NC Maha
@ncmaha.bsky.social
Short fiction and science writer from India. Love reading/writing weird speculative fiction. Stories in Intrepidus Ink and Dark Holme Publishing.
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Buy a book and fight cancer! All proceeds will support my wife’s battle against stage 4 cancer. "The Innocent Children" reveals the thrilling narrative of abducted kids and the FBI's unrelenting search. 📚🔍 #DarkThriller #EssentialRead #ChildTrafficking tinyurl.com/4cpbp9tp
January 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Buy a book and fight cancer! All proceeds will support my wife’s battle against stage 4 cancer. "The Innocent Children" reveals the thrilling narrative of abducted kids and the FBI's unrelenting search. 📚🔍 #DarkThriller #EssentialRead #ChildTrafficking tinyurl.com/4cpbp9tp
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Calling all Inner Worlds writers and readers: please tell me your thoughts about mental health and speculative fiction! 🧠❤️
I've made a short survey with some prompt questions. If you have time and inclination to add any answers I would be very grateful indeed. Here's the link! www.cognitoforms.com/InnerWorlds1...
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Calling all Inner Worlds writers and readers: please tell me your thoughts about mental health and speculative fiction! 🧠❤️
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OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all!
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
othersidespec.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:22 AM
OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all!
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
Counting treasures I found in 2025: “What My Bones Know” by Stephanie Foo was a blistering read that, in its ever present undercurrent of hope and healing, gifted me a future to look forward to.
And coming out of whatever rock I’ve been under to find Philip Pullman’s works was pure joy!
#reading
And coming out of whatever rock I’ve been under to find Philip Pullman’s works was pure joy!
#reading
December 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Counting treasures I found in 2025: “What My Bones Know” by Stephanie Foo was a blistering read that, in its ever present undercurrent of hope and healing, gifted me a future to look forward to.
And coming out of whatever rock I’ve been under to find Philip Pullman’s works was pure joy!
#reading
And coming out of whatever rock I’ve been under to find Philip Pullman’s works was pure joy!
#reading
Happy to end the year with my little poem out in this issue of SpecPoVerse!
December 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Happy to end the year with my little poem out in this issue of SpecPoVerse!
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I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
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Please keep the Global Sumud Flotilla's live feed on your computer today. They are in the high risk zone and we need as many people globally as possible to be present so that they can break the siege.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-V...
Live: Global Sumud Flotilla nears high-risk zone off Gaza coast
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Please keep the Global Sumud Flotilla's live feed on your computer today. They are in the high risk zone and we need as many people globally as possible to be present so that they can break the siege.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-V...
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🦊 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
State of Matter | Issue 20 is going mythic.
We’re commissioning 3 faux-tales, one each in:
🔮 Science Fiction
⚔️ Fantasy
👻 Horror
💰 CAD 150 (~₹9,500) per selected story
🗓️ Submissions: Sept 15 – Dec 15, 2025
🧵👇
State of Matter | Issue 20 is going mythic.
We’re commissioning 3 faux-tales, one each in:
🔮 Science Fiction
⚔️ Fantasy
👻 Horror
💰 CAD 150 (~₹9,500) per selected story
🗓️ Submissions: Sept 15 – Dec 15, 2025
🧵👇
September 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🦊 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
State of Matter | Issue 20 is going mythic.
We’re commissioning 3 faux-tales, one each in:
🔮 Science Fiction
⚔️ Fantasy
👻 Horror
💰 CAD 150 (~₹9,500) per selected story
🗓️ Submissions: Sept 15 – Dec 15, 2025
🧵👇
State of Matter | Issue 20 is going mythic.
We’re commissioning 3 faux-tales, one each in:
🔮 Science Fiction
⚔️ Fantasy
👻 Horror
💰 CAD 150 (~₹9,500) per selected story
🗓️ Submissions: Sept 15 – Dec 15, 2025
🧵👇
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We're officially starting The Tasavvur Writing Club, which is an initiative to help both aspiring and established writers across South Asia write together.
For more information, LINK below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign up now!
🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
For more information, LINK below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign up now!
🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
August 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We're officially starting The Tasavvur Writing Club, which is an initiative to help both aspiring and established writers across South Asia write together.
For more information, LINK below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign up now!
🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
For more information, LINK below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign up now!
🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
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‘I have a lifeline scholarship to study in Scotland- but I’m trapped in Gaza’. PhD candidate Shaimaa was set to do research in ArabSF in Edinburgh (inc. an internship at Comma) but now the Home Office is making it impossible for her to get a visa. Write your MP today. youtu.be/vcKKsgWftso?...
'I have a lifeline scholarship to study in Scotland - but I'm trapped in Gaza'
YouTube video by STV News
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July 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
‘I have a lifeline scholarship to study in Scotland- but I’m trapped in Gaza’. PhD candidate Shaimaa was set to do research in ArabSF in Edinburgh (inc. an internship at Comma) but now the Home Office is making it impossible for her to get a visa. Write your MP today. youtu.be/vcKKsgWftso?...
