Me: *gets glasses with progressive lenses*
Me: *holds reading material half an inch from my face*
Me: These don't work.

Ah, okay makes sense. I’m so relieved! I want to send them my stuff, yo!!!!

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Oh … I love them, too. I didn’t realize they’d left. What’s the tea?

Augur press novella and novelette submissions now open! Be a part of augur press’ debut line up. We’re looking for works from 12,500-40,000 words to launch as print books in 2027-2029. Canadian & international authors welcomed. Open July 6-August 30. Guidelines at augursociety.org/press-submissions.

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨

We want your books.

So we can acquire them.

And print them.

For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨

Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.

Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.

Pass it on 👀

I’m designing the inaugural Kindred booklist for the library where
I work and @jessisreading.bsky.social picked Countess for inclusion. So hopefully even MORE exposure. 💃🏽

Heyo I appreciate this shout out. Rascal on, my friends!

You got this!!!!!!!

Mate, I have stories with 30 drafts of editing. (I keep drafts clearly numbered.) Somewhere in there are readers as well. But it’s never quite so clear which stage something is in until the penultimate stage—when I realize it’s ready for a polish.

deadlands fiction submission OPEN

for SPECIAL ISSUE 💀💀💀

edited by @vajra.me

NO JOKE, VERY REAL

submit your greatest death stories here:

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❤️

Thank you, friend!!!!!!

Weird Lit Magazine | Volume Two Issue One | Spring 2025 Weird Lit Magazine is a platform for the weird and boundless.

I wrote a weird little story. Weird Lit Magazine was like, "okay, we'll take it."

Read my horror story, "The Lake Holds No Light" out now in this lovely little issue.

It’s under there like 👁️👄👁️

I know— I can’t risk it!!!!

Me, at home alone—for absolutely no fucking reason: What if a hand just reached out from under the bed and grabbed my ankle?
Me, at home, jumping into bed like a 7 year old.

Help litmags transition away from Twitter, follow them on BlueSky.

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🔥🔥🔥! Best starter pack ever!

Okay! That would be lovely. (It’s so great you have such a unique name that I found you again.)

I'm a digital magpie saving little jewels to share with my writing students. Years ago I took a screenshot of this tweet. @katedollarhyde.bsky.social, was this you? I'd love to get a high resolution credited version, if you still have it. I tried using words to make the point; the chart is better!

The other day my brother wondered with a wicked gleam in his eyes when his boys would be the right age to see this movie. It’s a formative movie that way.

Yeeeeup! Want to join Rejection Competition? At least those rejections can count for something! 😃 www.reneebibby.com/rejectioncompetition

Yep! Believe me, you CANNOT predict where that film ends up.

“Sorry to Bother You” also does it well. It absolutely does not go where you think it will go when you start it.

Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call The editors for the AfroSurrealism Special invite you to submit fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Calling poets,prose writers & essayists to submit to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealist Special Issue!Send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic. Me & @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are co-editing
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She was so photogenic! 🥰

I know. 😔 I still come home and start looking for her.

Close up of a dark tabby Maine Coon cat.

A year ago today, I lost my cat Blue. She was my soul pet, and I miss her, still.