iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

o hai! and thank you! 🙏

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4

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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers

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P. H. Low @ph-low.com · 06/10/2026

hello friends ~ my short story “home/body”—insp. piranesi, the saint of bright doors, starling house, et al.—is now free to read @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!! come for hot shapeshifter autumn & liminal spaces, stay for architecture that is Trying its Best www.uncannymagazine.com/article/home...

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Home/Body - Uncanny Magazine

You find yourself standing in a train station. People hurry past you, grunting and shuffling: a gaggle of girls wrapped in black cloaks; a family of five laden with alphorn cases taller than they are;...

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the evening crowd: I have a new story out today! And it's about MAGIC SWORDS!

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

hmm straw fit through keyhole

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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our summer issue #36 is now online and free to read on our website!! Please have a read of these incredible stories, poems & interviews and help us share them! To read: tinyurl.com/OB-issue36 To get the PDF/ebook: ko-fi.com/s/95de821dd4 To subscribe to OB 🧡: bit.ly/orionsbelt-p...

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36: Summer 2026 — Orion's Belt

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dammit Jen how do you do it every time? (I know the answer is a lot of hard work but still ...)

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you! You'll dig this one I think

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hm, what about instead of email you try the Reactor website? Nov 11??

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you!! How am I going to wait a month??

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks Louis! It's no "Let's Go to the Zoo" but what is.

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TBH, I forgot you read this one! Thank you for reading and helping suckass clown!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But thei were all of them deceivid, for anothir Great Clowne Pagliacci was made

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here's the short story trailer basically.

Screenshot of tweet from Colin Spacetwinks, which reads:

doctor: treatment is simple. go see orville, very funny clown

pagliacci: what about pagliacci?

doctor: pagliacci? man i could not name a more suckass clown

pagliacci:

doctor: just downright dogshit of a clown

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks forever to @malf.bsky.social who edited it. Watch this space for the artwork.

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm sorry, I have no chill about this, but I have a story coming out in Reactor on Nov 11 called "The Next Closest Thing". When your mom is in hospital for maybe the last time, she orders a clone to comfort you. But there's something not quite right and anyway, she doesn't get the Pagliacci joke.

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's so awesome! Congrats!

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New story day, and it's a short one! “Ivan Ivanovich” is about spacecraft dummies & the illusion of safety & an adriftness that makes you feel far from your own self. Based on a real Soviet test flight mannequin from the '60s. In @othersidespec.bsky.social! 🧑🏼‍🚀 othersidespec.com/pieces/ivan-ivanovich

The cover of Otherside, issue 3. In shades of orange to yellow against a black background, a figure looks toward a grand stone structure with columns, a staircase, and two giant statues. There are leaning trees and what looks like wind or smoke. The issue is dated September 2026 and the contributors' names are listed in white at the bottom.

A screengrab of the Otherside page hosting my short story, "Ivan Ivanovich." Otherside's illustrative purple banner is at the top, followed by the story's word count (1500 words) and the first three paragraphs of text.

A photograph of the Ivan Ivanovich display at the National Air and Space Museum, sourced from Wikipedia. The mannequin is in the foreground wearing a helmet and orange flight suit.

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is so good, Kristina, holy heck

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Investigation has turned up further details.

A picture of Reacher at a thrift-store, buying jeans, t-shirt, jacket, socks, boxers.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My contributor copy of the FORGED IN FIYAH anthology from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social is here! Edited by the super-talented @davaun.bsky.social this beauty hits shelves tomorrow, and you can delve into these incredible tales of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, perfect for Black Spec Fic Month in October.

Cover of Forged in Fiyah Celebrating ten years of Black Speculative Fiction, done in hues of purple, green, and blue. Two elegantly dressed magicians stand in a forest around an anvil, holding hammers, about to strike a glowing chalice.

Back cover of Forged in Fiyah listing all contributors names: M.H Ayinde, Maurice Broaddus, C.L. Clark, Eboni Dunbar, WC Dunlap, Emmalia Harrington, Veronica G. Henry, Tonja K. Johnson, Brent Lambert, L.D. Lewis, Tonya R. Moore, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Tobi Ogundiran, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Nelson Rolon, Eden Royce, Sheree Renee Thomas, Tade Thompson

Beginning of story "All That Remains" by Eden Royce (me!) starting with the quote "The most marvellous thing to watch is the death of a person." -Pauline E. Hopkins, Of One Blood, or, The Hidden Self

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean i guess socks can be underwear if you try hard enough

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am spending my brain space on the important questions of our age like “Does Reacher not change his underwear?”

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yep! Not sure if it’s in the same spot but a few branches still live.

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Red chilli! I have the best place - my shout next time you’re in Sydney!

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Maybe Hainanese chicken rice will fix me

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

when is your presentation

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

isn't that just social media? that sounds like social media

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If Flights of Foundry means something to you, if you've gotten something out of it - whether that's inspiration for a project or a friendship or good memories or the comfort of knowing someone out there is designing events like this... Put some money in, please. flights-of-foundry.org/donate/

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Donate – Flights of Foundry

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My Flights of Foundry schedule! Hope to see you there!

Graphic of a brown cow against a blue sky displaying the con schedule for writer KM Veohongs at the 2026 Flights of Foundry convention including a reading on Friday 9/18 at 6 pm EDT, a panel called Revealing Plot Structures through Adaptation on Sunday 9/20 at 1 pm EDT, and a panel called Being a Good Literary Citizen on Sunday 9/20 at 7 pm EDT

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is this a short story? "Pig Statue" is absolutely a New Yorker short story title.

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Read my latest newsletter post! Also sign up because it's free, I really don't sent that many, and I am very funny. Truly, it's like one extra email in your inbox every 1-2 months. Really Good (throat clearing noise) woman-screams-at-cloud.ghost.io/really-good-...

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Really Good (throat clearing noise)

The title of this post is actually "Really Good Assholes" but I was afraid if that was the email subject line my newsletter would be sent to spam jail. At my first writing workshop in 2019 (Viable Pa...

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ted Kooser 🖤

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