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Relic by Pedro Ponce
One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong. Some expressed surprise that they were still among the living, only just now low...
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"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
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Hey, share this with all your friends. Submissions to Major 7th Magazine are open until January 1st. Have a flash piece or poem inspired by a song? Send it to us. www.major7mag.com/submit
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hey, share this with all your friends. Submissions to Major 7th Magazine are open until January 1st. Have a flash piece or poem inspired by a song? Send it to us. www.major7mag.com/submit
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fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @lmanusos.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, Mizuki Yamagen, & Malena Salazar Maciá 🦇⚡
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
a feast, a star, a howl, a wound
Oh hi! Check out these cool pebbles I found.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @lmanusos.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, Mizuki Yamagen, & Malena Salazar Maciá 🦇⚡
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
kind mention of Dan Weaver's hex story "A Home Run" in Myna Chang's @mynachang.bsky.social Spec Flash Roundup ! 👇
Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!
Flash Roundup * October-November 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
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
kind mention of Dan Weaver's hex story "A Home Run" in Myna Chang's @mynachang.bsky.social Spec Flash Roundup ! 👇
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wrote a post-apocalyptic poem on a vintage graphic
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
wrote a post-apocalyptic poem on a vintage graphic
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Little sneak peek of a project we're working on to celebrate the release of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's folk horror novella, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR 👀🌌
Looking for your next holiday horror read? Check out the full synopsis and preorder here for 30% off: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Looking for your next holiday horror read? Check out the full synopsis and preorder here for 30% off: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Little sneak peek of a project we're working on to celebrate the release of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's folk horror novella, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR 👀🌌
Looking for your next holiday horror read? Check out the full synopsis and preorder here for 30% off: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Looking for your next holiday horror read? Check out the full synopsis and preorder here for 30% off: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
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It’s been two days since we opened and we have 80+ submissions! Thank you for sending us so much great work! Please don’t be discouraged by a fast response: with so many submissions and so few slots, we’ve already had to decline many wonderful stories.
P.S. We would LOVE to see more nonfiction! 💜
P.S. We would LOVE to see more nonfiction! 💜
Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
othersidespec.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It’s been two days since we opened and we have 80+ submissions! Thank you for sending us so much great work! Please don’t be discouraged by a fast response: with so many submissions and so few slots, we’ve already had to decline many wonderful stories.
P.S. We would LOVE to see more nonfiction! 💜
P.S. We would LOVE to see more nonfiction! 💜
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“And frozen in that one memory is the inevitable flow of air into space, the carnage I’ve lived since.”
@jackbedell.bsky.social for @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=1674
@jackbedell.bsky.social for @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=1674
Swamp Thing Sits on the Bank Examining His Life Through the Lens of Bernoulli’s Principle by Jack Bedell
Let’s just say the Book was correct, and it all started with a single breath. Inspiration—>Expiration. All the seconds in between these two. A breath into the void. A breath before saying “I love you....
hexliterary.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“And frozen in that one memory is the inevitable flow of air into space, the carnage I’ve lived since.”
@jackbedell.bsky.social for @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=1674
@jackbedell.bsky.social for @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=1674
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"One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong."
This week on @hexliterary.bsky.social, a new mystery by the one and only Pedro Ponce. Don't miss this little wonder! "Relic," is up now on the site! 📺
This week on @hexliterary.bsky.social, a new mystery by the one and only Pedro Ponce. Don't miss this little wonder! "Relic," is up now on the site! 📺
Relic by Pedro Ponce
One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong. Some expressed surprise that they were still among the living, only just now low...
hexliterary.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong."
This week on @hexliterary.bsky.social, a new mystery by the one and only Pedro Ponce. Don't miss this little wonder! "Relic," is up now on the site! 📺
This week on @hexliterary.bsky.social, a new mystery by the one and only Pedro Ponce. Don't miss this little wonder! "Relic," is up now on the site! 📺
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What an amazing opening line: "One by one, the talk show hosts were dying."
"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Relic by Pedro Ponce
One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong. Some expressed surprise that they were still among the living, only just now low...
hexliterary.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
What an amazing opening line: "One by one, the talk show hosts were dying."
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One of mine from my tiny chapbook, “The Moon, My Heart” www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
One of mine from my tiny chapbook, “The Moon, My Heart” www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Relic by Pedro Ponce
One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong. Some expressed surprise that they were still among the living, only just now low...
hexliterary.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
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The collection's cover is here! And a newer release date! I’m in love with this design—the watercolor texture, the way it expresses how deeply this collection inhabits the Sonoran Desert and how collage-like these stories are in their styles and sizes. Can’t wait to share the book with everyone.
Cover reveal! Introducing The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by @joelhans.com, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award. Set to release February 3, 2026: Preorder link coming soon.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The collection's cover is here! And a newer release date! I’m in love with this design—the watercolor texture, the way it expresses how deeply this collection inhabits the Sonoran Desert and how collage-like these stories are in their styles and sizes. Can’t wait to share the book with everyone.
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Share the sauce, friends.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Share the sauce, friends.
