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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · 14d

The publishing landscape is rough, but when it comes to indie speculative fiction, we're in a golden age!

For all your weird and dark story (and music!) cravings, Club Chicxulub Journal lives ☄️🦖

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R F Daniels (they/them) @rfdwrites.bsky.social · 26d

I've got a story, Unforgettable, in Volume 4 - LIMBO - of @clubchicxulub.bsky.social that I'm super excited to see published! clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxul...

Club Chicxulub Journal Vol. 4, Limbo – Club Chicxulub

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · Aug 10

Ionisphere issue 47 is out now. This issue focuses on SFF events and event planners. Featuring interviews with @loscon.bsky.social, @storyhour.bsky.social & @clubchicxulub.bsky.social plus an essay by @indigoskye.bsky.social

Download it for free at tnfff.org/12116-2/

Cover of Ionisphere fanzine issue 47 with cover art by Lorenz Stoer (1567)

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · Jun 25

THANK YOU to everyone who submitted pieces to Club Chicxulub Vol. 4, LIMBO!! 🌀 We received double the submissions we received last time, and we're so honored and humbled that you trust us to present your work.

We promise to respond to you asap! 🦖☄️✨

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · May 6

If you haven’t read it yet, give it a read and send us some of YOUR original speculative fiction, essays, and poems!

Submissions for Club Chicxulub Journal Vol. 4, LIMBO 🌀 are OPEN NOW through June 20!

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · May 6

You may remember Bron’s story, “In Which Helen Slaughters a Cow” in Club Chicxulub Journal Vol. 1, Summer! clubchicxulub.com/issue-1-1-su...

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · May 6

Bron Treanor lives in Maryland, but grew up in the Northern California redwoods. Her writing is eclectic but doesn't stray far from horror. She usually re-reads the gooey and gory parts.

She is currently raising her brand-new twin daughters and working on a novel about POGS on the moon.

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · May 6

Club Chicxulub is growing our team, and we’re thrilled to introduce a new reader to our masthead. Behold, Bron Treanor!
www.brontreanor.com

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · Apr 23

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN UNTIL JUNE 20th for our fourth journal issue, LIMBO 🌀 Send us something surreal, full of wonder, full of the bizarre!

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Club Chicxulub Fiction Submissions – Club Chicxulub

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · Apr 23

THANK YOU so much for transporting us into new realities ⚡ CLUB CHICXULUB VIII audio is now online on YouTube and Bandcamp. Relive the beauty and the horror on your favorite pair of headphones 🎧

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Club Chicxulub VIII – Club Chicxulub

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · Apr 19

TONIGHT at 7pm PDT, @clubchicxulub.bsky.social will be having it's reading event at Ocean Ale House in San Francisco, CA with Katie M. Flynn, Naomi Kanakia, Evan Kennedy, K.R. Morrison, & LeeAnn Perry, produced by @laurencjohnson.bsky.social, Matt Scott Carney, & Dev Bhat! buff.ly/ufr4wo4

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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · Jan 30

"We’re being so comically stupid about our social, economic, and climate futures, like, surreally stupid, that sometimes the comic and surreal is the only way to address it."

Thank you, @laurencjohnson.bsky.social for posing such kind, incisive, and intriguing questions about the work.

Lauren C. Johnson @laurencjohnson.bsky.social · Jan 30

I interviewed @taracampbell.bsky.social about her brilliant new book, City of Dancing Gargoyles (@sfwp.bsky.social) for The Racket Journal!

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An image of the cover of Tara Campbell's novel, City of Dancing Gargoyles, with an excerpt from the interview:

"I think the reason humor so often creeps into my work is captured by that old adage about laughing to keep from crying. We’re being so comically stupid about our social, economic, and climate futures, like, surreally stupid, that sometimes the comic and surreal is the only way to address it."

