My new literary flash story is out in Blue Lake Review. For decades, I worked in public schools teaching my students literature and art and how to hide in dark and quiet classrooms. My story takes a fantastic view of this horror our society lives with. bluelakereview.weebly.com/a-runaway-bu...

Friends in the art, poetry, and author community, come support others in your field by buying the Best of Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, vol viii www.amazon.com/Best-Penumbr... A lot of hard work has been put into print by Jeff at Penumbric and all the amazing creatives who have contributed

I've been all kinds of scattered this week, but I got a newsletter out! We have things from both @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social and @swpisciotta.bsky.social who are both very talented folks! howsweetthewords.com/two-fic-tues...

My friend just had a cover reveal of all three fantasy books coming out. So cool!

June reader spotlight: @swpisciotta.bsky.social came all the way from Colorado to dazzle us with two short stories, “Transubstantiation” (Flash Fiction Online, May 2025) and “Rocket Boy” (Utopia Science Fiction, December 2024). Both were big hits!

"Unboxing" (more like unpackaging) the postcards for my forthcoming novella Ellipses to be published by @infinivoxsf.bsky.social with a beautiful cover by @manzieriart.bsky.social Maurizio Manzieri Yayyyyy!

I'm so excited to have a new story out in The Deadlands!! "For Those Who Stay Buried" is a dark fantasy about broken love, feral hope, and taking back your power, however imperfectly. Also, there's a three-legged fox. 🦊 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

If there's an acid-spilling xenomorph, in your neighbourhood... Who you gonna call? Bug-Busters! (I ain't 'fraid of no tribbles!) Features "Tribbulations", my award winning riff on tribbles, aliens, psychotic AIs, and all things Sci-Fi... @amazingstories.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FJBVQ7JQ

A beautifully written story with so much depth. @awprihandita.bsky.social latest story, "The Best Way to Survive a Tiger Attack," is worth your time spent reading it. Congratulations, Anselma!

A perfect afternoon sampling cider made by @willmcmahon36.bsky.social in his Finger Lakes farm.

Thank you to our three Ithaca Irrealist Readers for June 2025—fists up for the IILF! @swpisciotta.bsky.social @risawolf.bsky.social & @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social dazzled the crowd with their imaginative fiction. Look out for coming reader spotlights, so you too can enjoy their great work!

TONIGHT! @irrealist.bsky.social reading at Liquid State in Ithaca, NY - see me, @swpisciotta.bsky.social & @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social read from our work.

This poignant and touching story by @chrisblake.bsky.social is worth the read. Enjoy! www.tractorbeam.earth/story/in-eve...

IILF partisans, to arms! Our next Ithaca Irrealist Reading will be Tuesday, June 24th from 7-9pm at Liquid State Brewing! Join @swpisciotta.bsky.social, @risawolf.bsky.social, and @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social for good fiction, good beer, and good company!

New story out! Find “Gratitude of the Dispossessed” in issue 6 of Phano 🪷 “After three centuries, the Tea Masters once again stand face to face with their creator.”

My friend Allan’s book is out! Looking forward to reading it.

This one by @swpisciotta.bsky.social punched me in the GUT. It's incredible.

“Transubstantiation” by Sam W. Pisciotta has poetic prose, dedicated parents, and a surprising end to a seance. Check it out now on FFO! @swpisciotta.bsky.social #writingcommunity #flashfiction #specfic #family #fantasy www.flashfictiononline.com/article/tran...

New Story Day at Flash Fiction Online! You can read "Transubstantiation" here: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/tran...

My latest short story is out in the world. Enjoy! factorfourmag.com/mindseye-let...

Saw Sinners last night, and it’s great! When the first credits started to roll, half the theater emptied and all those people missed the ending of the movie 🤯

🌌🚀 BOOK BIRTHDAY! Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle is finally out by Dark Matter Ink! It's available at the publishers website, Bookshop, Amazon, B&N, and more. It's a short novella set in a doomed spaceship returning to Earth. For fans of dark SF and fast-paced thrillers in space.

Story publication day! "Big Bang Enlightenment" is live on Stupefying Stories. stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2025/04/big-...

Mother lies in a puddle of equations, the puzzles she didn't solve before she died. -from "Breakfast in Tick Tock" by Sam W. Pisciotta (@swpisciotta.bsky.social), in #Penumbric's April issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... (pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...) #shortstories #scifi #fantasy

"Of Course, Nature Is a Mother" Because only a woman could endure such atrocities to her crust, gutted inside out for the pleasure of man and still be expected to make him breakfast in the morning. - Makayla Edwards vastliterarypress.org/2025/04/12/o...

