Chris Doty-Dunn
LightNews LightNews
banner
chrisdotydunn.com
Chris Doty-Dunn
@chrisdotydunn.com
330 followers 640 following 270 posts
Writer of weird + gay spec fic. Words in Crepuscular Magazine, Dream Theory Media, and more + forthcoming at Drabblecast. PhD in linguistics. 🏳️‍🌈👬

Newsletter signup: patreon.com/chrisdotydunn
More: chrisdotydunn.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
chrisdotydunn.com
Chris Doty-Dunn @chrisdotydunn.com · Sep 27
My story "Bubbe's Last Kugel" is out today! It took 13th in @tldrpress.bsky.social's Word Herd contest, and was published as part of this anthology. All proceeds go to support Trans Lifeline, so I have no qualms in telling you to go buy it (at least once, maybe a few times)!
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
tldrpress.bsky.social
There’s still time to enter the TL;DR Press 2K Terrors short story horror competition!!

Registration closes on the 28th November, so if you want to take part in a fun short story competition, then don’t forget to register asap.

Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/2k-terrors...
2K Terrors Competition 2025
The 2K Terrors Fiction Contest is a writing competition and fundraiser for TL;DR Press. Guaranteed feedback and a $150 top prize!
www.eventbrite.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
waitingforthetrade.bsky.social
That wasn’t the part I was worried about, bro
Meet the vampire squid This gentle scavenger floats through the deep sea collecting marine snow and other drifting debris with long feeding filaments. Despite its name, the vampire squid is not a squid. Its unique characteristics set it apart from other cephalopods — and help it survive in the ocean’s darkest depths.
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
rikergoogling.bsky.social
how do large pokemon fit in pokeballs
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
abigailkemske.bsky.social
Wrote this masterpiece on a writer’s group chat awhile back. Really feeling these vibes today re: @diabolicalplots.com 🤣
Text that reads: An Ode to the Submission Grinder Bold on the grinder What’s that you say? The tug of hope That will betray For bold means nothing It has no sway The mags you see May read with disarray. The hopes you had Pushed down asunder The bold bequeaths your Dreams and wonder. When the time comes That dreaded R The bold ones lost And gone afar You’ll miss your bolds Wherever they are.
November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
chrisdotydunn.com
November newsletter is going out later today! If you want it, sign up for the free tier on my Patreon!
Chris Doty-Dunn | Patreon
Writing spec fiction, mostly weird, sometimes gay
www.patreon.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
renanbernardo.com
ICYMI, I have a new story out! 🎵🎸🚀
renanbernardo.com Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 7d
URGENT! Baron Quits the Payloaders!
My new short story is out at @escapepod.org! 🎸👨‍🚀⚡

It's my tribute to heavy music and how inspiring it is for me. It's a found family piece about overcoming grief, finding new meanings in life, and dealing with predatory companies.

escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
Escape Pod 1019: Baron Quits The Payloaders
This story starts with a gig. Half a million people from all corners of the galaxy, hands in the air, heads banging to our vibrant noise. You probably saw the venue on some feed already.
escapepod.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
chrisdotydunn.com
November newsletter is going out later today! If you want it, sign up for the free tier on my Patreon!
Chris Doty-Dunn | Patreon
Writing spec fiction, mostly weird, sometimes gay
www.patreon.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
criswrites.bsky.social
Coffee and a book. Currently reading the Florida Writers Association anthology (2025). One of my shorts makes an appearance though I'm mostly enjoying all the other stories in here.

Get a copy 👉 amazon.to/3WN4EEt

#floridawriters #shortstoryanthology #coffeeandabook #currentlyreading
November 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
foldedspace.bsky.social
Folded Space is a work in progress from the editor of the Tales to Terrify Podcast. As we get closer to launch we will update our page @ www.foldedspacepodcast.com
Folded Space, an Audio Science Fiction Anthology
Folded Space is a work in progress with a clear mission: Deliver the finest short space science fiction each season, exploring new worlds, future possibilities, and…
www.foldedspacepodcast.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
reachyourapex.bsky.social
Our next live workshop is "Sellable Short Stories: What Editors Want (And What To Avoid)" led by award-winning author, KC Grifant. Join us!

