Calling all writers of short spec fiction, especially sci-fi, dark fantasy, supernatural or cosmic horror, and weird fiction! Short story submissions for our Winter 2026 issue are now open until Nov. 30th! We don't insist on theme, but matching your story to the issue's season *may* be advantageous!

Submissions for our Winter 2026 issue are now open! Check out past issues and our guidelines to see what we're looking for, and remember, we don't insist on a theme, but if your story matches the issue's season, it may be looked on with a more favorable eye! perseidprophecies.ca/submissions/

Issue 7: Autumn 2025 is now live! Featuring stories by: Thomas White Nathan Batchelor @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social @thelargestduck.bsky.social @erinrcullen.bsky.social M.C. Scmidt Edgar Allen Poe Sam Kean Read it free at perseidprophecies.ca #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror #shortstory

That eldritch entity we lovingly call "the reading team" is slowly waking from its month-long slumber. Submissions for our winter 2026 issue open tomorrow and remain open until November 30th! #submissioncall #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #sff #scifi #shortstory

Autumn has arrived! And that means Issue 7 of Perseid Prophecies drops tomorrow! #scifi #sff #sciencefiction #fantasy #indiemagazine #indiezine #shortstories

Issue 7: Autumn 2025 is complete and ready to go! It releases on October 1st, Acolytes and higher can get it early through our Patreon! www.patreon.com/c/perseidpro... #sff #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #weirdfiction #indiemagazine #ezine #indiezine

Today, I woke up a published novelist. #writingcommunity #bookcommunity #booksky #sciencefiction #scifi #sff

More than five years in the making from inception to publishing, my debut novel Gas Giant Gambit is out TODAY! Thank you, Alex Parker Publishing, for taking a chance on me and this category denying genre mashup tale! #GasGiantGambit #spacewestern #scifi #sff #sciencefiction #booksky #books

All the stories for our upcoming issue have been finalized! As the eldritch being we call "the reading team" returns to its slumber, editing and formatting duties fall to another of @esraye.bsky.social's multiple personalities: the wretched and dreaded "Editor-in-chief."

Five days (including today!) left to submit your short story for our Autumn 2025 issue, coming October 1st! Check the link in our bio for submission guidelines! #submissioncall #horror #scifi #fantasy #sff #shortstory

With #radioactiveshrimp in the news, now's a good time to reintroduce Perseid Prophecies' interns: The Hermetic Conclave of Broccoli and The Esoteric Order of Cauliflower. They're warring cults with a surprising complex lore... ...but they're not actually radioactive. At least, as far as we know.

"There's nothing to fear," they say. As if it's a comfort. But once you spend too long thinking about the damage nothing can do, you'll never take it for granted again. Read Tom Godwin's classic #scifi short story "The Nothing Equation" in this quarter's issue! perseidprophecies.ca #sciencefiction

115 years ago, misinformation and disinformation spread panic through the population. Fear caused people to do crazy things and fall for crazier schemes. Explore "The Comet Panic of 1910" by Sam Kean, and discover how science misused caused this hysteria. perseidprophecies.ca #indiezine #fact

The lessons classic sci-fi, fantasy, and horror can teach are still valuable today. Every issue of Perseid Prophecies features at least one classic tale from the public domain. We're especially fond of Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, and Tom Godwin. Who's your favorite? #scifi #off #horror

One of the hellhounds barked into the spacial rift in the kitchen for an hour this afternoon. 15 minutes later, an article on Laika, the Sovet space dog, materialized on the counter with the hound's name on the by-line. She used her pawprint to sign the contract. #indie #indiemagazine #sciencefact

Got a story scratching the inside of your cranium to get out? The submission window for our autumn issue is open until August 31st! We don't insist on a theme, but if your story matches the issue's season, it may be looked on with a more favorable eye! Link in bio for guidelines! #submissioncall

When the end of life comes, letting go can be difficult. But who is it more difficult for: those who remain, or those who have passed on? Read "The Final Parting" by Simina Lungu free in our Summer 2025 issue: perseidprophecies.ca #specfiction

While walking the hellhounds, Jessamine heard a voice call from the woods. Normally, she'd steer clear of an obvious mimic, but this one wanted to submit a story. Jess told it to check our website for guidelines and left it to its mutterings. #submissioncall #fantasy #scifi #horror

Long after humanity fled the Earth, the diaspora roams the stars. But when ships meet in the perpetual night above a planet that feels like home, will old animosities, or the hope of a new future, prevail? Read "Surface of Last Scattering" by @pbarmby.bsky.social for free! perseidprophecies.ca

There's 95 days until Halloween and 34 days left until the submission window for our autumn issue closes! Get your #horror, #fantasy, or #scifi story into the many hands of the eldritch entity we call "the reading team" while it is alert and consuming! #submissioncall

One of the hellhounds is feeling under the weather this week. A vet appointment was made, but in the meantime, we tried an exorcism. It didn't work. Guess we'll try the antibiotics...

Not many people realize this, but the "void" authors scream into is actually the leading edge of the universe's expansion. We've got an intern out there collection stories with a net like an intergalactic lepidopterist 🦋 #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #shortstories

When a veteran cop is assigned to supervise first AI police officer, he's forced to confront the data his new parter was trained on--his own. Read "The Future of Law Enforcement" by V.M. Sawh, free, in Perseid Prophecies Issue 6: Summer 2025! perseidprophecies.ca #shortstory #sciencefiction #sff

The Hermetic Conclave of Cauliflower was blessed with broccoli from above!

