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Ahh, my poem is a Hugo Finalist!!!!!!!!!!! 😱

Thank you to everyone who read “The Mourning Robot” and to @uncannymagazine.bsky.social for giving it a home!

Huge congrats to all the nominees! Honored to be sharing this wonderful ballot with so many writers I adore 🙏

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congrats angela!! so exciting 🥳🎉

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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: March 2026 - Reactor This month's stories focus on unstoppable disasters and satisfying revenge...

Surprised and pleased to see my little sapphic lady knights story featured in Reactor's Short Fiction Spotlight. Never expected to see my name sharing a list with Stephen Graham Jones! 💀

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as it should be!! 😤

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my skin is clear my crops are flourishing my vision has been corrected-

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Song for the Once-Dead Earth — Part One By C.M. Sullivan

my debut short story, "Song for the Once-Dead Earth," is posting all week long at @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social!!

check out part 1 here and follow along throughout the week: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/song-for-t...

😊🌱

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let’s gooooooo

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thank you!!

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hopefully should be able to share official news soon 😌✨

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thank you so much! 🥹💚

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introducing a recently [redacted] short for #PosterPit 👀

i (19 f) escaped to another timeline because i think my home planet’s sentient forest is going to consume me whole.

the only thing is i abandoned my bff in the process (i’m writing her angsty letters though)

aita???

#SF #F #A #SO #LGBT

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For your convenience, I have provided a glossary of Fish Human's dialogue, which is told in Morse code in the text:
• Glubglubslurpglub. Glubglubslurp. Slurpglub -
Fun
• Slurpglubslurpslurp. Glubglubslurp. Slurpslurp -
Yum
• Glubglubglub. Glubslurp. Slurpslurp. Glub - Same

For your convenience, I have provided a glossary of Fish Human's dialogue, which is told in Morse code in the text: • Glubglubslurpglub. Glubglubslurp. Slurpglub - Fun • Slurpglubslurpslurp. Glubglubslurp. Slurpslurp - Yum • Glubglubglub. Glubslurp. Slurpslurp. Glub - Same

you know your stories are getting more and more unhinged when this is a real (tm) cover letter you sent to a lit mag 💀🤡

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This is the short listed story!
singaporeunbound.org/suspect-jour...

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the premise is the world’s best genetically modified hitman retires and opens a bakery (and their former colleague comes to kill them)!! so more pompompurin energy rather than a literal dog haha

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"I'll love you in every lifetime." Is that a promise, or a threat?

This is my favorite story I've ever written. I'm honored to see it (and hear it!) in Escape Pod.

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mantasy. Fantasy for men. mantatasy. Fantasy for mantas. mangatasy. Fantasy for weebs. mangotasy. Fantasy for fruit fanatics. manntasy. Fantasy for any of the 8 guys on Wikipedia named thomas mann. mahntasy. Fantasy for my dad (his name is mahn).

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i maintain that this is still mostly cozy-adjacent it’s just lowkey pompompurin meets john wick

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me: ok i’m going to challenge myself by writing something cozy and wholesome
also me: decides to start the story with an assassination attempt 💀

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amen 🤖📈📊🧠😵

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Fernie by Angela Liu She brought something back from the Cretaceous. It's alive, and trying to survive the family picnic.

I have a new story out today in the 2nd ever issue of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social!

“Fernie” is dual-perspective story about a sentient, mind-reading fern and its little girl companion (and her dysfunctional time traveling family).

www.adventitious.net/stories/fern...

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Excited to share Tasavvur's Spring 2026 issue. Huge shout-out to the writers, contributors, and team Tasavvur. Hope you all enjoy what we've put together.

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Our associate editor Ghazal is looking to leave Tehran as soon as possible, so if anyone knows of an art residency or work opportunity or uni posting that they can apply to, please let us know (dm or email). These are scary times, and we must protect each other as best we can.

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thank you so much angela! 🥹

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Issue #1 - Saros Speculative Fiction Edited by Megan J. Kerr “Exhibition” by Lu Xu: taxidermy on alien worlds / the hunt / the need to conquer “Looking Glass” by Lia Lao: heiresses / becoming what others want / resistance “Four Fabricati...

it features:
🏍️flying car crashes
💎sapphic nepo babies
🧠 transplanting your situationship's memories into your brain to cope with her death <33

link to read: sarossf.com/issue-1/

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a 3x3 square moodboard, containing photos of the following:

top-left: diamond stud earrings
top-middle:  camera flashes from a sea of people holding mobile phones
top-right: surgeons staring at a screen in the operating room
middle-left: a blurred picture of an asian woman with green overtones
middle-center: image of a brain in black and white
middle-right: broken mirror with a blurred silhouette
bottom left: a circuit board
bottom-middle: a close-up of a speedometer
bottom-right: an iv drip against a green-blue background

a 3x3 square moodboard, containing photos of the following: top-left: diamond stud earrings top-middle: camera flashes from a sea of people holding mobile phones top-right: surgeons staring at a screen in the operating room middle-left: a blurred picture of an asian woman with green overtones middle-center: image of a brain in black and white middle-right: broken mirror with a blurred silhouette bottom left: a circuit board bottom-middle: a close-up of a speedometer bottom-right: an iv drip against a green-blue background

email notifying the poster that she has been nominated/longlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Short Story

email notifying the poster that she has been nominated/longlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Short Story

ecstatic to announce my story “looking glass” has been longlisted/nominated for the sir julius vogel awards! 🥹😭

special thanks to saros sf 1 editor @meganjkerr.bsky.social and the publisher @fusionfragment.bsky.social 🤍

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Some Queer Short SFF - February 2026 | Charles Payseur Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - February 2026🏳️‍🌈
I round up over a dozen stories by @nassos.bsky.social @jordankurella.com @jlgeorge.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @ewenmaer.bsky.social @rfdwrites.bsky.social @sarahpauling.bsky.social & MORE!!!!
www.patreon.com/posts/154416...

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If we are doing our final battle cries...

Would love if you read/considered:
1) “Barbershops of the Floating City” (short story, tied for 1st in the Uncanny Reader Poll)
2) “The Mourning Robot” (poem, Nebula Finalist)
3) “The Church At The Edge of Time” (poem, Rhysling Finalist)

(Links in thread)

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and this one's eligible for Hugo nominations!

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noms are closing soon! I would love any consideration for "Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You" -- mechas!! toxic lesbians!!

(and also the Astounding Awards! My second year of eligibility >:D)

clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/

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let’s goooo!! huge congrats 🤩

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