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Stop by for a sip of fun. Stay as long as you want; enjoy the view. Edited by Bennett North, Priya Sridhar and Hannya Kay https://translunartravelerslounge.com/

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 5h

Hope you are enjoying your Sunday, or if not at least working on a final polish of a speculative fiction story (5000 words or under) to submit to Translunar Travelers Lounge before the submissions portal closes on the 15th. Details at the link! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 1d

Translunar Travelers Lounge welcomes submissions of speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Full details are at the link.https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 1d

Translunar Travelers Lounge welcomes submissions of speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Full details are at the link.https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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Rukman Ragas (hiatus) @rukman.bsky.social · Aug 15

BIG DAY FOR APOCALYPSE KNITTING PARTY GIRLIES

New story out today with Translunar Travelers Lounge
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Wolfmothers, by Rukman Ragas

The calls come from the caves underground and even you could follow it, slithering slowly as the heat scalds your scales. In there, your progenitor hangs, mouth forever forced open, venom falling i…

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Infrequent SF Microreviews @infrequentsf.bsky.social · Aug 18

Deliverance, by Elena Sichrovsky in Translunar Travelers Lounge. Heaven comes to Earth and everyone bears the consequences. Intriguing worldbuilding and I love where it ends.
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Deliverance, by Elena Sichrovsky

My grandma used to say “every terrible thing will fade when that blessed day comes, my dear.” Now that it’s finally happening my only comfort is that she isn’t around to be disappointed.

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Infrequent SF Microreviews @infrequentsf.bsky.social · Aug 21

Yarn as Warm as Dragon's Breath, by Amanda Saville in Translunar Travelers Lounge. A sweet portrait of grief and a dragon, with knitting and a dragon and sisterhood and a dragon and did I mention the dragon, which I love?
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Yarn as Warm as Dragon’s Breath, by Amanda Saville

After surviving yet another day of feigning pleasantness for clients and coworkers, the small, pink, pearlescent dragon sitting on Lily’s doorstep felt like one more damn problem.

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Infrequent SF Microreviews @infrequentsf.bsky.social · Aug 22

Real Housewives of the Intergalactic, by HJ Ramsay in Translunar Travelers Lounge. A soccer mom inadvertently ends up providing childcare to an alien whole keeping it secret from the government. Very fun and very touching!
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Real Housewives of the Intergalactic, by HJ Ramsay

The spacecraft crashed when I was taking my six-year-old son to what had to be the most chaotic soccer organization north of Sacramento.

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Infrequent SF Microreviews @infrequentsf.bsky.social · 29d

The Last Wills and Teatamenta of Captain Kolhe, by Abhijeet Sathe in Translunar Travelers Lounge. A privateer captain is summoned over and over again. Lovely, understated but powerful, and impeccably constructed.
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The Last Wills and Testaments of Captain Kolhe, by Abhijeet Sathe

The first man to summon me is Whitney, my boatswain on the Dharini. This is how I learn that Virat didn’t cremate me. My body still lies on the white sand of our cove, rotting in the turquoise wate…

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Infrequent SF Microreviews @infrequentsf.bsky.social · 24d

Home is Where the Heart Rests, by Chidera Anikpe in Translunar Travelers Lounge. I'm not sure I have the vocabulary to describe it, but it's beautiful and tender and wrenching. An excellent read.
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Home is Where the Heart Rests, by Chidera Anikpe

First, there was Ànyasi; the darkness; an endless void of nothingness. And then there was Àghará; Chaos; atoms spontaneously bursting into being; an existence with no progenitor. And then there was…

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 18d

wait this was a fun one or Translunar Travelers Lounge wouldn't have taken it

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 18d

for example, Translunar Travelers Lounge bought this story from me! And it was a great experience!

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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 1d

#SubmissionCall

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 2d

It's the last Friday of this submission period for Translunar Travelers Lounge. If you have some fantasy, science fiction, or other speculative fiction 5000 words and under, why not submit?

(Open until 15th October, please check the guidelines)
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 2d

It's the last Friday of this submission period for Translunar Travelers Lounge. If you have some fantasy, science fiction, or other speculative fiction 5000 words and under, why not submit?

(Open until 15th October, please check the guidelines)
translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 3d

We continue to welcome stories, the portal is still open. Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 3d

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social wants fun SF and fantasy up to 5,000 words, pays $.03/wd, no reprints, open to submissions until 10/15/25. 🧵3/4

#WritingCommunity #SubmissionCall #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSF #SFF

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Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 3d

We continue to welcome stories, the portal is still open. Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 4d

Submissions are open for one more week. Speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 4d

Submissions are open for one more week. Speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 6d

People keep submitting, we keep reading. Submitting, reading, submitting, reading - will it ever end?

(Yes - 15th October, be sure to submit by then as this the last submission period of 2025! We however will keep reading after that until they've all been considered.)

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 7d

Our readers continue to work through the submissions we've received, and we still want more! Read the submission guidelines for details and a link to the portal. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 8d

Submissions are open until 15 October!

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 20d

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 5d

Submit!
Readers are starting to engage with dark magic rituals to face lack of sleep and brain mush, but do not hesitate, they knew what they were signing for (with their blood)!
Submit!
(am I going too horror here? hum, we want FUN, remember 🙄)

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 12d

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - AUGUST 2025🏳️‍🌈
I round up 25 stories by @rukman.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @rfdwrites.bsky.social @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @mererain.bsky.social @whatsmacksaid.bsky.social & MORE!!!
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 6d

People keep submitting, we keep reading. Submitting, reading, submitting, reading - will it ever end?

(Yes - 15th October, be sure to submit by then as this the last submission period of 2025! We however will keep reading after that until they've all been considered.)

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 7d

Our readers continue to work through the submissions we've received, and we still want more! Read the submission guidelines for details and a link to the portal. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 7d

Our readers continue to work through the submissions we've received, and we still want more! Read the submission guidelines for details and a link to the portal. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 7d

Our readers continue to work through the submissions we've received, and we still want more! Read the submission guidelines for details and a link to the portal. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com