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Cetera Magazine @ceteramagazine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A quiet roommate. A house that always smells of bleach. A suspicion that refuses to stay buried. “Bleach" by Nora Ray (@noraraywrites.bsky.social) starts as psychological horror and ends somewhere even more unsettling. Read it now: www.ceteramagazine.com/bleach/ artwork by @jonnegroni.bsky.social

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"Bleach" by Nora Ray

A woman is sure her quiet roommate isn't human. She's almost right.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

POEM 332: "more legs, more legs, more legs to run" by Nora Ray (@noraraywrites.bsky.social) "i am alone on this hill: my only salvation from the water murdering the phlox, its petals loose and overwhelmed; it has been raining for half my age" stonecirclereview.com/more-legs #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Ok. Just seeing the phrase "lacerate my retina" is already making my eyes water. Gonna try to read this anyway.

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"The surgeon asked me not to move my eyes. He was specific. He told me if I moved them, the red dot would lacerate my retina." If eye surgery wasn't already horrific enough, Nora Ray adds a whole new layer in the unsettling displacement of her weird horror story "LASIK".

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"LASIK" by Nora Ray - Seize The Press

jokes The surgeon asked me not to move my eyes. He was specific. He told me if I moved them, the red dot would lacerate my retina. I wondered if all doctors shot threats at their patients during surge...

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"The hospital is built on a cliff overlooking the ocean. From his room, I can see down the coast to where the fires burn. When I’m not sitting at his bedside, I walk the long hallways..." Today on ergot.: 'The Forest of Almost Death' by @timothyfox.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Timo...

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innovative + experimental horror

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

i have been very busy moving, i hope i will get back to writing asap. i think i won't be publishing many short stories this year, though

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

STP Issue #13 is out now! A bumper issue of weird fiction, wretched vibes, queer cyberpunk, vengeful aliens, an unhinged horsegirl, and loads more. The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.

Cover of Seize The Press Magazine issue thirteen, showing an insectoid humanoid looking up to the sky as a flaming skull comet hurtles towards impact.

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We've got a new issue coming out very soon and you can get a sneak peak at the sick cover art by Ana Luna.

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Cover art sneak peak for Issue #13 | Seize The Press Magazine

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

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Submissions - Seize The Press

Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

if you want a free query critique, please approach me! i can do up to three this week

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

hi!!! follow me on ig @ norarayauthor

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Cosmic Daffodil Journal @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! THEME: TIDAL LIGHT🌊✨️ Submit on Duosuma - Check out our website for more information. Also, please vote for CDJ if you have a moment for Chill Subs annual BEST LIT MAGS: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

If anyone is looking for something to recommend for any awards you might be associated with, "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" by Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social deserves all the awards. Essential reading. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...

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Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism

Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

still processing that i got a full request after only a few sent queries

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

read my new flash in Ghost Parachute! ghostparachute.com/issue/septem... artist @damicandrea.bsky.social

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HAD @havehashad.com · 16/07/2025

today's Chris Scott short really found a way to crawl inside me and not get out "If your brother really broke his arm. If your brother broke his arm falling from the ash tree in our backyard, the one along the fence. If your brother broke his arm..." www.havehashad.com/ivovi

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I'm Pretty Sure I Would Remember That by Chris Scott

If your brother really broke his arm. If your brother broke his arm falling from the ash tree in our backyard, the one along the fence. If your brother broke his arm falling from the tree because he’d…

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

and here is my another new story! (someone has been productive this year, right?) it's my third story with the number 5⃣ in the title! the piece was a lot of fun to write 👻 maudlinhouse.net/5-reasons-to...

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5 Reasons to Rent This Apartment

No Curse Tower 103993, Otherworldly Avenue 3 Monthly Rent: $4,000 Bedrooms: 2 You’ve spent weeks trying to find a safe and cozy apartment that would cost you less than a fortune, haven’t you? Congratu...

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My new story "Three First Dates with You!" 🍷 is published in Flash Fiction Magazine i think it was the first time i decided to write something in the second person and now i'm addicted to it flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...

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Three First Dates with You

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Cosmic Daffodil Journal @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Submissions for LOST & FOUND close in ONE WEEK ✨️📅 Visit our website for more information: cosmic-daffodil.squarespace.com/submission-g... We can't wait to see your creations!

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

i have three poems in the new issue of Frigg Magazine! friggmagazine.com

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Ellen Parker @ellentparker.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Work by Grant Frazier, daniel joseph, Sean Lovelace, John Mandelberg, Bruce McRae, Sreeja Naskar, Cee Pugsley, Nora Ray, Milla van der Have, and Rachel Weinhaus. Many thanks to staffers Dennis Mahagin, Elizabeth Glixman, and Al Faraone.

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🍎my short-short story "FRIDAY IS RED" is out there in the @twinbirdreview.bsky.social summer issue! www.twinbirdreview.com/ray-banerjee...

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

hi there! i'm finally here again. i had a disastrous trip this month and have been offline a little too much (not complaining). now i'm waiting for my novel editor to get back to me!

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

rereading your favorite book is a divine experience

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

i wrote a hilarious poem and submitted to a mag. generally, i'm fine

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Cosmic Daffodil Journal @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🌿Call for Photography & Visual Art Submissions 🍃 Theme: In the Company of Strangers Check out our website for more information! Submissions close ⭐️April 15th⭐️

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🕸🌵 my new little creep "Why Do You Hate Nature?" is now published in Propagule Magazine www.propagule.co/musings-mote...

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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#FF It’s National Caramel Day! Give some ❤️ and a follow to these folks in the lit community beginning with the letter “C”: @cherrytreelit.bsky.social @cicadasongpress.bsky.social @coolbeanslit.bsky.social @corporeallitmag.bsky.social @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social @cottonwoodku.bsky.social Cont ⬇️

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Cosmic Daffodil Journal @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Submissions close for IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS in 10 days. We are looking for poetry, Flash fiction and nonfiction, short story, and photography/visual art. Spread the word ✨️

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"...and don’t forget that time in the kitchen when your older teenage sister was cooking crayfish and you watched them trying to crawl out of the steaming water, screaming..." Today on ergot.: 'Brief Interlude with the Night Hag' by David Luntz @dluntz.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Davi...

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innovative + experimental horror

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/03/2025

soothing my anxiety about the future by looking at beautiful fabrics. this is a linen wool blend in a taupe houndstooth

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

there's a character in my novel who's obsessed with stationery, she's so me 📖📖📖

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Peculiar Julia @peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Mad River - what you should know You don't need a Medium account to submit and be published The river is fussy, but fair We love reprints We nominate for #Boost #Submissions are open Weird, wonderful, ethereal, &/or experimental #Fiction #Poetry #CNF medium.com/the-mad-rive... #LitMag

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of all joys and woes: Submission guidelines

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nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

my favorite question is, "what's your favorite color?"

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

"Even people who don't generally enjoy fantasy novels absolutely love these books!" Servants of the Moon and Sun, an epic fantasy reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. What if Maleficent was Aurora's mother and what if she wasn't really evil? www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D

4 book covers by Joel C Flanagan-Grannemann. Mother of Exiles, Fairy Court in Exile, Talia:On the Shore of the Sea and Talia:Heir to the Fairy Realm.

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