A poignant story about heroes, sacrifices and the lies we tell ourselves about how nations are built and the right of might. Unsung by @derrickboden.bsky.social in @analogsf.bsky.social

What a great surprise to come across such a lovely review of my story "Unsung" in @analogsf.bsky.social. Thanks @acwise.bsky.social!

Woot! Thrilled to see the 2 books I published last year as Locus Awards Finalists. Triple congrats are due @thomasha.bsky.social repped in Collection, Novelettes, and Short Stories categories. locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...

Wishing a very happy book birthday to @cornellwriter.bsky.social for Shoeshine Boy and Cigarette Girl! It's a delightful read: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...

Thrilled to see one of my stories on @datlow.bsky.social's "Best of Horror" rec list: ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f...

A few days late, but I'm happy to share that my story "Unsung" is live in the Jan/Feb issue of @analogsf.bsky.social. One reader described it as "cold, technical, and emotionally brutal," an A+ compliment if I've ever heard one. analogsf.com/current-issu...

This is a story with strong Dark City vibes. What happens when others create our reality and dictate what we love and remember and what is allowed to exist? In this game of unmaking is anything left standing? by @derrickboden.bsky.social in @diabolicalplots.com

Our Kickstarter ends in just 24 HOURS! This is your LAST CHANCE to shop our catalogue of new ebooks, author critiques, and exclusive merch before it's gone for good. Check the 🧵 to see our full selection! Thank you all for supporting another year of Apex. 🖤👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Let's reach that stretch goal!!! 💪👽🎉 I'd love to judge another drabble contest. It's always so much fun to read what everyone comes up with. 😁💙

There's just 69 (yes really) HOURS LEFT to donate to the Apex Magazine Kickstarter! ⏰ We're thrilled to bring you more Apex in 2026, but there's still time to unlock our stretch goals! At $22,500, we unlock drabble submissions with editor @kaidelmas.bsky.social! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

As my daughter would say, there's only SIX-SEVEN days left:

Get it while you can:

We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Help keep the lights on at Apex! Only 11 days left:

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Always worth supporting this badass magazine:

Episode 264 of my Eating the Fantastic podcast is now live with guest @foxesandroses.bsky.social! Join us at the table and learn why she ended up as a fantasy writer rather than a comic book creator, how a pantser handles world building — and much more. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Very happy to share that my story Unsung has been accepted for publication at @analogsf.bsky.social. It's about heroism and exploitation and very uncomfortable spaceships, among other things. Can't wait to share it with you all!

Love a good bone story, happy to see "Valor Bones" in this list (first appeared in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social a few years back). Thanks for the shout-out, @reactorsff.bsky.social!

Happened to be in Kyoto shortly after the release of Babelzine Vol 4, managed to track down a physical copy at the lovely @cavabooks.bsky.social store. What a joy to see my story in translation! Thanks so much to everyone involved.

Great thread and some great opening lines from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social!

BCS opening lines: "On a sweltering winter morning, at the edge of town where the wailing desert clawed at her shanty door, the Patron held court." The Patron @derrickboden.bsky.social www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

This is sure to be a good one:

My new "What to Read" column also features fiction by @ecastroianni.bsky.social @avgreenewrites.bsky.social @ravenjake.bsky.social @derrickboden.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social @translunarytree.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social & more.

Honored to be @lightspeedmagazine.com’s Author Spotlight and once again be interviewed by @phoebebarton.bsky.social who always asks such thought-provoking questions. “Through the Machine” comes out next week. Meanwhile, find out what went into writing it. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/a...

Loved this creepy new story by Ian Muneshwar: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/beak/

Very stoked to see my story "The Unfactory" in @reactorsff.bsky.social's April roundup. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Really enjoyed this one by @cornellwriter.bsky.social.

SALVAGIA is part of the Barnes and Noble pre-sale event! Use PREORDER25 at checkout (B&N members only (membership is free!)) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/salvagia-t...

The Unfactory, by Derrick Boden in Diabolical Plots. I've read a few other works by Boden and honestly they're pretty consistently bangers (I still think about his story in Escape Pod, Hustle, every now and then without warning). This story about unmaking is no exception.

I voted. Have you? Deadline is the 15th and anyone can vote. You can even write-in your faves! If you’re still considering short fiction, here’s a link to my eligible stories: www.pacornell.com/2024-awards-...

It's alive! Check out my story "The Unfactory" at @diabolicalplots.com today, before it gets unmade by your local occult-powered shadow bureaucracy. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

#Booksky 012/500 Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper by Derrick Boden It's not just the rent that'll get you. Imagine having to chase down your home every few days!

It's Free Fiction Friday! Take a moment to see how things are going in the dell when machine meets faerie!

Have you read? Trolls of 34th Street by Derrick Boden at Trollbreath Magazine The line "The rest of them laugh, like bones in a well." cinched this story for me.

Can confirm this story by my pal @derrickboden.bsky.social is top tier.

If you missed it over the weekend, my next book has a brand new Goodreads page. Click to add it to your TBR or to find out more if this is the first you’re hearing of it.

My @uncannymagazine.bsky.social novelette formatted as a series of Goodreads reviews is here! It also features probably the longest title in history 😆 It's a story about friendship, queerness, books, fandom, and generally living life and finding ways forward even when things aren't looking great.

A new story! Very happy to share "Cold Iron Clockwork" with y'all, free to read today at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social. This one is a little fey, a little steampunk, a little body horror. Hope you like it! magazine.trollbreath.com/cold-iron-cl...

AAAND GRANNIBALS ARE HERE! So happy that @3lobedmag.bsky.social published Grannibal 2, The Return of the Grannibal! The Bathers is about Katina, a teenage girl who feels seen and judged by everyone. She finds solace in a group of older women who her mother calls witches.

What a beautiful magazine! Happy to have a story in this one, out today.

My queer mythic polydactyl love story, "What We Don't Know About Angels," is up in @lightspeedmagazine.com! It's my first publication of the year, and comes with audio and a typical-of-me overshare-y author interview. I hope you'll give it a read or listen! 😇

Friends! "Some to Cradle, Some to Eat", my retelling of "Little Thumb" is out now in @lightspeedmagazine.com! It's a fairytale retelling and a teenage ogre Sapphic romance (this is a sentence I wrote). Two girls save each other from some bad parenting. It might contain a smidge of cannibalism. 🦴

A horror story that nails the gothic atmosphere of stories of yore. The divided mind. How do we know what's real, who's real. Is it you or me? How do we form a self and how far one could go to make sure their identity stays unchallenged. by @derrickboden.bsky.social in Weird Horror Magazine

I always consider it a resounding feat if/when I write anything, and this year I wrote and published two (yes, two!) stories—which might as well be a new record, given my sloth-slow pace. So without further ado, here is my (short) #awardseligibility thread 🧵

My first bluesky post is a cover reveal! Just look at it! It's everything I hoped for and more! I am so grateful and excited. Can any book live up to such a cover? Only one way to find out! Pre-order SALVAGIA now! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Salvag...

Doing a 2024 short story eligibility award post! It was a slower year; I had just one publication. "Here in the Glittering Black, There Is Hope" also took a long route to end up at GigaNotoSaurus, like it's protagonists, so I feel I owe it a post giganotosaurus.org/2024/09/01/h...

Hey y'all! Here's my #AwardsEligibility thread. In this, my first novel-writing year (!), I'm proud of the four original stories I managed to get out. A bit more about them... 🧵

Hello friends! This is an #AwardsEligibility thread! (The previous one had a typo... typical). These are all the stories that I published this year. Let's go: