestselling author of Clown in a Cornfield. "Cesare is a true master of fast-pace...

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

SO very excited to announce that my flash fiction story "12 Things I Wished Happened at the Louvre Heist" is forthcoming in @trampset.bsky.social in September!

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in 2027! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out next year (or publicist), share the link/info here!

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A flash fiction acceptance!? To a dream magazine!? In my inbox?! It's fine, it's fine, I'm not crying it's just dog hair in my eyes.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Heyyyy, I’m looking for places to send my 10,400 word horror novelette and I’m stumped. Any recommendations for magazines/publishers interested in a story that’s Evil Dead meets coming-of-female-(r)age at the drive-in theater? 🧟‍♀️🎭🩸

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

if there's a writer you like, and you'd like to keep reading that writer's work, *you need to pay for their work*

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well, I joined Threads. I'm curious, but I also feel like I'm in Blair Witch with the camera in my face and I'm whispering "I'm so scared." We'll see if this lasts or if I nope out.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo is a book with a unique prose style that asks a lot of the reader, but it also teaches you how to read it within about 25 pages. I have absolutely no respect for people who won’t even fucking try.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I have been absolutely DELIGHTED by everything I've read in Darker Times so far, and I am eager for more. You should check them out and subscribe!

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

help us get @darkertimes.bsky.social to 250 paid subscribers and Anna will tell you about her very own ghost!!!!!!

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In 2022, before Chatgpt and everything that came next, I participated in this study. It was framed as a research on a new tool that I could try and offer my opinion on. I didn't know that it was trained on copyrighted material.

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Wordcraft Writers Workshop

The Wordcraft Writers Workshop is a collaboration between Google's PAIR and Magenta teams, and 13 professional writers. Together we explore the limits of co-writing with AI.

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 07/08/2026

Eugenia has already said here everything I was going to say about this. One thing I will add is that the lasting thing I gained following this project was a deep hatred for AI slop and LLMs as anyone who has heard me speak on ths subject since knows. I saw how the sausage was made and rejected it.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/08/2026

I have seen this going by today but have been busy, thankfully, which means by the time I looked deeper the additional context of "2022" had been surfaced. They've shoved this shit down our throats so hard it feels like we've been fighting forever, but most folks knew NOTHING about LLMs in 2022

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

ME on a list with people and books THIS COOL??? ME??????

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 04/08/2026

hey, WOW!! @ecatherine.com hell YES, buddy. love to see it. congrats to everyone on the list but an extra special congrats to Elise for her work on @thedeadlands.com locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...

Screenshot of a list under the heading "Special Award – Non-Professional". The list includes five nominees: Scott H. Andrews for Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Andy Cox for Remains, Patrick Swenson for Fairwood Press and for the Rainforest Writers Village Retreat, Elise C. Tobler for The Deadlands (highlighted in blue), and Wendy Wagner for Nightmare.

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

ICYM the ICYMI 😂🎉

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I have never used AI. I will never use AI. Fuck AI slop. You can pry my em dashes, ellipses, and semicolons from my cold, undead fingers when the eldritch horrors chuck us to the abyss.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This. Like, a bunch of us who are speaking up are members of the organization, and even though we're not the board, we feel responsibility toward steering it in positive directions.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Both kids went off to school today. My youngest started Kindergarten. Feeling all the feels.

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

we require everyone's gay dollars please process them here (if you have straight dollars we will take them as well but the exchange rate is weird so you should give us twice as many)

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

As part of the launch of our novella crowdfund, hype to share the cover for THESE HOLLOW BODIES by Z.K. Abraham (@pegasusunder.bsky.social)! The cover was illustrated by Anan Sonn Kaaren @acloudboiii.bsky.social 🖌️

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THESE HOLLOW BODIES by Z.K. Abraham

A Novella

Illustration of an East African woman with curly dark hair underwater, surrounded by bubbles and bursting with light, clutching at her neck.

Coming November 10th, 2026

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN JUNE 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's May's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

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Some Queer Short SFF - May 2026 | Charles Payseur

Pride Month might be wrapping up for many people, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop paying attention to awesome queer short SFF. Now,

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 01/02/2025

hot skeletons in your area, pt. II

Illustration of a Catacomb Saint, bejeweled skeleton
#kimgakaku

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If y'all know queer comics artists that can nail both 🚀science fiction🚀 and 🪡fashion🪡 stuff, can you tag folks or drop links to portfolios?

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I’ve been keeping this secret for MONTHS and now I can finally scream about it: I’VE GOT A FLASH CHAPBOOK COMING OUT!!!! it’s called Lies I Tell My Children and it has an amazing cover!! order it from Bottlecap Press: bottlecap.press/products/lie...

The front and back covers of the chapbook Lies I Tell My Children by Ruth Joffre. The front cover is bright red and features the silhouette of a condor surrounded by iridescent blue bubbles. The back cover has the following text:

Almost a decade in the making, Lies I Tell My Children is a collection of surreal and fanciful falsehoods dreamed up by a single mom just doing her best. Originally inspired by the things parents say to get kids to do their homework or clean their rooms, this series of flash fictions expanded into an intimate portrait of one woman’s mind: her fears, her desires, and the secrets she keeps from her children.

Built around a series of hypotheticals (e.g. “if they don’t stop growing up so fast…”), the stories in this chapbook often veer into fantasy and fabulism, depicting a world where nightmares come to life, ghosts haunt the backyard, and slime molds creep out of the air conditioner. Everything in this chapbook is a lie, and yet every word of it is true.

Ruth Joffre is a Bolivian American writer and the author of the story collection Night Beast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in more than 100 publications, including Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, TriQuarterly, Fractured Lit, Pleiades, hex literary, and the anthologies Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions. She does not have children.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Dystopian puppet shows, speculative email threads, and TEETH. and TEETH. and more TEETH. @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social rounds up the SFF short stories you need to check out from June!

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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: June 2026 - Reactor

Ten great SFF stories featuring fox spirits, dystopian puppets, and TEETH

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Many thanks to editor Josh Russell for accepting my experimental, hybrid flash for the incredible new issue of Georgia State University's Five Points journal. To see my my piece facing the inimitable Stuart Dybek's story is just extra cool. Congratulations to all! I'm excited to read your work.

Image of Five Points literary journal open to show the top of Stuart Dybek's story, "A White Fire Escape," on the left and my piece, "A Red Paint Pagoda" on the right.

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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

As we come ever closer to the end of the Hugo Awards voting period, a reminder: no matter which work you believe deserves to win the Best Poem category, just casting your vote sends a strong message for the value of the category.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"But horror is also the only thing that gets it, that meets me where I am." WHEW @rachelharrison.bsky.social really nailed my own struggles with anxiety and how horror is both a magnifier and balm to it. A brilliant essay. Also, SUPER excited to have Rachel return to Wild Geese in August!

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

GOOD MORNING, IT'S THE @darkertimes.bsky.social SUBSCRIBER DRIVE!!!! from now until Aug 14th, we're publishing every weekday - help us get to 500 paid subscribers so we can keep going! www.darkertimes.com/subscriber-d...

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The Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive

Help Darker Times get to 500 paid subscribers by August 14th so we can keep you up to your elbows in frights.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I have never used AI. I will never use AI. Fuck AI slop. You can pry my em dashes, ellipses, and semicolons from my cold, undead fingers when the eldritch horrors chuck us to the abyss.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 17/07/2026

in case you missed it! issue 43 is imminent 💀🫶

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