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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 4d

🛸 “… we never managed to communicate let alone conspire.”

🛸 a choice
🛸 from @pbarmby.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/

by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 4d

🛸 “… we never managed to communicate let alone conspire.”

🛸 a choice
🛸 from @pbarmby.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/

by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 5d

🛸🛸 new today
🛸🛸 a spare little space horror

from @pbarmby.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/

by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 5d

🛸🛸 new today
🛸🛸 a spare little space horror

from @pbarmby.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/

by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 6d

new story tomorrow. catch up on the most recent stories. you can expect:

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 10d

i think this month has been a banger. spend part of your sunday catching up

www.nightshadesmag.com/tag/issue-5/

Issue 5 - Night Shades

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 8d

ghost mom is here now, too
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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 11d

let Ghost Mom haunt your weekend

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 8d

ghost mom is here now, too
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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 11d

let Ghost Mom haunt your weekend

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 10d

i think this month has been a banger. spend part of your sunday catching up

www.nightshadesmag.com/tag/issue-5/

Issue 5 - Night Shades

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 11d

let Ghost Mom haunt your weekend

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 11d

let Ghost Mom haunt your weekend

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 12d

“Silence was lightning before Ghost Mom thundered the shit out of you.”

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 12d

🛸🛸oh no. it’s Ghost Mom.

🛸🛸new today from Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 12d

🛸🛸oh no. it’s Ghost Mom.

🛸🛸new today from Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 12d

“Silence was lightning before Ghost Mom thundered the shit out of you.”

🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 12d

🛸🛸oh no. it’s Ghost Mom.

🛸🛸new today from Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 12d

🛸🛸oh no. it’s Ghost Mom.

🛸🛸new today from Sophie Ann Hinkson

www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/

by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...

A Track of Color Among the Wars

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 13d

and read the story here: www.nightshadesmag.com/a-track-of-c...

by Rodrigo Culagovski The concrete ramps curve through the forest, down and down the hillside, under the trees, with bridges over ravines and high, sloping sides on the harder turns. The twisting tra...

Flash Roundup * September 2025

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 13d

click through to see @culagovski.net’s photos which inspired his story A Track of Color Among the Wars

Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 13d

September MicroVerse roundup is out!

A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

mynachang.com

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 13d

🛸🛸catch up on the latest from @reasie.bsky.social
🛸🛸before a new story drops tomorrow

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 19d

🛸🛸take a walk through the library 🛸🛸with @reasie.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...

by Marie Vibbert At the library of teeth, you will find a truth you had forgotten. Begin in the comfortable colors of the children’s room. Comb through bicuspids like lentils and molars like castings...

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 19d

I got capricious and wrote an abecedarian: www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...

by Marie Vibbert At the library of teeth, you will find a truth you had forgotten. Begin in the comfortable colors of the children’s room. Comb through bicuspids like lentils and molars like castings...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 19d

this one is abecedarian. as though it wasn’t cool enough already

from @reasie.bsky.social

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 19d

🛸🛸take a walk through the library 🛸🛸with @reasie.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...

by Marie Vibbert At the library of teeth, you will find a truth you had forgotten. Begin in the comfortable colors of the children’s room. Comb through bicuspids like lentils and molars like castings...

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 19d

this one is abecedarian. as though it wasn’t cool enough already

from @reasie.bsky.social

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 19d

🛸🛸take a walk through the library 🛸🛸with @reasie.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...

by Marie Vibbert At the library of teeth, you will find a truth you had forgotten. Begin in the comfortable colors of the children’s room. Comb through bicuspids like lentils and molars like castings...

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 19d

Arbitrary achievement! My 100th published short story!
It's a weird little one, too. https://www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-library-of-teeth/

screen capture of a webpage, white with black text, black ink illustration on the top - art by Jin Tao for one of my stories. Here is a list of my short stories in publication order, most recent first, coming soon at the bottom.

The top of the list is. number 100, the number is circled in purple.

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 19d

🛸🛸take a walk through the library 🛸🛸with @reasie.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...

by Marie Vibbert At the library of teeth, you will find a truth you had forgotten. Begin in the comfortable colors of the children’s room. Comb through bicuspids like lentils and molars like castings...

3 2

Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 19d

🛸🛸take a walk through the library 🛸🛸with @reasie.bsky.social

www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...

by Marie Vibbert At the library of teeth, you will find a truth you had forgotten. Begin in the comfortable colors of the children’s room. Comb through bicuspids like lentils and molars like castings...