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Rebecca Summerling (she/her)

@rlsummerling.bsky.social
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Writer and reader of the strange. Assistant editor at Seize the Press. Associate editor at Violet Lichen Books My stories can be found in The Dark, Nightjar Press, Interzone, ergot. www.rlsummerling.com Banner art by John Chrostek

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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm a member of @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social and there are too many teeth to count
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’m a member of @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social and I can’t see the ground. Up here is so far away. Someone send a ladder!
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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Fact: The Academy has a wealth of entrances but a significantly smaller number of exits.
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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Academy was founded in 1937, but is also much older. And newer.
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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Fact: the grounds are meticulously kept but botanists can't identify one species
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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Fact: there are no correct answers on academy test papers and every question is a lie
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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm a member of @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social and you can tell who *they* are if you watch them long enough. Trust me
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sean is one of my very favourite short story writers and I am so happy that we have been treated to more of his excellent work!! Truly one of the best
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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
we are coming
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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 11/08/2026
I'm a member of @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social and it won't stop tunneling under my skin. I think it's an infection. Looking for advice on possession, inscription, and ink addiction.
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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm a member of @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social and all the threads are unraveling. Just look at the sky
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm a member of @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social, and my life is only an experiment.
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 12/08/2026
I'm a collaborator of @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social trying to find the smile room. You know the place. It's the room where you died.
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm a member of @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social and there are too many teeth to count
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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Happy BNW release day to all authors @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and thanks to @seizethepress.bsky.social for originally publishing “Avila Beach,” my story of a town awash in severed limbs & teenagers with no future. If you take your fiction with a tablespoon (gallon?) of weird this is for you!
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It's my great pleasure to announce the authors and their works selected for "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Thank you to all the writers, editors, and publishers who sent in work for consideration. The print edition is now up for pre-order. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
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Alison Littlewood
Audrey Zhou
Brian Evenson
C.T. Muchemwa
Erin Brown
John Langan
Jon Lasser
Kay Chronister
Louis Inglis Hall
Lynda E. Rucker
Mary Kuryla
Nathan Ballingrud
Rebecca Campbell
Samantha Mills
Shaun Cammack
Spencer Nitkey
Steve Toase
TJ Price
Tomás Downey
Tomás Downey
Woody Dismukes
Elmer’s Bottle Tree Ranch
Mother’s Mother’s Daughter
The Subject
The Inheritance
The Night Market
Snakebit, Or Why I (Continue to) Love Horror
The Other River
The Shadow of His Vibrance
Malo Malo Malo Malo
Nixie
The Wig
Secret Night
A Hole Cut in the Wall of the World
10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days
Graceless Creatures
In the Dream, He is Skinless and Beautiful
Pollen
hear of the rot
Diving Board
Sisters
The Peculiarities of Hunger
Remains #3
Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora
THREE-LOBED BURNING EYE #46
FIYAH #33
The SKULL & LAUREL #4
LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS
LIGHTSPEED #179
FEVER DREAMS
THE DARK #118
TERROR TALES OF CHAOS
COSMIC HORROR MONTHLY #57
NIGHT & DAY
THE OTHER SHORE
UNCANNY #63
LADY CHURCHILL’S ROSEBUD WRISTLET #50
WEIRD HORROR #10
Occult Tales of Britain and Northern Ireland
We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower
Diving Board: STORIES
DIVING BOARD: STORIES
khōréō Vol. 5, Issue 2
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Love being part of the Seize the Press team! Jonny has worked so hard to make the magazine what it is today and long may it continue
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Mark Peters @markpeters.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Pleased to see @rlsummerling.bsky.social on the list! Such a talented writer.
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Decided to lay it out.
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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Very happy to see Whalesong on this list alongside so many wonderful writers.
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Whalesong - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The whalesong hits when she’s on the highway. Up until that point, Hailey had just been driving, foot tensed on the pedal, hoping velocity would turn into an answer for a question that she didn’t know...
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Think this is awesome? Of course you do. If you want something equally amazing, or, well, slightly unhinged, you can read my short story about this exact hole in the ground. www.patreon.com/sadtale/post...
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Taco Hell | Emma Burnett
Set a problem on fire. Then cook tacos over it. What could go wrong?
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
So happy to see my story His Most Feared Constellation on this list! ICYMI, I'm posting a link to the story again! www.thedarkmagazine.com/his-most-fea...
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His Most Feared Constellation - The Dark Magazine
He looks out of the caravan window. Filthy night. The hour is late; freezing cold bed sheets make sleep impossible. A relentless, suffocating winter and the weight of the snow draws the world down aro...
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
So happy to see my story His Most Feared Constellation on this list! ICYMI, I'm posting a link to the story again! www.thedarkmagazine.com/his-most-fea...
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His Most Feared Constellation - The Dark Magazine
He looks out of the caravan window. Filthy night. The hour is late; freezing cold bed sheets make sleep impossible. A relentless, suffocating winter and the weight of the snow draws the world down aro...
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I get so nostalgic thinking about friendships I've made online! Verity is one of my oldest friends and I'm glad we're still weirdos together decades later!
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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Absolutely pick up the ebook of this novella. THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR navigates a delicate balance between the numinous and the mundane, the magical and the myths families create for themselves. You need to read this. Trust me
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Old Moon Quarterly @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The ebooks of Old Moon Quarterly Volumes 9 and 10 have been sent to our backers on BackerKit! This means they will go live to the general public in one month's time. Extraordinarily excited to see these stories out in the world!
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Sneak peak at the cover art for Issue #14, by Ana Luna. With fiction from Nelson Stanley, Kay Vaindal, Steven Cline, Frederick Samuel, and Sylvia Warren. Plus essays and reviews from Gwen C. Katz, Daniel Lukes, and Zach Gillan. Subscribe and support our work while you're there, now is a good time!
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Cover art sneak peak for Issue #14 | Seize The Press Magazine
Cover art sneak peak for Issue #14 by Seize The Press Magazine on Patreon. Join Seize The Press Magazine's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Such a fantastic display of the breadth of eco fiction published last year!! It was delight to read for this and Marissa has done a fantastic job of curating the final line up!
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
AI needs me to collaborate with it. I don't need AI for anything. Zero. NOTHING. This is like people telling you to play with the kid who beats you up and steals your lunch. NO.
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RSLjnr @rsljnr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
gofund.me/f8ac5c365 if anyone is able to share, or even donate, please help us. Leo is such a gentle baby. New to the universe, curious and so loving, Leo would boop your nose if you were sad, would hang on your back if you needed a hug. He's not my baby but I'm lucky enough to think he is.
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Donate to Help Save the Bravest Boy, Leo Williams, organized by Richard Snowden-Leak
From the moment we set eyes on Leo, we knew he was going to be a goober. … Richard Snowden-Leak needs your support for Help Save the Bravest Boy, Leo Williams
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Irate Historian (Pride Edition) @riceandsalt97.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Vince McMahon meme. “Checking out a new book”
“It’s weird fiction”
“It’s in a city”
“The city’s fucked up” (this panel has McMahon with laser eyes)
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology
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Emma Burnett
Writer of stories
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I actually cackled out loud when I read this. Brilliant and strange new piece by @ivygrimes.bsky.social!
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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
They’re* saying I have a weird new parenting story in the super rad @somewordslit.bsky.social today! *I am
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Daniel Miller | Some Words
Three Voices of God I My daughter comes to me with cupped hands. It is just us. The park is, otherwise, a ghostland. A breeze has begun to push and pull at a chain
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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Looks like I may have the kickoff story of Brave New Weird 2026 with 'Avila Beach' and its teenagers dealing with a beach full of severed limbs. I've read a bunch of the others, so you are in for some wild, unsettling stuff. Preorders are live! Release Bastille Day. @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We published Ian's "Blue Movies" a little while ago, a strange, horrid little story about drug addiction, friendship(?), shady digitised VHS tapes, and unpleasant creatures in water tanks. If you want to read more Kappos, we've got you.
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“Blue Movies” by Ian Kappos - Seize The Press
Before the whole thing with the ovum, Kekoa and I volunteered at the food kitchen. His parents back in Hawaii told him he needed a job. If it didn’t pay, they’d compensate him for hours put in. This w...
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This little bitch has been out for a month! She can lift her head up without assistance now. Read it for: the underground, fairy tale labors, grandmas, depression, psychopomps, creepy ragdolls, fratricide, slow plotting, water filtration, the guardian of the threshold, musings about community...
A book with a black cover and pinkish-purple font, called The Cellar Below the Cellar. It's placed on a background of concrete with a large rust stain.
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
And on this indie bookstore day, you can get it at the amazing @eveninghouse.bsky.social and other great indie sellers! eveninghousebooks.com/product/the-...
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The Cellar Below The Cellar - Evening House Books
A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless auroras. When a wild […]
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Reminder that if you liked this issue or what we're doing, we have a Ko-Fi where you can drop a tip or donation. Every little bit helps, and encourages us to keep going. Thank you for the support! ko-fi.com/weirdhorrormag
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Support Weird Horror Magazine
Support Weird Horror Magazine
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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I saw Joe’s writing recently described as ‘transcendental, baroque, lyrical alchemy’. Wingspan was my first encounter with it and it altered my brain chemistry. Love seeing this book still getting traction and now an audiobook years later.
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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Today I get to join the coolest club in flash: people published in Had! A flash about a memory of a family reunion of a recording of a
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HAD @havehashad.com · 06/04/2026
new today from Guan Un!! love a piece that uses its title like this, love a short little snippet that also encapsulates such a large whole www.havehashad.com/m09qu
April 6, 2026
—remember that time with the family when we all got together and it was wonderful until
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the boys started arguing about whose turn on the ATV and it’s so hard now to gather now with all the babies in the AV room but Uncle Davey is upset no one wants to see this footage—back from when they were younger than you are now—then when He held the camcorder in smoother hands—and he presses play and pixels tide across the screen—small children wave and shade their eyes against the light—and then so soon it’s over, everyone gets up but Aunty Cindy lies on the couch, the light in her eyes, repeating “Play it again! Don’t you—”
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Bluesky was fucked up when this was posted, so if you missed it and want to read a story about alien sex, this one’s for you.
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
First and foremost this is a great story about sex work, misogyny, and patriarchy, but it also just has some really fucked up alien sex and guys being absolute freaks. "Tabula Rasa" by Amy Kitcher is now free to read!
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"Tabula Rasa" by Amy Kitcher - Seize The Press
An old-fashioned auto-V glides to a stop at the embarkation point, its curved roof gleaming wet in the drizzle like the carapace of a beetle. The passenger door slides open with a faint hydraulic hiss...
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Don't forget! It's Leonora Carrington-coded, too!
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Feels good to be writing again!
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Happy release day to this beautiful, visceral collection!
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Gore Poetics is officially here! 🥩💖 can't articulate how unreal it feels to see all this made tangible. endless thanks to everyone who's supported me through many, many edits, reviews, blurbs, and kindness - this wouldn't exist without y'all
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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Do something amazing today. Buy my weird out-of-print novel. Help me make some space in my office. Get really into teeth. ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671
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Pseudotooth paperback (signed) - Verity Holloway's Ko-fi Shop
The debut novel from Verity Holloway, Pseudotooth is an adult take on ‘portal fantasy’, boldly tackling issues of trauma responses, social difference ...
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