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📣 Submissions are OPEN July 1 - 31 📣
We invite immigrant and diaspora authors to submit their stories & share their unique perspective through speculative fiction✨ www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
#SubmissionCall #SFF #writing #ScienceFiction
We invite immigrant and diaspora authors to submit their stories & share their unique perspective through speculative fiction✨ www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
#SubmissionCall #SFF #writing #ScienceFiction
July 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
📣 Submissions are OPEN July 1 - 31 📣
We invite immigrant and diaspora authors to submit their stories & share their unique perspective through speculative fiction✨ www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
#SubmissionCall #SFF #writing #ScienceFiction
We invite immigrant and diaspora authors to submit their stories & share their unique perspective through speculative fiction✨ www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
#SubmissionCall #SFF #writing #ScienceFiction
Found this on a morning ramble, adore it to bits. A darkly humorous and rapidly escalating (or de-escalating?) what-if... archiveoftheodd.com/2021/11/10/f...
From the Archives: No-Risk Planet by Milton Lesser
From the Archives is a highlight of public domain stories of the type we will showcase in Archive of the Odd. As such, we have no rights to these stories and do not bear any responsibility to or fo…
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July 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Found this on a morning ramble, adore it to bits. A darkly humorous and rapidly escalating (or de-escalating?) what-if... archiveoftheodd.com/2021/11/10/f...
A simply stunning, healing piece that moved me deeply. I'll be thinking about this for a long while.
"With each passing day I came to understand the patients. The translucent expressions of their traumas had started speaking to me. There were clues in the colors, and the dry rustle of the winding movements." dreamforgemagazine.com/story/ties-t...
Ties that Bind
“You’ve been in an accident.” The voice pierced the warm darkness that I didn’t even know I was in, nor remembered waking into. “You are in […]
dreamforgemagazine.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
A simply stunning, healing piece that moved me deeply. I'll be thinking about this for a long while.
THANK YOU, ever so much @intrepidusink.bsky.social! 😍💜I’m honored to be published alongside so many incredible authors, and hope readers will enjoy this little story.
Here’s its opening. Thank you!!
Here’s its opening. Thank you!!
April 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
THANK YOU, ever so much @intrepidusink.bsky.social! 😍💜I’m honored to be published alongside so many incredible authors, and hope readers will enjoy this little story.
Here’s its opening. Thank you!!
Here’s its opening. Thank you!!
In “Cross the Line,” the theme of how resource scarcity can warp people's behaviours was the vehicle that launched the protagonist into his journey. Though unprepared, he's challenged to commandeer it towards achieving his goals—but he's not the only one with a mission.
@intrepidusink.bsky.social
@intrepidusink.bsky.social
@ncmaha.bsky.social how do character goals and theme interact to create tension and drama in “Cross the Line”?
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#intrepidculture #authorinterview
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#intrepidculture #authorinterview
April 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In “Cross the Line,” the theme of how resource scarcity can warp people's behaviours was the vehicle that launched the protagonist into his journey. Though unprepared, he's challenged to commandeer it towards achieving his goals—but he's not the only one with a mission.
@intrepidusink.bsky.social
@intrepidusink.bsky.social
Speculative fiction opens a fantastical world of possibilities I itch to explore. It's easy to forget that those worlds only exist because of characters driven by very real goals. I want my stories to reflect how THEIR choices make those incredible worlds possible.
@intrepidusink.bsky.social
@intrepidusink.bsky.social
@ncmaha.bsky.social what is the most challenging about #flashfiction writing, especially when authoring #speculativefiction? ♥️
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#writingcommunity #authors
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#writingcommunity #authors
April 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Speculative fiction opens a fantastical world of possibilities I itch to explore. It's easy to forget that those worlds only exist because of characters driven by very real goals. I want my stories to reflect how THEIR choices make those incredible worlds possible.
@intrepidusink.bsky.social
@intrepidusink.bsky.social
Thank you @intrepidusink.bsky.social!
My writing journey began with a love for both science & fiction. Discovering a world on the cusp of both was incredible! I wanted to share its stories, & realized the best way to learn was to dive into it rather than wait to become my best writer version.
My writing journey began with a love for both science & fiction. Discovering a world on the cusp of both was incredible! I wanted to share its stories, & realized the best way to learn was to dive into it rather than wait to become my best writer version.
We’re thrilled that @ncmaha.bsky.social y.social’s#speculativefictionon premiers today at Intrepidus Ink! 🚀
Congratulations! ♥️
NC, will you please describe your writing journey & how you’ve achieved your goals?
🧵 1 of 4 post#authorinterviewew
https://intrepidusink.com/cross-the-line/
Congratulations! ♥️
NC, will you please describe your writing journey & how you’ve achieved your goals?
🧵 1 of 4 post#authorinterviewew
https://intrepidusink.com/cross-the-line/
Cross the Line
When humans try restraining an interstellar visitor, he must do the only thing he can to get home: CROSS THE LINE.
intrepidusink.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Thank you @intrepidusink.bsky.social!
