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Wednesday evening music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week. (Florence finally falls out of top spot, but in classic FF fashion, I just bring in another F with Faetooth)

$Albums on repeat at FF HQ #1: Faetooth - Labyrinthine #2: Beach Bunny - Honeymoon #3: Skye Wallace - Skye Wallace #4: Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream #5: Lowrider - Refractions$

November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM

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49. Eveningland by Michael Knight

short stories set in and around Mobile, Alabama / rich people, mostly / storms

The cover is the outline of the state of Alabama, with a red star where Mobile is located. The borders of the state loop inward to spell out the title.

November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM

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S.L. has been published in @reckoningmag.bsky.social, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, and @smallwondersmag.com, among many others, and thinks you should check out work by Ahmed Saadawi and Olga Tokarczuk.

Find links to his work and more about his recs by getting a copy at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

S.L. Harris is a writer, educator, and sometime archaeologist who can be found digging in gardens, libraries, tea cabinets, and ancient houses. His fiction has appeared in venues like Strange Horizons, Apex, and Lightspeed. Originally from Appalachia, he currently lives in the Midwest with his wife, two children, and many books.

S.L.’s Recs:
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Story #5 in FF#26: "Root Hog or Die" by @slharris.bsky.social

If you need a story with:
-the day-to-day grind
-growing up on Star Trek
-needing help

Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

"Root Hog or Die" by S.L. Harris

When I was a little girl, I wished for aliens to come and to set things right. I guess it’s the story of my life that I got to see that first part come true.

self-reliance / alien visitors / failing the test

November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Thursday evening music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week. (More Florence? More Florence! But also really into this Beach Bunny album which is in the top 5 for the 2nd week in a row.)

Albums on repeat at FF HQ

#1: Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream
#2: Wolf Alice - The Clearing
#3: Moon Duo - Stars Are The Light
#4: Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
#5: Lali Puna - Faking the Books

November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM

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With the FF Submitter's Survey last year, we found out oh-so-much about what stories work best for us at FF (www.fusionfragment.com/2024-submitt...)

If you submitted to FF in 2025, fill out this year's survey here and let us GROW THE STATS!!!
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A graphic full of...infographics. It says So. Many. Stats. overlaid on top.

November 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM

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48. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

the labyrinth / the kindnesses of the House / finding another world

The cover is an illustrated faun playing a trumpet standing atop a plinth, while a golden illustrated sea rolls below.

November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Nkereuwem's been published in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social and @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social and thinks you should check out his newly-released novel as well as work by @wtalabi.bsky.social

Find links to his work and more info about his recs by grabbing a copy at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

Born in Lagos, Nkereuwem Albert spent his early adult years in Calabar. His short fiction and essays have featured in publications such as Omenana, Vector, FIYAH Magazine, Will This Be A Problem and more, and has been awarded the Dream Foundry Prize for Emerging Writers.

Nkereuwem's Recs:
Shigidi and The Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
The Bone River by Nkereuwem Albert

November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM

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Story #4 in FF#26: "A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above" by @nkereuwxm.bsky.social

If you need a story with:
-love, both romantic and familial
-a robot body inhabited by a spirit
-dystopian, post-climate change societies

Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

"A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above" by Nkereuwem Albert

In hard spirit science, truth requires faith; belief absent
doubt that your thoughtseed will bring forth life. A thoughtseed planted in hemispheres riddled with doubt will never flower.

the city above and the city below / spirit bots / revolution

November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM

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Wednesday afternoon music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week. (Told you Florence was gonna be #1 for a while)

Albums on repeat at FF HQ

#1: Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream
#2: Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
#3: Lord Huron - The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1
#4: Hana Vu - Public Storage
#5: Cherry Glazerr - I Don't Want You Anymore

November 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM

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47. Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh

women deprived of choice / metaphorical dystopias / life on the run while pregnant

The cover is a blond woman in a light blue dress, facing away from the reader, standing in a blue room with blue and white checkerboard floors.

November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM

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Wednesday evening music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week. (Also get ready to see Florence at #1 for a while, probably.)

Albums on repeat at FF HQ:

#1: Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream
#2: Blackwater Holylight - If You Only Knew
#3: Tami Neilson - Kingmaker
#4: Warbly Jets - Warbly Jets
#5: Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song

November 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM

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A.D. has been published by @neonhemlock.bsky.social, @atthisarts.com, and @augursociety.bsky.social, and thinks you should check out work by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social and @premeemohamed.com.

Find links to A.D.'s work by grabbing a copy at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

A.D. Sui is a Ukrainian-born, internationally raised speculative writer, Nebula winner, and Aurora, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist. They are the author of The Dragonfly Gambit (2024), The Iron Garden Sutra (2026), and more than two dozen short stories. A failed academic and retired fencer, they spend most days wrangling their two dogs and tending to their myriads of tropical plants.

