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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jack Smith is an American hero 👇

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you an editor or publisher with an original short fiction project of weird fiction out this year? Anthology? Magazine? Collection? Get it in for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

American barbarism has come for every living thing on this planet and now it comes for You. -- #SundaySentence by Claire Vaye Watkins in her fierce and fabulous novel of the desert, Yellow Pine. #books

The book cover is light purple with title and author in large yellow block letters over an image of a spiky desert plant.

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Shannon Fallon @shannonfallon.com · 13/09/2026

"I believe he is of [my kind];—I am sure he is—I feel akin to him—I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him." - Jane Eyre #SundaySentence

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"And, of course, there was a certain kind of person, one of the worst kinds of person, who seemed to live with a voice continually telling them how great they were, and who felt victimized because their perfection was not universally acknowledged." - Sigrid Nunez, Greensleeves.* #SundaySentence 📚

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

unboxing video where a giant book pulls the author out of the box instead

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I could peel open an ancient tree trunk, and find a way to climb inside — I think that’s where I could find you again “battle mountain” by Shawna Del Soul UNDERNEATH YOUR FINGERNAILS #SundaySentence

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 21/09/2026

And... By far, the greatest danger with short stories is that people conclude too early that they understand them.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 21/09/2026

Updating the "AI" community's own words for short fiction marketing: Short stories won’t replace humans, but humans who read short stories will replace those who don’t. The true power of short stories lies not in replacing humans, but in working alongside us to achieve what neither can do alone.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 21/09/2026

No company is going to survive in the future without understanding short stories. Short stories are about amplifying human potential, not replacing it. If you don’t have an short story strategy, you’re going to die in the world that’s coming.

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fear of change is both superstition and microcosm, an approach to the tools of our joy that says something about what those joyful dimensions really look and feel like. CHIPPED by José Vadi #SundaySentence

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mary-sonoma @mary94930.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. Wendell Berry #SundaySentence

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Jennifer Messner @occasionallyzen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We form stories about everything. But how rarely we ever know the truth, even about our own lives. Heather, Caitlin Mullen #SundaySentence #booksky #books

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#SundaySentence For several weeks now I have had the sense of something about to come to an end - that old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air. Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In this household, forgiveness is more of pretending to forget. “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter” in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol. 2 #SundaySentence

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“A novel is a way of completing life.” Colm Toibin #SundaySentence

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This week's #SundaySentence is from Djuna Barnes' Nightwood: "I like the prince who was reading a book when the executioner touched him on the shoulder telling him that it was time, and he, arising, laid a bookmark between the pages to keep his place."

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Of course poems aren’t asked for or ordered. And how do you build a life? “Copperopolis” by Tommy Orange in Freeman’s CALIFORNIA #SundaySentence

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

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Jennifer Messner @occasionallyzen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I am not the first to comment on the poignant beauty of autumn, or the gold-edged pages of its days. Andrew Sean Greer, Villa Coco #SundaySentence #booksky #books

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Jo (Sarah for some) @jostraveler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Why didn’t you have children?” “I didn’t want to do that to someone else.” “Do what?” “Childhood.” A small #SundaySentence collection from Ann Patchett’s Whistler today. 📚🐎 #Booksky

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Connections can rewrite the past, and be the beginning of a future. “Sandcastle Chalet” by Aliya Whiteley in REMAINS Issue 5 #SundaySentence

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I've only read one story so far, "A Man Walks Into a Bar," by Toby Whithouse, and oh my, all the feels.

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 25/08/2026

“Now I know we had no money But I was rich as I could be In my coat of many colors My momma made for me Made just for me…”

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Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colors

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I have a new story “Tomatoes and Oil Paintings” in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. grateful to any of you who read this one + @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for giving it a home 🍅 🎨 fracturedlit.com/tomatoes-and...

Tomatoes and Oil Paintings
by Anna Vangala Jones
Fractured Lit
Excerpt of story: “The woman waters the plants in her garden before she leaves for her morning walk. The man sits at his easel, painting, before he leaves for his morning walk. Once outside, both glance at their watches and quicken their pace to avoid being late.”

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Susy was not a great reader: her store of facts was small, and she had grown up among people who dreaded ideas as much as if they had been a contagious disease." Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon, 1922, in which a couple live in Europe on the largesse of rich friends. #SundaySentence 📚

Cover of the first edition of Edith Wharton's Glimpses of the Moon, 1922, with a colour drawing of an Italian villa at night with a pool, cypress trees, urns, stairs, manicured hedges and a full moon.

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I was a murky shadow becoming a silhouette as the sky died bloody behind me. “Like the Devil” by Ray Cluley from REMAINS ISSUE 5 #SundaySentence

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Because what could it want but the same thing as everything that lives? What life itself will always want? What else but to exist a little longer? WHAT CAME WEST by Josh Weil #sundaysentence

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S.A. Franco @sylviafranco.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition." #SundaySentence, Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin.

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We form stories about everything. But how rarely we ever know the truth, even about our own lives. HEATHER by Caitlin Mullen #Sundaysentence

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Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Wishing our beloved author Wendell Berry a happy 92nd birthday! 🥳 We're so grateful to have him as a cornerstone of our list, and we hope you'll check out some of his many celebrated works! 📚

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

But when it was just the two of us, there was always a distance. Between the daughter she wanted and the person I was. THE FLAYED MAN by Chloe Lauter #SundaySentence

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Every year, the kids had to take a big exam that let the state know just how badly I was doing my job." ~Ottessa Moshfegh, 'Bettering Myself' #SundaySentence

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"the light arriving from the stars was younger, too, the birds dreaming in the tree cavities were the birds of the past, growth rings had vanished from the trees in which they slept" #SundaySentence from Transcription by Ben Lerner openlettersreview.com/posts/transc...

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Transcription by Ben Lerner — Open Letters Review

A review of the new novel by “The Topeka School” author Ben Lerner

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"Poses significant questions about the true value of family versus the self." Gianni Washington's review of “The Flayed Man” by Chloe Lauter (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/07/27/g...

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Guilt Sharper than Fangs in "The Flayed Man" - Chicago Review of Books

Our review of Chloe Lauter's new novel, "The Flayed Man."

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is beautiful. Sad. Funny. Great.

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information. - William T. Vollmann, Europe Central born on this day, 1959 #BookSky #WilliamTVollmann

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.” ~Claire Keegan, ‘Foster’ #SundaySentence

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

But trauma can lead to family. Accidents can create friendships. The world’s randomness. The unplanned-for events of your life. ALL FRIENDS ARE NECESSARY by Tomas Moniz #SundaySentence

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