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · Jan 30

Jennifer Hu whipped up a deliciously horrifying and horrifyingly delicious poem for Club Chicxulub Vol. 3, Harvest! Set to an original soundscape by Matt Scott Carney, N! @ruddagerrustin.bsky.social Link in bio and here:

clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxulub-journal-vol-3-harvest

A Canva graphic with an excerpt from Jennifer Hu's poem, Revenge Milkshake:

“This recipe is highly adaptable
add more: ankle, kidney, a deflated lung,
generous helpings of the last decade of your lives—
as I said, make sure the pitcher is deep.”

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · Jan 29

Listen to Kristina perform this short story accompanied by an original soundscape and synth score by Matt Scott Carney, N! @ruddagerrustin.bsky.social and Dev Bhat, The Shipwreck Detective

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · Jan 29

Prepare yourself for a story about women’s labor, HOAs, statues, and stares that turn beings to stone. We were honored to publish Heavier Versions by @kristinaten.bsky.social in Club Chicxulub Vol. 3, Harvest!

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A Canva image with an excerpt from Kristina Ten's short story, Heavier Versions:

“Madison watched the soft brown fur for the slightest flutter. When there was nothing, and still nothing, she turned the bat to stone.

Well, she turned the bat to faux marble.”

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · Jan 24

We're still haunted by Zeke Jarvis' monster story, “Once Bitten.” Give it a read in Club Chicxulub Vol. 3, Harvest. Link in bio and here:

clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxulub-journal-vol-3-harvest

Canva-made graphic with an excerpt from Once Bitten by Zeke Jarvis:

“The boy wanted to yell to his parents, but the thing had him paralyzed. It got to the boy’s mother and opened its mouth. The thing leaned in and clamped down on his mother’s cheek. She whimpered, but the boy’s father shushed her. She put a hand over her mouth.”

Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · Jan 23

Philip Harris @phashion.bsky.social contributed some eerie, ecological Polaroids to Club Chicxulub Vol.3, Harvest! 🍃🌫️ The perfect complement to the stories in this issue! Take a look 👀

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A Polaroid of moss growing on a headstone shaped like a book

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · Jan 21

ICYM Club Chicxulub Vol. 3, Harvest, “What Came out of the Thaw” by Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social is a good place to start. Grab a blanket and a hot cup of tea, and listen to Drew perform this short story accompanied by an original synth score by Dev Bhat!

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A Canva image with an excerpt of Drew Broussard's short story, "What Came Out of the Thaw"

“Some argue that the year’s curiosities are just remnants of a winter we would do best to forget. They point us to the drip, drip, drip from the eaves, the insistent reminder that spring is coming—and to be fair, weeks ago with winter’s cold grip settled around us, who among us wouldn’t have celebrated such a sign?”

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · Mar 29

My first radioplay, The Rivening, is a tale of 🏳️‍⚧️ revenge and can be heard in the latest volume of Club Chicxulub, Thaw!

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · Dec 2

Shouting about this again b/c I really loved getting to write for Club Chicxulub and the whole TOC for this issue is spectacular—also they let me read it aloud and put an eerie soundtrack to it! For all your creepy weird-nature future-tense needs...
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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · Dec 4

"Heavier Versions" • Club Chicxulub • 4,105 words 🪨

A modern-day Medusa in suburban Milwaukee reckons with her newfound power amid the threat of vulture capitalism, the tyranny of the neighborhood HOA, and the allure of the heated driveway. Presented with a custom soundscape!

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · Dec 16

I've got a story in here—audio read by me, and gorgeously scored. Check out THE HARVEST 🍃🍂

Lauren C. Johnson @laurencjohnson.bsky.social · Dec 3

Meet Club Chicxulub Journal Vol. 3, Harvest! Give it a read or give it a listen!

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With gorgeous cover illustration “Hamlet” by Sonia Lai.

An illustration of a crow standing on top of a skull. The crow and skull are draped in a strand of pearls that includes two eye pendants

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Club Chicxulub @clubchicxulub.bsky.social · Jan 20

Today is a great day to join Bluesky 🦋 We're happy to be here!

Club Chicxulub is a celebration of fabulist fiction, from sci-fi to slipstream. This performance series and literary journal features writers and their stories accompanied by a soundtrack of synthwave, darkwave, and ambient beats.

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