November 14, Friday, at 2pm ET | 1PM CT | 12PM MT | 11AM PT | 18:00 UTC

reachyourapex.com/wew

#authors #writingworkshops
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
mruthrobinson.bsky.social
This story by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social ruined my whole morning, and I mean that as the highest of compliments. Perfect Halloween read.
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
duotrope.com
The 2K Terrors Competition @tldrpress.bsky.social (Fiction; Horror; pays) opened to fee-based fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: The 2K Terrors Competition
The 2K Terrors Competition @tldrpress.bsky.social (Fiction; Horror; pays) opened to fee-based fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com/contest/the-2k-terrors-competition-36275 #amwriting
duotrope.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
pinknovahtx.bsky.social
A pumpkin carved with a human shaped opening, and then the guy from The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito has been cut out with a text bubble saying “it was made for me!” And attacked to the pumpkin so it recreates the scene from the manga where the guy is climbing into the human shaped hole in a cliff side except now it’s a human shaped hole in a pumpkin.
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
ratbaglit.bsky.social
Today's story is "A Fair Trade" by Katie Dee
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros

ratbaglit.substack.com/p/a-fair-trade
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
chrisdotydunn.com
This is a deep cut, but a good one.
mimulus.bsky.social Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 22d
A Court of Bouba and Kiki.
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
chrisdotydunn.com
Hey, that's me! Check out my funky little post-apocalyptic story below!
crepuscularmag.bsky.social Crepuscular Magazine @crepuscularmag.bsky.social · 22d
"Bad Advice" by Chris Doty-Dunn is free to read today!

www.patreon.com/post...
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
museum.of.emilyk.art
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
yeeeerika.bsky.social
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
psychopomp.com
let's play a game...
window of a bookstore shows letters in large, bold, white text reading: “FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA. MARRY BOOKS. KILL AI.” Inside the shop, tables and shelves are filled with books.
October 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
chrisdotydunn.com
@ratbaglit.bsky.social new cross promotion opportunity? 🤔
retreasure.bsky.social Rebecca E. Treasure @retreasure.bsky.social · Oct 19
Please for the love of all that is horror TAKE THE RATS
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Oct 18
NEW BACKER REWARD! 📢✨👽

For our backers who donate at least $500, we will send you a Live Rat! 💸 That's right, a ❗🐀 LIVE RAT!! 🐀❗

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! For $1k or more, you'll receive ANOTHER 🐀 LIVE 🐀 RAT!! Don't miss this INCREDIBLE OFFER and get live rats delivered to your bare hands TODAY1!! 👇
October 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
ericraglin1992.bsky.social
Hey, it's my 33rd birthday today! My selfish wish is to raise enough money to edit another zine bundle with these themes:

-Cunty Horrors
-Cursed Concerts
-Monstrous Dating Profiles
-Batshit LinkedIn Posts
-Nightmare Grifters

Interested? Donate to Cursed Morsels on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/cursedmorsels
Buy Cursed Morsels a Coffee
Become a supporter of Cursed Morsels today!
ko-fi.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
rhunedhel.bsky.social
To introduce the Fall issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, releasing next Saturday, I'm introducing its authors first.

D.A. Cooper is publishing "Hellhound" (based on a scene from Dante's Inferno) in FGR. Previous publications include "Rise" in The North American Anglican:

northamanglican.com/rise/
Rise | The North American Anglican
Thick, mist-forged shackles held us in the cave, imprisoned for the crime of losing all. We saw nothing but shadows on the wall— they gamboled and they taunted us. We gave in to the dark. A crushing f...
northamanglican.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
mcsweeneys.net
"In an era when it’s exceedingly hard to learn what the Old Masters knew, Art + Water will impart those skills. These emerging artists must know how to draw, and from there, they’ll be taught everything Rembrandt was taught." - Dave Eggers
The Story of Art + Water
For fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of...
buff.ly
October 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Reposted by Chris Doty-Dunn
khoreo.bsky.social
📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions!

We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!

⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
Colorful illustration of a hand holding a megaphone with text reading Submissions open, November 1 - 31, Theme: Revolutions.
October 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
chrisdotydunn.com
Waffles!!! 🧇
mruthrobinson.bsky.social M. R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · Oct 15
Read about the kinds of poems Jess hopes to find in our queue next year! Catch up on all our October updates! And meet Waffles, our latest intern, described by @chrisdotydunn.com as looking uncannily like a portrait of George Washington!
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · Oct 15
Our newsletter for all patrons is out now! Wherein we scream about the Kickstarter thus far, share a Q&A with our poetry editor Jess Cho, and of course feature a delightful intern of the month! (And if you aren't already a patron, sign up for free today!)
October 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM