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A great list featuring several of my all-time favorite authors! @samtasticbooks.com @mariahaskins.com @vanessafogg.bsky.social Suzan Palumbo & more!

The Iron Garden Sutra Klara and the Sun meets S. A. Barnes’s Dead Silence with a touch of Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built in Nebula Award-winning author A.D. Sui’...

*inhales deeply*

behold! my wares!

i have books about sad monks:

it's TOC'o Tuesday! 🌮

and here's your issue 42 table of contents 🖤💀

including a NOVELETTE

are you ready?

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💜 sharing an issue with your gorgeous poem!! 🤩

*checks calendar*

next week we have a Table of Contents 🌮 drop for issue 42!!!

do we have the ultimate answer to DEATH, the universe and everything???

stay tuned

and hey, help us keep the goodness going! Join our patreon 🙏🖤: www.patreon.com/the_deadlands

it truly makes all the difference!

The Impossibility of Fall Prevention The Impossibility of Fall Prevention by Pauline Barmby

“Prediction doesn’t change the inevitable result of gravity, the weight of who we are.”

One of my most personal stories, “The Impossibility of Fall Prevention” is brought to you by the awesome folks @heartlines-spec.com. I hope it speaks to you.

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Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 4 Award winners. Award nominees. Hidden gems. All Canadian. All in one anthology.

It's live! IT'S LIVE! The Kickstarter for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF: Volume Four is now LIVE! Award-winning series, best of 2025, and (with your help) the biggest volume yet. Can you back early enough to land The Canucklehead tier and get to choose the dedication for the book??

Pls SHARE WIDELY!

Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems The garden is the resting place of your vulnerabilities; there’s a reason you’ve left them here instead of carrying them with you. Typically you enter hardened and hurried, beelining straight for t…

AH it's dream come true day!! My story, "Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems" is out today in @strangehorizons.bsky.social!!

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A coffee mug and a book on a table. The mug features the PM announcement of Danai’s book, Vile Lady Villains, and next to it is the hardback cooy of the book

My book is out today in the UK! If you like Shakespeare, this book might be for you. If you hate Shakespeare, this book might be for you.

But if you hate Agamemnon… this book is definitely for you!

www.penguin.co.uk/books/470416...

Massive congratulations Danai!! 🎉

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Our subscription drive continues! When we get to 50 new or upgraded subscriptions, we'll do a Best Of Year 2 anthology. Help get us more stability so we can keep putting many small wonders into the world!

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Cover for Issue 10, art by Alice M. Purple hued seascape with a lighthouse on a rocky coast, a ghost ship with St. Elmo's Fire is in the distance

LOOK! Look with your special eyes!

Our cover for Issue 10 is inspired by a folktale of New Brunswick's ghost ship--a ghostly, firey schooner that appears in the Northumberland Strait.

@itsbabypears.bsky.social used gorgeous colours to mimic the eerie effect of St. Elmo's Fire

Coming March 31!

A square graphic with a gradient ligh blue background. The Small Wonders Magazine keyhole logo is in the middle, with various arrows radiating off of it and pointing to text. Clockwise from the upper left, the text reads: Original and reprint flash fiction; Poetry (it's for everyone!!); Gorgeous human-made cover art; Itty bitty stories, huge emotional impact; Delivered straight to your inbox; Ghosts, robots, vampires, colony ships, aliens, spiders, murder, true love, revenge, and more!; Awesome authors from around the world.

Our wonders may be small, but we pack in a lot! Subscribe today and help us meet our subscription drive goals - at 50 new subscribers we'll do Best Of Year 2!

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Emmie's narrations are beautiful - absolutely loved how she made "City Grown From Seed" come to life! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Some Queer Short SFF - January 2026 | Charles Payseur Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN FEBRUARY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's January's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

3LBE Issue 47 cover featuring a very toothsome monster erupting from a boy’s mouth, as several more glowing eyed children emerge from smoke.

3LBE Issue 47 debuts today with new short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by Wendy N. Wagner, Hailey Piper, Eugen Bacon, Keith Rosson, Maxwell I. Gold, and Clay McLeod Chapman. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue47/

Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now! www.othersidespec.com

ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE!

Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️

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This is not a love poem | Reckoning As I walk past the sex store downtown, I think of flags, how the zealots strap them on and screw us. I am not interested in the fire of your want, unless you want to stop this world from burning, unle...

Not in the mood for a love poem? Good, this isn't one...but it's just what I needed this morning. From Alexandra Dawson in @reckoningmag.bsky.social

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Flights of Foundry is fundraising!!

Help us reach our goal! If we do, you’ll get a platform designed for virtual conferences. Say goodbye to WebEx! 👋

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Thank you Suzan!!

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Delighted to share that I've received a recommender grant for my first novella!! There will be weird birds and weird cities! Thank you so much @ontarioarts.bsky.social and @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social 💜

Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com

ICYMI: ISSUE 1 IS HERE FOR SUBSCRIBERS! If you'd like to support the magazine and read these incredible pieces, here are a few ways:

✨ Become a paid patron: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

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Calling all Flights of Foundry supporters!!

Help us raise fund to help us ditch WebEx for a platform that better suits our needs.

Times are rough and there are lots of good places to send your money. Give what you can or help us spread the word!

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Story Hour Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...

Have you ever thought, "It would be so nice to know when Story Hour's going live" or "It would be cool if somebody told me when a new Story Hour is up for me to watch"? Subscribe to our YouTube channel, set up your settings, and it will come to pass! www.youtube.com/@StoryHour2020

Happy release day to the fab @thesuiway.bsky.social and this gorgeous, gripping, atmospheric yellow book 💛

Issue Twenty-Two, February 2026, Haven Spec Magazine Fiction and poetry for the 21st century

Our ✨February 2026 Issue✨ is now free to read online!

Find it here:
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Or get the PDF and EPUB:
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In it, you'll find five stories and five poems for your reading pleasure. Please spread the word!

Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death

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80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear

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The Iron Garden Sutra comes out TOMORROW and in the meantime you can read this awesome interview with @thesuiway.bsky.social !