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S. C. Mills @scmillsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

My story "His Soul Lives in the Air" is live on MetaStellar! I originally wrote this for a Writing Battle competition back in January.

read it: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

& my blog post: www.scmills-books.com/blog/open-vein

Thank you @metastellar.bsky.social & @writingbattle.bsky.social!

His Soul Lives in the Air

Racing to see her dying grandmother, Rebecca confronts her fear of flying only to discover that some passengers carry more than just luggage from the past.

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 28d

Excited to share my piece for Augur's micro fiction contest!
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#AugurMicros2025

Soothsayer for the 21st Century
by Aggie Novak

You come to me—
(fabric draped, costume jewelled, incense clouded).
You ask me real questions, but you don’t seek real answers.
You want—
Comfort. Platitudes.
It’s not your fault, there was nothing you could do.
Tell me, you ask—
What the future holds. Where I will be in 20 years.
How successful. How loved. How normal.
I draw the cards—
The Star, reversed. All hope gutters out.
The Tower. Cities, fire in their bones.
The World, reversed. The circle breaks.
Well? Your eyes wide, full of—
Hope, I say.
New constellations. Collapse clears the way.
The world resets.

@augursociety
#augurmicros2025

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Aug 20

Super excited to have a story out in this anthology!

Tyche BoooOOOoooks 👻🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · Aug 19

Happy Book Birthday to Shannon Allen, JR Campbell, & all the contributing authors to Starship Librarians!

Be sure to add this one to your home library! (& if you ever find bookcarts with rocket thrusters, please let us know).

Amazon: www.amazon.com/Stars...

Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...

Book promo post. A textured orange-hued background with a book cover overlaid it. The book cover is for Starship Librarians and features a humanoid librarian in a retro-coloured spacesuit of oranges, creams, and teal, shelves books. They are framed by a window looking out onto space. Behind them is a bookcart with thrusters instead of wheels. Additional text says Now Available.

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · Aug 19

Do you need a rundown of the SFF books out this week? Because I have TEN new books to ft! Incl

🏳️‍🌈 📚 queer witches and book nerdery by @charliejane.bsky.social!
☠️ 🐍 poison via the scientific method with @tkingfisher.com!
📖 🚀 librarians in starships, coming from @tychebooks.bsky.social!

Must-Have Monday #250 - Every Book a Doorway

Librarians on spaceships, several queer witches, and a world where people don't die!

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Jun 30

Check out this awesome fantasy mystery story by S.C!

S. C. Mills @scmillsbooks.bsky.social · Jun 30

It’s here!! I’m touched to see such gorgeous art for what might be my favorite of my short stories. Thank you @frivolouscomma.bsky.social

Frivolous Comma @frivolouscomma.bsky.social · Jun 30

“The holy man was bringing healing water from the sacred mountain.” Claudio bends down to her height, hunching his broad shoulders to whisper to her. “Guess somebody killed him for it.” Read June's Speculative mystery by @scmillsbooks now!

www.frivolouscomma.com/all-gods-wor...

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · Jun 27

Beware of harvesting your fields on a hot day. Lady Midday will emerge from whirling dust clouds in the form of an old hag, a lovely woman, or a young girl, carrying a scythe. If you can't answer her riddles, she'll kill you by beheading or heat stroke. #FolkyFriday

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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚀 TWO of my stories made it into the Afrofuturism Short Stories anthology 🥹 co-edited by Isis Asare! With foreword by @nisishawl.bsky.social. Out October 2025✨

#Blacksky #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #ShortStory
#Blacksky #Afrofuturism #Anthology

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Jun 15

So excited to have a story in this upcoming anthology from @tychebooks.bsky.social !!

A black cover with a small part revealed where you can make out the word "librarian". Text to the side says: Cover reveal coming soon. Tychebooks.com.

