y'all! i'm just finding out that "All Her Rows of Teeth" (published in @3lobedmag.com) was on the recommended list for Year's Best Horror 17! i think this is a first for me but also i might be wrong. on this list of K's with @horrorsong.blog and @emelkrishnan.bsky.social screaming externally

Day 5! I read Ichthyosis by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social published in @fantasymagazine.bsky.social I wanted speculative and queer when I started this challenge, and I got it, beautifully and viscerally, with this story. Read my full review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/s...

the final story of our final issue of Fantasy Magazine went up as free-to-read, Ichthyosis, and it's seriously SO GOOD - do yourself a favor: if you want to read something beautiful and startling, put your eyes on this. there's lots of great fiction and poetry on the site! please enjoy! : )

It's very rare you get to read something so astonishingly beautiful. I'm in tears. Thank you @emelkrishnan.bsky.social 💙

This absolute queer spec fic banger by the most banging queer spec fic writer I know, @emelkrishnan.bsky.social how does she do it? 🔥🔥🔥🌊🌊🌊 psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

“Ichthyosis” is live on @fantasymagazine.bsky.social and free to read! I will forever love Fantasy Magazine for giving my story such a gorgeous home. If you’re in the mood for animal transformations, a horror of the body & home, a sea and an unmooring, then this is the story for you. 💙

This is a gorgeous story of transformation, of homecoming, and of choosing to be open about who you truly are to those who love you. Viscerally beautiful descriptions of body horror and delicious food are always a plus. 😍 By @emelkrishnan.bsky.social in @fantasymagazine.bsky.social

what a story to go out on!! we are so grateful to all of you for reading for sending in your stories and poems and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈

“Ichthyosis” is live on @fantasymagazine.bsky.social and free to read! I will forever love Fantasy Magazine for giving my story such a gorgeous home. If you’re in the mood for animal transformations, a horror of the body & home, a sea and an unmooring, then this is the story for you. 💙

lol, nope

This is *fantastic*

FIRST PICTURE OF MY BOOK IN THE WILD!!!! So apt that it’s from my writing mum @amymarques.bsky.social! Link to buy: jakethemag.com/books/ Zoom launch Sat Dec 13 3pm EST, all welcome! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

-11 F, with wind chill. I can't do this. 🥲

Hedda is so good. It's so good that it's quickly become one of my favorite films of the year.

ICYMI, my gothic, dark academia story about a crumbling educational institution, forbidden queer romance, and a snake, went live on The Dark today: www.thedarkmagazine.com/measurements...

ICYMI, my gothic, dark academia story about a crumbling educational institution, forbidden queer romance, and a snake, went live on The Dark today: www.thedarkmagazine.com/measurements...

This story slides off your skin like a snake looking for the right opening to conquer your mind forever. As always Megha writes stunning, sensual prose and a biting critique of the system.

"Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation," an absolutely amazing story about having an affair with your professor who might be a Naga, is finally available for free online. fucking love this story. everyone should read it. www.thedarkmagazine.com/measurements...

It’s new (old) story day! "Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation” is now free to read on The Dark! Originally published in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's Crawling Moon anthology, this is an obsessive story about parallel loves, a snake, crumbling colleges, and large bodies of water.

Want to know when the issue 99 stories and poems and interviews are dropping? Here they are!! Starting this Fantasy Friday ✨✨✨ psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

As a writer: "oh, that's a neat hobby! What other hobbies do you have?" As a communications professional: "oh, so you just sit and post on socials all day?"

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

Yeah this crap, plus the nonsense with Del Monte Green Beans cans filled with corn or beets instead (!) and Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce cans filled with water, yes water (!!!), we’re back in Upton Sinclair territory folks.

I hope everyone's ready for a strange fish story, because I sure am

I hope everyone's ready for a strange fish story, because I sure am

Look at this stunning cover! 😱

Went on a little gothic mental health walk after dark, when suddenly, this orange furball darts in front of me, demanding pets. Who am I to refuse? After he got the requisite amount of affection from me, he went on his way. 🐱🧡

I have a story coming out this December in Issue 99 of @fantasymagazine.bsky.social, and it’s all the more bittersweet knowing that this beautiful magazine is going on hiatus after that. Please support the independent magazines and presses that you love, however you can. This is the only way.

Seeing all these eligibility posts while I have a story coming out in December has me feeling like...

Seeing all these eligibility posts while I have a story coming out in December has me feeling like...

New story day! My twisted fairy tale, “Head of the Household,” is in the winter issue of F(r)iction. Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸

Oh hey! My story "My Mother is the Water" is available to read online in F(r)iction latest issue. This is a story inspired by the lakes of my hometown, about a girl called to the water yet doesn't want to leave the aunt who raised her. frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...

Oh well. My work is already unsummarizable, surreal, and strange for humans, so I was basically born to be an all-around LLM nightmare

Like @lpkindred.bsky.social, I went back to to school while working full time and it is NOT for the faint of heart, it is so hard. So donate if you can! Let's get this gofundme over the finish line 🙌

I'm in love with this scuttling rage pancake

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Take a walk on some silty sand www.blaft.com/collections/...

A Megha story is always full of gorgeous language and surprises that will make your head spin and the story impossible to forget ❤️

I’m so out of it, my self-promo has plunged into a ravine of nothingness, even while I had a brand new story come out exactly two weeks ago in @blaft.bsky.social's deliciously bizarre new anthology, Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales! So let me tell you a little bit about it. 👁️🌿

A blue tsunami last night AND a new Death Grips album? Y'all, I think we switched timelines or something

A 2025 miracle arriving just in time to erase the travesty that is Tom Cruise's "Mummy" from all our timelines. We won, fellow bisexuals! We did it 🙌

This was Celeste's Week 5 story at Clarion West, and I remember the experience of reading it for the first time, like it was yesterday. A specific sense of wonder and awe at what Celeste was doing on the page, the sharpness and brilliance and joy of it.

We are heartbroken to hear about the passing of Celeste Rita Baker, a wonderful writer and human. It was our joy and privilege to publish her story “Me and Seed Sheself” in our magazine in 2022. Our deepest condolences to her loved ones, may she rest in peace. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/me-a...

“Glass Bottle Dancer” was the very first story I read at Clarion West. I was the youngest student there; Celeste was the oldest, and she’d just written the most goddamn incredible story in like two days, and for a little while I was like, what the fuck am I doing here?

She was a lovely human being and a fine, fine writer.

@ Clarion West, during critique of this story, Celeste called me out, "Monte drew a roach with his feedback!" w/ gust I think I said, "But... you wrote about them!" But Celeste had her usual wide smile and (I remember) her laughter; she'd mess w/ you yet you knew where you stood w/ her

Heartbroken to say the least. My dear friend and CW classmate Celeste Rita Baker has passed away. Words aren't enough to describe what an amazing, talented, warm, and loving human being she was. The world is so much emptier now. 💔

Absolutely devastated at the passing of my beloved, gorgeous friend and Clarion West 2019 classmate, Celeste Rita Baker. She was the absolute best of us. I'm broken.

So. Damn. Good.

You don't want to miss this kick-ass story! I made fanart based on that story! 🥰