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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 15h

Sure do!
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Submissions are OPEN until November 30th, 2025 For now, most our stories and articles are classic, public domain, or open source. However, we hope to open submissions for new and original stories shor...

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 15h

We tend to lean a bit darker, but you're welcome to submit!
perseidprophecies.ca/submissions/

Submissions - Perseid Prophecies

Submissions are OPEN until November 30th, 2025 For now, most our stories and articles are classic, public domain, or open source. However, we hope to open submissions for new and original stories shor...

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all writers of short spec fiction, especially sci-fi, dark fantasy, supernatural or cosmic horror, and weird fiction!
Short story submissions for our Winter 2026 issue are now open until Nov. 30th!
We don't insist on theme, but matching your story to the issue's season *may* be advantageous!

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for submitting!

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 7d

Submissions for our Winter 2026 issue are now open!
Check out past issues and our guidelines to see what we're looking for, and remember, we don't insist on a theme, but if your story matches the issue's season, it may be looked on with a more favorable eye!

perseidprophecies.ca/submissions/

Submissions - Perseid Prophecies

Submissions are OPEN until November 30th, 2025 For now, most our stories and articles are classic, public domain, or open source. However, we hope to open submissions for new and original stories shor...

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 7d

Issue 7: Autumn 2025 is now live!
Featuring stories by:

Thomas White
Nathan Batchelor
@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social
@thelargestduck.bsky.social
@erinrcullen.bsky.social
M.C. Scmidt
Edgar Allen Poe
Sam Kean

Read it free at perseidprophecies.ca

#sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror #shortstory

Latest Issue - Perseid Prophecies

Issue 7: Autumn 2025 Fiction SUPPORT PUBLIC TRANSIT! by Thomas White The Decimationist by Nathan Batchelor River Daughter by Jeannie Marschall The Old Man of the Sea by D. A. Raymond asdfghjklkjhgfdsa...

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 8d

That eldritch entity we lovingly call "the reading team" is slowly waking from its month-long slumber.

Submissions for our winter 2026 issue open tomorrow and remain open until November 30th!

#submissioncall #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #sff #scifi #shortstory

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 8d

Autumn has arrived!
And that means Issue 7 of Perseid Prophecies drops tomorrow!

#scifi #sff #sciencefiction #fantasy #indiemagazine #indiezine #shortstories

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 14d

Issue 7: Autumn 2025 is complete and ready to go!
It releases on October 1st, Acolytes and higher can get it early through our Patreon!

www.patreon.com/c/perseidpro...

#sff #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #weirdfiction #indiemagazine #ezine #indiezine

Weird Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Fact

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E.S. Raye - Author & Screenwriter @esraye.bsky.social · 22d

Today, I woke up a published novelist.

#writingcommunity #bookcommunity #booksky #sciencefiction #scifi #sff

Chris W. McGuinness @cwmcguinness.bsky.social · 22d

@esraye.bsky.social’s new book is out and it looks like one hell of a read.

“On the run and seeking refuge, beamslinger Gus arrives at a desolate fuel mining station—where once-thriving machinery lies silent and those in power guard dark secrets.” alexparkerpublishing.com/products/gas...

Gas Giant Gambit by E.S. Raye

On the run and seeking refuge, beamslinger Gus arrives at a desolate fuel mining station—where once-thriving machinery lies silent and those in power guard dark secrets. Drawn into the town’s eerie my...

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E.S. Raye - Author & Screenwriter @esraye.bsky.social · 22d

More than five years in the making from inception to publishing, my debut novel Gas Giant Gambit is out TODAY!

Thank you, Alex Parker Publishing, for taking a chance on me and this category denying genre mashup tale!

#GasGiantGambit #spacewestern #scifi #sff #sciencefiction #booksky #books

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · 22d

All the stories for our upcoming issue have been finalized!
As the eldritch being we call "the reading team" returns to its slumber, editing and formatting duties fall to another of @esraye.bsky.social's multiple personalities: the wretched and dreaded "Editor-in-chief."

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Aug 27

Five days (including today!) left to submit your short story for our Autumn 2025 issue, coming October 1st!
Check the link in our bio for submission guidelines!

