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Sunwoo Jeong @translunarytree.bsky.social · 1d

My new story is out in Fantasy Magazine! If you need a smol dragon in your life, please take a gander! 🐉💕 Grateful to be a part of this lovely issue!🦔💜

Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 4d

"The bog speaks to me in burps.

I stand on its edge and hold out my palm.

A plum—blood red and dewy—falls into my hand from the sky."

it's Fantasy Friday!!

read on:

The Dragon and the Bog by @translunarytree.bsky.social

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The Dragon and the Bog - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

A plum—blood red and dewy—falls into my hand from the sky.

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 20d

in case you missed it!

Issue 98 is in your inbox, subscribers! and begins it's free roll-out on the 26th.

Click the subscriber link if you, too, want to support Fantasy ✨ ✨

Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 21d

it's here!!✨

ISSUE 98

out NOW in full for subscribers

and check out the free roll-out here (and hit that subscribe button if you'd like to read the full issue now): psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

Fantasy Magazine - issue 98 | Psychopomp

Fantasy Magazine Issue 98 features work by: Eleanor Ball, Christian Emecheta, Sunwoo Jeong, Mateo Perez Lara, Tracie McBride, Eleanna Castroianni

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 25d

"For a long time, I thought I had failed when I left academia, but I discovered that I am a librarian, not a professor."

This time last year, we published Kasey Butcher Santana's CONTRABAND MARGINALIA. Find this memoir on being a jail librarian here: buff.ly/7GEJcNM

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Sep 9

"In his youth, The Fan experienced joy. This was his first mistake."

Absolutely SMITTEN to feature a new @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social story this week! If you've ever been The Fan (I've been The Fan), then you won't want to miss this incredible look at the cult of IP and fandom! Go get it!

The Fan by David Marino

In his youth, The Fan experienced joy. This was his first mistake. Now, The Fan anticipates the arrival of the newest incarnation of The IP. The new incarnation is a Bold New Direction for The IP a...

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 27

And now for our Issue 98 COVER 🎉 🎉 🎉

Wound, by Zi Xu

The cover for Fantasy Issue 98! A brown-haired, light-skinned figure kneels next to a giant white bird, tending to an arrow wound. The cover is awash in autumnal shades of orange, cream, and brown.

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fantasy Issue 98 Short Stories:

The Dragon and the Bog, by @translunarytree.bsky.social

They Return, by @ecastroianni.bsky.social

Flash:

The Memory Breach, by @wunderkind100.bsky.social

Knife Plus, by @teemcbee.bsky.social ‬

🎉 🎉 🎉

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jun 25

Psst. Our JUNE ISSUE is out and we'd love for you to check out the awesome work from our contributors — including this amazing cover art by Jasper Glen: buff.ly/t7X4ey3

Abstract painting. Jewel-toned waves of color—black, blue, red, green, and white—band and blend together in streaks against an orange background. The effect is like a jagged puddle made of melting agates.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · Jun 22

“To m’Pa, Between Two Planets” by Uchechukwu Nwaka from @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social, “The Lexicon of Lethe” by @translunarytree.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, and more short fic recs from @ClowderofTwo - locusmag.com/2025/06...

Hexagon, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Reviews by Charles Payseur

Hexagon Spring ’25 Lightspeed 3/25 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/6/25 I’m sad to report that the Spring issue of Hexagon is their last, at least for now. And the final issue opens with a reminder of t…

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jun 15

We're enjoying Summer with our brilliant new JUNE ISSUE 😎 Enjoy it at our website: buff.ly/M9YTorb

All the love to our contributors!
WORDS: Amelia Valasek, Jack Barrie, Ella Harrigan, Alex Bortell
ART: Jasper Glen
PLUS: @taniamalik.bsky.social interviews Esinam Bediako

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · Jun 1

My new "What to Read" column also features fiction by @ecastroianni.bsky.social @avgreenewrites.bsky.social @ravenjake.bsky.social @derrickboden.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social @translunarytree.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social & more.

What to Read – the Monster Edition - Ruadán Books

by Maria Haskins Where there are humans telling stories, there are monsters. From the very beginning, monsters have taken center stage in our myths, fairytales, and fiction. The vampire is one of the ...

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Sunwoo Jeong @translunarytree.bsky.social · Apr 12

Special thanks to the Lightspeed editors and to Stefan Rudnicki for the wonderful performance in the podcast. Much gratitude also to those who provided feedbacks on earlier versions of this piece, esp. Jess R and friends from Clarion and TinHouse💜

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Sunwoo Jeong @translunarytree.bsky.social · Apr 12

My story, The Lexicon of Lethe, is out in Lightspeed @lightspeedmagazine.com⚡️It’s about a French-Korean restaurant and a word-eating monster✍️💜 Link to the story provided below — there’s both a text and a podcast version!

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

The Lexicon of Lethe - Lightspeed Magazine

We called it the monster because we could, though none of us found the label to be particularly satisfying. After a certain point, Yerim started calling it the Logos Pilgrim. Which was understandable,...

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Sunwoo Jeong @translunarytree.bsky.social · Apr 12

A smol piece of mine about mice is up now on Lit Nerds! Link to story provided below!🐭🐭🐭💜

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The Perfect Fuss

by Sunwoo Jeong It’s cards night. Ms. Mouse flings in her final stake. Chittery gasps. Isn’t that the girl’s scrunchie?⁠—Midnight purple with golden threads, velvet soft with a perfect grip? …

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Sunwoo Jeong @translunarytree.bsky.social · Mar 30

Thank you for the kind words!💜

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · Mar 9

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 9

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

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Sunwoo Jeong @translunarytree.bsky.social · Jan 19

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Jan 15

New story day! “They Bought a House” in @nightmare-magazine.com is an unhinged haunted house set in Benin city. There are ghosts making ccoconut rice, there are people living in walls, and most importantly, there is Nothing 🤗. Read here: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/they...

They Bought a House - Nightmare Magazine

The idea for this story began in my final week at the Clarion Writers Workshop. I wanted to write a haunted house horror story using stripped language, but unsurprisingly, it became strange and detail...

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jan 15

Art & words will help us get through 2025. We are honored & grateful to present our beautiful JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro
ART: Daisuke Takakura
PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa

Composite photo: a girl dressed all in blue appears cloned, captured twirling in sundry positions. Her skirt billows and she smiles radiantly. Her brown hair and shadows dance with her in the sunlight.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Dec 15

The holiday season brings the gift of our DECEMBER ISSUE!! 💝

A big thank you to our contributors🥰:
WORDS: Vanessa Blakeslee, Nini Berndt, Brooke Randel, & Kaitlyn Airy
ART: Vónbjørt Vang
PLUS: Jamey Baumgardt interviews Richard Mirabella

Start reading here: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

A jewel-toned collage: warm retro colors against an emerald background. A buttoned, blue maxi skirt in the center “opens” near the top, with a black triangle thrusting out. Small flowers and snippets of large, black-and-white texts form accents.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Nov 15

Please help us welcome our gorgeous new 💫 NOVEMBER ISSUE 💫
https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

Sending LOVE & THANKS to our contributors 💖
WORDS: C. Russell Price, @christinajcooke.bsky.social , Victoria Hood & Thomas Kearnes
ART: Zhuo Xiong
PLUS: @alhs.bsky.social reviews Sarah Ghazal Ali’s THEOPHANIES

A vivid, abstract art piece. Bright orange pigment forms a rectangular block with fluid edges. Black pigment melts into the top edge. The block is gashed by strokes of pink which are—in turn—slashed with smaller, linear strokes of black.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Nov 17

Reading 2024 fiction? Try the short story "The Midnight Spa" by Sunwoo Jeong! You can read it here! @translunarytree.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 59, “Lunacy Act 1” by Broci: A woman with wearing a red dress with tattered ends, and white collar stands on the right side. Her hands are held out, disconnected from her arms as a moon lies beneath them. Around her there is a forest in shades of brown, grey and green; one of the trees has a charm attached to it. Her brown-blond hair is held upwards as if the wind were running through it. Nearby there are several butterflies that glow a light green, and the quote says, "People have no idea how much of themselves they can slough off.

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · Jul 15

"People have no idea how much of themselves they can slough off."

Treat yourself and go read this amazing story in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. Rae and I saw an early draft of it when we taught at Clarion. I loved it then and I love it even more now.

Sunwoo Jeong @translunarytree.bsky.social · Jul 2

My story, “The Midnight Spa” is out in Issue Fifty-Nine of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social !! It’s about a Korean bathhouse and the strange wonders of bodily exfoliation 🛀✨ Dive in below!🌝

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

The Midnight Spa - Uncanny Magazine

People have no idea how much of themselves they can slough off. Every night, I clean oodles of ttae—exfoliated skin cells, rolled up into crescent doughs. They lap about in the Hot Springs; merge into...

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Sunwoo Jeong @translunarytree.bsky.social · Jul 2

My story, “The Midnight Spa” is out in Issue Fifty-Nine of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social !! It’s about a Korean bathhouse and the strange wonders of bodily exfoliation 🛀✨ Dive in below!🌝

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

The Midnight Spa - Uncanny Magazine

People have no idea how much of themselves they can slough off. Every night, I clean oodles of ttae—exfoliated skin cells, rolled up into crescent doughs. They lap about in the Hot Springs; merge into...

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Sunwoo Jeong @translunarytree.bsky.social · Jul 2

My story, “The Midnight Spa” is out in Issue Fifty-Nine of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social !! It’s about a Korean bathhouse and the strange wonders of bodily exfoliation 🛀✨ Dive in below!🌝

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

The Midnight Spa - Uncanny Magazine

People have no idea how much of themselves they can slough off. Every night, I clean oodles of ttae—exfoliated skin cells, rolled up into crescent doughs. They lap about in the Hot Springs; merge into...

www.uncannymagazine.com

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Jul 2

Join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps! There are many ways to SUPPORT UNCANNY MAGAZINE! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Or just spreading the word! www.uncannymagazine.com/support-unca...

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Jun 25

Behold, Space Unicorns, the
Uncanny Magazine
Issue 59 Table of Contents and Broci cover!!! www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-maga...

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