Proud to have my latest horror story “Their Words Like Leaves” in Tales to Terrify!! Give it a listen 💀

"Its cold light was as bright as the moon’s, though it lacked the lunar softness. It shone with focus and violence, an unshakeable, judgmental gaze." "The Visible Death of Stars” by @swpisciotta.bsky.social

So stoked to have “The Visible Death of Stars” in the latest issue of Vast Chasm.

I’m so happy that my quirky little family of abstractions found their way into the pages of @penumbricmag.bsky.social. Read “Breakfast in Tick Tock” online! www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

Thank you to all the contributors in April's #Penumbric! Vekhan Sametyaza, @swpisciotta.bsky.social, @the-lettersea.com, Denny E. Marshall, Martins Deep, Janis Butler Holm, Eric Wampler, @mynachang.bsky.social ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

We've got a stellar exploration of grief and loss coming up from @swpisciotta.bsky.social. Before then, let yourself be haunted and carried away by this piece out of Nightmare: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/hous...

The cover is OUT!!! So stoked! Pre-orders now open at Undertow/Amazon/B&N. The Gillan foreword and @kellylink.bsky.social's kind words blew me away. Also you can see more of Ove Tøpfer's wild surreal oil paintings at his IG below. Can't wait until Sept!! 🥳 www.instagram.com/p/CeBHuBKoGtI/

I'm teaching an online class next week at @clarionwest.bsky.social ! It's all about getting unstuck in your writing process. When: April 5th at 10am PDT. Where: secure.clarionwest.org/np/clients/c... Spots are still open and discount admissions are still available! Please boost!

hey, pssst... it's THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS release day (sorta, barely). here's something nice someone said about it: "A unique voice imbued with searingly relentless hope. This book is quirky and grim and shining." - C. J. Lavigne, author of In Veritas

A new story up at @realneondystopia.bsky.social: The Dance of Narcissus and Echo, where personal marketing at internet scale turns into something weirder. When I originally wrote a version of this in 2013, it was absurdism. Now, it's basically non-fiction. rajivmote.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/t...

did a post on what i learned from pubbing with a small press + some updates. check it out! 👇 ...and if you don't like clicking on stuff, you can subscribe and have my newsletter delivered straight to your inbox!

New call from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social. Take a hike and start writing!

Open for applications! Give your writing dreams a boost. So worth it! @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social #writingcommunity Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop is an advanced, one-on-one, intensive program customized to each student. Here’s the info link: www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo....

It's been a while, but I'm back at @strangehorizons.bsky.social with my Short Fiction Treasures column! Stories from @hexliterary.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social and more. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

My 2024 novelette “The Limner Wrings His Hands” is now free to read online! stateofmatter.in/blog/the-lim...

🌊✨️ Our cover for issue six is the magnetic and eerie "Sea Dream" by Dagny ✨️🌊

My debut novel THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION is set for release April 21 with Cemetery Gates! Get in touch for a review copy! Quote from opening chapter: "I don’t like being made of toe. I’d rather be a swan feather or something, even though I guess that would be less human."

Enter the #sff worlds of ZNB in the compilation anth of Year Two of the #online #magazine, ed by @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social! Kindle: amzn.to/4btfm8y Trade: amzn.to/3VNf6e3 B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/znb-presen... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #readingcommunity #booksky #fantasy #scifi

I recently had a chance to chat with @writerstevens.bsky.social on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Podcast! It was a fun chat about short fiction. Thanks to Mark for a great conversation! Audio is also available on all major podcast platforms. #shortfiction #shortstories youtu.be/21DJ3IyjSPM?...

My steampunk adventure and occult detective case would both love to taste your eyeballs and if that doesn't do it for you, there are over a dozen other linked stories on my blog that might. matthandle.blogspot.com/2024/12/2024...

My story "The Last Astronaut" is in this month's issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly. "Daisy’s breathing echoed inside her helmet. She opened her eyes. Saturn hung like a ghost on the horizon, a ringed specter floating against the stars. Somewhere behind that wisp was home."

Do you dare to contact The Nightmare Delivery Service? Angela Liu makes a compelling argument for going with them over the other guys...

Just finished Ghost Apparent by @jelenawrites.bsky.social, published by @ghostorchidpress.com. Loved it! (especially the resolution) Jelena knows how to put a character in danger and keep us on edge. This feels both archetypal and fresh at the same time. ghostorchidpress.square.site/product/ghos...

Just finished reading Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui @thesuiway.bsky.social and loved it! What a masterful job of characterization. Inez Kato and Ennis Rezál are painted so well; they came to life for me. If you haven’t read the novella already, put it on your list. www.neonhemlock.com/books/dragon...

Just finished reading "A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief" by @chrisblake.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social. Wow! A poignant story about saying goodbye. I also recommend the podcast, beautifully read by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/fiction/a-re...