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Relic by Pedro Ponce
One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong. Some expressed surprise that they were still among the living, only just now low...
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"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
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"One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong."
This week on @hexliterary.bsky.social, a new mystery by the one and only Pedro Ponce. Don't miss this little wonder! "Relic," is up now on the site! 📺
This week on @hexliterary.bsky.social, a new mystery by the one and only Pedro Ponce. Don't miss this little wonder! "Relic," is up now on the site! 📺
Relic by Pedro Ponce
One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong. Some expressed surprise that they were still among the living, only just now low...
hexliterary.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong."
This week on @hexliterary.bsky.social, a new mystery by the one and only Pedro Ponce. Don't miss this little wonder! "Relic," is up now on the site! 📺
This week on @hexliterary.bsky.social, a new mystery by the one and only Pedro Ponce. Don't miss this little wonder! "Relic," is up now on the site! 📺
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What an amazing opening line: "One by one, the talk show hosts were dying."
"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Relic by Pedro Ponce
One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong. Some expressed surprise that they were still among the living, only just now low...
hexliterary.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
What an amazing opening line: "One by one, the talk show hosts were dying."
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One of mine from my tiny chapbook, “The Moon, My Heart” www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
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November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
One of mine from my tiny chapbook, “The Moon, My Heart” www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Relic by Pedro Ponce
One by one, the talk show hosts were dying. We looked for connections, signs of foul play, but suspected we were wrong. Some expressed surprise that they were still among the living, only just now low...
hexliterary.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..."
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
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The collection's cover is here! And a newer release date! I’m in love with this design—the watercolor texture, the way it expresses how deeply this collection inhabits the Sonoran Desert and how collage-like these stories are in their styles and sizes. Can’t wait to share the book with everyone.
Cover reveal! Introducing The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by @joelhans.com, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award. Set to release February 3, 2026: Preorder link coming soon.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
Fabulous cover art and design by Elisabeth Anderson Art & Design.
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The collection's cover is here! And a newer release date! I’m in love with this design—the watercolor texture, the way it expresses how deeply this collection inhabits the Sonoran Desert and how collage-like these stories are in their styles and sizes. Can’t wait to share the book with everyone.
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Share the sauce, friends.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Share the sauce, friends.
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This is very sad news, but I am glad to see that The Deadlands will continue.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is very sad news, but I am glad to see that The Deadlands will continue.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
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What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
FAULKNER DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES, SO WHY SHOULD I?: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WADDY BULLION by Kirsti MacKenzie
John Waddy Bullion is as versatile a writer as they come. His loosely-linked collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers follows coming-of-age tales of Midwestern sons and the fraught relati...
xraylitmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
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Thank you so much to @mynachang.bsky.social for giving me the chance to yap about Vile Lady Villains — and also to share the love about some of my favorite SFF publications
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
New interview with Danai Christopoulou about VILE LADY VILLAINS!
"So Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth had always been favorites of mine, and growing up I started seeing the parallels between their characters, how they were almost an allegory for female ambition and power."
@danaiwrites.bsky.social
"So Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth had always been favorites of mine, and growing up I started seeing the parallels between their characters, how they were almost an allegory for female ambition and power."
@danaiwrites.bsky.social
Author Interview * Danai Christopoulou
Danai Christopoulou’s writing consistently makes me smile and/or cry—often within the same story. Danai’s work features lyrical prose, incisive character choices, and an undercurrent of triumph aga…
mynachang.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Thank you so much to @mynachang.bsky.social for giving me the chance to yap about Vile Lady Villains — and also to share the love about some of my favorite SFF publications
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social
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Friends! I am teaching a workshop in December that I am so excited about! I’ve been writing and writing about domestic fabulism forever, but I’ve never actually fashioned a workshop around it before. I think this is going to be so much fun - I hope you’ll join!
No Place Like Home: Writing Domestic Fabulism with Amber Sparks
Learn to write domestic fabulism with author Amber Sparks. Transform ordinary home and family stories with fantastical elements in this online seminar.
writingworkshops.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Friends! I am teaching a workshop in December that I am so excited about! I’ve been writing and writing about domestic fabulism forever, but I’ve never actually fashioned a workshop around it before. I think this is going to be so much fun - I hope you’ll join!
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My story Storing Dinosaurs is in the new issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Please give it a read!
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...
Storing Dinosaurs | Issue 33
By Dan Weaver — "After Carmen married Phillip I couldn’t chase her with my lizards no more since it scared Phillip and he would hide in the room and the one time it made it so that Carmen couldn’t dri...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
My story Storing Dinosaurs is in the new issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Please give it a read!
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...
Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social for giving this one a chance.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/storing-dino...
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Oh hey! My story "My Mother is the Water" is available to read online in F(r)iction latest issue. This is a story inspired by the lakes of my hometown, about a girl called to the water yet doesn't want to leave the aunt who raised her.
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
My Mother is the Water - F(r)iction
My Mother is the Water by Lyndsie Manusos explores a young woman's relationship (and magical connection to) the lake.
frictionlit.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Oh hey! My story "My Mother is the Water" is available to read online in F(r)iction latest issue. This is a story inspired by the lakes of my hometown, about a girl called to the water yet doesn't want to leave the aunt who raised her.
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
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I forgot to come back to this thread but a recent favorite was this one by @rpmirabella.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social : hexliterary.com?p=2727
& if I can share a few of my own that were published in @havehashad.com : www.havehashad.com/hadposts/aut...
& if I can share a few of my own that were published in @havehashad.com : www.havehashad.com/hadposts/aut...
HAD :: Anna Vangala Jones
Skulls belonging to Anna Vangala Jones.
www.havehashad.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I forgot to come back to this thread but a recent favorite was this one by @rpmirabella.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social : hexliterary.com?p=2727
& if I can share a few of my own that were published in @havehashad.com : www.havehashad.com/hadposts/aut...
& if I can share a few of my own that were published in @havehashad.com : www.havehashad.com/hadposts/aut...
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got a teeny tiny perfect miiiiiiicro for you all today from Catherine Rockwood!!
https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk
https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
got a teeny tiny perfect miiiiiiicro for you all today from Catherine Rockwood!!
https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk
https://www.havehashad.com/6wpxk
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NEW STORY DAY!!!!!!!
My dark fantasy/horror story, “For When The Night Is Behind You And The Depths Are Ahead” is out today from @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
My dark fantasy/horror story, “For When The Night Is Behind You And The Depths Are Ahead” is out today from @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
For When the Night is Behind You and the Depths are Ahead by Corey Farrenkopf
We stood in front of the video game store for the midnight release of Castles Underground III. The crowd wore different homemade versions of the crimson armor featured on the posters, foam swords surp...
www.3lobedmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
NEW STORY DAY!!!!!!!
My dark fantasy/horror story, “For When The Night Is Behind You And The Depths Are Ahead” is out today from @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
My dark fantasy/horror story, “For When The Night Is Behind You And The Depths Are Ahead” is out today from @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
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"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
Out by Lillie E. Franks
Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day. One time on the playground behind the swings, Eli told me that he hates his mom, a...
hexliterary.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
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New flash out with Hex Literary about the horror of childhood and the allure of finally finding an escape! I’m proud of this one!
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
Out by Lillie E. Franks
Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day. One time on the playground behind the swings, Eli told me that he hates his mom, a...
hexliterary.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New flash out with Hex Literary about the horror of childhood and the allure of finally finding an escape! I’m proud of this one!
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
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A couple of brash and velvety ones up in the latest (really stacked) issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com — hope you’ll check them out (there’s two links, see)
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
Of the Lovers | Issue 33
By Addison Zeller — "They are first seen, despite the general darkness, close to the window, from which they draw back prudently, it is to be supposed, in a slow lateral glide along the surface of the...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A couple of brash and velvety ones up in the latest (really stacked) issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com — hope you’ll check them out (there’s two links, see)
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
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Afternoon gang- don't miss the brand new @lilliekoi.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social, a brilliant piece brimming with childhood dread and expectation. So. Good.
New flash out with Hex Literary about the horror of childhood and the allure of finally finding an escape! I’m proud of this one!
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Afternoon gang- don't miss the brand new @lilliekoi.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social, a brilliant piece brimming with childhood dread and expectation. So. Good.
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This month's #Mondettes picked by
Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...
Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...
November 2025
Ten stories picked by Shome Dasgupta
mondettes.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This month's #Mondettes picked by
Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...
Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...
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Katharine has put out some BANGERS this year and I'm so stoked we got one for hex
hexliterary.com?p=2814
hexliterary.com?p=2814
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Katharine has put out some BANGERS this year and I'm so stoked we got one for hex
hexliterary.com?p=2814
hexliterary.com?p=2814
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"Eli’s all smiles and Thank you, Mrs. with my parents, but when they drive away, the other face comes out..."
HUGE fan of this new @lilliekoi.bsky.social story we are featuring in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! Lillie captures so well the prickliness of childhood. Don't miss this new creeper!
HUGE fan of this new @lilliekoi.bsky.social story we are featuring in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! Lillie captures so well the prickliness of childhood. Don't miss this new creeper!
Out by Lillie E. Franks
Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day. One time on the playground behind the swings, Eli told me that he hates his mom, a...
hexliterary.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Eli’s all smiles and Thank you, Mrs. with my parents, but when they drive away, the other face comes out..."
HUGE fan of this new @lilliekoi.bsky.social story we are featuring in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! Lillie captures so well the prickliness of childhood. Don't miss this new creeper!
HUGE fan of this new @lilliekoi.bsky.social story we are featuring in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! Lillie captures so well the prickliness of childhood. Don't miss this new creeper!
"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
Out by Lillie E. Franks
Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day. One time on the playground behind the swings, Eli told me that he hates his mom, a...
hexliterary.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
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I've been having lots of Spider Folk thoughts recently -- not the Marvel, Sony, or Puig kind, just free and independent ones -- so it was such a pleasure to read this incredible novella by one of my new favorite authors @hachepueyo.bsky.social
But Not Too Bold
torpublishinggroup.com/but-not-too-...
But Not Too Bold
torpublishinggroup.com/but-not-too-...
But Not Too Bold
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November 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I've been having lots of Spider Folk thoughts recently -- not the Marvel, Sony, or Puig kind, just free and independent ones -- so it was such a pleasure to read this incredible novella by one of my new favorite authors @hachepueyo.bsky.social
But Not Too Bold
torpublishinggroup.com/but-not-too-...
But Not Too Bold
torpublishinggroup.com/but-not-too-...