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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · 7d

Ready for draft 3

First and second drafts of novel in progress Haze

Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · 9d

Excited to share this one with you

Cover @coverlit.bsky.social · 9d

New fiction today from @liamjhogan.bsky.social: cover.pub/lhogan-beyla...

Beyla by Liam Hogan

Fiction and poetry for the present.

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · 24d

Excited to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor tonight. One of the bands I’ve listened to most consistently over time.

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · 24d

Same, though the desire to see it for that reason came and went and still haven’t seen it 🧪

Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · 29d

Ordered and you should too

Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · Sep 3

Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

Official Double--Negative announcement here: www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg

Add it on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Order it on Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Sep 5

we're live baby! send em if you got em 🙏

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Sep 4

oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some writing I read on the web and liked in August. There's a poem in this one. ryanshea.info/2025/09/02/f...

Favorite Web Stories: August 2025

A monthly series covering my favorite web reads.

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some writing I read on the web and liked in August. There's a poem in this one. ryanshea.info/2025/09/02/f...

Favorite Web Stories: August 2025

A monthly series covering my favorite web reads.

ryanshea.info

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Aug 26

psst: if you’d like email notice about our next submission period (very soon), please join our NEW mailing list! sign-up link is under the “Future” tab on our website!

Future

Guidelines hex publishes flash literary fiction and prose poetry with speculative elements. We welcome the surreal, the weird, and the uncanny. Scare us, surprise us, take us to space. Show us how ...

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Aug 26

It’s only a nightmare if it wakes you up. Otherwise it’s a “bad dream.”

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Aug 26

For you tonight I pulled Cannabis Use Disorder Induced Attenuated Psychosis.

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Aug 26

It’s exactly like tarot

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Aug 26

The index of the DSM is a lot of fun

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · Aug 5

Have you ever published a story, poem or essay online, only to have the venue fold and your work disappear?

It's not fun, but there is a good technique that can help you out.

I put together a quick video that shows how to find a saved copy of your work: youtu.be/v_Pym4yd528

Author Tutorial: Finding a Link to a Story that is No Longer Available

YouTube video by Sam Moss

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Jul 29

One of the fucked up things abt the spam texts I receive on my work phone every day is that 70% of them are addressed to “Patricia” the name of my grandmother who died at 59 and who was an influence on naming my son Patrick.

Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Jul 18

Loved this!

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Jul 18

I know I married the right human bc we hang out in the backyard dissecting Sebald’s writing tips vs his prose after our kid is asleep.

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Jul 15

Drove past someone standing in their front yard during heavy downpour, watering the flowers.

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Jul 12

Congrats!

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Jul 12

Congrats!!

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · Jul 12

Fucking thrilled for Joe Koch - his STP story "These Are His Memories" will be part of Undertow's Best Weird Fiction of the Year!

Get your grubby mitts on this one, it looks sick af.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Jul 12

I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Jul 11

And here's my brother's second one: open.spotify.com/track/2mrbHz...

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Jul 11

Sometimes when I'm writing several short sentences in a row, I feel like mindset involved is fear-driven and concussed. Like maybe I've been bludgeoned in the face with a shovel repeatedly, and through that bludgeoning have achieved the mindset that favors these short sentences.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Jul 10

Impossibly, I've made my selections for The Best Weird Fiction of the Year. Will announce the contents soon. Here, though, are 20 other stories I found quite notable, to be acknowledged in the book.

undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

Stories: The Sea, Like Glass
Caesura
Hair of the World
Their Wings as Powdery As Bones
The Beautiful Thing You Once Were
The Coalface
Way Up in De Middle of De Air
Plunged in the Years
Absent Below the Lip
Wayback
The Ferryman
The Dying Chorus
After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland
Brick City, Stick City, Straw City
Not All Your Bones Are Yours
Warmth
Shepherd Not Sheep
The Limner Wrings His Hands
Dissection of a Mermaid
Paraffin
Authors: Ainsley Hawthorn
Alice Hatcher
Aliya Whiteley
Avra Margariti
J. Ashley-Smith
Jack Klausner
Jamie Roballo
Jeffrey Ford
Charles Wilkinson
Leslie What
Lynda E. Rucker
Max D. Stanton
Max Franciscovich
Nika Murphy
Plangdi Neple
Sean Padraic Birnie
Simon Strantzas
Vajra Chandrasekera
Wailana Kalama
Will VanDenBerg

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Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social · Jul 1

I read Blanchot and feel seen.

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