Stefani Cooke
@stefthescribbler.bsky.social
🇨🇦🇮🇹🇯🇲🇱🇧 Writer/Teacher | https://stefstories.carrd.co/
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9) An Unsparing Harvest by @stefthescribbler.bsky.social: people-eating tree kindly allies with human to get more food. Gentle start, chilling end, very smooth throughout
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
9) An Unsparing Harvest by @stefthescribbler.bsky.social: people-eating tree kindly allies with human to get more food. Gentle start, chilling end, very smooth throughout
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Candy alternatives to hand out on Halloween:
- moss balls
- imp eggs
- banned books
- unknown bones
- forest gravy
- slightly cursed nickels
- moss balls
- imp eggs
- banned books
- unknown bones
- forest gravy
- slightly cursed nickels
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Candy alternatives to hand out on Halloween:
- moss balls
- imp eggs
- banned books
- unknown bones
- forest gravy
- slightly cursed nickels
- moss balls
- imp eggs
- banned books
- unknown bones
- forest gravy
- slightly cursed nickels
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Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.
August 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.
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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
kotowych.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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.
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You can read my horror tale set in Iceland, "Two Voices, One Song," in the latest issue of On Spec magazine, among many other great stories! @onspecmag.bsky.social
New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...
On Spec Magazine #133 VOL 35 No 3
Volume 35 No 3 issue of On Spec Magazine. This issue features short stories by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm ("The Bag of Holding"), Gillian Secord ("the love song of house and lake"), John Park ("When the S...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
You can read my horror tale set in Iceland, "Two Voices, One Song," in the latest issue of On Spec magazine, among many other great stories! @onspecmag.bsky.social
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New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...
On Spec Magazine #133 VOL 35 No 3
Volume 35 No 3 issue of On Spec Magazine. This issue features short stories by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm ("The Bag of Holding"), Gillian Secord ("the love song of house and lake"), John Park ("When the S...
weightlessbooks.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...
Check out my story, "An Unsparing Harvest," in the latest issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social! It's perfect for the spooky season. weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...
October 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Check out my story, "An Unsparing Harvest," in the latest issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social! It's perfect for the spooky season. weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...
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Issue #133 is at the proofing stage now. But you can buy and read #132 while you wait!
September 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Issue #133 is at the proofing stage now. But you can buy and read #132 while you wait!
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So excited for my piece to be featured in the latest issue of @trampset.bsky.social. Do check it out & the amazing work of fellow writers <3
"Do not let them into your heart, she tells me, a single child hoping for a friend, a teenager dreaming of her first boyfriend. Their love is like poison."
@lisobeltang.bsky.social's "China Dog"
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@lisobeltang.bsky.social's "China Dog"
trampset.org/china-dog-68...
China Dog
by Lisobel Tang
trampset.org
August 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
So excited for my piece to be featured in the latest issue of @trampset.bsky.social. Do check it out & the amazing work of fellow writers <3
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Today is the LAST DAY to submit stories to Fascination, a new anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish!
Details: tychebooks.com/submissions
Details: tychebooks.com/submissions
September 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today is the LAST DAY to submit stories to Fascination, a new anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish!
Details: tychebooks.com/submissions
Details: tychebooks.com/submissions
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Almost ready to send On Spec Issue #133 to the designer for a mid-September release. Please support us by making a small donation or purchasing a copy of issue #132 from our Ko-fi page.
August 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Almost ready to send On Spec Issue #133 to the designer for a mid-September release. Please support us by making a small donation or purchasing a copy of issue #132 from our Ko-fi page.
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.
July 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.
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New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...
June 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...
I have a new story in Orion's Beau! Witches? ✅ Mermaids? ✅ Heartbreak ✅ What do you do when your time has come, and you have no soul left to barter for passage into the afterlife? www.orionsbeau.com/fantasy-quar...
Summer 2025, The Broken Bargain of Songs for Legs
Orion's Beau is a free digital arts & literary journal specializing in LGBTQ+ works of fantasy and speculative fiction. By publishing short stories, poems, and illustrations by LGBTQ+ authors and crea...
www.orionsbeau.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I have a new story in Orion's Beau! Witches? ✅ Mermaids? ✅ Heartbreak ✅ What do you do when your time has come, and you have no soul left to barter for passage into the afterlife? www.orionsbeau.com/fantasy-quar...
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Wait… does this mean I have to be a nickleback fan now
February 3, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Wait… does this mean I have to be a nickleback fan now
If you see this, post a GIF from your favorite Studio Ghibli film.
a cartoon of a woman and a monster with wings
ALT: a cartoon of a woman and a monster with wings
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January 31, 2025 at 6:52 AM
If you see this, post a GIF from your favorite Studio Ghibli film.
