Faith Allington
@faithallington.bsky.social
Author
📚 Pink horror & haunting speculative stories
✒️ Editorial at Flash Fiction Online, Haven Spec & LSQ
👻 Vaguely goth but also whimsical
🍄 Tea drinker & fungi admirer
(she/her) #amquerying
📚 Pink horror & haunting speculative stories
✒️ Editorial at Flash Fiction Online, Haven Spec & LSQ
👻 Vaguely goth but also whimsical
🍄 Tea drinker & fungi admirer
(she/her) #amquerying
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Also proud of The Beekeeper's Daughter, my riff off folk lore and fairy tales and maybe a little Jack Vance in there. I only had the one short story published this year, but it's one I'm satisfied with and I'm happy it found a home in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...
“The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox
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December 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Also proud of The Beekeeper's Daughter, my riff off folk lore and fairy tales and maybe a little Jack Vance in there. I only had the one short story published this year, but it's one I'm satisfied with and I'm happy it found a home in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...
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Ever wondered what could be worse than online dating? Online dating an eldritch horror! Read the flash fic story here:
"The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club" – Flash Fiction Online share.google/3CvQPwaB2V1z...
"The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club" – Flash Fiction Online share.google/3CvQPwaB2V1z...
The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club
Summoning an Eldritch horror is all about boundaries. This is no minor pantheon of darkness–demons, ghouls and small gods, hooved and hungry. No. These are horrors uninhabiting the cosmos, ourobori…
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September 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Ever wondered what could be worse than online dating? Online dating an eldritch horror! Read the flash fic story here:
"The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club" – Flash Fiction Online share.google/3CvQPwaB2V1z...
"The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club" – Flash Fiction Online share.google/3CvQPwaB2V1z...
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New drabble for the week. This one's got a cauldron and an unhappy witch of sorts. Enjoy!
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December 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
New drabble for the week. This one's got a cauldron and an unhappy witch of sorts. Enjoy!
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I'm gifting 1-month memberships to any who want them. Come get yours here: www.patreon.com/kaidelmas/re...
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I'm gifting 1-month memberships to any who want them. Come get yours here: www.patreon.com/kaidelmas/re...
I sort of feel my life is on the Weyward train, thanks to @brokenswanquill.bsky.social for capturing the passenger vibes.
"Passenger of the Weyward" by Anna Madden is now free to read!
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December 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I sort of feel my life is on the Weyward train, thanks to @brokenswanquill.bsky.social for capturing the passenger vibes.
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This is horrible, please help Don and his family out if you can🖤☠️
Indie community-one of our own needs urgent help after a devastating house fire. Please share and support if you can. gofund.me/cbc8eeb11
Donate to Emergency Support for Don Noble & Family After Sudden Fire, organized by Candace Nola
Hello everyone,
Candace Nola from Uncomfortably Dark Horro… Candace Nola needs your support for Emergency Support for Don Noble & Family After Sudden Fire
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December 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is horrible, please help Don and his family out if you can🖤☠️
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Stars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.
December 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Stars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.
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The holidays can be a contemplative time — so give my book Our Human Shores a chance?
Filled with meditations on life and living through disaster, this book is perfect for the holiday blues or a great gift for someone who is searching for deeper meaning.
#bookgiving #poetry #holidaygift #books
Filled with meditations on life and living through disaster, this book is perfect for the holiday blues or a great gift for someone who is searching for deeper meaning.
#bookgiving #poetry #holidaygift #books
Our Human Shores — Black Ocean
Our Human Shores explores living in the Anthropocene, the ecological disasters life faces, and the barriers and inequality society faces in trying to create a better and livable world.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The holidays can be a contemplative time — so give my book Our Human Shores a chance?
Filled with meditations on life and living through disaster, this book is perfect for the holiday blues or a great gift for someone who is searching for deeper meaning.
#bookgiving #poetry #holidaygift #books
Filled with meditations on life and living through disaster, this book is perfect for the holiday blues or a great gift for someone who is searching for deeper meaning.
#bookgiving #poetry #holidaygift #books
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So fun! I published a ecopoetry book about the apocalypse in July. I think it’s really good and has a lot for everyone: www.blackocean.org/catalog1/our...
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
So fun! I published a ecopoetry book about the apocalypse in July. I think it’s really good and has a lot for everyone: www.blackocean.org/catalog1/our...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Tenebrous is rad and they have books full of creepy fun weird, which seems perfect right about now!
