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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 22h

“Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover.”

🛸 new story from Megan Baffoe

www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysant...

The Chrysanthemum

by Megan Baffoe Thirty-eight men were lost to the sirens, and one chrysanthemum. Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover. Maybe. I’d heard the o...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 22h

“Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover.”

🛸 new story from Megan Baffoe

www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysant...

The Chrysanthemum

by Megan Baffoe Thirty-eight men were lost to the sirens, and one chrysanthemum. Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover. Maybe. I’d heard the o...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 2d

this new one from Megan Baffoe has one of my favorite sentences i’ve published so far.

🛸🛸🛸 get your socks knocked off by this one www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysant...

The Chrysanthemum

by Megan Baffoe Thirty-eight men were lost to the sirens, and one chrysanthemum. Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover. Maybe. I’d heard the o...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 2d

this new one from Megan Baffoe has one of my favorite sentences i’ve published so far.

🛸🛸🛸 get your socks knocked off by this one www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysant...

The Chrysanthemum

by Megan Baffoe Thirty-eight men were lost to the sirens, and one chrysanthemum. Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover. Maybe. I’d heard the o...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 4d

comin’ out of my cage and I’ve been doin’ just fine 🛸🛸

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 9d

🛸🛸 new today
🛸🛸 a spare little space horror

from @pbarmby.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/

Blackout

by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 4d

comin’ out of my cage and I’ve been doin’ just fine 🛸🛸

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 9d

🛸🛸 new today
🛸🛸 a spare little space horror

from @pbarmby.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/

Blackout

by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 7d

🛸 “… we never managed to communicate let alone conspire.”

🛸 a choice
🛸 from @pbarmby.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/

Blackout

by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 7d

🛸 “… we never managed to communicate let alone conspire.”

🛸 a choice
🛸 from @pbarmby.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/

Blackout

by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 9d

🛸🛸 new today
🛸🛸 a spare little space horror

from @pbarmby.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/

Blackout

by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 9d

🛸🛸 new today
🛸🛸 a spare little space horror

from @pbarmby.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/

Blackout

by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 10d

new story tomorrow. catch up on the most recent stories. you can expect:

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 14d

i think this month has been a banger. spend part of your sunday catching up

www.nightshadesmag.com/tag/issue-5/

Issue 5 - Night Shades

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 12d

ghost mom is here now, too
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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 15d

let Ghost Mom haunt your weekend

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

Ghost Mom

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 12d

ghost mom is here now, too
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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 15d

let Ghost Mom haunt your weekend

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

Ghost Mom

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 14d

i think this month has been a banger. spend part of your sunday catching up

www.nightshadesmag.com/tag/issue-5/

Issue 5 - Night Shades

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 15d

let Ghost Mom haunt your weekend

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

Ghost Mom

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 15d

let Ghost Mom haunt your weekend

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

Ghost Mom

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 15d

“Silence was lightning before Ghost Mom thundered the shit out of you.”

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 16d

🛸🛸oh no. it’s Ghost Mom.

🛸🛸new today from Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

Ghost Mom

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 16d

🛸🛸oh no. it’s Ghost Mom.

🛸🛸new today from Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

Ghost Mom

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 15d

“Silence was lightning before Ghost Mom thundered the shit out of you.”

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 16d

🛸🛸oh no. it’s Ghost Mom.

🛸🛸new today from Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

Ghost Mom

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 16d

🛸🛸oh no. it’s Ghost Mom.

🛸🛸new today from Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

Ghost Mom

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 16d

and read the story here: www.nightshadesmag.com/a-track-of-c...

A Track of Color Among the Wars

by Rodrigo Culagovski The concrete ramps curve through the forest, down and down the hillside, under the trees, with bridges over ravines and high, sloping sides on the harder turns. The twisting tra...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 16d

click through to see @culagovski.net’s photos which inspired his story A Track of Color Among the Wars

Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 16d

September MicroVerse roundup is out!

Flash Roundup * September 2025

A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 17d

🛸🛸catch up on the latest from @reasie.bsky.social
🛸🛸before a new story drops tomorrow

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 23d

🛸🛸take a walk through the library 🛸🛸with @reasie.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...

At the Library of Teeth

by Marie Vibbert At the library of teeth, you will find a truth you had forgotten. Begin in the comfortable colors of the children’s room. Comb through bicuspids like lentils and molars like castings...

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 23d

I got capricious and wrote an abecedarian: www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...

At the Library of Teeth

by Marie Vibbert At the library of teeth, you will find a truth you had forgotten. Begin in the comfortable colors of the children’s room. Comb through bicuspids like lentils and molars like castings...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 22d

this one is abecedarian. as though it wasn’t cool enough already

from @reasie.bsky.social

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 23d

🛸🛸take a walk through the library 🛸🛸with @reasie.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...

At the Library of Teeth

by Marie Vibbert At the library of teeth, you will find a truth you had forgotten. Begin in the comfortable colors of the children’s room. Comb through bicuspids like lentils and molars like castings...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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