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For today's Editor Pick: take a trip to the disturbing heart of Widdershins Apple Orchard with Abra Staffin-Wiebe's You are in the Heart of the Corn Maze! Read it for free at gavagai.com
For today's Editor Pick: take a trip to the disturbing heart of Widdershins Apple Orchard with Abra Staffin-Wiebe's You are in the Heart of the Corn Maze! Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
For today's Editor Pick: take a trip to the disturbing heart of Widdershins Apple Orchard with Abra Staffin-Wiebe's You are in the Heart of the Corn Maze! Read it for free at gavagai.com
We're on a publishing hiatus to let the team decompress after a whirlwind first month of Gavagai! We'll return to Editor Pick posts on Saturday. In the meantime, come on over and try your hand at our weekly microfiction contest The Gavagai 1000! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting gavagai.com
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November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We're on a publishing hiatus to let the team decompress after a whirlwind first month of Gavagai! We'll return to Editor Pick posts on Saturday. In the meantime, come on over and try your hand at our weekly microfiction contest The Gavagai 1000! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting gavagai.com
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If you need a night of nausea, awkwardness, anxiety, and spine-tingling Thanksgiving terror, try my short novel QUESTION NOT MY SALT, an extreme gastro horror novel. Sip and spit, everyone, and don't question Mother's recipes. geni.us/Question
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If you need a night of nausea, awkwardness, anxiety, and spine-tingling Thanksgiving terror, try my short novel QUESTION NOT MY SALT, an extreme gastro horror novel. Sip and spit, everyone, and don't question Mother's recipes. geni.us/Question
Exciting! Check out Willow's piece in High Stakes and Bloody Business!
I’m so excited about pub day that I’m giving away a copy!! If you’re a fan of vampires, you might want to cuddle up with High Stake and Bloody Business this holiday season 🩸
Give this a repost if you’d like to be added! And for an extra entry, reply with your favorite creature feature monster!
Give this a repost if you’d like to be added! And for an extra entry, reply with your favorite creature feature monster!
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Exciting! Check out Willow's piece in High Stakes and Bloody Business!
In today's Editor Pick: Circe's carefully controlled world unravels in one wild night when a feral Underling walks into her bar: it's The Bitter Taste of Munificence by Angelique Fawns. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In today's Editor Pick: Circe's carefully controlled world unravels in one wild night when a feral Underling walks into her bar: it's The Bitter Taste of Munificence by Angelique Fawns. Read it for free at gavagai.com
Enjoy Caias’s story - it’s a mind-blowing read!
New story day!!! "Gutter-Washed Favorites" is a tale of a possessing demon and its drug-addicted host fighting to survive both heroin withdrawal and an exorcism.
www.gavagai.com/posts/648
www.gavagai.com/posts/648
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November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Enjoy Caias’s story - it’s a mind-blowing read!
Check out Liam’s story! It’s a fantastic read!
What's this? Frankenstein's monster season?!
(Anything Guillermo del Toro can do, I can... well. It was written two years ago. These things take a while. Works, in Progress...)
#Horror #ShortStory
(Anything Guillermo del Toro can do, I can... well. It was written two years ago. These things take a while. Works, in Progress...)
#Horror #ShortStory
In today's Editor Pick - a grim, riveting tale of stitching, survival, and the monstrous cost of "improvement." It's Liam Hogan's Work in Progress. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Check out Liam’s story! It’s a fantastic read!
A weekend wedding, a scenic estate, a wife a little too enchanted by the sea. What could possibly go wrong? It's Ayida Shonibar's The Depth Where Light Fades. Read it for free on gavagai.com!
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A weekend wedding, a scenic estate, a wife a little too enchanted by the sea. What could possibly go wrong? It's Ayida Shonibar's The Depth Where Light Fades. Read it for free on gavagai.com!
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It's fun! Read this!
New story day!!! "Gutter-Washed Favorites" is a tale of a possessing demon and its drug-addicted host fighting to survive both heroin withdrawal and an exorcism.
www.gavagai.com/posts/648
www.gavagai.com/posts/648
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November 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It's fun! Read this!
In today's Editor Pick: a possession, an exorcism, and something far more complicated between them. It's Caias Ward's Gutter-Washed Favorites. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In today's Editor Pick: a possession, an exorcism, and something far more complicated between them. It's Caias Ward's Gutter-Washed Favorites. Read it for free at gavagai.com
For today's Editor Pick - a haunting, heartbreaking tale of love between siblings, the quiet courage of those who’ve been bent too far, and the moment when buried voices finally refuse to stay quiet. It's Anne Wilkins's "Bent Out of Shape." Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
For today's Editor Pick - a haunting, heartbreaking tale of love between siblings, the quiet courage of those who’ve been bent too far, and the moment when buried voices finally refuse to stay quiet. It's Anne Wilkins's "Bent Out of Shape." Read it for free at gavagai.com
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November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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In today's Editor Pick - a grim, riveting tale of stitching, survival, and the monstrous cost of "improvement." It's Liam Hogan's Work in Progress. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In today's Editor Pick - a grim, riveting tale of stitching, survival, and the monstrous cost of "improvement." It's Liam Hogan's Work in Progress. Read it for free at gavagai.com
Check out Pete's wonderfully dark & surreal piece available now on Gavagai! www.gavagai.com/posts/302
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Check out Pete's wonderfully dark & surreal piece available now on Gavagai! www.gavagai.com/posts/302
Today's Surreal Sunday Editor Pick is an unsettling and fantastical romp that brings us face-to-starch with Pete Ward's Macaroni Men. Read for free on gavagai.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Today's Surreal Sunday Editor Pick is an unsettling and fantastical romp that brings us face-to-starch with Pete Ward's Macaroni Men. Read for free on gavagai.com
Today's Editor Pick is Nothing by Douglas Smith:
A chilling story of fear, denial, and the moment when reality goes blank. Read it for free at gavagai.com
A chilling story of fear, denial, and the moment when reality goes blank. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Today's Editor Pick is Nothing by Douglas Smith:
A chilling story of fear, denial, and the moment when reality goes blank. Read it for free at gavagai.com
A chilling story of fear, denial, and the moment when reality goes blank. Read it for free at gavagai.com
Happy Friday! Please enjoy today's Editor Pick: Diana Olney's After Party. And this weekend, please use caution if you're heading out on the town. It'd be a shame to find yourself waking up on a train with only a vague idea of how you got there...
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Happy Friday! Please enjoy today's Editor Pick: Diana Olney's After Party. And this weekend, please use caution if you're heading out on the town. It'd be a shame to find yourself waking up on a train with only a vague idea of how you got there...
In today's Editor Pick we have Synchronization: Complete by Dei: a haunting exploration of identity, technology, and the terrifying comfort of belonging. Read it for free on gavagai.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In today's Editor Pick we have Synchronization: Complete by Dei: a haunting exploration of identity, technology, and the terrifying comfort of belonging. Read it for free on gavagai.com
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My story "Mother's Little Poppet" is free to read at Gavagai, a new horror writing and reading community. You may need to sign up to view it, but it doesn't cost anything to join. 🙂 www.gavagai.com/posts/467
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My story "Mother's Little Poppet" is free to read at Gavagai, a new horror writing and reading community. You may need to sign up to view it, but it doesn't cost anything to join. 🙂 www.gavagai.com/posts/467
Today's Editor Pick is JG Faherty's The H Train, where damnation rides the rails and every scream is another soul delivered. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Today's Editor Pick is JG Faherty's The H Train, where damnation rides the rails and every scream is another soul delivered. Read it for free at gavagai.com
For today's Editor Pick: Mother’s Little Poppet by KT Wagner—a chilling tale of family, memory and vengeance. We hope you enjoy it! Read it on gavagai.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
For today's Editor Pick: Mother’s Little Poppet by KT Wagner—a chilling tale of family, memory and vengeance. We hope you enjoy it! Read it on gavagai.com
Today's Editor Pick on Gavagai is The Courting of Lamia by the Foolhardy Charlatan in the West by Rikki Lee - a hypnotic, lush interpretation of the Lamia myth: a tale of elegance, and appetite somewhere between poetry and prose.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Today's Editor Pick on Gavagai is The Courting of Lamia by the Foolhardy Charlatan in the West by Rikki Lee - a hypnotic, lush interpretation of the Lamia myth: a tale of elegance, and appetite somewhere between poetry and prose.
Thanks so much for the shout out!
Quietly wonderful things are happening over at the green and growing @gavagai.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Thanks so much for the shout out!
In today’s Editor Pick: When Euan swears he’s seen an old woman riding a hyena across the Zimbabwean plains, everyone laughs—until the night laughs back. It’s “The Clever Girls” by Masimba Musodza. Read it for free on www.gavagai.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
In today’s Editor Pick: When Euan swears he’s seen an old woman riding a hyena across the Zimbabwean plains, everyone laughs—until the night laughs back. It’s “The Clever Girls” by Masimba Musodza. Read it for free on www.gavagai.com
In today’s Editor Pick, the Ouija board gets an upgrade—and a body count. From the dusty patents of 1891 to a modern neural-network séance, this story drags the talking board into the digital afterlife. Airvalve Semilunar Astern by Nick Mamatas: read it for free on gavagai.com!
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In today’s Editor Pick, the Ouija board gets an upgrade—and a body count. From the dusty patents of 1891 to a modern neural-network séance, this story drags the talking board into the digital afterlife. Airvalve Semilunar Astern by Nick Mamatas: read it for free on gavagai.com!