I'm so excited to talk shop at Electric Sheep tomorrow!

"Frank thought all the battle-drones had been deactivated. Certainly, none of them had ever looked around with curious little twitches of their front-facing cameras before." 💜 @erincairns.bsky.social in @escapepod.org

"The civilians were dancing on the train again, stomping their feet to the heartbeat of the engine." Eager to talk about "A Smokeless and Scorching Fire" by @erincairns.bsky.social - originally pub in Writers of the Future: Volume 34 & republished at @inkfoundry.bsky.social !

This week's guest is Erin Cairns! We'll read several of Erin's stories and geek out about InkFoundry! InkFoundry is a phenomenal spec fic aggregator with a robust tagging system. It's easy to find whatever you want to read! @erincairns.bsky.social

It me! I'm really excited to visit Electric Sheep and talk writing, reading, and all things stories!!!

"When we first met, I was a woman and she was a child, and the carnival was winding its way through one of those dusty states where everyone looks weary..." Gorgeous work from @madpelletier.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social!

Thrilled to have a story up at Uncharted. It's got Crow. It's got Death. It's got carnival folk. Go on. You know you want to read it.

Important news for fans of Apex Books @apexmag.bsky.social. In short, Apex was screwed by the bankruptcy of the parent of Diamond Book Distributors, who placed their books in retail stores. This hits my fiction hard. Please read and share this thread. 1/ www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

Looking for more fantastic fiction from Jason Sanford? Here's a great list of stories to pick from! @jasonsanford.bsky.social

Looking forward to hearing about Genre Grapevine! Jason's reporting and essays provide tremendous genre insight - if you're not already a Grapevine reader, check it out! @jasonsanford.bsky.social www.patreon.com/c/jasonsanfo...

This week’s guest is Jason Sanford! We’re starting with The Eight-Thousanders! Read along with us! @jasonsanford.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social

"He’s looking down at the withered garlic in his hand, and it’s coiling around his thumb. He’s listening to it breathe, that little soft up and down, a pulse in his hands." So much tension in this story! 😯 @thomasha.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com

Cat's out of the bag, Space Unicorns! Uncanny’s Michael Damian Thomas and Lynne M. Thomas are the Content Editors of It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton!!! www.vitalthrills.com/its-storytim...

Had a fantastic chat with the folks of @electricsheepsf.bsky.social about horror and dark fantasy writing -- it was a great way to start my day! (If only I hadn't read the news afterward ...)

Today is our birthday! Electric Sheep has been hosting guest authors, craft discussions, and readings for 4 years! We've had more than 100 guest authors & editors, and we've read & shared almost 1000 spec short stories & articles. Thanks to everyone who has visited & supported us!

Such a fun discussion today with F.E. Choe! She is an amazing writer! If you're interested in more of her work, check out her website!

Guest Editors: Rhonda Schlumpberger, Intrepidus Ink EIC @intrepidusink.bsky.social Wendy N. Wagner, Nightmare EIC @wnwagner.bsky.social @nightmare-magazine.com 2/3

If you've ever found yourself thinking, "Wow, Radon authors sure are cool people. I'd love to follow them." Well do we have something for you today: A Radon Journal Author Starter Pack, with all Radon authors past and present who are on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/F6PjTVf

How can we not brag when a member of Electric Sheep is a finalist for the Philip K. Dick award?? Huge congrats to @taracampbell.bsky.social & @sfwp.bsky.social for CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES!

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Thrilled to welcome @chriscampbell.bsky.social this week! First up is “Fatal Conditions.” Find “Fatal Conditions” in: FIYAH #18 NightLight Horror Fiction Podcast The Tentaculum Issue 3 Read along with us! Links ⬇️ #sffh

Announcing our Winter 2025 Lineup! We hope you’ll read along with us! Featured Authors: Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.bsky.social F.E. Choe Yaroslav Barsukov @barsukov.com Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social Premee Mohammad @premeemohamed.com 1/3

"Genetic molecular structures were designed in haste to sub-atomically dismantle toxins, dioxins, heavy metals, plastics, silica, and general waste." Option One - An elegant & satisfying poem by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social in @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social - check it out! #sffh #poetry

*deep sigh* Anyway, I did my round-up post of award-eligible work for the year! Nothing much, just one novel, three novellas, one novelette, and seven short stories, ha ha, I am going to go lie down now premeemohamed.com/eligibility-...

