Graphic announcing that Baffling Magazine is open to submissions from June 1st to 15th, accepting unthemed submissions and submissions that fit the theme Mecha vs. Kaiju.
Baffling Magazine is open for submissions of queer speculative science fiction and fantasy until June 15th for an upcoming issue on the theme Mecha vs. Kaiju. (Unthemed submissions are also welcome!)
For more info: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
Interviewer and interviewee are @bendibarrett.bsky.social and @davorobyov.bsky.social respectively!
Image featuring a quote from Baffling Magazine associate editor D.A. Vorobyov that reads, "The perfect kaiju isn't really about the monster. It's about the consequences."
Submissions for Baffling's Mecha vs. Kaiju issue will open on June 1st! Before the day arrives, check out this interview with associate editor D.A. Vorobyov for what he's looking to see in submissions: www.patreon.com/posts/129380...
(The Patreon link is publicly accessible for free!)
Open to submissions June 1-15. Baffling. Unthemed. Mecha vs Kaiju.
We'll be open soon for submissions of queer speculative SFF. Stand by for some thoughts on the Mecha vs. Kaiju call by Associate Editor D. A. Vorobyov, who'll be editing this particular theme issue.
More info: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
“Notes on Genocidal Interchronological Incursion 57.7.3 (f.k.a. ‘Friends’)” by @sentencebender.bsky.social in Baffling Magazine is a delight: www.bafflingmag.com/issue-fiftee...
How to Rob a Bullion Van, by Plangsi Neple in Baffling Magazine. I love a good epistolary story, especially when it's also got magic. Vivid and perfectly paced.
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-ninete...
Ron, Howard, by Cindy Phan in Baffling Magazine. Very sweet - a man realizes he looks like his fish. Hard to describe but worth reading.
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Cover art for issue Baffling Magazine, issue 19. A man cradles a square plexiglass tank with a goldfish (an oranda) inside. Man and fish are in a pet store and are flanked by stacked tanks, partially obscured so that their inhabitants fade into the background. The illustration is done in muted purples and greens, browns, green and pink. The man is gloriously massive and bends so that his forehead touches the tank. The fish floats with his head upturned to the man, returning his gesture so that they are essentially pressing their faces together. The man is dressed in a sleeveless pullover, slacks and sneakers; his features and clothing suggest very oranda-like qualities (fins on his curved back, scales in the pattern of his sweater). The fish is similarly gloriously massive and, like the man, is done up in greens and browns and orange. They stand on alone together on checkered green-and-pink flooring. Listed authors for the issue are: Erin Brown, Soramimi Hanarejima, Teresa Milbrodt, Plangdi Neple, Sara Omer, Cindy Phan, C.L. Sidell.
The gorgeous cover art is by Casper Pham (@marcheriest.bsky.social) and--another first and one that I'm still processing--was inspired by my story!!! 👀👀👀
my cover art for Baffling Magazine, Issue XIX
Right this way, you simply MUST check out these short fiction highlights of April 2025, featuring necromancy, a moon journey, and a dead witch-doctor!
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just got back into this account after realizing i'd been mistyping the recovery email address...sorry for all the reposts as we catch up.
"You will sweat your self-judgments away soon enough. They have no place here."
Just read "Lucious Lake" by @babblewocky.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social and wow, what a (terrifying) sensory feast. I don’t think I’ve ever read a description that made me want to both eat and run from a mango.
ICYMI I’m still proud of this story I wrote for @bafflingmag.bsky.social a few years ago
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eight/...
Parents' contemplation on their gay sons.
"How futile our midnight errands seem against this force that no witch, Bible or pastor has been able to remove. A wildness!"
#Afrosurreal story by @dsfalowo.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-two/so...
This is a guide on how to rob those secure vans that transport cash. You'll need some white powder from a babalawo, chameleon & gecko skin, & the ability to teleport...
Fun story by @plangdineple.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-ninete...
Thrilled to announce that I have a new story in @bafflingmag.bsky.social!
"Ron, Howard" (yes, really) is about love's many transformations. Another fish story (yes, really) it's my first flash fiction, published alongside the work of other fantastic authors. I'd be honoured if you gave it a read!
The new issue of 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 has arrived.
Check out stories from Teresa Milbrodt, Plangdi Neple, Erin Brown, Cindy Phan, C. L. Sidell, Sara Omer & Soramimi Hanarejima. Plus the rad cover by @marcheriest.bsky.social.
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-nineteen
“Good Boy” — Alison Littlewood “The Finest Creation of an Artful God” — B Zelkovich “The Third Curse” — Helen Grant “The Lights Under Rachel” — Kathryn Healy “Pilgrimage of the Hummingbird” — V Castro “The Grim” — Cavan Scott “Pontianak: An Origin Story” — Christina Sng “In Thin Air” — Phoenix Alexander “After the Animal Flesh Beings” — Brian Evenson “Brincando Charcos (Jumping Puddles)” — Ben Francisco “Rachel is at a Protest” — Esther Alter “Waystation City” — AT Greenblatt “Happily Ever After Comes Round” — Sarah Rees Brennan “For However Long” — Thomas Ha “Just You and Me, Now” — KT Bryski “Window Boy” — Thomas Ha “Three Things That Happen the Night my Dad Dies” — Isabel Cañas “How to Stay Married to Baba Yaga” — SM Hallow “The Legend of the Convenience Store Cashier” — Anna Vangala Jones “Swarm X1048 – Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, “6”” — FE Choe “A Name is a Plea and a Prophecy” — Gabrielle Emem Harry “Ruminants” — Kay Chronister “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned” — Wells Tower “Spread the Word” — Delilah Dawson “Fatso” — Etgar Keret “The Last Lucid Day” — Dominique Dickey “Five Minutes” — John Morrissey “doorbell dot mov” — Jennifer R Donahue “Heathman Ldg” — Brian Evenson “like blood on the mouths of death” — Victor Forna “First, Last, Oldest, True” — E Catherine Tobler “The Maiden Voyage of the Piranha Belle” — L. M. Guay “The Sort” — Thomas Ha
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February short story notes!
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Feat. 33 stories from:
@clarkesworldmagazine.com @bafflingmag.bsky.social , Short Story Long, LA Weekly, @lightspeedmagazine.com , UQP, @bourbonpenn.bsky.social , @nightmare-magazine.com , @morningtransport.bsky.social
This week's free spec rec is the sweet, queer spy drama "Light on the Dark Side of Mega Corp Moon" by @jasonmharley.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eighte...
“Running hot comes in handy here: space is cold.”
All my recs: dannyechase.com/specrecs/
#specfic ✍️ 🔱
Here's my watery piece!
'Across the Waves'
inspired by a story by @marisca.bsky.social, and commissioned for the cover of @bafflingmag.bsky.social
#art
And you can read @sentencebender.bsky.social’s Notes on Genocidal Interchronological Incursion 57.7.3 (f.k.a. "Friends") in Issue 15 of @bafflingmag.bsky.social here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-fifteen
“You guide me to the place you have chosen. You use your powerful, flawless machine hands to direct my body. You close the door.
Outside our new lovenest, the biohazard warning light begins to strobe.”
By Louis Evans in @bafflingmag.bsky.social
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eighte...
“Surrender illuminates the room, recruiting the slick of the moon.”
By K-Ming Chang in @bafflingmag.bsky.social
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eighte...
“The thankful drought of malignant menstruation. Congealing in its place is a growth, both physical and visceral. Sensitivity and the need for indulgence enlarge tenfold to itch against your boxers.”
By @caninebrainz.bsky.social via @bafflingmag.bsky.social
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eighte...
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Excited to announce that you can read my flash story "Collar" in issue eighteen of Baffling Magazine!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eighte...
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Check out my romantic dystopian spy comedy set on the moon in @neonhemlock.bsky.social @bafflingmag.bsky.social newest issue! www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eighte...
A teaser for Issue 18 of Baffling Magazine. Features a snippet of someone aimed right at the button of their jeans. The edge of something...girthy...can be seen below.
Kick off the new year with @bafflingmag.bsky.social's Sex Issue!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-eighteen
Stories from j ambrose, Louis Evans, K-Ming Chang, Bastian Hart, J. Kosakowski, Anya Markov & Jason M. Harley 🪶
Neon Hemlock Baffling Magazine Open to Submissions Dec 1-15 Unthemed stories & Strange Forms Pretty orange blob in background
🪶 Baffling Magazine. Flash fiction with a queer bent. Open Dec 1-15. <1200 words. $0.08/word. Simsub okay, no multiple subs please. More info: neonhemlock.submittable.com/submit