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Joyce Carol Oates, having been persuaded by your eloquent and impassioned defenses of the contemporary romance genre

was reading a newer weird anthology, then paused to read an older weird anthology, and now I’m back on the new one and it is, uh, decidedly not “weird” in the same sense. so that’s something I’ll need to sort out for myself. trying to read and write more weird fic but like real weird. hm

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 20h

On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home

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TheScarvedInsect @thescarvedinsect.bsky.social · 15h

Dear seller, I'd like to report a MISSING PACKAGE.

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 17h

pretty interesting how the cat who screams at me starting an hour before feeding time is also the cat whose food takes the longest because it needs to be blended to mush for the old miserable bastard. prit. t. interesting

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 30/09/2026

22 hours remaining! Our first stretch goal adds another issue next year. Let’s read all the stories together! kck.st/4x4r1oz

headshots of Gemma Amor, Gemma Files, A.T. Greenblatt, Shane Hawk, Jordan Kurella, Arkady Martine, Sam J. Miller, Suzan Palumbo, Sarah Read, Eden Royce, A.D. Sui, Michael Wehunt, Kelsea Yu, along with the 3LBE masthead

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 22h

get in the bin, Joyce

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 22h

can’t. my house is an old Victorian and I refuse to acknowledge anything that might exacerbate the occurrences and force me to move. we. do. not. talk. about. it.

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're launching the @apexmag.bsky.social 2027 Kickstarter tomorrow! Lots of cool rewards, plus fun perks for our backers. I hope you'll join us and help fund another year of Apex! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Coming soon: Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

tracking the Ring

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

just a reminder that one reason alt text is cool as hell is: if the website is breaking and the images aren't loading, you can still enjoy the image posts with alt text

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What if you all just left trans folk the fuck alone? What if that happened? Why not give that a try?

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Um ... so looks like a bunch of you bought ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT earlier this year. Like, half as many as when it released 🫪 For a book that didn't do so hot when it came out, that's *huge*. I don't know who said something, but over a book I retraumatized myself to write, sincerely, thank you 💜

cover of All the Hearts You Eat by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, depicting a fanged, perhaps even vampire beast emerging from a stormy sea

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m reading VELO/CITIES STORIES by @kkoja.bsky.social and holy shit if you haven’t read it fix your life and make it up to our good dark Lord asap. I’m sure it’s not too late already. Your name has definitely not been carved deep into the hide of a great heaving luminescent beast. That’s silly.

The cover for Velo/cities by kathe koja

A person looks up with an attitude of insouciant appraisal head titled up to bare its throat. It is beginning to come apart like ink dropped into water

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the real horror was the plantar fasciitis we developed along the way

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

can’t imagine hating something enough to post about it, let alone repost, like not enough people saw that I hate it the first time. like why give hate that much of your time and energy. go find something you actually like to talk about goddamn

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Madeleine Swann @madeleineswann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Terrible quality copper, so I'm taking it to social media

Text: Crime documentaries be like
Pic: Statue of him on left, another on the right in dramatic colourlessness
Text: EA Nasir was a copper merchant of the finest quality... until he wasn't

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catren parker dot come @jon-snow-420.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bold of mike flanagan to give carrie a huge unwieldy boner

promo poster of Carrie showing a floating girl with her leg bent in such a way that an immature little bastard might call it a large erection

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Eliane Boey 🕷🥩SMALL BITES 🥩🕷11.11.26 @elianeboey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What is it like to be a spider? Preorders are open for the 2nd issue of Singaporean TTRPG mag, ISLAND PAPERS, featuring🪳FOOD OR FRIEND🪳, the 🕷️🥩SMALL BITES🥩🕷️ solo game, by @thornandkey.com and I. Print, non-US only: bit.ly/4yj13iz, digital/international coming soon! @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social

teaster for FOOD OR FRIEND, a solo player game by Alanna Yeo and Eliane Boey.

Cover of "Collision", Island Papers 2. A TTRPG magazine edited by Alanna Yeo. Cover art and design by Alanna Yeo shows two vintage cars in space about to be hit by roses.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We live in an increasingly isolationist culture that encourages you to be emotionally stunted. Books and stories should be about experiencing minds different from yours. They should expand your empathy and emotional intelligence. But that doesn't happen if the reaction is constantly this:

Scroll of Truth meme, final panel where the adventurer throws the scroll in disgust because they did not like the truth

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't forget that the legendary LIGHTSPEED and NIGHTMARE magazines have a Kickstarter right now! Let's make sure amazing horror, SF, and fantasy short stories keep getting published. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror

We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.

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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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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

oh, to be a crow doing that surfing on the air thing

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

congratulations! THIS IS MY BODY kicks ass

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the Resident Evil universe there would absolutely be monsterfuckers who are *constantly* interfering with all the attempts to stop monstermakers. Every laid off umbrella scientist would have Tumblr fancams and people throwing cash at them

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if you can't laugh at yourself, even the worst of yourself, you're simply not going to make it in this big cruel world

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 26/09/2026

we noticed you from beneath the bar. though we have never known sunlight, our awareness stretches to many things in your world. a cloud just starting to release its rain. government agents dragging bodies to the corner. your thong peeking out the back of your jeans

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andy.scrolling.fright @andy.scrolling.site · 26/09/2026

Me and a badger from Redwall are chugging thistle ales through a funnel

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freddy vs. jason funderburker @impormable.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

n-no, it's okay. I'll pay full price

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

time to go play in the word sandbox with this sci-fi horror farm to table story

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Creation Museum Employee 1: You ever worry we made our Serpent too sexy? Creation Museum Employee 2, putting up sign: Why do you ask?

A photo of the anthropomorphic Serpent from the garden of eden, as depicted in the creation museum, next to a sign that says "Please do not touch the serpent."

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ceej @ceej.online · 25/09/2026

ME: (crawling out of the sea) Oh thank god! There’s been a terrible shipwreck! Please, I need water GUY ON SHORE HOLDING A GIANT BOOK: Not so fast, bitch. This is Puzzle Island

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

naked godzilla showing up in every film this fall

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S.H. Cooper @pippinacious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For the evening crowd! #booksky

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