Issue Four lands August 1. But who's in it?🧵 ...(so far)... P.A. Cornell @cornellwriter.bsky.social 🤖 Aimee Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com👹 Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹 Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social 🍇 Stewart C. Baker 🌌 Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs🍽️ and...

The author makes no representations and offers no warranties as to the condition or location of dust, small appliances, and/or human remains ingested by Phalen’s Pneumatic Vacuum Apparatus. Still, there is something beautiful to be found on the other side, for those who peer through the vacuum..

Grab some tissues, a blanket, something/one to hug and then read this story. Beautiful. Poignant. Cathartic. A must read.

What happens when your mom dies, but her ashes keep talking to you? Introducing Phelan's Pneumatic Vacuum Apparatus! As seen in "The Laws of Thermodynamics as Applied to My Dead Mom" by @chrisblake.bsky.social. It's time to say goodbye... ...to dirt and dust! www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...

My story, “The Laws of Thermodynamics as Applied to my Dead Mom” is now free to read in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social ! It's loosely inspired by my experience cleaning out my grandmother’s house. It’s about grief, possibly-sentient vacuums, and a little light thermodynamics. I hope you enjoy!

If you only have time for 1010 words worth of reading tonight, choose these 1010 words from the story Dear Trilobites by @rjtaylor.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social This is a stunning, hurricane force tale taking an unflinching gaze at a dark moment lit by 252 million years of life.

POV: you died on a day when the god of pickled eggs and sausage rolls happened to be on front door duty.

WE DID IT!!!!!! Thank you all!! Our first stretch goal (at 2k) is BUYING MORE STORIES!! 👀 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Very touching story by @chrisblake.bsky.social in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social that says a lot about parenthood 🥹 Read it for your children! www.tractorbeam.earth/story/in-eve... #flashfiction #speculative #shortstories

This is a beautiful, moving story - perfect way to lock in the vibes for a reverent, meditative weekend centering the things that make life worth living.

It's live! My latest #scifi story "By the Wings of an Albatross" is in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social issue #3 and is now free to read online. 🦅 Marvel at the future of teleportation where nothing ever goes wrong on your commute ever again, right? Read on to find out. Quick read! 🛰️

We're at $724/1000 and one backer shy of 40!! We have FIVE DAYS until subs open!!! Let's gooooo! 👀🌈🎥 #Recorded #shortstories #SFF #horror #writers www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

I always love this time of year- the DP window! The submission experience at Diabolical Plots is just so good. I love their submission manager- the transparency and clarity is unmatched. Excited to have TWO windows to submit to this year.

Heyo, the @diabolicalplots.com submissions windows announcements are up! Yes, windowS, featuring our general call July 13-27 and a special call, Diabolical Rot, to be edited by yours truly! Send those stories Oct 18-25. Get the deets for both windows here: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-general-s...

Last June, my gardening/parenting story, “In Every Seed, A Hope” was published in Tractor Beam. This year, it was shortlisted for Eco 25: The Year’s Best Speculative Eco Fiction. It wasn’t included as a final selection, but it’s a huge honour to have been shortlisted! My first ever shortlisting!

Really honoured to find myself amidst such a tremendous group of writers in Adventitious Issue Three. Plus, there's a little hint at my story in my bullet point emoji to pique your intrigue...

I could never have dreamed of such a beautiful and pitch-perfect illustration to accompany my upcoming story in Issue Three of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social. Very excited for people to read the whole story!

So thrilled to read this thoughtful review of my story, "The Laws of Thermodynamics as Applied to My Dead Mom" which is appearing in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social Issue 3. So excited for people to be able to read it in this stacked new issue!

For Sale: If You Can Catch It Issue Three. June 1st. www.patreon.com/posts/storie...

I was in it for the found footage fiction, but now it's serious, folks: these cats need tuna. I need a video of happy cats eating celebratory tuna. We can make it happen.

If you're not subscribed to the fun @adventitiouswords.bsky.social mail list, you might not know my story, "Laws of Thermodynamics as Applied to my Dead Mom" is forthcoming in Issue 3, debuting June 1st! I mean, you know now, but I have 10 other TOC mates the newsletter could be hyping you up for!

Thanks to you, this community is growing, which means getting more fantastic stories to more fantastic people. As you continue to devour Issues One and Two, here's the full TOC for Issue Three. WHAT COULD THEIR CRYPTIC TITLES MEAN. By the Wings of an Albatross by @abigailkemske.bsky.social 🧵

CoMiNg SoOn!!! Check out this rad list of titles for the next issue of Adventitious.

Beyond thrilled that my latest short story, "The Laws of Thermodynamics as Applied to my Dead Mom" will be featured in Issue Three of the terrific new magazine, @adventitiouswords.bsky.social along with stories from other writers whose work I really admire! Can't wait for the world to see our tales!

