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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 17h

Did you know that the audiobook for my sapphic pirate horror QUEEN O'NINE TAILS' just dropped? 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈

If you like snarky, good-with-their-hands spies who are Definitely, For Sure, Not At All attracted to the hot but unhinged pirate queens who capture them, then this is going to (ahem) float your boat.

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 18h

Reminder!

I’ll be teaching a virtual workshop with the @flashfictioninst.bsky.social THIS FRIDAY, October 17 starting at 6 PM EST

Dear Flash will explore storytelling in under 1,000 words through letters, emails, and text messages ✍🏽

Register here:

flashfictioninstitute.com/product/dear...

"Dear Flash" with Avitus B(uckhaulter) Carle | Friday, Oct. 17 | 3pm PST/6pm EST - Flash Fiction Institute

In this 2-hour generative workshop, participants will delve into stories told in the form of letters and emails, unraveling what makes them resonate. Prompts will be provided, exploring tone, what is ...

flashfictioninstitute.com

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Apex Magazine is at $7178 out of a $20,000 base goal! They have 16 days to go!

Help THEM reach their Apex!

(there are also stretch goals)

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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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 1d

Good news, everyone! Literary Namjooning's first ever flash reading and open mic's happening soon! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3d

I always wanted a twin. (This character appeared on the screen in Dead End Paranormal Park and my whole family went SQUEEEEEE!) This made me super happy.

#NonBinary

Character from the animated show Dead End Animated Park and real person. Both have shaved head, blue bangs, a backpack, a purple shirt, and an orange overshirt.

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Todd Tyrtle @gooutsidetoday.com · 3d

Slept in and now the weather is nice and cool so it’s back to bike commuting. #cycling #toronto #morning #autumn

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3d

Aw, thank you! (This is the first time I've looked like anyone in media since I was ten years old)

Cover of Harriet the Spy. Ink drawing of a child with glasses, a red sweatshirt, blue jeans, black shoes. Carrying a notebook.

Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3d

he was like "This cover is from my imagination but WOW, do you want to come be the model for the next one?" and so she did and then made a bunch of money being the official person at video game cons for a few years. Pretty awesome!)

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3d

I LOVE IT SO MUCH. (In the 90s my cousin started getting phone calls from friends who were like "I saw you on a video game cover" and she finally went to the store and looked and it really was unequivocally her. She got in touch with the artist and was like "Um, do I know you or something?" and

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3d

I always wanted a twin. (This character appeared on the screen in Dead End Paranormal Park and my whole family went SQUEEEEEE!) This made me super happy.

#NonBinary

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3d

Friends! I am in this book with AMAZING HUMANS -- it's collaborative writing AND how the collaborative writing happened:

Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 3d

Last book of '25 is by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social + a cast of collaborators incl The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee & Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou.

Pre-order now with UK Saver Shipping to save £! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3d

OH NOES now your kid will have to learn jazz piano and make an entire town happy before the worksheet changes!

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3d

TOO SCARY

Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 4d

A haunted house, but it's just helping your kid with the same math homework every night in an infinite loop.

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3d

This is how to compromise with a cat, by the way - Squish was spending his mornings on top of my task book so I cleared off half my desk and gave it to him. Compromise! Like how cats take the dog bed and the dog sleeps on the floor!

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3d

Squish the Cat says there are #WritingWorkshops galore coming up! Whether it's #SpeculativeFiction, #ProsePoetry, #CNF, or POV you're into, I can give you tools to create fabulous new pieces:

tyrtle.com/writing-work...

#WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #AmWriting

Tabby cat lying on a desk being cuddled.

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 4d

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE ALMOST FIFTY-THREE YEARS OLD AND STILL NOT KNOW HOW TO SPELL MISCHIEVOUS

#WritingCommunity #Writer #AmWriting #SpellingIsHard

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 4d

THIS IS THE BEST NEWS EEEEEEEEE

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 4d

EEE THIS IS THE BEST

Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 4d

📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!

Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 5d

RIGHT?!

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 5d

I did NOT cry on the subway yesterday reading "The Things You Bought For the Robot" but it was REALLY HARD NOT TO. Read this story, it's glorious and sad and beautiful.

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

#FlashFiction #FlashLit #WritingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction

The Things You Bought for the Robot

Extension Cord.The robot was secondhand. Because its solar unit was too complicated to fix, it was just easier to plug it in and forget about it.Cleaning supplies.It had a job to do, you needed the…

www.flashfictiononline.com

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 6d

WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨

Want to unlock the next chapter of Apex? Please consider backing our Kickstarter and help us keep publishing the strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful stories you love!

www.kickstarter.com/.../apexpu.....

30% UNLOCKED!

For the first time, Apex will open to nonfiction pitches. We are expanding our nonfiction editorial team! ZZ Claybourne has been our nonfiction editor for the past couple of years, and is doing a fantastic job. His editorial eye has elevated Apex’s nonfiction and has helped us discover many new voices. Rodney Carlstrom will be joining the Apex team as an associate nonfiction editor to help ZZ manage submitted nonfiction pitches.

cow floating in space with some astronauts next to the current Kickstarter number, "$6,000!"

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 6d

Make sure to register for @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's book launch event with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social over Zoom on November 7th at 7pm EST! buff.ly/CtKtA0k

Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET right here: buff.ly/3pPOviA
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 6d

Love #FlashFiction? Love #SpeculativeFiction? Join me for this @smokelong.bsky.social #WritingWorkshop and I'll give you the tools to write speculative fiction as metaphor, one of my FAVOURITE THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE:

www.smokelong.com/product/spec...

#Writing #WritingCommunity

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 6d

Love #FlashFiction? Love #SpeculativeFiction? Join me for this @smokelong.bsky.social #WritingWorkshop and I'll give you the tools to write speculative fiction as metaphor, one of my FAVOURITE THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE:

www.smokelong.com/product/spec...

#Writing #WritingCommunity

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 8d

Aw, Dina, thank you! I have wonky feet (wide and half a size difference between them so I have to buy 2 pairs of sneakers to make up one) so these shoes are, like, my ONLY CHOICE *laughing* which means laces are the only way to make them match my weird, goofy fashion ideas...

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