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DRM-free, AI-free, billionare-free, waitless ebooks from independent presses, sold to you by an actual human being who responds to emails, since 2010. weightlessbooks.com

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Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 5h
You know what's awesome? When I post about a new title, flip over to email and find a bunch of people actually bought it and are reading. This is not, in my experience, how social media book promo works in general, and it feels great, like we got a real community going here, bots or no bots
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 9h
Friends, grab the eBook of Pale Grey Idol off @weightlessbooks.bsky.social for just $6. Indies helping indies. weightlessbooks.com/pale-grey-id...
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Pale Grey Idol Zero
Stories of the ineffable. Strange and uncanny tales from the best contemporary writers of folk horror and weird fiction
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 9h
A new folk horror series from @undertow.bsky.social! PALE GREY IDOL ZERO includes work from @seanbirnie.bsky.social, @brianevenson.bsky.social, @stevetoase.bsky.social and more: weightlessbooks.com/pale-grey-id...
Cover for PALE GREY IDOL issue zero, featuring a stylized mask
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 11h
How many versions of yourself in mirror realities have already purchased a copy?
Background is crumpled white paper. In the center: cover art for Adventitious Issue Five, an oil painting of a young Black woman emerging from dark ocean waves with an owl head emerging from her forehead, merged with her skin, and a full moon rising behind her. "Issue Five" and the Adventitious logo overlay the art, with a small (really cool) astronaut figure beside the title. Surrounding the cover, hand-drawn arrows point to gold marker-style text listing story hooks: "14 stories," "1 novelette," "Time Cults," "Sapphic Rage," "Video Game Reincarnation," "Portal Fantasy," "Found Families," and "Shapeshifter Romance."
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 10h
I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month! "The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/
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The Job by Elizabeth Bear
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 10h
Today we add two anthologies of emerging Canadian authors from indie publisher Spud Publishing! weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...
Cover art for SEQUEL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF EMERGED CANADIAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS, featuring a mutant rat creatureCover art for DEBUT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF EMERGING CANADIAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS, featuring a purple origami boat traversing the pages of a book
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Becky Halsey @beckyhalsey.bsky.social · 13h
I have stories in this month’s issues of Small Wonders and Adventitious. Thank you Weightless Books for being a huge part of the independent publishing, speculative fiction world. 💓🙌 #LitMagWeek #writingcommunity
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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Get em while they're hot!
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you buy a copy/sub through Weightless, it supports us AND a very cool hub for speculative fiction.
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October issues of The Dark, @nightmare-magazine.com, Dirty Magick, @locusmag.bsky.social, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @adventitiouswords.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and Sally Port are here and en route to subscribers: weightlessbooks.com/2026/10/
Cover art for The Dark issue 137, featuring an undead person with long black hair hanging from the ceiling in a doorway open on a checkered corridorFlash Fiction Online October 2026 issue cover, featuring abstract white-on-black lines and texturesCover art for Adventitious Issue Five, featuring a Black person wearing a great great horned owl head as a hat up to their shoulders in waves with a huge moon and another owl behind themCover for Locus Magazine #789, featuring a row of white doors in a blank white hallway, one of them open on a glowing red room
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Announcing a new, occasional journal - PALE GREY IDOL. I hope you'll come along with us on this new venture. Info: palegreyidol.ca
Cover for PALE GREY IDOL. Featuring black background with maori art of a tribal mask. Yelloe and grey font colors. 

Hello Undertow Family,


It's my great pleasure today to announce publication of a new journal — Pale Grey Idol.


Pale Grey Idol will be an occasional offering. The impetus behind it is to give a home to stories that don't quite fit the needs or aesthetic of Weird Horror magazine.


Some of you may recall the first journal I edited, Shadows & Tall Trees. Pale Grey Idol is very much cast in that mold. A slim journal styled after those first issues of Shadows & Tall Trees, presenting curious tales of the ineffable. Back to our roots, as it were.


An aspect of this new venture that might sadden some of you is that I am not fulfilling direct orders for the journal. I'm sorry about this but hope you'll understand and still support Pale Grey Idol.


Our most precious commodity is time. And these days life is eating away at it in unpleasant ways. I've crunched some numbers, and compared fulfilling orders through our Undertow site with sales through distribution channels. There is a modest amount more that comes in via direct sales, but when I factor in the actual time it takes to fulfill orders, well, that negates that bump. In addition, there have been a number of things that have made fulfillment of both print and eBooks...challenging and vexing.


So I've set up a dedicated website for Pale Grey Idol:


PALE GREY IDOL


There you'll find information about forthcoming issues, submissions guidelines, where to buy* the issues, the newsletter sign-up, and contact information.


I am very excited about this new venture, and I do hope that you will support it if you are able.


PURCHASE





NOTE - It appears the print edition has only propagated to Amazon, thus far. It should be up on Bookshop, and Barnes & Noble soon.


Thank you all for your continued support and good graces.
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New from @wordhorde! DESERT RADIO, a novel by Pamela M. Durgin: weightlessbooks.com/desert-radio/
Cover for Desert Radio by Pamela M. Durgin, featuring a radio tower building atop a rocky hill against a textured night sky.
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Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can’t tell you all how excited I am to have this story in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's the 18th anniversary double issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social! Featuring stories by K.J. Parker, @tommarcinko.bsky.social, Zet Madej, and @katarinagarcia.bsky.social and cover art by Bruce Benneise: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
Cover art for BCS #467 by Bruce Benneise, featuring a house on a cliff edge with finlike awnings and some flowering cacti in the foreground
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Toronto and area friends! Find us this weekend at Little Ghosts Festival. Hope to see you! www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 23/09/2026
Scientists re-created the Herculaneum scrolls. They found a clue to decoding hidden text www.cnn.com/2026/09/22/s... #science #archeology
This image features the ancient Roman boathouses along the shore of Herculaneum. A long row of large, concrete and stone arched vaults once sheltered boats. One arch is closed off with a wooden plank wall and a doorway. The foreground is dark and filled with debris, marking where water used to be. Other buildings are visible above the arches.
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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Kiva is an easy way to make a real difference in someone's life. Will you join me in helping Izili Bénin in Cotonou to pursue their dream? www.kiva.org/invitedby/ga...
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Can you help Gavin support Izili Bénin?
Kiva is a loan, not a donation. With Kiva you can lend as little as $25 and make a big change in someone's life.
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I truly love this convention. It's an excellent space and an almost-unbelievable resource with the level of access it provides. Writers, publishers, readers, gamers, all mixing together. A truly special org and group of people.
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Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What the @weightlessbooks.bsky.social bag gets used for these days
Some early fall boletes and suillii (wild mushrooms) washed and drying on a on e-white canvas Weightless Books tote bag
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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New book out from "noted Afrofuturist" @shereereneethomas.bsky.social! With secret (shhh!) code SEPTEMBER you get 20% off at check out. "Taste with this book’s tongue the salty sweetness of her world." pmpress.org/index.php?l=...
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The Tongue I Dream In
Sheree Renée Thomas The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home.
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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 16/09/2026
WOW, what a first day! In our first 24 hours, nearly 150 backers pledged more than $11K, putting us 22% of the way toward our goal. Several of our limited signed books and collectibles are already gone. If you haven't checked it out yet: bit.ly/LS-NM-26
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 16/09/2026
We are 98 new subscribers away from our goal! clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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Libreture - your personal ebook & comic storage @libreture.com · 15/09/2026
Ancient magic, a creepy tale within a tale and... fishing, in John Langan's literary horror novel, The Fisherman. Since I'm on a @wordhorde.bsky.social binge, here's my review of The Fisherman by John Langan from 2017. I bought my DRM-free ebook copy from @weightlessbooks.bsky.social. 💜
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DRM-free Find: The Fisherman
Ancient magic, a creepy tale within a tale and... fishing, in John Langan's literary horror novel.
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Jonathan Wood @jonathanwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
*Clears throat awkwardly*. So, my new novella is available today. If you like cosmic horror, corporate satire, or terrible things happening to billionaires, you may enjoy this. jonathanwood.substack.com/p/i-have-a-b...
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Issue 3 is OUT NOW FOR SUBSCRIBERS! Check your email! 🪐🗡️🧡 If you aren't a subscriber, Issue 3 will be free online September 30th! But if you'd like to support us and read Issue 3 before anyone else, snag your copy today! Patreon: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpe... Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe...
White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com
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Keegan Leech @keeganleech.co.za · 15/09/2026
Alert! New @othersidespec.bsky.social available! 🪐🗡️
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New issues of @othersidespec.bsky.social and @khoreo.bsky.social today! Plus four new titles from @pmpress.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/2026/09/
Cover art for Otherside Issue 3, featuring an orange illustratin of a tall, diaphanously-clad person with long black hair approaching a ruined shrine featuring a telamon and caryatidCover art for Khoreo Vol 6, Issue 3, featuring a blue-green drawing of a person crouched using an ewer to pour water on a flowerCover for COMRADES, NOT FRIENDS: THE REVOLUTIONARY FRONT, ANTIFASCISM, AND CLASS STRUGGLE  by Emma Hagberg, featuring a person wearing a black balaclavaCover for THE CIVILIZATIONAL CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE DEMOCRATIC CIVILIZATION SOLUTION: Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume IV by Adbullah Öcalan. Featuring an abstract brushwork illustration of what I think is two women carrying things on their heads
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 15/09/2026
"I Once Fell in Love With a Jackalope" is an exploration of love and transformation. Read it in our March issue here:
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I Once Fell in Love With a Jackalope - Small Wonders
He’d been born a hare, he told me, but came to the mist-kissed coast where the magic flowed plentiful to become what he should have always been.
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The Angel Azrael Visits the Trading Post at the End of the World" @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social BCS #444. "Darbyshire’s Azrael stories are terrific reads, written in a tersely lyrical prose with a rugged weird Western edge. Recommended" @mariahaskins.com beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Angel Azrael Visits the Trading Post at the End of the World a Final Time by Peter Darbyshire
Azrael went back to the dead horse and considered the trading post for a moment. Whatever was going on here, he had no choice but to walk into it. Nakir had to be still inside, after all. She never le...
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Libreture - your personal ebook & comic storage @libreture.com · 14/09/2026
Finally added @othersidespec.bsky.social to my list of DRM-free bookshops! 💜
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The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops
A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. Helping hundreds of readers a month discover over 400 DRM-free bookshops.
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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hi #BookSky 💙📚 Last night I finished reading The Green Man's Debt by @julietemckenna.bsky.social As always with the Green Man tales, this was a gripping read (I finished it in 15 hours because I didn't want to put it down!), with engaging characters.
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The Green Man's Debt (Green Man #9)
Dan Mackmain's mum is a dryad, so he knows asking someo…
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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 10/09/2026
Three weeks until subs open!
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 11/09/2026
The best books on Entomology recommended by Dino Martins fivebooks.com/best-books/e... "The Life of the Bee" at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4511 #entomology #books #literature
A close-up of a red ant on a bright yellow dandelion.
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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We really do earnestly believe reading Small Beer books could kill all humans. They're TOO GOOD. There is a >10% chance they might END THE WORLD within the next decade. This is definitely not a galaxy-brained marketing stunt. Of course we're still selling the books—we will until the END OF THE
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New today, THE GREEN MAN'S DEBT by Juliet E. McKenna from @wtpress.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/the-green-ma...
Cover for THE GREEN MAN'S DEBT by Juliet E. McKenna, featuring a blue-eyed snarling wolf
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BCS #466 ebook out early today at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of bargains w other ones and their cost by @emlinden.bsky.social and @jduckwriter.bsky.social, art by Sam Jumisko: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #466
Issue #466 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by E.M. Linden and Jonathan Louis Duckworth and cover art by Sam Jumisko.
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by @emlinden.bsky.social and @jduckwriter.bsky.social and cover art by Sam Jumisko: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
Cover art for BCS #466 by Sam Jumisko, featuring a red-haired traveler approaching a cobra shrine
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Weightless Books was made before vibe coding, has never been touched by vibe coding, and as far as I'm concerned it never will. It can look and function like it was made in 2010 til I die if it means I can avoid interacting with these awful revenants made from the stolen property of writers I love
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Steve "Of course not. You're a boy." Turnbull @taupress.com · 08/09/2026
The British Fantasy Society are pulling no punches over genAI: "There is literally no ethical use of generative AI." ~ BFS Chair Shona Kinsella. Read the whole article. @bookspotlight.bsky.social
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Kevin J. Maroney, he/him @womzilla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Amplifying: "bigot TERF piece of shit" is underselling. She is a self-appointed leader of the movement to remove trans people from the world and every penny she earns feeds back into vile eliminationist propaganda. She must be shunned the way an open Nazi would be and for the same reasons.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Libreture - your personal ebook & comic storage @libreture.com · 09/09/2026
Do you prefer buying DRM-free #ebooks? Here's my growing list of over 500 DRM-free ebook, digital comic, magazine, and TTRPG shops, usually in multiple formats for all your favourite devices. Happy Reading! 💜
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The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops
A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. Helping hundreds of readers a month discover over 400 DRM-free bookshops.
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I am at Westminster where, thanks to @labouruk.bsky.social I would be expected to use men's toilets. @transsolidarity.bsky.social
Photo of me on College Green next to a big card saying "Farewell to Britain's standing on LGBTQ+ rights"
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Rodrigo Ghedin @manualdousuario.net · 08/09/2026
LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-…
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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
LibreOffice 26.8 became the app’s most popular update, with over 1 million downloads, after the foundation behind it declared that LibreOffice doesn’t come with generative AI features due to the…
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C.D. Brown/Dirty Magick Magazine @cdbrown.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dirty Magick September 2026 is now available on @weightlessbooks.bsky.social Buy now or subscribe if you can!
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Dirty Magick Magazine Volume Two Issue Twenty-Five
About Dirty Magick Magazine Issue Twenty-Five Dirty Magick Magazine is a monthly fantasy, urban fantasy, and gothic horror magazine first published in September 2024. The editor and publisher is C.D. ...
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New issues of @clarkesworldmagazine.com and Forever have arrived! weightlessbooks.com/2026/09/
Cover art for Clarkesworld #240, featuring a salvage truck on a beach with ruins visible in the water and a ring planet in the skyCover art for Forever issue 140, featuring a stylized purple planet with a moon passing in front of it
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Libreture - your personal ebook & comic storage @libreture.com · 01/09/2026
THIS!
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I got all my emojis turned off on here but in ASCII I would say 00
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
ICYMI, Do you remember dancin' in September? Uncanny Magazine Issue 72 Part 1 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! www.uncannymagazine.com
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 72, "Fluid" by Galen Dara: A femme-coded being stares at us with light and dark blue-green skin and red lips. A read heart-shaped organ is in front of her chest with white tendrils and green sprouts and roots with drops of red and a couple of many-red-petaled flowers. Surrounding her are splashes ofyellow, yellow-green, orange, pink, and green-blue and large similar many-red-petaled flowers. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "September/October 2026," Issue Seventy-Two," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.
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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
NEW RELEASE!! Our Sept 2026 TINY GODS issue, guest edited by Jennifer Brozek is out today 🎉 @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social #flashfiction #speculativefiction #writingcommunity weightlessbooks.com/flash-fictio...
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Flash Fiction Online Issue #156 September 2026
For our September 2026 issue, Flash Fiction Online invited award-winning author and editor Jennifer Brozek to select stories that capture small acts of devotion and the spirits we offer them to. We ho...
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