My writing journey began with a love for both science & fiction. Discovering a world on the cusp of both was incredible! I wanted to share its stories, & realized the best way to learn was to dive into it rather than wait to become my best writer version.
My writing journey began with a love for both science & fiction. Discovering a world on the cusp of both was incredible! I wanted to share its stories, & realized the best way to learn was to dive into it rather than wait to become my best writer version.
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Can't believe this is happening in two days! Incredibly excited (and nervous!!) for my upcoming story and live chat with @intrepidusink.bsky.social 💜 Come say hi if you're around on Wednesday morning (PST)!
Do you like
- Egotistical Earthlings ✅
- An empathetic Galactic Alien ✅
- Impossible odds ✅
- Author interviews ✅
Us, TOO! 🙌 See you then 👇 #readers #WritingCommunity
@ncmaha.bsky.social
- Egotistical Earthlings ✅
- An empathetic Galactic Alien ✅
- Impossible odds ✅
- Author interviews ✅
Us, TOO! 🙌 See you then 👇 #readers #WritingCommunity
@ncmaha.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Can't believe this is happening in two days! Incredibly excited (and nervous!!) for my upcoming story and live chat with @intrepidusink.bsky.social 💜 Come say hi if you're around on Wednesday morning (PST)!
Can't believe this is happening in two days! Incredibly excited (and nervous!!) for my upcoming story and live chat with @intrepidusink.bsky.social 💜 Come say hi if you're around on Wednesday morning (PST)!
Do you like
- Egotistical Earthlings ✅
- An empathetic Galactic Alien ✅
- Impossible odds ✅
- Author interviews ✅
Us, TOO! 🙌 See you then 👇 #readers #WritingCommunity
@ncmaha.bsky.social
- Egotistical Earthlings ✅
- An empathetic Galactic Alien ✅
- Impossible odds ✅
- Author interviews ✅
Us, TOO! 🙌 See you then 👇 #readers #WritingCommunity
@ncmaha.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Can't believe this is happening in two days! Incredibly excited (and nervous!!) for my upcoming story and live chat with @intrepidusink.bsky.social 💜 Come say hi if you're around on Wednesday morning (PST)!
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Writer friends: get ready to send us your things! 👀 Mark these dates in your calendars!
Strange Horizons will have 3 FICTION SUBMISSION WINDOWS in 2025.
General
April 16th
with a 1,000 story cap
Novelette (10k to 18k words)
June 4th
with a 300 story cap
Indigenous Authors
November 3rd
with a 500 story cap
Submission windows will begin at 9am UTC and end when we reach the cap.
General
April 16th
with a 1,000 story cap
Novelette (10k to 18k words)
June 4th
with a 300 story cap
Indigenous Authors
November 3rd
with a 500 story cap
Submission windows will begin at 9am UTC and end when we reach the cap.
March 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Writer friends: get ready to send us your things! 👀 Mark these dates in your calendars!
A gorgeous piece, full of magic and formulae! Was lucky to get this in my feed today :)
"Everyone flutters, flaring with the strongest of yellows, a rich goldenrod-alarm.
At the edge of the trees waits a stranger, a human, the first we've encountered in so very long."
Read "The Spellbook of the Moth Witch" by @devanbarlow.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/the-spellboo...
At the edge of the trees waits a stranger, a human, the first we've encountered in so very long."
Read "The Spellbook of the Moth Witch" by @devanbarlow.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/the-spellboo...
March 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A gorgeous piece, full of magic and formulae! Was lucky to get this in my feed today :)
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Writers! Spread the word! Uncanny Magazine will be open for Flash Fiction submissions (750-1500 words) from March 24-28. www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
March 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Writers! Spread the word! Uncanny Magazine will be open for Flash Fiction submissions (750-1500 words) from March 24-28. www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
Some of these titles look so much fun! congrats to everyone who entered and to those who made the shortlist!
We are excited to announce the shortlist for this year’s Micro Fiction Competition! Thank you to everyone who entered and congratulations to everyone on the shortlist: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
March 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Some of these titles look so much fun! congrats to everyone who entered and to those who made the shortlist!
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🌌 Issue six is out next week! 🌌
Featuring this stellar line up of authors and their stories; haunting, heartwarming, intriguing, devastating, beautiful, and complicated.
Featuring this stellar line up of authors and their stories; haunting, heartwarming, intriguing, devastating, beautiful, and complicated.
March 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🌌 Issue six is out next week! 🌌
Featuring this stellar line up of authors and their stories; haunting, heartwarming, intriguing, devastating, beautiful, and complicated.
Featuring this stellar line up of authors and their stories; haunting, heartwarming, intriguing, devastating, beautiful, and complicated.
Sunday morning, found this treasure "that speaks for itself..." www.craftliterary.com/2024/11/08/a...
Abecedarian by H. B. Asari - CRAFT
Zones of your brain affected: frontal, temporal, parietal. The doctor points at them in turn on the scan of your brain. Those traitorous parts, shrivelling out of existence, threatening to take pieces...
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February 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Sunday morning, found this treasure "that speaks for itself..." www.craftliterary.com/2024/11/08/a...