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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇

@abigailkemske.bsky.social

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🚀 Speculative fiction writer from MN ✏️ Apex, The Dark, Flame Tree Press, f(r)iction & more 🌿 sometimes moss 🌠 Recent sci-fi "The Earth Will Not Consume Our Bones" in Nature: https://rdcu.be/eFqJ4 HWA, SFWA, Codex AbigailKemske.com

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · Mar 4

My @apexmag.bsky.social debut flash fiction is live! Please check it out if you have a few minutes (and heed the content warnings at the end of the story.) I still can't get over being published in this dream mag! Thanks @retreasure.bsky.social and @lesleyconner.bsky.social 💙💙💙 #horrorlit

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · Mar 4

"I couldn’t disturb the last day you were here. I couldn’t rustle the flakes of you outlining every surface." 🧹

New short fiction today by @abigailkemske.bsky.social: "Someone to Feed You"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

A graphic featuring a pull quote from Abigail Kemske's "Someone to Feed You" which reads: "It wasn't until the guttural whir of the vacuum turned to a monstrous shriek that I snapped out of it."

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 16h

I expect to slow down for a bit focusing on a novel, but we’ll see!

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 18h

Broke my record for rejections in a year. 130 and counting. 🥳

I think it's time for some ice cream. 🍦

But first, more submissions. 👩‍💻

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 22h

There's just 17 DAYS LEFT to back the 2026 Apex Magazine Kickstarter! We've been supporting outstanding authors writing strange, shocking, beautiful stories for 20 years...help us keep doing it for 20 more! 💜👽

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

"Only 3% to go until...Lesley and Rebecca host a Watch a Horror Movie with the Editors night!"

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 1d

2 proofs in my inbox means 2 new horror stories coming from me later this month IN PRINT!

“The Beast of Boma Road” in @fraidycatpress.bsky.social ‘s Rage issue.

“The Darkness Inside Her” in Harvest the Night: an Anthology of Folk Horror. chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/t...

Pre-order now!

Harvest the Night

An Anthology of Folk Horror Coming October 2025! > Preorder Paperback or Hardcover via Publisher> FREE if you purchase a 2025 Subscription to Chthonic Matter Quarterly Table of Contents:&#822…

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats!

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 1d

Just sent my first little micro baby out into the world. 🤞

Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 3d

I just checked the word count on my running list of speculative story ideas and it’s at 19k. 😅

These aren’t even all the ideas I have in my notes app. Many others have gotten their own note doc, for some reason. 🫣

Now to solve the issue of time…🕰️

Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 4d

I should do a word count on my ongoing “speculative ideas” list because it’s pretty long.

Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 4d

I have 470 notes on my notes app. I would say 90% of that are story notes/ideas. 😅

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 4d

Nigel Tufnel 😂

a man is playing a guitar in a dark room with purple lights behind him

ALT: a man is playing a guitar in a dark room with purple lights behind him

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 4d

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 4d

Me: How are you doing?

Everyone in my writing group: Well, I’m alive.

WE ARE SO EXHAUSTED!!!

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 4d

Managed to split my time between the novel and prepping for a short story revision. Also a quick pass on two stories to resubmit because, oof, rejections. Gets a little sad when you start to run out of markets for a story you love. Maybe I'll get around to that collection someday and put it there. ✌️

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 4d

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is currently sitting at $6,717 of our $20K goal! That means we're a third of the way to funding four issues of Apex for next year! Can we hit 50% before the end of the week? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 6d

WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨

Want to unlock the next chapter of Apex? Please consider backing our Kickstarter and help us keep publishing the strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful stories you love!

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats!! 📚🥳

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 7d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning! We're only ONE PERCENT(1%!!) away from Apex Magazine opening to nonfiction submissions for the FIRST TIME! our nonfiction is full of new voices, fresh perspectives, and is scientifically*-proven to regrow brain cells ⚡🧠🌱

*probably. just trust us 👽👇

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

a cow being lifted into space in a UFO tractor beam. An astronaut floats in the corner, staring at the UFO in surprise. The cow's thought bubble reads, "$5, 797!"

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 8d

wtf?

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 9d

Hey! Check out this excellent list of horror stories, all nicely packaged for your reading pleasure this Halloween season. Thanks so much @antonyfrost.bsky.social for including my story "Someone to Feed You" published in @apexmag.bsky.social earlier this year. Happy reading! 🎃🦇👻🍂👹☠️🦷🖤

Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 9d

New entry on my personal blog!

Buncha links to some cool seasonally-appropriate stories.

antonyfb.com/blog/nefario...

#personalblog #horrorlit

Nefarious Narratives on the Net

In which the author provides links for some (mostly horror) stories he's found on the web recently.

antonyfb.com

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 9d

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 9d

I dislike that it’s come to me (and many others) personally reaching out new mags asking about their AI policy re: writing, the selection/editing process, and art. However, it’s nice to get a feel for how the magazine responds and treats these questions, bonus when the website is updated after.

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 9d

Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 9d

New entry on my personal blog!

Buncha links to some cool seasonally-appropriate stories.

antonyfb.com/blog/nefario...

#personalblog #horrorlit

Nefarious Narratives on the Net

In which the author provides links for some (mostly horror) stories he's found on the web recently.

antonyfb.com

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 18d

My sci-fi flash “The earth will not consume our bones” published in @naturefutures.bsky.social made it on Myna’s round up! Check it out!! 💙

Link to story ⬇️

Thanks so much Myna. 🙏

Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 18d

September MicroVerse roundup is out!

Flash Roundup * September 2025

A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

mynachang.com

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