My story "His Soul Lives in the Air" is live on MetaStellar! I originally wrote this for a Writing Battle competition back in January. read it: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas... & my blog post: www.scmills-books.com/blog/open-vein Thank you @metastellar.bsky.social & @writingbattle.bsky.social!

Excited to share my piece for Augur's micro fiction contest! @augursociety.bsky.social l #AugurMicros2025

Super excited to have a story out in this anthology!

Do you need a rundown of the SFF books out this week? Because I have TEN new books to ft! Incl 🏳️‍🌈 📚 queer witches and book nerdery by @charliejane.bsky.social! ☠️ 🐍 poison via the scientific method with @tkingfisher.com! 📖 🚀 librarians in starships, coming from @tychebooks.bsky.social!

Check out this awesome fantasy mystery story by S.C!

Beware of harvesting your fields on a hot day. Lady Midday will emerge from whirling dust clouds in the form of an old hag, a lovely woman, or a young girl, carrying a scythe. If you can't answer her riddles, she'll kill you by beheading or heat stroke. #FolkyFriday

🚀 TWO of my stories made it into the Afrofuturism Short Stories anthology 🥹 co-edited by Isis Asare! With foreword by @nisishawl.bsky.social. Out October 2025✨ #Blacksky #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #ShortStory #Blacksky #Afrofuturism #Anthology

So excited to have a story in this upcoming anthology from @tychebooks.bsky.social !!

Ready to test my writing skills in the Twisted Teams challenge "Twisted Teams 1"! Looking forward to the creative prompts and team collaboration. Any other writers joining me? twistedtournament.com/homepageteams #TwistInTaleContest #writingcontest

Slightly belated, but so happy to have a story out in the lovely Howl Anthology from Graveside press. Available from a range of places: graveside-press.com/product/howl/

I have a story out in this one! All proceeds go to Scares that Care.

Just won Writing Battle!!! So excited and touched by all the lovely feedback 💜

A beautiful story!

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “In the Slipstream” by @sarlynh.bsky.social is now up! Art by @keelyhoneywell.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/01/13/i...

Congrats @cuylermeade.bsky.social !!

A second little story out at Hawthorn & Ash ironfaeriepublishing.com/2025/01/27/h...

Little flash piece out with Hawthorn & Ash ironfaeriepublishing.com/2025/01/16/h...

My short story “Svalka” is out in the beautiful Other Anthology from Bannister Press bannisterpress.com/other-anthol...

My friend made this I feel so seen

The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th” When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

Could tonight be the night?

Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

Today, I translated four poems by Sophia Parnok, an out, horny Russian lesbian poet who lived and loved through a revolution, a civil war, and the rise of a repressive dictator. In style. buttondown.com/theswordandt...

The arms of an octopus used by a reader/owner of this manuscript to mark parts they thought were important or of interest - 2nd half of the 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085

I don’t believe there is enough fanart of Strega Nona actually

No koalas spotted yet but there are some excellent trees

Cute shrooms I saw today

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If a book kinda matches my nails, then I have to buy it right?

New story day! I'm pleased to present my @clarkesworldmagazine.com debut! This story began as a spinoff of my PhD dissertation, right when I started to veer toward translation studies. It's been very hard to balance my academic & creative sides, but here, I felt for the first time like I did it. 🥹

Today's library haul

Don't love it, but just made this mood board about the short story I'm writing, instead of writing said short story

Tone shift anyone? 😅 Yesterday we released our November 2024 RURAL FANTASY issue, helmed by author and FFO assistant editor Jason A. Bartles @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social 🎉👏🎉👏 GET YOUR COPY TODAY: www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas... #fantasy #writingcommunity #flashfiction #ruralfantasy

My flash fiction story about a bird spirit is out in FFO's Rural Fantasy issue! www.flashfictiononline.com/issues/novem...

Spooky season vibes 👻