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Natasha
@pelagicnatasha.bsky.social
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lover of cats, eels, whales, seas, etc. | work in Clarkesworld, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, others | she/her
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Natasha @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social · Jan 4
my October @strangehorizons.bsky.social piece "The Aquarium for Lost Souls" was mentioned in this review ! 😱😍
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thomasha.bsky.social
Ah! Appreciate the rec for "In My Country" (short story) and shoutout for "Uncertain Sons" (novelette). See a lot of great stories by @aardwyrm.bsky.social, @angelaliu.bsky.social, @mimulus.bsky.social, @tiatashiro.bsky.social and a ton more I can't tag. Thanks very much.
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
Happy to see my short story “Barbershops of the Floating City” (@uncannymagazine.bsky.social) on Jay’s annual recommendation list alongside some of my favorites from this year! Always a joy finding new favorites I might have missed otherwise too.
December 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
pelagicnatasha.bsky.social
Oh wow, so delighted to see Cypress Teeth (@khoreo.bsky.social) on this list! 💚 so many good recs on here 🎉
December 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
pelagicnatasha.bsky.social
So excited + honored to have a piece in this issue! ❤️ Check out 🐊 LEAVE YOUR SKINS BY THE SHORE 🐊 for crocodiles, mourning, and local teens who like long walks in the beach
augursociety.bsky.social Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 26d
🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Inside you'll find...
🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest
🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens
🫐 a berry world of grief and awe
& so much more!

🔗 Link in bio!

More details below 👀⬇️
An illustration with a purple overlay of decaying purple and yellow tree branches that lead down to an opening. There are white birds flying around and on one of the yellow-purple branches are three people walking. In the top and bottom corners are purple branches and yellow leaves. At the top of the image reads: "contents." There is a black rectangle and inside lists the table of contents: "Observer Effect by Morgan Cross. Leave Your Skins by the Shore by Natasha King. Flame Weeding by Colleen Coco Collins. Rocky Mountain Gothic by Ev Datsyk. Bonds of the Forest by Ally R Colthoff . Blueberry by Jade Riordan. On Fields of Purple Grass by Ian Li. Tapetum Lucidum by U.M. Agoawike. The Great Divide by Meryem Yildiz. Chlorophilia by Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer.” At the bottom of the image is the augur logo and a link to the website: www.augursociety.org
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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augursociety.bsky.social
Purchase a copy today to read the full issue!

Issue 8.3 features...

✒️ "Observer Effect" by Morgan Cross
✒️ "Leave your Skins by the Shore" by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social
✒️ "Flame Weeding, Equisetum Arvense" by @colleencococollins.bsky.social

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Augur Issue 8.3 - Augur Literary Society
AUGUR ISSUE 8.3What do you desire from the natural world? For millions of years, we’ve been shaped and reshaped by the environment around us. If technology has the power to mimic lush lands and blue w...
augursociety.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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nmwhitley.bsky.social
ICYMI i talked about stories by Carolyn Zhao @strangehorizons.bsky.social @suplexicon.bsky.social y.social @bruisermag.com @johnchrostek.com @hexliterary.bsky.social and Samanta Schweblin, plus songs by Stereolab, but not Goodnight Moon which I had nothing to say about buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
SHORT STORY REX Sept 2025
1. “The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet”, Carolyn Zhao Got sucked in by this one’s sort-of free-associating whimsy, its deceptively naif je-ne-sais-quoi....
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October 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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tarvolon.bsky.social
Cypress Teeth by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social has a bit of revenge and a bit of body horror—both things I usually don’t like—but won me over with beautiful, immersive storytelling that pulled me in from the word go www.khoreomag.com/fiction/cypr...
Cypress Teeth
They send you down into the swamps of Atchafalaya to die with nothing between your teeth but contract ink and shame. There’s a lot of misery to sow across the continent, after all, and no room for a r...
www.khoreomag.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
pelagicnatasha.bsky.social
😍 always happy when my Sentient Aquarium In Space story reaches a new reader 🌊🐠🐟🐡
June 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
It’s been a while since I could say this but…I have a new story out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com!

“Brainstem Disco, 2191” explores the association of music with memories (and I’d love if you listened to the quasi-soundtrack while reading!)

clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/
May 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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mariahaskins.com
This story has
🦴 bones
🪶 crows
🦴 bones
💧 a river
🛣️ a highway
🦴 bones
🦴🦴🦴 bones bones bones 🦴🦴🦴
thedeadlands.com The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · Apr 24
TODAY, beloveds!!

FICTION 🖤

"Layla rises like a breath in winter from the hollow beneath the black cottonwoods beside the river, shrugging off the blanket of dirt and leaves and centipedes she slept beneath."

Highway 1, Past Hope by @mariahaskins.com

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Highway 1, Past Hope - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
SPRING 2025, SHORT STORY, 3400 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly […]
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April 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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sarahlynngrey.bsky.social
Featuring fabulous short stories by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social, @hhpak.bsky.social, @mygeekblasphemy.bsky.social, @mariadongwrites.bsky.social, @angelaliu.bsky.social, @nadiaradovich.bsky.social, Eleanor Arnason, @isabel.kim, and @thomasha.bsky.social - thank you for your incredible work!
shortficbookclub.bsky.social Short Fiction Book Club @shortficbookclub.bsky.social · Apr 16
The Short Fiction Book Club Season 3 awards are up! We've read some remarkable stories this year, and it's time to honor our very favorites.

