Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My short story "Aphrodite O" is now out in the fall issue of The First Line. I'm one of 8 authors who began a story (or poem) with "The line of people stretched all the way around the block." It's fun seeing the different directions we all took this in! bluecubiclepress.com/TFLfall2026.... 010
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm so appreciative of The First Line choosing to feature me in this quarter's author interview! My short story "Aphrodite O" is appearing in the fall issue.patreon.comFive Questions with The First Line: Piper M. Hale | Blue Cubicle PressWelcome to our fall author interview. We asked Piper M. Hale if she would like to answer our five questions about her writing process and he 021
Reposted by Piper HaleJennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 14/09/2026This Ken Liu story is a great cleanser for the AI-advocacy-saturated brain www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-si...uncannymagazine.comA Sigilary for the Median Human in the Gearwrack - Uncanny MagazineThe Sigil of Assurance You take a bit of wax and drip it over the em dash fresh out of the printer, working it over, building it up until it’s a little caterpillar crawling on the page, nestled betwee... 094
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 03/11/2025I was just bemoaning the exact same thing. 🫤media.tenor.coma man with a beard is looking at another man and saying `` winter is coming . ''ALT: a man with a beard is looking at another man and saying `` winter is coming . '' 020
Reposted by Piper HaleLavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 23/10/2025My favourite Halloween story of mine, from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and for anyone who loves A Night in the Lonesome October...uncannymagazine.comThe Portal Keeper - Uncanny MagazineOctober 1st The rabbit was back this morning. It stopped outside the portal like it always does and it checked its pocket watch like it always does. It doesn’t matter—the rabbit’s always late. So fa... 12212
Reposted by Piper HaleSam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Hey it's #SteamSale! You can get 🔥 IMMORTALITY for $9.99 👁️ TELLING LIES for $4.99 ☕ HER STORY for $4.99 & wishlist Project C and Project D whilst you are there... It's a good time to play good games in the present and wish for good games in the future! ✨ store.steampowered.com/developer/Sa... 3199103
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This format simply MUST be a gamesamer at minimum, if not its own full spinoff show. 090
Reposted by Piper HaleUncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Award Eligibility post! It lists all of our 2024 stories and their award categories! buff.ly/4fFUFYv 0348
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 12/10/2024Based on what I'm seeing, I'm also curious if bad actors might be submitting under the identities/credentials of published or known authors? It's so hard to know for sure either way. It's just hard to believe some of what I'm reading is coming from the author whose name is attached. 2370
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 12/10/2024I've been reading Uncanny submissions since the magazine was founded, and I have NEVER seen a submission deluge like this one. 🥵 0262
Reposted by Piper HaleEmma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 25/09/2024The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams. This was murder. 931672
Reposted by Piper HaleRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/09/2024My heart aches for Marcellus Williams. This bitter injustice is just so unconscionable. 242448
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 11/07/2024With a rockstar roster like this, Year 11 will be the best Uncanny season yet! 🦄 011
Reposted by Piper HaleCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/03/2024Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “ 962205802
Reposted by Piper HaleUncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Please repost! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Flash Fiction submissions (750-1500 words) from February 19-26! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/ 0146183
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 06/02/2024Update: it is 15 days later and I am still obsessing over Immortality. I am ravingly jealous of anyone who hasn't had the chance to play it yet, who still gets to look forward to the experience of playing through it for the first time. 010
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 24/01/2024I just heard the announcement of @mrsambarlow.bsky.social's Project C and D, and I am HYPED. The world needs more of these strange and wonderful experimental, filmic puzzle box games. (I certainly do!) www.gameinformer.com/2024/01/23/p... 010
Reposted by Piper HaleUncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 20/01/2024Reading for Uncanny Magazine 2023 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll? Try the short story "Désolé" by Ewen Ma! uncannymagazine.com/article/deso... 051
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 22/01/2024@mrsambarlow.bsky.social My husband and I played all of Immortality yesterday in a single sitting, and I am still reeling. It was absolutely incredible. I didn't think anything could top Telling Lies! Please keep making rich, literary interactive film-based mystery games. There's nothing like them. 010
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 30/12/2023Yes, for sure. The hollow sappiness is off the charts in this season, and none of the characters feel like themselves in a one-writer-many-mouths kind of way. What a bummer. Almost makes me wish they hadn't been renewed for the third season, and the end was left up to all our imaginations. 000
