SUUUUUCH a good start to my day!!

The Three Mothers You Will Never Meet The Three Mothers You Will Never Meet by Parker M. O'Neill

oh, need to lie down after reading this one by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social

gorgeously contained… tribute & elegy & broken human cry across time, all at once

highly recommend

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YES!!!!

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

An orange illustration of two glass bottles that hold magic liquids. There are two yellow stars at the top and one of the bottom left. At the top of the image reads: “The Trees and the Frogs and the Sun on the Water” M. R. Robinson” in white text. In the middle of the graphic, there is a quote from the story that reads: “Before Rosemarie fell in love, she filled every scrap of silence with a song. A harvest tune, sung over the thwick-thwack slap of dough against the countertop; fragments of a lullaby, the melody guiding her needle until even the embroidered birds seemed to sing along; or, sometimes, both parts of carol, call and response alike, pretending she wasn’t nearly so lonely.” in brown text. Underneath it reads: “Tales & Feathers Magazine — Volume 4” in white text. At the bottom is the link to the story: https://augursociety.org/the-trees-and-the-frogs-and-the-sun-on-the-water/

New T&F story is now FREE to read on our site!

“The Trees and the Frogs and the Sun on the Water” by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social is a tender tale of love, poetry, and misfired magic.🔥📖

Read it now! 🔗 Link in bio.

i have not been on bsky in a good while due to 1) School and 2) School but GUESS WHAT!

my sapphic novelette "A Word, and Its Keeping" has found a home in @thefuturefire.bsky.social 🌧️ it contains a forgotten god-language, a spell for rain, and two girls holed up in a lighthouse, trying to touch

Kingsley Dzade (Ghanaian, 1989), Can’t Wait, 2024. Oil on canvas, 152 x 152 cm.

In case you missed it yesterday, I have a new story out in the April issue of Nightmare Magazine! The Final Girl Trap is now available to read online.

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st!

If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈

Two Fic Tuesday for April 7th Hi, hello and welcome! This week we're going to feature a single author again! I had a great time doing this once before, and I'm indulging myself a second time. I found Avida Shonibar's work this last week, and I'm so glad I did. It is beautiful, full of emotion

Hey, look at me getting this post up not on a Thursday! This week I focused on a single author, @ayidashonibar.bsky.social , and got the chance to yell about both fiction and nonfiction! I couldn't help it though, I love some good, good fungus talk.

We didn't deserve this day.

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06 Dailymotion video by L3arnTV

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

the matching nails omg 🩵🎐

A PALACE NEAR THE WIND paperback

The spine of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND paperback

today’s the paperback release day of 🍃🎐🌬️A PALACE NEAR THE WIND🌬️🎐🍃

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A powerfully imaginative story of a young woman seeking to save her family and her home a devastating meditation on the destruction of the natural world for an industrial future.

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@titanbooks.bsky.social 💫
Natasha MacKenzie 🎨

Trump threatens ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ ahead of Iran deadline Tuesday night may well be “one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

Congress has an obligation to stop the unhinged madness in the Oval Office imperiling American & Iranian lives alike. This war is unprovoked & unauthorized & Trump is unchecked. Article II Sec 4 is not suggested reading. It’s for moments like these. Come back from recess and act.

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Hey, everyone. I’m opening to queries on a very limited basis using the link below. I’ve narrowed my genres during this time to Adult Crime/Mystery, Adult Fantasy & Sci-fi, and YA Fantasy & Sci-fi from BIPOC, Asian/AAPI, Latinx, SWANA, and LGBTQIA+ writers only.

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FICTION “Once Upon an Invasion” by Amanda Cecelia Lang “Outbreak” by Michele H. Porter “Out to Sea” by Dom D. Borg “Ponyhenge” by Faith Allington “The Tipping Point” by Sean French-Byrne “Diamonds” by Grant Stone “Astral Source” by K.L. Neidecker “A Life in the Day: with Chris Wheeler, CEO of Tricentennial” by Matt Hornsby “Ma’anu Wei: What We Know Thus Far” by Eliezra Schaffzin “A Tree That Can’t Be Chopped” by Timothy Mudie “Wolftongue” by Em Harriett “Rara Avis” by Meg Elison

Looking for a great story to read? There's a dozen fantastic ones in the new Spring issue of Kaleidotrope!

www.kaleidotrope.net

post your favorite Marxist or socialist feminist

Donate to Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!, organized by Eileen Gunn Nisi Shawl, a wise and wonderful writer of science fiction and fantasy, had a… Eileen Gunn needs your support for Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!

Wow! Anonymous cool person has offered to match all donations to my GoFundMe through April 5--up to a total of $1500! I can pay rent! I can write this weird new book! www.gofundme.com/f/help-nisi-...

If there's more to life than baseball On neuroses

If there's more to life than baseball
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Reminder: if anybody starts spewing crap about how disabled writers need AI/LLMs, at least one of the following applies:

1. They fucking hate disabled people.
2. They are clueless about writing prior to 2022, often done by disabled people.
3. They are shills.
4. They are 3 GPTs in a trenchcoat.

There’s nothing to be gained in hating me. I neither asked for you, nor have any power to send you away. Our Most Sacred King has decided I require a companion, and therefore one has been acquired.

Journey with @kmveohongs.bsky.social in a bittersweet tale of duty and sacrifice in "The Savior of the Three Lands."

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If there's more to life than baseball On neuroses

If there's more to life than baseball
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Just an update that we are slowly but surely inching our way to 50% funded!
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British Fantasy Awards 2026 Suggestions Suggest eligible material for the British Fantasy Awards 2026 Add anything that you feel deserves a nomination for this year's awards. Eligible material should have been published/released for the fi...

The suggestions list for this year’s British Fantasy Awards is now open! Anyone can add their favourite SFF titles first published in 2025! forms.gle/YcGUjcbU99R5...

"It's just a bad period."

A personal piece about Endometriosis.

The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet - OTHERSIDE In the 668th year after Creation, which was also the fortieth year of the reign of imperator Jadunath, master of sky and stars—may his memory be a curse!—a sorcerer came to the maharaja’s court in sea...

@srinivassimo.bsky.social's The Vetala of Cystal Vellam Inlet is one of the very first stories I read and was immediately in love. Such assured storytelling. Its hard to do humor well in short fiction but Simo is a master.

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Screenshot from SFWA Nebula Finalist announcement: Finalist - Poetry The Mourning Robot Angela Liu Featuring cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 66 (September/October 2025) over a background of stars https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-mourning-robot/

Ahhhh, my poem “The Mourning Robot” is a finalist for the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Poem! I wrote this poem in a hospital room and it’s a nod to all the invisible caretakers who love, sacrifice and mourn for the living.

The nominating period for the 2026 Rhysling Awards is officially closed, and nominations have been verified. Thank you to all the members who sent in nominations this year!

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