So honored for my work to find a home at Pseudopod and actually floored by the incredible narration by Kat Day @chronicleflask.katday.com. Gorgeous! 🐙🦑🚀

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Gorgeous and haunting and yes, very close to home

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This was a joy to write. Spoilers for my Analog story within!

It's time to announce the August flash fiction theme! Submerge yourself in some haunting jellyfish lofi because...🐙🐋🫧 August's flash fiction theme is DEEP SEA! 🪼🦑 Heat vents! Whale fall! Doomed sub voyages! Send it all! Submissions are open until August 31st! www.patreon.com/posts/135291...

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

So excited about this week's Electric Sheep guest, Sheree Renée Thomas! The selected stories will knock the breath out of you. @shereereneethomas.bsky.social @electricsheepsf.bsky.social

A great-looking project with only human art. Definitely worth supporting! 🔥🙌

Guidelines for Saros #5 have arrived! We open on August 22nd for stories 500-2500 words in length centered on the theme of Sound/Silence. Payment will be $25 CAD for both originals and reprints. The period will stay open until we've collected 111 subs. Full details at sarossf.com/submissions/

"The Marks We Leave" by @mianbell.bsky.social (6,768 words) — Rylek seeks to assuage his pain of the loss of his lover by saving some of the people in the simulation on which he works. A compassionate exploration and portrayal of deep grief. (My rating: 5/5)

My every-couple-months reminder: FF is always bringing in new submissions readers. Details in the quoted thread!

SFWA educates authors about industry matters through many venues, including Writer Beware®, a service helmed by @victoriastrauss.com. It is a gift to be in dialogue as writers and other industry participants about the issues that matter most to our genre's future thriving. Read WB's latest here:

celebrate a small victory with me? Analog has been a dream since I was a wee tot 🥺 very pleased this story landed with @analogsf.bsky.social

Rereading Didion this sweltering summer afternoon… “The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.” Oh yes… compulsion… hello 🙋🏻‍♂️🙈

This week went by so fast, it's making our heads spin! 😵‍💫 There's just TWO WEEKS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! The theme for July is CAROUSEL. You have until the end of the month to submit! www.patreon.com/posts/july-f...

gorgeous, lyrical, the palpable complexities of intimate relationships, nature vs nurture, (aikido! 🥰🥋) and wow what an ending… pls read this lovely tale by @tiatashiro.bsky.social

i mightttt have a story in this issue 👀👀