When the monster rises, do you reach for the harpoon or the baby bottle? Catherine Tavares' "Hunter Mother Sailor Wife" is an exciting maritime adventure (and existential crisis!). It's got: 👩‍👧⚔️ Mother vs. Kraken 🌑🌊 Dark Fantasy 👶🐙 Toddlers and tentacles

Gather 'round and hear the tale of The Apogee! It soars through the skies, but no one's quite sure how... "The Furthest Point" by Alethea Paul is a thrilling flash piece with ✨ Aero-Nautical Fantasy 🎶 A rugged flautist cap'n 🌩️ Rough skies ahead

Great news! You can totally trust a Fox Spirit! (Not necessarily accurate.) Melissa Ren's stunning "A Húlíjīng Always Keeps One Tail Hidden" has got... ✨ Dark Fantasy Suspense 🏮 Chinese Folklore ⚠️ Dangerous Bargains 🦊 Definitely trustworthy foxes

I made a frutiger aero soft soap themed xenomorph...

Grab your heart medication. "What a Name Does Is Let You Leave" by Meagan Kane has got: 🤖robot + human romance 🌋the sulfur-spitting volcanoes of Io ❤️Jovian appreciation 🛰️Unauthorized spacewalks 🧠an AI prison warden 🌑a planetary prisonbreak

In this haunting Nebula nominee, a battle-scarred interplanetary exorcist hunts ghosts across hostile world until one possession exposes a secret powerful enough to erase the rules that keep the dead contained.

Hola todos! Abigail Guerrero's warning "This is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix" is a devilish thrill. 😁 a badass school-age girl MC 🩸 a great-great-grandma who won't die 🌳 a spine-chilling family history 🍎 con manzanas www.adventitious.net/stories/magi...

Now you know the stakes.

Okay so I never thought that a novelette with a car would leave me with tears in my eyes by the end but here we are. 🙏

"Jesse forgets himself and hugs her tight, then quickly lets her go. Allie laughs." Love P.A. Cornell's "The Soundtrack of My Afterlife." Perfect if you want: 📷 A cool MC 🚘 Reincarnation with 140 horsepower ⏳ A strange coming-of-age 🧰 Care and maintenance

I say! "Recording of Professor Elizabeth Boucher’s Opening Lecture on Death Ages Novels, University of Presque Isle, March 32, 2667." by Stacie Turner is 👩‍🎓Lofty academic research 📖about major surviving works of the 21st century 🧛(like 'Bella Swan Pegs Satan')

I went to read a different post in @adamcairnspoet.bsky.social's Substack this morning, after @victoriaspires.bsky.social said it made her want to revisit everything she's written. That post was indeed a thought-provoking read. But THIS one, sitting half a scroll below it, is what made me subscribe.

I know submitting in a short submission window is frustrating, but I've gotta lower the cap back down to 200 for the June 1 submission window. www.adventitious.net/submission-g...

"The third week of a planetary exorcism is the hardest..." Blown away by this novella (no wonder it snagged a Nebula nom)! Aimee Ogden's What Any Dead Thing Wants has... 🪐Interplanetary exorcists 🫀Non-metaphorical hunger 🫁Quiet horror ☠️ The sin of complicity

Need a quick dose of wonder? "Teapot" by Ben Williams is a fantastic, irreverent flash-ambassador for surprise and magic, featuring: 📜 Bureaucracy vs The Un-understandable 🤍 Human awe and curiosity 🫖Epic antiques with cosmic weight

Horrible news.

I love a story about the misinterpretation of artifacts from the past. Or, err, text Good one from Stacie Turner in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social www.adventitious.net/stories/prof...

Tired of the present. Ready for the future.

Finished TR-49. (on @deborahldavitt.com's recommendation) WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW. A+++ game. Anyone else play?

Me and the crew rolling up to your book release party

HUG A GOBLIN!

Making a few changes. Primarily, we're listing the annual subscription as $30/year instead of $5/every other month for simplicity's sake. (This won't affect current subscribers who will still be billed at the other rate.) www.adventitious.net/product/adve...

After all, don't we all have the kind of walking that made benches become men?

Over the course of the next four years, HarperVoyager will publish the four giant volumes of The Bird That Drinks Tears saga, also known as the LOTR of Korea, beginning with The Heart of the Nhaga next month. This is the first available excerpt in English.

Oh hey! I’m teaching an online pop-up class again! Sharpening Your Words: Sunday, June 7 from 1pm - 4pm eastern. We’ll work on making your words work harder & more precisely, using a series of generative practices. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sharpening...

Me pulling up to your book release party

All Of My Tomorrows by @ldcolter.com isn't easy to condense into an ad, so I'll just say my throat dropped into my stomach multiple times while reading. It's about a woman who gave up photojournalism after a haunting choice + the emergency that makes her reach for her camera again. And a lot more.

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Poetry:

@thxnywy.art made that cover specifically to match with your LEGOs. Looks great!

issue 42 is fully out in the world and we know you need it because we do the gorgeous work getting us through helping us carry on yours to read 🖤 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

How dost thou do, fellow youthes?

1492. Columbus has failed. A Valencian ship's master won't. But sailing through the Pillars of Hercules—the gateway to the fae realm—comes with a price higher than what's in the hold.

In this and every alternative reality:

Poetry:

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The new Bond should be

Me when I don't shave for a few days and also need a haircut.

Poetry:

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell The Brothers K by David James Duncan Lamb by Christopher Moore

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

Sent review copies of Issue Three clanking and steaming out into the world today. Always a nice little jolt of nerves and happy stress. I'm truly excited about what we're building, and it's encouragingly weird to see three whole issues of the magazine in existence ex nihilo. Writers make it happen.

For a Saturday short on hope, so you have to forge your own: "What a Name Does Is Let You Leave" by @spocksbrain.bsky.social. A radiation-blasted prison orbiting Io. An unfeeling AI warden. A three-legged synthetic ready to escape with the human he loves. www.adventitious.net/stories/what...

A stunning emotional smart tale of ghosts and family secrets awaits in The Girl With A Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean - you needs this www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/5/...

THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT opens September 15th from @titanbooks.bsky.social 📽️😈 Only four months until we go to the movies and never come back ... www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-movie...

For the morning crowd: FOR SALE: A HISTORICAL GEM PRICED TO MOVE! A Rare Ambulatory Freehold Opportunity! (Price Upon Qualification) Viewings By Happenstance Only www.patreon.com/posts/storie...

trying to write fantasy will have you reading things like the wikipedia page for 'money'

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

My publishing philosophy? Inventive and challenging stories? Gorgeous and unexpected prose? Delightfully strange work? Humaneness and heart? Sure, but it's mostly trying to break SEO with longer and longer titles.