Can you prove you're not a robot? Seems to get harder all the time. Goes well with my short story "CAPTCHA" cosmorama.site/fiction/capt...

Fun and scary foretelling of our future. The MC would enjoy this song glorifying robots that ends with: "It's a pity that those robots are not us": www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-zH...

Huzzah!! 🎉 Wonderful picks on this roll-up!! Including some FFO stories and some FFO authors with stories elsewhere 😊

Some amazing spec fic inspires me to write, some makes me feel they've done it, and I never need to write again. To read/watch anything that makes me feel either of those is a gift. What shows have made you feel this way? Saw Pantheon and it made me feel the latter in the best of ways.

The Fatherland by James Russell Lowell

bsky asking for my bday? Not cool. I'm getting older I get it, you don't have to rub it in!

Winter Fear by Kay Ryan Is it just winter or is this worse. Is this the year when outer damp obscures a deeper curse that spring can't fix, when gears that turn the earth won't shift the view, when clouds won't lift though all the skies go blue. - Here's to hoping it's just winter.

Haiku for the sad state of my phone: Nokia brick phones, you were true perfection. Others never last. I thought the front was bad and then I saw the back. Thoughts and prayers for my phone to make it another year! Pic taken with partner's phone

AVAILABLE TODAY!! Our December 2025 “Menagerie” issue featuring stories from @laurenceklavan.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mattdovey.com @katefrancia.bsky.social Madison Ellingsworth, & Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu #writingcommunity #flashfiction www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

it's that time of the year again! this award season, i want to highlight a story that was very difficult for me to write, but i am glad is out there. you can read or listen to Mavka by following the link below. thank you @yelenacrane.bsky.social for the narration!

Ever had an amazing experience with an editor on an accepted short (or longer) story? Let’s talk about it! For me, the best ones have made me feel like it's a conversation about my story.

Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

If you want an angsty Christmas, check out Titanic Voyage! (I toyed with the idea of doing a December read-along, but I think people are too busy and don't want to have angst. I promise your heart gets mended at the end, though!) #WriteStuff bsky.app/profile/juli...

I've got 38 different holidays right here! Check out Lollipop Celebrates: Deluxe Edition! Available at www.adventuresoflollipop.com or as an e-book from my Ko-fi site www.ko-fi.com/adventuresoflollipop . #writestuff

I suppose I shoudl share something Christmasy... #WriteStuff #SelfPromo

#WriteStuff Here's my web site: trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com

Was duolingo this ridiculous before the AI takeover? To think it can use amazing literature to help improve language learning but chooses to do this. At least I use the free version so am not financially contributing toward this company.

The tetris game but it's redesigned as a fridge where you need to get all the dishes to fit with the groceries. Make different versions for the holidays too.

Know thyself.

Paint me like one of your french boys

Please tell me this is a sign we're out of the bad simulation finally.

Got noms? Below my eligible works for 2025 awards. Comment and I'll hook you up with what's not free Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ton... Museum of Monstrous Curiosities: www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s22... For Love and Country: www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/063/

That feeling when a reviewer really gets your story. Is this what meth is like? sffreviews.com/2025/10/20/r...

The real fantasy in Batman and Iron Man isn’t the tech or the bad guys.

We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

The gift of the internet was also its curse.

Discovered the touching poem "Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49238/.... Pairs well with my HAD short Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...

As a city lover, I appreciate how these poems show the power of cities imprinting on one's body and soul.

It's Black Speculative Fiction month! All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own. 1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a... 2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

Concept art for a story I have coming out soon. This is horrible but see the vision and not the product. I never said I was an artist! Yes, that is meant to be a face (half of it as strings of 1's and 0's) coming out of the chess piece.

A fascinating way to think of numbers (and people by extension). In particular, what it says about the those who like 1 because it means they mirror what they encounter.

Who hasn't had free speech on their mind lately? What would your last word(s) be? Can we join together as a group so our 1 or 5 words can become more.

it's a GOODREADS GIVEAWAY! 🔥 enter before October 10th to win! @erewhonbooks.bsky.social and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social are giving away 100 ARCs of The Iron Garden Sutra 🤯 www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... *US entrants only

Nothing like reading “we’re happy you…” and feeling hope/excitement for 1 ms before the “however, we will not.”

My story "For Love and Country" is out in Luna Station Quarterly: www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/063/ "Survivors carried invisible burdens—the guilt of their survival, what they did to keep it—in their minds and the rest in their lungs. "

Usually I am a stickler for rhyme and meter but I have a short free-verse poem "Meat in the Machine" in this anthology: graveside-press.com/product/gath...

Story Discussion Time: Link to your favorite spec 100-~2,000-word short story by someone else from the past 10ish years. Let's go!

“I miss you more than I remember you.” ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

happy ✨cover✨ day (and some reading material for ya!)

The struggle to write is timeless:

"We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky Incredibly resonant. And o, there are so very many wars.

Note to self: include more Shakespeare in my academic publications:. "Nothing will come from nothing" is baller to use in critiquing the theory of de novo development of ovarian cancer in this oldie but goodie review: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Postmodern Jukebox changes the genre but keeps the lyrics. Is there a band (besides Weird Al) that does the opposite, keeps the genre/beat but changes the words?

Besides the themes and concepts that draw and expand on so many of the great dystopian classics, I really enjoy how @thomasha.bsky.social writes parent-child relationships. Give these two a read. clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_08_24/ clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/

The poem Grass by Carl Sandburg pairs well with my flash "Eyes on History" media.nature.com/original/mag... Maybe sometimes we ought to let the grass rest.

Check out "Eight Legs of the Mother Hunted" by @brandoncase101.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/eigh... exemplifying the sacrifices of mother/parenthood throughout the animal kingdom

#Sinners is outstanding. The music alone makes it worthwhile but it also has important things to say about culture, creativity, assimilation, appropriation, erasure, racism. The choices made in this film should be studied for years to come. Can't wait to read the script.

I am so super excited to be guest editing a FamPunk FFO! Take a break from the big-picture. Casually incorporate science & technology. Embrace quotidian else-when life. Give us alternative families in alternative spaces. Read more (& feel free to ask questions below): ffo.submittable.com/submit

I also have "Feeling Sick" web.archive.org/web/20230203... pubbed a while back, which touches on similar concept as the Black Mirror "Common People" episode. Black mirror, I am available if you're looking for writers ;) #blackmirror

My story "Subscriber's Only" in Monstrous Futures imagined a subscription-based world before Black Mirror's Common People, but what Black Mirror does with it is beyond haunting. A horrifying and painful episode to watch, that feels too close to our future.