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3LBE Issue 46 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by K.S. Walker, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Corey Farrenkopf, Premee Mohamed, and Katie McIvor. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/
3LBE Issue 46 cover featuring a beast with bloody antlers, a hooded figure with a bloody axe, and several small creatures in the glare of a dusty sun.
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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stevetoase.bsky.social
Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

"Jamie found the book in our second year at art school. I remember this because he never made it to the third."

The Charcoal Sovereign published at @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/the...
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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fictionaljosh.bsky.social
-"A Clockwork Gun" (www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/a-c...) in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social #35
-"Microcosmus of Mystery" (kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/s...) in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social Spring 2025
- "Someday Someone's Gonna Steal Your Carbon" (mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/som...) in @mythaxis.bsky.social #42!
Josh Pearce > A Clockwork Gun > Bourbon Penn
Along the edges of the collapsed cities, safely enough away from their ground zero downtowns, Lenore Briar prospected through layers of Fordite and plastiglomerate. She used pick and spade and hand-tw...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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thomasha.bsky.social
As others have noted in the quotes, if you like the story, you may also enjoy House Traveler in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social and The Sort in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, which may share some loose ties with the novelette.

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Thomas Ha > House Traveler > Bourbon Penn
The five of us were gathered on the floor of one of the last houses, trying to decide which of the group would be the one to go outside. Sitting around an electric camping lantern, our legs crossed li...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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matthollingsworth.com
Today's read is a fun story of Legos gone awry, a nice bit of epistolary weird fiction written by @breewernicke.bsky.social, and published by my fave mag @bourbonpenn.bsky.social

Read at the link below. Go. You won't regret it.

#weirdfiction #indiepublishing

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Bree Wernicke > Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed > Bourbon Penn
Help! Possible curse?? Hi! Not sure this forum is the right place to post this, but bear with me. So about a week ago I came down with horrible stomach cramps. I assumed it was something I ate (I’m la...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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janstinchcomb.bsky.social
And a longer ghost story:

www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/26/eac...
Jan Stinchcomb > Each Time I Set Foot in That House > Bourbon Penn
I can’t ever leave my childhood home. Something always pulls me back. Many people feel this way, I realize, but my family is in a special situation. Our house is different from all the others.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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dearnicoletta.bsky.social
My contributor copies of @bourbonpenn.bsky.social have arrived! Can't wait to devour the stories inside!
A wolf skull with a crown chomps down on the new issue of Bourbon Penn.
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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bourbonpenn.bsky.social
Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick.
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Bourbon Penn 37
Stories by Lavie Tidhar, Clelia Farris, Nick DiChario, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick. Cover art by Brian Haberlin.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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If you're in the mood for something creepy and weird in the run up to Halloween, I thought this story was excellent

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Travis Schuhardt > Rules for Sneaking Out at Night > Bourbon Penn
Rule #1: If they catch you, you’re dead. The farthest any of your sisters ever gets is the bottom of the staircase. Her name is Adelaide, and she hugs the walls better than anyone, has a set of all-b...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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rachelcordasco.bsky.social
Check out Clelia Farris's story "Threehearts and Me" about a very special kind of engineered crab perfect for excavation!
October 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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dearnicoletta.bsky.social
If you wanna read my favorite published story ever, find it here!
October 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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lavietidhar.bsky.social
New short story! "The Garden" is now live at the amazing @bourbonpenn.bsky.social!
Lavie Tidhar > The Garden > Bourbon Penn
Once, about a year into his habitation of the city, Adam saw in the distance something he thought impossible. There, far on the horizon, between the endless buildings that rose unevenly from the paved...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
bourbonpenn.bsky.social
Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick.
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social
Bourbon Penn 37
Stories by Lavie Tidhar, Clelia Farris, Nick DiChario, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick. Cover art by Brian Haberlin.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Got some exciting book mail!

Always excited for something new and weird from @undertow.bsky.social :)
October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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jeffreyford8.bsky.social
Was just over at the Lethe Press site and saw this is going to drop in February 2026 -- The Pandemonium Waltz -- 17 stories. Cover by Derek. More info as the days proceed.
October 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
In case you missed it, my latest Words for Thought review column is available to read online, discussing stories from @reactorsff.bsky.social, @3lobedmag.com, @undertow.bsky.social, @titanbooks.bsky.social and @bourbonpenn.bsky.social. Happy reading!

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Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review
This time around, I’m looking at uneasy stories, the kind that leave you with the creeping feeling of something unsettling happening...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
My latest Words for Thought column for @apexmag.bsky.social is now available to read online, discussing work by @kellyrobson.com, @thomasha.bsky.social, Jocelyn Szczcepaniak-Gillice, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social and @stevetoase.bsky.social.

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Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review
This time around, I’m looking at uneasy stories, the kind that leave you with the creeping feeling of something unsettling happening...
www.apexbookcompany.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Do yourself a favor and check out @samasherwriter.bsky.social’s Trader over in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social!

If you need something beautifully sad and surreal, look no further :)

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Sam Asher > Trader > Bourbon Penn
For example, a man in some part of southern Illinois once wrote asking for enough money to never work again. I waited for him on his porch, with all the cash he wanted. But what do you want in return?...
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September 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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taracampbell.bsky.social
Was just talking w/another writer about vodou (how to responsibly write it, Zora Neale Hurston's work, etc) & recalled this story I wrote grappling with those very things. Of course, because it's me, it had to involve animate dolls w/their own agenda

Fairbanks:
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Tara Campbell > Fairbanks > Bourbon Penn
When Kyra really concentrates on time, she thinks it has only been a couple of days since the dolls took her hostage.
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September 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Bourbon Penn 37 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!
September 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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crsutton.bsky.social
I’m not in the desert anymore, so that’s a lie, but the rest of the video is totally true.

I have a novella coming out in February called Krackle’s Last Movie, which is being published by Split/Lip Press! @splitlippress.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Bourbon Penn 37 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!
September 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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undertow.bsky.social
We're celebrating @thomasha.bsky.social today. It's pub day for UNCERTAIN SONS. (Yes, I'm posting again. It's exciting.) Please consider grabbing a copy, print or eBook, from us, or elsewhere.

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Book cover of UNCERTAIN SONS with text: "You! Yes, you! You need this book! The stories in Uncertain Sons already feel like classics of the uncanny. As inventive as Ray Bradbury, as unsettling as Thomas Ligotti or Carmen Maria Machado, Ha knows how to produce that peculiar, pleasurable, creeping sense of wrongness and dislocation so particular to weird horror. I am such a fan of Thomas Ha's writing-and I expect that you will be, too." -Kelly Link, Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Book of Love and Get in Trouble
September 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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thomasha.bsky.social
Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.
A pile of Uncertain Sons, just a lot of uncertainty and a lot of sons
September 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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acwise.bsky.social
And speaking of stunning collections, happiest of book birthdays to @thomasha.bsky.social as well! Uncertain Sons is out in the world today as well!

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Uncertain Sons and Other Stories — Undertow Publications
Sept. 2025 Cover art by Ove Tøpfer Trade paperback (284 pages) Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; ...
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September 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM