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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 19h

(8/?) “The Ganymede Dragon” in Trans/port, available for a cool $4 USD from Smashwords. (4900 words, hardboiled detective sf). Friends, Romans, dragon cultists, lend me your ears. I come to bury Dashiell Hammett, not to praise him. www.smashwords.com/books/view/2...

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Trans/Port: Trans Speculative Fiction for a Queer Future

Sixteen queer and trans speculative fiction stories that will transport you to strange places filled with mythical monsters, found families, strange science, restless robots, and gorgeous genders! Th...

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just take it from the top again and really think through it

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's OCD Awareness Month so if you have OCD remember to be aware of it at all times so you can finally solve it

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Deathcap by @larazontally.bsky.social (nasty, positive modifier, really stuck in my head for weeks) Ghost in the Tank by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social (toxic, positive modifier, chef’s kiss), Euthanasia Influx by Rowan Hill (terrifying, horrified modifier, that ending tho!) … & many more, but time’s up

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@andrewkozma.net’s Moveable Piece of Firm Material, Even After You’re Gone by @kcmeadbrewer.com, Cretins by @thomasha.bsky.social (which I think you posted about + you were right)+ Our Revels Now Are Ended by Ha (which had this blunt, matter of factness to it that I found exciting?)

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ok I’m back with more bc the baby’s asleep on me. This is more “modern stuff I suspect will haunt me,” less “I read this at 15 and it fucked me up” comma the thread. Some of which I’ve skeeted before, but sometimes a particular moment or image or line sticks in your head permanently.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i have a first scene for something that i have polished into a perfect beautiful diamond, and then the rest of it is just garbage tier.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

absolute worst part about getting better at writing is still having stories left around from when your Process was worse, and then you have to go and fix that asshole's mistakes. "why didn't you think about this earlier," one wants to say. "why did you not simply have a better initial plan. why!!"

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oh look, i'm in this one 🌙👻

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Plus for my sins I was really into Orson Scott Card as a like. Middle schooler, and one of his gave me a really specific phobia I only JUST conquered. There’s certainly more like this for me (and there are newer stories that I suspect I will think about as much), but I HAD to throw out some.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong, Bliss by James Michael White (I heard this one TOO YOUNG on pseudopod, have not read/listened to since, and still remember it 20 years later), Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link. A lot of these I read over a decade ago so if any suck uh, whoops

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Eight Episodes by Robert Reed, I think about the end of “What We Read From This Morning’s Newspaper” by silverberg a LOT (I heard it on escape pod first so I can hear it in the narrator’s voice) Bloodchild by Octavia Butler, Impossible Dreams by Tim Melody Pratt,

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A Momentary Taste of Being (might be novelette/novella?) + And I Awoke And Found Me Here On The Cold Hill’s Side by Tiptree (a lot of tiptree tbh; read in college and think about constantly), Start the Clock by Benjamin Rosenbaum, The Urashima Effect by E. Lily Yu, Mayfly by Heather Lindsley,

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you got a story you really like coming out late in the year … man awards season starts as soon as the last season ends, huh.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm really glad you extended the window; I had an idea already but I was like, there's no WAY I'm getting that done by the 14th.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you an editor or publisher with an original short fiction project of weird fiction out this year? Anthology? Magazine? Collection? Get it in for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 27/09/2026

hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

my story "All Her Rows of Teeth" in the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 17/09/2026

Private prisons are bad, but they’re a small part of the system. Mass incarceration is driven by public policy & spending — choices made by your elected officials.

Pie chart showing that less than 9% of confined people are held in private prisons: 13,000 held for local jail systems, 6,000 held for youth systems, 43,000 held of ICE & Office of Refugee Resettlement, 33,000 held for BoP & USMS, and 75,000 held for state prison systems.

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026

"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.

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Boycott The New York Times

For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...

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Erik Ostrom @erikostrom.com · 18/09/2026

I just stopped putting this off, and took about ten minutes to gather my thoughts about what I want Minneapolis to be like in 2050. I'm an amateur; you can be an amateur too!

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also like … people live there! It’s a larger street but it’s a residential street! None of this would be better if it was an office park or something, but I can’t fucking imagine being the people living at this corner in January.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I need to emphasize how close the memorial is to a school, one which (among other things) does a lot of early childhood education and early intervention programs for the district, just to make the picture a little bleaker.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Under a Malevolent Eye is perhaps our darkest release yet. If you like stories about how our lives fall apart under inescapable surveillance, this one is for you. www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/unde...

Someone is always watching
...a soulless immigration agent...
...a sinister period-tracking app...
...a boss with impossible demands...
...a deceptively cutesy AI “assistant”...
Read Under a Malevolent EYe
an anthology of surveillance horrors:
https://www.cursedmorelspress.com

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 16/09/2026

"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can’t find the article now but apparently he did eat that bug for real.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

legitimately amazing film. it is itself and nothing else. everything about cage's entire body of work snapped into focus watching it. he simply LOVES german expressionism.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy release day! Hope it's enjoyable!

