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Magazine of speculative fiction from marginalized writers www.iftheresanyoneleft.com
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This week check out "Thread, Pull" by the excellent
@avramargariti.bsky.social
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Thread, Pull — IfTheresAnyone
One day you woke up and you were a giant body in a lilliputian city.
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Rukman Ragas (hiatus)
19 days ago
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took a 5th century Tamil epic poem, gutted it for pieces, and used it to build a sapphic retelling? Never? Read A Song To Rival Gods today to find out
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Read the very poetic "A Song to Rival the Gods" by
@rukman.bsky.social
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A Song to Rival the Gods — IfTheresAnyone
“Tell me how I die,” Mitra asks again as she looks up to the sky. Her calloused hands, worn from years of carrying a blade, are warm in mine, and I lean into it as we watch the stars. The city below i...
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19 days ago
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Check out "Four Soups for a Four Pests Plague" by
@clairejiawen.bsky.social
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Four Soups for a Four Pests Plague — IfTheresAnyone
Sometimes, the seasons change wrong. Winter skips to summer. The fallow molts into the decadent: frost painted over in swathes of green, empty sacs suddenly straining with juices, so much that nectar ...
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R. K. Duncan
27 days ago
Happy labor day. Want some stories about unions and solidarity? Start with my latest, about a wildcat union wake in space from the latest volume of
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Two Songs Before the Airlock Cycles — IfTheresAnyone
We gave Dougherty two songs before we left him to the black, no time for more with sixteen packed into the union hall and sipping unauthorized O2 tapped from the transit bay.
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R. K. Duncan
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This story is built around 2 folksongs: The well known Whiskey in the Jar, and the less popular Parting Glass. I chose that one because it's personal to me. I have sung that song and wept at the passing of my closest friend's mother, and on the farewell evening of
@viableparadise.bsky.social
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R. K. Duncan
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Unions in spaaaace!
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Check out the excellent "Two Songs Before the Airlock Cycles" by
@rkduncan.bsky.social
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Two Songs Before the Airlock Cycles — IfTheresAnyone
We gave Dougherty two songs before we left him to the black, no time for more with sixteen packed into the union hall and sipping unauthorized O2 tapped from the transit bay.
https://www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/stories/rkduncan
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Check out "The Peculiar Host" by
@elizabethtwist.bsky.social
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The Peculiar Host — IfTheresAnyone
At last the pair settled by the fire, the guest well-fed, if strangely so. The lady of the house had ceased her anxious wandering between sooty kitchen and cobwebbed sitting room, and agreed, after so...
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This week: Gardening Manual for Soldiers from
@abhisheksg.bsky.social
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Gardening Manual for Soldiers — IfTheresAnyone
The school has bloomed again. On the razed field, it stands in all its multi-storeyed glory. Out-of-place, yet exactly where it was a dozen times before. The sunrays intensify the crimson hue of its b...
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Sasha Ravitch ☄️
about 2 months ago
incredible
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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦
about 2 months ago
It's a tale of alien visitation AND an educational tool!
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This week from
@drfionamoore.bsky.social
, a bibliography that tells a story:
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"Ancient Remains of Extraterrestrial Origin in County Tyrone, Ireland: A Chronological Bibliography"
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Ancient Remains of Extraterrestrial Origin in County Tyrone, Ireland: A Chronological Bibliography — IfTheresAnyone
Anonymous (1948) Incidence of Rare Cancers in Peat-Cutting Communities in County Tyrone . Report #24. Omagh: Department of Health.
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Shelly Jones (they/them)
2 months ago
I hope this little story sticks to your ribs like oatmeal on a winter morning. So grateful to
@iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social
for publishing it!
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This week's story: "A Banshee’s Field Guide to Keening" by
@shellyjones.bsky.social
Great title, great story
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A Banshee’s Field Guide to Keening — IfTheresAnyone
Ignore the grimacing faces of those who aren’t dying. They shiver and stare, hands clutched in worry; they do not understand. Soon they will welcome the warmth of your cloak, the veil of your silver h...
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2 months ago
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"Goat-God and Lime Slip" is excellent!! Coming soon to our website!
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audris
2 months ago
thank you to ITAL and Jason for giving a home to my Chindo rage story!
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Perfect color matching!!
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Flash Friday: this week--Audris Candra with "You Will Never Have Our Names" from Volume 5!
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You Will Never Have Our Names — IfTheresAnyone
A demon bound to your service bows before you. On your right side sits a bamboo tray laden with offerings: a bunch of ripe bananas, red and white petals of roses and jasmine, and frankincense burning ...
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Where are you going to read your copy? Coffee house? Metro? Comfy chair? A liminal space between here and there, untouched by time and space except the flow of existence dictated by the stories you read?
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2 months ago
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Malda Marlys 🍉
2 months ago
if you like your weird flash fiction on dead trees, all proceeds from the issue go to Palestinian causes!
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Ordered copies for authors today 👀👀 Pick yourself up a copy! Proceeds go to Palestinian causes (100% of proceeds)
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3 months ago
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Hello everyone! Volume 5 print version is now available!!
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Free stories will also release on our website starting this Friday, 1 story per week at 0700 CST!
