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Jess Elizabeth Reed @jexewizabee.bsky.social · Jul 13

Very glad to have Rituals for Dead Games live @summoningpress.bsky.social !

My game, What Remains, is included alongside other fantastic rituals 🩷

Summoning Circle Press @summoningpress.bsky.social · Jul 13

THE RITUALS ARE HERE

summoning.itch.io/dead-games

Rituals For Dead Games by Summoning Circle

small playable offerings for your grief

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Jess Elizabeth Reed @jexewizabee.bsky.social · Jun 19

I had some scary medical stuff going on the past couple of months (everything is fine 👍🏻). So nice to be able to stop stressing about my health and instead stress about *looks around* all of this bullshit 😵‍💫

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Jess Elizabeth Reed @jexewizabee.bsky.social · Jun 2

My newest review is up—was extremely glad to see Rune Factory try something a little new 🩷

Nintendo Life @nintendolife.com · Jun 2

Review: Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma (Switch) - A Bold Reinvention That Pays Off. (Repost)

Review: Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma (Switch) - A Bold Reinvention That Pays Off

It'd be rune not to

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Michael A. Reed @mike-cant-reed.bsky.social · May 30

It is time for the first volume of Tiny Terrors from @gravesidepress.bsky.social There are many fantastic stories in this anthology and they nailed the cover!

Grab your copy and support Graveside Press: graveside-press.com/product/tiny...

Tiny Terrors (Spring 2025) | Graveside Press

Step into the Graveside … Horrors abound, and you never know what you’re gonna find. Winged beasts at a snowy Chicago train stop, a museum of death that’s a little too realistic, the new apartment po...

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · May 29

You deserve art that is beautiful and strange, cathartic and comforting, hopeful and dark and terrifying and cozy, complex and thoughtful, layered and surreal--just all the things humans can create, you deserve to discover. There is so much noise but I hope you keep finding the art you need.

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · May 23

I am, once again, asking you to share this call for stories widely: The Apocryphal will be an anthology of Palestinian horror and dark fantasy/sci fi published by Roseway.

Details below! soniasulaiman.com/the-apocryph...

The Apocryphal -Call for Submissions

Palestinian Dark Fantasy and Horror Fiction Anthology -Call for submissions – a·poc·ry·phal /əˈpäkrəf(ə)l/ adjective adjective: apocryphal (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, althou…

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · May 7

BRAVE NEW WEIRD is fully open for preorders! Standard softcover, eBook, and a couple of the limited edition hardcovers remain available still.
25 of the Best and Weirdest stories of the year, celebrating proudly INDEPENDENT fiction.
Hail the Bravest & the Weirdest:
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Tenebrous Press - The Home of New Weird Horror

Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.

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Jess Elizabeth Reed @jexewizabee.bsky.social · May 7

Congrats to everyone included in the final TOC! I’m still very excited to have been shortlisted and even more excited to read all the included stories ⭐️

Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · May 7

Good morning hi would you like to know the BRAVE NEW WEIRD TABLE OF CONTENTS?
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/5/...

BRAVE NEW WEIRD: Final Table of Contents announced, Preorders open — tenebrous press

Hey Ho, Tenebrous Cult! Please join us in congratulating the Weirdo Class of 2024! The following twenty-five individuals will comprise the Table of Contents of BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Ho...

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · Apr 2

Ooh FF Reading Team members @hannahgreer.bsky.social and @jexewizabee.bsky.social on the Brave New Weird shortlist!! Congrats!

Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · Apr 2

Congratulations to all the brilliant authors on the BRAVE NEW WEIRD shortlist! And a hearty & exhausted thanks to the nearly 1000 submissions we had to agonize over.

Full list here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/...

Or in the screenshots🖤☠️

Final Table of Contents will be announced...one day.

The BRAVE NEW WEIRD SHORTLIST:

Ainsley Hawthorn - Big Cats of Newfoundland

Aleksandra Ugelstad Elnæs - Spolia

Alex Fox - The City of Cities, Inverted; A Shadow Cast By Many Hands

Angela Liu - A Contract of Ink and Skin

Ann LeBlanc - Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth

Avra Margariti - Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn

Azure Arther - Reciprocity

Briar Ripley Page - Birth Of a Sucker

Calla Eris Orion - Kiss of a Toad

Casey Lawrence - Ten Things I Have Learned About Human Skin: A Presentation

[sarah] Cavar - Mad Studies

Dane Erbach - Something Else

David Corse - The Amassing Man

E.G. Condé - Sibilance

E.M. Linden - Mangrove Daughter

Elad Haber - End of Line

Elana Gomel - Mother Black Hole

Eleanna Castroianni - Zarghána

Emma Burnett - Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3]

Emma E. Murray - An Angel of God

Emmett Nahil - Vining

Erik McHatton - The Man Who Collected Ligotti

F. J. Bergmann - The Museum of Etymology

Faith Allington - Teacakes for Foxes

Guan Un - Painted Surfaces

Hannah Greer - To Be Human

Ira Rat - Soft

Jack Klausner - Cardboard Faces

Jack Lennon - The Scottish Welfare Fund Application Form

James Cato - Wonders of a Plastic Ocean

Jes Malitoris - The House of Coiled Earth

Jess Elizabeth Reed - The Belly

K. A. Roy - Welcome to Rebirth Grove

K.A. Wiggins - The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault)

Kay Vaindal - Pig House

Kelsea Yu - Creature

Lena Ng - The Halloween Horror Show

Leo Oliveira - They Remember Faces

Leslie What - Wayback

Lor Gislason - fumes

Lucas Yao-Bendimerad - So Dramatic

M. L. Krishnan - Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation

Madalena Daleziou - Hauntless House

Matthew Mitchell - Knight Rumors

Nayt Rundquist - Flashes of Neverwhen

O F Cieri - The Tragedy Brotherhood

Plangdi Neple - Not All Your Bones Are Yours

Raluca Balasa - Cogs in the (War) Machine

Ryan T. Jenkins - The Potato Problem

Samir Sirk Morató - EGREGORE

Shantell Powell - The Snow Hath No Queen

Sharang Biswas - Waiting for Jonah

SJ Townend- I HAVE SEEN SEVEN BAD THINGS

Sonya Vatomsky - The Yolo Wallpaper

Susan L. Lin - Gravitational Pull

Tehnuka - You Can Leave Your Helmet On

Tiffany Michelle Brown - Full Immersion

Tim Pratt - The Liminal Space Dating Agency

Timaeus Bloom - Memorabilia

Zoe Kaplan - Travelling Salesman

Cover art for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 3 by Matt Blairstone: a Monster Cereal style homage of a toxic green skeleton with corals sprouting from its skull, eating a bowl of Weird cereal: slugs, hardware, severed fingers, green sludge.

TEXT:
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: THE BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR VOLUME 3
Hardcover Edition
Signed Bookplate
Preorder now
Limited to 50 copies
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · Apr 2

Also, since I just mentioned this in a meeting: you still have time to apply for the first ever Banff Literary Arts Science Fiction Residency! Come hang with me and @aijiang.bsky.social and @amalelmohtar.com !

www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

a glowing elk standing on a typewriter. probably not comfortable, but maybe it is, because he is a: SCIENCE FICTION ELK. text reads BANFF CENTRE SCIENCE FICTION RESIDENCY. YOU MUST APPLY. Application deadline: April 16, 2025. DO NOT DISAPPOINT SCIENCE FICTION ELK. THE CONSEQUENCES ARE UNIMAGINABLE. look at him there going clack clack with his hooves.

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · Apr 2

sooo happy to see the amazing story by @jexewizabee.bsky.social on the @tenebrouspress.bsky.social BNW shortlist! i got to publish this story in the zine i edited for @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social and it was truly a weird and wonderful delight tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/...

Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Volume Three! — tenebrous press

Hails, Tenebrous Cult!

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Jess Elizabeth Reed @jexewizabee.bsky.social · Apr 2

Wow! I’m so so so excited to have my epistolary horror flash, The Belly, on this list with so many other strange and lovely pieces 🖤🖤🖤

Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · Apr 2

Congratulations to all the brilliant authors on the BRAVE NEW WEIRD shortlist! And a hearty & exhausted thanks to the nearly 1000 submissions we had to agonize over.

Full list here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/...

Or in the screenshots🖤☠️

Final Table of Contents will be announced...one day.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · Mar 7

🧵Important status update on FF's future🧵

Short version: FF will be reducing its publishing schedule to three issues per year and reducing the number of stories in each issue. We'll also be permanently closing to reprints.

