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A list of active, regularly published fiction markets, including stories by today's best science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.

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Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscriptions @sffmagazines.bsky.social · Oct 18
Welcome new followers!

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An endless Tuesday …

-from "Alice Lives Here Forevermore" by Diane Dooley (@dianedooley.bsky.social), in October's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#shortstory #horror
"Alice Lives Here Forevermore" by Diane Dooley (@dianedooley.bsky.social), in October's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/dooleyAlice.html
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social
A soldier who couldn't pull the trigger in an alien jungle becomes a sought-after musician—haunted by a melody only he can hear and playing an instrument no human should possess.

go.dfstory.com/play-it-again
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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trollbreathmag.bsky.social
Subscribe now magazine.trollbreath.com to get the full issue on Dec. 1st!
@bernie-jsyk.bsky.social @kkoopman.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @jonathanhelland.bsky.social @brandoncase101.bsky.social @kergankergan.bsky.social @wallet55.bsky.social Alex Atkins Matthew Sanborn Smith Phil Emery
FICTION 11 Havel Ever Told You About When We Were Eaten? by Bernie Jean Schiebeling 22 Frequently Asked Questions About the Portals at Frank's Late-Night Starlite Drive-In by Kristen Koopman 31 Leygr by Gwendolyn Maia Hicks 40 Drink Poetry, Devour the Sun by Jonathan Helland 50 The Death of Demons by Brandon Case 60 Skipping Stones over the Barrier by Antoine Rotival 71 Chuck's Gun by Robert Morrell Jr. 83 Tempus by Alex Atkins 93 All the Trees Will Scream by Matthew Sanborn Smith Q6 Sleevenotes by Phil Emery
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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flashfictiononline.bsky.social
To love in whatever form it takes: “Loxley Is One Thousand Bats” By Camden Clair is perhaps one of the gentlest moments in the whole FamPunk issue. 💗 Read it for free on FFO!
@beingcam.bsky.social
#flashfiction #fantasy #shapeshifters #loveislove #writing
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Loxley Is One Thousand Bats
Loxley is one thousand bats.The animals embrace each other, nestling in the shape of something semi-human.The first time Loxley burst into a thousand night creatures in front of me, I laughed and c…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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kaleidotrope.bsky.social
Crawl inside somebody else’s skin in @scottedelman.bsky.social’s creepy new story “What Am I This Time?”

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He stretched, and twisted, and as he imagined the client who’d come in for this latest assignment of his doing the same in a much better-appointed room on the other side of the warehouse complex, he wondered— What am I this time?
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
"It surprises me to find you, after a childhood of rejecting your heritage, preparing for a spell this frigid evening." 🩸🌿

New fiction today by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social: "Before, After, and the Space Between"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Before, After, and the Space Between by Kel Coleman. Apex Magazine, Issue 151."
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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undertow.bsky.social
And the titular story is free to read til the end of the month.

undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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radonjournal.bsky.social
Come read stories about murdering your boss with crows, at Philcon
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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smallwondersmag.com
In Anne Wilkins's "The Darkening", a child with the gift of creating light and heat struggles with what she owes to her family and her neighbors.
The Darkening - Small Wonders
We sit up high in the trees, just Poppa and me, swinging our legs like we ain’t got a care in the world, watching the Blackness come and snuff out the Sun.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
sffmagazines.bsky.social
What an amazing idea.

This is what makes the spec fic community special. Publications pull together to help raise each other up.

Reminder: we help by providing readers a list of active spec fic magazines! If yours isn't listed, fill out our form (bottom of page)
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diabolicalplots.com Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 6d
Working on Enhancements to the "Stories" page, where you can find all of Diabolical Plots's published stories on The Submission Grinder. Now with dates! Word counts! Teaser pitch! Genres! And Tags!
Big thanks to @erincairns.bsky.social and the DP team!
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A screenshot of the newly updated "Stories" screen on The Submission Grinder's page for Diabolical Plots. Each story has a little rectangular card with a linked story title, author name, publication date, word count, brief teaser pitch, and genre and tags in little boxes below. The stories included are "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything" by Effie Seiberg, "The Rat King Who Wasn't" by Stephen Granade, "The Octopus Dreams of Personhood" by Hannah Yang, "The Unfactory" by Derrick Boden, "The Witches Who Drowned" by R.J. Becks, "The Matador and the Labyrinth" by C.C. Finlay, "In His Image" by R. Haven, and "Application For Continuance: vMingle Restroom Utility (RedemptionMod)" by Ethan Charles Reed
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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smallwondersmag.com
Why not take a moment to savor cake by the ocean? Sometimes the little joys are all that's left for us.
Cake By the Ocean - Small Wonders
A piece of birthday cake in Dublin. A red party hat with a snapped elastic band. Limp balloon rags with the number 5 printed on the plastic.
smallwondersmag.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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thedeadlands.com
sunday promotionday

reminder that issue 40, fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me and custom front and back cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social with many wonderful pieces in between is

AVAILABLE 4 READING

6 stories posted on our website
3 poems
1 nonfiction

get the ePub/print @ Patreon

OR READ ONLINE👇
The Deadlands - Issue 40 | Psychopomp
Guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, including the work of: Malena Salazar Maciá, Belle Biscotti, Testimony Odey, Shana Ross, Erin Ulm, Matthew Wollin, Laila Amado, Jason Pearce, R.B. Lemberg, Kat Sed...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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strangehorizons.bsky.social
NEW PODCAST ALERT!

Episode 17 of the Strange Horizons @ 25 podcast is live now featuring R.B. Lemberg @rblemberg.bsky.social interviewed by Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno.

Listen and read at the link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Writing the Diaspora Experience with R.B. Lemberg (SH@25 Episode 17)
In this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with long-time Strange Horizons contributor RB Lemberg to talk about everything from using poetry as a tool to refin…
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November 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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morningtransport.bsky.social
The Sunday Morning Transport descends again today with a story from J.R. Dawson (@jrdawson.bsky.social) about how the public narrative can miss the real truth. Read a sample or subscribe for the whole story!
Flower and Root
J.R. Dawson brings us this week a bouquet of mythical proportions.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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trollbreathmag.bsky.social
Free Fiction Friday! Our last short fiction from the fall issue. Dark secrets and sweet freedom from R.J. Howell magazine.trollbreath.com/children-of-...
@mytherea.bsky.social
Text in brass script with metallic floral flourishes in the upper right and lower left corners Children of Miracles, Coffins of brass by R.J. Howell. Black and red background
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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fusionfragment.bsky.social
Story #5 in FF#26: "Root Hog or Die" by @slharris.bsky.social

If you need a story with:
-the day-to-day grind
-growing up on Star Trek
-needing help

Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
"Root Hog or Die" by S.L. Harris When I was a little girl, I wished for aliens to come and to set things right. I guess it’s the story of my life that I got to see that first part come true. self-reliance / alien visitors / failing the test
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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pseudopod.org
Episode 1004…

“This?” the man behind the counter says. “Why, this is Madame Painte.”

Madame Painte: For Sale, by John Langan

Narrator: Ian Gordon
Host: Graeme Dunlop
Audio: Chelsea Davis

pseudopod.org/2025/11/21/p...
PseudoPod 1004: Madame Painte: For Sale
“This?” the man behind the counter says. “Why, this is Madame Painte.” The figure is short, a foot and a half tall, and squat, about the same dimensions across, composed of what might be porcelain.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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talestoterrify.bsky.social
Welcome to episode 721. We have two tales for you this evening. First, a village plays host to a visitor with an insatiable appetite. Then, an English iron and coal magnate finds his work is transforming more than just his career.

talestoterrify.com/episodes/721-dafydd-mckimm-l-t-williams
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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thedeadlands.com
"Stepan comes to me in a dream, sullen, with a bleeding lower lip split just where his lower canine has been knocked out."

today, beloveds!!

Punks Don't Die by @esedia.bsky.social

read it here 🥀

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Punks Don't Die - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The last time I saw Stepan was at St. Petersburg Central Station.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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castofwonders.org
Cast of Wonders 665: A Siren Stranded in a Sea of Grass by Courtney Farr narrated by @mrhalofo.bsky.social produced by @jeremycarter42.bsky.social hosted by @chesneycat.bsky.social

Content note: transphobia and queerphobia, family intolerance

www.castofwonders.org/2025/11/cast...
golden wheat field, oak tree, blue sky and superimposed water ripples
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Surreal meets tearful in Kate Horsley’s story “The Tao of Thorstein” about saying goodbye.
#flashfiction #fantasy #family #caregiving
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter
I’m certain Mom will shit a brick about the Vikings, so we take baby steps on the morning of the big reveal.First, I load up a tray with pancakes – her favourite ever since she got sick and I quit …
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November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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bcsmagazine.bsky.social
In BCS #445 & podcast 354: "The Crow's Second Tale" @marissalingen.bsky.social "So Kiris knew, even at the age of five: no one should only know one story. And if she was the only one who had spotted the problem, she would have to be the one to fix it." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Crow’s Second Tale by Marissa Lingen
So Kiris knew, even at the age of five: no one should only know one story. Not even a crow, like in the song. And if she was the only one who had spotted the problem, she felt down to her five-year-ol...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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3lobedmag.com
“It only ever spoke to me once and that was to say Do not sleep too deeply. Said upon departure, an aside tossed over its shoulder like salt. I paid little attention; I was staring at the thing it had given me...”

“Songs Never Sung”
by Premee Mohamed
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
3LBE Issue 46 cover (featuring an antlered beast, a hooded being with a bloody axe, and several small creatures in the glare of a dusty sun) along with text of the quote.
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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smallwondersmag.com
Diana Dima's poem, "The Bestiary", asks what makes a monster. There's a good reason it was reprinted in the second volume of "Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction".
The Bestiary - Small Wonders
Your ancestors wielded swords / and quills and righteousness.
smallwondersmag.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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penumbricmag.bsky.social
I've been waiting for a moment like this
When your defenses are down

-from "Look in My Eyes" by Gerri Leen, in #Penumbric's October issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poem #poetry #poet #horror #horrorpoetry
"Look in My Eyes" by Gerri Leen, in Penumbric's October issue at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/leenEyes.html
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM