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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 6d

All the 🖤 to @factorfourmagazine.com Ansible Press @blackcatbooks.bsky.social @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social PULPHOUSE(x2) @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for giving 🇨🇦weird SFF/H a home in 2025 (it's been a whirlwind few months~)

Read/links: kaie.space/standalones

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K.A. Wiggins
2025 Mid-Year Fiction Round-Up
Originals
"Geosapiology: a brief history of geogenesis, the Stones, and the Theory of Appeasement" (The Daily Tomorrow, JUL 2025), thinky eco-apocalypse sci-fi serial—3.8k words

"Crumbling of the Sandwich Generation" (Factor Four Magazine, SEP 2025), lit-spec flash nightmare—900 words

"Powerhouse" in The Kindread Coast (Black Cat Books, OCT 2025),YA brainrot ecopunk cryptid horror—6.1k words

"The Mistletoe Matchmaker Is Wilting" (Pulphouse, TBA 2025), seasonal tragicomic fairytale horror—5.5k words

Reprints:
"The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault)" (Strange Horizons, 2024; Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror Volume 3, Tenebrous Press, 2025)

"The Patron Saint of Flatliners" (Mysterion, 2024; Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 3, Ansible Press, 2025)

"The Pink Slime's Appointment With Destiny" (Pulphouse, 2024; Really Big, Pointy Teeth, WMG Books, 2025)

Links in bio or at kawiggins.com

Silver and gold tone text reads K.A. Wiggins 2025 Mid-Year Fiction Round-Up, Links in Bio or at kawiggins.com on dark mottled background with sketchy pen-and-ink or tattoo-style accent images of talons clutching a radiating eye and a skull overrun by tentacles under the text West Coast Weird.

Six book or magazine covers/graphics are arranged across the background:
The Kindread Coast, edited by Caroline Lavoie and Monique Riel. Cover art of a blue-and-teal water monster with red accents and a black cat by Lydia Avsec.

Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Volume 3 edited by Stephen Kotowych. Cover illustration of space craft "Repair Station 73" by Pascal Blanché.

Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror, Volume Three edited by Alex Woodroe. Cover art of a green skeletal zombie with coral brains on a cereal box by Matt Blairstone.

Factor Four Magazine 50th Issue. (50 in orange tone text over blue clouds, designer unknown.)

Really Big, Pointy Teeth: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine edited by Dean Edward Smith. Yellow cover with googly-eyed fanged face in center, artist unknown.

The Daily Tomorrow, text over newsprint background, designer unknown.

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Alethea Paul @aletheapaul.bsky.social · 6d

This Prize Has Teeth (by yours truly) has been published at @factorfourmagazine.com!

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This Prize Has Teeth by Alethea Paul

Despite dragging my generously-called-a-prosthetic pogo stick of a leg through this dungeon, I’m practically dancing like it’s the aisle on The Price is Right. I might not be the only one to make i…

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 6d

It's a new story day! "In the Void Behind My Deaths" is free to read at @factorfourmagazine.com

See what happens between death and rebirth...and what it means for the whole universe

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In the Void Behind My Deaths by Effie Seiberg

In my first death I died alone, pierced through the belly with a velociraptor talon. I bled out before I felt much of anything, floating into a black void. It was quiet and and peaceful and still, …

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 6d

Read my flash, "Spin Down" in this brand new (and #Spooktober...) issue.

Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com · 7d

Spooky Season is here. Welcome Issue 51! factorfourmag.com/category/iss...

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Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com · 7d

Spooky Season is here. Welcome Issue 51! factorfourmag.com/category/iss...

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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 13d

Whoa, September kinda got away from me & I completely missed that I had a story in @factorfourmagazine.com 's 50TH ISSUE?!?!!!!😱🎉

Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com · Sep 2

We can't believe we've published 50 issues already! Here is our 50th issue for your reading enjoyment! factorfourmag.com/category/iss...

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Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com · 13d

So glad we hit it. Looking forward to 100 someday!

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 28d

6. The Everlasting Wound Of Polythemus by David Anaxagoas in @factorfourmagazine.com in which the cyclops carries scars factorfourmag.com/the-everlast...

The Everlasting Wound of Polyphemus by David Anaxagoras

The museum warehouse was more than ample space for Polyphemus, and he could make it a true home with just a little effort. That’s what Gale, his social worker from the Department of Mythical Beings…

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Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com · Sep 4

Thank you!

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Spencer Orey @spencerorey.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm happy to say my story "Chasing the Sky Whale" is in this issue! I wrote the story when I was grieving for my grandma, so it is full of grief. I'm glad it found such good company here

Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com · Sep 2

We can't believe we've published 50 issues already! Here is our 50th issue for your reading enjoyment! factorfourmag.com/category/iss...

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Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com · Sep 4

We hope to be around for many more major milestones!

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Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com · Sep 4

Thank you!

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Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com · Sep 4

Glad you could be a part of our first 50 issues!

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Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com · Sep 2

We can't believe we've published 50 issues already! Here is our 50th issue for your reading enjoyment! factorfourmag.com/category/iss...

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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · Aug 27

Contract signed, so it's probably safe to announce I'll have another flash piece coming out this fall!

Get ready for "Crumbling of the Sandwich Generation" (WIP name: Swallowing Poison) from @factorfourmagazine.com !

It's gonna be a busy fall/winter release season!🖤🇨🇦

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Nico Martinez Nocito | Writer @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 23

I have three! "A Single Song" came out in the July issue of @factorfourmagazine.com,
"A Knot for the Hawk" is part of Flame Tree Press's LOKI anthology, and "Blood Stains True" is in @speculationpub.bsky.social's VAMPIRE HUNTERS anthology!

Threading the links -

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · Aug 22

August Spec Flash Roundup!

With
@smallwondersmag.com
@flashfictiononline.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
@flashpointsf.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
@naturefutures.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@escapepod.org
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social
@yourimpossiblevoice.com

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Flash Roundup * August 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…

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Sylvia Heike @sylviaheike.bsky.social · Aug 3

LOVED this story by Michael M. Jones aka @oneminutemonkey.bsky.social in @factorfourmagazine.com. "Sandwiches for the Soul" is exactly what it says on the tin!

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Sandwiches for the Soul by Michael M. Jones

In the tangle of streets affectionately referred to as the Haystack, set away from the worst of Puxhill’s downtown chaos, there’s a place where shops come and go at their own whim, usually with no …

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Richard Flores IV @flores-factor.bsky.social · Aug 2

Very excited to be attending Seattle Worldcon this year. I've been away from the convention scene for too many years and am looking forward to getting back into it. If you will be there, I have a few thinks I'll be participating in. Take a look: builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/s...

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · Aug 2

New story day!! “Falling Forever” is my fourth story in @factorfourmagazine.com and my 8th published story in which I mess with time. Check it out!
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Falling Forever by P.A. Cornell

In this universe, time runs in reverse. Though, I suppose that’s all relative. From my point of view, time is moving backwards, at least for the moment. And not a moment too soon. The spots fade fr…

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Michael M. Jones @oneminutemonkey.bsky.social · Aug 2

My newest story, “Sandwiches for the Soul” is in this issue. I apologize if it makes you hungry.

Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com · Aug 2

Hot August Nights are here! You can read issue 49 to cool off (Though that statement has not been evaluated by the FDA). Issue 49 is live here: factorfourmag.com/category/iss...

Issue 49: August 2025 – Factor Four Magazine

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · Aug 2

@factorfourmagazine.com August issue is amazing. Give it a try!
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Science Fiction - Fantasy - Supernatural - Superhero

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Robert Luke Wilkins @robertlukewilkins.com · Aug 2

My new story, "We Sang Water into Lemonade, on the Eve of Summer, in the Wasteland", is in the August 2025 issue of @factorfourmagazine.com, with stories by @cornellwriter.bsky.social, @oneminutemonkey.bsky.social, and @authorthealiu.bsky.social. Give it a read!

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Issue 49: August 2025 – Factor Four Magazine

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Nico Martinez Nocito | Writer @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 7

"A Single Song", my dark fairytale retelling twisting together possession, music, revenge, and corruption, is free to read now from @factorfourmagazine.com!

"A harp made of bones, they say, will only ever play a single song..."

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A Single Song by Nico Martinez Nocito

A harp made of bones, they say, will only ever play a single song. Haunting, my listeners called my melody, and beautiful. My fingers glided over the sinuous strings and my voice, the harp’s voice,…

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · Jul 7

@nicowritesbooks.bsky.social, one of our All World’s Wayfarer Writers, has an amazing new Flash Fiction piece out in @factorfourmagazine.com! Please check it out to support Nico and all the other great Factor Four authors!

Nico Martinez Nocito | Writer @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · Jul 7

"A Single Song", my dark fairytale retelling twisting together possession, music, revenge, and corruption, is free to read now from @factorfourmagazine.com!

"A harp made of bones, they say, will only ever play a single song..."

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A Single Song by Nico Martinez Nocito

A harp made of bones, they say, will only ever play a single song. Haunting, my listeners called my melody, and beautiful. My fingers glided over the sinuous strings and my voice, the harp’s voice,…

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