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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saros SF #7 is nearly here! Release date coming soon, so get ready for stories by @adamdelrey.bsky.social, Alexandra Nyx, Mir Rainbird, Mathew Lebowitz, Becks Simpson, and @kirkvanderbeek.bsky.social. Edited by @thompsinator.bsky.social, this issue features cover art by @chpearcewrites.bsky.social!

The cover of Saros #7 shows a woman on her phone, while faces peer at her. A small wormy caterpillar type insect emerges from her mouth.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Editor @thompsinator.bsky.social has finalized the TOC for Saros SF #7! The "Terminally Online" issue will have fiction from Becks Simpson, @kirkvanderbeek.bsky.social, @adamdelrey.bsky.social, Alexandra Nyx, Mir Rainbird, Mathew Lebowitz, and cover art by @chpearcewrites.bsky.social. Stay tuned!

Saros Speculative Fiction Issue 7: Terminally Online

Table of Contents

Edited by K. Thompson
"Haunted Rocks" by Becks Simpson
"The Pieces" by Kirk Vanderbeek
"reLEASEYA" by Adam DelRey
"GalatAI 2.1" by Alexandra Nyx
"Late Online" by Mir Rainbird
"The Museum of the Now" by Mathew Lebowitz

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's not only FF that's open! Saros SF #7, edited by @thompsinator.bsky.social, is open for the month for any stories with a theme of "terminally online". Full guidelines here: sarossf.com/submissions/

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I’ve not thought much about them honestly I’ll have to ponder the worm (thank you for sharing)

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I have no boughs and I must deck

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Horrific Scribblings @horrificscribs.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

NEW SCRIBE ALERT! We welcome @thompsinator.bsky.social into HORRIFIC SCRIBES along with the #horrorstory "Worryeater," a sympathetic but still scary depiction of #OCD that veers into the #supernatural and monstrous in a fight for self-determination. Read for free: horrificscribblings.com

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I’m alive, I was just reading Les Mis

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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

friendly reminder from your family first christian streamer

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

It just feels like nothing I produce will ever be good enough even if they’re specifically asking for exactly what I’ve produced I need help

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#writers #queerwriters how do you deal with rejection? I know I’m not supposed to take it personally but it’s hard not to. they say there’s all sorts of factors involved but at the end of the day if the story was actually good it wouldn’t matter. how do I not feel so worthless?

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Probably "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament” by Clive Barker but I love almost everything in the first 3 Books of Blood volumes

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thanks for the response. I don’t have any novel to query at the moment so I’m dealing basically entirely with lit mags but everything basically still applies.

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I’m sorry I don’t mean to sound ungrateful and I’m listening to what you’re saying, but I don’t feel like I’m in a community. I want to know where to find more people because I feel so alone doing this I’m just throwing darts in a dark room. How can I be grateful for opportunities I’m not aware of?

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I need a W so bad but everyone’s so stingy with them

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

If any actual editors read this I’d like to know if you consider how much this hurts? Like do you know how hard it is to put my beating heart in your hands and trust you not to just throw it out? I’m sure there’s a lot of considerations and I’d love to know more but how can I foster professional…

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I’m never gonna stop until I die because I can’t stop but it hurts me to see people produce work id never even show anyone be way more successful than me. I know it’s just luck but how do you be lucky?

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

takes pity on me? It doesn’t seem like that’s something anyone does. I wish someone would just tell me what I need to do to make people publish me but nobody wants what I make even though I think it’s good. It hurts so much I need support but there is none, what do I do? #writers #writing #authors

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Generally just never know what to post on here but I finished a story and have been working on a couple other ones, not sure if they’re actually good ideas though One is a little experimental and hard to pin down genre wise, the other is just a magical girl riff

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I’m gonna do four of the short fiction books I’ve had laying around in a row Why four? I don’t know man

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I haven’t talked about my reading or really anything on here lately, in part because I’ve just been reading a lot of mid stuff aside from some nonfiction, but I did just start John Langan’s Sefira and Other Betrayals which is exciting

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

OH and I finished all of the Cyteen books finally they were a lot of fun, hoping to check out more Cherryh relatively soon

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

so now I’m going to start Them by Joyce Carol Oates, who I’ve never read before (though I’ve seen Sweet Talk, based on 1 of her short stories). I basically chose this at random but I’m excited to see what’s up

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I just finished Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, which was very beautiful. Very “being told a story as you drift off to sleep warm and safe” vibe, which was nice for a change

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

another writing rejection, another sakedon (I am growing increasingly discouraged)

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

dude shut up with this ahistorical pessimistic nonsense and read about ACT UP they can’t destroy us unless we let them and you’re basically halfway there

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

straining hard not to be annoying by replying "they do not want to" after every post i see wondering why the democrats are not scoring this or that obvious open goal, but yes the answer is that they do not want to

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Working on a fantasy piece for this

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

finished Anna Karenina in like 11 days so basically I’m god

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Baaulp @baaulp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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i can be your long lost pal @pallavi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

if i text you this just know you’re cooked

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

grabbed this at my local bookstore last fall, this is great to see!

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

one of my stories got moved to “in progress” on submittable I’m absolutely shitting myself

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Next time I’m getting okonomiyaki make my day mfs

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

rejection received, cheese plate imminent lfg

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

You are genuinely a very bad person and I hope you sit with that (probably won’t though)

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

on day 2 of my Anna Karenina grindset, I greatly dislike this Vronsky fellow

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

How can you expect air travel to be done safely what with the Last Jedi and dragon age gay romance option and things of that nature?

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

oh I did love the style of it, very fluid despite the huge paragraphs

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k thompson 🖤 @thompsinator.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

finished reading Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain for my book club. I liked it a lot to start, but then it kinda lost me when it became about the trials and tribulations of home ownership. gonna be interesting talking about this in a room full of people my age lol

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