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Apr 9

Ready to test my writing skills in the Twisted Teams challenge "Twisted Teams 1"! Looking forward to the creative prompts and team collaboration. Any other writers joining me? twistedtournament.com/homepageteams #TwistInTaleContest #writingcontest

Twisted Teams - A Writing Competition with a Twist

Join Twisted Teams - A Writing Competition Balancing Individual Creativity with Team Collaboration

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Apr 6

Slightly belated, but so happy to have a story out in the lovely Howl Anthology from Graveside press. Available from a range of places: graveside-press.com/product/howl/

Howl: A Shapeshifting Anthology. Shows a werewolf hunched over on a log by a pond.

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Mar 22

I have a story out in this one! All proceeds go to Scares that Care.

TL;DR Press @tldrpress.bsky.social · Mar 17

We are proud to announce the release of Head First into the Maw: The Best of The TL;DR Press 2K Terrors short story Horror Competition 2024. Read the top 25 stories of the competition, including the winning story, The Last Sound You Ever Hear by C.M. Dulas! www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1HNHRBF

Head First into the Maw: Winners of the 2024 2k Terrors Competition

Head First into the Maw: Winners of the 2024 2k Terrors Competition - Kindle edition by Press, TL;DR. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Head First into the Maw: Winners of the 2024 2k Terrors Competition.

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Mar 16

Just won Writing Battle!!! So excited and touched by all the lovely feedback 💜

An image saying congratulations for having the winning story, including a picture of my three prompts: time travel romance, rebel, doll

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Mar 11

A beautiful story!

Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · Mar 11

“The Fish in the Garden” by Eleanor Lennox will have you avoiding nostalgia at all costs.

Read it in Issue 9 on radonjournal.com.

You can find more of Eleanor Lennox at eleanorlennox.com.

@eleanorlennox.bsky.social

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · Jan 13

NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“In the Slipstream” by @sarlynh.bsky.social is now up!

Art by @keelyhoneywell.bsky.social

flash-frog.com/2025/01/13/i...

In the Slipstream by Sarah Lynn Hurd

We filled our arms with cool bottles of syrupy soda, strawberry licorice, peanut butter crackers, crinkle-cut potato chips—as much as we could carry. Throwing our heads back under the fluorescent l…

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Feb 3

Congrats @cuylermeade.bsky.social !!

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Jan 30

A second little story out at Hawthorn & Ash ironfaeriepublishing.com/2025/01/27/h...

Hawthorn & Ash #68

Welcome to this week’s installment of many micro stories, ranging in length from 100 words to 500 words. With each story we hope to deliver a little whimsy into the lives of our readers. A TH…

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Jan 18

Little flash piece out with Hawthorn & Ash ironfaeriepublishing.com/2025/01/16/h...

Hawthorn & Ash #65

Welcome to this week’s installment of many micro stories, ranging in length from 100 words to 500 words. With each story we hope to deliver a little whimsy into the lives of our readers. THE …

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Dec 12

My short story “Svalka” is out in the beautiful Other Anthology from Bannister Press bannisterpress.com/other-anthol...

OTHER: the 2024 speculative fiction anthology

Release date: December 12, 2024 Many of us feel that we are other; that we are on the outside looking in, wanting desperately to be over there while tethered to the here. T…

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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Dec 3

My friend made this I feel so seen

A Spotify playlist titled ‘Songs giving energy of an Aggie Novak story about a woman unhappy with her lot in life’ including songs by Paris Paloma, Kiki Rockwell, and Florence + The Machine.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · Nov 17

The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th”

When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

The excerpt from William and the Werewolf showing singular they spelled with a Thorn

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lyndi @lyndishere.bsky.social · Nov 16

Could tonight be the night?

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · Nov 15

Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Nov 16

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Nov 15

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

An example of Acción Ortográfica Quito doing the Lord's work (graffiti on a wall corrected with red spray paint)

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Nov 12

Today, I translated four poems by Sophia Parnok, an out, horny Russian lesbian poet who lived and loved through a revolution, a civil war, and the rise of a repressive dictator. In style.

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How to Stay Alive and Horny Under Authoritarianism

Sophia Parnok (1885-1933) was born in Taganrog, Russia—Anton Chekhov’s hometown, on the sea of Azov—two decades or so before her country exploded. Born into...

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