Natalie Writes On
@nataliewriteson.bsky.social
Contest Goblin! Emerging writer. Current marketer.
Trying to fight the good fight while also being a spouse, parent, employee, and human.
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Trying to fight the good fight while also being a spouse, parent, employee, and human.
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🛸🛸hey guess what
🛸🛸 Night Shades will open for submissions on December 26
🛸🛸 all speculative, pro+ pay, 500 words max, sim subs ok
🛸🛸 please read the guidelines carefully!
www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
🛸🛸 Night Shades will open for submissions on December 26
🛸🛸 all speculative, pro+ pay, 500 words max, sim subs ok
🛸🛸 please read the guidelines carefully!
www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
Submissions
Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month.
Night Shades is CLOSED.
Opening again December 26, 2025.
Night Shades opens sporadically and for ind...
www.nightshadesmag.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
🛸🛸hey guess what
🛸🛸 Night Shades will open for submissions on December 26
🛸🛸 all speculative, pro+ pay, 500 words max, sim subs ok
🛸🛸 please read the guidelines carefully!
www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
🛸🛸 Night Shades will open for submissions on December 26
🛸🛸 all speculative, pro+ pay, 500 words max, sim subs ok
🛸🛸 please read the guidelines carefully!
www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
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Please check out this cool new flash fiction writing contest and consider joining in the fun! Prompts will drop on Jan 30th.
www.oddembers.com
www.oddembers.com
Odd Embers Writing Contest | Ignite Creativity, Enter Now
Join the Odd Embers Flash Fiction Contest to spark creativity with strange prompts. Submit stories, receive feedback, and compete for prizes and publication.
www.oddembers.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Please check out this cool new flash fiction writing contest and consider joining in the fun! Prompts will drop on Jan 30th.
www.oddembers.com
www.oddembers.com
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We're kindling a new flash fiction writing contest, with unique prompts to spark your creativity. Join us on January 30?
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We're kindling a new flash fiction writing contest, with unique prompts to spark your creativity. Join us on January 30?
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Hey, look at us! Not bad for a bunch of rats.
Thank you for your votes! We'd like to thank you humans who contributed your work, and of course cheese.
We must always thank cheese.
There are more great Lit Mags on this list, and others lists with great Lit Mags made by @chillsubs.bsky.social!
Thank you for your votes! We'd like to thank you humans who contributed your work, and of course cheese.
We must always thank cheese.
There are more great Lit Mags on this list, and others lists with great Lit Mags made by @chillsubs.bsky.social!
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Hey, look at us! Not bad for a bunch of rats.
Thank you for your votes! We'd like to thank you humans who contributed your work, and of course cheese.
We must always thank cheese.
There are more great Lit Mags on this list, and others lists with great Lit Mags made by @chillsubs.bsky.social!
Thank you for your votes! We'd like to thank you humans who contributed your work, and of course cheese.
We must always thank cheese.
There are more great Lit Mags on this list, and others lists with great Lit Mags made by @chillsubs.bsky.social!
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Newsletter going out later today—places to read my recent stories, craft talk, and, of course, a word from these adorable doggos.
Sign up as a free member of my Patreon to get everything in your inbox when it drops later today!
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December 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Newsletter going out later today—places to read my recent stories, craft talk, and, of course, a word from these adorable doggos.
Sign up as a free member of my Patreon to get everything in your inbox when it drops later today!
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www.patreon.com/c/chrisdotyd...
Every once in a while I think "maybe I'll give WWE another shot" and then they do shit like have Cena tap out in his last ever match on a ring mat that says "Riyadh Season" and I remember that I don't watch WWE because they are trash.
December 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Every once in a while I think "maybe I'll give WWE another shot" and then they do shit like have Cena tap out in his last ever match on a ring mat that says "Riyadh Season" and I remember that I don't watch WWE because they are trash.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
so, @foofarawpress.bsky.social: if—hypothetically—one couldn't remember if they submitted a story for The Foofs already, would one email to check? Submit again, though it might create a duplicate? Again, SUPER hypothetical. Definitely not a neurospicy brain facing the consequences of its own actions
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
so, @foofarawpress.bsky.social: if—hypothetically—one couldn't remember if they submitted a story for The Foofs already, would one email to check? Submit again, though it might create a duplicate? Again, SUPER hypothetical. Definitely not a neurospicy brain facing the consequences of its own actions
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Today's story is "Putting the "Fun" in Funeral" by Butch Farrell.
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #funeraryracoons #funeraryraccoons
ratbaglit.substack.com/p/putting-th...
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #funeraryracoons #funeraryraccoons
ratbaglit.substack.com/p/putting-th...
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today's story is "Putting the "Fun" in Funeral" by Butch Farrell.
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #funeraryracoons #funeraryraccoons
ratbaglit.substack.com/p/putting-th...
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #funeraryracoons #funeraryraccoons
ratbaglit.substack.com/p/putting-th...
Best showing in Writing Battle to date! Top 8 out of 331 submitted stories, taken out by the story that won it all (and was written by a dear friend and is also a banger), and some truly amazing comments about the story. Not too shabby!
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Best showing in Writing Battle to date! Top 8 out of 331 submitted stories, taken out by the story that won it all (and was written by a dear friend and is also a banger), and some truly amazing comments about the story. Not too shabby!
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BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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I am proud to have a story published with Rat Bag. Awesome team to work with, and I would recommend them to any author.
Today's story is "All That Remains" by Eilish Forwells.
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros
ratbaglit.substack.com/p/all-that-r...
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros
ratbaglit.substack.com/p/all-that-r...
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I am proud to have a story published with Rat Bag. Awesome team to work with, and I would recommend them to any author.
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If you have internet access, you will literally never run out of reading material. Just between public domain works and AO3 alone, ffs.
"Oh well I can't get every exact book I want the exact moment I want it" Okay??? Me either??? Have some gd patience & read something else???
"Oh well I can't get every exact book I want the exact moment I want it" Okay??? Me either??? Have some gd patience & read something else???
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you have internet access, you will literally never run out of reading material. Just between public domain works and AO3 alone, ffs.
"Oh well I can't get every exact book I want the exact moment I want it" Okay??? Me either??? Have some gd patience & read something else???
"Oh well I can't get every exact book I want the exact moment I want it" Okay??? Me either??? Have some gd patience & read something else???
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"But I--"
I literally do not fucking care. If you can access a pirate site, you can access legit ways to get free books.
Fuck off into the sun.
I literally do not fucking care. If you can access a pirate site, you can access legit ways to get free books.
Fuck off into the sun.
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"But I--"
I literally do not fucking care. If you can access a pirate site, you can access legit ways to get free books.
Fuck off into the sun.
I literally do not fucking care. If you can access a pirate site, you can access legit ways to get free books.
Fuck off into the sun.
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I do not even want to know why this is Discourse again, but book pirates are crapweasels and if you steal books you've done a bad thing and should feel bad about yourself.
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I do not even want to know why this is Discourse again, but book pirates are crapweasels and if you steal books you've done a bad thing and should feel bad about yourself.
So is @notquitewrite.com gonna ruin Thanksgiving for a bunch of USians or what? 😅 When is that longlist gonna drop? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
So is @notquitewrite.com gonna ruin Thanksgiving for a bunch of USians or what? 😅 When is that longlist gonna drop? 👀
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I have a story out in the wild. Take a peek at "Arrangement in Gray and Yellow" in Stygian Lepus #29
www.stygianlepus.com/r/1cc5c468?m...
www.stygianlepus.com/r/1cc5c468?m...
Edition 29 - OUT NOW
This issue is dedicated in part to the memory of Dennis McFadden—whose final story appears within—celebrating a voice that shaped the magazine’s dark heart.
www.stygianlepus.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I have a story out in the wild. Take a peek at "Arrangement in Gray and Yellow" in Stygian Lepus #29
www.stygianlepus.com/r/1cc5c468?m...
www.stygianlepus.com/r/1cc5c468?m...
I'm just never gonna get to do the January @notquitewrite.com round, which means I'm going to miss the first round of the new format, and that makes me sad 😭
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I'm just never gonna get to do the January @notquitewrite.com round, which means I'm going to miss the first round of the new format, and that makes me sad 😭
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Rat Bag Lit @ratbaglit.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Poetry - Print Issue #2 (some fees). #CallforSubmissions
Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: Rat Bag Lit @ratbaglit.bsky.social ⭐
Rat Bag Lit @ratbaglit.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Poetry - Print Issue #2 (some fees). #CallforSubmissions
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November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Rat Bag Lit @ratbaglit.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Poetry - Print Issue #2 (some fees). #CallforSubmissions
Can't believe the @democrats.senate.gov are so openly advocating for more 3rd party candidates.
No red, no blue in 2026. Literally anyone else
No red, no blue in 2026. Literally anyone else
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Can't believe the @democrats.senate.gov are so openly advocating for more 3rd party candidates.
No red, no blue in 2026. Literally anyone else
No red, no blue in 2026. Literally anyone else
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
Every @senatedemocrats.bsky.social that caves to this would-be dictator should be primaried and lose their job next election.
@democrats.org need to grow some fucking spines.
Disgusting they will allow Trump and the GOP to kill even more Americans.
Abhorrent and pathetic.
@democrats.org need to grow some fucking spines.
Disgusting they will allow Trump and the GOP to kill even more Americans.
Abhorrent and pathetic.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Every @senatedemocrats.bsky.social that caves to this would-be dictator should be primaried and lose their job next election.
@democrats.org need to grow some fucking spines.
Disgusting they will allow Trump and the GOP to kill even more Americans.
Abhorrent and pathetic.
@democrats.org need to grow some fucking spines.
Disgusting they will allow Trump and the GOP to kill even more Americans.
Abhorrent and pathetic.
If @warnock.senate.gov and @ossoff.senate.gov vote on a funding bill that doesn't guarantee the Healthcare tax credits, I will donate to whomever primaries them.
Caving to Trump now would be calamitous.
Caving to Trump now would be calamitous.
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If @warnock.senate.gov and @ossoff.senate.gov vote on a funding bill that doesn't guarantee the Healthcare tax credits, I will donate to whomever primaries them.
Caving to Trump now would be calamitous.
Caving to Trump now would be calamitous.
How will I fare in my 3rd @notquitewrite.com and the kiss-off to the anti-prompt before it gets the boot? Only time (and Ed, Amanda, and Dean) will tell!
October 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
How will I fare in my 3rd @notquitewrite.com and the kiss-off to the anti-prompt before it gets the boot? Only time (and Ed, Amanda, and Dean) will tell!