Aww thank you Seán 😍

Thx Abigail 🥰
Sending you some cake. CATCH 🍰🍰🍰

Thank you Rick ❤️

Books, Faith! NEW books! Like I need more 😅

Thank you Bailey ❤️❤️❤️
I was missing you. Are you fine? What are you up to?

Birthday girl here, so I'm briefly out of my lair.
Got books, and books, and... more books!
Look at these beauties here. Been wanting them for ages. Author (one you should rush to discover) is Suze Leonie.

👇👇👇

Psst! If you've preordered, or meant to, today's the last day to enter the giveaway! Win a care package with some yummy treats: forms.gle/q2t2n28NAheg...

A contact form reads: Subject: Checking Authenticity Body of message Hi there Beth. I have been contacted by someone who is using the email, [email blacked out], and using you name and one of your novels 'Feast of the Starving Stone: The Chef’s Five' to engage with me as a fellow author - if it is you then great, if it is not, as i suspect, then this is a fake approach. I just wanted to be sure. thanks. [signed name blacked out] You're a real person, right? No, I'm a bot. Please don't include existential questions in a contact form. Yes.

I just found out that an AI scammer is impersonating me in their spam campaign. I am LIVID.

Please, please share this post. Warn people. I’m horrified that someone might be ripped off in my name.

No one is safe from being impersonated like this.

Be patient, we're reading ❤️

Wow, great news!

The Lounge exists in our heads and in our hearts - and in various places on the internet. If it were a physical place there would be an ominous ticking sound as the big clock labelled "Submission Period" moves inevitably towards midnight Eastern Time (UTC−04:00) and it closes.

The community drabble for today is, "Follies Of Outrageous Legend" by M. Nitchi. The theme was "fool."

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/DRBL

#writingprompt #drabble

But the lounge is cozy, worth the interdimensional-vortex jetlag. Food, drinks, good company, and stories. Who would want more?

I Am Tasting The Stars was in Issue 5 from August 2021 - an issue that for some reason lost in the depths of time had several food and drink related stories. Cheers! translunartravelerslounge.com/issue-five-a...

The community drabble for today is, "What Songs We Sing" by Faith Allington. The theme was "survivor."

Find Faith Allington at www.faithallington.com

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/DRBL

#writingprompt #drabble

Those of us who work at the zine have got so much out of it - and it's thanks to the writers and readers who support us. We wish you all a great day.

The community drabble for today is, "Surviving The Truth" by Preetish Mohan. The theme was "survivor."

Find Preetish Mohan on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/preetishmohan.bsky.social

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/DRBL

#writingprompt #drabble

Every story is considered with care and attention by human beings. We want to give every story we get it's chance - but we can't unless you send it to us. And we close submissions at the end of Wednesday 15 April - Midnight EST.

ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, edited by Marissa van Uden Cover Art by Marcela Bolívar Cover Design by Mikio Murakami

We're over the moon to reveal the cover of Violet Lichen's second annual eco anthology edited by @marissavu.bsky.social 🌙✨🪐

ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, blooming onto bookshelves November 17!

Cover Art by @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design by Mikio Murakami, Silent Q Design

Fed up with your world? Visit ours. Clarkesworld robot looks to the right where the cover of issue 235 is located. It features a tall spacecraft floating over a dockyard in a pink and purple sky.

Friday is a great day to subscribe.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
(Ok, so any day is good, but why wait?)

Congratulations to Artemis II, their safe return has made us once again, THE Translunar Travelers Lounge.

Thank you @reachyourapex.bsky.social 🥰

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ANOTHER subscription service hiking up prices to pay for unwanted AI bloat? Couldn't be us 💻🔨 one annual subscription to Apex Magazine gets you a year of outstanding short fiction delivered right to your inbox! Just great stories, no more, no less.

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What are you waiting for?!!! Submit!
(read the guidelines)

"What She Left Behind" by Kai Delmas (@kaidelmas.bsky.social), in Feb's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/delmasLeft.html

I am not this boy’s mother. I’m not who he remembers. I’m a body. That’s all.

- from "What She Left Behind" by Kai Delmas (@kaidelmas.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#shortstory #horror

😅

Submissions Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

Some of us in the lounge have had to change our clocks, others have done it three weeks ago, and some are on stranger schedules still; the mysteries of the moon clock! Whatever time it is, we're open to submissions. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

General submissions have been open for a week and there's been a tremendous response. Our readers are working through them. Yet we're still happy to see more! Please read the guidelines before submitting. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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Not being very social right now lol. Why? Because I'm drowning in slush... and I love it! What's better than losing yourself in other people's words and worlds?
I'm having a blast 🤩
AI can go get f***ed. Gimme human creativity, uniqueness, emotions any day.