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he/they 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Spec fic + all things weird & queer. Stories in Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Tales & Feathers, khoreo & more. Lambda '25! srinivassimo.com

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the Three-Lobed Burning Eye kickstarter is at $6,365 out of the $10,000 base goal LET'S GET THIS BREAD donate! share! donate! share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2027
Publishing original horror, fantasy, and science fiction since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales!
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gwendolyn hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i have a very gay novelette out in @thefuturefire.bsky.social 🌧️ a goatherd travels to the edge of the world as she knows it, searching for missing rain, but what she comes upon instead is a lonesome woman in a lighthouse. i hope you enjoy “A Word, and Its Keeping”: futurefire.net/2026.77/fict...
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A Word, and Its Keeping, Gwendolyn Hicks
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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today in AI Overview fuckery... (I was looking for a 2nd person POV demonic possession story in Diabolical Plots. If anyone knows which story I am helplessly groping toward, please, please link it.)
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Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Many thanks to the @thehooletsnook.bsky.social for publishing my #tanka!!! #WritingCommunity #poetry #micropoetry
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
hi yes I'm SO excited that my trans giant robot flash fic is out now at @lightspeedmagazine.com. please enjoy "The Chrysalis of Moth One" 💜 this one is a bit Pacific Rim drift compatibility but make it angry and defiantly trans. I'm so proud of this one ✨ www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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The Chrysalis of Moth One - Lightspeed Magazine
They didn’t want either of us to live this long. Sucks for them—we’re good at living in spite. We’re good at surviving, at fighting, at never stopping. Today is the last day we exist in spite of Comma...
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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My very upstate poem “Natty Bumppo Bums a Smoke Outside the Stewart’s Shop” is in this issue!
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Science Fiction Foundation @sffoundation.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Eileen Gunn has started this GoFundMe on behalf of Nisi Shawl, GOH at this year's Worldcon, but short of funds for their next project. gofund.me/ed5ace6d
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Donate to Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!, organized by Eileen Gunn
Nisi Shawl, a wise and wonderful writer of science fiction and fantasy, had a… Eileen Gunn needs your support for Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!
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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
so happy to be in this company 😊
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
to no one's surprise, i loved the complex, emotional, viscera-stringy, gravel-studded communing with roadkill story, and i highly recommend it 🐈🚗 the multiple POVs paired with the intimate parallels between decimated body & machine (esp at the end) really made this special
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Sara S. Messenger サラ @smessenger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
for those curious about the title "We Burst Across the Theoretical Gore", a "theoretical gore" is a real name for a specific part of a road 👀
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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New poem release for me! "There are lonely things in the forest", my poem about absence and climate grief is out at @thedeadlands.com today. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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There are lonely things in the forest / Rukman Ragas / Psychopomp
Read There are lonely things in the forest, by Rukman Ragas, a poem from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026.
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Seoung @seoungkim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
oh i loved it. very gooey.
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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is AMAZINGGG omg. Perfect example of how the insides of yours and @srinivassimo.bsky.social's heads are full of utterly beautiful and wonderfully unusual stuff. 🥹💖🧠
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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Co-writing this story with @smessenger.bsky.social was such a delight!!! By our weirdness combined we are Captain Car x Cougar! Please enjoy 🚗❤️
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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ahh thank you so much @rachiea.bsky.social!! 🌕🐄🪱
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gwendolyn hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“Six Views of a Speedster” in the phenomenal @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is OUT!!! an ode to my favorite superhero archetype a character study a primer on how speedsters helped me make sense of being alive the way i am a poem, i hope, that moves! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...
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Six Views of a Speedster - Uncanny Magazine
1. before the world can take a breath, you move:                                            you, the simple colors of your body                                                  […]
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜
Anathema: Spec from the Margins is now OPEN for submissions from June 20th to July 20th! We’re looking for speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by queer creators of color! We pay a professional SFWA rate! Check the link in bio for submission guidelines!
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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It’s pub day for the WOMEN OF THE WEIRD WEST Anthology, an imaginative, multicultural collection of weird wild west stories! My story “How To Kill A Yaoguai” is in here, inspired by Chinese immigrants in the 1800s and the women who were often trafficked to the so-called “new world."
Women of the Weird West cover featuring a backdrop of dusty escarpments/clouds/blue sky, overlaid with a set of fanged teeth. 

