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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️

@abigailkemske.bsky.social

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🚀 Speculative fiction writer from MN ✏️ Apex, The Dark, Flame Tree Press, f(r)iction & more 🌿 sometimes moss 🌠 Recent sci-fi "The Earth Will Not Consume Our Bones" in Nature: https://rdcu.be/eFqJ4 HWA, SFWA, Codex AbigailKemske.com

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · Mar 4

My @apexmag.bsky.social debut flash fiction is live! Please check it out if you have a few minutes (and heed the content warnings at the end of the story.) I still can't get over being published in this dream mag! Thanks @retreasure.bsky.social and @lesleyconner.bsky.social 💙💙💙 #horrorlit

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · Mar 4

"I couldn’t disturb the last day you were here. I couldn’t rustle the flakes of you outlining every surface." 🧹

New short fiction today by @abigailkemske.bsky.social: "Someone to Feed You"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

A graphic featuring a pull quote from Abigail Kemske's "Someone to Feed You" which reads: "It wasn't until the guttural whir of the vacuum turned to a monstrous shriek that I snapped out of it."

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 2h

WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨

Want to unlock the next chapter of Apex? Please consider backing our Kickstarter and help us keep publishing the strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful stories you love!

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats!! 📚🥳

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 1d

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

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

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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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning! We're only ONE PERCENT(1%!!) away from Apex Magazine opening to nonfiction submissions for the FIRST TIME! our nonfiction is full of new voices, fresh perspectives, and is scientifically*-proven to regrow brain cells ⚡🧠🌱

*probably. just trust us 👽👇

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

a cow being lifted into space in a UFO tractor beam. An astronaut floats in the corner, staring at the UFO in surprise. The cow's thought bubble reads, "$5, 797!"

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 2d

wtf?

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 3d

Hey! Check out this excellent list of horror stories, all nicely packaged for your reading pleasure this Halloween season. Thanks so much @antonyfrost.bsky.social for including my story "Someone to Feed You" published in @apexmag.bsky.social earlier this year. Happy reading! 🎃🦇👻🍂👹☠️🦷🖤

Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 3d

New entry on my personal blog!

Buncha links to some cool seasonally-appropriate stories.

antonyfb.com/blog/nefario...

#personalblog #horrorlit

Nefarious Narratives on the Net

In which the author provides links for some (mostly horror) stories he's found on the web recently.

antonyfb.com

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 3d

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 3d

I dislike that it’s come to me (and many others) personally reaching out new mags asking about their AI policy re: writing, the selection/editing process, and art. However, it’s nice to get a feel for how the magazine responds and treats these questions, bonus when the website is updated after.

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 3d

Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 3d

New entry on my personal blog!

Buncha links to some cool seasonally-appropriate stories.

antonyfb.com/blog/nefario...

#personalblog #horrorlit

Nefarious Narratives on the Net

In which the author provides links for some (mostly horror) stories he's found on the web recently.

antonyfb.com

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 12d

My sci-fi flash “The earth will not consume our bones” published in @naturefutures.bsky.social made it on Myna’s round up! Check it out!! 💙

Link to story ⬇️

Thanks so much Myna. 🙏

Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 12d

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…

mynachang.com

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 5d

It took me a couple days, but I found it! Right on my desktop too. 😂

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 5d

So sorry for your loss David. 🫂

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 5d

Pre-orders for my big dragon book are officially open! Three heads for one low price.

It's already live at Bookshop, B&N, Amazon, etc. This tool can help you find it at your favorite outlet: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807941...

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 5d

"Horror sci-fi banger" is an incredibly generous interpretation of the genre chaos magic going on in this book that I am SO FREAKING EXCITED TO GET TO TELL YOU ABOUT oh my gosh this is gonna be so fun

Author of Whisperwood and editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press Alex Woodroe's TATRATEA in which a lone researcher arrives at an ancient Romanian manor to investigate the source of a virus driving the world insane, but is quickly locked in and caught between local hyperactive flora, invasive cosmic forces, and her own ability to remain lucid, to Christoph Paul at CLASH for publication in fall 2026

Clash Fall 2026 Alex Woodroe (photo of the author wearing a tenebrous press shirt and wielding a mean rusty axe)

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 6d

May moonlight guide you. 🌙

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 6d

Me too!

AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, this is so sad. What a wonderful person. 💔

AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 6d

Just made my 150th submission for this year. 🥳

19 more to beat last year. 😅

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 6d

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

Submissions open for Brave New Weird volume 4 — tenebrous press

REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the FOURTH (!!!) Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying antholog...

tenebrouspress.com

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 6d

Sure!

AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 6d

Yup. Withdrew. BOO!

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 6d

Yes please. I just subbed to a market today that I later learned uses AI art. It's really disappointing. I want my writing as far from AI as I can control and I'm tired of the investigation game.

Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 7d

IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 7d

HAPPY KICKSTARTER DAY!! 🎉🎉🎉

Kick(start) the first day of Spooky Month with us and come check out the cool stuff we've got planned for you!! 🎃✨

👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

two skeletons are shaking hands in a cemetery .

Alt: spooky scary skeletons silly symphony dance

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 7d

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 7d

The moonlight will guide you glinting off them.