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for the evening crowd - Fantasy is BACK!🐉
Subscribe so we can stick around - maybe even grow & bring you lots of awesome things!
psychopomp.com/fantasy/
💖WRITERS💖 - Submissions are open!
Jan 22-25 open to work by BIPOC authors
Jan 26-29 general subs for everyone
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
Subscribe so we can stick around - maybe even grow & bring you lots of awesome things!
psychopomp.com/fantasy/
💖WRITERS💖 - Submissions are open!
Jan 22-25 open to work by BIPOC authors
Jan 26-29 general subs for everyone
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
Fantasy Homepage - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Our next issue features amazing short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. Issue drops June 1st, 2025!
psychopomp.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
for the evening crowd - Fantasy is BACK!🐉
Subscribe so we can stick around - maybe even grow & bring you lots of awesome things!
psychopomp.com/fantasy/
💖WRITERS💖 - Submissions are open!
Jan 22-25 open to work by BIPOC authors
Jan 26-29 general subs for everyone
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
Subscribe so we can stick around - maybe even grow & bring you lots of awesome things!
psychopomp.com/fantasy/
💖WRITERS💖 - Submissions are open!
Jan 22-25 open to work by BIPOC authors
Jan 26-29 general subs for everyone
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
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Announcement:
Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine
WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!
full details here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine
WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!
full details here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
January 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Announcement:
Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine
WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!
full details here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine
WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!
full details here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
2024 was a beautifully chaotic year! Writing-wise, two more publications under my belt (a micro in @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social Drabble Dark III, and an upcoming pub in @penumbricmag.bsky.social), and in December, my greatest composition: my newborn son 😊. Wishing everyone a wonderful 2025!
December 31, 2024 at 5:23 PM
2024 was a beautifully chaotic year! Writing-wise, two more publications under my belt (a micro in @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social Drabble Dark III, and an upcoming pub in @penumbricmag.bsky.social), and in December, my greatest composition: my newborn son 😊. Wishing everyone a wonderful 2025!
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Not that I even need to say this, judging from my mailbox lol, but our #fiction and #poetry submissions window is now open! It will be open through 15 March.
The #art submissions window of course continues to be open.
See our submissions guidelines at www.penumbric.com/subs.html
The #art submissions window of course continues to be open.
See our submissions guidelines at www.penumbric.com/subs.html
December 15, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Not that I even need to say this, judging from my mailbox lol, but our #fiction and #poetry submissions window is now open! It will be open through 15 March.
The #art submissions window of course continues to be open.
See our submissions guidelines at www.penumbric.com/subs.html
The #art submissions window of course continues to be open.
See our submissions guidelines at www.penumbric.com/subs.html
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Ah, that’s all right then
![POPULAR MECHANICS
If Humans Die Out, Octopuses Already Have the Chops to Build the Next Civilization, Scientist Claims
With brains that process information almost like a computer, the sea creatures already use tools and can be social. But they need to make a few changes before they can take over the world.
BY SARAH WELLS DEC 13, 2024
[photo of a reddish-pink octopus underwater]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yhpcrxbxkp2nsnpno7ow3uw4/bafkreigpfmcr7za63z7kup4ddvefi3kh2oyfdfp5xie4qsf7nbc54ls7fu@jpeg)
December 14, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Ah, that’s all right then
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People ask when we will open to submissions. Probably early in 2025. With a slight change. This round of submissions will consider stories and poems written by Canadians only. While we’ve found wonderful work by non-Canadians, we need to return to our roots.
December 13, 2024 at 3:37 PM
People ask when we will open to submissions. Probably early in 2025. With a slight change. This round of submissions will consider stories and poems written by Canadians only. While we’ve found wonderful work by non-Canadians, we need to return to our roots.
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Oh, and how about a link lol ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
Penumbric December 2k24, ToC
Edgy speculative fiction magazine
www.penumbric.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Oh, and how about a link lol ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
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And still more thank-yous! @lynnesargent.bsky.social, @artbyfirestar.bsky.social, and Maureen Bowden. And to @umbra-ludus.bsky.social for the cover art!
I could never do this without you all! 🥰
#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror
I could never do this without you all! 🥰
#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror
December 10, 2024 at 8:31 PM
And still more thank-yous! @lynnesargent.bsky.social, @artbyfirestar.bsky.social, and Maureen Bowden. And to @umbra-ludus.bsky.social for the cover art!
I could never do this without you all! 🥰
#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror
I could never do this without you all! 🥰
#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror