"Devon looked at the short straw in his hand. He knew this would happen. It was only a matter of time with his luck. The other troops gave a visible look of relief at the outcome." Read the latest from @JaggedGist: zurl.co/HIOUY

Read "The Nuevo Shine," from Renee Stern: A recon scout and his canine companion drop onto a hostile planet. Read for free: zurl.co/zH3IW

"Corporal Felk wasn’t dying, not one bit." Read the latest from Travis Koll. Read today: zurl.co/l2mwf

Read "On the Snark Watch," from Karl Dandenell: On a tiny space station, a sailor has to deal with both hazing and a potential alien invasion. Read for free: zurl.co/viSLb

Bullet Points 13 is now available, with stories from @karldandenell.bsky.social @rondferguson.bsky.social @ericfomley.bsky.social @cuylermeade.bsky.social @amworleywriter.bsky.social and many more. Read it online: zurl.co/9v1eK

May the Fourth be with you.

"This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?" @nealstephenson.bsky.social, Snow Crash, p. 187

Hey there! A new issue of #BulletPoints is out now: bulletpoints.nathantoronto.com?modal=%2Fcol..., with stories from @karldandenell.bsky.social, @ericfomley.bsky.social, and many more!

Read "Mustering Out," from Deborah L. Davitt (@deborahldavitt.com ): When the war is over, what happens to the cybernetically-enhanced soldiers who are weapons? Are they repurposed, or scrapped? Read for free: zurl.co/De4u7

Read "Uncle Marius," from David Stephen Powell: Colin learns what it means to win a war when his Uncle Marius comes home. Read for free: zurl.co/Q0krw

Read "The Schrödinger War," from D. Thomas Minton: You’d think after seven tries, Samuel Hohlman could get the living part right or at least be a pro at dying. Read for free: zurl.co/U9XPd

Read "Dunkirk," from Michael A. Clark: Hauptmann Franczak wonders what would have happened if the British Army had been able to evacuate their forces from Dunkirk. Read for free: zurl.co/mitKv

Read "Prison for One," from Daniel Stride: After fifty long years, Augustus Smalls has only a war criminal for company. Read for free: zurl.co/Rpghr

Read "Ploughshares," from Damir Salkovic (@darker_realities): Caleb Bartlett enters the nullspace of his machine creation to recover from the war. Read for free: zurl.co/7iLqG

Read "After the War," from Karl El-Koura: After a Martian-Terran war, a pilot tries to decide what side he was on. Read for free: zurl.co/Ytaty

Read "P.O.E.W.," from Richard Lau: A POW finds what it’s like when the war is endless. Read for free: zurl.co/2eiKC

Read "Demob," from Liam Hogan (@liamjhogan.bsky.social ): Administrator Jenrick must turn soldiers back into men. Read for free: zurl.co/VedH1

Read "Sugar-Coated Desperation," from S. L. Johnson (@sljohnson.bsky.social): A retired colonel faces a test of discipline in an alien peace agreement. Read for free: zurl.co/tkHyF

Read "Toward the Luminous Towers," from Bogi Takács (@bogiperson.bsky.social ): The war ends at some point—or does it? Read for free: zurl.co/5W7bR

Read "A Hollow Victory," from Joshua Mannix (@joshuamannix.bsky.social): A wounded sailor returns from space combat. Read for free: zurl.co/BBXET

Bullet Points 12 is now available, with stories from @deborahldavitt.com @liamjhogan.bsky.social @sljohnson.bsky.social @joshuamannix.bsky.social @bogiperson.bsky.social @bulletpoints.bsky.social and many more. Read it free online: zurl.co/egShm

Love the shout-out from Karl El-Koura. His story, "After the War," appears in the current issue of #BulletPoints. zurl.co/XVgnQ

This celly from Trin Rodman and Emma Hayes is absolute gold. #USWNT zurl.co/sXoSw#USWNT

New experience today. @bulletpoints.bsky.social #fiction #scifi #storysky

Cooks definitely had possession when his knee his the ground, in my opinion. You be the judge. #buffalobills #isthefixin zurl.co/NAgyH via @ESPN App zurl.co/2ftux#buffalobills

It is wonderful to see Australians stand up for #Palestine. We should be able to discuss avenues to peace, justice, and humanity without being labeled anti-Semitic or Islamophoobic. Decry murder and inhumanity on whichever "side" it occurs. zurl.co/7q9Gb#Palestine

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Hi, Internet! I need some legal advice, on behalf of my country. Is extraordinary rendition of a state leader an act of war? I'm trying to figure out at what point the War Powers Act might be involved... zurl.co/ZhXA0

We should let facts and evidence speak for themselves. Accountability is our greatest source of democratic strength. zurl.co/j5nR5

Preview of the cover for volume 12 of Bullet Points, with stories from @bogiperson.bsky.social , @sljohnson.bsky.social , @deborahldavitt.com , @joshuamannix.bsky.social , and more. Coming January 15. Please spread the word!

