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Today's Editor Pick on Gavagai is The Courting of Lamia by the Foolhardy Charlatan in the West by Rikki Lee - a hypnotic, lush interpretation of the Lamia myth: a tale of elegance, and appetite somewhere between poetry and prose.
Today's Editor Pick on Gavagai is The Courting of Lamia by the Foolhardy Charlatan in the West by Rikki Lee - a hypnotic, lush interpretation of the Lamia myth: a tale of elegance, and appetite somewhere between poetry and prose.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Today's Editor Pick on Gavagai is The Courting of Lamia by the Foolhardy Charlatan in the West by Rikki Lee - a hypnotic, lush interpretation of the Lamia myth: a tale of elegance, and appetite somewhere between poetry and prose.
Thanks so much for the shout out!
Quietly wonderful things are happening over at the green and growing @gavagai.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Thanks so much for the shout out!
In today’s Editor Pick: When Euan swears he’s seen an old woman riding a hyena across the Zimbabwean plains, everyone laughs—until the night laughs back. It’s “The Clever Girls” by Masimba Musodza. Read it for free on www.gavagai.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
In today’s Editor Pick: When Euan swears he’s seen an old woman riding a hyena across the Zimbabwean plains, everyone laughs—until the night laughs back. It’s “The Clever Girls” by Masimba Musodza. Read it for free on www.gavagai.com
In today’s Editor Pick, the Ouija board gets an upgrade—and a body count. From the dusty patents of 1891 to a modern neural-network séance, this story drags the talking board into the digital afterlife. Airvalve Semilunar Astern by Nick Mamatas: read it for free on gavagai.com!
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In today’s Editor Pick, the Ouija board gets an upgrade—and a body count. From the dusty patents of 1891 to a modern neural-network séance, this story drags the talking board into the digital afterlife. Airvalve Semilunar Astern by Nick Mamatas: read it for free on gavagai.com!
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My most difficult-to-spell story "Chrysalis in Chrysanthemum," a short pregnancy cosmic body horror story, is an Editor's Pick at Gavagai, a new site for horror writers and readers. I have invites if anyone wants any, but here's the link to the story:
www.gavagai.com/posts/386
www.gavagai.com/posts/386
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November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My most difficult-to-spell story "Chrysalis in Chrysanthemum," a short pregnancy cosmic body horror story, is an Editor's Pick at Gavagai, a new site for horror writers and readers. I have invites if anyone wants any, but here's the link to the story:
www.gavagai.com/posts/386
www.gavagai.com/posts/386
For today’s Editor Pick, we jump from the darkly culinary to the deep sea with Fishing by Chris Wilcox: a creeping maritime horror about infection, obsession, and the pull of the sea. Read for free on gavagai.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
For today’s Editor Pick, we jump from the darkly culinary to the deep sea with Fishing by Chris Wilcox: a creeping maritime horror about infection, obsession, and the pull of the sea. Read for free on gavagai.com
For Halloween, treat yourself to Colleen Anderson’s disturbingly toothsome tale of hunger and obsession. Let yourself be consumed by Love Bites. Read it for free at gavagai.com!
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
For Halloween, treat yourself to Colleen Anderson’s disturbingly toothsome tale of hunger and obsession. Let yourself be consumed by Love Bites. Read it for free at gavagai.com!
With today’s Editor Pick we move from the swamp to seamstress with Revenge Dress, a poignant quiet horror tale by Susan J. Lin where existential threads spiral downward to an inevitable end. Read it here for free: www.gavagai.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
With today’s Editor Pick we move from the swamp to seamstress with Revenge Dress, a poignant quiet horror tale by Susan J. Lin where existential threads spiral downward to an inevitable end. Read it here for free: www.gavagai.com
Cassondra Windwalker’s Saved by the Water is our first Editor Pick! A heist gone wrong, a euphoric romance and a doting mother, all carried by Cassondra’s authentic voice. What more could you ask for? Read it for free at gavagai.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Cassondra Windwalker’s Saved by the Water is our first Editor Pick! A heist gone wrong, a euphoric romance and a doting mother, all carried by Cassondra’s authentic voice. What more could you ask for? Read it for free at gavagai.com
An update on story acceptances: we're good to start sending these out today or tomorrow. The only obstacle to moving stories forward in the queue was verifying the time it takes for Stripe payments to push through to authors. We've been doing some test payments in a "live" mode and are still 🧵 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
An update on story acceptances: we're good to start sending these out today or tomorrow. The only obstacle to moving stories forward in the queue was verifying the time it takes for Stripe payments to push through to authors. We've been doing some test payments in a "live" mode and are still 🧵 1/2
A Question of Images — by Gavagai
For everyone on Gavagai right now, the site you're using is in private beta. That means there are some rough edges that we're hoping to smooth before opening to a wider audience. It also means experimenting with various tools to keep the community safer when it ope…
For everyone on Gavagai right now, the site you're using is in private beta. That means there are some rough edges that we're hoping to smooth before opening to a wider audience. It also means experimenting with various tools to keep the community safer when it ope…
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A Question of Images — by Gavagai
For everyone on Gavagai right now, the site you're using is in private beta. That means there are some rough edges that we're hoping to smooth before opening to a wider audience. It also means experimenting with various tools to keep the community safer when it ope…
For everyone on Gavagai right now, the site you're using is in private beta. That means there are some rough edges that we're hoping to smooth before opening to a wider audience. It also means experimenting with various tools to keep the community safer when it ope…
Story Acceptances: What to Expect — by Gavagai
Though yesterday's AWS outage set us back a bit in both reading and tech, we're still hoping to get some story acceptances out this week!
Having placed some paid stories in both horror and non-horror markets, I wanted to make sure the process was secu…
Though yesterday's AWS outage set us back a bit in both reading and tech, we're still hoping to get some story acceptances out this week!