A.D.’s Recs:
A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper
The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed

November 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM

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Story #3 in FF#26: "A White Day Comes" by @thesuiway.bsky.social

If you need a story with:
-finding love at the last minute
-existential angst (but also acceptance)
-greeting the day

Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

"A White Day Comes" by A.D. Sui

A memory. What is a supernova remnant but the memory of a star existing, of its last breath? What is a remnant but an inscription on the body of the cosmos, carved in violence, a last scream into the unfeeling void I was here?

solar destruction / space colony advance teams / what’s the purpose when no trace is left?

November 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM

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We're taking a bit of a break from reading in December, but the submission gates will remain open (mostly because those gates are really heavy, it takes like 5 people to move them, and also they've gotten a bit rusty so maybe I should deal with that somehow but you know what, I'm tired.)

END OF YEAR READING BREAK

The FF team will be doing reduced reading in December. Some reading will continue, as we’ll aim to get responses out to any stories submitted in November within our usual 30 day timeframe.

Submissions will remain OPEN in December. However, any story submitted in December won’t be read until January.
(Unless Editor Cavan gets bored during vacation.)

November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM

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46. Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill

magical realist short stories / Montreal / Grandpa's tall tales after he gets one too many drinks in him

The cover is an illustrated golden staircase, leading up to gates in the cloud (heaven, I guess). On the stairs is a girl in a red cloak and skirt.

November 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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Leo's previously been published in @radonjournal.bsky.social and @heartlines-spec.com, and thinks you should check out work by Mariana Enríquez and Junji Ito.

Find links to Leo's work and more about his recommendations by grabbing a free copy of FF#26 at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

Leo Oliveira hails from Ontario, Canada, where he nurses a soft spot for rats, prehistory, and flawed queer characters. His work has been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and Best Horror of the Year, with a winning inclusion for the Brave New Weird award.

Leo’s Recs:
Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enríquez
Uzumaki by Junji Ito

October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Story #2 in FF#26: "Pig Lion" by @leokaaolive.bsky.social

If you need a story with:
-robot monsters
-people isolating themselves due to self-hatred
-life as screenplay

Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

"Pig Lion" by Leo Oliveira

PERFECTION.
Fully articulated, split into numerous gossamer strands, stalking her down without making a sound. A hundred-headed Hekatoncheires. A millipede dragon bristling with skin and metal and chrome. All of it staring at her. Assessing her. Unmoving and unaffected.

Grappling with one’s creations / self-deception / Autumn Morning Classics

October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Thursday evening music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week.

Albums on repeat at FF HQ:

#1: Benjamin Booker - Lower
#2: Blackwater Holylight - If You Only Knew
#3: Caroline Rose - Loner
#4: Diane Birch - Flying On Abraham
#5: Grace Cummings - Ramona

October 31, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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One regret I've always had is that I used stock art for FF#1 back when I re-launched the mag. Now that I'm reformatting old issues to our new digest format, I'm able to correct past mistakes! Check out the new FF#1 cover, with art licensed from long-time FF collaborator @carlydraws.bsky.social!

The cover of FF#1. Features a rocketship lifting off into space with red and orange clouds below.

October 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM

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The print proof of FF#26 has arrived! Here it is pictured with Gus the Gargoyle (year-round decor), and a bunch of seasonal decor.

On the right, a print copy of FF#26. On the left, a little gargoyle statue holding a melted black candle. I call him Gus.

Some halloween decor, including a headless-horseman thingie with blocks that says 2 days til halloween. Also a feather, something that says trick or treat, and a pumpkin, all on a seasonal orange and black runner. Oh and a print copy of FF#26 is jammed in there, too.

October 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM

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Emma's previously been published at Spadina Literary Review and Arrival Magazine, and thinks you should check out work by Maria Reva and @gayowyn.bsky.social.

Find links to Emma's work and more about her recommendations by grabbing a free copy of FF#26 at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

Emma Russell-Trione (she/her) is a writer from Toronto, Canada. She is pursuing a BA in English, Creative Writing, and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. Her play Fractures premiered at the Ward One Acts Festival in 2024, and her fiction and essays have been published in The Spadina Literary Review, Arrival Magazine, and Apprentice Writer, among others.

Emma’s recs:
Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva
What the Woods Took by Courtney Gold

October 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM

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Story #1 in FF#26: "Island" by Emma Russell-Trione

If you need a story with:
-queer coming-of-age
-the impact of climate change on the Maritimes
-difficult mother-daughter relationships

Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/