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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

ICYMI, we are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS for Issue 4! The theme: EXPLORATION 🪐🗡️ Submissions are open until October 21st! With this theme, we're interested in stories that explore new worlds, the self, ideas, relationships... anything! Don't self-reject! Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 5h

Need more books for your Halloween TBR? Get 93 for the nice, nice price of $69 😆 Featuring all levels of scare including No Love in LA, my angsty goth enemies to lovers romance between a Satanic metal singer & her ex's super hot bestie who doesn't take her shit, & definitely hates her...right? 📚🌶️📢

Orange background with bats, cemetery, witch with a pumpkin. Text: Chills, thrills & kills an itchio bundle 93 books for $69 a very big and spooky bundle of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year's Hallowe'en season! hosted by indie book spotlight

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

HEY I remember that [spoiler shushing]; I vote NO CONFIDENCE

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Spoonie Authors Network @spoonieauthnet.bsky.social · 5h

Spoonie Authors Chat for writers who manage spoons, October 15, 2026; What do you think makes an compelling hero? (Please quote-post and add #SpoonieAuthChat!)

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

Like only the BEST enemies-to-lovers stories 🫦

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

AHAHA poor Aneira! I can imagine her thinking "pretend, dammit!"

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 15h

This is from All the King's Dead: Aneira has just married the most feared man in the kingdom and is trying to figure him out #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FantasySky

Scowl notwithstanding, he did not carry himself like a cruel man, even after he’d committed a cruel act. She must make herself believe he wouldn’t be cruel to her, until he proved otherwise.
Courage. What does one do when facing an angry bear?
Make yourself look bigger.
“Do you see what I’m doing?” she said, pointing at her own face. “I’m smiling. It’s how you make people think you’re happy.”
An infinitesimally brief moment passed where something like surprise flashed in his eyes, but then he lapsed back into irritation. “Why?”
“Because weddings are happy. And when they’re not happy, we pretend they are because it’s how we maintain pretenses.”

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

Oh NO Foooooox come oooooonnnn

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💀🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊👻 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 15h

October 15th – pass Fox has a new friend! Or, at least, it would very much like to be her new friend! #DawnsBlood #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 14h

#WIPSnips "Pass" Ruby isn't there

I place my hand on the doorknob and hesitate for a moment. One damning moment where my terror gets the better of me. She’ll be there, I tell myself, reaffirming my faith. You’re letting it all get to you. You’ll open the door and Ruby will be there and you’ll wonder what the hell brought all this on. You’ll feel so stupid.
I open the door.
Ruby isn’t there.
Moments pass where I simply take this in. Wait for the view to correct itself, for the bed to become occupied again, as it always is. Once that’s done a blunt fist of panic strikes me in the gut.
Maybe she’s somewhere else in the house. Got to be. She must pee sometimes, right? Everyone fucking pees. I run back down the hall and check the bathroom, which is empty.
Downstairs to look in the kitchen. She hasn’t got up before midday in weeks, but who knows, maybe she’s had a breakthrough? She came down for dinner last night. Maybe I have this all wrong and things are good actually?
Please, please, please.
But she’s not there. Not anywhere in the house. I start shouting her name, as if it’ll do any good. Run outside. Her car is still in the driveway where it’s been, untouched, for the past month. Didn’t leave that way. Back upstairs, leaving the front door wide open, to her room as if I’ll somehow have just missed her the first time. My eyes might be playing tricks. Maybe I haven’t slept enough and those gelatinous little bastards are fucking with me. She’s still not there. Obviously.

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

Oh NO and with her abandonment issues... :( (but I love "everyone fucking pees")

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

Always difficult when you don't know what to do!!

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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · 13h

#WIPSnips | pass In which neither Fest nor Sabbat is having a particularly good day (and poor Fest was already more than a wee bit on-edge *before* he psyched himself up to sneak into Avebury's room only to find someone else'd got there first) ( saranadosfiction.com/2023/06/28/s... )

The door wasn’t locked – which was odd, because Avebury seemed like the kind of person who’d not want anyone to go snooping around their stuff – and, when he put his hand to the doorknob, it opened faster than he’d expected, almost as though someone was pulling it from the other side.

*What the-*

It wasn’t Avebury.

Which made perfect sense, because Avebury was downstairs and there was no possible way that he could have got past Fest and into the room without him knowing, but also made absolutely no sense at all because the person standing in the doorway (and looking very much as though he was about to either throw up, pass out, or both, which was coincidentally also exactly how Fest was feeling at that precise moment) couldn’t possibly be here either.

“…Sabbat?”

The assassin lunged towards him – he flinched sideways, barely dodging out of the way, hand going to his throat to try and protect himself from an attack which he knew he couldn’t entirely avoid, and-

And Sabbat crashed to his knees on the floorboards, doubled over, and was loudly and violently sick.

*…That… doesn’t seem good.*

He wasn’t entirely sure what he was supposed to be doing – he had vague memories from childhood illnesses of his father patting his back and telling him it was better out than in, but he doubted that’d go down particularly well in this case – but standing around staring almost certainly wasn’t it.

The problem was, right now he honestly couldn’t think of anything else.

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 11h

From Mother of Exiles. A lot going on here. Canin has returned to the Exile Forest after a long absence. Wolf is his old captain or Prime, as he's referred to.

Canin nodded. “But the Green is a long run.” “I can take a message to her,” Sam offered. “I can make it.” He looked at the sky. “Before the sun has reached mid-day. That will give her time to get back here before dark.” Granite shared a look with Wolf. Wolf shook his head. “She’s too old for you.” “I don’t care,” Sam said, folding his arms. Wolf looked at Canin. After a moment, Canin realized he was being asked to approve of the run. “If it won’t take you away from your duties,” Canin said slowly, watching Wolf’s face. “I would be very grateful if you would go to her.” Wolf nodded, and Sam closed the cap on his quiver and slung his bow over his shoulder. He tightened his belt and stuck out his hand to Canin. Canin took it. “Thank you, . . . . Setab.” He hesitated at the word, unsure he should be using it, but Sam only smiled warmly. “Do you want me to tell her anything other than that you’re back?” Sam asked. “Just tell her I would like to see her.” Sam nodded again before turning and running out of the clearing. He passed quickly into the forest and was gone. “He won’t listen,” Granite said to Wolf. “We tell him she’s not interested in him.” “She’s not interested in anyone,” Wolf stressed, “But the boy will have to find that out on his own.” He turned back to Canin. “So.” He returned to his earlier question. “Can we meet your wife and child?” Canin looked back at the window in the Treetower. It was still closed. “I don’t know,” Canin started. He looked at the arrows sticking in the ground. “She’s been through a great deal of trauma in the last few days. I don’t want to press her.”

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

Daang that's a good invite. "Well worth the trouble" indeed.

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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Taking a small break✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 10h

G'morning #WIPSnips! Here is the one golden item that started the process that ended in a half destroyed manor and Milly finally being free of some of her trauma. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

“Open it!” she says, very insistently, another thing I haven’t heard from her in a long time. “Jasper is nice, he wouldn’t pass on anything intentionally bad!”
“Yeah, I’ve known him longer and I still don’t know about that. But it wouldn’t hurt to just read…” I carefully open the envelope with my finger, which offers barely any resistance, and I pull up another gold-rimmed piece of paper, folded in half. I flip it open for another cascade of gold lettering.

MRS IRENA’S SCHOOL OF VENN STUDIES
MISS MILLICENT ADAMS IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO INTERVIEW FOR THE POSITION OF GROUNDS SECURITY AT MANOR THÁLASSA, COPPERVALE, FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. INTERVIEW TO TAKE PLACE ON THE FIRST AT 9 AM SHARP. PLEASE COME IN COMFORTABLE ATTIRE, FORMALITY IS NOT REQUIRED. REMUNERATION WILL BE DISCUSSED AT INTERVIEW, BUT WILL BE WELL WORTH THE TROUBLE. I LOOK FORWARD TO A POSITIVE AND MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL AGREEMENT.

SIGNED
MRS IRENA VAN DER VAAL

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 8h

#WIPSnips Helena tries to ”study.” I don’t know where I came up with her struggles here. Bolt out of the blue, I guess. 🤷‍♀️ Just figured thats what it might feel like for her.🤷‍♀️ 🤷‍♀️Can’t relate at all.🤷‍♀️ *whistles innocently*

She struggled to settle her mind and study. Helena wasn’t even sure what studying was supposed to look like. She attended classes regularly, had purchased the required textbooks, and tried to read the recommended chapters, but found that most of the material in them was the same as the lectures. She didn’t know what notes she was supposed to take during those, so she never had any. While she managed to pass quizzes and exams with fair grades, it was a struggle to retain any information that didn’t hold her interest. The art classes were far more straightforward. There, you learned how to do something, not just remember facts.

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

ahaha I can see that scene in my mind SO clearly

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo 😈🧄👻 @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 7h

#WIPSnips 15. “Pass” Sareena hasn’t quite understood the situationship yet, but she’s about to… #ChroniclesOfTheRealm #SayaAshrah #CaptainNitara #NetherTouchedSareena #Ashtara #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

She could not identify the concubi, but one thing was certain: none of them was Nitara.

“Doesn’t seem to be any survivors,” Sareena declared.

“But there may be clues in the ship.” Ashrah only needed to kill those demons before they destroyed what remained of the vessel. “Can you create a distraction?”

“The way to Nekros is through there!” The Nether-Touched pointed to a narrow pass formed by two cliffs, in the opposite direction to where Quan Chi’s forces conducted their search. “Fighting them will only draw unwanted attention.”

“Nitara will not escape retribution.”

“Is she more important than escaping Arak’shiir?” Sareena shout-whispered. “More important than your freedom?”

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

AWWW that's incredibly sweet. I know about those kinds of doubts!

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Tempest Teapot ❌ 👑 🐸 @tempestteapot.bsky.social · 5h

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky 💙📚 🪐📚 With ghost story vibes & a feminist journey, “Haint Blue” in VOICES LIKE THESE from @story-forge.bsky.social When you work in a haunted house, the fake monsters are your family & real props open dimensional windows. Buy indie at bit.ly/4mLwQSw

Cassie opened the actor door on the other side of the shuddering prop. “Fire!” She waved at the group. “Come on, out the next door marked Emergency Exit.”
The woman moaned another prayer. Cassie locked eyes with the young boy at the woman’s side. “Fuego. Sigue andando, nunca pares. Fuego!” The boy nodded and scampered past, while the woman followed with outstretched arms in a useless attempt to catch him.
Cassie brought the radio mic to her mouth and sent the message that would terrify Security. “Cassie to Security. Fire in the house. Repeat, fire in the house.”
“Quit effin around, Cassie. I found your clown’s hoodlums,” replied Hank.
Cassie ground her teeth. “You can’t have pissed off all the ladies at dispatch. Make the call.”
“Copy. Fire in the house. Call the FD and coordinate evac.” A moment of silence passed before he continued with a break in his voice, “Kyle, get the friggin house lights on.”
Cassie followed the thickening smoke down the hallway, ignoring the jostling fridge. Tendrils of fumes twisted into her lungs. Stumbling, she flopped spread-eagle against something warm, soft, and furry. Convincing screams blared from the speaker in pitch black. A limb squirmed under her hip. Abruptly, the speakers stopped, leaving her ears ringing in the muffled quiet. Dim lights pierced the smoke.

Two scare actors outside a haunted attraction

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Elise Betz #amquerying and seeking representation @elisebetz.bsky.social · 5h

#WIPSnips word for October 15th is "pass" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts Upon reflection, Nin realized that Alan dumping her and marrying her sister, Willow, wasn't such a heartbreaking matter.

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Text: A Sylvan Tale #WIPSnips "pass"

As the days began to pass after the wedding, Nin did not yearn for her former betrothed as much as she thought she would have. Having heard upon returning from Ashular that Alan had broken their engagement to marry Willow instead, Nin thought she would be pining the rest of her days for Alan. But quickly, Alan became a distant memory, even though he still lived in the same village as before. Nin now wondered if she had never been in love with Alan, but more in love with the thought of being married.

