iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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yasmeen / ياسمين @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Contract signed (!!) so I’m thrilled to share my tender flash story “The Synap™ You Lost in the Fire” will appear in issue 6.4 of @khoreo.bsky.social in Dec! ✨

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Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July.' Salma in the Vase by @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social This gorgeous #flashfiction hums with the disorientation, & overwhelming love & fear that comes with being a mother. hexliterary.com?p=3557

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Salma in the Vase by Yasmeen Fahmy

The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July. It was our thing; sitting and watching the clouds build, eating fast-melting popsicles a...

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Do you like video games? Past and future lives? Decision paralysis? If you answered yes to any of those, my story "New Game Plus" in Adventitious #5 is definitely for you www.adventitious.net/product/adve...

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Adventitious — Issue Five (October 2026) - Adventitious.

The fifth issue of Adventitious. Digital edition including PDF and EPUB formats.

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Seneschal of Shattered Tor" is a postcolonial high fantasy about a society trying to Be Better* and the leaders dragging them into the future. I hope you enjoy it! * T&C apply

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louis @swagboygalore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

hello writing is being done by me

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Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Issue 4 of Adventitious is out! In it is "Life Imitates," Kaitlin's and my coauthored sapphic horror story in which therapy speak is how they get ya, and self-gaslighting invites in more than mere self-doubt... Subscribe to read it now, or be patient and read it later—if they don't get ya first.

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Adventitious | A Speculative Short Fiction Magazine - Adventitious.

Adventitious is a speculative short fiction magazine publishing boundary-defying stories, novellas, and unclassifiable work.

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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"It’s a sun-drenched September day in Lancaster when Rita’s third arm snaps off under the weight of her ten-month-old’s flailing." Yasmeen Fahmy is joining SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM with "Four Hands Full, Three Eyes Open." Coming in March 2027. @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social

On the left is the cover of the book, depicting masked figures holding bloody food delivery bags. On the right is a photo of the author with name and title.

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So glad to have had so many great instructors who approached our work with excitement and grace Most of all, i am so glad the workshop allowed me to meet all my fellow stretchy ghosts the clarion west class of 2026. Hope we will forever yearn for documents and write about bodily fluids.

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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hey, it's your girl with a horror on the Rumpus! therumpus.net/2026/06/28/s...

The Rumpus. Sunday Scaries: Lu's Laundry and Other Services

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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

congrats to the incoming class!! unhinged but the best way i can describe vp is it’s lowkey the literary equivalent of going and training in a secluded cave in xianxia novels and suddenly your meridians are opening you will have the best time :))

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louis @swagboygalore.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

hello...i hereby order myself to initiate swag sequence (clarion west 2026 edition). press the button!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Gibster @gibsterific.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Curse of the Golden Tattoo Thankfully, it’s not every unkind word said to Gemma that’s stiched into her skin—only from loved ones. Her family curse passes from mother to daughter. To avoid passing it down when she becomes pregnant, she must find magic of her own. #QuestPit #A #F #U #Q

Curse of the Golden Tattoo.
Shows a squiggle of ink and a tattoo gun from the letter G.
Golden text and a red and orange threaded carpet.

Pitch
Thankfully, it’s not every unkind word said to Gemma that’s stiched into her skin—only from loved ones.
Her family curse passes from mother to daughter.
To avoid passing it down when she becomes pregnant, she must find magic of her own.

Golden text and a red and orange threaded carpet.

First Lines
My mother gave me my first tattoo when I was six months old—by accident. I believe that story. Accidents happen. Words slipped out.
All the other tattoos were on purpose.
Golden text and a red and orange threaded carpet.

Comps
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Ten Thousand Doors of January.

Golden text and a red and orange threaded carpet.

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Natalie Zutter @zutsuit.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

My sex robot story is free to read at Adventitious! Stoked to be part of the monstrous (complimentary) Issue 2 with my anti-ode to the dehumanization of modern dating by way of a pleasure bot who's *too* entitled to his owner's data.

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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

that moment when your most rejected story becomes your second pro rate sale? @scyllapublishing.bsky.social 🥹😭 i first wrote “letters to a lost time” in 2022/23 and i’ve always loved the concept but didn’t have the skill to execute it until this year. i guess some stories never die after all??

poster with the text “letters to a lost time / science fantasy / 4500 words / jumping timelines / the stories we tell ourselves to survive / by lia lao

background sounds a poster of a beetle against moss and an asian woman looking towards the sun

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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

my debut short story (and first pro rate sale) are now up in full!! read the whole thing here: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/song-for-t...

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Song for the Once-Dead Earth — Full Story

By C.M. Sullivan

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Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 10/04/2026

Rejoice, sophonts! It's Thursday or Friday, and as such we bring you a fresh original for your experiential experience: "Gods and Spirits Our Witnesses" by @scmillsbooks.bsky.social. Go ahead, witness it! Though it looks like the trilobites may have eaten the link preview image...

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Escape Pod 1040: Gods and Spirits Our Witnesses

We met in a public-access data booth at night, during yet another tropical storm, long after the angry god of the sea had gorged himself fat on Earth’s old icecaps. Rain hammered the booth’s cracked…

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louis @swagboygalore.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

computer, activate internet swag

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