Congratulations!

Birdwatching by Katherine Garrison These birds are always raising the stakes.When I go out, I want to see a shrike,but instead, I am surprised by a hawfinchwhich are rare to see here, as in red listed,and I thi…

I’m so pleased that this poem found a home. Thank you to January House Literary Magazine for publishing it. 💚 If you like birds and wish you could fly sometimes you might like it! januaryhouselit.com/2026/04/17/b...

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

Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

A meme with the bus driver from the Simpsons up top, saying "Don't make me tap the sign." The Sign is beneath, reading "Small Wonders needs your support" just above the keyhole logo. It's true! We do!

Our subscription drive continues! When we get to 50 new or upgraded subscriptions, we'll do a Best Of Year 2 anthology. Help get us more stability so we can keep putting many small wonders into the world!

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glamorous

You're not alone <3

A very simply drawn cartoon of a very round and green smiling frog squatting down and holding a ouija board. The background is blue and the text reads ‘fuck ChatGPT. I’m asking ghosts’

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

photo of kemi ashing giwa with pen

#FundraiserPerk Kemi Ashing-Giwa will name a character after you (or use an agreed upon name). BE IMMORTAL! Comes with the April e-issue of locus and digital art.

Donate at http://locusmag.com/ or through our bio! @kashinggiwa

Don't tempt me! I already have two different copies of this series. I cannot...I should not buy another.

Just one more skirt and he'll love me. If I can balance one more plate, I'll be free. The last frog will definitely be the one that validates me as a princess!

Embracing my witch era with all my heart. I want to trace the outline of each of my warts and find peace with every last one.

I need one emoji that combines these 😡🤮😭🫠 to express how I feel while listening to this

I've only heard good things about it. I might need to move it up in my TBR.

Um, yes I would! Done!

Come Join us at the Slumber Party Behind John Wayne Gacy’s Lot | Literary Garage

They spray-painted 666 on the fence.
We counted to three.
We ran.

Girlhood, dares, and the things neighborhoods choose to forget.

An excellent story from @marjeec.bsky.social

Check it out at Literary Garage:
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Woah! I love what you did with this. Congrats Marjee!

This is one of my favorite stories

Sword lesbians, chivalry, and mech suit jousting (oh my)

Check out my flash fiction in Small Wonders today!

One of the many perks to being a subscriber is early access to the winning stories of the monthly flash contest, like mine, published today:
"In Your Diminishing Tongue."
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Bloom Where You Are Planted by Melanie Mulrooney A couple weeks later, I felt my first flower pulsing just below the surface in the center of my chest. The tingle of energy was like electricity—an awakening, a definition of alive I hadn’t expected. ...

I'm thrilled to have my story Bloom Where You Are Planted published with @bcsmagazine.bsky.social today! Many thanks to @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social for his keen eye and support in making this happen. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo...

Hugo noms are open, and I'd love to put forth "Be Kind and Rewind" for your consideration.

One year ago, on Valentine's day, Wyngraf published a story about queer/trans love that I coauthored with my lovely partner @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social. I'm a hack, but she made our story brilliant anyway.

"For your consideration" poster featuring 2 pieces of Photoshop composite art. One shows a giant octopus grabbing a man, for the short story Patient was the Doctor. The other is a red mermaid curled up in the sea, for the story titled milt. Both stories are stated to be free to read/listen to.

QR code for milt, reprinted in audio/podcast format on Escape Pod

QR code for Patient was the Doctor, in PDF form, on the Analog Magazine website

I have 2 short stories awards eligible this year!

1. Patient was the Doctor (PDF 📝) analogsf.com/for-your-con... with @analogsf.bsky.social (Locus & SFWA recommended)

2. milt (podcast reprint 🔉) escapepod.org/2026/02/12/e... with @bsfa.bsky.social and @escapepod.org (mild nsfw 🔥)

✅ WEIRD ✅ QUEER ✅ HORNY ✅ HOPEFUL LET'S GO

Listen to this story by @shiwritesprose.bsky.social if you also like weird queer horny mermaid stories

"Nothing is safe from the muck."

Read "Swampland" by the talented @erinbf.bsky.social at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

"I didn’t realize that’s how God worked. That he punished little girls for things their parents did."

Read the rest of @marjeec.bsky.social's story at Maudlin House

Out now! A post-apocalyptic sci-fi weird horror short story, "The Desolate Order of the Head in the Water" by A.W. Prihandita. There's a picture of the magazine cover, Clarkesworld issue 232, featuring the torso of a huge robot covered in moss in a forest. In the background of the graphic, there are the words "new year, new story" in big fading text.

“The Desolate Order of the Head in the Water” by A.W. Prihandita. It’s about a child in search of his lost parents, in a post-apocalyptic world where all adults have implanted computers that have been hijacked by an AI-gone-rogue. It’s also like Thanos’s “snap my fingers and half the world dies,” but in the context of modern AI’s ecocide, written in the style of weird horror and the aesthetics of the uncanny valley. 
Footnote: “Weird horror” is aspirational. I was reading a lot of Brian Evenson. I hope this is weird enough! You can read for free at clarkesworldmagazine.com, buy a digital copy or a print copy, AND subscribe to the magazine for more outstanding short fiction.

If you like that scene from Pluribus where everyone speaks at the same time, saying the same thing, in the same cadence because they’ve been taken over by aliens—only in this story, it’s AI that has hijacked everyone around you. There’s a screen capture of the aforementioned scene, with the female lead character standing by a truck outside a hospital, a crowd of doctors, nurses, and other patients (none of whom are quite alive or conscious because they are victims of a virus that enables aliens to control them). The crowd chants as one, “We just wanna help, Carol.”

If you like this opening paragraph of Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism: “A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. It might involve food, or a kind of love; it might be a fantasy of the good life, or a political project. It might rest on something sim-pler, too, like a new habit that promises to induce in you an improved way of being. These kinds of optimistic relation are not inherently cruel. They become cruel only when the object that draws your attachment actively impedes the aim that brought you to it initially.” ... and think our relation with Al is maybe, definitely, a relation of cruel optimism. As in, why do people hope Al will help them find connection-through chats, storytelling, advice, therapy, whatever-when all it has ever done is further sever us from our humanity, our fellow humans, and our land, leaving us alone and parched?

Hello and happy new year! I'm pleased to announce I'm returning to @clarkesworldmagazine.com with a sci-fi- weird- eco-horror short story that's OUT NOW!

It's called "The Desolate Order of the Head in the Water."

Read here and subscribe! clarkesworldmagazine.com/prihandita_0...

Illustration of Enitan (a Black woman with brown skin and short black hair in a green tunic) and her sibling Xiang (a Chinese person in a reddish-brown tunic) by @ashcremated on Tumblr.

Happy New Year's Eve, y'all!!

This just in: THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY is 1.99 on Bookshop and Rakuten Kobo too!

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The children yearn for the underground

Read this heartbreakingly gorgeous micro by my friend @lyss-b.bsky.social