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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · 17h

Certified weirdo is the best kind of honor

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 20h

COLLAB ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🪐👽🌈

We have an exclusive interview with the editors of @othersidespec.bsky.social OUT NOW on Kickstarter! 🗣️💬

We love the Otherside team and are so excited to see their project succeed! If you want to see us chat about queer SFF, short fiction and more, check it out here! ⬇️

Update 2: Interview with the editors of Otherside! · Apex Magazine 2026

Here at Apex, we are always happy to see new markets emerging and succeeding. So when the opportunity to swap interviews with the co-founders and editors of OTHERSIDE came up, we were happy to do it. ...

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many amazing stories and poems in the new Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope!

Fiction
“Singularities” by Cressida Roe
“The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice
“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes
“The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox
“Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos
“What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman
“The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris
“Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti
“My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity
“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen
“The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen
“Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed

Poetry
“Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens
“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon
“Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce
“I have been to the market” by Shana Ross
“Atomic” by Jennifer Crow
“Bedazzled” by Robert Borski
“Bestla” by James Joseph Brown

Artwork by Carly A-F

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · 2d

Therapists are not prepared for the publishing world. I've heard this often. Mine was surprisingly positive despite everything 😆

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · 5d

🫶 fingers crossed for both our pretty poems

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · 6d

My poem "Dice Rolling Eternal" has been shortlisted Brilliant Poetry contest 👀and with some great company @reasie.bsky.social

You may find a blog about the competition celebrating Quantum Science here: quantum2025.org/news-link/br...

And read the 10 finalists:

www.thebrilliantpoetry.com/2025

2025 — Brilliant Poetry

Read the winning entries from 2024.

www.thebrilliantpoetry.com

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 7d

There’s a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope, if you’re into that sort of thing.

www.kaleidotrope.net

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · 7d

A birdie told me it's National Dark Poetry day, so here's one to celebrate, about a boy whose touch inflates things. Even flesh. 💀

kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/s...

“Up His Arm Crawls a Tooth-sized Spider” by Akis Linardos

kaleidotrope.net

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · 8d

This week I'm on

Tales to Terrify: talestoterrify.com/episodes/714...
Plott Hound: plotthoundmag.com/after-a-wolf...
and Kaleidotrope: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

Pick your poison 🖤

“Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos

kaleidotrope.net

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 8d

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places”

Fiction
“Singularities” by Cressida Roe
“The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice
“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes
“The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox
“Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos
“What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman
“The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris
“Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti
“My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity
“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen
“The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen
“Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed

Poetry
“Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens
“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon
“Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce
“I have been to the market” by Shana Ross
“Atomic” by Jennifer Crow
“Bedazzled” by Robert Borski
“Bestla” by James Joseph Brown

Artwork by Carly A-F

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · 10d

If you read one thing I published this year let it be this one. 🐺 ☀️

Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 10d

"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.”

plotthoundmag.com/after-a-wolf...

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Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 10d

"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.”

plotthoundmag.com/after-a-wolf...

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Tales to Terrify @talestoterrify.bsky.social · 12d

Welcome to episode 714. We have two tales for you this week, about guardian eldritch horrors (by @amadolaila.bsky.social, read by @jimmyhorrors.bsky.social) and the risks of messing with time (by @linardos.bsky.social).

talestoterrify.com/episodes/714-laila-amado-akis-linardos

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · 14d

A break from social media was refreshing. Productive weeks, completed a new novella at 40k words (pending edits) and I had two lovely acceptances in the meantime. More to follow. 🖤

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · Sep 13

It's gonna be an absolutely no-social-media month, my love to everyone, off to use my block-site apps again

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · Sep 12

So many fucking games

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hazbin Hotel season 2 just had its teaser and I'm so ready

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ALT: a drawing of a cartoon character with red eyes and a name that starts with a letter a

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Back then,
we died and we liked it. A shorter life enriched
the short life lived."

That poem goes hard👌

Six-Eyed Kitten (But Scary) @andrewkozma.net · Sep 9

My poem "The Black Death" is live on @strangehorizons.bsky.social! If you want to read about disease and death and vaccines, then I have the poem for you!

The Black Death

I’m talking about vaccines. We can kill the killer.

strangehorizons.com

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Interstellar Flight Press @interstellarflight.bsky.social · Sep 9

In October, we always publish horror-focused articles at the magazine. We love retrospectives, anything in our focus on underrepresented voices, and just anything weird and spooky. Pitch us: www.interstellarflig...

We <3 Horror. Open to submissions essays interviews reviews

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · Sep 7

reading/contemplating stoic philosophy generally helps me, connecting with community, indulging in fulfilling hobbies, detachment from social media besides the necessary minimum as an author

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · Sep 6

Listening to the soundtrack has become vital to my process too it has changed me Lark

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · Sep 6

Dude get off social media and go play Clair Obscur what are you doing the world could end tomorrow and you would have missed out

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · Sep 6

I should be taking breaks when I play intense difficulty games but Clair Obscur (at Expert) proved to me I don't have the necessary restraint when something is that good. I sort of always left with a headache after 3-4 hours straight gameplay

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Apex Magazine team is thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter for 2026 begins OCTOBER 1ST!! 🎃🍁

We're keeping all the rewards you love, adding exciting new rewards for readers and writers alike, AND reopening submissions! Mark your calendars, and we'll see you at the graveyard smash! 👻🌙🐈‍⬛📅

"Apex Magazine Submissions OPENING! October 1st!"

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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · Sep 3

I appreciate that the arrow of "stories short" frames half the image, meets with the upper right "short stories," but diverges to two arrows again just before the end. There's a hero's journey there, and the twist of the two arrows diverging again is inevitable. Masterful arrow work.

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