We're over the moon to reveal the cover of Violet Lichen's second annual eco anthology edited by @marissavu.bsky.social 🌙✨🪐 ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, blooming onto bookshelves November 17! Cover Art by @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design by Mikio Murakami, Silent Q Design

Our subscription drive continues! When we get to 50 new or upgraded subscriptions, we'll do a Best Of Year 2 anthology. Help get us more stability so we can keep putting many small wonders into the world! store.smallwondersma...

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

#FundraiserPerk Kemi Ashing-Giwa will name a character after you (or use an agreed upon name). BE IMMORTAL! Comes with the April e-issue of locus and digital art. Donate at http://locusmag.com/... or through our bio! @kashinggiwa

Just one more skirt and he'll love me. If I can balance one more plate, I'll be free. The last frog will definitely be the one that validates me as a princess! Embracing my witch era with all my heart. I want to trace the outline of each of my warts and find peace with every last one.

They spray-painted 666 on the fence. We counted to three. We ran. Girlhood, dares, and the things neighborhoods choose to forget. An excellent story from @marjeec.bsky.social Check it out at Literary Garage: literarygarage.com/come-join-us...

Sword lesbians, chivalry, and mech suit jousting (oh my) Check out my flash fiction in Small Wonders today!

One of the many perks to being a subscriber is early access to the winning stories of the monthly flash contest, like mine, published today: "In Your Diminishing Tongue." tinyurl.com/diminishingt...

I'm thrilled to have my story Bloom Where You Are Planted published with @bcsmagazine.bsky.social today! Many thanks to @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social for his keen eye and support in making this happen. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo...

Hugo noms are open, and I'd love to put forth "Be Kind and Rewind" for your consideration. One year ago, on Valentine's day, Wyngraf published a story about queer/trans love that I coauthored with my lovely partner @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social. I'm a hack, but she made our story brilliant anyway.

I have 2 short stories awards eligible this year! 1. Patient was the Doctor (PDF 📝) analogsf.com/for-your-con... with @analogsf.bsky.social (Locus & SFWA recommended) 2. milt (podcast reprint 🔉) escapepod.org/2026/02/12/e... with @bsfa.bsky.social and @escapepod.org (mild nsfw 🔥)

✅ WEIRD ✅ QUEER ✅ HORNY ✅ HOPEFUL LET'S GO

Listen to this story by @shiwritesprose.bsky.social if you also like weird queer horny mermaid stories

"Nothing is safe from the muck." Read "Swampland" by the talented @erinbf.bsky.social at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

"I didn’t realize that’s how God worked. That he punished little girls for things their parents did." Read the rest of @marjeec.bsky.social's story at Maudlin House

Hello and happy new year! I'm pleased to announce I'm returning to @clarkesworldmagazine.com with a sci-fi- weird- eco-horror short story that's OUT NOW! It's called "The Desolate Order of the Head in the Water." Read here and subscribe! clarkesworldmagazine.com/prihandita_0...

Happy New Year's Eve, y'all!! This just in: THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY is 1.99 on Bookshop and Rakuten Kobo too! ✨ Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ✨ Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Read this heartbreakingly gorgeous micro by my friend @lyss-b.bsky.social

I have a new prose poetry piece, "Subway Surfing," out today at the lovely @lostballoon.bsky.social. Thank you to Chelsea and the editors for giving this one a home.

I love this story in 1000 different ways.

If you have a moment, read my friend @marjeec.bsky.social's delightfully chilling story.

Trying an eligibility post for the first time. I'm grateful to myself for showing up this year to tend myself, the work, and community. Thankful for everyone I've met, deepened bonds with, and/or collabed to realize something wondrously meaningful. With and wishing care always, Jeané 🫂

“You name each shape in sing-song, asking me to play along, but it’s the summer before seventh grade and I’m too old for make-believe.” Read my contest-winning story, “Lee Aeronautics,” here:

Today’s rejection therapy

psssssttt just found out there are 15 print copies of The Celestial Seas up for grabs in a Goodreads giveaway! If a queer Moby Dick in space sounds fun please go check it out ✨✨✨ #thecelestialseas #scifibooks

"Something’s in the air these days, your neighbors say, and you have a sense they don’t mean the smoke or the ash."

Twenty years ago, her parents’ rebellion failed. This is the story of what happened after. THE KING MUST DIE comes out tomorrow! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

A powerful story I think most creatives will relate to.

Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick. @lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social

Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!  by Bree Wernicke "Unless you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail to maintain proper quantities of teeth, you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition Association, permanently. Yay!" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry

To celebrate 200 total patrons, we're giving away a 6-month Patreon subscription, including Discord access & Issue 1 of OTHERSIDE in 2026! Winner will be drawn on Monday! (We'll choose a bonus winner from free patrons, so be sure to sign up.) To enter, repost & reply with a favorite queer read.

We extended this to today (which is not, in fact Monday, if you are like us and lost track of space and time). Last chance to enter! Winner will be pulled at 4pm Eastern Time!

Such great advice from my rejection email today.

Inspired by @moirariom.bsky.social, I have decided to do my own rejection email editing:

“The Kind Who Soar and The Kind Who Weave weren’t always so different. Before there were legs for climbing and wings for flying, there were just thoughts for thinking.” Read my friend’s first published story here!

"There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—" We are obsessed with this wonderfully weird @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social story. A manifesting of grief that you won't soon forget. A wound that's more than a wound. Do NOT miss "The Hand's Aperture"! 🐌

$2.99 a month for some really amazing stories and poems, right in your inbox! store.smallwondersmag.com

Sometimes, the bees take you where you need to go. Find the time today for "Bee Kept" by @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social:

Take a break today for whimsy, somewhat mad science, and cats. Discover the secret ingredients in "Dr. Hypha's Laboratory" by Brian U. Garrison:

My poem "the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force" is up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

"Feel the breeze sweep through its branches, how the leaves flutter like starling wings..."

This anthology will include my story "A Frozen Woman of Balecrocus" in which a woman with ice magic has scores to settle🧊🧙‍♀️☠️

UK COVER REVEAL! 🎉 THE KEEPER OF MAGICAL THINGS is a standalone sapphic cosy fantasy about lady mages wrangling mischievous magical artifacts in a village full of secrets and at least one catdragon. TELLER is getting a beautiful new paperback jacket! Both available 16.10.2025 from @hodderscape

My story is out in Small Wonders today! “What was supposed to happen was this: on the faire’s opening day, Princess Lilaclaire would visit the pond, kiss a frog into a prince, share a candy apple with him to test their true love, and live happily ever after.” Read to see what actually happened…

BIG BIG DAY! Pantomime is out TODAY in the US! 🎉 Don't worry UK readers, it will be coming to shelves near you on Thursday💜 Let's fly, me lovelies🎪

If you feel like starting your month with a good cry, here are some beautiful words from the talented @ashdoeswords.bsky.social

Sunday! It comes out! The contest issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social! And my story gets to share it with the winners and I'm so thrilled about it all. 🎉✨

My story is free to read today at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! Come for the jungle, stay for the climax of extreme Midwestern passive aggressiveness 😁https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-color-of-things/

🪐🐋COVER REVEAL🌊💕 I am thrilled to share the STUNNING cover for my YA sci fi coming March 2026! THE CELESTIAL SEAS is a fast paced, gender flipped sci fi homage to Moby Dick 🩵 . . #thecelestialseas #writingcommunity #scifibook

did you know if you took a person's bones and laid them end to end in a straight line that'd fucking kill them don't do that bones are for INSIDE