Fourth day in Chiang Mai and finally had a bowl of kao soi

Really lovely to see Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine on A.C. Wise's list of favorite story collections of 2025. I'm here with friends @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social, @vanessafogg.bsky.social, and more. It's been a killer year for short fiction.

It's both a thrill & an honor that my short story "Mail-Order Magic" was selected to be part of the @morningtransport.bsky.social Holiday Storyflod this year! Find it linked here along with the other amazing chosen stories: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/smt-2025-h...

So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up. Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.

Icymi (and want to read it), new interview on creativity, empathy, sci-fi, and more

Ah! Appreciate the rec for "In My Country" (short story) and shoutout for "Uncertain Sons" (novelette). See a lot of great stories by @aardwyrm.bsky.social, @angelaliu.bsky.social, @mimulus.bsky.social, @tiatashiro.bsky.social and a ton more I can't tag. Thanks very much.

"A Long Tango Across A Canopy of Whispering Leaves" is now live @podcastle.org #922 (previously published @giganotosaurus.bsky.social). It was narrated by Chang Yiun Yee who also narrated my previous Podcastle story. This is a Cantata of the Fourfold Realms story! podcastle.org/2025/12/16/p...

Friends! @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is 3-months old today. Time flies. Please consider grabbing a copy of this stellar debut. Thanks to all who have bought a copy. Really appreciate it. undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...

Chasing Moonflowers is a 2025 Best of Indie Books in Kirkus Reviews on 12/15/25! "A dazzling blend of fantasy intrigue and historical drama that will haunt readers long after the final page." Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Find here: books2read.com/chasingmoonf... #booksky #gothic #tbr

And that's what AI sacrifices--it produces fully formed things but they don't reflect anything. They're just pixels or words strung together to approximate what we expect to hear And that's not what art is

I’m thrilled and proud to have my story included in the newest issue of khoreo! This is a dream pub for me. I hope you’ll grab a copy and read all the wonderful stories inside 💕 Please check the CWs. Inspired by a tragic Thai spirit, my story of generational trauma was a tough one to write.

I put together a post about some of my favorite short fiction of 2025. acwise.net/favorite-sho...

The title pulled me in and I loved it. Absurdist, weirdly reassuring, unforgettable

Happy to welcome Linda D. Addison to Sheep this week! First up is The Construct’s Co-Emergence in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @nytebird45.bsky.social

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

i do wish more people understood that what makes writing "poetic" has much less to do with the word choice and much more to do with the pacing and structure of sentences and paragraphs. the rhythm of the language is absolutely vital to the feel of the text.

Oh my god, this is incredible and harrowing but then there’s hope and the hint of softness at the end

I finally got around to putting together my own eligibility post for 2025. Here's what I published this year and where you can find it! acwise.net/award-eligib...

Well, before I take off on vacation, here's my 2025 Award Eligibility Thread! First, my short story collection, The House of Illusionists. 17 tales of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, including the original horror story, "Sweetest." www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...

A heartbreaking story of a ghost looking for the cause of her own death aboard a spaceship, a grandmother who could talk to Gods, and a hunger that remembers it is important to always give back. by @renanbernardo.com in @reactorsff.bsky.social

"This is a city of people who continuously shed their skin. I can see piles of it everywhere these days. In pungent lorong-lorong damp from the monsoon." Read 'Moult' by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in our latest issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul... #SFF #Fantasy #Horror #ShortStory

I have two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines, podcasts, and publishers. You can follow all or some from these lists. 1. bsky.app/starter-pack... 2. bsky.app/starter-pack...

Oh, I love this!

Oh hey, it's me. Talking about balancing creativity while caring for a dying parent. 🖤

Such a lovely little collection, of selkies and faerie and beauty and pain in our real world, as well.

"...on nights like this when the moonlight chases a road across the sea... Shrug off the human guise you wear. Under it, the sea still runs close to the surface" From the title poem of @writerjencrow.bsky.social's TAKE UP YOUR SKIN available on her Patreon, here: www.patreon.com/posts/take-u...

Honored to see Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine on @largeheartedboy.bsky.social's roundup of favorite story collections in 2025, alongside great books by @juliaelliott.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, @egreenberg.bsky.social, and more!

i know it's trite but: most science fiction is not trying to predict the future. i keep seeing people stumbling over this. "well, it wouldn't be plausible to have--" okay but maybe the author wasn't trying for "plausible." usually they aren't. what other goals might the author have had?

wow?????!!!???? I did NOT expect this

Sale alert: This month, Stillhouse Press's best sellers are 50% off! Get titles like Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine and @amystuber.com's PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize–winning Sad Grownups for less than ten bucks. Supporting small presses = a guaranteed spot on the nice list, I hear...

So many retellings by me, all in one place! Includes were-mollusks, rampaging pumpkins, and sneaky perfumiers!

"The first time Kittu teleported was into the lavatory of a plane bound for London, fifteen seconds before it crashed in a field south of Gatwick." This story is fully as good as its first sentence suggests.

I loved this series

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.

A new story from Rati!!

did you know that we published a NOTABLE SMALL PRESS BOOK this year??? 👀 it's ONE MESSAGE REMAINS by the AMAZING @premeemohamed.com 🎉🎉🎉 read the list, and get your own copy here ✨ psychopomp.com/one-message-... lithub.com/100-notable-...

@thedeadlands.com got 177 fiction submissions in 24 hours. This is 7.5 years of fiction at the rate we publish. Imagine if every submitter were also a patron—we would be funded. Prices increase in 2026, get the best rate now. www.patreon.com/the_deadlands

So, yes, I'm in LOCUS, reviewing short fiction! 👀 My very first review column is in this issue and I am so FREAKING EXCITED to be part of the Locus team and this magazine!

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

Frustrated about being beset by AI slop in the reading queue and other places over the past few days. I know it's been said a million times before, but I feel like it's always worth saying again: Stories written by you will always be better than stories written by the robot.

ICYMI

I just got my copy of @vanessafogg.bsky.social House of Illusionists but I know this will be awesome

Well @bookshop.org still has free shipping today! Here are some of my favorite books I've read so far this year which would make great reads for you or gifts for a reader in your life! First @joshdenslow.bsky.social Magic Can't Save Us. A delightful and strange story collection

Holiday shopping? Space Horrors, an anthology of science fiction horror stories set in outer space, is on sale for only 99 cents (e-book version) today! I'm in this anthology, alongside some very cool writers!

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

My #SFF curations get more traction, but I'm primarily a nonfiction author. During #nonfictionnovember, I'm spotlighting this output. Starting with #books. This sociocultural guide to deities was a crazy endeavour of telling the stories of 60, I'm delighted with its wide and lasting impact. 1/

"you need to grow up" "adults do not play with toys" etc etc etc

Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!

Did I tell you about my latest story? It's short, on PodCastle, and about choices! Read or listen!