Read the full thread for more details.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · Mar 5

The table of contents for Saros #2 is here! Editor @speculativekane.bsky.social presents flash fiction by @lchanwrites.bsky.social, @ianli.bsky.social, @breewernicke.bsky.social, @spencerwriting.bsky.social, and @jmbest.bsky.social.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

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Cover for Saros Speculative Fiction #2: Cocktail Edition

In the background, there's a bunch of ethereal blue and pink wisps, like maybe paint strokes or impressionistic clouds? From off cover, a hand in a suitsleeve, holds a halved citrus, from which a tentacle emerges. The tentacle is dripping into a wine glass, which contains an open mouth.

Text on the bottom says:
Edited by C.A. Kane
Featuring original fiction by Jim Best, Lex Chamberlin, L. Chan, Lesley Hart Gunn, Rien Gray, Caroline Hung, Ian Li, Mari Ness, Spencer Nitkey, Bree Wernicke. March 2025.

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Jess Elizabeth Reed @jexewizabee.bsky.social · Feb 24

My latest review for Nintendo Life is up!

Nintendo Life @nintendolife.com · Feb 24

Review: Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) - A Comprehensive Round-Up With A Few Real Winners.

Review: Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) - A Comprehensive Round-Up With A Few Real Winners

Duels in the crown

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Jess Elizabeth Reed @jexewizabee.bsky.social · Feb 18

Much needed desk reset 😮‍💨

A somewhat cluttered desk with two monitors and a mechanical keyboard. The desktop screen to the left has a wall paper with a giant castle and red sky and fog, and the right screen has a skeleton with its hands raised and a cosmic mountainous background. On the desk itself is also a small vampire doll (named Bertram), a checkered picture frame with a drawing of a flying eyeball, a Nintendo switch dock, and lots of post it notes.

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Summoning Circle Press @summoningpress.bsky.social · Feb 18

Introducing our ritual writers for our first game zine!

@qrowscant.bsky.social
@quinnbeckham27.bsky.social
@jexewizabee.bsky.social
and Anna George ✨

The writing is underway and we look forward to sharing more in the coming weeks.

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · Feb 5

It is genuinely impossible to overstate how stupid and craven the executive class is, or how hostile to the creative work and to the workers that create the billions of dollars of value that they parasitize

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · Feb 5

"To break out beyond the core audience, games need to directly connect to the evolving demand of players who increasingly seek shared world features and deeper engagement alongside high-quality narratives" EA's CEO has said, post Dragon Age: The Veilguard. bit.ly/3Q52rAP

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · Jan 30

Touch grass. Now touch stone. Now touch water. Now spill blood inside the glyph. Now light the brazier

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · Jan 27

I wrote a thing about Angel! it is full of spoilers! I made myself very mad!

I hope y'all will read this one -- I worked very hard on it and I'm super proud of how it came out.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jan 27

25 years later, @readingtheend.bsky.social still loves "Angel"--but we need to acknowledge the series' deeply troubling insistence that sex can't be meaningful or important unless it's hurting people. Let's discuss...

reactormag.com/i-finally-fi...

I Finally Figured Out the Problem: Angel Hates Sex - Reactor

I truly love this show... but 25 years later, something finally clicked.

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Jess Elizabeth Reed @jexewizabee.bsky.social · Jan 30

Had the pleasure of reviewing Hello Kitty Island Adventure! You can read my review over at Nintendo Life now :)

Nintendo Life @nintendolife.com · Jan 30

Review: Hello Kitty Island Adventure (Switch) - A Cute Social Sim That Takes Notes From Nintendo's Best.

Review: Hello Kitty Island Adventure (Switch) - A Cute Social Sim That Takes Notes From Nintendo's Best

New Fur-izons

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Jess Elizabeth Reed @jexewizabee.bsky.social · Jan 26

This is so real lmao and same

Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · Jan 26

because i don't want to write gays holding hands in space. i want to write gays being tormented in space.

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Jess Elizabeth Reed @jexewizabee.bsky.social · Jan 26

So, I found the dvd for this movie at a thrift shop near me, had never heard of it but had to get it because well, I’m a Jess(ica). A very well spent $5 lol—what a weird film

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Hexagon SF Magazine @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 26

Hexagon has been my most incredible creative venture thus far, but it’s time to say goodbye (for now).

Read the full announcement of Hexagon’s hiatus on our website or Patreon. 🧡

Hexagon Hiatus

I have edited 19 (soon to be 20) issues of my favourite magazine of all time, but it’s time to say goodbye (for now). I started Hexagon as a project to gain editing experience and to improve my own…

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · Jan 15

Announcement:

Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine

WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!

full details here:

psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

the promo cover of Fantasy Magazine shows a women in the grass with a glowing sky behind her. The text says Returning June 2025 Fantasy Magazine

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