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 30/12/2023Finally getting around to finishing Ted Lasso, and I'm horrified. Season 3 is borderline unwatchable at times. What on earth happened to one of my favorite shows? This feels like one of Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett's parodies of bad sit-coms they used to do on SNL. 120
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 30/11/2023First time making it across the finish line in November! 🎉🍾 240
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 28/11/2023Less than 2,500 words to the end of the finish line of NaNoWriMo 2023! 050
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 26/11/2023Congrats to Prophet Song and Paul Lynch for securing the Booker win! Ironically, and purely by chance, it was the ONLY book on the shortlist I hadn't read any of yet. 020
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 26/11/2023Having read 4.5 of the shortlisted Booker Prize nominees, my pick is The Bee Sting, with Western Lane in close second. Loving the live-streamed event. This is my Super Bowl. 120
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 24/11/20235 of 13 on the Booker longlist now read! (And considering I initially planned to knock the whole thing out by the winner's announcement on Sunday, I am way behind!) Paul Murray's The Bee Sting was a masterfully executed multi-generational story full of surprises & it's currently my pick to win. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 010
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 24/11/2023Just hit 40K words on NaNoWriMo! Good luck to other NaNos right now. We're in the home stretch! 040
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 20/11/2023It's been a weird year for NaNoWriMo, but I'm still hanging on and staying slightly ahead of schedule. 35,000 words in, I think I may have fairly good chances of making it to the 50K goal for the first time ever. 020
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 10/11/2023My current Booker Prize longlist read appears to be Juniper-approved. 130
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 10/11/2023Today I officially surpassed my previous longest NaNoWriMo attempt, which was a bit over 21K words. Honestly, even if I were to lose steam and tap out tomorrow, I would still call this NaNoWriMo a personal success. 190
Reposted by Piper HalePigeon Dreadful @pigeondreadful.bsky.social · 09/11/2023That time grammarly really got it wrong. 511429
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 09/11/2023Bafflingly, this year's NaNoWriMo productivity streak continues. I'm trying not to make any sudden movements so as to not scare it off. 040
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 06/11/2023Usually when I do NaNoWriMo, I spend a big chunk of October planning and outlining, and then I tap out about halfway through November, either at or slightly under my running word goal. I don't understand what's happening this year, but I'll take it! 000
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 06/11/20234 of 13 on the Booker longlist now complete! Western Lane surprised me by being one of my favorites so far. I ravenously read the whole book in just a few hours. This was a lovely, quiet, subtle novel that genuinely moved me. I'll definitely be looking for more from Chetna Maroo.⭐⭐⭐⭐ 010
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 06/11/2023OK, I don't want to jinx it, but I have never had a more productive start to NaNoWriMo in the many times I've attempted it! I guess the secret to a productive start is signing up last minute on a whim, feeling a little "meh" on it, and putting zero pressure on myself to write anything good? 140
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 03/11/20233 of 13 now read on the Booker longlist! Despite being very short, Study for Obedience proved to be a bit of a slog for me to get through. There's a lot to admire in how the author pulled off the psychological darkness of a self-flagellating unreliable narrator, but the book just didn't grab me. ⭐⭐⭐ 010
Reposted by Piper HaleUncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 18/10/2023We are now closed. For those who like stats, we received 2283 submissions over two weeks. Time for all the reading! 1527
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 16/10/2023Also, in my experience, it's never the borderline stories that *almost* made the cut that garner the snippy replies. Every time I've gotten an indignant response to a rejection, the story was pretty schlocky/tropey or felt like a rushed, unedited first draft. 150
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 16/10/2023How old am I? I am now I-still-call-a-band's-album-that-came-out-10-years-ago-"the-new-album" years old. 030
Reposted by Piper HaleUncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 16/10/2023PLEASE RP Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to short story submissions from October 2 to October 16! WE CLOSE TODAY!!! (When it is no longer October 16 anywhere on Earth.) www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/ 03335
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 27/09/2023That's so tough, Michael. Thinking of you and Lynne right now. 💜 120
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Funneling water away from communities during a drought to feed AI is one of those unfortunately true real-life scenarios that would make you say, "ooh, that's a little on-the-nose and unsubtle" if you were to read it in fiction. 010
Piper Hale @pyperbole.bsky.social · 22/09/2023I'm rolling up my sleeves to get a-readin'! Send in your SFF and speculative short stories before October 16. 0103