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Nice one, Emma! Congratulations!

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The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025 Amazon.com: The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025 eBook : Brinegar, Rachael, Newkirk, David, Hoyt, Ellie, McIntosh, Parker, Klass, Judy, Vance, Michael, Clairval, Gio, Morrey, Josh, Apsley, JS, Docherty, Stuart: Kindle Store

My weird flash piece about an Italian reincarnated as a glob of old hair conditioner is out today in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social. It’s the first time my names appeared on a cover so I’m absolutely chuffed. Check it out here:

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Copy of The Veldt Institute by Samuel M. Miss

@perfidiousscript.bsky.social this came in the post yesterday and I’m very excited to start reading.

@slashnburnett.bsky.social What an awesome cover! Congrats! I'm looking forward to reading.

Dead chuffed to have a story in this excellent anthology. Haven't finished reading all the excellent writing in it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

Releasing August 7th!

Thanks, Emmi!

Full cover of this Exquisite Topology. A sphere orbiting a planet filled with various colors with fire in the background.

Full cover reveal of This Exquisite Topology!

perv mayor by john pinto — scaffold literary magazine micro fiction

Really enjoyed this one over at scaffold: www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

🍝 Marinara, Marinara by Stuart Docherty a messy mix-up

🍝 Marinara, Marinara by Stuart Docherty foofaraw.press/marinara-marinara-by-stu...

My story "Small Sacks of Children" is out now in After Happy Hour's second chance issue, featuring work from magazines that are now defunct. This story was in Daily Science Fiction and is about building a wall with small children. Read it (and the rest) here (via downloadable PDF).

Unpackaging: Review of Thomas Morris’s Open Up Stuart Docherty Under Review:Open Up. Thomas Morris. Unnamed Press, April 2025. Thomas Morris’s Open Up depicts a host of male outsiders with parental issues ostensibly trying to fit in. Morris’s s…

Unpackaging: @doc12345.bsky.social reviews Thomas Morris's OPEN UP (@unnamedpress.bsky.social)
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ergot. innovative + experimental horror

"And my grandmother said: I’ve never wanted to do something so badly in my entire life. It was such a wonderful thing. Such a wonderful, wonderful thing."

Today on ergot.: 'A Wonderful Thing' by Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Jack...

Book on a mossy rock with some green leaves. Book title - The Ghost of Blaubart Mansion. The cover features a young woman approaching an ominious-looking house.

Book on a mossy rock next to a little gray dog that is looking up. Book title - The Ghost of Blaubart Mansion. The cover features a young woman approaching an ominious-looking house.

OUT TODAY - THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION!

Thanks to @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social and cover artist @lukespoonerartist.bsky.social!

I am so super excited to be guest editing a FamPunk FFO!

Take a break from the big-picture. Casually incorporate science & technology. Embrace quotidian else-when life. Give us alternative families in alternative spaces.

Read more (& feel free to ask questions below): ffo.submittable.com/submit

Check out my story, The Pat Test, and all the other great writing in this issue of The Hooghly Review! I wrote this story a couple of years ago based on some of my own experiences living in mountain towns.

I have a soft spot for metafiction and this one is fantastic. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

Keep Talking Gerald’s stomach clenched as he approached his daughter, Sarah. She sat at her computer, her back to the world, as intent as a...

Really enjoyed this short story from a Apex. A little old but still fantastic.

www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Good news everyone: my least-publishable story has been published. It's only a thousand words and I promise that, while reading it, you will mutter "what the fuck, Sasha" under your breath. CW: butt plugs and body horror.

Butt plugs and body horror.

www.twinpiesliterary.com/fuck-us-up/m...

I did say “what the fuck, Sasha”. That was kinda awful, kinda great. Disgusting and amazing at the same time. Thanks? Maybe? (But, seriously, very good).

Glad to have "Dead Men's Fingernails" up on The Fabulist today: fabulistmagazine.com/dead-mens-fi...

ergot. innovative + experimental horror

Her touch was so hot it stung. Drops of sweat gathered along my back and slid down my spine. “Oh,” I said.
“My mother used to say: cold hands, warm heart.” She laughed.
I did too, the way you laugh at such things.

Today on ergot.: "Scorpion Eggs" by Heidi Marjamäki

www.ergot.press/authors/Heid...

Great read, this. Weird, funny sci-fi with a great lead character and depth.

Ove Tøpfer's art and cover art for UNCERTAIN SONS showing odd, organic, alien-like head and face and skull with neck and body of bones forming doorways.

Thrilled to reveal the cover for @thomasha.bsky.social's astonishingly original debut UNCERTAIN SONS. Cover art by Ove Tøpfer. Design by Vince Haig. Foreword by @megapolisomancy.bsky.social. Praise from Kelly Link. Importantly, pre-orders open now. Get in!

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My debut novel THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION is set for release April 21 with Cemetery Gates!

Get in touch for a review copy!

Quote from opening chapter:
"I don’t like being made of toe. I’d rather be a swan feather or something, even though I guess that would be less human."

Really enjoyed this one: booth.butler.edu/2024/02/02/p...

Thanks J.R! It means a lot to me to hear that.

[2025:45] Concede, Stuart Docherty When the game ended, the processor began to sizzle. Charlie pulled off the rear panel and managed to save most of the motherboard and its components. The room smelled of smoke and burnt plastic. “I…

My very little flash fiction, "Concede", is free to read over at Grey Sparrow Journal as of today. Would love to know what you think of it.

grey-sparrow-press.com/202545-conce...