Sharing again! Welcome new friends! This starter pack includes folks who provide: *News *Reviews *Recommendations *Commentary for short speculative fiction! If you provide these things, I'm happy to add you to the list! (Will also remove you if you don't want to be included!)

Wole Talabi’s Nebula-nominated novelette reeled us in with the title—“A Dream of Electric Mothers”—and kept us spellbound with the prose! First published in the Africa Risen anthology, reprinted at Reactor @wtalabi.bsky.social @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/a-dream-of-e...

This week we’re reading stories by Wole Talabi! First up is “Comments on Your Provisional Patent Application for an Eternal Spirit Core” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com! Read along with us! @wtalabi.bsky.social #sffh #shortfiction

Hello new followers! :) I am Eugenia Triantafyllou a Greek writer who has a soft spot for dark stuff but occasionally strays towards sff. My fiction has won the Shirley Jackson Award and have been nominated for the Ignyte, Nebula, Locus and World Fantasy Awards.

Anyway, happy Friday! I have hours of work to do before going out with friends which I haven't done for like... months here?? I don't know. Today might be a good day to buy THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST, a story about... having... a nice day out with animal friends! 🦊🦄🍎🌲

Good morning Bluesky. Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer. go.bsky.app/KDY26rh

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

Starter packs I'm in that you might enjoy others: go.bsky.app/2242ye1

ICYMI - phenomenal story by @thesuiway.bsky.social!

“The Guild of Interstellar Transport and Navigation has never explicitly stated that navigators don’t make mistakes, but it’s one of those adages that everyone knows and never says out loud.” @thesuiway.bsky.social in Soft Star Magazine!

The tension in this story is electric. Read along with us! AD Sui in @augursociety.bsky.social

"Nearly ten years after Inez Kato sustained a career-ending injury during a military exercise gone awry, she lies, cheats, and seduces her way to the very top, to destroy the fleet that..." Excited to talk with @thesuiway.bsky.social about The Dragonfly Gambit! @neonhemlock.bsky.social

we gonna be chatting Dragonfly, and some short stories! all tomorrow morning ✨👀✨

This week we’re reading work by phenomenal writer A.D. Sui! Read along with us! First up is “The Case of the Worm at the Silent Disco” in Shortwave Magazine! @thesuiway.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social # sffh # shortfiction

Weird shoe, no. 367 In a world that makes no sense, art.

Sharing again for all the new folks! Welcome! This starter pack is a list of people & publications that provide speculative fiction news, reviews, recommendations, & commentary. I'm happy to add you to the list if you provide these services!

Sharing again for the new crowd: this is a list of sources for speculative short story NEWS, RECS, REVIEWS, & COMMENTARY. If you or your pub PROVIDE these services, I'm happy to add you to the list!

New Micro Q&A with fantastic author @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social! #sffh

This week we’re reading work by Rachael K Jones! First up is her masterful flash, “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” in @lightspeedmagazine.com! Read along with us! @rachaelkjones.bsky.social #sffh #shortfiction #flashfiction

"You couldn’t count on meat. It lulled you with its warmth, the soft give of skin, the tug of muscle, the neurotransmitter snow fluttering down from neurons to her cyborg logic center." Absolutely loved this! @rachaelkjones.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com #sffh #shortfiction

"Your unicorn first finds you when you run away from home.” Isn’t this the dream? Part of @rachaelkjones.bsky.social Week! #sffh #shortfiction

oh neato. did you read "cretins" in Weird Horror Magazine 7 @undertow.bsky.social and have thoughts? it's up for a short fic book club discussion on reddit tomorrow. says all are welcome. share, enjoy, rag on me (i won't lurk and cry, promise). www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/cretins

Thrilled to find out over this 🍁Thanksgiving weekend that I'm the winner of the Mary W. Shelley Scholarship from the Horror Writers Association. I am incredibly grateful for this honour!

This week we're studying works by @danaiwrites.bsky.social and we couldn't be more excited! First up is "Bride of the Gulf" in @khoreo.bsky.social! Read along with us! #sffh #flashfiction #shortfiction

And this little angry story is now getting reprinted in the Medusa anthology by Flame Tree Press, out in October 🧡