Story #7 in FF#26: "Mrs. No Face" by @eggandcressida.bsky.social If you need a story with: -Evil colonizer husbands -Sentient (?) gothic estates -Wives in the attic Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

Baffling will open for submissions on December 1st! More info here: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions

reposting, as “singularities” made @reactorsff.bsky.social’s must-reads of october list!!

just received the formiest form R on a 344-day submission which is definitely a record 🙃

Short SFFH reading recommendations for you! Includes recent work by FFers @eggandcressida.bsky.social and @andtatcat.bsky.social!

Some great selections here! Of course, proud to share "Affinity Gradient" by Miah O'Malley. But also loved reading "Singularities" by Cressida Roe (at Kaleidotrope) and "Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares (at Apex).

Very grateful to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for picking my multiverse love story “Singularities” as one of this month’s must-reads! That little piece had such a long and hard road to being out in the world, and I’m so delighted by all the love it’s received. Go check out the full list here!

“Singularities” by @eggandcressida.bsky.social (Autumn ‘25) “is a story about stories. It’s also a clever use of the multiverse trope.” 😀

Very grateful to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for picking my multiverse love story “Singularities” as one of this month’s must-reads! That little piece had such a long and hard road to being out in the world, and I’m so delighted by all the love it’s received. Go check out the full list here!

a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much

it’s as random as the storytelling itself to me 😭 “Singularities” and “Mrs. No Face” came with their plots, “Nothing Bright” was from a line because I wanted something to match the prose style, “The Godhood of Ima Day” and “Belladonna” were arbitrarily chosen last minute and tbh I like those least

2025 awards eligibility post - take two! I have two short stories out this year, and I would be so grateful if you kept them (and me) in mind during awards season! Links threaded below - thanks for reading!

most gorgeous cover art ever!!! evelyne is absolutely an artist to watch, and make sure to check out the the new @fusionfragment.bsky.social issue (to learn whats up with all those wonderfully painted eyes 👀)!!

✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨ Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...

Big shout out to Erin Cairns @erincairns.bsky.social . If you love short stories (or don't yet know you love short stories) you should check out her Ink Foundry, a tagged search site for short fiction! It is really neat! inkfoundry.net

It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!! I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜

i’ve always been obsessed by the ambiguity of the “st.” in this title. i’ve always read it as “saint“ because of my religious-studies-wired brain, but it’s this kind of layering that makes ha’s stories so consistently intriguing beyond their enjoyability as futuristic tales

2025 awards eligibility post - take two! I have two short stories out this year, and I would be so grateful if you kept them (and me) in mind during awards season! Links threaded below - thanks for reading!

Convincing you to read my zine by sharing all of the stories’ first sentences kaleidotrope.net

Did you know that FF is on Instagram? Trying to get more active there as I attempt to hedge my bets against inevitable future platform death by actually being present on more than one service. You could be follower #500! www.instagram.com/fusionfragme...

Eeee, it’s Nov 3! Happy book birthday to me! 📖🍰

my weird biracial love letter to the gothic genre, "mrs. no face" in @fusionfragment.bsky.social. this was the first time i did the whole "write the story you wished you had as a kid" thing, and now i get why people say to do it. it's the good scary! www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

Thank you so much for sharing, Adria!!

We are delighted to reveal the cover for @isabel.kim's debut novel Sublimation, a story of immigration, identity, and paradox from the author of "Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole"

Thank you so much for sharing, Adria!!

Check out the latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social! Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart. And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover! www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

the issue is out! check out all these fantastic stories, including my post colonial take on the bluebeard fairytale, a backhand tribute to my favorite problematic genre of gothic ”romance”

House "settling" noises are the sound of slow and constant inexorable decay but nobody wants to hear that.

"Psst, hey kid, ya wanna get sad?"

the issue is out! check out all these fantastic stories, including my post colonial take on the bluebeard fairytale, a backhand tribute to my favorite problematic genre of gothic ”romance”

excited to see my story out in the world! um...this one sure is a Sui story. enjoy! and i'm sorry!

🎊🎊🎊🎊YOOOOOO IT'S HERE🎊🎊🎊🎊 🪐🪐🪐FUSION FRAGMENT #26 AND SAROS #4 🪐🪐🪐 My latest story is in FF#26 BUT so are incredible stories from lots of other wonderful people, please check them out! If you read mine you get to read 5k words of an ultrarunner hallucinating his way across Mars It's a "fun" time

FF#26 and Saros #4 have arrived! Get your copies for free (or toss us a few bucks!) all in one handy download at fusionfragment.com/issue-26 Or head downthread for more info on the great stories in these two issues!

Two more sleeps until the new issue of @fusionfragment.bsky.social drops, including my Gothic horror tale, “Mrs. No Face” (just in time for Halloween!) 🪞(un)dead wives 🇯🇵 biracial rep 🗝️ modern Bluebeard retelling 👯‍♀️ power of sisterhood

Two more sleeps until the new issue of @fusionfragment.bsky.social drops, including my Gothic horror tale, “Mrs. No Face” (just in time for Halloween!) 🪞(un)dead wives 🇯🇵 biracial rep 🗝️ modern Bluebeard retelling 👯‍♀️ power of sisterhood

>:3c SUBLIMATION is now up on edelweiss and netgalley for early reads sooooooooooo if you've been fiending for an arc of Sublimation Now Is The Time

working my way through the @catvalente.bsky.social backlist & wishing i knew about her books as they came out! would really have inspired me to write weird lush unapologetic prose sooner. DEATHLESS has gone right back into the reread pile & i long for a funky 00s-style adaptation of SPACE OPERA

Hello everyone. Talented artist, reviewer, and beloved member of our community Archita Mittra is going through some really hard times currently. If you can spare a few $ it would make a world of difference ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-archi...

“Singularities,” aka, 5 Times Tam Lin Tried to Become His Own Man (+ 1 Time He Succeeded)

if you're appalled by the presence of unsettling eroticism in your gothic media I have terrible news for your about The Definitional Gothic

FFer Read of the Day: "The Fifth Horseman" by @eggandcressida.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

icymi, the new issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social dropped a week ago with my experimental tam lin-inspired love story!

There are so many amazing stories and poems in the new Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope!

RELEASE DATE: What's better than a new issue from FF? Two issues on the same day! In our first-ever dual launch day, you'll be able to get FF#26 and Saros #4 in one handy download package. Get excited for Monday, October 27th!

may i offer you a sadly hopefully romantic multiverse story to y’all in these trying times? kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

absolute highlight of the whole season’s recording for me was the slow dawning realisation that time city can be read as an omelas riff. what if narnia was omelas and doctor who was there.

Contract signed! I’m thrilled and bewildered and generally over the moon that I’ll have a story in the January issue, edited by @aijiang.bsky.social, of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! Can‘t wait to share more (also can’t believe this means my work was read and liked by THE Ai Jiang!!)