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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · Dec 14

It's sadly that time again; a post of other places I can be found on the internet if you're thinking of leaving the site.

1. My blog, Night Of The hats, which I update most days, is on blogspot because I have never moved it /1
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Night of the Hats

Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1h

I'm out on another short walk as unofficial town sorcerer. No town anywhere in the world has yet to hire me as official town sorcerer but that's OK. I do what I can with what I have. I've brought my bag of rolled oats, a bag of unsalted peanuts, chapstick, an asthma inhaler, a small ET figurine.

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Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 57m

I must admit that the practice illustrated in the attached images both irritates and concerns me. The pictures are the cover and first page of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars as it first appeared in book form in 1917, and then the cover and first page of the same book as published in 2024.

The striking cover of the first publication (in book form) of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel, A Princess of Mars. The illustrator was Frank E. Schoonover.

The first page of the 1917 edition of A Princess of Mars. A highlighted sentence reads: "We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod."

Joe Jusko's exciting cover of A Princess of Mars as published in the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorize Library line by ERB, Inc.

The first page of the 2024 estate-authorized edition of A Princess of Mars. A highlighted sentence reads: "We all loved him, and our servants fairly worshipped the ground he trod."

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 3h

Back from my family trip to tell you that I have a new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! "What a Big Heart You Have" is my tender tribute to Grandma and Aunt Ellen, though the characters aren't literally them. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 3h

So you might have noticed that I've started posting little threads about my short fiction reading (with the hashtag #quicksipreviews). I'm testing this out bc I'll still be reading a lot of short fiction, but want the freedom to say as much or as little as I want, and to do it without deadlines

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 1h

Story Submission Wednesday!

Been a while, but hopefully get a few more out this month, both new and old.

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 1d

My story "What Am I This Time?" has just gone live in the latest issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social. I hope you like it! kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 4h

Submissions are open for one more week. Speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 4h

A self-repairing relay station seems to have duplicated itself. When you arrive you discover that records show it has actually built 512 new stations, each of which are copying messages to somewhere, after a ship arrived with raw materials and a software update.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 1d

Check out Kaleidotrope for fine fiction! And there is my art, 'Reaper'. :-)

Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 2d

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places”

Fiction
“Singularities” by Cressida Roe
“The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice
“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes
“The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox
“Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos
“What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman
“The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris
“Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti
“My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity
“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen
“The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen
“Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed

Poetry
“Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens
“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon
“Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce
“I have been to the market” by Shana Ross
“Atomic” by Jennifer Crow
“Bedazzled” by Robert Borski
“Bestla” by James Joseph Brown

Artwork by Carly A-F

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 7h

It turns out there's a brand new copy of Kaleidotrope even if you aren't into that sort of thing

Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 17h

There’s a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope, if you’re into that sort of thing.

www.kaleidotrope.net

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 17h

i always think it's so weird that night city has public transit

M-1R @hovermyr.bsky.social · 18h

the trouble with cyberpunk dystopias is that everyone living in a giant superdense city is a fucking dream compared to what we have. you need cyberpunk suburbia. a million identical houses stretching beyond the horizon.

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 17h

Another seasonal toon from the Larchives.

cartoon of a little blep black cat peering out from a jack o lantern.

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John Howl Boo @jholbo.bsky.social · 14h

Science fiction has depended for a long time on three humane limits: you can't really travel faster than light, meaning we can keep making "Star Trek" and "Star Wars in peace, dreaming of FTL without living it; you can't build intelligent robots; you can't do some tech version of Plato's Cave.

Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 17h

Speculative fiction class discussion two days in a row about how the stories don’t keep up with these days.

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 23h

Dolly Parton could’ve written Das Kapital, but Karl Marx couldn’t have written 9 to 5 and it shows

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 10h

I watched Bosch: Legacy which brings the Bosch/Legacy crime series to an end, or not if you include Ballard (review forthcoming). nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-wa...

I Watch TV: Bosch: Legacy: Season 3

Bosch: Legacy Season 3 Bosch comes to an end, or as much of an end as it ever can*. One of it’s interesting features is that storyli...

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 10h

I realised a couple of years ago that in my science fiction people come back from the dead all the time it's no problem (there are problems but it's just a thing). In my fantasy, any raising the dead inevitably turns to disaster.

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 23h

The Beekeeper's Daughter, my story of bees, giants, goblins, secrets, and more bees, is only one of many in the new issue of Kaleidotrope, online now at kaleidotrope.net

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 18h

Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

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Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 2d

People keep submitting, we keep reading. Submitting, reading, submitting, reading - will it ever end?

(Yes - 15th October, be sure to submit by then as this the last submission period of 2025! We however will keep reading after that until they've all been considered.)

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 3d

Our readers continue to work through the submissions we've received, and we still want more! Read the submission guidelines for details and a link to the portal. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Cressida Roe @eggandcressida.bsky.social · 1d

may i offer you a sadly hopefully romantic multiverse story to y’all in these trying times?

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“Singularities” by Cressida Roe

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 20h

For some reason one of the side chapels of the Catedral del Buen Pastor (Cathedral of the Good Shepherd) in San Sebastián is dedicated to this mechanism. I have no idea what it is or was, or why it is so honored.

More distant view of the mechanism, showing that it’s in a central location of a cathedral side chapel.

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 1d

Monster Of The Week 291 is SlightlyTooSmallBag, I thought I could get everything in, when it's empty it fits in a pocket, spends hours every week filling in online surveys and always has a strong opinion.

A square grey bag, bulging oddly, with brightly coloured items sticking out the top, has two spindly legs and an eye near the top, one bulge could almost be a nose or beak

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Grebcomics 🐸 @grebcomics.bsky.social · 21h

thanks pete!

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 23h

The Beekeeper's Daughter, my story of bees, giants, goblins, secrets, and more bees, is only one of many in the new issue of Kaleidotrope, online now at kaleidotrope.net

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