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Vanessa Fogg

@vanessafogg.bsky.social
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Science fiction and fantasy writer. Also lapsed scientist and freelance medical writer. Website: vanessafogg.com

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Forged in Fiyah' is here. Behold, the table of contents. If you don't want to be left out there faking the funk, get thee to your favourite retailer and buy it.
Cover 'Forged in Fiyah' shows man and woman with hammers on an anvil with a holy grail looking thing with sparkly glowy magic swirls, in a forest Table of contents
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Jeanna Cammarano @wordrat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you haven’t read my little story yet or checked out @vanessafogg.bsky.social’s recommended reading list, please do!
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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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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICYMI my short fiction recs for June-July, featuring stories from @thedeadlands.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com @lightspeedmagazine.com Future Tense Fiction @bourbonpenn.bsky.social and-- itsajumble.blogspot.com/2026/09/shor...
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Short fiction recs! June--August 2026
Very late, but here are some things I loved and read this past summer. Novelettes “The City in White” by Diana Dima in The Deadlands ...
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Late, but I wanted to shout this one out. I inhaled @wnwagner.bsky.social 's Girl in the Creek over a single weekend. VanderMeer’s Annihilation meets Twin Peaks in this Pacific Northwest-set missing persons/murder mystery/sci-fi horror. Fungal horror and beauty. Mesmerizing
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Homemade beef noodle soup
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What do we want? Stories*! When do we want them? Before submissions close on October 15! * Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
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Submissions
Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm late again with this list of my top 10 favorite short spec fic stories from August, but life yadda yadda yadda. Anyway, come check out some great stories. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2026 - Reactor
We're starting off spooky season with dark fairy tales, cannibalism, and revenge...
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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This week we're talking with John Wiswell about his new book, THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! John is one of our favorite writers & we're thrilled to talk with him again! @wiswell.bsky.social
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The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell: 9780756420499 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"The dragon may have some complaints, but readers won't. By turns silly, sweet, and subversive, this novel has all of Wiswell's characteristic blend of tension and heart." —Caitlin Rozakis,...
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026
Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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KK @kk-maker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I really enjoyed Mothersound, also set in the Sauutiverse.
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My review of @genni.bsky.social 's wonderful new book is now out! It's set in the Sauutiverse, an utterly unique shared science fiction/fantasy universe @sauutiverse.bsky.social locusmag.com/review/crims...
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Crimson in Quietus by Eugen Bacon: Review by Vanessa Fogg - Locus
Crimson in Quietus, Eugen Bacon (Meerkat Press 978-1-96574-007-1, $18.95, 270pp, tp) September 2026. Cover by Tricia Reeks. Eugen Bacon's third novel, Crimson in Quietus, is set in the Sauútiverse, a ...
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This year we should be supporting our fellow artists and writers as much as possible. Help us continue to give independent creativity a space to be celebrated by reading Locus Magazine! linktr.ee/locusmagazine
Locus magazine cover- floating city on green background
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very late, but my short fic recs for June-Aug are now up! With fiction from @dianadima.com @hhpak.bsky.social @wtalabi.com @thomasha.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social Maya Ysabel Ng @aijiang.bsky.social @wordrat.bsky.social and @apottern.bsky.social itsajumble.blogspot.com/2026/09/shor...
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Short fiction recs! June--August 2026
Very late, but here are some things I loved and read this past summer. Novelettes “The City in White” by Diana Dima in The Deadlands ...
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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Very happy that @hararereview.com returns to SH today to write about an anthology of xicanxfuturism. “What all of these futurisms and the work produced in them have in common is resistance: pushing back against hegemony, and against erasure.”
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Xicanxfuturism: Codex 1 edited by Scott Russell Duncan
What all of these futurisms and the work produced in them have in common is resistance.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My quote of the day If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. Stephen King
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Claudia’s writing is gorgeous. Very much looking forward to this
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Narnia books as Isekai Manga
1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending
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Mark Peters @markpeters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reminder that every day is a great day to read @angelaliu.bsky.social . Here’s a few of my faves to get started: 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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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 01/09/2026
The new Kickstarter is live! We’ve published original horror, fantasy, and science fiction in since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf... Many haunted rewards available!
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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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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Happy 1 year book birthday to Audition For The Fox! This lil book has scampered further into the world than I could have ever hoped & I've spent the last 365 days happily overwhelmed. Read more at the blog, enter a GIVEAWAY(!), and see my newest favorite review! 🦊💜 buttondown.com/mcahill90/ar...
a graphic saying happy birthday audition for the fox, with the cover for Marty's book by the same name, and wow, there's balloons, a cake, and a fox wearing a party hat, ain't that neat??
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 15/09/2026
The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26
LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE Kickstarter graphic. Left side: Bright light blue background with rays (as of light) bursting out from the center. Central image is an open book with a rocket blasting up out of it. Below the book is the LIGHTSPEED magazine wordmark; the word lightspeed is rendered in a orange-to-yellow gradient, with a white outline around it and dropshadow underneath it.
Right side: Bright light yellow background with rays (as of light) bursting out from the center. Central image is an open book with a haunted house emerging from it. Below the book is the NIGHTMARE magazine wordmark; the word nightmare is rendered in a dark red to lighter red gradient, with a white outline around it and dropshadow underneath it.
Top: the words "LIVE on Kickstarter"
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DaVaun Sanders @davaun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Forged in FIYAH anthology releases September 29!! These next few weeks I get to gush about these incredible authors and share a fave line or two from their original short stories. To start we salute @mhayinde.bsky.social with The Clothmaker of Kehin 🔥🔥🔥
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the point of freeing yourself from the prison of ego is not getting there you’re not gonna do that. never gonna happen. the point is cultivating a practice of routinely asking “wait, I am too into my own shit here?” in every aspect of your dealings at least once or twice a day. anyhow good morning
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Let's focus on supporting each other this year. Indie authors, publishers, magazines & editors need to stay connected! Keep yourself integrated into the SFFH world by reading Locus! Support our nonprofit and help us create the network we all deserve... locusmag.com
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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Eric Primm returns to us to discuss a novella with a lot of buzz right now, SL Huang's The Language of Liars. He finds a book that "tells its story in its title."
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The Language of Liars by S. L. Huang
The Language of Liars tells its story in its title.
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The minute you ask the machine to take over for you, you’ve given up the idea. Telling someone (or something) to make a thing for you is not the same as making that thing. In art, idea is inseparable from expression, and doing the thing is the only thing." www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-si...
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A Sigilary for the Median Human in the Gearwrack - Uncanny Magazine
The Sigil of Assurance You take a bit of wax and drip it over the em dash fresh out of the printer, working it over, building it up until it’s a little caterpillar crawling on the page, nestled betwee...
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Since other people are already talking 2027 releases, guess it's time for my niche: here is a post for listing out weird fiction publishing next year. Readers, writers, presses, publicists, whoever, let me know what's what.
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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 10/09/2026
ICYMI, My new story is out at Reactor! "Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds" contains: 🧠Artificial minds 👭A broken marriage 🔎An investigation 💔A broken-hearted dating app ⚰️A grieving counseling bot
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
hm what if I did a thread of fall books I personally think you should preorder. would anyone want that.
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 07/09/2026
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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Some books I want to make sure y'all know exist (no particular order): Red Ants, Kimberly Blaeser Forged in Fiyah, DaVaun Sanders It Looks Like You in the Dark, Mathilda Zeller Something Followed Us Home, Cynthia Pelayo The Killing Spell, Shay Kauwe Just a taste of the many cool reads out there!❤️‍🔥
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 02/09/2026
You can now read part of my short fiction review column from the August issue of LOCUS in Locus Online. Featuring stories from @lightspeedmagazine.com @strangehorizons.bsky.social and @kaleidotrope.bsky.social !
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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Finally updated my author blog. It became too painful to contemplate writing that post I wanted to write about authorship and AI (how BIPOC/marginalised authors get continuously accused/gaslit), but I would up weaving some of those thoughts into this catch-up post. mythopoetica.com/2026/09/01/t...
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The Forgotten Beauty of an Analogue Life – through wildwood, through water
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Elder daughter just referred to the array of shampoos, conditioners, and soaps in the shower as the “shower condiments”
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
An Impossibility of Crows by Kirsten Kaschock: Review by Vanessa Fogg locusmag.com/review/...
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My Locus book review from July is now available online and free to read! A mesmerizing Gothic science-fiction horror which is also a contemporary tale of motherhood, marriage, and family secrets. locusmag.com/review/an-im...
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An Impossibility of Crows by Kirsten Kaschock: Review by Vanessa Fogg - Locus
An Impossibility of Crows, Kirsten Kaschock (University of Massachusetts Press 978-1-62534-925-5, $22.95, 248pp, tp) March 2026. The premise for this novel is one that I found irresistible: A troubled...
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hackenburg’s paper is the latest in a string of studies showing the power of AI to sway people. “It’s a whole new field that is emerging,” says @profsanderlinden.bsky.social. “People are very interested in the persuasive powers of AI, I think, both for ethical and unethical reasons”🧪 In @science.org
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AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?
ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 26/08/2026
Remembering how @catvalente.bsky.social turned "Jolene" into a sapphic vampire tale. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
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When He Calls Your Name - Uncanny Magazine
There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 26/08/2026
I'm excited to share that The Best Science Fiction of the Year: 2025 anthology will be published by Wyrm Publishing in November. Full details on my blog: neil-clarke.com/next-install...
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Next installment in the Best Science Fiction of the Year series – Neil Clarke
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New MicroVerse flash rec list, curated by Patricia Q. Bidar! @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
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Special Issue * Flash Recs from Patricia Q. Bidar
Welcome to this special guest-edited issue, featuring flash recommendations by Patricia Q. Bidar! Patricia is a longtime friend and a consummate writer, from flash to novelettes. Her collection, Pa…
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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 18/08/2026
My most recent essay, "Tempered and Spiced: A Recipe for Mythic Fiction," disappeared without much of a ripple when it came out, but I'm really proud of it, so I'll share it again now. If you read it, I hope you like it. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Tempered And Spiced: A Recipe for Mythic Fiction
I have been told over and over that no one would be interested in what I have to say, that I am the “wrong kind” of minority to count. That my ancestors’ tales of enchantment and wonder—and so, min…
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oh wow. That ending
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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thrilled to share that my time traveler story about love and loneliness, “Time Is An Ocean” (originally in @strangehorizons.bsky.social) was podcast by @wilwheaton.net! Absolutely floored by this narration and all the cool ambient details. So happy to see these characters come to life again.
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“Time is an Ocean” by Angela Liu
Podcast Episode · It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton · August 12 · 40m
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I have just started, for the first time, Tanith Lee’s Tales From the Flat Earth (Night’s Master, Vol 1) and my god, this stuff is *gorgeous*
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 15/08/2026
It's story day! My story "The Fall of the Automatous Abbey" is in this brand new issue of @translunartl.bsky.social ! So thrilled that this story about a cleaning bot found such an excellent home. Read the story here: translunartravelerslounge.com/2026/08/15/t...
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The Fall of the Automatous Abbey by Maria Haskins
Long after the final attack on the Automatous Abbey, long after the enemy, repugnant and resplendent in their flesh and blood, had fired their array of weapons at the undefended structure, long aft…
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My parents made this bird sculpture from various bits of wood and old metal they found in their shed and made a perch for it on the sawn-off trunk of a dead tree, and it makes for some great folk horror winter sunset photos.
My mum and dad’s metal bird sculpture in their garden, earlier this year.
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
An FFer Giveaway is live on our Patreon! I'm doing 3 draws (including 1 for free-tier members) and you could win your choice of prizes. We've got books by FFers and anthologies and magazine issues containing FFers up for grabs! Plus check out a ton of great stories! www.patreon.com/fusionfragme...
The Drowned Man's Daughter - C.J. Lavigne
The House of Illusionists - Vanessa Fogg
Twin Tides - Hien Nguyen
Uncertain Sons - Thomas HaA Chorus, Divergent - ed. C.G. Aubrey
Enter Here - eds. C.J. Subko & M. Stevenson
Small Wonders - Aug-Dec 2025 issues
Radon Journal Patreon Membership
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