The Bodyhouse — Baffling Magazine by Bree Wernicke “At the bodyhouse, no one ever asks you what you want.”

helloooo my story "The Bodyhouse" is now out in the latest issue of Baffling!! give it a read:

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The new issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social has arrived! 🪶

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Text on our blurred purple banner art. Text reads: ISSUE 2 FICTION WISHLIST: space opera and cyberpunk; rich secondary worlds; dream-logic and ambiguity; messy and complicated choices; monsters, aliens, weird fiction; trans joy and euphoria

With just under a week left in our Issue 2 submissions window, our co-founders put together a wishlist for all the last-minute submitters! Send us space opera, cyberpunk, monsters and messiness, trans joy and euphoria, and more 🪐🗡️

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Genre Grapevine on the Anthropic "Blood-Money" Settlement | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine Get more from Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine on Patreon

The Anthropic book theft settlement is essentially done, but many more battles remain. I also agree with Catherynne M. Valente's recent essay calling the settlement "blood money." 1/
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today is the daaaay! my tragic sapphic space jousting/knights story is free to read over at Lightspeed ✨

it’s a little messy and angsty, but there is a cool mechanical pegasus so it’s fine!!

I hope you enjoy “Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight” 🪐

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

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Inspired by @jyzh.bsky.social I give you FF#27 in emoji form

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(Sorry I'm bad at this, I'm over 40 and use full sentences when I text people.)

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The Oil King Opal Gulch was just a dusty little dried-up town this side of nowhere, until the horrors came.Ellalee Gather twitched aside her calico curtains one long afternoon, just as the first horror glomped …

Oil-oil-oil…have you heard enough about oil these days? Might turn you into a monster, I hear. Just ask Ellalee of Opal Gulch in Bree Wernicke’s “The Oil King.” 🖤
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"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"

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Moss Senses Sense of Touch Bryo is a moss-covered planet. A world of milky softness, cool as water, submerged in green. When Agata steps out of the spaceship, she sinks into moss up to her knees. Moss clings t…

“We know how to love you,” says the moss…💚💚💚
Our Friday release this week is “Moss Senses” by Beth Goder. Check it out for free today!
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Thank you for reading!! ☺️

Loved this story so much. Epistolary + weird cozy horror is my jam, thanks @breewernicke.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

We've waited so long to yell this: IF YOU'RE A SUBSCRIBER OR KICKSTARTER BACKER, ISSUE 1 IS IN YOUR INBOX! 🪐🗡️

Issue 1 will be free to read online March 15th, but if you can't wait, get your hands on it RIGHT NOW!

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it’s a pretty great issue!! run, don’t walk!!

Thanks so much for reading! ☺️

Bree Wernicke > Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed > Bourbon Penn Help! Possible curse?? Hi! Not sure this forum is the right place to post this, but bear with me. So about a week ago I came down with horrible stomach cramps. I assumed it was something I ate (I’m la...

I liked "Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed" by @breewernicke.bsky.social in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social.

Arachnomorphosis The city is no place for a spider.

In case you're doing some last minute reading for the Nebula awards, I'll gently place my weird spider story here.

This made it on the Locus Recommended Reading List and it will be reprinted in Podcastle soon. It's a story that's close to my heart.

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

Reminder: we open to reprints on March 1st! We are looking for speculative stories (by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors) that cannot currently be read for free online.

We will stay open to reprints until the end of March and will likely open again later this year.

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I finally gave in to peer pressure and made an award eligibility graphic (two months late 😂). Nebula nominations close in less than a week and Hugos in a month! Would love if you considered my poems or short stories.

A birth announcement for a book! Including the book cover, the size of the book (14 by 12) and weight of book (567 grams). There are faint, blue starts surrounding the book which is displayed against a light blue, watercolour background.

A.D. Sui (caucasian person with short, brown hair) is wearing a grey top coat and jeans, pointing to The Iron Garden Sutra on a bookstore bookshelf and smiling.

and we're live, folks!

THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now out everywhere books are sold! if you pre-ordered a copy, you should be receiving it soon (or already have) and if not, it's not too late to purchase the yellowest book in all of history!

i am so happy your house is HABITABLE!!

SPEAR RULES

A Recipe for the Day Alban Kills the King — Orion's Belt Start by chopping the onions.

Lastly… “A Recipe for the Day Alban Kills the King,” which is a story about what comes after the end of the story. Also, crucially, it is about soup.

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It’s that time of year! I’m in my second year of Astounding eligibility, and I also published nine eligible short stories in 2025. If you only have time to read one, I hope you’ll consider “Handsomest Gentlest,” a love letter to my very good dog. You can find all nine here: m-r-robinson.com/fiction/

"God Complex" in Star*Line 48.4: sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

"Cry of the Curio-Hawker" in Star*Line 48.3: sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association! By moving into Morbid Tower West, and being human (which we’ve verified), you’ve been approved for membership.

POETRY:

"Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!" in @strangehorizons.bsky.social (nominated for the 2026 Rhysling Award!): strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Bree Wernicke > Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed > Bourbon Penn Help! Possible curse?? Hi! Not sure this forum is the right place to post this, but bear with me. So about a week ago I came down with horrible stomach cramps. I assumed it was something I ate (I’m la...

"Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman is NOT Cursed" in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, 2400 words: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...

Five Different Realities to Explore, and One to Avoid — Orion's Belt There’s a reality where I save you, at the start.

"Five Different Realities to Explore, and One to Avoid" in @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social, fantasy, 800 words: www.orions-belt.net/archives/fiv...