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Issue 10 is now available to #read on our website 🔆 A huge thank you to all our contributors, fans, and team members throughout the years - we couldn't have made it to issue 10 without you all 🧡
Hello, I am in this! I am so grateful for the chance to have this story have a home among such good company.
Today I'm mad, and sad, and trying to process the fact that there are a lot of unknowns happening around me, but it's new years eve and so in a few hours I take a deep breath and embrace 2026.
The feminine urge to see if this next redbull will solve all my problems
The thing I've noticed from the stories is a trajectory. The character is so often on an intentional path that is more distinct in DP stories than other places. I also get a very.... ancestral vibe from them a lot!
Long time since I released a big beast into the wild but here is The Future Is Me, told from NHS waiting rooms during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. The siblings are my most Northumbrian characters though a Colombian walked in from nowhere and kidnapped the story.
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No, seriously though. Jaime writes a lot of really great stories, but this one stuck with me and is one of the few where I was strongly compelled to reach out to an author after the first read and gush and share with him how it affected me. And that was in beta. I can only sit in awe at the talent.
Acceptance on one of my favorite stories from this year was a really nice way to round out the day 🫶
Watch me melt down in real time as every plan I had for this weekend changes at the last minute
Today theres a lot of "what am i even doing here? what is this shit Ive written?" in the air and I think I've breathed in most of it.
👀
Could have told you this would happen
Alright @notquitewrite.com , you have my final entry of the year. Now we wait and see if I end another year without hitting that longlist :p
Yes, sure, let's see it that way 😇
I'm excited though. Typical results aside yalls prompts always get a story out of me that I have fun with
I'm feeling
All the pressure
Words. Even.
I have written wrods today despite having no inclination to do so all weekend. I deserve a reward.
Me! But I hate the prompts. I have legit no ideas and its driving me crazy.
Hey I don't know who needs to hear this but please just shut the hell up if you are watching a movie in a theater with other people in it.
Thank you :)
Hey all! It's been a crazy, busy week or so for me, publishing and story-wise. I think this is the last for a minute but its certainly not least. If you have a moment, I would love you to have a look at this story that has one of my favorite titles ever:
www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/02022...
I am beyond happy to share this link. There are some truly wonderful authors in it and it i clues one my favorite stories I've written from the last year in it.
Image: A person in grey sweat suit holding an ereader showing the cover of "Bruised, Resilient" by MM Schreier. Cover is a purple hued landscape - lake and mountains, with lightening in the background. The silhouette stands with her head skyward and her arms thrown backward. Text: FREE EBOOK! On 9/27, get a free ebook at Smashwords using the code: 8WQQ9 *limited to the first 50 orders. At the bottom is the Smashwords logo: A drawing of a blue book held in a hand and the words: Smashwords your ebook, your way
Bruised, Resilient is turning one year old!
For tomorrow only, you can get a FREE ebook at Smashwords as my book birthday gift to you! (Use the coupon code at checkout.)
Happy reading!
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September has been crazy and I missed the launch day of this, but I'm so happy to share it now!
A story originally written as an adventure story for a contest that I fell in love with. I'm so happy for it to have a home and I hope yall enjoy it too <3
hollowoakpress.com/of-lost-boys...
Either you have too much time on your hands or folks are being slow to submit today
I like the image of you checking your email and just freezing in place with a gentle "god dammit."
Day two of Fright Reads 2025 and I will be at my table with alllll my books
Friends in the Maryland / Virginia / surrounding areas! I'll be at Fright Reads this weekend at the Howard County Fairgrounds. I'll be selling copies of my books, two of which are no longer available online.
Come say hi, and look around. There'll be a lot of cool folks there.
www.frightreads.com
<3
Brown Background with white text. The Myths of What Will Be by Alyson Tait I recount ancient myths until they sour on my tongue, then I do what I must—fulfill the prophecy. I find a sun-haired woman strong enough to shoulder the coming war and give myself to her—flesh and soul—realizing too late it binds me to being the first to die. But that's okay. I wouldn't want to be Achilles anyways; to bear such grief, such guarded love. All I want is her love, her breath against my skin. To watch the stars together as they fall closer toward us. Maybe, there in the dark, we measure the few days left to us.
My entry into the Augur micro comp <3
The Myths of What Will Be
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Soothsayer for the 21st Century by Aggie Novak You come to me— (fabric draped, costume jewelled, incense clouded). You ask me real questions, but you don’t seek real answers. You want— Comfort. Platitudes. It’s not your fault, there was nothing you could do. Tell me, you ask— What the future holds. Where I will be in 20 years. How successful. How loved. How normal. I draw the cards— The Star, reversed. All hope gutters out. The Tower. Cities, fire in their bones. The World, reversed. The circle breaks. Well? Your eyes wide, full of— Hope, I say. New constellations. Collapse clears the way. The world resets. @augursociety #augurmicros2025
Excited to share my piece for Augur's micro fiction contest!
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