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This is very sad news, but I am glad to see that The Deadlands will continue.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
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.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is very sad news, but I am glad to see that The Deadlands will continue.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
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What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
FAULKNER DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES, SO WHY SHOULD I?: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WADDY BULLION by Kirsti MacKenzie
John Waddy Bullion is as versatile a writer as they come. His loosely-linked collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers follows coming-of-age tales of Midwestern sons and the fraught relati...
xraylitmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
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Thank you so much to @mynachang.bsky.social for giving me the chance to yap about Vile Lady Villains — and also to share the love about some of my favorite SFF publications
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
New interview with Danai Christopoulou about VILE LADY VILLAINS!
"So Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth had always been favorites of mine, and growing up I started seeing the parallels between their characters, how they were almost an allegory for female ambition and power."
@danaiwrites.bsky.social
"So Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth had always been favorites of mine, and growing up I started seeing the parallels between their characters, how they were almost an allegory for female ambition and power."
@danaiwrites.bsky.social
Author Interview * Danai Christopoulou
Danai Christopoulou’s writing consistently makes me smile and/or cry—often within the same story. Danai’s work features lyrical prose, incisive character choices, and an undercurrent of triumph aga…
mynachang.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Thank you so much to @mynachang.bsky.social for giving me the chance to yap about Vile Lady Villains — and also to share the love about some of my favorite SFF publications
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
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Friends! I am teaching a workshop in December that I am so excited about! I’ve been writing and writing about domestic fabulism forever, but I’ve never actually fashioned a workshop around it before. I think this is going to be so much fun - I hope you’ll join!
No Place Like Home: Writing Domestic Fabulism with Amber Sparks
Learn to write domestic fabulism with author Amber Sparks. Transform ordinary home and family stories with fantastical elements in this online seminar.
writingworkshops.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Friends! I am teaching a workshop in December that I am so excited about! I’ve been writing and writing about domestic fabulism forever, but I’ve never actually fashioned a workshop around it before. I think this is going to be so much fun - I hope you’ll join!
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My story Storing Dinosaurs is in the new issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Please give it a read!
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...
Storing Dinosaurs | Issue 33
By Dan Weaver — "After Carmen married Phillip I couldn’t chase her with my lizards no more since it scared Phillip and he would hide in the room and the one time it made it so that Carmen couldn’t dri...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
My story Storing Dinosaurs is in the new issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Please give it a read!
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...
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Oh hey! My story "My Mother is the Water" is available to read online in F(r)iction latest issue. This is a story inspired by the lakes of my hometown, about a girl called to the water yet doesn't want to leave the aunt who raised her.
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
My Mother is the Water - F(r)iction
My Mother is the Water by Lyndsie Manusos explores a young woman's relationship (and magical connection to) the lake.
frictionlit.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Oh hey! My story "My Mother is the Water" is available to read online in F(r)iction latest issue. This is a story inspired by the lakes of my hometown, about a girl called to the water yet doesn't want to leave the aunt who raised her.
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
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I forgot to come back to this thread but a recent favorite was this one by @rpmirabella.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social : hexliterary.com?p=2727
& if I can share a few of my own that were published in @havehashad.com : www.havehashad.com/hadposts/aut...
& if I can share a few of my own that were published in @havehashad.com : www.havehashad.com/hadposts/aut...
HAD :: Anna Vangala Jones
Skulls belonging to Anna Vangala Jones.
www.havehashad.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I forgot to come back to this thread but a recent favorite was this one by @rpmirabella.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social : hexliterary.com?p=2727
& if I can share a few of my own that were published in @havehashad.com : www.havehashad.com/hadposts/aut...
& if I can share a few of my own that were published in @havehashad.com : www.havehashad.com/hadposts/aut...
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got a teeny tiny perfect miiiiiiicro for you all today from Catherine Rockwood!!
https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk
https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
got a teeny tiny perfect miiiiiiicro for you all today from Catherine Rockwood!!
https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk
https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk
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NEW STORY DAY!!!!!!!
My dark fantasy/horror story, “For When The Night Is Behind You And The Depths Are Ahead” is out today from @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
My dark fantasy/horror story, “For When The Night Is Behind You And The Depths Are Ahead” is out today from @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
For When the Night is Behind You and the Depths are Ahead by Corey Farrenkopf
We stood in front of the video game store for the midnight release of Castles Underground III. The crowd wore different homemade versions of the crimson armor featured on the posters, foam swords surp...
www.3lobedmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
NEW STORY DAY!!!!!!!
My dark fantasy/horror story, “For When The Night Is Behind You And The Depths Are Ahead” is out today from @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
My dark fantasy/horror story, “For When The Night Is Behind You And The Depths Are Ahead” is out today from @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
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"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
Out by Lillie E. Franks
Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day. One time on the playground behind the swings, Eli told me that he hates his mom, a...
hexliterary.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
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New flash out with Hex Literary about the horror of childhood and the allure of finally finding an escape! I’m proud of this one!
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
Out by Lillie E. Franks
Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day. One time on the playground behind the swings, Eli told me that he hates his mom, a...
hexliterary.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New flash out with Hex Literary about the horror of childhood and the allure of finally finding an escape! I’m proud of this one!
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”