The Perseid meteor shower begins tonight and remains active until August 23rd. Now is the ideal time to gaze into the abyss above and receive inspiration from beyond. (And since our submission window closes Aug. 31, you even have time to edit!) #writingcommunity

A rip in the space/time continuum unzipped itself in the kitchen this afternoon. A voice from within shouted a short, brooding, dark fantasy story. Luckily, Jessamine had a pen ready and took it down word-for-word. We sent a contract through, and it zipped back up. We hope to hear from them again.

Have you ever found yourself in a dream that starts off strange only to descend into such surreality it strains your santiy? That's what "Acts of Senseless Beauty" by @markpeters.bsky.social reminds us of. Read it in our 6th issue, free, at perseidprophecies.ca #shortstory #weirdfiction

Don't miss the chance to read the latest issue of @perseidprophecies.bsky.social for free! My favorite stories in this issue were "Acts of Senseless Beauty" by @markpeters.bsky.social and "the Final Parting" by Simina Lungu. I've also got a story in there as well. Read and enjoy!

Are you troubled by strange notions in the night? Do you experience feelings of dread at your writing desk? Have you or your family actually seen a spook, specter or ghost? If the answer is yes, then don't wait another minute. Send your short stories to Perseid Prophecies! Submissions now open!

The hellhounds were told, "Fetch!" One brought back a dark fantasy filled with allegory, the other, a thoughtful, satirical scifi. We've tied contracts to their collars and sent them back out! #writingcommunity

Got some creepy crawlies, or maybe visions of a possible future rattling around in that noggin? Send 'em in! Submissions for our autumn issues are open until August 31st!

Everybody's a critic.

A man runs for his life. What he runs from, the Gods of the forest do not care--only that he has entered their domain. And they are hungry. Read "Red God, Green God, Black God" by @cwmcguinness.bsky.social for free in our latest issue! #horrorcommunity #horrorsky

Two dozen eyes focused. Thirty-six fingers flexed. Nine eager personalities. The single entity that makes up when we affectionately refer to as "the reading team" has an insatiable appetite for short stories, and its feast has begun.

Writers of weird fiction, science fiction, cosmic horror, and fantasy! Take a break from screaming into the void and scream at us for a change! Submissions for our Autumn 2025 issue are now open until August 31st! #submissioncall #shortstory #writingcommunity

Olivia Wylie's story "Hybrid Vigor" describes a reality where the human world and fae world have recently come back together, and how a little good music can save a life. Read it free, and the rest of Issue 7, now at www.perseidprophecies.ca!

Don't mind the shrieks. The reading team just discovered that The Hermetic Conclave of Cauliflower has produced its first heirs.

Writers, ready your pencils! I'm happy to announce the formation of a creative super group StarPath Creatives AND as our first event... A writing contest with the theme: A Light in the Darkness! Info on rules and prize here creativewritingwizard.com/starpath-cre...

Issue 7's cover art is "The great comet of 1881" from the Trouvelot astronomical drawings (1881-1882) by E. L. Trouvelot (1827-1895).

The reading team has been thawed (with minimal brain damage) and they eagerly await your spooky, strange, or space-faring tales! Submissions for Issue 7: Autumn '25 are now open until August 31st! 1/2

Issue 6: Summer 2025 is now live and free! Featuring stories and articles from: - @otterkit.bsky.social - @cwmcguinness.bsky.social - @markpeters.bsky.social - V.M. Sawh - @pbarmby.bsky.social - Simina Lungu - Tom Godwin - Sam Kean Get it free: perseidprophecies.ca

Before our time-traveling visitor departed for whens unknown, they asked we try some temporal experimentations of our own. The best we can do is an early look at Issue 6's cover. Get it--free--tomorrow! Submissions for Issue 7: Autumn '25 also open tomorrow! www.perseidprochecies.ca

With the upcoming issue complete and scheduled, the editorial team has been returned to their status pods, and the reading team has begun to thaw in advance of the next submission period. Submissions open July 1st!

Our time-traveling visitor offered to help spruce up our website. When we asked why the new site didn't look as futuristic as we expected, they informed us they are an indie author--not a web developer.

A visitor claiming to be from the future came by this afternoon. They had our upcoming Issue 6: Summer '25 with them as proof. Now we're faced with a paradox: if we just publish what they brought us without doing the work, would it exist in the first place for them to bring back for us to publish?

Despite ghosts in the machines and gremlins in the gears, we're putting the finishing touches on Issue 6: Summer 2025, releasing July 1st! We've got a super-sized issue this quarter with 6 original short stories! 1/2

Had some ghosts in our machines this week, and despite a call to our local paranormal investigators and eliminators, not much could be done. Now the old computers are out back howling at the moon while we play catch-up with the upcoming summer issue.

Good advice in these trying times. Cartoon by Tom Gauld.

We recently discovered a story we approved for an upcoming issue was sent to us by mistake. We thought it was great scifi. The author had intended it as contemporary drama. Turns out, through some eldritch internet shenanigans, her submission when through a space/time warp. We're printing it anyway

We received a short story submission written in a seemingly incomprehensible language. Jessamine read it aloud--phonetically--as best she could. Now the walls are bleeding and the stars won't stop screaming. An acceptance letter has been sent into the void.