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If There's Anyone Left: Volume 5
If There's Anyone Left: Volume 5 [Burnham, Jason, Candra, Audris, Jones, Shelly, Moore, Fiona, Sengupta, Abhishek, Twist, Elizabeth, Duncan, R. K., Jia-Wen, Claire, Ragas, Rukman, Margariti, Avra] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. If There's Anyone Left: Volume 5
https://www.amazon.com/If-Theres-Anyone-Left-5/dp/B0FHBJB9FW
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Submissions for Volume 6 are open! Few things Going On in the/our worlds, so going to be a bit slower to respond than we usually are. We'll update as we catch up. Thanks for your patience! Volume 5 still working toward print version. Tornadoes derailed that a bit
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R. K. Duncan
4 months ago
Read about a wake for a union man in space, and if you want more of the same energy, consider listening to this album I've only recently discovered and am enjoying immensely.
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Abhishek Sengupta
4 months ago
My flash piece "Gardening Manual for Soldiers" appears in this issue alongside other spectacular stories by exceptionally talented writers. Grab a copy! All proceeds go to Palestinian causes. It makes the theme of my story all the more relevant. My heartfelt thanks to the editors!!
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Shelly Jones (they/them)
5 months ago
Excited to have my flash "A Banshee's Guide to Keening" in this wonderful volume!
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Marissa Lingen
5 months ago
New story out in ebook form today! "The Things You Know, The Things You Trust" is in ITALv5! If you prefer a print version, stay tuned....
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Fusion Fragment
5 months ago
Contains FFers
@drfionamoore.bsky.social
@abhisheksg.bsky.social
@avramargariti.bsky.social
@noirbettie.bsky.social
@czwrites.bsky.social
and
@aardwyrm.bsky.social
! Co-edited by FFer
@moparandgalen.bsky.social
! And best of all, proceeds go to Palestinian causes, so go grab a copy!
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Cynthia Zhang should be writing!
5 months ago
I’ve got a flash piece in this one, with all proceeds going to Palestinian causes!
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R. K. Duncan
5 months ago
Anyway, buy the new volume of
@iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social
and read my story about a space-union wake.
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All proceeds from Volume 5 will be donated to Palestinian causes!
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5 months ago
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Rukman Ragas (hiatus)
5 months ago
what a stacked TOC and very excited to be sharing it with some great friends
@noirbettie.bsky.social
@clairejiawen.bsky.social
@audriserat.bsky.social
among others
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Annika Barranti Klein
5 months ago
you can now read my taco bell grief story in ebook format! coming soon to print and also i believe to the website at some point. and there’s a lot of excellent stories in here that i didn’t write, too!
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AJ Van Belle/Alexandra Vivelo
5 months ago
I'm in the new ITAL volume yo, and my story is weird dystopian psychosocial either-delusional-or-psychic horror with a hint of survival (or not) 😈 You can go get the ebook now OR my story goes live to read online in a few weeks
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R. K. Duncan
5 months ago
Includes me!
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Malda Marlys 🍉
5 months ago
to finally find out what this mammoth situation is about, read "Girl With No People" for a climate collapse of another kind
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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦
5 months ago
Buy this book and get, among other things, my educational flash fiction “Ancient Remains of Extraterrestrial Origin in County Tyrone, Ireland: A Chronological Bibliography.”
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Volume 5 ebook is here!!
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If There's Anyone Left: Volume 5
If There's Anyone Left: Volume 5 - Kindle edition by Burnham, Jason, Candra, Audris, Jones, Shelly, Moore, Fiona, Sengupta, Abhishek, Twist, Elizabeth, Duncan, R. K. , Jia-Wen, Claire, Ragas, Rukman, Margariti, Avra. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading If There's Anyone Left: Volume 5.
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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦
5 months ago
Teasing this— there’s a story with a very big title by me in there…
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This wonderful Volume, edited by
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social
has incredible stories, by incredible authors. Full TOC soon when ebook goes live! (Tomorrow hopefully!)
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Read #AfricanSFF!🫵🏾
5 months ago
A woman ventures into the Bush of the Dead to bring back her dead daughter, 5-year-old Ramatou. Soul-crushing flash fic by
@mdmoustaf.bsky.social
in
@iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social
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The Bush Took Them All — IfTheresAnyone
By Moustapha Mbacké Diop Puffs of smoke numbed my senses as I delivered myself to the Bush. They said this place was worse than death, and they weren’t wrong.
https://www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/stories/moustaphambackediop
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Ioanna
5 months ago
So excited to be part of this beautiful thing!
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Volume 5 ebook coming soon!!
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Liz J. Bradley🌠
6 months ago
🤩🤩🤩 thrilled to have my Icy little flash fiction in this (but no mammoths in mine- can’t wait to read that one!)
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Malda Marlys 🍉
6 months ago
wow I wonder who's the paleofantasy weirdo responsible for the story this is illustrating? (wink) (I never really learned how emojis work pretend I used one) (it's me I wrote it look at the mammoth!)
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Annika Barranti Klein
6 months ago
i’ve got a story coming up in this glorious pub! really excited to share it. 1000 words of grief at taco bell. (have i said too much?)
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