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

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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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

Cover image to the book, showing the back of an astronaut in a space suit as he steps off into a psychedelic swirl of cosmic colors and stars. The title circles around the figure.

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · 1d

Digital and print copies available at sarossf.com/issue-3/ (also linked via my website, on the ficton page 📃)

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Issue #3 - Saros Speculative Fiction

Edited by Em Arata-Berkel “Rewritten in Flesh” by Gio Clairval: obsolescence / biopunk / my body, my choice “The Ladder” by Cailín Frankland: funerary rites / forbidden keys / from underground “The Ne...

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my contributor's copy of Saros, Issue 3! Isn't it vibrant? I have a set of three drabbles included within.

Feed your heart to a demon met in a digital-forest. Listen to the trees' music played through fungal threads. Find what waits beneath the moon of the forest-city.

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Faith Allington @faithallington.bsky.social · 14d

MetaStellar Year Four anthology is available, full of singing forests, cybernetic parents, diamond chokers full of shadows, visits by Death and demons a plenty, and more!

Available at your favorite retailers like
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-o...

#metastellar #speculativefiction

The cover of MetaStellar Year Four anthology, featuring an image of a pale green monster on the ground and tongue with a knight’s booted foot to the throat and a blade to its chest drawing blood.

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 4d

You all voted for spooky vibes this month, and we heard you loud and clear! 🎃🌒

Gather round the campfire, because October's flash fiction theme is FOLKLORE! You have until October 31st to submit!

www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

a silhouette of a person riding a horse holding a pumpkin

Alt: black and white image of the headless horseman riding a black horse

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · 4d

I love shots like this that look up into the crowns of trees! 🌳🌳🌳

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 5d

We are a work in progress, but loving the support!

Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 6d

Explore as @paulaguran reviews short fiction from @thedeadlands.com, @apexmag.bsky.social, @3lobedmag.com, @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -

The Deadlands, Apex, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and Trollbreath: Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran

The Deadlands Summer ’25 Apex 6/25 Three-Lobed Burning Eye #45 Trollbreath Spring ’25 Of the seven stories in The Deadlands #39, I’d like to mention four. Interestingly, the aforementioned Yoruba f…

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

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 · 6d

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/

Submissions

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

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 5d

As I'm in between payments and just had to pay a wicked internet bill, any current support would be most welcome!

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · Aug 1

A reminder that if you like the work I’ve been recently making, you can support me via PayPal (paypal.me/brandonobrien), Patreon (patreon.com/therisingtithes), Itch (therisingtithes.itch.io), or Ko-Fi (ko-fi.com/therisingtit...)!

Support Brandon O'Brien

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · 5d

I love these kinds of shop finds!

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · 5d

Found The Spellshop out in the wild the other day at an eclectic little thrift store called Ruth's Room in Denton, TX.

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to announce "From the Diary of a Swan Bride" will be included in @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social's Happily Never After (guest edited by the micro-wizard @kaidelmas.bsky.social)! A story of sacrifice, marriage, and swan feathers 🏹💍🦢🪾

a cartoon swan is surrounded by a purple and yellow swirl of liquid

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 18d

Happy Autumn 🍂

ink and watercolor illustration with digital color by Abigail Larson depicting a black dog with red eyes with it's jaws open wide showing long teeth ready to snatch a large falling Autumn leaf.

ink and watercolor illustration with digital color by Abigail Larson depicting a black dog with red eyes holding an Autumn leaf in its mouth. Many other dead leaves litter the ground around the dog.

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · 20d

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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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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · 22d

Happy to announce "Deadrise" will be published by @blackharepress.bsky.social in an upcoming anthology! I wrote it for their Ghost Ships theme, so that gives you a little glimpse into what it's about 🌳⚰️⛵💀

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · 25d

Adorable

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 26d

REMINDER! THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES is the final book in the ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS trilogy -- following Henryk as he wanders dangerously north into bandit and wildfire (also bears, sorry) territory. Out Sep 30 from @ecwpress.bsky.social !

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 27d

Had someone come up to me because they read my poetry at 3am and couldn’t sleep till they wrote a poem of their own…and it was good. (They shared it with me.)

Poetry brings people together ❤️

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · Sep 9

Lovely!

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · Sep 7

Happy to announce "Passenger of the Weyward" will be published in @crepuscularmag.bsky.social! A story for anyone who has ever found the Weyward Stations, that place we go to make difficult choices ☕ 👜🎟️🚉

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · Sep 7

We need your support in the next 3 days, before the fall of eternal night. Help us breathe new stories that keep us alive, each word and phrase building the monster’s body, the one who rends and tears and protects us from darkness. kck.st/4mIkEm1

A strange creature lurks upright in the colorful darkness, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wouldst thou dress like a mermaid-themed item of vintage Corningware?
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Cornflower Mermaid by tanaudel | Redbubble

Mermaid drawn for Mermay, inspired by vintage corningware designs.

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · Sep 3

It definitely counts!

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