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Are you a fan of Weird Horror all across the spectrum & just wanna discover some new authors?
Try any of our BRAVE NEW WEIRD Anthologies, or our SPLIT SCREAM series, each volume of which feature 2 authors, 2 novelettes, exploring vaguely similar themes.
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Are you a fan of Weird Horror all across the spectrum & just wanna discover some new authors?
Try any of our BRAVE NEW WEIRD Anthologies, or our SPLIT SCREAM series, each volume of which feature 2 authors, 2 novelettes, exploring vaguely similar themes.
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Tenebrous is rad and they have books full of creepy fun weird, which seems perfect right about now!
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No update from me, but can I tempt you with great stories?
The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club by @faithallington.bsky.social
All These Inscriptions Are for Me by @carolscheina.bsky.social
The Earth Will Not Consume Your Bones by @abigailkemske.bsky.social
Links below
The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club by @faithallington.bsky.social
All These Inscriptions Are for Me by @carolscheina.bsky.social
The Earth Will Not Consume Your Bones by @abigailkemske.bsky.social
Links below
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
No update from me, but can I tempt you with great stories?
The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club by @faithallington.bsky.social
All These Inscriptions Are for Me by @carolscheina.bsky.social
The Earth Will Not Consume Your Bones by @abigailkemske.bsky.social
Links below
The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club by @faithallington.bsky.social
All These Inscriptions Are for Me by @carolscheina.bsky.social
The Earth Will Not Consume Your Bones by @abigailkemske.bsky.social
Links below
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It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
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Who needs therapy when you can just project all your unresolved trauma onto fictional characters? /s
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Who needs therapy when you can just project all your unresolved trauma onto fictional characters? /s
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a post about Psychopomp in 2026
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thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
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Okay your poetry prompt is to write a poem whose title starts with Q (or X) for the next Kaleidotrope submission period
Remarkably, I have published no Q poems.
a man with his arms crossed and the words how rude below him
Alt: Q from TNG with his arms crossed and the words how rude below him
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November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Okay your poetry prompt is to write a poem whose title starts with Q (or X) for the next Kaleidotrope submission period
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Surreal meets tearful in Kate Horsley’s story “The Tao of Thorstein” about saying goodbye.
#flashfiction #fantasy #family #caregiving
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#flashfiction #fantasy #family #caregiving
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The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter
I’m certain Mom will shit a brick about the Vikings, so we take baby steps on the morning of the big reveal.First, I load up a tray with pancakes – her favourite ever since she got sick and I quit …
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November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Surreal meets tearful in Kate Horsley’s story “The Tao of Thorstein” about saying goodbye.
#flashfiction #fantasy #family #caregiving
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#flashfiction #fantasy #family #caregiving
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Obviously you should buy Necropolis from @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social but while you're there have you considered getting Duel edited by @thisisguan.bsky.social with stories from @faithallington.bsky.social @carlc75.bsky.social Huijia Li, @livstrom.bsky.social and also me.
Thanks to Rex for spotting this one! Necropolis contains 5 stories about strange, decaying cities and is now available for purchase at Hexagon's patreon!
@alexfox.bsky.social @omersarae.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @improbablerex.bsky.social and Victoria!
cover art by @warls.bsky.social
@alexfox.bsky.social @omersarae.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @improbablerex.bsky.social and Victoria!
cover art by @warls.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Obviously you should buy Necropolis from @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social but while you're there have you considered getting Duel edited by @thisisguan.bsky.social with stories from @faithallington.bsky.social @carlc75.bsky.social Huijia Li, @livstrom.bsky.social and also me.
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FRESH HORROR: "Mushroom Aesthetic" by Aggie Novak is now LIVE on FFO. This is our next story in our wilderness horror collection. Mycophilia is all vibes until the spores have their way
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #horror
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction #horror
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Mushroom Aesthetic
Milica curses the summer heat as she sets off into the forest with her empty backpack and wicker basket.The basket is all aesthetic—it knocks into Milica as she walks and the twisted cane handle di…
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October 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
FRESH HORROR: "Mushroom Aesthetic" by Aggie Novak is now LIVE on FFO. This is our next story in our wilderness horror collection. Mycophilia is all vibes until the spores have their way
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #horror
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction #horror
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The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club, by Faith Allington in Flash Fiction Online. Does a great job in a short space of providing enough details for the story to feel real and lived in, while still being remarkably economical in its wordcount.
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The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club
Summoning an Eldritch horror is all about boundaries. This is no minor pantheon of darkness–demons, ghouls and small gods, hooved and hungry. No. These are horrors uninhabiting the cosmos, ourobori…
www.flashfictiononline.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club, by Faith Allington in Flash Fiction Online. Does a great job in a short space of providing enough details for the story to feel real and lived in, while still being remarkably economical in its wordcount.
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
MetaStellar Year Four anthology is available, full of singing forests, cybernetic parents, diamond chokers full of shadows, visits by Death and demons a plenty, and more!
Available at your favorite retailers like
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#metastellar #speculativefiction
Available at your favorite retailers like
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#metastellar #speculativefiction
September 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
MetaStellar Year Four anthology is available, full of singing forests, cybernetic parents, diamond chokers full of shadows, visits by Death and demons a plenty, and more!
Available at your favorite retailers like
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-o...
#metastellar #speculativefiction
Available at your favorite retailers like
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-o...
#metastellar #speculativefiction
Really enjoyed this playful, teethy, fay-siren-seamstress story “Plastic Alternatives for Humble Seamstresses” by Wren Douglas 🌊✨
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September 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Really enjoyed this playful, teethy, fay-siren-seamstress story “Plastic Alternatives for Humble Seamstresses” by Wren Douglas 🌊✨
kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...
kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...
Thrilled to have my gentle hopepunk story “The Luminous Deep” in @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social - there are such breathtaking stories and poems in this issue! 😍
Issue 23 is here. Grab a copy at solarpunkmagazine.com #solarpunk #readingcommunity #writingcommunity
September 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Thrilled to have my gentle hopepunk story “The Luminous Deep” in @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social - there are such breathtaking stories and poems in this issue! 😍
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My flash "The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero" is free to read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social today! What happens after a hero grows old ... and has to babysit his granddaughter? (My first reprint!)
The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or The Grandchild’s First Dragon
Thirty years after the War of Broken Crowns and the fall of the White-Gold King: Sun-Li had a new adversary to face.“So what do you like to do?” he asked his granddaughter, Antha.Antha had been rid…
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September 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My flash "The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero" is free to read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social today! What happens after a hero grows old ... and has to babysit his granddaughter? (My first reprint!)
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👀Fiction Highlight👀
ICYMI, the short story "Visions of Althea" by @alexwoodroe.com is now free to read!
Bone ships ply the inky waters where ghosts and monsters wait. Hope and grief and the end of days invite you to embark!
Story:
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Full Issue:
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ICYMI, the short story "Visions of Althea" by @alexwoodroe.com is now free to read!
Bone ships ply the inky waters where ghosts and monsters wait. Hope and grief and the end of days invite you to embark!
Story:
buff.ly/pGQxU4p
Full Issue:
buff.ly/sTRxEtv
September 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
👀Fiction Highlight👀
ICYMI, the short story "Visions of Althea" by @alexwoodroe.com is now free to read!
Bone ships ply the inky waters where ghosts and monsters wait. Hope and grief and the end of days invite you to embark!
Story:
buff.ly/pGQxU4p
Full Issue:
buff.ly/sTRxEtv
ICYMI, the short story "Visions of Althea" by @alexwoodroe.com is now free to read!
Bone ships ply the inky waters where ghosts and monsters wait. Hope and grief and the end of days invite you to embark!
Story:
buff.ly/pGQxU4p
Full Issue:
buff.ly/sTRxEtv
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New story out today with Ghost Parachute’s August 2025 issue. Check out my slipstream clump of mischief—“Dermoid.”
#flashfiction #writingcommunity #slipstream #lightbodyhorror #hysteria #ladytroubles
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#flashfiction #writingcommunity #slipstream #lightbodyhorror #hysteria #ladytroubles
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Dermoid — Ghost Parachute
When hunger gnaws at Kima, the dermoid gnaws back until she has no appetite at all. Since her last gyno exam, it has amassed germ cells, their weight warping the balance of her insides. She plods to t...
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August 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
New story out today with Ghost Parachute’s August 2025 issue. Check out my slipstream clump of mischief—“Dermoid.”
#flashfiction #writingcommunity #slipstream #lightbodyhorror #hysteria #ladytroubles
ghostparachute.com/issue/august...
#flashfiction #writingcommunity #slipstream #lightbodyhorror #hysteria #ladytroubles
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