Michael A. Reed
@mike-cant-reed.bsky.social
Teaching, writing, reading, dyslexia, and all things speculative fiction. Codex Writer. HWA associate. Co-editor at The Phantom Pulse Magazine.
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It's time for the story of the week! Give a read to "Songs Never Sung" by @premeemohamed.com in Issue 46 of @3lobedmag.com. So much broken world and endless years delivered in the few words of a decaying yet deathless protagonist. It's what your weekend needs 🖤
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3LBE Magazine - Songs Never Sung by Premee Mohamed
It only ever spoke to me once and that was to say Do not sleep too deeply. Said upon departure, an aside tossed over its shoulder like salt. I paid little attention; I was staring at the thing it had ...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It's time for the story of the week! Give a read to "Songs Never Sung" by @premeemohamed.com in Issue 46 of @3lobedmag.com. So much broken world and endless years delivered in the few words of a decaying yet deathless protagonist. It's what your weekend needs 🖤
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
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I have two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines, podcasts, and publishers. You can follow all or some from these lists.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I have two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines, podcasts, and publishers. You can follow all or some from these lists.
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Wanna know more about what we think of AI, as well as how other artists in our field are using their gifts of storytelling to fight back? 🚫🤖
THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM collects prose, comics, illustration & games into a tome of Weird Sci-Horror:
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THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM collects prose, comics, illustration & games into a tome of Weird Sci-Horror:
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THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM - Magazine (print + eBook)
DEATH TO THE ROBOTS! This Zero Issue of Tenebrous' upcoming quarterly magazine has arrived to wrest the controls of artistic endeavor from the clutches of A.I. thieves and restore it to the rightful h...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Wanna know more about what we think of AI, as well as how other artists in our field are using their gifts of storytelling to fight back? 🚫🤖
THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM collects prose, comics, illustration & games into a tome of Weird Sci-Horror:
store.tenebrouspress.com/products/tha...
THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM collects prose, comics, illustration & games into a tome of Weird Sci-Horror:
store.tenebrouspress.com/products/tha...
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Our story of the week: "Hope is the Thing with Circuits and Steel" by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska from FFO. The story is weird and ripe with warnings for humanity. Grannies. Consumption. A question probing the nature of emotion acquisition. Give it a read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
December 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Our story of the week: "Hope is the Thing with Circuits and Steel" by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska from FFO. The story is weird and ripe with warnings for humanity. Grannies. Consumption. A question probing the nature of emotion acquisition. Give it a read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
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🕯️ The Phantom Pulse is open Jan 1–Feb 14, 2026!
Seeking speculative fiction that lingers in the grey corners of humanity - dread that seeps under the skin, strange obsessions, and the beautifully bizarre.
💰 $0.03/word (unpublished)
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@thephantompulse.bsky.social
Seeking speculative fiction that lingers in the grey corners of humanity - dread that seeps under the skin, strange obsessions, and the beautifully bizarre.
💰 $0.03/word (unpublished)
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@thephantompulse.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🕯️ The Phantom Pulse is open Jan 1–Feb 14, 2026!
Seeking speculative fiction that lingers in the grey corners of humanity - dread that seeps under the skin, strange obsessions, and the beautifully bizarre.
💰 $0.03/word (unpublished)
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@thephantompulse.bsky.social
Seeking speculative fiction that lingers in the grey corners of humanity - dread that seeps under the skin, strange obsessions, and the beautifully bizarre.
💰 $0.03/word (unpublished)
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@thephantompulse.bsky.social
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This is Phantom Pulse's first story of the week!
From Cosmic Horror Monthly comes "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" by Joule K. Zelman. The story is pleasantly weird, the pacing is seamless, and the characterization is delightful.
Shout out to Joule K. Zelman!
@joulekzelm.bsky.social
From Cosmic Horror Monthly comes "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" by Joule K. Zelman. The story is pleasantly weird, the pacing is seamless, and the characterization is delightful.
Shout out to Joule K. Zelman!
@joulekzelm.bsky.social
The Ones at the Top Didn’t Fall There – Cosmic Horror Monthly
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November 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is Phantom Pulse's first story of the week!
From Cosmic Horror Monthly comes "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" by Joule K. Zelman. The story is pleasantly weird, the pacing is seamless, and the characterization is delightful.
Shout out to Joule K. Zelman!
@joulekzelm.bsky.social
From Cosmic Horror Monthly comes "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" by Joule K. Zelman. The story is pleasantly weird, the pacing is seamless, and the characterization is delightful.
Shout out to Joule K. Zelman!
@joulekzelm.bsky.social
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Deepen your grim connection to The Phantom Pulse by joining our discord community! Expect conversations about writing, reading, living, and breathing horror and updates on our mag. Link is on our website at thephantompulse.com
The Phantom Pulse – a speculative fiction magazine
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November 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Deepen your grim connection to The Phantom Pulse by joining our discord community! Expect conversations about writing, reading, living, and breathing horror and updates on our mag. Link is on our website at thephantompulse.com
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Starting tomorrow, we will be shouting out recent stories we enjoyed every week!
November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Starting tomorrow, we will be shouting out recent stories we enjoyed every week!
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From writers of horror for writers of horror
November 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
From writers of horror for writers of horror
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Send this to a writer/reader/artist you know!
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Send this to a writer/reader/artist you know!
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The first issue of The Phantom Pulse is coming in May. Send us stories and reprints to consider in January!
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The first issue of The Phantom Pulse is coming in May. Send us stories and reprints to consider in January!
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In case you didn’t see our submission guidelines, here is what we’re looking for!
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In case you didn’t see our submission guidelines, here is what we’re looking for!
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November 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Excited to see TWO NEW MAGS (!!) launched by past and present FF reading team members this week.
@rottingleafmag.bsky.social edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social <1.5k word eco-fiction
@thephantompulse.bsky.social co-edited by @jexewizabee.bsky.social <3k originals/<5k reprints horror/dark fantasy
@rottingleafmag.bsky.social edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social <1.5k word eco-fiction
@thephantompulse.bsky.social co-edited by @jexewizabee.bsky.social <3k originals/<5k reprints horror/dark fantasy
November 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Excited to see TWO NEW MAGS (!!) launched by past and present FF reading team members this week.
@rottingleafmag.bsky.social edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social <1.5k word eco-fiction
@thephantompulse.bsky.social co-edited by @jexewizabee.bsky.social <3k originals/<5k reprints horror/dark fantasy
@rottingleafmag.bsky.social edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social <1.5k word eco-fiction
@thephantompulse.bsky.social co-edited by @jexewizabee.bsky.social <3k originals/<5k reprints horror/dark fantasy
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We're a new literary magazine for eco-fiction. We're going to start publishing in January of 2026, with subs opening in December.
- Published by @briefecology.bsky.social
- Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website
- $ 0.06/word
- 1,500 words or less
- More details at the link 👇
- Published by @briefecology.bsky.social
- Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website
- $ 0.06/word
- 1,500 words or less
- More details at the link 👇
October 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We're a new literary magazine for eco-fiction. We're going to start publishing in January of 2026, with subs opening in December.
- Published by @briefecology.bsky.social
- Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website
- $ 0.06/word
- 1,500 words or less
- More details at the link 👇
- Published by @briefecology.bsky.social
- Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website
- $ 0.06/word
- 1,500 words or less
- More details at the link 👇
We launched our new horror magazine today! Check us out at thephantompulse.com and help us spread the word.
November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We launched our new horror magazine today! Check us out at thephantompulse.com and help us spread the word.
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My story "The Sky was Made for Wings" is in this awesome anthology! The news got you down? You've read too many dark thrillers? Buy a copy of "Hope: The Thing With Feathers" to inject a little hope in your day! @metaphorosis.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
My story "The Sky was Made for Wings" is in this awesome anthology! The news got you down? You've read too many dark thrillers? Buy a copy of "Hope: The Thing With Feathers" to inject a little hope in your day! @metaphorosis.com
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On this episode, @benjamingorman.bsky.social gabs with @bmorrisallen.com , @maggiedotwrites.bsky.social , Lisa Fransson, and Louie Sullivan, authors of HOPE: THE THING WITH FEATHERS, a new anthology from @metaphorosis.com .
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August 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
On this episode, @benjamingorman.bsky.social gabs with @bmorrisallen.com , @maggiedotwrites.bsky.social , Lisa Fransson, and Louie Sullivan, authors of HOPE: THE THING WITH FEATHERS, a new anthology from @metaphorosis.com .
Show: bit.ly/WNWHome
Ad-free version: bit.ly/PatreonBG
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It is time for the first volume of Tiny Terrors from @gravesidepress.bsky.social There are many fantastic stories in this anthology and they nailed the cover!
Grab your copy and support Graveside Press: graveside-press.com/product/tiny...
Grab your copy and support Graveside Press: graveside-press.com/product/tiny...
Tiny Terrors (Spring 2025) | Graveside Press
Step into the Graveside … Horrors abound, and you never know what you’re gonna find. Winged beasts at a snowy Chicago train stop, a museum of death that’s a little too realistic, the new apartment po...
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May 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It is time for the first volume of Tiny Terrors from @gravesidepress.bsky.social There are many fantastic stories in this anthology and they nailed the cover!
Grab your copy and support Graveside Press: graveside-press.com/product/tiny...
Grab your copy and support Graveside Press: graveside-press.com/product/tiny...
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THE SKULL & LAUREN - ISSUE 003 (via @tenebrouspress.bsky.social )
Columns of meat birthed on cursed cattle ranches. The partial assimilation of a petrochemical nightmare. Flocks of mutated seagulls that can strip a car bare. A weird cult that sends you a magazine in the mail every few months.
Columns of meat birthed on cursed cattle ranches. The partial assimilation of a petrochemical nightmare. Flocks of mutated seagulls that can strip a car bare. A weird cult that sends you a magazine in the mail every few months.
April 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
THE SKULL & LAUREN - ISSUE 003 (via @tenebrouspress.bsky.social )
Columns of meat birthed on cursed cattle ranches. The partial assimilation of a petrochemical nightmare. Flocks of mutated seagulls that can strip a car bare. A weird cult that sends you a magazine in the mail every few months.
Columns of meat birthed on cursed cattle ranches. The partial assimilation of a petrochemical nightmare. Flocks of mutated seagulls that can strip a car bare. A weird cult that sends you a magazine in the mail every few months.
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New story out soon! You'll be able to read "This Flesh'll Run Free" in The Skull & Laurel Issue 3, out April 15!
It's about factory farms and labor under capitalism.
But also, it's about the thing that lives in the barn and can chew through steel...
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It's about factory farms and labor under capitalism.
But also, it's about the thing that lives in the barn and can chew through steel...
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
April 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New story out soon! You'll be able to read "This Flesh'll Run Free" in The Skull & Laurel Issue 3, out April 15!
It's about factory farms and labor under capitalism.
But also, it's about the thing that lives in the barn and can chew through steel...
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
It's about factory farms and labor under capitalism.
But also, it's about the thing that lives in the barn and can chew through steel...
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
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Ooh FF Reading Team members @hannahgreer.bsky.social and @jexewizabee.bsky.social on the Brave New Weird shortlist!! Congrats!
Congratulations to all the brilliant authors on the BRAVE NEW WEIRD shortlist! And a hearty & exhausted thanks to the nearly 1000 submissions we had to agonize over.
Full list here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/...
Or in the screenshots🖤☠️
Final Table of Contents will be announced...one day.
Full list here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/...
Or in the screenshots🖤☠️
Final Table of Contents will be announced...one day.
![The BRAVE NEW WEIRD SHORTLIST:
Ainsley Hawthorn - Big Cats of Newfoundland
Aleksandra Ugelstad Elnæs - Spolia
Alex Fox - The City of Cities, Inverted; A Shadow Cast By Many Hands
Angela Liu - A Contract of Ink and Skin
Ann LeBlanc - Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth
Avra Margariti - Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn
Azure Arther - Reciprocity
Briar Ripley Page - Birth Of a Sucker
Calla Eris Orion - Kiss of a Toad
Casey Lawrence - Ten Things I Have Learned About Human Skin: A Presentation
[sarah] Cavar - Mad Studies
Dane Erbach - Something Else
David Corse - The Amassing Man
E.G. Condé - Sibilance
E.M. Linden - Mangrove Daughter
Elad Haber - End of Line
Elana Gomel - Mother Black Hole
Eleanna Castroianni - Zarghána](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hzezf3upipcqfyabakveo4ub/bafkreif4g5ufdn52dkb3a5gm3lhgslinhv5yq6azkeuiiptdf3rbbcoiwq@jpeg)
![Emma Burnett - Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3]
Emma E. Murray - An Angel of God
Emmett Nahil - Vining
Erik McHatton - The Man Who Collected Ligotti
F. J. Bergmann - The Museum of Etymology
Faith Allington - Teacakes for Foxes
Guan Un - Painted Surfaces
Hannah Greer - To Be Human
Ira Rat - Soft
Jack Klausner - Cardboard Faces
Jack Lennon - The Scottish Welfare Fund Application Form
James Cato - Wonders of a Plastic Ocean
Jes Malitoris - The House of Coiled Earth
Jess Elizabeth Reed - The Belly
K. A. Roy - Welcome to Rebirth Grove
K.A. Wiggins - The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault)
Kay Vaindal - Pig House
Kelsea Yu - Creature
Lena Ng - The Halloween Horror Show
Leo Oliveira - They Remember Faces
Leslie What - Wayback](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hzezf3upipcqfyabakveo4ub/bafkreiaqg4pvbmizoysrvsneyiafydojomf72sg7iq4qj7lahtrsakvrli@jpeg)
April 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Ooh FF Reading Team members @hannahgreer.bsky.social and @jexewizabee.bsky.social on the Brave New Weird shortlist!! Congrats!
The Howl anthology is out! Check out my story "The Last Bus Out of Black Mouth Canyon"! The entire anthology is filled to the brim with stories that will transform 🐺 your life.
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Howl | Graveside Press
The sensation you get when looking someone in the eye and realizing what's looking back at you isn't quite human …
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March 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The Howl anthology is out! Check out my story "The Last Bus Out of Black Mouth Canyon"! The entire anthology is filled to the brim with stories that will transform 🐺 your life.
graveside-press.com/product/howl/
graveside-press.com/product/howl/