Laura
@chilibeck.bsky.social
Write, revise, edit, submit, repeat
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Laura
@chilibeck.bsky.social
· Mar 31
Issue 7 is live for paid subscribers and available for purchase 🎉🎉🎉
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Issue 7
Issue 7
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Woohoo 🎉 🥳 Issue 7 is now available!!! Go get your subscription and start reading your hearts out 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜
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ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Reposted by Laura
The @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark anthology Kickstarter is live! Tons of goodies up for grabs: ebook/hardcover editions, bookmarks, stickers, pins, & more!
So excited to have my wuxia fem rage story in this anthology 🥹 and to be in such excellent company ❤️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
So excited to have my wuxia fem rage story in this anthology 🥹 and to be in such excellent company ❤️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
September 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark anthology Kickstarter is live! Tons of goodies up for grabs: ebook/hardcover editions, bookmarks, stickers, pins, & more!
So excited to have my wuxia fem rage story in this anthology 🥹 and to be in such excellent company ❤️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
So excited to have my wuxia fem rage story in this anthology 🥹 and to be in such excellent company ❤️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
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A snip from my short, "The First Woman of the Qingyan Sect," in the @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark anthology 🖤 10 days left to get kickstarter rewards, such as digital/hard copy issues, stickers, bookmarks, digital art, and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
October 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A snip from my short, "The First Woman of the Qingyan Sect," in the @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark anthology 🖤 10 days left to get kickstarter rewards, such as digital/hard copy issues, stickers, bookmarks, digital art, and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. 🍁
If you want to support some amazing writers in a dark fantasy anthology check out:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Its packed full of amazing and emotional stories. (Including one of mine)
If you want to support some amazing writers in a dark fantasy anthology check out:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Its packed full of amazing and emotional stories. (Including one of mine)
Into the Dark
A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology
www.kickstarter.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. 🍁
If you want to support some amazing writers in a dark fantasy anthology check out:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Its packed full of amazing and emotional stories. (Including one of mine)
If you want to support some amazing writers in a dark fantasy anthology check out:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Its packed full of amazing and emotional stories. (Including one of mine)
My short story The Red Shoes is about a young girl with necromancer magic, on her own, desperately trying to reconnect with a loved one while running from villagers who blame her for the plague ravaging the countryside. #magic #necromancy #death #skeletons
Check out @awwlitmag.bsky.social anthology
Check out @awwlitmag.bsky.social anthology
October 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
My short story The Red Shoes is about a young girl with necromancer magic, on her own, desperately trying to reconnect with a loved one while running from villagers who blame her for the plague ravaging the countryside. #magic #necromancy #death #skeletons
Check out @awwlitmag.bsky.social anthology
Check out @awwlitmag.bsky.social anthology
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Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
kotowych.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
If you like dark moody fantasy stories with necromancy, and skeletons then you’ll probably like my short story The Red Shoes, which I’m so excited to have published in @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark Anthology!
If you have time, please check out their kickstarter
If you have time, please check out their kickstarter
October 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If you like dark moody fantasy stories with necromancy, and skeletons then you’ll probably like my short story The Red Shoes, which I’m so excited to have published in @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark Anthology!
If you have time, please check out their kickstarter
If you have time, please check out their kickstarter
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WE HIT 250 BACKERS!! +1 exclusive sticker for everyone who either added a sticker or backed at a tier with sticker rewards! That is our last backer goal!
We're in awe that over 250 of you have supported us. Thank you!! Sticker reveal coming soon 💜
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
We're in awe that over 250 of you have supported us. Thank you!! Sticker reveal coming soon 💜
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
October 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
WE HIT 250 BACKERS!! +1 exclusive sticker for everyone who either added a sticker or backed at a tier with sticker rewards! That is our last backer goal!
We're in awe that over 250 of you have supported us. Thank you!! Sticker reveal coming soon 💜
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
We're in awe that over 250 of you have supported us. Thank you!! Sticker reveal coming soon 💜
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
I was listening to History Hits, “The Ancients” podcast about #Myths. They mentioned one called “the devil and the smith” and I wonder if the Andersen’s “The Red Shoes” story is a variation of it 🤔
You can find my own original version The Red Shoes in @awwlitmag.bsky.social dark fantasy anthology.
You can find my own original version The Red Shoes in @awwlitmag.bsky.social dark fantasy anthology.
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I was listening to History Hits, “The Ancients” podcast about #Myths. They mentioned one called “the devil and the smith” and I wonder if the Andersen’s “The Red Shoes” story is a variation of it 🤔
You can find my own original version The Red Shoes in @awwlitmag.bsky.social dark fantasy anthology.
You can find my own original version The Red Shoes in @awwlitmag.bsky.social dark fantasy anthology.