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 14/09/2026

The time is NOW, friends. The 2027 Lambda Literary Awards season is officially open. ✨ lambdaliteraryawards.submittable.com/submit #lammys2027

A starry dark background with the Lambda Literary Awards seal and the text “The 2027 Lammy Awards now accepting submissions 9.14.26 - 11.22.26 in the following categories:
Bisexual Fiction
Bisexual Nonfiction
Bisexual Poetry
Gay Fiction
Gay Memoir/Biography
Gay Poetry
Gay Romance
Lesbian Fiction
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
Lesbian Poetry
Lesbian Romance
LGBTQ+ Anthology
LGBTQ+ Children’s Books
LGBTQ+ Comics
LGBTQ+ Drama
LGBTQ+ Middle Grade
LGBTQ+ Mystery
LGBTQ+ Nonfiction
LGBTQ+ Poetry
LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica
LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction
LGBTQ+ Studies
LGBTQ+ Young Adult
Transgender Fiction
Transgender Nonfiction
Transgender Poetry

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/09/2026

“but the candidates have been decided already!” The election hasn’t. It’s in two months. They can change their stance TODAY. They can stand up today and say “I was wrong and I’m going to support trans folk now”. They can just do that.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/09/2026

"why won't you vote for the left candidate who just doesn't support trans folk?" because a person who doesn't support trans folk isn't on the left. next question

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/09/2026

also: campaigns will stop calling and texting if you’ve already voted. so there’s that.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/09/2026

minnesota: we’re the first in the nation to early vote, let’s show the rest of the country that this is another way we show up and stop the onslaught of violence against our neighbors. let’s get these fascists out of power. join people this friday, 10AM at the hennepin county government center.

THEY TAKE OUR NEIGHBORS, WE TAKE THEIR POWER.
Rally+Vote 10AM
Friday the 18th
Hennepin County
Government Center
I
Voted
Minnesota is the first state to early vote. Let's show up in record numbers make the fascists afraid.
We protect our neighbors.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

brought to you by: trying to write Non Depressing Stuff and remembering how that can create within me an Anti-Catharsis. what's the point, I say. who gives a shit, I say. this is now an exercise in self-flagellation

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

god, i wish more people bought depressing stuff. shout out to the handful of people buying depressing stuff.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Our open call for horror and Weird fiction collections ends on Monday. If you have something that fits our guidelines (please read them!), send it in: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Submission Calls

Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN Until September 14th) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Ideal…

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

SO! If you back the project in the first 24hrs, you can get the ebook and paperback at a discount! (I almost made it $24 but forgot lmao so look! extra dollars off!) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

graphic showing an ebook and paperback mockup for OPPORTUNITY WINDOW; if you back the project at "professional time traveler" tier in the first 24 hours, it comes out to $22USD (shipping not included)

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

Please don't make me do a canva graphic, but FORGED IN FIYAH is part of that recurring Barnes & Noble quarterly preorder thing they do. Members get 25% off with code PREORDER25. Again. As it ever was. www.barnesandnoble.com/search?q=For...

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Search results for "Forged in fiyah"

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Book friends! I am a freelance proofreader looking for more work. I have done a bunch of work with Tor, but I will happily also do nonfiction. Are you a publisher or self-pub author who needs a proofreader, or know one? Please DM. (Please boost for visibility, if you don't mind)

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Boosting this again! If you live in NYC and want to get involved in anti-deportation/ anti-ICE efforts, immigration court accompaniment is one of the most helpful things you can do.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

randomly qt'ing this because I was seized with the memory of how good this book was when I saw the cover. Horror thriller/supernatural lesbian threesome, full of ghosts both literal & figurative. My friend told me i better read it, and as usual, She Was Right.

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ilhan has finally acquired the materials for the Labor Gundam

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Its Name is House, Zary Fekete in @radonjournal.bsky.social - The pressure to police one's affect in order to be authorized as "well enough" suffocates the protag; Fekete makes this strangulation vivid, and pairs it well with the pressure to perform parentally. www.radonjournal.com/issue-12/its...

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Its Name is 'House' | Issue 12

Radon Journal Issue 12 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Snacks, Jen Cornick in @radonjournal.bsky.social -The 1st story in a long time I considered abandoning out of a sense of visceral, physical disgust. Eye gore, flaying, whatever--THIS shit? No. Monstrously uncomfortable from start to finish, 10/10. www.radonjournal.com/issue-13/hap...

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Happy Snacks | Issue 13

Radon Journal Issue 13 featuring science fiction and anarchist literary works. Poems and short stories to make you rethink the social schema.

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