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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · 7d

New story up at GNS:

A sly fox proposes marriage to the King, promising to keep his deepest secret in return. Surprising everyone, even himself, the King accepts.

Read “A Good King” by Sarah McGill
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A Good King - GigaNotoSaurus

In the last blush of autumn, the King of the Forest requested an audience with the King. The King was so delighted that he agreed at once. The audience was held in the King’s hall, the burnished tile ...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Jul 14

For those of you who read GigaNotoSaurus magazine, we will be putting a pause on publishing for the months of August and September. We will reopen in October.

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GigaNotoSaurus on Pause for August and September - GigaNotoSaurus

Hello friends, GigaNotoSaurus will be pausing its publications for August and September. We will resume our publishing schedule in October. While we wish we didn’t have to interrupt our schedule, we b...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Jul 1

New story up at GNS:

Amenau survives a space-wreck, but wakes on a strange planet, tended to by a frond-covered gold and blue creature. Surely this is a concussion. Surely.

Read “Water to a Goose” by Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social

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Water to a Goose - GigaNotoSaurus

CW: grief, disassociation, presumed death of a child “Why give water to a goose at dawn if it is being slaughtered in the morning?” – Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, Papyrus St. Pet...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Jun 1

New story up at GNS:

Everyone knows that Starter Wives and Starter Babies are just for practice until it’s time to Reclaim them, but Charles Young has never felt right about it.

Read “The Starter Family” by Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social

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The Starter Family - GigaNotoSaurus

Around the time the boys in my class turn eleven, we start asking where the Starter Boys have gone. We start asking why there are grown-up girls, but no kids who grow up to be girls. Why our moms neve...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · May 1

New story up at GNS

The starling jacks clean the sacrifice altars of hungry gods, until it’s their turn on the block. But Shadow Jack may have his own god whispering to him.

Read “Shadow Jack” by CL Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social
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Shadow Jack - GigaNotoSaurus

Content Note: aftermath of sacrifices, blood, body horror, offscreen abuse, suicide There is a hole in the wall by Shadow Jack’s bed. It is no bigger than a pin prick, and the wind that blows from it ...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Apr 1

New story up at GNS:

No joke, the devil you made a deal with at thirteen is back to make you drink the Lethe, save Hell, and your son with it. But you must remember not to look back.

Read “Horror Vacui” by A.V. Greene
@avgreenewrites.bsky.social
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Horror Vacui - GigaNotoSaurus

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.— William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell There’s evidence of the map everywhere if you know where to look. Orpheus strums his lyre on hi...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Mar 10

Seeking Slush Readers!

GigaNotoSaurus Magazine, a two-time Hugo finalist in the Best Semiprozine category, is looking for readers to join our amazing slush team. We are particularly interested in queer and BIPOC readers. Interested? Please email [email protected] for a questionnaire.

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Mar 1

New story up at GNS:

“Your choice is either a bad death out there—” she angled her head at the window— “or going to the sea. That’s the only choice you’ve ever had.”

Read “Something Rich and Strange” by L.S. Johnson @lsjohnson.bsky.social
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Something Rich and Strange - GigaNotoSaurus

Content Note: body transformation/horror Irene traced her gloved finger down the window, following one of the raindrops as it slid left, its path forced by the speed of the train. The water stretched ...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Feb 1

And if you haven't met them before, please enjoy Fox and Troll’s previous adventures in “Fox and Troll Steal Math”
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Fox and Troll Steal Math - GigaNotoSaurus

“Come, come,” Fox says, hurrying down one of Rookdrift’s slick alleys. “We have one more to steal and only but the one day left. Miss moon is setting and mister sun is to be rising. No time for Fox an...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Feb 1

New story up at GNS:

Fox and Troll are back, tasked with rescuing the famous chef Master Barozki from a witch—and facing one of their greatest challenges yet.

Read “Fox and Troll Bake a Cake” by Jeffery Reynolds @trollbreath.bsky.social
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Fox and Troll Bake a Cake - GigaNotoSaurus

After he thumped on her entry for a third time with his wooden hand, Troll unlocked the door using the key Fox had given him and stepped into the apartment she had purchased on a quiet, dead-end lane ...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 19

GNS submissions are now closed. In fifteen days, we got 413 submissions. Whew!

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 1

Happy New Year! A reminder that submissions are OPEN today and will be open until January 15 11:59pm CST. So get your stories in!

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 1

New story up at GNS:

A framed picture of a fairy, the size of a child’s palm, shimmers with ethereal life. A watercolor, with real butterfly wings. How has it changed the lives it’s passed through?

Read “Behind Glass” by Christi Krug
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Behind Glass - GigaNotoSaurus

Abi / Yakima Washington, July 1970 She finds the fairy in a suitcase. It’s the start of Abi’s weekend at the Bumping River cabin, and Nana tells her hurry up eat your breakfast while it’s hot. She sho...

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · Dec 15

ICYMI: I have a short story up at GigaNotoSaurus ...

GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Dec 1

New story up at GNS:

When María Luisa was eighteen and living in Saltabarranca, Veracruz, she danced with the Devil. Now, her daughter aims to do the same — only better.

Read “Dead Reckoning in 6/8 time” by Sabrina Vourvoulias
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Dead reckoning in 6/8 time - GigaNotoSaurus

Señores, venga el aviso. Good people, here’s the notice. In my thirty-third year, this Spanglish-speaking, feet-in-two-worlds, gringa Latina...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Dec 13

GigaNotoSaurus will be reopening to submissions from January 1st - January 15th, 2025, so if you have SFF from 5,000-25,000 words, please send them our way!

For more information on how to submit to GNS and what we’re looking for, please visit our website: giganotosaurus.org/submission-g...

Submission Guidelines - GigaNotoSaurus

We are currently closed to submissions. GigaNotoSaurus publishes one story a month. We pay $200 per story on acceptance. We ask for first serial rights and non-exclusive, indefinite archival rights, ...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Dec 13

Check out our 2024 Wrap-up for a look back at the last year, information about our next submission window, a look forward to 2025, and more!
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2024 Wrap-up and Submissions Re-opening in January 2025 - GigaNotoSaurus

What a year it has been for GigaNotoSaurus! My head is still spinning from all the good things that happened this year. We were nominated for the Hugo Award in the Semiprozine category, and while we d...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Dec 1

New story up at GNS:

When María Luisa was eighteen and living in Saltabarranca, Veracruz, she danced with the Devil. Now, her daughter aims to do the same — only better.

Read “Dead Reckoning in 6/8 time” by Sabrina Vourvoulias
giganotosaurus.org/2024/12/01/dead-reckoning-in-6/8-time

Dead reckoning in 6/8 time - GigaNotoSaurus

Señores, venga el aviso. Good people, here’s the notice. In my thirty-third year, this Spanglish-speaking, feet-in-two-worlds, gringa Latina...

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · Nov 11

Join @ClowderofTwo reviewing short fiction from @GigaNotoSaurus_ (@giganotosaurus.bsky.social), @diabolicalplots (@diabolicalplots.com), and @SmallwondersSFF (@smallwondersmag.com) - locusmag.com/2024/11...

GigaNotoSaurus, Diabolical Plots, and Small Wonders: Short Fiction Reviews by Charles Payseur

GigaNotoSaurus 8/24 Diabolical Plots 8/24 Small Wonders 8/24 The August GigaNotoSaurus story is Sarah J. Wu’s “Elves in Illinois”, which finds Linnet growing up in a small rural town that abuts a f…

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Nov 1

New story up at GNS:
Garrett and his alternate selves once faced the world-eating Priscae Tenebrae in battle. Now he takes coffee orders from a flirtatious stranger. How did he get here?
Read “Remnants” by Lauren Triola @3followsso.bsky.social
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Remnants - GigaNotoSaurus

Garrett listened to the man listing what ingredients he wanted in his latte while Garrett imagined choking him to death. He could see it clearly—the spindly neck beneath his fingers, the starched coll...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Oct 1

New story up at GNS:

Four patients. Four surgeries. Four chances for Regan to sabotage the Elders’ loyalty implants as she installs them, and save everyone.

Read “To Sacrifice Others” by R. Z. Held @rhiannonheld.bsky.social
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To Sacrifice Others - GigaNotoSaurus

Content warning: suicide ideation, torture The call for Regan to operate on Entente citizens from the Elders’ latest raid inevitably caught her off-guard—she was the implant installation facility’s sp...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Sep 1

New story up at GNS:
Thanks to a change in contract, Làngrén Kavita has to act fact or risk losing half her crew. The clock is ticking.
Read “Here in the Glittering Black, There is Hope” by Monte Lin @montelin.bsky.social
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Here in the Glittering Black, There is Hope - GigaNotoSaurus

Kavita stepped into the communication booth on Artemis Station and put on the glasses. An image of David Worthington, Immortal of Solar Standard, Inc., appeared in front of her, as if they were both s...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Aug 1

New story up at GNS:

In Clearwater Illinois the greenest farms are tended by elven hands. Linnet Halston can’t help her fascination with them.

Read “Elves in Illinois” by Sarah J. Wu
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Elves in Illinois - GigaNotoSaurus

1972 The Woodthorn elves are famous around these parts: anything living or once alive grows at their touch. Plants do the best: wild flowers, trees, crops and grass—even wood that has been turned int...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Jul 1

New story up at GNS:

When Leticia volunteers for a daring space mission to defend the clean energy producing constellation her crew monitors, she doesn’t do it for the glory. She does it for her family.

Read “Samba do Espaço” by Gustavo Bondoni
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Samba do Espaço - GigaNotoSaurus

The drums in the street called the Escola out and led them, pied-piper-like, down the hill to where the buses waited. Letícia looked up from her book–paper, ancient, but all she could afford–and felt ...

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Jun 24

"The Rainbow Bank" from Uchechukwu Nwaka won a Locus Award for Best Novelette! We are very happy and proud!

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2024 Locus Awards Winners

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2024 Locus Awards on June 22, 2024, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Henry Lien MCed the awards ceremony with Cory…

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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · Jun 1

New story up at GNS:

When Gabrielle vacations in the glittering city of Jvir, she goes looking for the sights that inspired Kavran, the famous dragon painter. Instead, she finds herself transformed.

Read “Underdragon” by Diana Dima @dimafic.bsky.social
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Underdragon - GigaNotoSaurus

The dragon painter came to Jvir and drank the sea, sang with the sands, swallowed the sun and breathed it out on Rowanhill – Song from Jvir Gabrielle’s face had always needed improvement. In the morni...

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