And now we've got the first issue of a brand-new magazine, OTHERSIDE, @othersidespec.bsky.social, a quarterly literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Looks amazing: weightlessbooks.com/category/for...

a lot of my work is about siblings lol

One of my favorite things I wrote is a poem called "my sister, a chimaera". lowkey want to write a story on that

YESS I am glad.

"The Homeowner's Bride" is now free to read in Otherside's first issue!

The protagonist is a haunted house (that's down to fuck). 🏚

Both horror and a love story, it's one of the strangest, riskiest, most heartfelt things I've ever written.

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HI YES IT’S HEEERE PLEASE GO READ OTHERSIDE’S DEBUT ISSUE
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From messy fairytales to reality fuckery to the sapphic urge to romance a haunted house, every story and poem in here is amazing. AND the art is unparalleled and delightful. I’m SO honored to be a part of this teammmm aaaaa 😭

Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be - OTHERSIDE see: tender, suspended at the tip of arm hairs that never darkened      never hearkened or grew the tangle of my father’s muscle the way he mangled through skin      under thin bindings, not yet bone:...

My poem “Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be” is now free to read in the first issue of @othersidespec.bsky.social! It’s an amazing issue full of fantastic stories and poetry, well worth a full read!

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And that's a wrap for fiction! we also published fantastic poetry and nonfic, please check them out!

Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive - OTHERSIDE I. Animal Husbandry The day your moms become infected, you’re in your animal husbandry class, taught in the tack room of the barn. Sarah’s mom is holding up a chicken egg, saying, “Eggs are valuable, ...

@nadiaradovich.bsky.social's "Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive" has Nadia's signature flare for structurally inventive and sharply effective. What an ending!

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Your First Days Back in the Court of Arthur - OTHERSIDE You remember when you used to love him. You remember how this time a year ago, you did not hesitate before the thought, I will die for him if only he asks. And he asked. He did. He asked you before an...

I'm a hard sell on retellings but I immediately loved Abigail Eliza's "Your First Days Back in the Court of Arthur". Its such an efficient story that strikes at the heart of hurt

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Situationship - OTHERSIDE You look up from your book, wearing a smile you’ve reserved for me. “Tired of studying?” I take a seat beside you and sprawl out, my back against the table. “I hardly see the point.” The top of the li...

@seoungkim.bsky.social "Situationship" is brief and poignant love story in space. emotionally devastating

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This Is Not Your Extinction Event - OTHERSIDE Robert hears the rescue team coming down the stairwell before they call out. He doesn’t bother to answer. He’s busy watching sixteen ants march across a piss stain of his own making. The storm of refl...

@esichr.bsky.social's "This is Not Your Extinction Event" is the best kind of multiverse love story.

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Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain - OTHERSIDE There were walls within the glass mountain, just as clear as its sheer cliffsides. There were floors within the glass mountain—and ceilings, too—but they left just as little to the imagination. A shin...

@sarahpauling.bsky.social's Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain is eerie, unexpected, and sharp. the best kind of dreamlogic fairytale

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Ishmael Grey Archives - OTHERSIDE

Vitrification by @callmeishmael.bsky.social is all the queer rage. Its so powerfully resonant.

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The Homeowner's Bride - OTHERSIDE Wooden wheels crack against the dirt road, warning me of the owner’s approach. His journey up my hill is slow. The cart fights its way through the brambles and wildflowers that have made the path thei...

If you've ever felt the feminine urge to fuck a house, I urge you to read @ayidashonibar.bsky.social "The Homeowner's Bride" immediately. Its angry, queer, and perfect.

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The Claywife - OTHERSIDE I am bringing a rind of bread to the daughter in the lamp-house again. This is the third time. In the path along the garth-wall a hortulan stops me and demands to know my errand. I hesitate and he dem...

@tanadrin.bsky.social's The Claywife is bittersweet, and utterly original. It almost made me cry.

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The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet - OTHERSIDE In the 668th year after Creation, which was also the fortieth year of the reign of imperator Jadunath, master of sky and stars—may his memory be a curse!—a sorcerer came to the maharaja’s court in sea...

@srinivassimo.bsky.social's The Vetala of Cystal Vellam Inlet is one of the very first stories I read and was immediately in love. Such assured storytelling. Its hard to do humor well in short fiction but Simo is a master.

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Otherside Issue 1 is free to read online! I'm so excited for everyone to read the stories, they are incredible

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! www.othersidespec.com

ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE!

Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️

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I understand not wanting to read/engage with the prior research/analysis you're building on in your PhD about as much as I understand people using LLM extruders to "write" novels

Nobody is in academia, or publishing, for the money or glory

If you hate reading: DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH YOUR LIFE

too much work lol. i do not want to cite sources 😅

maybe I will abandon this attempt to write historical fiction and go back to fantasy...

woohoo, this looks INCREDIBLE!

Devouring Fortune book cover. Features a woman with folded arms on the cover. Her arms are crossed. She has straight black hair and her skin is light brown. She has a haunted expression. She is dressed in a white priestess outfit with wrapped bandages up her arms. Behind her lurks a monstrous skeleton whispering in her ear. They are surrounded by red flowers.

I'm happy to say today is the day for the book cover reveal of DEVOURING FORTUNE! @jeleynai.bsky.social did an incredible job on the illustration, I'm in awe.

For fans of Tanith Lee and A.K. Larkwood, about bargains gone wrong.

Follow the prelaunch page!
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I really like Tamsyn Muir's work in general, very distinct voice. Suzan Palumbo's collection, The Skin Thief, has really good stories with very precise linework. Alix E Harrow's entire body of work is such a marvel of prose

I've gotten into a lot of different media recently, and it has only reinforced my adoration for words? I'm more interested in reading stories that take full advantage of the medium, from people who look at our only tool (prose) and see it as a strength, not a limitation

Yes! I think of this often, even on the line level?

Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.

Amazing recs and the best thing to wake up to. What wonderful company to be in, especially with my long time friend and CP @thelialao.bsky.social