Having placed some paid stories in both horror and non-horror markets, I wanted to make sure the process was secu…
October 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Story Acceptances: What to Expect — by Gavagai
Though yesterday's AWS outage set us back a bit in both reading and tech, we're still hoping to get some story acceptances out this week!
Having placed some paid stories in both horror and non-horror markets, I wanted to make sure the process was secu…
Though yesterday's AWS outage set us back a bit in both reading and tech, we're still hoping to get some story acceptances out this week!
Having placed some paid stories in both horror and non-horror markets, I wanted to make sure the process was secu…
We're still seeing some fallout from this morning's AWS outage on the site. For the nerds out there, we are smack dab in us-east-1; even though we don't use the specific technologies affected, the blast radius is probably significantly larger. Thanks for your patience.
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We're still seeing some fallout from this morning's AWS outage on the site. For the nerds out there, we are smack dab in us-east-1; even though we don't use the specific technologies affected, the blast radius is probably significantly larger. Thanks for your patience.
FYI, on Gavagai we allow 1000-character posts. When you opt to cross post to Bluesky, we automatically break up long posts and thread them, as you see here
October 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
FYI, on Gavagai we allow 1000-character posts. When you opt to cross post to Bluesky, we automatically break up long posts and thread them, as you see here
Just to give a rough idea of schedule, we're hoping to select the first group of stories and publish them by October 31. I think we're all pretty stunned at the number of submissions and we'll have a long reading time after that as well. It might be too aspirational to think we'll have some 🧵 1/2
October 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Just to give a rough idea of schedule, we're hoping to select the first group of stories and publish them by October 31. I think we're all pretty stunned at the number of submissions and we'll have a long reading time after that as well. It might be too aspirational to think we'll have some 🧵 1/2
There is some amazing writing being submitted here. I feel very privileged.
October 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
There is some amazing writing being submitted here. I feel very privileged.
Gavagai Tips and Tricks #1 — by Gavagai
One cool feature we built into Gavagai is the ability to embed your feed—all the posts that you see below your profile info—in another page. This was totally the result of laziness, because I'd never get around to updating my "author updates" on my author pag…
One cool feature we built into Gavagai is the ability to embed your feed—all the posts that you see below your profile info—in another page. This was totally the result of laziness, because I'd never get around to updating my "author updates" on my author pag…
October 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Gavagai Tips and Tricks #1 — by Gavagai
One cool feature we built into Gavagai is the ability to embed your feed—all the posts that you see below your profile info—in another page. This was totally the result of laziness, because I'd never get around to updating my "author updates" on my author pag…
One cool feature we built into Gavagai is the ability to embed your feed—all the posts that you see below your profile info—in another page. This was totally the result of laziness, because I'd never get around to updating my "author updates" on my author pag…
Good news everyone! We've made the submission process much easier for those who just want to submit their work for the current call. We still require an account, but you can opt to bypass the story editor if you find it's a barrier to submitting your work.
October 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good news everyone! We've made the submission process much easier for those who just want to submit their work for the current call. We still require an account, but you can opt to bypass the story editor if you find it's a barrier to submitting your work.
We updated our AI policy to better reflect our position on using your aubmissions or other data for AI purposes. In short, we don’t and won’t use your work for any such purposes.
www.gavagai.com/posts/10
www.gavagai.com/posts/10
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October 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We updated our AI policy to better reflect our position on using your aubmissions or other data for AI purposes. In short, we don’t and won’t use your work for any such purposes.
www.gavagai.com/posts/10
www.gavagai.com/posts/10
Omg what have I gotten myself into. Reading time!
October 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Omg what have I gotten myself into. Reading time!
If you have any technical/logistical issues with the site, feel free to mention us here and we'll address the issue asap.
You can also hit us up through the suggestion box. It's the lightbulb icon in the header (obviously not an option if you're not able to sign up or have invite code issues). TY!
You can also hit us up through the suggestion box. It's the lightbulb icon in the header (obviously not an option if you're not able to sign up or have invite code issues). TY!
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
If you have any technical/logistical issues with the site, feel free to mention us here and we'll address the issue asap.
You can also hit us up through the suggestion box. It's the lightbulb icon in the header (obviously not an option if you're not able to sign up or have invite code issues). TY!
You can also hit us up through the suggestion box. It's the lightbulb icon in the header (obviously not an option if you're not able to sign up or have invite code issues). TY!
We sent out the first batch of invites overnight and already had a great response for the horror submission call! Thanks to everyone who submitted. There were a few technical issues, but thankfully nothing too major. We’ll be keeping our eyes on the site logs and the suggestion box tho.
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
We sent out the first batch of invites overnight and already had a great response for the horror submission call! Thanks to everyone who submitted. There were a few technical issues, but thankfully nothing too major. We’ll be keeping our eyes on the site logs and the suggestion box tho.
I may actually like the light theme on the site better than dark mode. This is so unlike me.
October 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I may actually like the light theme on the site better than dark mode. This is so unlike me.
Just under a week before we start sending out invites and open for our first submission call! Jump over to gavagai.com to request an invite now if you want to submit! While this one is horror in honor of Halloween and our October 13 launch, we’ll be reading subs well into November #WritingCommunity
October 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Just under a week before we start sending out invites and open for our first submission call! Jump over to gavagai.com to request an invite now if you want to submit! While this one is horror in honor of Halloween and our October 13 launch, we’ll be reading subs well into November #WritingCommunity
Thanks for all the interest thus far in both the site and the #horror submission call! We're very excited for launch day on October 13! #writingcommunity
October 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Thanks for all the interest thus far in both the site and the #horror submission call! We're very excited for launch day on October 13! #writingcommunity