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TRUNK will be out this fall!

“Thoughtful and funny, tender and bracing, these stories (and comics!) weave together into a potent vision of the crises we face and the strange and beautiful futures we might build on the other side. An essential text for any solarpunk’s bookshelf!” Andrew Dana Hudson, author of Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures and Absence

We're grateful today to Andrew Dana Hudson for these generous words about T. K. Rex's THE WILDCRAFT DRONES. “Thoughtful and funny, tender and bracing ... An essential text for any solarpunk’s bookshelf!”

What are you grateful for this first Monday of spring?

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Trollbreath Magazine A Study of Cats in Low-Gravity Mining Stations by B. Morris Allen Background is space, a glowing nebula, and the profile view of a dark colored house cat to the right

Welcome to Friday! Your Free Fiction today is a perspective shift and the advantages and disadvantages of being a cat...well not really a cat...enjoy!
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Benjamin Dickinson Carr and His (George) – E. L. Konigsburg I recommend it to you, child or adult.

Benjamin Dickinson Carr and His (George) - E. L. Konigsburg,
5 stars,
I recommend it to you, child or adult.

Phano Phano delivers wondrous, thought-provoking content about the future to the questioning masses—beautiful stories, essays, interviews, reviews and art to make sense of our world in constant change. We w...

And there's a third story this month! Out today at Phano, "The Secret Procession" is about what popes get up to under the streets of Vienna.
www.phano.com/articles/the...

📮 Mindlessly Massive March Periodic Aggregation: Routed Carefully & Electronically Logged

My second story this month is in @foofarawpress.bsky.social's March Mindlessly Massive issue. It's called "Escape Algorithm"...
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My latest story is out today in Trollbreath. Cats in space! (sort of).
Lots of good stuff in this issue. Plus, it's cool that each issue starts things off with an interview of the artist - in this case, Aimee Cozza.

Short break from insanity to share that UNCERTAIN SONS is a BSFA finalist. A testament to @undertow.bsky.social's thoughtful work more than anything else that the book has gone anywhere. Thanks to them and to folks who support indies like UP. Means a lot. Congrats to all the finalists.

Trollbreath Magazine Spring 2026. Issue 7 - Fiction The Messenger of Budapest by Amy Kitcher Istani by Z.D. Dochterman A Study of Cats in Low-Gravity Mining Stations by B. Morris Allen We Die with the Snowfall by Ash Horn Ghosts of Rouyi by V. Zixin Inheritance by Jennifer Skogen Schema by Wren Douglas The Frayed Edges of Souls by Azure Arther The Physics of a Gunshot by Chris Barnham On the Subject of Moonwhites by Erin Keating Image of a cartoon troll in a bowler hat and chain mail holding a ray gun

Time to subscribe - issue 7 is dropping on March 1st! Only $5 a quarter or $20 a year for access to these amazing stories, plus poetry and non-fiction!
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Cupernicity, B. Morris Allen The center of the universe shifts. When you’re young, it’s all about your principal carer, and food, and bedtime snuggles. As you age, gravity intervenes, and the center moves further away, to cliques...

As the Nebula nomination deadline approaches, I hope that you'll keep in mind my 2025 novelette "Cupernicity" in @thefuturefire.bsky.social, which I'm very proud of. Please consider including it in your nominations.

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Scars - a science fiction short story In a medical waiting room, three strangers contemplate clearing away the scars of their past.

It's the first Friday of the month, so time for some flash fiction. This one's wading through the same waters as my new novella, scifi contemplating bodies, health, & a life well lived.

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I'm formally putting out my shingle as a freelance editor. See edits.metaphorosis.com for info and rates.

Story recs: Six SFF stories that Broke my Brain (and Heart)…in the Best Way Six of my favorite SFF short stories from 2025 that are doing something really fascinating with form and point of view! These are stories…

More SFF short story recommendations! Amazing stories by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @nadiaradovich.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @sharangbiswas.bsky.social @bethgoder.bsky.social @cjtavares.bsky.social
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FFer Read of the Day: "Please Properly Cage Your Words" by @bethgoder.bsky.social in @diabolicalplots.com

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PS I just now learned that Sterling E. Lanier's Hiero series did finally get its third book in 2025: Hiero's Answer.

What are some series for which a final book was planned but not completed before the author(s) died?
I'll start with a few:
Phyllis Eisenstein, City in Stone [Book of Elementals series]
Marvin Kaye & Parke Godwin, Singer Among the Nightingales [Masters of Solitude series]

I was part of an anthology for @metaphorosis.com called "Reading 5x5" where five authors were given the same story prompt to see where it took them. The same seed turned into drastically different beautiful stories on each occasion. Because a prompt is the *spur* for creativity in the process.

Our last interview of season one is here! Making @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social has been incredibly grounding and wonderful in a rollercoaster of a debut year.

I loved chatting with @jenniferhudak.bsky.social and @monawest.bsky.social about fallow periods, persistence, and resilience. 💚

Am I allowed to say it was my favorite book of the year?

Ship of Smoke and Steel – Django Wexler I recommend this.

Ship of Smoke and Steel - Django Wexler,
4.5 stars,
I recommend this.

Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett Satisfying and a lot of fun.

Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett,
4.5 stars,
Satisfying and a lot of fun.

I've really enjoyed all of @gunnardewinter.bsky.social work in Clarkesworld this year! His writing makes me think about SF in a broader perspective. I often think back to stories I love and how they relate to actual science. I definitely rec. you give them a read!!!

#BookSky 📚🪐 #SciFiSky

Deadline coming up on 14 December. Submit soon!

As far as I know, the SFWA fora are still down...

Wondering what to #nominate? 2/4

If you prefer your reading short and flashy, please consider my story "The Only Map is Memory", published just this week in Podcastle.

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Cupernicity, B. Morris Allen The center of the universe shifts. When you’re young, it’s all about your principal carer, and food, and bedtime snuggles. As you age, gravity intervenes, and the center moves further away, to cliques...

Wondering what to #nominate? 1/4

As the year moves toward its end, and best of the year and awards consideration time moves closer, I'd like to ask that you consider my novelette "Cupernicity", published in February in The Future Fire for your nomination needs.
futurefire.net/2025.72/fict...

Cover of issue 99 of Fantasy Magazine featuring a dark skinned woman with glowing eyes and a glorious tufted moth on her forehead. A full moon rises above. the entire image is in shades of black, white and gray.

and the issue 99 COVER ✨

Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb

Did I tell you about my latest story? It's short, on PodCastle, and about choices! Read or listen!