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Samantha Murray
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Australian short-story writer, mathematician, forgetter of things. Words in Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, F&SF, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Fantasy Magazine and more. She/her.
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Samantha Murray @samanthamurray.bsky.social · Apr 2
My latest story, “Through These Moments, Darkly” is out in Clarkesworld this month!!! 🤩
clarkesworldmagazine.com Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · Apr 1
The April Issue of Clarkesworld features original stories by Samantha Murray, Sheryl Singerling, Gordon Li, Zhang Ran, Carolyn Zhao, Thomas Ha, and Rich Larson.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_223
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Our April 2025 issue (#223) contains: Fiction * "Through These Moments, Darkly" by Samantha Murray * "The Seed" by Sheryl Singerling * "Aegiopolis Testudo" by Gordon Li * "Still Water" by Zhang Ran * "Symbiotic" by Carolyn Zhao * "In My Country" by Thomas Ha * "An Even Greater Cold to Come" by Rich Larson Non-Fiction * "Climate Change and the Shifting Disease Landscape" by Victoria Brun * "Unreliable Characters: A Conversation with Ai Jiang" by Arley Sorg * "Unapologetically Strange: A Conversation with Natalia Theodoridou" by Arley Sorg * "Editor's Desk: Perhaps Light Gray?" by Neil Clarke Cover art is "Naï Naï's Arrival & Rituals" by Thomas Brissot. An older woman with a can is helped from a white hoovercraft, by a humanoid robot. The craft is parked next to a tree between two archways and sunlight comes down on the characters from the right.
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It’s official! I have a short story collection coming out Nov 3! Pre-orders open now! And look at the gorgeous cover designed in-house by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social

www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
The House of Illusionists by Vanessa Fogg
A sea-witch calls to souls from the deep. In modern suburbia, a middle-aged woman fights to keep her daughter from the clutches of a Faerie Queen. . . and finds herself confronting her own past and de...
www.interstellarflightpress.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
Sometimes you just need to escape for a little while. Short stories are great for that.
Visitors welcome. Subscriptions are good too.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
Text reads: Fed up with your world? Visit ours. clarkesworldmagazine.com Includes our robot mascot's head looking up and over at the cover of a recent issue that has a building on a hill with red tubes bursting through the walls and into the sky. A small robot and some people approach the woods in front of the building. Ok, so maybe that place has problems too, but at least it's pretty to look at. I won't say that won't happen in the real world because you never know who will decide to invest in the BuildingDestroyer(tm) after seeing that picture instead of buying a subscription and supporting real human artists and authors. Those people probably wouldn't support us anyway because we hate their so-called "AI" and mock their little toys when we have the opportunity to. But yes, visit our world. The stories are good. Really. At least we think so. Can't hurt to try, can it? Stay as long as you like. There's nineteen years of stories, many in audio too. Just don't forget to stop to eat and drink and sleep and take care of yourself. And when you're ready, go back to the real world and fight your monsters or just breathe. You can come back any time. I suppose I should stop rambling now. I apologize for the lack of a screaming possum in this ad, but trust that it is there in spirit.
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
samanthamurray.bsky.social
My kid’s dental appointment is actually literally at 2.30 and I feel like we are a punchline to a dad joke
September 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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thomasha.bsky.social
Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.
A pile of Uncertain Sons, just a lot of uncertainty and a lot of sons
September 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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mktighewrites.bsky.social
Pre-order links now up! This 20 story collection includes originals plus tales that have garnered 13 awards, shortlistings or competition places
books2read.com/drowninginth...
September 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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nadiaradovich.bsky.social
I think this is the best thing I have ever written: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/sile...
September 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
samanthamurray.bsky.social
Gorgeous story by @mktighewrites.bsky.social in @castofwonders.org 💙💙💙
castofwonders.org Cast of Wonders @castofwonders.org · Aug 6
Cast of Wonders 646: As Brittle as Granite by Matt Tighe, narrated by Dani Daly, hosted by Amy Brennan and produced by Jeremy Carter

www.castofwonders.org/2025/08/cast...
a greyscale image of a stone head, cracking apart, against a backdrop of a ruined wall and pillars
August 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
samanthamurray.bsky.social
Favourite thing I read this week was this clever and lovely story by @tiatashiro.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com 💙
clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/
Missing Helen by Tia Tashiro
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
August 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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specficreader.bsky.social
Your Daily Dose of #Empathy (myreadinglife.com/2025/07/27/t...)

From the other side of climate change.

"Through These Moments, Darkly" by @samanthamurray.bsky.social (2025) — 3,610 words (about 15 minutes for the average reader)

Published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com issue #223, April 2025.
July 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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thisisguan.bsky.social
I'd be honoured if you considered my work for the Ditmar awards:

1) Painted Surfaces, published in @nightmare-magazine.com

2) An Object of Vision, published in Fission #4

3) Feel the Burn, published in Archive of the Odd

Links in 🧵
July 31, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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mktighewrites.bsky.social
Release date 6th October!!
ifwgpublishing.bsky.social IFWG Publishing International @ifwgpublishing.bsky.social · Jul 27
IFWG Publishing is pleased to reveal the cover for Matt Tighe's upcoming horror fiction collection, Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories.
ifwgpublishing.com/2025/07/27/u...
#matttigle #horrorcollection #greathorrorwriting #upcomingtitle
July 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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fusionfragment.bsky.social
FFer Read of the Day: "Through These Moments, Darkly" by @samanthamurray.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com

clarkesworldmagazine.com/murray_04_25/
Through These Moments, Darkly by Samantha Murray
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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strangehorizons.bsky.social
BASE GOAL: FULLY FUNDED!

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far!

BUT we're not done yet! We have some juicy stretch goals just waiting to be unlocked!
strangehorizons.bsky.social Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · Jun 8
📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢

Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!

Donate at the link ⬇️
Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
www.kickstarter.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
samanthamurray.bsky.social
Why yes I DID pay the $20 postage and get my favourite cider shipped all the way from TASMANIA instead of continuing to bemoan that they don’t stock it in WA. Because I am an ADULT and I have this POWER (this may be obvious but somehow still came as a surprising revelation to me.) 😋
June 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
We're on our way to being funded - but we're not there yet!

Tell your friends, signal boost, share awesome reads with folks who love to read💞

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June 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
samanthamurray.bsky.social
I had my first migraine with aura the other day, complete with bright jagged flashy scintillating shit, where I then temporarily struggled to read properly. SO THAT IS NEW AND FUN
June 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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ktonbsky.bsky.social
This story gave me goosebumps 🔥
samanthamurray.bsky.social Samantha Murray @samanthamurray.bsky.social · Apr 2
My latest story, “Through These Moments, Darkly” is out in Clarkesworld this month!!! 🤩
clarkesworldmagazine.com Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · Apr 1
The April Issue of Clarkesworld features original stories by Samantha Murray, Sheryl Singerling, Gordon Li, Zhang Ran, Carolyn Zhao, Thomas Ha, and Rich Larson.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_223
Subscribe at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
April 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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infrequentsf.bsky.social
Through These Moments, Darkly, by Samantha Murray in Clarkesworld. Post slow climate apocalypse, we see the relationship between a biologist and a dark physicist. And the portals. The prose is graceful yet maintains the tension like a garrotte. Beautiful and disquieting.
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Through These Moments, Darkly by Samantha Murray
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April 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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nassos.bsky.social
It's publication day for Sour Cherry!

I can't thank enough everyone @tinhouse.bsky.social and @wildfirebooks.bsky.social who worked to make this book happen. And now here we are! I hope it finds its readers. 🍒

US: tinhouse.com/book/sour-ch...
UK: www.headline.co.uk/titles/natal...
'An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment' - Karen Joy Fowler "Questions monstrosity, masculinity, romance, and power... deeply affecting and unsettling." - Reactor "Striking... ingeniously weaves tales within tales." - Locus 'A magnificent novel and, unbelievably, a debut -- you must read this as soon as you can' - Vajra Chandrasekera
April 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
samanthamurray.bsky.social
My latest story, “Through These Moments, Darkly” is out in Clarkesworld this month!!! 🤩
clarkesworldmagazine.com Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · Apr 1
The April Issue of Clarkesworld features original stories by Samantha Murray, Sheryl Singerling, Gordon Li, Zhang Ran, Carolyn Zhao, Thomas Ha, and Rich Larson.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_223
Subscribe at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Our April 2025 issue (#223) contains: Fiction * "Through These Moments, Darkly" by Samantha Murray * "The Seed" by Sheryl Singerling * "Aegiopolis Testudo" by Gordon Li * "Still Water" by Zhang Ran * "Symbiotic" by Carolyn Zhao * "In My Country" by Thomas Ha * "An Even Greater Cold to Come" by Rich Larson Non-Fiction * "Climate Change and the Shifting Disease Landscape" by Victoria Brun * "Unreliable Characters: A Conversation with Ai Jiang" by Arley Sorg * "Unapologetically Strange: A Conversation with Natalia Theodoridou" by Arley Sorg * "Editor's Desk: Perhaps Light Gray?" by Neil Clarke Cover art is "Naï Naï's Arrival & Rituals" by Thomas Brissot. An older woman with a can is helped from a white hoovercraft, by a humanoid robot. The craft is parked next to a tree between two archways and sunlight comes down on the characters from the right.
April 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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jenniferhudak.bsky.social
HEEEYYY
so

"The Witch Trap" is a Nebula nominee!!! I am freaking outttt and I'm just so so grateful to everyone who nominated this story of my heart! Thank you to @gavingrant.bsky.social and @kellylink.bsky.social for pulling it out of the slush 💙

(Also HOLY CRAP the entire category is STACKED)
A color photo of the cover of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet issue 48, and text reading: FINALIST-SHORT STORY The Witch Trap Jennifer Hudak NEBULA AWARD FINALISTS-SHORT STORY Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole Five Views of the Planet Tartarus We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read The V*mpire The Witch Trap Evan: A Remainder
March 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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jahootsen.bsky.social
Just read @samanthamurray.bsky.social's short story 'My heart a streak of light across the sky' - and so should you.

It's very good.
March 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
samanthamurray.bsky.social
I’m… just going to leave this here…

Asimov’s was where I sent my very first story submission, many years ago. 😭😭😭 Thrilled to make my debut in this magazine, alongside a mate of mine, the excellent @trnapper.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
samanthamurray.bsky.social
Really late on this because we were travelling for most of last month (and also I’m bad at social media ha) but my Strange Horizons story from 2022, “Coming Through in Waves” is now a podcast!!! Narrated beautifully by the amazing @jennahanchey.bsky.social 😍 strangehorizons.com/podcasts/pod...
Podcast: Coming Through In Waves
In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Samantha Murray's 'Coming Through in Waves' read by Jenna Hanchey.
strangehorizons.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.
February 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM