and thank you @bookended-islal.bsky.social for letting me know!!

wow I did NOT expect to see my story on this list. thank you so much for including "End of the World, Simon et al." alongside all these incredible stories!

Cradle Root Rot Cradle Root Rot by Isla Lader

My story published with heartlines spec is out to read for free today! A very loose retelling of the little mermaid that now includes the life cycle of a tadpole, the forever war, and a meditation on "motherhood".
www.heartlines-spec.com/cradle-root-...

cover art by Mx Morgan G Robles, a swan surrounded by the colors of the trans flag in the sky; its reflection below swirls in a cosmic sea

Excruciating.
The best word to describe sculpting the Table of Contents for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM from 100s upon 100s of glorious submissions.
Thank you for your patience, all, & for the passion of every creator who submitted.

We'll reveal the full ToC on the Trans Day of Visibility, 3/31 🏳️‍⚧️🖤☠️

Luna Station Quarterly Stellar short fiction by women-identified writers since 2010

My latest story "The End of the World, Simon et al." is out in issue 065 of @lunastation.bsky.social! If you like cosmic horror and academic articles that will never be peer reviewed, check it out.

www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/065/

NEW ISSUE UPDATE:
Issue 065 is live: www.lunastationquart...

You'll hear more from me soon about the details and some really exciting news for this year.

Unfortunately, a family medical emergency has taken my attention. (it's going to be okay)

Thank you all for your patience and support!

My friend wrote this! Read it because it's a GREAT story

We see two house sparrows drinking out of a puddle. The male says to the female: "Good puddle!" to which she replies "I love you but you have low standards". Pigeons arrive in the background, the female says "Ope! Here comes the herd" There is a long horizontal frame of the two sparrows in the midst of a bunch of pigeons cooing around them. The male then says "gentle giants" the female agrees "mhm" and then says "coo" and the male responds "haha. coo!"

Coo coo

King Ludd's Rag No. 25 — Malarkey The twenty-fifth issue of King Ludd’s Rag features stories by Jacob Stovall and T. L. Xue. The cover will print in black and white.

Excited to announce that my short story "Beautiful Paradiem" is part of the latest issue of King Ludd's Rag! If a gentle tale about finding home interests you, you can order here > malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this: SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

warm illustration based off the jardin des plantes dinosaur exhibit. we see three skeletons displayed over someone who is sketching nearby

sketching at the museum

Midnight Theater title by Thomas J. Padden

When a mountainous theater of labyrinthian design appears at the edge of town in the middle of the night, plucky young filmmaker, Andrew, can think of only one thing to do: hand them his résumé.
#TJPwip #WIPpit #A #FBW #Horror #Adventure

The night the stars fell

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

It’s been a while since I could say this but…I have a new story out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com!

“Brainstem Disco, 2191” explores the association of music with memories (and I’d love if you listened to the quasi-soundtrack while reading!)

clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/

魚を釣るからそばにいて / Fish Fear Me, You Need Me and other stories in the middle-aged men issue of Kaguya Planet are now available to read online! The print copy is also on sale right now and I am so so excited to see that in person soon.

a screenshot from the animated film princess mononoke. a man covered in bandages lays on a straw mat, under a straw blanket. the caption says “The world is cursed, but still, you find reasons to keep living.”

thinking about princess mononoke a lot, these days

Clarkesworld Readers' Poll - 2024 Finalists Best Short Story “An Intergalactic Smugglers Guide to Homecoming” by Tia Tashiro “Hello! Hello! Hello!” by Fiona Jones “Swarm X1048 - Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, '6'” by F.E. Choe “The Coffee Machine” by Celia Corral-Vázquez, translated by Sue Burke “The Sort” by Thomas Ha “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim Best Novelette/Novella “Fractal Karma” by Arula Ratnakar (novella) “Lucie Loves Neutrons and the Good Samarium” by Thoraiya Dyer (novelette) “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” by A. W. Prihandita (novelette) “Stars Don’t Dream” by Chi Hui, translated by John Chu (novelette) “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha (novelette) “The Indomitable Captain Holli” by Rich Larson (novella) Best Cover Art “Dandelion” by Marcel Deneuve “Reminiscence” by Daria Anako “Robot in a flower field 02” by Ninja Jo “Secret Garden” by JC Jongwon Park “Strider” by Ilya Nazarov Visit clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_02_25 for links to each work and voting information. Poll closes February 15th at 11PM EST

Only a few days left to vote in our annual readers' poll. Here are the stories and covers that are this year's finalists.

Visit
clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_02_25
for links to each work and voting information.

Poll closes February 15th at 11PM EST

one more time! #2025Pit #A #SPF #S #LGBTQ #AAPI adjacent

WWDITS x THURSDAY MURDER CLUB

During a troubling surge of slayings, an ancient vampire living in Miami finds himself framed for a crime he didn't commit. When a retired private detective learns his secret, she becomes an unexpected ally in his hunt for the true culprit. #2025Pit #A #M #SPF #LGBTQ

Ben lives free & easy to spite his dad, but now there's a new 24/7 bodyguard getting in Ben's way. He'd be more annoyed if not for the fact that someone wants him dead, and he needs help stopping whoever that is.

disco elysium + a marvellous light + the locked tomb
#2025Pit #A #SPF #S #LGBTQ

In a faltering empire, a thief steals a crown from the ruling family, sparking a battle of wits with a spymaster. Drawn together by their contest, the two become tangled in a deadly web of conspiracies as their rivalry turns to unlikely alliance. SIX OF CROWS + FOUNDRYSIDE #2025Pit #A #F #LGBTQ

Ben lives free & easy to spite his dad & his company, but now there's a new 24/7 bodyguard getting in Ben's way. He'd be more annoyed if not for the fact that someone wants him dead, and he needs help stopping whoever that is.

disco elysium + a marvellous light + the locked tomb
#2025Pit #A #SPF #T

Comic cover rendered in blue and orange hues. The title of the comic is BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA, written and drawn by Olivia Stephens. The cover illustration features a Black person with short coiled hair standing in waist high water and staring upwards with an orange glint reflecting in their eyes. The sky features a harsh, dramatic orange texture.

BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA
a comic/poem
(1/🔶)

If you read and liked my story 'Fish Fear Me, You Need Me', please consider nominating it with some of the other fantastic short stories, novellas, and art from 2024!

Distilled Moonlight

#pixelart #art

Illustration of a sight hound dog falls through despair, burning up and becoming engulfed by it. The dog’s aspirations falling around him.

Free falling

I'm so excited to announce that my short story has been translated and published in Japanese! It is currently available to subscribers and will be part of Kaguya Planet No. 5 in April.

Turnaround character models of Frog Wizard, Gumdrop Wizard and Bones Wizard, showing all three of them from front and back. When seen from behind, all three of them have huge asses

I'm going to be at @massmice.bsky.social this weekend! I'm not tabling, but I will be around both days and I'll have copies of a new zine with all these little wizard comix I've been posting, plus a couple more to hand out. Here's a sneak peek at the cover!