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If you missed our chill & chat at @spacemagiccon.bsky.social the recording is now live! Check it out for a peek at our magazine inspirations, Kickstarter prep—and more!
👀 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEz_...
💜 Then go register for today's panels: www.rainbowspacemagic.org/
👀 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEz_...
💜 Then go register for today's panels: www.rainbowspacemagic.org/
Chill & Chat with OTHERSIDE
OTHERSIDE is a quarterly queer-led literary magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists. Their Kickstarter, to fund their first year, launched on September 29th and they will open for submissions in January 2026.
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If you missed our chill & chat at @spacemagiccon.bsky.social the recording is now live! Check it out for a peek at our magazine inspirations, Kickstarter prep—and more!
👀 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEz_...
💜 Then go register for today's panels: www.rainbowspacemagic.org/
👀 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEz_...
💜 Then go register for today's panels: www.rainbowspacemagic.org/
Have you heard of the European Dancing Plague of 1518? I hint at that strange outbreak in my dark fantasy story “The Red Shoes” which will be published in @awwlitmag.bsky.social 🎉
They’re doing a great kickstarter, you check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
They’re doing a great kickstarter, you check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Into the Dark
A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology
www.kickstarter.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Have you heard of the European Dancing Plague of 1518? I hint at that strange outbreak in my dark fantasy story “The Red Shoes” which will be published in @awwlitmag.bsky.social 🎉
They’re doing a great kickstarter, you check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
They’re doing a great kickstarter, you check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
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Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"
Older veteran: “87.”
Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”
Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”
🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
Older veteran: “87.”
Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”
Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”
🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
October 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"
Older veteran: “87.”
Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”
Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”
🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
Older veteran: “87.”
Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”
Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”
🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
Reposted by Laura
We are now one subscriber away from unlocking reprints!
We're $301 from our reprints stretch goal! If we hit that, every issue will include a reprint of a queer story no longer available online. Help us archive queer stories and support queer creators in a time of censorship!
Learn more about our plans here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
Learn more about our plans here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!
A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
www.kickstarter.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We are now one subscriber away from unlocking reprints!
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🎉 Back our Kickstarter & grab awesome rewards—book & mag bundles, stickers, postcards + a surprise bonus if we hit 50% by halfway!
Help a small press & its authors grow ❤️
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Help a small press & its authors grow ❤️
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
September 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🎉 Back our Kickstarter & grab awesome rewards—book & mag bundles, stickers, postcards + a surprise bonus if we hit 50% by halfway!
Help a small press & its authors grow ❤️
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Help a small press & its authors grow ❤️
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Reposted by Laura
We’re 10 days from the end of the Into the Dark Kickstarter! 🌑
Thanks to all of you, we’ve crossed 40% funded — and we’re aiming for $2,500 next.
If you love eerie worlds, haunting art, and dark fantasy, now’s the time to join us. 💀
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Thanks to all of you, we’ve crossed 40% funded — and we’re aiming for $2,500 next.
If you love eerie worlds, haunting art, and dark fantasy, now’s the time to join us. 💀
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
October 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We’re 10 days from the end of the Into the Dark Kickstarter! 🌑
Thanks to all of you, we’ve crossed 40% funded — and we’re aiming for $2,500 next.
If you love eerie worlds, haunting art, and dark fantasy, now’s the time to join us. 💀
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Thanks to all of you, we’ve crossed 40% funded — and we’re aiming for $2,500 next.
If you love eerie worlds, haunting art, and dark fantasy, now’s the time to join us. 💀
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Reposted by Laura
The anthology is alive, but it needs more voices to grow stronger. 🌑
Can we reach 50% funded this week? Join us, and help unlock the darkness:
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Can we reach 50% funded this week? Join us, and help unlock the darkness:
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
October 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The anthology is alive, but it needs more voices to grow stronger. 🌑
Can we reach 50% funded this week? Join us, and help unlock the darkness:
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Can we reach 50% funded this week? Join us, and help unlock the darkness:
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
In Canada today it is the National day of Truth and Reconciliation.
#EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay
I’m a European settler who lives on the stolen land of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.
Please read and learn about Canada’s Residential Schools
orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story/
#EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay
I’m a European settler who lives on the stolen land of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.
Please read and learn about Canada’s Residential Schools
orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story/
Phyllis’ Story - Orange Shirt Society
An introduction to Phyllis (Jack) Webstad and her story: her journey to residential school survivor and community leader. Get Started Here
About Phyllis Webstad
Founder, Ambassador, Author Phyll...
orangeshirtday.org
September 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In Canada today it is the National day of Truth and Reconciliation.
#EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay
I’m a European settler who lives on the stolen land of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.
Please read and learn about Canada’s Residential Schools
orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story/
#EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay
I’m a European settler who lives on the stolen land of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.
Please read and learn about Canada’s Residential Schools
orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story/
Reposted by Laura
Today is Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honoring indigenous children who never returned home from residential schools, as well as the survivors, their families, and their communities. #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters
September 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Today is Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honoring indigenous children who never returned home from residential schools, as well as the survivors, their families, and their communities. #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters
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I'd like to acknowledge the indigenous peoples of Canada today. The character limit on BlueSky is too small for what I'd like to say, so please read the images attached 🫶
#truthandreconciliation #orangeshirtday #canadianhistory #indigenous #canada
#truthandreconciliation #orangeshirtday #canadianhistory #indigenous #canada
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'd like to acknowledge the indigenous peoples of Canada today. The character limit on BlueSky is too small for what I'd like to say, so please read the images attached 🫶
#truthandreconciliation #orangeshirtday #canadianhistory #indigenous #canada
#truthandreconciliation #orangeshirtday #canadianhistory #indigenous #canada
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Today, we honour the children who never returned home and the survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.
#OrangeShirtDay
#TruthAndReconciliation
#OrangeShirtDay
#TruthAndReconciliation
September 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Today, we honour the children who never returned home and the survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.
#OrangeShirtDay
#TruthAndReconciliation
#OrangeShirtDay
#TruthAndReconciliation
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💀 If the Into the Dark anthology Kickstarter hits $2,500- by Monday, I'll release for free my article: "Take Me by the Hand: How the Danse Macabre Became Real" and all backers get a bonus gift! 💀
Please consider supporting this great little independent publisher!
Please consider supporting this great little independent publisher!
If we hit $2,500 by Monday, all backers (any amount!) get a bonus gift 🎁 PLUS we’ll release for free “Take Me by the Hand: How the Danse Macabre Became Real,” an article on the Danse Macabre & the Dancing Plague.
Support our writers + anthology! 🖤📚
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Support our writers + anthology! 🖤📚
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
a black and white cartoon of a skeleton dancing in a graveyard .
ALT: a black and white cartoon of a skeleton dancing in a graveyard .
media.tenor.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
💀 If the Into the Dark anthology Kickstarter hits $2,500- by Monday, I'll release for free my article: "Take Me by the Hand: How the Danse Macabre Became Real" and all backers get a bonus gift! 💀
Please consider supporting this great little independent publisher!
Please consider supporting this great little independent publisher!
Reposted by Laura
❄️In Into the Dark, @devanbarlow.bsky.social Devan Barlow’s A Frozen Woman of Balecrocus weaves a tale of legacy, defiance & chilling magic. Cold needles, colder bloodlines & power that refuses to die.
Support this story & 33 others! Join the Kickstarter today!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Support this story & 33 others! Join the Kickstarter today!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Into the Dark
A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology
www.kickstarter.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
❄️In Into the Dark, @devanbarlow.bsky.social Devan Barlow’s A Frozen Woman of Balecrocus weaves a tale of legacy, defiance & chilling magic. Cold needles, colder bloodlines & power that refuses to die.
Support this story & 33 others! Join the Kickstarter today!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Support this story & 33 others! Join the Kickstarter today!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
This is a fantastic story by a wonderfully talented person!
The First Woman of the Qingyan Sect by Chezza Lee @chezza.bsky.social
The dead don’t stay buried… and Xiangyun’s sword is ready. ⚔️🔥
Support our dark fantasy anthology on Kickstarter and help bring these stories to life: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
The dead don’t stay buried… and Xiangyun’s sword is ready. ⚔️🔥
Support our dark fantasy anthology on Kickstarter and help bring these stories to life: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Into the Dark
A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology
www.kickstarter.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is a fantastic story by a wonderfully talented person!
Reposted by Laura
🚨 New update! 🚨
Read our free article on the origins of dark fantasy by
Ollie DeVoid!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
For access to backer-only behind-the-scenes/non-fic articles pledge today & help fund the anthology + unlock more spooky goodies! 🖤📚
#Kickstarter #darkfantasy #horror
Read our free article on the origins of dark fantasy by
Ollie DeVoid!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
For access to backer-only behind-the-scenes/non-fic articles pledge today & help fund the anthology + unlock more spooky goodies! 🖤📚
#Kickstarter #darkfantasy #horror
September 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🚨 New update! 🚨
Read our free article on the origins of dark fantasy by
Ollie DeVoid!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
For access to backer-only behind-the-scenes/non-fic articles pledge today & help fund the anthology + unlock more spooky goodies! 🖤📚
#Kickstarter #darkfantasy #horror
Read our free article on the origins of dark fantasy by
Ollie DeVoid!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
For access to backer-only behind-the-scenes/non-fic articles pledge today & help fund the anthology + unlock more spooky goodies! 🖤📚
#Kickstarter #darkfantasy #horror