Watching #PrincessBride, in memory of #RobReiner. RIP, creator of the greatest movie EVER!!!

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Mainstream Fantasy Flash Fiction feat. @factorfourmagazine.com @bulletpoints.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

"Nova carried her captain’s head at her waist as a reminder of what waited beyond the blast-shield doors." Read the latest from Addison Smith / @addi.social in Bullet Points. Subscribe today: zurl.co/FYZF5

"The multi-spectral sensors of an IKONOS satellite detected faint signs of diamonds in newly unearthed igneous outcrops within the Chalk Flora Reserve." Read the latest from Henry Herz/@henryherz.bsky.social. Subscribe: zurl.co/FqS0a

Read "Bone and Acid and Rushing Waves," from Addison Smith / @addi.social: Nova carries her captain’s head into battle. Read for free in Bullet Points: zurl.co/gBV5V

Look, it's a "levee en peu"! This is the French state taking advantage of a distant threat and a crappy job market to build a little nationalism, with little military impact. We're seeing more of this soft mobilization, though, so the trend matters. zurl.co/HhVo2

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Read "In the Deadly Dark," from Henry Herz / @henryherz.bsky.social: Russian soldiers think they’ve uncovered a vast diamond deposit in occupied Ukraine, but that’s not all they discover. Read for free: zurl.co/qhvQt

“’Ere, what’s all this, then?” The woman scowled as Private Anders pushed past her and into the rooms beyond. “You got a bleedin’ warrant?” Read the latest from Liam Hogan. Subscribe today: zurl.co/4QJwK

Read "For Remembrance," from Liam Hogan / @liamjhogan.bsky.social: In the aftermath of a war, a squad of soldiers investigates reports of a psychic. It takes one to know one. Read for free: zurl.co/aDdLy

"A snub-nose blaster, a Warbird combat dagger, a set of dark-vision goggles, and a block of Trintulex explosives. This is all the gear you get before you head into a tunnel." Read the latest from Don Money / @donmoneywriting. Subscribe today: zurl.co/EtXXk

“Why are you so good to me?” she asks.... I think of all the possible replies: because you’re the most important person in the world... because I have been sent here to assassinate you... Read more from Grigory Lukin/@grigorylukin.bsky.social. Subscribe: zurl.co/3guF5

Read "Below to the Fray," from Don Money / @donmoneywriting: The Tunnel Rats are the brave soldiers tasked with getting into the enemy tunnels to bring the fight to them. Read for free: zurl.co/BRAsq

Read "Hard As a Mirror of Cast Bronze," from Grigory Lukin / @grigorylukin.bsky.social: An assassin searches sideways and down across alternate dimensions to find his target. Read for free: zurl.co/f4Rie

"Devon looked at the short straw in his hand. He knew this would happen. It was only a matter of time with his luck. The other troops gave a visible look of relief at the outcome." Read more from Natasha Smith\@natashabennett.bsky.social: Subscribe today: zurl.co/3oXfM

"The high-pitched whistle shredding the grey atmosphere is the only warning of the missile. Ma grabs my hand, and we weave a blind path... away from where we think the sound will end." Read the latest from Mandy Munro. Subscribe today: zurl.co/g4ePA

Read "A Little Contagion Never Hurt Anyone," from Natasha Smith / ‪@natashabennett.bsky.social: After drawing the short straw, Devon is forced to merge his consciousness with an invasive species. Link: zurl.co/TKLPZ

Read "Black Rain," from Mandy Munro / @mandymunro_author: Alien soldiers hunt Ana and her Ma. Link: zurl.co/TIy0R

"I hunkered down behind the charred ruin of an Eland armored car, its turret punctured with dozens of small holes. The rain came down in torrents, threatening to swell the Nhia River to overflow." Read the latest from Sean Patrick Hazlett. Subscribe: zurl.co/BrW7y

Happy #Halloween! Read "Mandible," from Sean Patrick Hazlett: A haunted CIA agent seeks an extreme occult method to end the Cold War in war-torn Angola. Link: zurl.co/YvhED