Since Hugo noms are open here’s my eligible short fiction from 2025!

It’s that time of year! I’m in my second year of Astounding eligibility, and I also published nine eligible short stories in 2025. If you only have time to read one, I hope you’ll consider “Handsomest Gentlest,” a love letter to my very good dog. You can find all nine here: m-r-robinson.com/fiction/

So excited my story "18,000,000 Minutes" is out today in @naturefutures.bsky.social! Check it out!

So excited my story "18,000,000 Minutes" is out today in @naturefutures.bsky.social! Check it out!

Thank you for choosing the Remembrance Machine — we truly value your custom. We not take some time to review your usage? To reconnect with the memories you’ve enjoyed most. Check out your highlights — and remember to remember!! #scifi by Spencer Nitkey www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So psyched to have my first story in @apexmag.bsky.social! “The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood,” is a horror (and very toxic love) story about a remote island where everything is delicious and perfect. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

The “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign is 95% base goal funded (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...). This means we are 81% to SG1 & 71% to SG2. 10 more backers to base goal funding. A little more caffeine in our mugs today and we’ll be there. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

Also, ICYMI, our 2 main 2025 titles on sale as a bundle. Both on the Locus Recommended Reading List. And @thomasha.bsky.social 's UNCERTAIN SONS is a Philip K. Dick Award Nominee, and NYPL 'Best Of' 2025. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

Please preorder my book...it's $13.27, and it's got the taste plants crave: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

If you want to read a book by a pretentious NY stoner about a Hobbesian Leviathan attacking the East Coast and devouring people who have to escape the Flesh Zone and destroy New Atlantis, you can get a copy here for any price and I'll donate any proceeds I make for the next month to mutual aid

I dare say… I think I see… Is that… @calebbethea.bsky.social’s @hexliterary.bsky.social story? FUCK YEAH IT IS!!!!!!! ✨

Hey, weirdos, you're going to want this!

I know issue 12 isn't even out yet—soon—but revel in the glory of the cover and contributors of issue 13 (Summer). Art by James Hutton. Design by Vince Haig. I'll be doing a big pre-order push soon on our 2026 titles to try and secure some much-needed operating funds.

Wooo look at all those FFers on the #BSFAAwards2026 longlist! Congrats @thomasha.bsky.social @lindzmcleod.bsky.social @edashtonwriting.bsky.social @drfionamoore.bsky.social @thesuiway.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social and.... www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

A lot happened this week that is way more important, and this feels like a million years ago, but icymi: (1) Uncertain Sons was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award! (2) If you missed getting a copy, Undertow's running a big sale on some 2025 ebooks, incl. this collection for $3! Just 3 man

Really touched to see my weird horror story "In the Dream, He is Skinless and Beautiful" on this list by a writer whose work I love, surrounded by other stories and writers I love, too! You can check out the story in @undertow.bsky.social's Weird Horror #10 here!

Super honored my story “The Wanting, 2011-2023” has been nominated for Best Small Fictions!!! Thank you @doesithavepockets.bsky.social 🖤🖤 Available free to read here! www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/spen...

I'm no longer a member of any writing orgs, but if you loved someone's work published in 2025 nominate it!

"Avila Beach" spotted! Buzzing to see Z.D. Dochterman's "weird story of severed limbs, creepy government compounds, and teenagers with no future" making this coveted list.

Abstraction with Reference to a Flowering Tree https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/abstraction-with-reference-to-a-flowering-tree-1925

ICYMI. Nominated for the Locus Awards (along with 2 of the stories in it, 'Encore' by @wtalabi.bsky.social & 'Autumn's Red Bird' by @aliettedebodard.com) & the Ignyte Awards

This story rocks—err, rots. Either way give it a read.

Writing: "In the Dream, He is Skinless and Beautiful" by @spencerwriting.bsky.social in Wierd Horror (@undertow.bsky.social). "The Junction" by Alison Moore (@nightjarpress.bsky.social). (3/5)

Happy birthday, Karlo! For any followers looking for a good new read to celebrate... Two Karlo stories I loved this year: - A Line of Ink, Stretching Back Like A Shadow (cold-signal.com/a-line-of-in...) in Cold Signal! - Blanquitos (www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/12/05/b...) in Typebar Magazine!

A quick update: Submissions to RLM will re-open on January 1st at midnight (EST), and our first piece will be published on January 10th! 👀

It's almost the final Friday of 2025. Wild year, bad and good. One personal good: becoming an author. Boxcutters is a collection spanning genres, styles, eras. Oddball lit, weird horror, sci-fi + more. Feast is a novel, a deep sea body horror kaiju adventure in the belly of Hobbes' Leviathan.

What a beautiful description of my story! Thank you @foxesandroses.bsky.social 🌲

A magical and melancholic exploration of grief and hiding inside a skin that might be a bark, until you're changed and ready to be touched by the light. Or perhaps by nothing at all. by @spencerwriting.bsky.social in @undertow.bsky.social

Snow!!

It is once again the season to make a poorly designed but earnest awards eligibility post for some of my fiction published in 2025! (links below).

2026 goals: 1. Obtain a sense of wonder 2. Make people angrier 3. Alphabetize...

Would you like to read a story about Charon (who uses a train now, not a dingy boat now, thank you very much) at the end of the universe, wondering what to do now that there are no more souls left to ferry? Buy this phenomenal anthology and check my story "At the End of Everything" out!

you've been waiting and it's finally HERE!! AFTERLIVES curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social ✨🖤💀 get your ebook here! psychopomp.com/product/afte...

With "Blanquitos" being a late bloomer (pun intended), I can now make my Eligibility Post: If you're reading for awards, please consider these two stories. FYI even if you're not voting for awards, I'd be honored if you read these (links to follow)

Yes indeed - my favorite of which is probably 'Eagle-Eyed' in Eye to the Telescope from @sfpoetry.bsky.social! eyetothetelescope.com/archives/057...

Man is this story so good it hurts. www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...

The first story I wrote in 2025 is also my final story of 2025! "Ornithogonia, or Five Featherings" is the tale of a priestess and the woman she wants desperately not to love, told by a bitter goddess. It's about faith, all-consuming love, and also birds 🐦‍⬛ Out now at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!

It is once again the season to make a poorly designed but earnest awards eligibility post for some of my fiction published in 2025! (links below).

A few other pieces that I was hoping would publish this year - my Jeffrey Ford essay, in particular - but I guess I'll go ahead and call it and say this is my 2025 summary. Go to doomsdayer.wordpress.com and follow some links to some criticism of weird fiction. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.

Hey! Some fun news. "The Sort" (orig. @clarkesworldmagazine.com) was picked up for @wilwheaton.net's podcast. Went live today! Narrated thoughtfully and w/a kind shoutout for SFF mags at the end. And a surprise(!) mention of Uncertain Sons 🙏. Many thanks to Wil and his audio team. What an honor.

Really honored to have my story "Life on Earth" nominated for this year's Pushcart by Phano! "They discover life on Mars the same day the doctors tell us that Willmae is dying. . ." www.phano.co/articles/lif...

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I'm so happy to say that I've got a new story out in @asimovpress.bsky.social today! press.asimov.com/articles/see... It's a hard sci fi exploration of grief. An instructional? A cautionary tale? Something in between? Check it out:

The BSFA long-list is open for nominations. I’d be honoured if you’d consider my work. Thank you.

I'm so happy to say that I've got a new story out in @asimovpress.bsky.social today! press.asimov.com/articles/see... It's a hard sci fi exploration of grief. An instructional? A cautionary tale? Something in between? Check it out:

'Bush Flowers' by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Indigenous Australian painter from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt

Composition No. 142 by Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1943 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137723

New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out. vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020

Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. (“It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.”)