Cover art for The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu. Has a blurb from Max Gladstone "A work of crystalline vision and meticulous humanity"

Spend a little time with my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space! Available today!
Bugs in the physics! Status reports in the form of food! Finding a family!
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1/2 So, the first story in Saros #5, "Land of Lasts" by @probablyharmless.bsky.social, was also the first story that, upon encountering in the issue's submissions pool, I immediately set aside in my "this is special and I think I have to have it" stack. It's the kind of story that sneaks up on you-

Thank you so much for including my story in this issue! I'm really glad it hit those notes for you 💜✨️

1/2 The second story in Saros #5, "On the Matter of Homo Sapiens" by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social, is--to me, at least--both the funniest and the scariest story in the issue. It's a neat trick, I think, to pull off a concept that blends both such delightful and such horrifying elements so seamlessly-

Saros SF Issue 5 Table of Contents Edited by Ariel Marken Jack “Land of Lasts” by Theodore Hill endlings / what are your three things? / the story is us “On the Matter of Homo sapiens” by Kel Coleman orienteering / they made us / we remake them “Root Words” by Yasmeen Fahmy metamorphosis / linguistic detectives / mercy, mercy, mercy “Solitary, Not Alone” by Robert Helfst blue jays (?) / deep breaths / follow the psychopomp “[Redacted]” by Spencer Nitkey erosion / you can’t tell anyone / the thing is me “Gardenias Under a Temporal Window” by Vijayalaxmi Samal the past is present / she can fix it / but I’m right here “Walk With the Angels” by Wren Douglas homecoming / the blood is the life / song and sacrifice “This Was the Planet of Sound” by Rex Burrows singing seas / searching shrieks / expectant hush

What's better than new mag day? A dual mag day!

That's right, Saros SF #5, edited by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social, will be releasing on March 23rd alongside FF#27 and you'll be able to get both magazines in one handy download package!

Thanks for listening! Glad you enjoyed it :)

“Disassembling Light” by Kel Coleman “Disassembling Light” by Kel Coleman, narrated by Wil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another short story from @wilwheaton.net’s podcast that makes you want to live in the world far longer than the words allow—in the best way! This one by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social.

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AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF GLORIOUS SHORT FICTION THAT I ENJOYED IN 2025 (BY PUBLICATION MONTH). his love’s ashes on his tongue, by Monte Lin, in The Deadlands (January) I love how this story explores grief and death. It’s a journey in a strange city. A journey inside our minds and the v…

Crawling back from a very nasty bout of flu by posting some of my favorite stories I read last year. Is it a perfect list? No, there's a ton of amazing stuff out there. But I am happy with it and I hope you can find something in here for you <3

oh shitttt!!!

Choose Your Own Damnation - Lightspeed Magazine You’ve gotten a C-minus, and it isn’t your fault. It is also not your fault that your parents are anal, Pakistani immigrants who came to this country with nothing and think a C-minus in tenth grade sp...

My spectacularly talented friend Kehkashan Khalid has a new story out now from LIGHTSPEED!!! If you’d like to laugh and cry in only 1300 words, I cannot recommend “Choose Your Own Damnation” enthusiastically enough: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/choo...

thank you!!

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: November 2025 - Reactor Add some of the best new short fiction stories to your end of year reading lists!

It's my last short speculative fiction spotlight column of 2025 (my Dec picks will come out in Jan). I have 10 stories to tide you through the long, dark nights and short, cold days. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Escape Pod, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Review by Charles Payseur Escape Pod 8/21/25 Lightspeed 9/25 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/4/25, 9/18/25 The 8/21/25 Escape Pod features “35 / F / Lane’s Creek, Oklahoma” by Hans Ege Wenger, a story about Sandra, a remote bot o…

“Last Meal Aboard the Awassa” by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, “Compass Rose, Running” by Julie Reeser from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social

One more day folks!

Send us your queer speculative flash fiction!

@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social's Those Beyond the Wall is EVERYTHING I could've hoped for in a sequel. A new protagonist—as well-developed as the first one—took me deeper into the characters, settings, and storylines I grew to love and blew my mind!!

Don't sleep on this series, y'all. It's gold.

I'm $91 overdrawn. please help.

Students touched me so much with their words and deeds during our last classes this week.

One told me I was her favorite professor. I joked, "Darn it! That means I can't quit."

"Don't quit. We need you."

(Give me oil in my lamp. Keep me burning, burning, burning. Give me oil in my lamp, I pray.)

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Putting up my editing shingle!

I offer constructive developmental editing, and authenticity/sensitivity reading of short and long form prose fiction. I’m an Ignyte and Ember award winning editor. There’s room for a few clients this month and after January. Get in touch! soniasulaiman.com/contact/

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

DEBUT Ellie visits her comatose mother every weekend. That is not enough for her older sister, Chris, who reminds Ellie constantly she will never live up to Chris's own filial piety, which seems to include using random people to harangue Ellie and repeated assassination attempts. When Chris sends Ellie into the skunkworks-the physics-defying apparatus that creates and maintains universes—for a minor issue, it turns into a cascade of discovered problems, which include her cousin Daniel finding a device that is keeping Ellie's mother alive but creating destabilizing errors that jeopardize the universe. As Ellie and Daniel investigate the source of the illicit device, they find that their family's past is much more convoluted than known, and Ellie may need to choose between saving her family or the universe itself. Intricate worldbuilding, generational trauma, and reports relayed as food are woven into a story that has great action and engaging characters. VERDICT Chu finds a delightful and poignant intersection between the multiverse, family dysfunction, and dim sum in his debut novel. Reviewed by Kristi Chadwick, Dec 01, 2025

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The Subtle Art of Folding Space got a starred review from Library Journal!
"Chu finds a delightful and poignant intersection between the multiverse, family dysfunction, and dim sum in his debut novel."

I didn't know this had been announced! I'm excited to be teaching at Clarion next summer with all of these cool people.

Ooo congrats! Have fun!

Last Meal Aboard the Awassa - Lightspeed Magazine Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and t...

This story is so short and yet you'll fall in love with all the characters as a whole and their attitude in the face of absolute catastrophe. With what humans could have been if we were more like them.

by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com

Thanks for reading and sharing, Eugenia! 💜💜

“Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head” is available now in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s about a homeless orphan girl who discovers she can speak to one of the severed heads mounted over the city gate.

When I was a submissions editor, I really enjoyed the feeling of sending up work from new writers. I think most editors do. Today, I learned that someone has their first pro sale because I told them about a call for submissions.

This is what it’s all about.

Good news! You can read an oldie but a favorite of mine in Apex today! "Before, After, and the Space Between", first published in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, is about the fraught relationship between a daughter and her mother and their magic 💜🖤

2025 Awards Eligibility Post Cindy Phan “All Her Darling Little Ones” - Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology. “Ron, Howard” - Baffling Magazine, Issue 19.4. “What to do When a Demon is Talking Shit at You” - Inner Worlds, Issue 8. more stories and links at cindyphanauthor.com

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Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨

AWARDS CONSIDERATION Jennifer Hudak "Written On the Subway Walls" in The Sunday Morning Transport "Echo Syndrome" in Small Wonders "The Last Time Gladys Howled At the Moon" in Strange Horizons "Holding Patterns" in Escape Pod links and more stories at JenniferHudakWrites.com

Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills