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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 11/10/2026

According to Kickstarter tracking service, Kicktraq, the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE campaign is trending toward only reaching 94% of our goal. So WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP. If you love SF, fantasy, and horror short fiction, please consider backing today and sharing this post. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love Nell Zink. And I agree, she deserves to be better known!

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"She made me swear—not on my life but hers. She knew that would be stronger. That I was too dumb to worry about dying myself but I’d never survive without her. Tell anyone and I’ll drop dead, she said. Tell anyone and you kill me." 💥💥 A head-on collision of a story from @mbvalente.bsky.social 💥💥

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So heart-rending, even told with such a beautifully light touch. That ending!

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trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"We met when I was even smaller and dumber than I am now and she was already papercut sharp and stinging between my fingers" @mbvalente.bsky.social's "Three Stories About Romy I Promised Never to Repeat" www.trampset.org/post/three-s...

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Three Stories About Romy I Promised Never to Repeat | trampset

by MB Valente...At recess that first day she told me to punch a boy she pointed out and I did. He hit me back and got in trouble but nobody yelled at me. I just crouched in her shadow and felt its war...

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Aaah, it's so good! Congrats to Anj!

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trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We’re now reading for our September issue. Coming Aug 28 new work from @javert.bsky.social @williamtaylorjr.bsky.social Jack Fisher, Tymber Wolf, Casey Jo Gram Weimers, Zebulon Huset, @elissafield.bsky.social Julieanne Larick, Liz Berkstresser @mbvalente.bsky.social & @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social 👀

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It's seriously so well written I got excited and had to share

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"This is why I don’t dread your omnipresence, even with the unshakable certainty you most definitely will end up showing up as the thing I fear the most: myself." ...beautiful short-short story by @janapbianchi.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social 🪐📚 www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

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Of Brackens and Cowries

The night after my Mom’s funeral, you showed up dressed as a pot of hot soup on the stove, as all the tumbleweeds of fallen hair mysteriously vacuumed from the floor, as fresh linens smelling of her c...

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A gently eerie slide into the inexplicable horrors of childhood by the wonderful @montanna-harling.bsky.social

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

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We started by investigating why Claude chose to blackmail. We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation.

Our post-training at the time wasn’t making it worse—but it also wasn’t making it better.

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Get ready to revise your opinion of stories about writers writing about writing. This one by Anna Hogeland in @electricliterature.com is so smart and intoxicating and real. electricliterature.com/fictions-by-...

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This Famous Writer Is Ruining Her Writing - Electric Literature

“Fictions” by Anna Hogeland, recommended by Preety Sidhu for Electric Literature

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GCL Boisset @gcl-boisset.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

10) False Light by @mbvalente.bsky.social : Earth is a radioactive dump and humanity has taken refuge in orbital satellite. Artist Wey does not accept peddling artificial images of Earth and wants to visit the real thing. Good tenacity

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jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My Writer's Hotel student, MB Valente has a new novelette in the current issue of Analog -- "False Light." check it out.

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Anyone who has the chance to do a workshop with Jeffrey Ford absolutely should -- one of the funniest and coolest dudes in the industry. Thanks, Jeff!!

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Thank you! Hope you enjoy the read

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My novelette "False Light" is in the March/April issue of @analogsf.bsky.social ! If you like post-Earth stories or toxic relationship stories or mad-world-drives-girl-mad stories, then you might like this! And an excerpt is free to read online at analogsf.com/current-issue/story-excerpt1/ 📚🪐💙

Cover of the March/April 2026 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact: an illusion of a girl holding a floating fruit to her lips, surrounded by planets with a light shining from her forehead

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A strange thing about being an author who straddles SFF and literary fiction is encountering people describe the "other side" with the strangest stereotypes. It's like when you read ancient history and locals have rumors the realm across the sea is populated by people with two heads and eight feet.

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

It's a tough time out there to be a lit mag, even if you're as kickass as JAKE. Treat yourself to some of the awesomeness before they go ungentle into that good night! They made a home for a story about a sad anarchist meeting Alien Jesus. They are beauty. Au revoir, l'ami.

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Yesssss, it looks awesome! I love how well Derek's art matches the atmosphere of your stories

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 06/10/2025

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀 buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon! please like + RT this to help spread the word psychopomp.com/the-deadland... behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A masterpiece! Truly boundary pushing in a way few things I've read recently can touch

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Mmmmm the cheerful fatalism and funweird of this! "Anti-Capitalism vs the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia @naokan.bsky.social www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/anti...

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Haruspice! You have such a stock of amazing words

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Delighted to have a short piece in Flash Fiction Magazine, online today: a woman's cat loses patience with her depressive behavior and tells her all the reasons she's pathetic... but in a, you know, violent way. flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...

Screenshot of webpage of Flash Fiction Magazine showing the title and start of the story "A Farewell Letter, Translated from the Felinese" by MB Valente

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 08/08/2025

Asking only the toughest questions here

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Damn guy you're getting good at this

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"Lyrics of love lost drift into the sac-like chambers of its long, muscular heart." A dark, watery ode to Dolly's magic 💙 www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...

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Brett Pribble — Does It Have Pockets

The Anglerfish Hears Dolly Parton

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Love this recent piece in Flash Fiction Mag: "You are almost five years old, and you have never been smaller—a mouse, a fly, a flea."

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Julia Bernhard @juliabernhard.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Choose your fighter.

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The print edition of Quentin Zuttion's All Princesses Die Before Dawn, a graphic novel about a day in the life of a family struggling to care for each other, is also up for an Eisner 💙 (and in incredible company)

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Thrilled to see these incredible authors getting international recognition and proud to be a part of it! Both these books are stunners btw and available from various ebook platforms 🐠💣

List of Eisner Award nominees for Best Digital Comic, which includes The Beauty Salon by Quentin Zuttion and The Spider and the Ivy by Grégoire Carlé

Cover of The Beauty Salon by Quentin Zuttion

Cover of The Spider and the Ivy by Grégoire Carlé

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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Yesss one of my favorites, too

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

eat a book to gain its vocabulary

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