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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 10d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Flights of Foundry @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 13d

In just 15 minutes the awesome Vijayalaxmi Samal aka @kaunvijaya will be doing a reading at #Flights2025! Come check it out! There’s still time to register if you haven’t yet: flights-of-foundry.o...

Cuddle pile of Flights of Foundry gryphons including a harpy eagle, a bald eagle, a barn owl, and a cockatoo.

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you so much reading and including it! This was one of my dreams when i started writing short fiction 🌺

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · 23d

OMG this is my postman! My story is in this omgomgomg

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 24d

@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social is recommending a body horror summer camp, a Carmilla retelling, and a cursed postman (and many more). Which of August's must-read SFF short stories will you pick up first?

reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2025 - Reactor

As someone who works in a school in Southern California, August and September are chaotic months with too much to do competing with weeks of baking heat and an overwhelming desire to be back on summer...

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 24d

Relieved to get a message from Ahmad, who is still alive, but his family of 11, like all families in Gaza right now, is in displacement and in great danger from Israel's genocidal famine, invasion & intensified bombing. Please keep sharing & donating, they're in great need.

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 28d

Ahmad's family of 11 is in great danger from the advancing IDF as they're starved & displaced in Israel's genocidal siege. Bluesky keeps deleting his accounts. Please share & donate to help them cover the steep costs of evacuation, food, & shelter, they're out in the open:

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ever watched a girl you barely know get eaten alive by murder hornets in the mess hall? Ever spoken to a dead guy who came home to tell you about the demon who killed him?

Pre-order BANDIGOAT

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales

Seven Indian authors. Seven stories of the eerie, the gruesome, the demonic, and the melty.

www.kickstarter.com

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · 27d

I pray you have the strength to catch up

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · 29d

Had a short trip over to Kolkata where everything is under-construction right now. They are setting up the structure for the Durga Puja Pandals. Wish I could stay to actually see them when they are done

A busy road with a colorful half arch framing the road

A bamboo frame over the road for construction

A wooden frame in the shape of a temple at the end of a street with cars.

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Kel Coleman @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social · Sep 9

ICYMI, I have a new story out in Lightspeed Magazine about lovers aboard a doomed science vessel!!

It's short but loaded with joy and grief and lavish descriptions of alien and not-so-alien food.

Check it out:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

Last Meal Aboard the Awassa - Lightspeed Magazine

Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and t...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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JulieR @abetterjulie.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's me! My story is out!

Writing this story almost broke me, and I'm so happy everyone will get a chance to read it!

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Issue: BCS #440 out today, featuring stories of driven protagonists dodging authority by returning BCS authors Jonathan Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social and Julie Reeser @abetterjulie.bsky.social, behind cover art by Jereme Peabody: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #440 by Scott Andrews

The Good Life and the Gaze of Staivash by Jonathan Olfert. Compass Rose, Running by Julie Reeser.

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Sep 8

Palestinian families like Hammam's are being bombed, displaced, & starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you can, they urgently need shelter:

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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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The Cosmic Background @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hellllooooo from the static! It is fundraising season for many spec mags out there. We are doing things a little differently with a small gofundme to help us into 2026.

We are already at $2 and just need a little boost to help us to our goal of $2400 👻

www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

Donate to Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices, organized by Sam Asher

For two years, The Cosmic Background has been the world's premier venue for f… Sam Asher needs your support for Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices

www.gofundme.com

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Rukman Ragas (hiatus) @rukman.bsky.social · Sep 8

SO incredibly gorgeous and vividly haunting, and such a Vee story too.

Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have a story out in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social today!!!!

It's about a letter than demands itself to be delivered through a war torn country, about service and community and more! ✉️

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Postman, Soldier, Traitor by Vijayalaxmi Samal

Sometimes the letter wants to go over bridges already burned. The bridge must have been here when the boy passed. The journey becomes a battle then, of convincing and calming the letter. Every time, A...

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Sep 8

thank you, Rukman!!!! 🥺🌸💜

Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Sep 8

The story would not be possible without so many critique partners and cheerleaders like Emmi 💜

Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is a gorgeous story by @kaunvijaya.bsky.social
that shares the humanity in war. I highly recommend giving this a read!

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/post...

#speculative #shortstory #speculativefiction #fantasy #mustread

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Postman, Soldier, Traitor by Vijayalaxmi Samal

Sometimes the letter wants to go over bridges already burned. The bridge must have been here when the boy passed. The journey becomes a battle then, of convincing and calming the letter. Every time, A...

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Sep 8

EMMI!!! 👉👈 thank you

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · Sep 7

My fave short fiction read this week was from @kaunvijaya.bsky.social in BCS about how war is a complex hell for the heart. Loads more story depth, setting detail and emotion than I thought possible at this length and with inexorable pacing.

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/post...

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Sep 8

🥺💜

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Sep 8

🥺😭

Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social · Sep 7

So many well-delivered, gut-punch lines in this story.

"Laughter has the danger of spilling into something he cannot afford right now." left me feeling a bit ruined. NGL.

"He tries to stay away from the ones who flinch from a man." does SO MUCH work in the context of the story.

Very good read!

Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have a story out in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social today!!!!

It's about a letter than demands itself to be delivered through a war torn country, about service and community and more! ✉️

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm so happy you enjoyed this! Thank you!!! This made my day

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Sep 3

🌸 x100

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Alanna @seatosky.bsky.social · Aug 29

I really liked this story, definitely recommend it!

Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · Aug 29

Seems like a good month for Vijayalaxmi, who is also in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social with Postman, Soldier, Traitor www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/post...

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you so much 🥺

Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Sep 3

ATTENTION !!!!!

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Apex Magazine team is thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter for 2026 begins OCTOBER 1ST!! 🎃🍁

We're keeping all the rewards you love, adding exciting new rewards for readers and writers alike, AND reopening submissions! Mark your calendars, and we'll see you at the graveyard smash! 👻🌙🐈‍⬛📅

"Apex Magazine Submissions OPENING! October 1st!"

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