Thank you to the SFF short fiction community for having an amazing year.
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From the Fantasy community on Reddit: Short Fiction Book Club: Season 3 Awards
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April 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
pelagicnatasha.bsky.social
It was so cool to find out SFBC was a thing and to see my work featured! And so meaningful to see people enjoying "The Aquarium for Lost Souls" (published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social) in particular. Thank you for the kind words, I'm honored! 🌊💙
shortficbookclub.bsky.social Short Fiction Book Club @shortficbookclub.bsky.social · Apr 16
The Short Fiction Book Club Season 3 awards are up! We've read some remarkable stories this year, and it's time to honor our very favorites.

Thank you to the SFF short fiction community for having an amazing year.
www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
From the Fantasy community on Reddit: Short Fiction Book Club: Season 3 Awards
Explore this post and more from the Fantasy community
www.reddit.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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undertow.bsky.social
We are so very grateful for @premeemohamed.com's kind words for @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS. If eBooks are your thing, you can pre-order from your favorite online vendor.
Cover of UNCERTAIN SONS seen on a Kindle with text beside it reading: “A perfect puzzle box, beautifully constructed and impeccably watertight. Together these stories drop us into a world agonizingly like our own — but we mustn't let our guard down once we’re in. Wise as well as clever, sharp as well as tender. Ha is a virtuoso.” -Premee Mohamed, Nebula Award-winning author of The Butcher of the Forest
March 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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mruthrobinson.bsky.social
Congrats! So immediately sold from this quote. Can’t wait to read this one!
March 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
pelagicnatasha.bsky.social
My story "Cypress Teeth" is out in khōréō magazine today! 🌲 The khōréō team was so kind and thoughtful throughout the publication process and I'm so so excited for this piece to be live!
khoreo.bsky.social khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Mar 15
In “Cypress Teeth” by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social, an imprisoned god is bound to the trees of an ancient swamp, until someone comes looking one day.
An excerpt of "Cypress Teeth" by Natasha King
March 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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tiatashiro.bsky.social
Last minute note that also eligible this year is @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social, whose novelette "The Aquarium for Lost Souls" and 2023 short story "Sharp Undoing" both have a unique voice and make some really excellent stylistic choices!
March 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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tarvolon.bsky.social
But Chị Tấm is Tired of Being Dead is a family story in a (feminist) fairy tale style that’s way more fun than it ought to be for all the over-the-top ways the main characters die www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Chị Tấm is Tired of Being Dead
I crawl out of the persimmon, and it isn’t pretty. A grown woman unfolding from a fruit that could fit into your hand: sinew restringing...
www.apexbookcompany.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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tarvolon.bsky.social
Wait y’all I’m so sorry, she was in two different categories and I didn’t notice I had a *third* new multiple favorites list author (who is *also* Astounding eligible! My goodness!). Anyways, hi @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social
tarvolon.bsky.social Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · Mar 6
And I believe both Pak and Liu are still eligible for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, which makes their double-favorites status even more impressive! They’re both just getting going!
March 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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darthj.uno
OH SHOOT IT'S DEADLINE TIME!!

If you're looking to fill your Hugo ballot, may I recommend this Hugo primer: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Also reminder: Strange Horizons at 25 is eligible in Best Fancast! Not actually Best Related Work as I thought - so edit your ballots accordingly 😘🙏
March 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
pelagicnatasha.bsky.social
Hugo nominations close in a few days! My piece "The Aquarium for Lost Souls", in Strange Horizons, is eligible in the novelette category -- I am honored by any and all consideration 🐠

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
The Aquarium for Lost Souls
The aquarium is different every time I die. Exhibits reshuffling like a deck of cards. The blood loss, though, that’s reliable.
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March 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
Hugo nominations close in days, Locus closes on April 15th, and I am still a dancing ghost haunting you with promo.

If you missed my previous posts about the historical inspirations behind my novelette "Another Girl Under the Iron Bell," I've gathered them all here:

liu-angela.com/2025/03/08/a...
A Story About A Story: “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell”
When it comes to stories inspired by historical settings, I’m always eager to know more about the real places/people behind them. What real places inspired the impossibly spectacular Daguanyu…
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March 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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hhpak.bsky.social
Thank you for the shoutout! I second your enthusiasm for @angelaliu.bsky.social, the range and quality of her work is incredible! Aquarium of Lost Souls is also a favorite of mine! @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social always hits it out of the park with her dark and clever style.
tarvolon.bsky.social Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · Mar 6
@hhpak.bsky.social writes a lot of stories about loss, and they’re all great. “Scalp” and “Twenty-Four Hours” were very good reads, and I’ll go ahead and spoil next year’s list by saying “Never Eaten Vegetables” will be there
March 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
pelagicnatasha.bsky.social
Thank you for the kind words!! So many good stories linked in this whole thread! ❤️
tarvolon.bsky.social Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · Mar 6
My story of the year, category agnostic, is “The Aquarium for Lost Souls” by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social. The themes, the prose, the Ocean personification character. It’s all fantastic. Do not miss this one. strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-...
The Aquarium for Lost Souls
The aquarium is different every time I die. Exhibits reshuffling like a deck of cards. The blood loss, though, that’s reliable.
strangehorizons.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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proximadust.bsky.social
@pelagicnatasha.bsky.social Natasha King's short story 'on the engineering of river harmonics and associated tributaries of grief' is a fantastic piece of writing. On both craft and substance levels it gives the same feels as some of my favourite spec writers (Le Guin, Asimov, Lem)
February 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM