And every house could do with a garland of tendons!

My trope? Kaleido.

Your new home decorating tips just dropped 😈

More ink. This is a drawing (7"x9") of a nutshell with a very large interior. #pen&ink #fineart #drawing #nature

My Wonders? Small.

My ideal life setting.

I'm just over here screaming at everyone I know to read The Burial Tide by @unshavedmouse.bsky.social, it's so good! And while you're digging in, his earlier horror book Knock Knock, Open Wide is also 🔥🔥🔥 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Love this piece and congrats on winning second place @beckyhalsey.bsky.social!! 🔥 "The hatch didn’t discuss the options, perhaps because flame is the obvious way to go. The brutes are flame personified—hot and quick to act."

Our wonders may be small, but we pack in a lot! Subscribe today and help us meet our subscription drive goals - at 50 new subscribers we'll do Best Of Year 2! store.smallwondersma...

Great pieces in this issue and I'm delighted to have a weird lil microfiction among them! Tessellation is about tattoos and body shapes and harmful guardians. 🫀🪽 www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-6-alli...

It's released!! I want to thank the editing powers and help of Marissa van Uden at Violet Lichen, and the great support of folks at @apexmag.bsky.social (Nichole, Ori, Jason, and more)! Thanks for taking this journey with me! And thanks to Jack Hillside and Mikio Murakami for the beautiful cover!

Gorgeous, bitter and an ending that is pure 🔥

I normally write at my dining table, but I also like doing a nest version using pillows, blankets and a flat easel. #womeninhorrormonth

Locus Magazine means a lot to me, not only because of what they do on the page, but because of the love and care they show toward writers at every level. They swing the gates wide open. Their annual fundraiser is happening right now, so if you can spare it: www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

The community drabble for today is, "Family Time" by Hannya Kay. The theme was "timing." Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl #authors #drabbles #writingprompts

Your reminder that I'm giving away 3 autographed copies of my novella, 'The Unbearable Taste of Fruit & Wine', to 3 lucky contributors to my breast cancer Go Fund Me during the month of March! An update & details are at the link. Please feel free to share widely! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

This is the second story I've had in a magazine with a @mxmorgan.com cover and I'm so delighted!! 🔥

Come see if you can spot the easter egg and get a free subscription to this awesome magazine! (It was unintentional, but I like to think maybe my writerly subconscious was working in the background. 😆 I was tickled when Scott pointed it out for me, and I hope you are too when you find it.)

@cornellwriter.bsky.social you literally made me cry ❤️‍🩹 I enjoyed the humor, too. "I can’t tell you if I believed in Heaven or Hell before I died, but if there is a Hell, I’m pretty sure they’d play disco there, and Shirley would be at the mic with the amps turned up to max."

Can't wait to see what this fantastic TOC has cooked up... 🔥

Due to the sudden closure of the small press publishing our anthology, we're looking for a new home! "Silk and Foxglove" is a BIPOC anthology of 13 stories of erotic-eco-horror! It's weird, gorgeous, evocative, & unnerving as hell! Please boost! If any small presses are interested, let me know!

I have a new short story published! It's kind of Toronto finance bro comeuppance by way of Edgar Allan Poe. Check out "Come Back" in @unchartedmag.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/stories/come...

The prose of "Magical Girl: Corporate Failure" is the first thing to hit you in the teeth—it’s thick, visceral and compelling. In less than twelve hundred words, the story manages to pack a great deal of context and character work... Read the story & the micro review! havenspec.com/fiction/magi...

"Elou Carroll’s short story about wickedness explores what happens when we look away from the darkest parts of ourselves. It offers a lovely take on the concept of changelings. Each vignette unfolds, revealing a new layer that..." Read @keychild.bsky.social's story, plus mini editor reviews too.

👀January 2026 Poetry👀 ICYMI, "A Party, A Party!" is a poem by @faithallington.bsky.social about finding community among those who get labeled *monster*. Read this one as a sanctuary and join the party (a party!)

The community drabble for today is, "Decisions, Decisions…" by Hannya Kay. The theme was "conundrum." Find Hannya Kay on X @Hannya_Kay / BlueSky @HannyaKay.bsky.social Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl #authors #drabbles #writingprompts

So excited for my werewolf sanctuary poem to appear in such truly stunning company! Also that art! 🔥 🥹 do you need: 🎊 parties as an act of hope 🐺 monsters finding community this poem was written for you havenspec.com/poetry/a-par...

Hi this is Rebecca, FFO EIC. I just want to say that if you are like me, it’s been really hard to write lately. The absolute horrific behavior of ICE goons is hard to watch yet I can’t look away. I’m journaling, I’m capturing quotes and emotions, I’m reading poetry. 1/ #writingcommunity

Still swooning over how my werewolf sanctuary poem ended up with this amazing wolf pile artwork by @aimeecozza.com!!! 🥰 🥹

CrowFawkes. A crow behaving like a phoenix. #art #pencildrawing ##crow

Our general submission window will open on the first of the month! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! Guidelines & schedule: www.havenspec.com/submit/

🎉🎂 Happy UK Book Birthday to @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's ASUNDER! 🏆 A Finalist for the Nebula and Locus Awards, 🖤 A @reactorsff.bsky.social Reviewer's Choice of 2024 📙 A New York Public Library Best-Of Pick SABRIEL meets WITCH KING in this deliciously dark fantasy. Buy: https://geni.us/asunder

Hi there bluesky! Starting a journey here and hoping for community and inspiration. Here's a pastel portrait of a guy I saw backlit against the sun and calling for his lost lover. #art #pastel #portrait #artist

Friends, if you have the means to, please do support @mattkendrick.bsky.social by using his (amazing) editing, mentoring or teaching skills or by tipping his kofi. He’s a gem, and he needs our support at the moment prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com?utm_campaign...

A gorgeous excerpt from Our Human Shores by @burrowtongue.bsky.social - love how reading this lush, pressing book gives you such a variance of moods and interpretations. #smallpoemsunday #poetry www.blackocean.org/catalog1/our...

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

I have not written/published much this year, but if you're looking for a horror flash tale about being a mom and dealing w trauma with a wintry twist, give "My Heart in a Snow Globe" a read!👇

Give us your reprints featuring resistance of all kinds, from the hugely impactful to the tiny sparks. Give us your hope and rebellion and courage. Show us we all got this, even when it's brutal.

Also proud of The Beekeeper's Daughter, my riff off folk lore and fairy tales and maybe a little Jack Vance in there. I only had the one short story published this year, but it's one I'm satisfied with and I'm happy it found a home in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

Ever wondered what could be worse than online dating? Online dating an eldritch horror! Read the flash fic story here: "The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club" – Flash Fiction Online share.google/3CvQPwaB2V1z...

New drabble for the week. This one's got a cauldron and an unhappy witch of sorts. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/145784... I'm gifting 1-month memberships to any who want them. Come get yours here: www.patreon.com/kaidelmas/re...

I sort of feel my life is on the Weyward train, thanks to @brokenswanquill.bsky.social for capturing the passenger vibes.

The holidays can be a contemplative time — so give my book Our Human Shores a chance? Filled with meditations on life and living through disaster, this book is perfect for the holiday blues or a great gift for someone who is searching for deeper meaning. #bookgiving #poetry #holidaygift #books

Tenebrous is rad and they have books full of creepy fun weird, which seems perfect right about now!

No update from me, but can I tempt you with great stories? The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club by @faithallington.bsky.social All These Inscriptions Are for Me by @carolscheina.bsky.social The Earth Will Not Consume Your Bones by @abigailkemske.bsky.social Links below

a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much

Okay your poetry prompt is to write a poem whose title starts with Q (or X) for the next Kaleidotrope submission period

Obviously you should buy Necropolis from @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social but while you're there have you considered getting Duel edited by @thisisguan.bsky.social with stories from @faithallington.bsky.social @carlc75.bsky.social Huijia Li, @livstrom.bsky.social and also me.

The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club, by Faith Allington in Flash Fiction Online. Does a great job in a short space of providing enough details for the story to feel real and lived in, while still being remarkably economical in its wordcount. www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

MetaStellar Year Four anthology is available, full of singing forests, cybernetic parents, diamond chokers full of shadows, visits by Death and demons a plenty, and more! Available at your favorite retailers like www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-o... #metastellar #speculativefiction