In honour of Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Week, here's my short story, "A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief" that appeared two years ago in @strangehorizons.bsky.social. It's about love, loss, family and food and inspired by my work in palliative care. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

"The Impossibility of Fall Prevention" is a poignant and moving short story that'll resonate for anyone who has felt the love, anxiety, fear, and frustration of trying to care for an aging loved one who prioritizes their independence over their safety. A moving and powerful read!

Just backed Year's Best Canadian F&SF: Volume Four. Excited to have it join the library with its older sibs. Looks like it's already fully funded. Excited to see how many stretch goals it will hit!

From the first time I read this story, I've been in love with everything in it. Moving, soft, heart-warming. Give it a try ❤️

Talk about beautiful stories that make you cry! Just read The Soundtrack of My Afterlife by @cornellwriter.bsky.social at @adventitiouswords.bsky.social This was such a lovely and loving story that built to a truly gorgeous ending. www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...

Just read the excellent new @thomasha.bsky.social novella, Scion, at @clarkesworldmagazine.com. Truly exceptional worldbuilding, character work, and rich and thematically resonant themes driven by a propulsive plot. A really engrossing read. Highly recommended! clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_03_26/

This one got me right in the feels. How could you do this to me Chris? (But also, thanks for writing this). Grab a box of tissues and read it, folks.

What a great Friday! Another of my short stories, "In Brightness and in Darkness, We Sit" is now available at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social This is a story about love, loss, and the power of our care for one another, even in the darkest moments. www.flashfictiononline.com/article/in-b...

Cats! Romantic Poet Ghosts! The haunting beauty of Rome's Protestant Cemetery! Find all this, plus sundry reflections on the Meaning of Life and the creation of Art in my new short story, "This Poor Posthumous Existence" at The Orange & Bee. theorangebee.substack.com/p/this-poor-...

So thrilled that this story resonated with you! Thank you so much for sharing it. It completely makes my day when my stories find their readers!

Thank you so much for the kind words and shout out @allandyenshapiro.bsky.social ! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

This is such a beautiful story. I'm so thrilled our stories got to share a ToC!

Last year, @calendaroffools.bsky.social published my story, "Life After Life After Life" in their terrific anthology, "Intergalactic Rejects." They're now running a Kickstarter for their new anthology, "Missed Fits" for shorter short stories. I'd love to read it one day.

I love this review blog Emmie’s started. Check it out, as well as these first 14 reviews on work by @rkduncan.bsky.social.

I read an early version of Hotcakes two years ago and I've been dreaming of the day a lucky publisher would give it a home ever since. This story is a reminder of the good we all can do, even (especially) in dark times. It's about hotcakes, yes, but also the human spirit, and it's transcendent.

Just one more week to read my story of action, love, sacrifice, and matriarchal geriatric space whales for free online @calendaroffools.bsky.social ! Check it out below:

Free story time! This one is "Life After Life After Life" by Christopher Blake. This story is about life, legacy, love, and sacrifice. Plus, it's got sentient machines living at the edge of our solar system, so that's pretty cool. Don't miss out. It's only available for free for three weeks 🙂.

Matriarchal Geriatric Space Whales! Action! Heroism! Sacrifice! My short story featuring all these, "Life After Life After Life" published in the @calendaroffools.bsky.social anthology, "Intergalactic Rejects" is available online for three weeks only at calendaroffools.com/stories/life... Go read!

The next issue of @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social , Decay, will be launching tomorrow! Meantime, if you're looking for some soilpunk, my story, "In Every Seed, A Hope" is online here. It's about being a parent in a time of climate crisis and the necessity of hope. www.tractorbeam.earth/story/in-eve...

The September edition of the SFWA monthly Market Report is here! Get the latest updates on markets and opportunities at www.sfwa.org/2025/09/10/s...

If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.

I’ve made an update to this situation. open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

This is a really special story and I'm glad that many more people will have a chance to read it!

It’s fascinating when two great writers use a similar concept to create very different stories. Like @slashnburnett.bsky.social sky.social and @chrisblake.bsky.social’s recent takes on humans-turning-into-plants-to-repair-the-Earth. 🌱🍄🌹🌲🌎 1/4

Yet another reason not to give up on the stories you believe in. My story, "Life After Life After Life" recently appeared in Intergalactic Rejects, from @calendaroffools.bsky.social , an anthology of oft rejected SF stories. This week, it received a review: www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/05/aa-r...

I love kind, hopeful, SF. @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social helped bring my kind, hopeful dragon-veterinarian story, "Living Fossils" to readers, but now DreamForge needs its readers to help bring more positive stories to the world. Check out their kickstarter at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sco...