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

OOOH that's spooky (also, welcome back!)

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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 4h

Anora and Jayro's 1st meeting is a chaotic escape from her gang leader's assassination, running from the cops, and then from the emperor's space witches who seem to want the hyperspace treasure maps Anora carries. Here, Jayro is still a stranger to Anora as they encounter the archeologists #WIPSnips

From Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel, a sci-fi romance by Ellie Rhymer

The approaching figures were dark, grotesquely elongated, moving with the swiftness of a passing shadow. The pale and glittering living crystal on their cascading headdresses belied the dress of the archaeologists, the dread witches of myth and whisper, somehow here, outside the bustling Lanlep Bazaar.

“HALT.” Anora heard the command from the figures as they glided down the alley, the voice queer and echoing, as if uttered from the great belly of an arc ship, or spoken backwards through time. The witches approached with unnatural speed as they bore down on her, the living crystal on their drifting headdresses pulsing out a spell frequency across the alley.

The man cursed, sounding somewhere between impressed and terrified.

“You have archaeologists after you as well?”

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

For today's #WIPSnips I chose this moment of escape from the Venatori, where Paige gets her first experience of flying. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

A dark image with white text that reads:

Leo wrapped an arm around her, then placed his mouth right next to her ear, spawning shivers that raced down her back.
"Like I said, we need to go up. If you come with me, you have to hold on tight. Do not let go, no matter what happens. Yes?"
I have no idea what he has in mind, but I’m going to just run with it until I pass out.
She nodded, reaching up to link her hands around the back of his neck. He smiled slightly and kissed her temple before wrapping the coat around her head and back, blocking her view of him and the room.
"One, two, and now."
She was falling, more quickly than she'd ever fallen before, but somehow up and forward. She didn't have time to make a sound before glass shattered around her and the cold winter air slashed along her tightly-clasped hands.
Something smacked hard against her back, stinging like someone had hit her with a rock. At nearly the same moment, Leo let go of his coat, freeing Paige's face. She could see nothing but a silver-blue dawn sky haloing Leo's head. His head was turned over his shoulder, his long hair whipping wildly in the screaming wind.

- From NO SKY LIKE MIDNIGHT, by Nora Shear

The word "pass" is in pink font. There are star decorations in each corner and a meteor decoration above the text.

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 3h

Things would have been a LOT different if they'd fled 🤣

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks so much to everyone who helped me celebrate A Waltz of Sinister Import's book birthday yesterday! I've just posted a new blog entry full of news about what's coming next... www.stephanieburgis.com/2026/10/a-wa... #romancelandia

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A Waltz, Two Events, and a Secret - Stephanie Burgis

Hooray! A Waltz of Sinister Import is out in ebook and paperback now, and The Supernatural Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven are officially complete (at least for now). Check out how pretty the whole tr...

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 18h

My world isn't tooo far off from reality, so if I was w/the right ppl, I'd be okay. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be w/the right ppl at the right time. 👀 #booksky #bookishQOTD

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 18h

When I started writing the Descendants series, I promised myself that ANY character I wrote who was a survivor would always, always, ALWAYS be allowed to get their own revenge. I'm looking at the world right now & thinking we need a little more of that in real life.

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Nora "Snk Snk" Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 18h

🤣 hey, rats are intelligent creatures!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It's in the fact that survivors of harassment, bullying, abuse, assault, manipulation, credit-theft, retaliation, so many horrors small and large move through the world with their nervous systems absolutely trashed, their careers and often lives trashed

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

told that throwing around unfounded accusations ain't right (bc our word, our witnessing, our testimony is not considered reliable, valid), told that only after a serious process would we be taken seriously and then the serious processes were a fucking joke always meant to uphold the status quo.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Wooot! My cozy-spooky romantasy novella A Waltz of Sinister Import is out today in ebook and paperback, and The Supernatural Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven are (for now, at least!) complete. Snap it up now: books2read.com/waltzSinister #romancelandia