This picture of the real Ponyhenge looks very charming but my story has glitter and blood and feral girls 😉 kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/s...

Our ✨June 2026 issue✨ is ready! Subscribers will get it tomorrow, and everyone else can read it July 2nd! In this issue, you'll find five new stories and six new poems, many of which are vaguely environmental and all of which are amazing!

👀June 2026 Fiction👀 "Horseland" is a short story by EC Dorgan about authenticity and the monsters that haunt our hearts and histories. As a special preview of the issue, you can read it NOW! havenspec.com/fiction/hors...

It's world ocean day 🌊 and if you don't have an ocean nearby to run screaming into, then may I suggest this ocean themed poem about bargains and your heart?

Yep we’re open for new stories! Until we reach our 1,000 cap. Can’t wait to read your stories 🤓 #writingcommunity

It’s release day!! I’m so proud of my little story in this issue, and to be in such good company with some awesome writers. This issue is a banger. Get your copy now!

"I want to feel them cut you out of my brain, piece by piece." Outstanding flash fiction 😀 by Faith Allington www.adventitious.net/stories/raze...

The title has been revealed. 🙌💙 And a full cover reveal is coming soon for my collection with WATG Press, @dakria.bsky.social. Watch out for more to come about "After You Were Lost." 💔❤️‍🩹 open.substack.com/pub/watgpres...

Contract signed! I'll have a story in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social this September, with guest editor @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social. This magazine has been a dream for so long, constantly publishing amazing authors and stories, and I love it to bits 😍 Read, support, cheer! They deserve it ❤️

📣 Details for Lark Morgan Lu’s upcoming call for stories, themed “Aftermath,” are now available via our Patreon page. ✔️ Submissions open JULY 1st! ✔️ All genres ✔️ 500-1000 words as per usual This issue will release in January 2027 #writingcommunity #flashfiction

I like rock facts and I cannot lie 🪨

Is it weird that I'm visiting a friend to make dinner with them and I strongly want to bring my favorite rock with me?

For the morning crowd: FOR SALE: A HISTORICAL GEM PRICED TO MOVE! A Rare Ambulatory Freehold Opportunity! (Price Upon Qualification) Viewings By Happenstance Only www.patreon.com/posts/storie...

Happy Book-Birthday, Multitude! Book is a book! You can get it anywhere, and also here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/mul...

Excited to share that I'll also have work appearing in a forthcoming issue of Kaleidotrope! 📖🚪🥚💀 and 🌊🦈🩸👑

"Immortality isn’t worth that price." #firstlineThursdays www.adventitious.net/stories/raze...

Looking for a great way to support us but don't have the cash? Consider reviewing us on @thestorygraph.com It's fun, supports great writers, and gives you clear skin. app.thestorygraph.com/books/14cba4...

ARC GIVEAWAY ANNOUNCEMENT!! 📢📚 We're giving away 30 collector's edition ARCs of @jasonsanford.bsky.social's PLAGUE BIRDS: THE RED DAY EDITION! 🪐🖥️🔥 Each copy is signed, hand-numbered, and one of a kind. TO ENTER: like, comment, and repost this post by May 11th for the chance to win 🌟 Good Luck! 🖤👽

Life Hack: If you click on "Archives" there's more free stories

May 5th is Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) Day. When White women go missing, police and FBI look for them. This isn't the case for Native women who are 10x more likely to be murdered than White women. Wear red to bring awareness to our stolen sisters. #MMIW #MMIWday #NoMoreStolenSisters

Field Notes From a Monster Hunt (or why I chose these stories for Issue Two) What emerged: bone, ash, data, salt, blood, and memory. What the real question turned out to be: what monsters do we agree to live with? Full editorial on Patreon (for free). www.patreon.com/posts/field-...

Pastel study of hands #pastel #drawing #traditionalart

We've extended the paranormal noir call two additional weeks for underrepresented and marginalized authors!

“Ponyhenge” by @faithallington.bsky.social (Kaleidotrope, Spring ‘26) “is packed full of gorgeous, frightening, heartbreaking prose.” 🎠

I always love reading Myna's flash roundup, so it's such a thrill and honor to have a story appear in it!! 🥰🥹

Find the strange and secret places in @faithallington.bsky.social’s new story “Ponyhenge.” kaleidotrope.net/spring-2026/...

Only have 47 seconds to read a killer story? No problem. www.adventitious.net/stories/raze...

hey GUESS WHAT Sword and Kettle Press is kickstarting their TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY and it contains me (along with a bunch of other rad writers) $3000 goal, digital and/or print copies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/swo...

This poem from @faithallington.bsky.social at @smallwondersmag.com?????????? Hot DAMN. smallwondersmag.com/piece/sea-wi...

The end of this poem is going to stay with me. Each line break is such a beautiful gut punch!

"The stretch of aspen eyes before her made her pulse crescendo in her ears, made her chest ache with regret." 🌟🌳ICYMI🌳🌟 My latest horror flash is out and mayhaps a good Earth Day read, because 👁️ the 👁️ trees 👁️ are 👁️ watching 👁️ you. 👁️ gavagai.com/posts/4241

Happy earth day! 🌳 What if someone--or something--could help us restore our ravaged planet? What would that be worth to you? New creepy lil microfiction, if you're into that sort of thing.

My cyber-noir story "Ten and Out" is free today in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! "But I need to know: did Harrad betray me, too? The last time I saw him, when he inked my tenth contract tattoo…was his good luck kiss actually a kiss goodbye?"

A beautiful, dark seaside tale that will leave you feeling haunted! 🌊

The lesson of today's poem by Faith Allington is to listen carefully to Sea Witches, even beyond their bargains. They're good at seeing.

When I realized what this poem was about, I sat up. The end of it made me gasp.

"I want to feel them cut you out of my brain, piece by piece." New flash fiction 😀 by @faithallington.bsky.social www.adventitious.net/stories/raze...

Please share as widely as possible. This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not. Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

Sometimes you just gotta make the damn thing.

A gorgeous piece full of longing and ache, love how it weaves a spell on the reader!

Out today! Dead Planet, the latest anthology from @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social edited by @ericfomley.bsky.social !! 5 military sci fi horror shorts, including a reprint of my story, "Metalloid Blues!"

Today I get to join the coolest club in flash: people published in Had! A flash about a memory of a family reunion of a recording of a

Our associate editor Ghazal is looking to leave Tehran as soon as possible, so if anyone knows of an art residency or work opportunity or uni posting that they can apply to, please let us know (dm or email). These are scary times, and we must protect each other as best we can.

SFRevu on Issue Two: “Adventitious has a kind of story that you won’t find anywhere else. And it’s a GOOD kind of story. So you should support it and subscribe!” We’ll take that. 😍 www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-i...

what? *cough, cough* uhh no big deal babe, it's just the Rust coming to make whole our ravaged world, pretty sure we talked about it... 🌿🌳❤️

Talk about amazing flash, "Raze My Brain, Open My Eyes" by @faithallington.bsky.social is now free on the site. It's about...260 words, so just got read it yourself and tell me what YOU think it's about. www.adventitious.net/stories/raze...

I think it could be the perfect place for a writing retreat.

"How tenderly this world cradles him." OMG I loved every word of this. A prose poem with teeth. @faithallington.bsky.social in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social

Not me over here blushing but yessss this is exactly the best way to read about the pony girls. By hoof and forelock, by glitter and blood, they are coming!

"Hyphae react and adjust to their environment, retaining spatial memories about sources of nourishment or stress." Same, mushroom friends, same...