#submissioncall #horror #scifi #fantasy #sff #shortstory

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Aug 22

With #radioactiveshrimp in the news, now's a good time to reintroduce Perseid Prophecies' interns: The Hermetic Conclave of Broccoli and The Esoteric Order of Cauliflower. They're warring cults with a surprising complex lore...

...but they're not actually radioactive. At least, as far as we know.

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Aug 18

"There's nothing to fear," they say. As if it's a comfort. But once you spend too long thinking about the damage nothing can do, you'll never take it for granted again.
Read Tom Godwin's classic #scifi short story "The Nothing Equation" in this quarter's issue!

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#sciencefiction

Latest Issue - Perseid Prophecies

Issue 6: Summer 2025 Fiction Hybrid Vigor by Olivia Wylie Red God, Green God, Black God by Chris W. McGuinness Acts of Senseless Beauty by Mark Peters The Future of Law Enforcement by V.M. Sawh Surfac...

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Aug 12

115 years ago, misinformation and disinformation spread panic through the population. Fear caused people to do crazy things and fall for crazier schemes.
Explore "The Comet Panic of 1910" by Sam Kean, and discover how science misused caused this hysteria.

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#indiezine #fact

Latest Issue - Perseid Prophecies

Issue 6: Summer 2025 Fiction Hybrid Vigor by Olivia Wylie Red God, Green God, Black God by Chris W. McGuinness Acts of Senseless Beauty by Mark Peters The Future of Law Enforcement by V.M. Sawh Surfac...

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Aug 11

The lessons classic sci-fi, fantasy, and horror can teach are still valuable today.
Every issue of Perseid Prophecies features at least one classic tale from the public domain.
We're especially fond of Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, and Tom Godwin.
Who's your favorite?

#scifi #off #horror

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Aug 8

One of the hellhounds barked into the spacial rift in the kitchen for an hour this afternoon. 15 minutes later, an article on Laika, the Sovet space dog, materialized on the counter with the hound's name on the by-line.
She used her pawprint to sign the contract.

#indie #indiemagazine #sciencefact

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Aug 6

Got a story scratching the inside of your cranium to get out?
The submission window for our autumn issue is open until August 31st!
We don't insist on a theme, but if your story matches the issue's season, it may be looked on with a more favorable eye!
Link in bio for guidelines!

#submissioncall

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Aug 5

When the end of life comes, letting go can be difficult. But who is it more difficult for: those who remain, or those who have passed on?
Read "The Final Parting" by Simina Lungu free in our Summer 2025 issue:

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#specfiction

Latest Issue - Perseid Prophecies

Issue 6: Summer 2025 Fiction Hybrid Vigor by Olivia Wylie Red God, Green God, Black God by Chris W. McGuinness Acts of Senseless Beauty by Mark Peters The Future of Law Enforcement by V.M. Sawh Surfac...

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Aug 1

While walking the hellhounds, Jessamine heard a voice call from the woods. Normally, she'd steer clear of an obvious mimic, but this one wanted to submit a story. Jess told it to check our website for guidelines and left it to its mutterings.

#submissioncall #fantasy #scifi #horror

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Jul 31

Long after humanity fled the Earth, the diaspora roams the stars. But when ships meet in the perpetual night above a planet that feels like home, will old animosities, or the hope of a new future, prevail?
Read "Surface of Last Scattering" by @pbarmby.bsky.social for free!

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Latest Issue - Perseid Prophecies

Issue 6: Summer 2025 Fiction Hybrid Vigor by Olivia Wylie Red God, Green God, Black God by Chris W. McGuinness Acts of Senseless Beauty by Mark Peters The Future of Law Enforcement by V.M. Sawh Surfac...

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Jul 29

There's 95 days until Halloween and 34 days left until the submission window for our autumn issue closes!
Get your #horror, #fantasy, or #scifi story into the many hands of the eldritch entity we call "the reading team" while it is alert and consuming!

#submissioncall

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Jul 25

One of the hellhounds is feeling under the weather this week. A vet appointment was made, but in the meantime, we tried an exorcism.
It didn't work.
Guess we'll try the antibiotics...

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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social · Jul 23

Not many people realize this, but the "void" authors scream into is actually the leading edge of the universe's expansion.
We've got an intern out there collection stories with a net like an intergalactic lepidopterist 🦋

#writingcommunity #readingcommunity #shortstories

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