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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 1h

Did you miss Mo Usavage's story "Erosion" from Issue 22? There's clay and grandfathers who are sons and a man who falls from the sky.

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He comes out of the sky like a bird and crushes the top of our barn. Like a bird, like a bird.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 1d

Your childhood will take an odd turn if you're born in the afterlife because your mom took poison, as we learn in Gordon Brown's story "Birthmarks".

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Mama drank poison on a black, moonless night. She had forgot to turn the stove off before she died, and the kitchen curtains had caught on fire.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 1d

I had a story come out today!

If you think too much about fairy tale witches and also murder and complicated relationships, this one is for you.

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Issue seven: flash fiction by Cislyn Smith

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 1d

FFer Read of the Day: "Lexicographer of Quiet Corners of the Mind" by @bogiperson.bsky.social in @smallwondersmag.com

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Words borne out of need, of a reaching-out, of / tact and impoliteness and long shudders / of breath— / and you to write them all down

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 1d

"Five Easy Hairstyles for Snake-Haired Girls," by Jelena Dunato, delivers on the promise of stylish hairstyles for Medusas on the go.

Five Easy Hairstyles for Snake-Haired Girls - Small Wonders

The Nereids throw a beach party / You let your hissing hair down / Each little head inside a shot glass / Slurping up sweet golden liquor

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 2d

Have you read the poem "False Beet" by RJ Aurand? It's a striking piece about consumption, death, and rebirth.

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Her lips pale as chalk, / she begs me for sustenance. / There is nothing left.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 2d

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 3d

Not every dream we visit is a pleasant one, especially when we know how it turns out. Well, the narrator knows how it turns out. For you to know, you'll need to read the poem "You're Dead & I'm Safe & Still I Dream of You" by @smhallow.bsky.social.

You’re Dead & I’m Safe & Still I Dream Of You - Small Wonders

In the dream you were introducing me / to your hometown, except in the dream I / already knew our vows would come to ruin

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 3d

The narrator of "Katya's Microscope," by Monica Joyce Evans, has a friend with a dog, a microscope, and a deep interest in blood.

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Katya only uses her microscope to look at things that scare her, which I think is really smart. Her favorite is an OMAX MD-82 with oil immersion and a digital camera.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 4d

If you lived in a land replete with gods and miracles, maybe you, too, would find a way to spread those miracles around like the protagonist in Malda Marlys's story "Bite by Bite and Lie by Lie," from Issue 22.

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In a land replete with small gods and smaller miracles, a barefoot stranger in devotional robes was an afternoon’s amusement.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 4d

death is in.

mycelial decay is in.

THE DEADLANDS COINS ARE IN.

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 4d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

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behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 4d

Absolutely gorgeous read 🥄👀

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 5d

Whomst among us hasn't had a mother who scoops out her eyes with a spoon and lets us play with them? But that's just the beginning of @montanna-harling.bsky.social's story "Oleander".

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Mama scooped her eyes out with an heirloom ornamental teaspoon, and let them roll to the floor.

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montanna-harling.bsky.social @montanna-harling.bsky.social · 4d

Very excited to have a speculative flash piece out with Small Wonders today!

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 5d

Whomst among us hasn't had a mother who scoops out her eyes with a spoon and lets us play with them? But that's just the beginning of @montanna-harling.bsky.social's story "Oleander".

Oleander - Small Wonders

Mama scooped her eyes out with an heirloom ornamental teaspoon, and let them roll to the floor.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 5d

Whomst among us hasn't had a mother who scoops out her eyes with a spoon and lets us play with them? But that's just the beginning of @montanna-harling.bsky.social's story "Oleander".

Oleander - Small Wonders

Mama scooped her eyes out with an heirloom ornamental teaspoon, and let them roll to the floor.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 6d

Finally, there's @thedeadlands.com, whose fundraiser starts on October 6th. Their coins are fabulous, and I'd hate to be caught by the ferryman without one.

Two previous coins from The Deadlands. The left one is a skull on a bright mustard yellow background, looking up and to the left. A banner below the skull reads "ADMIT ONE". The right one has a dark tree on a black background. The text on it reads "MEMENTO MORI" and "THE DEADLANDS 2025".

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 6d

@apexmag.bsky.social is an award-winning magazine that publishes darker spec fic. They're a fabulous magazine and were a huge help with our initial fundraiser. Help them fund 2026!

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 9d

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 👻🪦

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 6d

@othersidespec.bsky.social is a new magazine for queer spec fic, and we're excited that it's already funded its first two years! With your help, they can add reprints and non-fiction to the magazine.

OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 6d

We're $301 from our reprints stretch goal! If we hit that, every issue will include a reprint of a queer story no longer available online. Help us archive queer stories and support queer creators in a time of censorship!

Learn more about our plans here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 6d

There are several great magazines fundraising right now, or about to start fundraising, and we encourage y'all to support them!

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 6d

It is the spooky month, and we have a spooky cover for our spooky October issue! @elizabeth-space.bsky.social's art perfectly complemented our issue's stories and poems. Get your copy of Issue 28 or sign up for a subscription at our store! store.smallwondersma...

Cover for Issue 28 (October 2025) of Small Wonders magazine. The painting, by Elizaveta Nazarova, shows a bedroom in grayscale, with a focus on one end of the bed. Eyes glow in the dark under the bed, and two clawed hands reach out into the room. The authors and poets in the issue are Montanna Rayne Harling, S.M. Hallow, Gordon Brown, Rebecca E. Treasure, Amanda Mitzel, Stacie Turner, Rachel Gutin, Casey Aimer, and Karl G. Dandenell. Editors are Stephen Granade and Cislyn Smith.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 10d

Excellent point. We have our no-AI policy for submitters of both words and art (smallwondersmag.com/submissions/) but haven’t explicitly spelled out that we don’t use AI in place of first readers, to summarize pieces, or to talk to our contributors or staff. We’ll add that to our site.

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 10d

New issues of Dirty Magick, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @nightmare-magazine.com, @locusmag.bsky.social, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, are here for the month of October, and many of them are spooky! weightlessbooks.com/2025/10/

Cover art for Flash Fiction Online #145, featuring an antlered skeleton guy holding some orange flowers and wearing a black cloak decorated with white flowers

Cover art for Nightmare #157, featuring a goblinish looking person wearing an elaborate sriped and collared outfit holding a grumpy-looking black cat

Cover for Dirty Magick Magazine #14, featuring a laughing jack-o-lantern

Cover art for Small Wonders #28, featuring a glowing-eyed monster reaching out from under a kid's bed

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 15d

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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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 20d

“A Week at the Raven Feather Salon” by @carrievaughnco.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, “A Runaway Android’s Guide to the Oro-Ti Night Market” by @mruthrobinso from @smallwondersmag.com, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social

GigaNotoSaurus, Small Wonders and Lightspeed: Reviews by Charles Payseur

GigaNotoSaurus 6/25 Small Wonders 6/25 Lightspeed 6/25 The June GigaNotoSaurus story is “The Starter Family” by Sage Tyrtle, which introduces readers to Charles, a supposedly good citizen and Forev…

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 20d

Glance up at the waning crescent moon and consider, what if it had a mind? What would it want? And how would it get it? Aimee Ogden's "To Persist, However Change" in our third issue does a fabulous job with a strange point of viiew:

To Persist, However Changed - Small Wonders

Dawn breaks over the Planet's horizon, spilling a new day's light over the golden world. High above its Planet, the moon watches, and waits. And remembers.

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M. R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 20d

Super grateful for this generous review and recommendation of “A Runaway Android’s Guide to the Oro-Ti Night Market,” online now at Locus (and super grateful to @smallwondersmag.com and guest editor @premeemohamed.com for giving it a home in the first place, too): locusmag.com/review/gigan...

GigaNotoSaurus, Small Wonders and Lightspeed: Reviews by Charles Payseur

GigaNotoSaurus 6/25 Small Wonders 6/25 Lightspeed 6/25 The June GigaNotoSaurus story is “The Starter Family” by Sage Tyrtle, which introduces readers to Charles, a supposedly good citizen and Forev…

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