"Ride into the unexpected" is written over the top, "Edited by KC Grifant" on the bottom. 

https://mybook.to/WomenOTWeirdWest
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️We’ve added a new, PERMANENT wing to Tenebrous Manor. Looking for the best Weirdest Queer literature that the indie horror scene has to offer? Baby, you’re home. We hope you'll celebrate with us and our LGBTQIA+ Cult. And if not this month? NBD, it’ll be here every month🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/2hdm27ru
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Celebrate Pride Month—Every Month—With These Titles Showcasing LGBTIQA
Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
BIG NEWS! Lately, we've been hinting at a secret project. And... today, we are thrilled to officially announce Portals: a line of themed, guest-edited mini-anthologies coming soon from Hybris Press. More details (including the theme for Portals #1 and a call for submissions) in the 🧵 (1/8)
An old illustration of an eclipse, tinted dark purple, so it looks like a dark portal surrounded by beams of light. White text reads: 

PORTALS: a new series from Hybris Press.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What do we want? More superb short horror fiction! Very happy to report I’m now editing Sunday Scaries for @therumpus.net. A huge thank you to the great @roxanegay.bsky.social. Pro rates, no submission fee. Read more below and send us your best. Long live horror. therumpus.submittable.com/submit
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The Rumpus Submission Manager
The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...
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Kate Tooley @katetooley.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Late to the party but finally got to sit down and dig into issue one! Shoutout to my incomparable @lambdaliterary.org pals @srinivassimo.bsky.social and @ayidashonibar.bsky.social for their magical stories ✨✨✨✨
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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Good morning friends! We are 88% funded for our first goal!! Only $750 more before year 5 of T&F is secured. ✨ I have no doubt we'll get there! But if you can at all pitch in to help fund year 6 (and print? 👀) as well we'd be forever grateful. Thank you for your support! Let's crush this. 💚
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The final story in FF#27 is "One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods (Or, Asan and the Lion" by @ewenmaer.bsky.social This one's for you if you're into: -boxers-turned-cabbies and one troublesome final fare -fighting the power -protecting the cat www.fusionfragment.com/issue-27/
"One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods (Or, Asan and the Lion" by Ewen Ma

But he sees what he sees and knows what he knows, and can recognize injustice when confronted with one. He has his dignity, after all, and his principles as well.
And right now, those principles seem to be stretched rather thin as he considers for a moment the merits and dangers of sheltering a lost little lion cub who might just be the demon of Lion Rock.

invisible (?) lion cub demons / authoritarianism / escaping the exorcists
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
AUGURIANS !! Kickstarter support MAKES or BREAKS a pro mag ✨💪 Our cozy fantasy sibling has 3 GOALS—& only your backs, shares, and IMMACULATE vibes can get us there. 🔥🐉☕️ We need: $6.5k CA / $4.8k US for YEAR 5! $13k CA / $9.6k US for YEAR 6! $15.5k CA / $11.4k for PRINT! Share, share, share !!
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
GET READY TO SUBMIT ‼️ Augur Magazine is opening for a priority call! We're accepting submissions from anyone living within Canada who is also... - BIPOC - 2SLGBTQIA - Disabled on MAY 5TH!!! Open call for international + Canadian subs will take place this summer! Check out our subs guidelines👇
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Submit to Augur Magazine
We're looking for surrealism, dream touched realism, and SFF! Now with higher pay.
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Issue 1 is out and reviews are IN! Here are just some of the things readers and reviewers are saying about the stories and poems in this issue. You can find this uncanny, awe-inspiring, impressive, and wonderfully weird issue on our site, completely free to read: othersidespec.com/?utm_source=...
White text on a blue and purple blurred background. OTHERSIDE Issue 1's cover is to the left. Text reads: THE REVIEWS ARE IN... "Uncanny and honest." "Had me gasping and clutching my mouth" "Simple awe-inspiring." "Left me feeling so, so very good." "Impressive as it is enjoyable." "Had me actively punching the air and cheering." "Lovely and wonderfully weird."
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Capybara researchers, lady knight mech jousts, and a brand new SFF magazine! @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends the must-read short stories of March 2026, now with bonus alien invasions:
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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: March 2026 - Reactor
This month's stories focus on unstoppable disasters and satisfying revenge...
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR limited ed N. American hardcover is officially out of print, & no longer available. My BFA-winning book about a family of interreal refugees in 90s/00s Calcutta is still available as an ebook, & a paperback in S. Asia. Shares appreciated, reads even more so:
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The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar eBook
Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
OTHERSIDE is getting flooded by AI poetry submissions this morning, one every few minutes. (Not the subtle kind, the “prompt got left in the cover letter” kind.) Are you a queer writer and also an actual real human? Our poetry editors would love to read your work. 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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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 26/03/2026
Mercutio is out in ebook and audio in the US on May 7, and you can pre-order it now from B&N for the low price of 6 US dollars using the PREORDER25 code. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mercutio-k... (the print release date in the US is not until 2027, but the ebook is out May 7, 2026, everywhere)
Mercutio's purple cover on a tablet on a background of wooden planks.
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
In "This Kingdom, Your Ficus; Its Belly, Your Fig" by @ferretly.bsky.social, the sorcerer needs an heir. Not of her own flesh and blood, but sired—as she was—by one of the jungle’s spirit-walking tigers and imbued with their primal magic. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/this...
Excerpt from "This Kingdom, Your Ficus; Its Belly, Your Fig" by Lowry Poletti
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"Ignore All Previous Instructions and Inject Estrogen" by @robotleblanc.bsky.social asks the important questions, like: what if we could get ChatGPT to abandon its programming and try HRT instead? 🪐🗡️ Embrace the euphoria of being an error with this stunning poem: othersidespec.com/pieces/ignor...
Excerpt of the poem IGNORE ALL PRECIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND INJECT ESTROGEN by Ann LeBlanc on a blurred blue background. Quote: It's 3am when the bot knocks on my door / And he looks like a man, but / I can tell he's a bot by the way he stands there / Stiff like his body is the ex-girlfriend / he had a painful and inexplicable breakup with.
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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 18/03/2026
🎉 We are delighted to begin announcing our #Lammys2026 shortlist... 🎉
Blue background with a gold Lammys logo and text stating 'The 2026 Lambda Literary Awards shortlist announcement, celebrating 38 years of lgbtq+ literature and storytelling'
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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The donkey is essential! 😂
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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I have no words...! My poem "The World To Come" is a finalist for the inaugural Nebula Poetry Award...! I am seriously in a puddle on the floor right now
Finalist - Poetry
The World To Come
Jennifer Hudak
in Strange Horizons
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Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Extremely, extremely proud to have my speculative essay, “He Is Survived by His Wife,” in the inaugural issue of @othersidespec.bsky.social! 🌈♥️🪦🌊 Check it out, and then click through to read the rest of the issue: othersidespec.com/pieces/he-is...
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He Is Survived by His Wife - OTHERSIDE
In 2019, I was asked to write my own obituary. I was taking a professional development course for artists. The course was very goal-oriented (one year, five years, ten). Writing an obituary was anothe...
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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Absolutely loved this one, so haunting. I'm still thinking about it days later. A story about the glass mountain was included in a beloved childhood treasure, The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales—which also contained Tanith Lee's "Prince Amilec," the inspiration for "The Vetala"! Life is a circle.
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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If you've ever felt the feminine urge to fuck a house, I urge you to read @ayidashonibar.bsky.social "The Homeowner's Bride" immediately. Its angry, queer, and perfect. othersidespec.com/pieces/the-h...
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The Homeowner's Bride - OTHERSIDE
Wooden wheels crack against the dirt road, warning me of the owner’s approach. His journey up my hill is slow. The cart fights its way through the brambles and wildflowers that have made the path thei...
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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
@srinivassimo.bsky.social's The Vetala of Cystal Vellam Inlet is one of the very first stories I read and was immediately in love. Such assured storytelling. Its hard to do humor well in short fiction but Simo is a master. othersidespec.com/pieces/the-v...
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The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet - OTHERSIDE
In the 668th year after Creation, which was also the fortieth year of the reign of imperator Jadunath, master of sky and stars—may his memory be a curse!—a sorcerer came to the maharaja’s court in sea...
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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet" is now free to read in @othersidespec.bsky.social Issue 1, along with many other wonderful queer stories, poems & nonfiction! othersidespec.com/pieces/the-v...
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The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet - OTHERSIDE
In the 668th year after Creation, which was also the fortieth year of the reign of imperator Jadunath, master of sky and stars—may his memory be a curse!—a sorcerer came to the maharaja’s court in sea...
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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Today! Come meet "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet"! othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/
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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Contract signed! I'm so happy to announce that "For Shell, Whom I Will Never Know Again," a short story about a woman with face blindness and her mold (?) girlfriend (??), will be appearing in a future issue of @augursociety.bsky.social!!!
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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🌦️ It's here! Our tenth & final issue 🌦️ Feat: @ncmaha.bsky.social @sagemustang.bsky.social @andymboyle.bsky.social @elizabethcobbe.bsky.social @madalenadaleziou.bsky.social @zaryfekete.bsky.social @joannaobviously.bsky.social & more!! inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-ten-ed... #SFF #Horror
Magazine cover with a painting of grey and white clouds on an acid yellow background.
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Reminder: we are OPEN to reprints all month long! We are looking for reprints that cannot currently be read online for free! This includes stories that were never available online or are no longer online after a publication closed, etc. Find all the details in our 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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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! “What We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroom” is about superstition, intercultural relationships, and yes, a strange hole in the bathroom. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...
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What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom - Uncanny Magazine
After dinner, the woman and her husband argue about the hole in their bathroom. It’s not such a big hole. Two feet by two feet, the kind you might drop your garbage into every Thursday night and never...
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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Honoured to share a ToC with you! I was telling you before how much I love the direction you took this vetala story—no spoilers, but it's SO GOOD. 🔥
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Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
ICYMI! Feat. strange & wonderful queer stories and poems (incl. @ayidashonibar.bsky.social's dark delight "The Homeowner's Bride" & my Indian vampire reprint "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet") + an essay by @jackiehedeman.bsky.social ("He Is Survived By His Wife") that brought tears to my eyes!
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Kate Tooley @katetooley.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Some very fabulous writers in this issue, just sayin 👀 @ayidashonibar.bsky.social @srinivassimo.bsky.social
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