Surreal, lyrical, grotesque, reads like a mattress-thick palimpsest of theatre posters and warning notices melting off a wall in the rain Shades of Burroughs, Ian Sinclair and Dave McKean I maintain it's possible to do psychogeography right, just that most who do shouldn't @hookland.bsky.social

i think that you should read this! many excellent things together, it really works, and the WRITING. my goodness. beautiful prose. very precise.

Hopefully it’s not Breaking the Code to say I read—and pushed for—this story as a first reader at two different pubs and was countermanded at both and am stoked it finally found a home

My very weird story about cottaging, Brighton in the 1960s, numbers stations, Polari, the deep scattering layer, Punch and Judy, and the experience of being profoundly alienated from your own desires, even as you find yourself the object of others’, is up now on @ergot.bsky.social.

Have a weird pride, duckies 🐟

This is what Charley does, when he’s not...alone with his endless numbers. He is Britain’s foremost naturalist of human desires. And where better to conduct his study than in Brighton, 1964 Today on ergot.: 'The Professor of Desire Presents' by @ernerker.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Anne...

If your SFF criticism and analysis being taken seriously and rigorously edited sounds super fun and sexy for you (as it should!!!) then you should absolutely pitch ARB but you should ALSO pitch me at [email protected]. We pay!!

I will be a Fortunate Fall booster till the day I die

Things are going to get very, very weird in here

Everyone loves weird fiction now, weird fiction belongs in short stories, all publishers hereby required to redirect their energies to publishing weird short stories

“Con­fessions of the Little Seer” by Emily Linstrom (Kaleidotrope, Winter '26) is "atmospheric and quietly piercing," writes @mariahaskins.com, and "finds emotional resonance in quiet moments of reflec­tion and redemption..." 👻

Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet

I’m basically nobody, and I signed, so if you’re somebody - you should sign too

Bröther I supped too hard of the king of fruits and have given myself a topical reaction to mango peel

(37/55) Best Semiprozine 🚀 [4 of 6] Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @darthj.uno, @gautambhatia88.bsky.social, @danhartland.bsky.social, @vanessajae.bsky.social, austindewar.com

Uncanny Magazine Issue 69 Part 2 also features essays by Jane Espenson and Ai Jiang; poetry by Marissa Lingen and Thomas Mixon; an interview with Sunwoo Jeong by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Broci’s Kuolonuni as the cover! buff.ly/DFoGFfz

getting some real third act of canticle for lebowitz vibes out of the all of it these days

hahaha yes sickos dot png

My dearest friend, travel into strange lands and see sights stranger still, in @ernerker.bsky.social's fantastical story "The Mixling Mare." kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

Only two more weeks until WHAT WE ARE SEEKING comes out, and B&N is offering 25% off preorders now through Thursday! Use code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/what-we-ar...

Oh I am SO excited for this one

Kaleidotrope opens to fiction and poetry submissions four weeks from today, from April 19 to 25. It's one of only three weeks this year that Kaleidotrope will be open to fiction and poetry submissions. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

I’ve had a genius idea that I am now going to speak into existence: A short story anthology where writers hand off a trunked story to another writer, who then has carte blanche to really get in there, take the thing apart, and put it back together We’ll call it…Lishtomania

I’m biased but I think my weird epistolary gothic novelette about a guy who would probably think Frankenstein was aspirational is pretty good!! kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

🚨🚨Submissions call. 🚨🚨 Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.” Please send in your mycelial pitches to [email protected]. For word-count, formats, and remuneration: strangehorizons.com/submit/non-f...

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

Please consider nominating Kaleidotrope in the annual Pretty Nice Zine You Might Consider Maybe Nominating for Some Kind of Award if There’s Room Left on the Ballot Someday Award!

hey that one’s mine

Hey friends, can I ask you all to give our @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Crowdfundr a look? Any amount helps us with our workspace renovation plans, if you're not able (which I understand!), if you could share the link that would be amazing. Love you all! 🤗🧡 👻📚 crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

well I remember when the Luddites said “let us not smash the stocking frames, let us merely embark on a milquetoast campaign of public education” you absolute weapon

Who wants to come over and supplicate the old gods

We're putting together a mailing list for short fiction reviewers and critics to get review copies of the magazine. So if you're a short fiction reviewer - first off you're doing the lord's work - but also email me at [email protected] and I'll add you to our shiny new reviewers list.

god help me someone asked what i'm looking for in short fiction. how do i say: horror but not like that, questions without answers, short, and fucking weird. the thing that makes good short fiction to me is that the final act of the story is in your head, not on the page

self-promotion breaks me out in hives but if this sounds as good 2 u as it does to me, you may like “the mixling mare” recently published by me in kaleidotrope ! ! !

So good & riveting it may also be for good vibes ppl too 🤓🐴 🔥

Guys you CANNOT miss this impeccably crafted, heartbreaking, freaky weird story. One of my all time favs!

If your approach to the New Year is much more “bad vibes only,” then “The Mixling Mare” is for you!!

Start your year off wrong with my weird, epistolary, gothic novelette about a very slimy anatomist with a centaur fixation

What's this?! A message tossed backward in time, from the far-flung future worlds of literally tomorrow—it's the table of contents from Kaleidotrope's upcoming Winter 2026 issue!

in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Keep your eyes peeled—I have a novelette in this one!

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

When I’m trying to pack my suitcase and my cats climb inside

the most important thing any novel can have, though, is The Worst Woman In the World

Reading for 2025? Here's all BCS stories from 2025, what length category they're in (Short Story, Novelette, etc), links, and links to our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts, so you can read our authors' work in other zines. Thank you for reading! #BCSof2025 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/12/07/2...