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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 1d

My weird flash piece about an Italian reincarnated as a glob of old hair conditioner is out today in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social. It’s the first time my names appeared on a cover so I’m absolutely chuffed. Check it out here:

www.amazon.com/Colored-Lens...

The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025

Amazon.com: The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025 eBook : Brinegar, Rachael, Newkirk, David, Hoyt, Ellie, McIntosh, Parker, Klass, Judy, Vance, Michael, Clairval, Gio, Morrey, Josh, Apsley, JS, Docherty, Stuart: Kindle Store

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 1d

@perfidiousscript.bsky.social this came in the post yesterday and I’m very excited to start reading.

Copy of The Veldt Institute by Samuel M. Miss

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 8d

@slashnburnett.bsky.social What an awesome cover! Congrats! I'm looking forward to reading.

chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 14d

COVER REVEAL!

Issue 64 includes stories from Sebastian Gray, Emma Burnett, Joule K. Zelman, Elena Sichrovsky, and more!

Cover art by Lars Strömquist.

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · Aug 8

Dead chuffed to have a story in this excellent anthology. Haven't finished reading all the excellent writing in it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · Aug 7

Releasing today.

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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · Jul 7

Releasing August 7th!

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thanks, Emmi!

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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · Jun 9

Full cover reveal of This Exquisite Topology!

Full cover of this Exquisite Topology. A sphere orbiting a planet filled with various colors with fire in the background.

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · Jul 5

Really enjoyed this one over at scaffold: www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

perv mayor by john pinto — scaffold literary magazine

micro fiction

www.scaffoldlit.com

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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · Jul 3

🍝 Marinara, Marinara by Stuart Docherty https://foofaraw.press/marinara-marinara-by-stuart-docherty/

🍝 Marinara, Marinara by Stuart Docherty

a messy mix-up

foofaraw.press

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Six-Eyed Kitten (But Scary) @andrewkozma.net · Jul 2

My story "Small Sacks of Children" is out now in After Happy Hour's second chance issue, featuring work from magazines that are now defunct. This story was in Daily Science Fiction and is about building a wall with small children. Read it (and the rest) here (via downloadable PDF).

AHH! Issues

afterhappyhourreview.com

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · Jun 9

Unpackaging: @doc12345.bsky.social reviews Thomas Morris's OPEN UP (@unnamedpress.bsky.social)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/06/09/u...

Unpackaging: Review of Thomas Morris’s Open Up

Stuart Docherty Under Review:Open Up. Thomas Morris. Unnamed Press, April 2025. Thomas Morris’s Open Up depicts a host of male outsiders with parental issues ostensibly trying to fit in. Morris’s s…

ancillaryreviewofbooks.org

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · May 16

"And my grandmother said: I’ve never wanted to do something so badly in my entire life. It was such a wonderful thing. Such a wonderful, wonderful thing."

Today on ergot.: 'A Wonderful Thing' by Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Jack...

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

www.ergot.press

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · Apr 21

OUT TODAY - THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION!

Thanks to @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social and cover artist @lukespoonerartist.bsky.social!

Book on a mossy rock with some green leaves. Book title - The Ghost of Blaubart Mansion. The cover features a young woman approaching an ominious-looking house.

Book on a mossy rock next to a little gray dog that is looking up. Book title - The Ghost of Blaubart Mansion. The cover features a young woman approaching an ominious-looking house.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · Apr 19

I am so super excited to be guest editing a FamPunk FFO!

Take a break from the big-picture. Casually incorporate science & technology. Embrace quotidian else-when life. Give us alternative families in alternative spaces.

Read more (& feel free to ask questions below): ffo.submittable.com/submit

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · Apr 20

Check out my story, The Pat Test, and all the other great writing in this issue of The Hooghly Review! I wrote this story a couple of years ago based on some of my own experiences living in mountain towns.

The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social · Apr 20

Issue 4 is live! 🥁
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/issue-4/

And it's beautiful and free. 💯

Thank you all for being lovely. Please do spread the word. 🙏

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · Mar 28

I have a soft spot for metafiction and this one is fantastic. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · Mar 20

Take a journey into the cosmic black hole of meaninglessness in my latest fiction at @weirdlitmag.bsky.social

www.weirdlitmag.com/fiction/dead...

“Dead Thought Space” by Ben Lockwood | Weird Lit

www.weirdlitmag.com

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · Mar 24

Really enjoyed this short story from a Apex. A little old but still fantastic.

www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Keep Talking

Gerald’s stomach clenched as he approached his daughter, Sarah. She sat at her computer, her back to the world, as intent as a...

www.apexbookcompany.com

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · Mar 19

Good news everyone: my least-publishable story has been published. It's only a thousand words and I promise that, while reading it, you will mutter "what the fuck, Sasha" under your breath. CW: butt plugs and body horror.

Butt plugs and body horror.

www.twinpiesliterary.com/fuck-us-up/m...

My Stalagmite - Sasha Brown — Twin Pies Literary

www.twinpiesliterary.com

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · Mar 20

I did say “what the fuck, Sasha”. That was kinda awful, kinda great. Disgusting and amazing at the same time. Thanks? Maybe? (But, seriously, very good).

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · Mar 14

Glad to have "Dead Men's Fingernails" up on The Fabulist today: fabulistmagazine.com/dead-mens-fi...

Dead Men’s Fingernails > The Fabulist Words & Art

A series of strange phone calls sets a child on a path full of ambiguity, doubt, and fleeting dread.

fabulistmagazine.com

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · Mar 14

Her touch was so hot it stung. Drops of sweat gathered along my back and slid down my spine. “Oh,” I said.
“My mother used to say: cold hands, warm heart.” She laughed.
I did too, the way you laugh at such things.

Today on ergot.: "Scorpion Eggs" by Heidi Marjamäki

www.ergot.press/authors/Heid...

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

www.ergot.press

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · Mar 4

Great read, this. Weird, funny sci-fi with a great lead character and depth.

Six-Eyed Kitten (But Scary) @andrewkozma.net · Mar 3

My weird science-fiction story about sex with aliens is now live on Phano. Read "The Human Solution" on your local interwebs device now!

The Human Solution

Who says big issues can’t be solved with a bit of pillow talk?

www.phano.co

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Feb 19

Thrilled to reveal the cover for @thomasha.bsky.social's astonishingly original debut UNCERTAIN SONS. Cover art by Ove Tøpfer. Design by Vince Haig. Foreword by @megapolisomancy.bsky.social. Praise from Kelly Link. Importantly, pre-orders open now. Get in!

undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

Ove Tøpfer's art and cover art for UNCERTAIN SONS showing odd, organic, alien-like head and face and skull with neck and body of bones forming doorways.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · Feb 19

My debut novel THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION is set for release April 21 with Cemetery Gates!

Get in touch for a review copy!

Quote from opening chapter:
"I don’t like being made of toe. I’d rather be a swan feather or something, even though I guess that would be less human."

Cemetery Gates Media @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social · Feb 19

Cover reveal for Ivy Grimes' debut novel THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION! A young woman agrees to marry a strange man, taking up residence at his haunted estate in the forest. To be released April 21st. Reviewers are welcome to email [email protected] for ARCs.

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · Feb 18

Really enjoyed this one: booth.butler.edu/2024/02/02/p...

Phantasmal Ric Flair – Booth

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