Bailey Thomas
@baileythomas92.bsky.social
Avid coffee consumer and sometimes writer. Healthcare worker living with MS.
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Our general submission window is now open!
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
For our full guidelines and schedule, visit:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
For our full guidelines and schedule, visit:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page
Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
www.havenspec.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Our general submission window is now open!
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
For our full guidelines and schedule, visit:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
For our full guidelines and schedule, visit:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
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Issue 12 is live!
Sixteen stories and poems are available on our site, and we have print copies + eBook + PDF version available.
www.radonjournal.com/issue12
A speculative commentary on the present world with just enough hope that we're sure you'll mourn freedom and cry beauty in equal measures
Sixteen stories and poems are available on our site, and we have print copies + eBook + PDF version available.
www.radonjournal.com/issue12
A speculative commentary on the present world with just enough hope that we're sure you'll mourn freedom and cry beauty in equal measures
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Issue 12 is live!
Sixteen stories and poems are available on our site, and we have print copies + eBook + PDF version available.
www.radonjournal.com/issue12
A speculative commentary on the present world with just enough hope that we're sure you'll mourn freedom and cry beauty in equal measures
Sixteen stories and poems are available on our site, and we have print copies + eBook + PDF version available.
www.radonjournal.com/issue12
A speculative commentary on the present world with just enough hope that we're sure you'll mourn freedom and cry beauty in equal measures
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Our limited demographic window ends soon! Of course, you can still submit in the general window next month, but it's our goal to publish more authors of historically marginalized backgrounds, so send us your stories and poems!
For our full guidelines and schedule, visit:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
For our full guidelines and schedule, visit:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page
Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
www.havenspec.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Our limited demographic window ends soon! Of course, you can still submit in the general window next month, but it's our goal to publish more authors of historically marginalized backgrounds, so send us your stories and poems!
For our full guidelines and schedule, visit:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
For our full guidelines and schedule, visit:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
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Please vote, if you can, for These Marbles Were Never White. You can read it here: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
These Marbles Were Never White
The year is 2025. Matt Damon wears a red broom on his head in his first promotional image as the protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film adaptation of The Odyssey,1 and I’m already too exhaus...
www.khoreomag.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Please vote, if you can, for These Marbles Were Never White. You can read it here: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
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I'm shocked lol 🎉🎉🎉 #BSFAAwards2026
Find the whole list and so many amazing stories and authors to discover or read again at www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
Find the whole list and so many amazing stories and authors to discover or read again at www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
January 22, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I'm shocked lol 🎉🎉🎉 #BSFAAwards2026
Find the whole list and so many amazing stories and authors to discover or read again at www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
Find the whole list and so many amazing stories and authors to discover or read again at www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
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Being a writer is the most embarrassing thing in the world! I write down the entire contents of my soul for validation! And then some editor will just be like no thanks!
January 19, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Being a writer is the most embarrassing thing in the world! I write down the entire contents of my soul for validation! And then some editor will just be like no thanks!
Not a lot of time to write and feeling super burned out and overwhelmed with projects so today I sat and wrote a (very messy) 3,000 word science fiction story that's kinda good? It's fun but with a lot of themes.
January 13, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Not a lot of time to write and feeling super burned out and overwhelmed with projects so today I sat and wrote a (very messy) 3,000 word science fiction story that's kinda good? It's fun but with a lot of themes.
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We're open for fiction submissions!
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...
www.seizethepress.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:41 PM
We're open for fiction submissions!
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
This story rocks, so much
Thanks to advancements in the metaverse, the rich and poor need no longer be equal in death!👩⚕️💉🔌
@miahomalley 's "SLEEPHOLDER" is a thought-provoking imagining of hospice in a dystopian future.
Read it here:
www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/sle...
@miahomalley 's "SLEEPHOLDER" is a thought-provoking imagining of hospice in a dystopian future.
Read it here:
www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/sle...
December 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This story rocks, so much
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Write the stories you want to write. Because then, no matter what happens, no matter what markets are or aren’t there, you’ll at least have written the stories you want to write.
December 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Write the stories you want to write. Because then, no matter what happens, no matter what markets are or aren’t there, you’ll at least have written the stories you want to write.
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"In the basement the television is on, and Robert Stack is waiting for me, his gray trench coat perfectly still against a black void. 'In the closet under the stairwell, remove the wood paneling...'"
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
Unsolved Mysteries by Chris Scott
Ten years old, watching Unsolved Mysteries on the floor, dunking Oreos in my Keebler Elf glass of milk. A husband and wife are fighting. Not the real husband, not the real wife. A reenactment. The wif...
hexliterary.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"In the basement the television is on, and Robert Stack is waiting for me, his gray trench coat perfectly still against a black void. 'In the closet under the stairwell, remove the wood paneling...'"
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
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Reading my poem, “Snow falling into our lattes” will only take you a sip—or two—to enjoy ❄️
❄ The Games Room ❄
9 pieces, frosty fun, wrap up warm!
Thanks to @ella-b-winters.bsky.social @amythfromassam.bsky.social
Lisa Perkins
@marisca.bsky.social
Mark Valentine
Simon Ravenscroft
Johanna E. Hall
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
Ilias Tsagas
www.fullhouseliterary.com/the-games-ro...
9 pieces, frosty fun, wrap up warm!
Thanks to @ella-b-winters.bsky.social @amythfromassam.bsky.social
Lisa Perkins
@marisca.bsky.social
Mark Valentine
Simon Ravenscroft
Johanna E. Hall
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
Ilias Tsagas
www.fullhouseliterary.com/the-games-ro...
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Reading my poem, “Snow falling into our lattes” will only take you a sip—or two—to enjoy ❄️
Just read this for the first time and I absolutely loved it. Such a beautiful science fiction story about childhood.
Loved how incredibly moving this was written, definitely shed a tear.
Read this if you haven’t already
Loved how incredibly moving this was written, definitely shed a tear.
Read this if you haven’t already
Here’s a link for friends who’d love to read it. Hope it brings you the joy it brought me🫶🏽✨
We Begin Where Infinity Ends by Somto Ihezue
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Just read this for the first time and I absolutely loved it. Such a beautiful science fiction story about childhood.
Loved how incredibly moving this was written, definitely shed a tear.
Read this if you haven’t already
Loved how incredibly moving this was written, definitely shed a tear.
Read this if you haven’t already
To no one’s surprise I sobbed a lot during my first watch of The Boy and the Heron
This is the fifth Studio Ghibli movie I’ve seen and I never know what to expect but I always end up crying.
This is the fifth Studio Ghibli movie I’ve seen and I never know what to expect but I always end up crying.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
To no one’s surprise I sobbed a lot during my first watch of The Boy and the Heron
This is the fifth Studio Ghibli movie I’ve seen and I never know what to expect but I always end up crying.
This is the fifth Studio Ghibli movie I’ve seen and I never know what to expect but I always end up crying.
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WE DID IT!!! 🎉🎉🎉
over $20,000 raised with 3 days still left to go! Thank you all so much to everyone who shared and supported our Kickstarter; we truly, TRULY couldn't have done it without you! 💜👽
Bask in the warm glow of a fully funded Kickstarter with us 🌟
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
over $20,000 raised with 3 days still left to go! Thank you all so much to everyone who shared and supported our Kickstarter; we truly, TRULY couldn't have done it without you! 💜👽
Bask in the warm glow of a fully funded Kickstarter with us 🌟
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
WE DID IT!!! 🎉🎉🎉
over $20,000 raised with 3 days still left to go! Thank you all so much to everyone who shared and supported our Kickstarter; we truly, TRULY couldn't have done it without you! 💜👽
Bask in the warm glow of a fully funded Kickstarter with us 🌟
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
over $20,000 raised with 3 days still left to go! Thank you all so much to everyone who shared and supported our Kickstarter; we truly, TRULY couldn't have done it without you! 💜👽
Bask in the warm glow of a fully funded Kickstarter with us 🌟
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Admittedly been waiting for next payday to check this out but I just had a look and Ohmygosh the add-ons are INCREDIBLE.
I am honestly so excited for Friday and deciding how I am going to support such an AMAZING magazine 😍
I am honestly so excited for Friday and deciding how I am going to support such an AMAZING magazine 😍
We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Admittedly been waiting for next payday to check this out but I just had a look and Ohmygosh the add-ons are INCREDIBLE.
I am honestly so excited for Friday and deciding how I am going to support such an AMAZING magazine 😍
I am honestly so excited for Friday and deciding how I am going to support such an AMAZING magazine 😍
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Check out the awesome add-ons to the Apex Kickstarted, which includes digital copies of my award-winning short story collection TURDUCKEN as well as books from fantastic authors like @kurellian.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @jasonsanford.bsky.social, @ecatherine.com and more!
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Check out the awesome add-ons to the Apex Kickstarted, which includes digital copies of my award-winning short story collection TURDUCKEN as well as books from fantastic authors like @kurellian.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @jasonsanford.bsky.social, @ecatherine.com and more!
One time I had a first reader make a comment about my story that they weren't sure what the point of it was.
I fear I have just finished the rough draft of a new story that also contains no point but gosh I really like it!
I fear I have just finished the rough draft of a new story that also contains no point but gosh I really like it!
October 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
One time I had a first reader make a comment about my story that they weren't sure what the point of it was.
I fear I have just finished the rough draft of a new story that also contains no point but gosh I really like it!
I fear I have just finished the rough draft of a new story that also contains no point but gosh I really like it!
Thankful I found more time to write in September than I had all summer.
October is starting out a little iffy but we will see how it adds up.
October is starting out a little iffy but we will see how it adds up.
October 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Thankful I found more time to write in September than I had all summer.
October is starting out a little iffy but we will see how it adds up.
October is starting out a little iffy but we will see how it adds up.
Absolutely incredible poem, wow
My new poem "GPS Girl" about a navigation system slowly warping into sentience and...eventually depression..is out today💜 @radonjournal.bsky.social and look at that cover!!! This whole issue is filled with dark & strange & powerful words 🖤 www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/gps...
GPS Girl | Issue 11
Radon Journal Issue 11 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.
www.radonjournal.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Absolutely incredible poem, wow
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Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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REMINDER that we are open to submissions through October 15! The themes are HAUNT and YARD SALE. Pay is $8 per 100-word story. No cost to submit.
100footcrow.com/submission-g...
100footcrow.com/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines - 100-Foot Crow
Drabble submissions are open through October 15. We're looking for stories that fit the themes YARD SALE and HAUNT. You may submit one story per theme. All submissions must be submitted via our Google...
100footcrow.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
REMINDER that we are open to submissions through October 15! The themes are HAUNT and YARD SALE. Pay is $8 per 100-word story. No cost to submit.
100footcrow.com/submission-g...
100footcrow.com/submission-g...
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Thank you! x
My first collection, which comes out on the best day of the year(Halloween) is up for pre-order! 🎃
mybook.to/AllsWell
My first collection, which comes out on the best day of the year(Halloween) is up for pre-order! 🎃
mybook.to/AllsWell
All's Well That Ends Well
Read it now
mybook.to
October 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Thank you! x
My first collection, which comes out on the best day of the year(Halloween) is up for pre-order! 🎃
mybook.to/AllsWell
My first collection, which comes out on the best day of the year(Halloween) is up for pre-order! 🎃
mybook.to/AllsWell
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Translunar Travelers Lounge is open to speculative fiction stories 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
Submissions
Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]
translunartravelerslounge.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Translunar Travelers Lounge is open to speculative fiction stories 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
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FF#25 has an official release date! These great stories will be available to everyone on June 30th (and sooner to our beautiful Patreon crew).
June 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
FF#25 has an official release date! These great stories will be available to everyone on June 30th (and sooner to our beautiful Patreon crew).