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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 1h

I want to take a sec today to talk about how awesome @apexmag.bsky.social is. They've published me twice & both have been stories that are super weird and queer and violent and tender all at once. There are other excellent mags out there, but I would argue that *nobody* does it quite like Apex.

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 6d

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is currently sitting at $6,717 of our $20K goal! That means we're a third of the way to funding four issues of Apex for next year! Can we hit 50% before the end of the week? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 8d

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 11d

Huge news for fans of birds/songs/dreaming/science fiction/the obliteration of the universe: “To Dream of Birdsong” is free to read online!

Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social · 13d

"To Dream of Birdsong" by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social now free to read online!

"Ren dreams in her pyrobed for three years as the ship diverts its course, travels to the next destination. She has died six hundred and seventeen times."

plotthoundmag.com/to-dream-of-...

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 13d

thanks Chris!

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 13d

I originally wrote this flash in February of 2024, when I had a dozen stories finished and a single publication to my name.
This is probably the first story I ever really felt proud of, so I’m incredibly hyped that it found a home.

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 13d

Double pub day for me!

Check out “Instructions for Self-Reflection”, now available in Radon’s Issue 11

Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · 14d

Issue 11 is live!

www.RadonJournal.com

This October issue features scifi body horror, AIs fighting to prevent execution, government-forced rebirth, underground rebellion, reclaiming your sexuality and name, critiques of Saudi Arabia, and much more.

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 13d

I love when a poem teaches me a new word! Really evocative language here, well done.

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 13d

Happy birthday, Kai!!

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 13d

Story release day!
“This Is What Mouths Are For” is my answer to the question: what if everything was creepy and gross?
Despite the fact that revising this story made me nauseous, I’m very, very proud of this one.

Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 14d

NOW AVAILABLE: FFO October 2025!! This issue is a collection of wilderness horror, selected by our guest editor C.R. Langille. What better way to enter spooky season than by getting lost in the woods?! 💀

#writingcommunity #horror
@crlangille.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

Flash Fiction Online October 2025

Flash Fiction Online’s October 2025 issue is a special collection of wilderness horror, selected by our guest editor this month C.R. Langille. Stories this month include: “To Breach a C…

www.flashfictiononline.com

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 14d

Apex is (in my completely unbiased opinion) one of the best mags out there. Throw them some support!

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 14d

HAPPY KICKSTARTER DAY!! 🎉🎉🎉

Kick(start) the first day of Spooky Month with us and come check out the cool stuff we've got planned for you!! 🎃✨

👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

two skeletons are shaking hands in a cemetery .

Alt: spooky scary skeletons silly symphony dance

media.tenor.com

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 14d

sick! congrats!

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 15d

The @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter launches tomorrow! Will you help us fund 2026 and kickoff another 20 years of strange, surreal, shocking, and beautiful short fiction? I hope you will! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Coming soon: Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 16d

I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 16d

we were long overdue a mushreckoning

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 16d

People have been eating mushrooms long enough, it’s time for the tables to turn

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 17d

In about an hour I'm doing a reading at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social !!

I'll probably read a couple flash pieces, and if there's time, maybe a chapter from my WIP book? We'll see where the wind takes us

It's free, and there's still time to register at flights-of-foundry.org/registration/

Registration – Flights of Foundry

flights-of-foundry.org