Publication day! I have a micro in this issue (tw: sexual assault). Many thanks to editor Charlotte Joyce Kidd, @tom1walsh.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social @kathyfish.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, and the Shadowcliff Retreat crew for supporting me while I wrote it.
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social is a master of micro and flash fiction. Another of her so, so, so many powerful stories, which I just loved, is up at @fictivedream.bsky.social.
I'm always eager for new work from @stevetoase.bsky.social, and his novella Crawl Space is seriously dark, delightful Weird Horror. If you like his short stories you'll love this. Genuinely disturbing good fun.
This looks fantastic, looking forward to getting some of this story dirt under my nails. Thanks for the heada up @stevetoase.bsky.social, eager to read your story in it.
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Thank you so much Kathy!
Many of my published stories are the result of prompts, which are magic mind-stretchy things. Here's a new one, written about a photo I drew from a pile provided by Nancy Stohlman at the flash fiction retreat she and @kathyfish.bsky.social hosted in Grand Lake, CO this summer.
Cover of ‘An Honor & A Privilege’ by Lindz McLeod and others, published by Stanchion Books.
Book mail received. Introduction read. I’m in for ‘educational AND fun’. Thank you for creating this @lindzmcleod.bsky.social !!!!
I’ve just ordered a copy - I love the concept and look forward to reading for fun and craft. Yay!
Congratulations!
This is such a a magical tale. I mean, it’s dystopian scifi but the story feels like magic it’s so beautifully done. Comgratulations @ianli.bsky.social and thank you for publishing it @smallwondersmag.com
I am so excited for this from @thomasha.bsky.social and @undertow.bsky.social. The cover is so beautiful it’s making, um, architectural bone tendrils emerge from my brain.
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Daek, funny, and insightful. Three tasty flavors in one flash here folks.
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Received my contributor copy today - this is a beautiful book! Looking forward to reading the other stories in between shameless covergazing. Thanks for making a beautiful book Inkd Publishing!
the promo cover of Fantasy Magazine shows a women in the grass with a glowing sky behind her. The text says Returning June 2025 Fantasy Magazine
Announcement:
Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine
WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!
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Gorgeous! That looks like a cozy place to sneak away to, absorb the word thoughts of others, and percolate more of your own.
In my mind it’s already happening!
I suspect many many many others feel the same, or will once they read it. Absolutely delightful, it hit all the marks for me. Is it too early to ask about the movie?
I just finished reading this and it was delicious. The reviewer says it all better and smarter than I could, I’ll just add that it was wonderful, fun, utterly engaging, and gorgeously imagined and written. A.C. Wise: more Bastion please! (The book itself is gorgeous too-I ordered the hardcover.)
Oh boy it was soooooo good!
Congratulations on a great review @acwise.bsky.social! How can I not go read this right now???????
A really lovely review of Out of the Drowning Deep!
Cover of Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters, Stories by Wendy Nikel, Holly Schofield, Steve Toase, Andrew Dana Hudson, Jennifer Lee Rossman, and more. Anthology Edited by Sarena Ulibarri. Background is a snowy futuristic city shaped like a leaf, with three wind turbines on a hill and a mountain and clouds in the background.
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters (edited by me!)
Stories by @hschofieldfic.bsky.social @smua.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social @tessafisher.bsky.social @jerreat.bsky.social @catherinefking.bsky.social @shelgraves.bsky.social @solarshades.bsky.social
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Darkness in the fields: Midnwinter 7th-8th December Full line-up: Leslie J Anderson - author of The Unmothers and more Kay Chronister - author of The Bog Wife, Desert Creatures, Thin Places and more Alex Davis - creative writing lecturer and workshopper Robert Edgar - editor, The Routledge Compaion to Folk Horror and more Ruth Heholt - editor, Folk Horror: New Global Pathways and more Olivia Isaac-Henry - author of Sorrow Spring and more Lauren McMenemy - author and workshopper, editor, Trembling With Fear Steve Toase - author of Dirt Upon My Skin, To Drown in Dark Water and more Full schedule: SATURDAY 7TH DECEMBER 12pm-1pm Lauren McMenemy - Workshop: Ritualise Your Folk Horror 1pm-1:30pm BREAK 1:30pm-2:30pm Robert Edgar - Workshop: Urban Folk Horror 2:30pm-3:00pm BREAK 3:00pm-4:00pm Olivia Isaac-Henry - Author Interview 4:00pm-4:30pm BREAK 4:30pm-5:30pm Leslie J Anderson - Author Interview SUNDAY 8TH DECEMBER 12pm-1pm Ruth Heholt - Talk: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as Folk Horror 1pm-1:30pm BREAK 1:30pm-2:30pm Steve Toase - Workshop: Hidden Beneath the Surface - Archaeology and Folk Horror 2:30pm-3:00pm BREAK 3:00pm-4:00pm Alex Davis - Workshop: Common People - Folk Horror and Class 4:00pm-4:30pm BREAK 4:30pm-5:30pm Kay Chronister - Author Interview Day Tickets £20 Weekend ticket £36
Then on the 8th December I will be running a workshop on #archaeology and #folkhorror as part of Darkness in the Fields: Midwinter, looking at ways to use archaeology when writing fiction, particularly horror. www.eventbrite.com/e/darkness-i...
An image to advertise a celebration of the latest Black Shuck Shadows books with Kayleigh Dobbs, Brian Evenson, Dave Jeffery, Teika Marija Smits, Steve Toase, and publisher Steve Shaw
I have 2 events coming up next month
2nd of December I'm taking part in a celebration of recent @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social Shadows releases, including my archaeology themed horror collection Dirt Upon My Skin, alongside @davebjeffery.bsky.social, Kayleigh Dobbs, Brian Evenson & Teika Marija Smits
This is a gorgeous, insightful, funny, and thoughtful ghost story. Loved it.
Looking forward to reading all the killer weirds within!
#PC844: On Snowflake-Veined Wings written by Chip Houser and read by Leigh Wallace. “Amalia runs her finger around the inside of her Tupperware, wiping up the last of her leftover poutine. Her fall allergies kicked in a few days ago, so she doesn’t really taste the gravy. But she’d rather finger-clean her Tupperware at her table than go wash it because Jerry and three of his sales team flunkies are clustered by the sink watching a video on his gigantic phone. From their crude commentary and the video’s crashing waves, then the gagging, she can guess what they’re watching. Why they’re silent for once, too. It’s a clip of a woman in the Côte d’Azur, slim and tan in her pink maillot, running in slow motion into the waves. The man who’s filming keeps calling out Sirène! Amalia watched the video earlier that morning; it was all over her feeds. The video is like a Viagra commercial, until the woman vomits an impossibly long stream of brightly colored fish into the surf.
#PC844: On Snowflake-Veined Wings written by @chiphouser.bsky.social
and read by @leighwallace.bsky.social. Previously published by Bourbon Penn. Rated R. Content warning for bodily fluids.
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