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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 19d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

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Plott Hound Magazine @plotthoundmag.bsky.social · 8d

All of the submissions from September should have heard back by now.

If you're still waiting, please check your spam filter, and if you still find nothing, please query.

We are happy to sniff about Moksha and figure out what's up.

Submission Guidelines – Plott Hound Magazine

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 15d

"Mild Fish and Linen" by Veronica Mullin now free to read online!

"The name they had for him, or what passed for one, was a low tut and a breath through the nose, followed by a little rasp. It meant, as near as he could translate, 'Mild Fish and Linen.'"

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 15d

"Flames Sprout Wings" by @cdgoodman.bsky.social free to read online!

"I saw. I know. Night grows hot. Egg cracks embers. Flames sprout wings and a phoenix hatches awake."

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 15d

YOU DID IT! We are at $12,000 exactly!! REPRINTS REPRINTS!!

Christine Hanolsy (she/her) @christinehanolsy.com · 15d

Literally ONE more annual subscription will allow @othersidespec.bsky.social to publish reprints!!

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OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 16d

"After a Wolf Swallowed the Sun" by @linardos.bsky.social free to read online!

"Man wanted the sun, and he’d have sucked it dry, turned it to tall towers of glass and more machines. So I swallowed it, to protect it from the Man.”

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 16d

"In the Sea of Binary Stars" by @herlizardness.bsky.social free to read online!

"We are both shadows of each other, but we are also ebb and flow, binary stars forever circling, both shining just as bright."

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 18d

"Your Birdsong Pleading" by @loragray.bsky.social now free to read online!

"So, why, sister, are you here, with your milky feathers, your downy breast, your songbird pleading for more time, more love, more sameness?"

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”Your Birdsong Pleading” by Lora Gray – Plott Hound Magazine

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 18d

"Who is Wrong When They Are Hungry" by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social now free to read online!

"You step out of the skin around your legs and kick it off like you are a tree and it was bark you had to scrape off."

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 18d

"Animapod" by Kite Marsh now free to read online!

"Always together; always side by side. I thought sometimes it would be more pleasant to be Eight, or One, and have some privacy to one side at least."

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 18d

"To Dream of Birdsong" by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social now free to read online!

"Ren dreams in her pyrobed for three years as the ship diverts its course, travels to the next destination. She has died six hundred and seventeen times."

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · Sep 18

"When the Crow Sings" by Anna Madden is now free to read online!

"Her voice is a thundering, a wooing.
It grays into a many-beaked murder
eating the hearts of mortal man."

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“When the Crow Sings” by Anna Madden – Plott Hound Magazine

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · Sep 18

"Respect the Hustle" by @risawolf.bsky.social is now free to read online!

"It was a shamble type of eve, the moon bulging quiet and hush-hush up in the sky. I had a full pouch and none was buying, not even the raccoons tussling in the big cans."

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · Sep 18

"The Buffalo Woman" by Jacy Morris is now free to read online!

"Something was taking them. The rumors had been spread by her lover who had seen fields of the dead, their horns taken, their skins removed, their meat left to rot."

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Plott Hound Magazine @plotthoundmag.bsky.social · Sep 15

Plott Hound Magazine closes tomorrow night!

If you have a story, poem, essay pitch, or flash fic to send us, now's the time!

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Moksha

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Cold Blood" by Kristy Ettel now free to read online!

"Where dusk frays into threads of night,
a serpent spills from fissured stone,
his body a gutter, ice-glimpse of blackness
like obsidian vine drunk on night’s wine-light."

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“Cold Blood” by Kristy Ettel – Plott Hound Magazine

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · Sep 9

"A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" by @srinivassimo.bsky.social now free to read online!

"They were not really calves, she knew—there was no calf-like innocence in those gleaming white eyes—but she did not know what else to call them."

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Fire & Flight" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social now free to read online!

"I know the song is at the part where speaks of lighting the fire—le feu. I know that part. If there’s one thing a dragon knows it’s fire."

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · Sep 12

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Mainstream Science Fiction Short Stories feat. @castofwonders.org @trollbreathmag.bsky.social @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social @plotthoundmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Smart Search List of the Day

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Mainstream Science Fiction Short Stories feat. @castofwonders.org @trollbreathmag.bsky.social @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social @plotthoundmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/fee-free-mainstream-sf-short-stories-vhENoBJM

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Plott Hound Magazine @plotthoundmag.bsky.social · Sep 9

Six more days to get your work off to Plott Hound Magazine (that's us!) for consideration.

We have a Moksha portal accepting short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and also pitches for non-fiction essays.

You got this!

plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...

Moksha

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · Sep 5

Plott Hound issue 2 is now live!

Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
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T.R. Steele 🍂 @authortrsteele.bsky.social · Sep 7

Read my story, "At the Edge of the Tale" (which is about a sad little barn swallow becoming a key figure in the larger story of a captured unicorn) in the second wonderful issue of @plotthoundmag.bsky.social!

Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · Sep 5

Plott Hound issue 2 is now live!

Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
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Lora Gray @loragray.bsky.social · Sep 7

My poem, “Your Birdsong Pleading,” is now out in Plott Hound Magazine!

Plott Hound Magazine @plotthoundmag.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's here! It's here!

Check out Issue 2 of Plott Hound Magazine now!

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · Sep 5

Plott Hound issue 2 is now live!

Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
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Plott Hound Magazine @plotthoundmag.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Plott Hound Magazine @plotthoundmag.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's here! It's here!

Check out Issue 2 of Plott Hound Magazine now!

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · Sep 5

Plott Hound issue 2 is now live!

Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
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