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Plangdi Neple

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SFF writer and nerd! || He/Him Stories in: Omenana, Anathema, Translunar Travelers Lounge, FIYAH, Baffling, and more. https://plangdineple.wixsite.com/plangdi

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Plangdi Neple @plangdineple.bsky.social · Apr 1

My little instructional manual on crime is in this! As well as other lovely stories and poems.
Do check it out🫶

Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · Apr 1

The new issue of 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 has arrived.

Check out stories from Teresa Milbrodt, Plangdi Neple, Erin Brown, Cindy Phan, C. L. Sidell, Sara Omer & Soramimi Hanarejima. Plus the rad cover by @marcheriest.bsky.social.

www.bafflingmag.com/issue-nineteen

Issue Nineteen — Baffling Magazine

www.bafflingmag.com

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Plangdi Neple @plangdineple.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss this opportunity to work with Aishatu and encounter her brilliance!

Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · 2d

📢 Call for Submissions! I'm excited to share that I'm curating an Anthology with @aroko.bsky.social We are inviting writers from Africa & the Diaspora to send us stories that (re)imagine folklore, myths, and legends.

🗓️Deadline Dec 31 2025.

➡️More info at: www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 16d

"You close your eyes, silently mouthing your favorite moons backwards as you unlock your mind to connect with the interstellar swarm."

Read 'They Promised This Would Be Beautiful' by @esichr.bsky.social

inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...

#SFF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SpecFic

They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky

Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.

inner-worlds.ghost.io

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 26d

I have a new story out in Khoreo Magazine!

If you purchase the issue or subscribe, you can read it now, or wait a couple of weeks when it’s up for free!

khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 26d

Issue 5.3 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A special themed issue on Symbiosis—close relationships between species. The stories creatively explore their own take on this theme. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com

This incredible cover is by @jocelynshort.bsky.social 🧡

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Indigo Boo! @indigorue.bsky.social · 26d

My story is out in Small Wonders today!

“What was supposed to happen was this: on the faire’s opening day, Princess Lilaclaire would visit the pond, kiss a frog into a prince, share a candy apple with him to test their true love, and live happily ever after.”

Read to see what actually happened…

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 26d

Something has gone awry at the faire this year, and Princess Lilaclaire is not having a great time. Check out "Princess Lilaclaire and the Witch's Frog Faire" by @indigorue.bsky.social today and see what happens when the frogs just aren't cooperating:

Princess Lilaclaire and the Witch’s Frog Faire - Small Wonders

"How's that saying go?" Elsamina scooped a frog from the pond with a long-handled net. "You gotta kiss a few of these before you find your prince." She lifted the slimy creature towards Lilaclaire's lips and cackled. "Pucker up!"

smallwondersmag.com

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Plangdi Neple @plangdineple.bsky.social · Sep 3

New story day! "Oasis" is out to read now on Phano, and I'm grateful to @ammansabet.bsky.social for giving it a beautiful home (and illustration!).

Do give it a read:
www.phano.co/articles/oasis

Oasis

Along the simmering road through Abuja, things are not always what they seem.

www.phano.co

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · Sep 8

A new week begins! I'm on vacation and kind of away from Bsky, but if you need ghost captains and godlike grandmothers and evil deities in space, then my piece The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home is out at Reactor! 🌌👵

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · Sep 5

ICYMI, my most recent story was published in @reactorsff.bsky.social a few days ago! The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home is about grandmothers and family and solving the mystery of your own death.

reactormag.com/the-hungry-m...

The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home - Reactor

To celebrate her grandmother, all the captain of the Sopinha de Feijão wanted was to build a street market on a distant moon. But now the captain is dead and trying to figure out what kind of god migh...

reactormag.com

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Aimee Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · Sep 3

Have you read STARSTRUCK yet? Would a lovely review from @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social maybe win you over?

Review: “Starstruck” by Aimee Ogden

Release Date: June 17, 2025Publisher: PsychopompGenre: Fantasy Description Prish has always been a radish who knows what she’s about; chiefly, her wife, Alsing, a literal and figurative fox. …

bookjockeyalex.com

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Plangdi Neple @plangdineple.bsky.social · Sep 3

New story day! "Oasis" is out to read now on Phano, and I'm grateful to @ammansabet.bsky.social for giving it a beautiful home (and illustration!).

Do give it a read:
www.phano.co/articles/oasis

Oasis

Along the simmering road through Abuja, things are not always what they seem.

www.phano.co

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Sep 2

are you ready for some big news?

WE ARE OPEN

for BIPOC subs for issue 100!

and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body

💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖

find out more here:

psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Fantasy Magazine Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

updated September 2, 2025

psychopomp.com

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Plangdi Neple @plangdineple.bsky.social · Sep 2

Gone are the days of artists with rich patrons 😪

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Cast of Wonders @castofwonders.org · Sep 1

escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/...

Opening for General Submissions in about 15 minutes!

Moksha

escapeartists.moksha.io

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Plangdi Neple @plangdineple.bsky.social · Sep 1

Oh friend😮‍💨 🫂

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Aug 31

You can support Translunar Travelers Lounge at the link ko-fi.com/translunartr...

Buy Translunar Travelers Lounge a Coffee

Become a supporter of Translunar Travelers Lounge today!

ko-fi.com

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Sep 1

Wolfmothers by Rukman Ragas a story of Angrboða, mother of the monster-brood, and seeking companionship after the downfall of Loki translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...

A woman, a warrior, kneels beside him, garbed in white clothes of a priestess, holding up her bowl as if it’s a sword, waiting for the inevitable spillover as it passes through her hands, burning lines that had never existed before. He screams, the earth shudders, great bellows, and you almost fall. But she moves with practised precision, emptying poison and holding the bowl up again. There’s no gentleness, no motion wasted.

She turns her attention to you, deep-set eyes red and calm.

She called and you answered and now you crawl.

Wolfmothers
Rukman Ragas

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Aug 31

Home Is Where The Heart Rests by Chidera Anikpe, a story of a child who is born, from unity, from the void, from divinity, who always chooses to leave, who is, in the end, human. translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/h...

If Nnedi tells this story, she will paint you into a god; she will line your skin with gold and lace your words with sonorous beauty. Your hair will morph from its original, mundane afro into a crown of obsidian cloud. Your eyes, naturally wide and flattering, will transform into alluring orbs of fiery intelligence. She will call your name–Obiajulu–with the same reverence with which she says ‘Jesus’ during nightly vigils. The air around you will be colored by an aura of beauty and brilliance and your smile will rival the iridescence of a thousand suns. You will become, at least until she is done with her tale, a celestial thing.

Home Is Where The Heart Rests
Chidera Anikpe

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Plangdi Neple @plangdineple.bsky.social · Aug 30

If you haven't read "Non-remembrance" over at @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social , this is me politely giving you a reason 👀
Come and explore memory, magic and the pain of forgetting
willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2025/07/10/n...

Will This Be A Problem? The magazine Issue 2 foreword: Plangdi Neple hits a home run in his Will This Be A Problem? debut, "Non-remembrance". We recently published two stories that explicitly dealt with memory in Issue V; however, while those stories warned of the dangers of technological interference with recollection, "Non- remembrance" takes a more traditional approach. The story begins with a confession and a mystery, and Plangdi masterfully leads us to the revelation of both in a tender exploration of memory and chronic pain, and how relationships buckle when faced with the inevitability of change.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · Aug 29

We like other people’s Weird Horror too🖤☠️
Hails @undertow.bsky.social
Hails @thomasha.bsky.social

undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

Matt w/Thomas Ha’s Uncertain Sons blocking half his face

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Last Wills And Testaments Of Captain Kohle by @bingingout.bsky.social in which Captain Kohle is summoned from the afterlife - again and again until we learn the truth of his death translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/t...

“What year is it?” I ask Whitney, whose once-fiery muttonchops are now a dry gray.

“Seventeen-twenty-three, Captain,” Whitney replies. “Uh— does that still hurt?”

Looking down, I notice that my shot-riddled chest still drips, staining the deck below. It does still sting, but not in the way he means. “What do you want?”

The Last Wills And Testaments Of Captain Kohle
Abhijeet Sathe

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Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social · Aug 26

I sometimes wish the work of making my characters better didn't always require so much personal introspective work. The more uncomfortable personal feelings and questions I confront, the more I'm able to learn about them. But ouch man.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · Aug 27

The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home is now out at @reactorsff.bsky.social!

To honor her grandmother, the captain of the Sopinha de Feijão wanted to found a street market in a distant moon. But now she's dead. What killed her?

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Aug 27

All the captain wanted was to found a street market in a distant moon. But now she's dead.

"The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting At Home" by @renanbernardo.com is out now!

Art by Alix Pentecost Farren
Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social

reactormag.com/the-hungry-m...

The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home - Reactor

reactormag.com

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Victoria | How to Survive Debut Author Stress, out free! @shiwritesprose.bsky.social · Aug 27

1 day left to go on my 2x We the People auction items: www.32auctions.com/organization...

What does a $75 '60-Minute Virtual Psychologist Consultation' get you? 🤔

Let's discuss mental health coaching and consultation!

www.32auctions.com

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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · Aug 20

The wonderful @3lobedmag.com is running their annual Kickstarter. They're a fabulous source of weird, dark fiction, so if you can, consider helping them keep doing what they do for another year!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

www.kickstarter.com

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · Aug 20

Khoreo centers immigrant and diaspora voices like no other SFF venue. skipped two years in a row!!! we are so sorry your work was minimized 🖤

come on Worldcon. you have to do better.

M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · Aug 19

There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.

Isabella @isabellak.bsky.social · Aug 18

Had a great time at Worldcon meeting new and old faces! Thank you @emelkrishnan.bsky.social for letting me be your plus one! Glad we could trauma bond over our masthead being skipped again. I look forward to next year!

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Aug 20

SUBS are OPEN for our special reprint issue, SINNERS, SAINTS, & HAINTS! Send us your lovelies! Spread the word! Details here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE alert!🚨

SINNERS, SAINTS, AND HAINTS will open from August 20th to August 31st, for *reprints only!* Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social and Shakeema Smalls. The movie Sinners elevated a genre Black creators have anchored for decades, and we want to show those stories some love!

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Plangdi Neple @plangdineple.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thank you MR! 🫂❤️