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More book mail! 💌 A dear friend sent these my way recently

I am so excited about this new publication in @heartlines-spec.com! 🎉 A poem about the bittersweetness of goodbyes, and of feeling homesick even when you're somewhere safe and loving.

Here we are, in this season of rain pooling on concrete, leaves, horse apples, and bean pod adorned branches 🌧️🍂

"When I was younger, I said I wouldn’t ever be a weyward passenger. I looked down on them. Surely, I’d never let my life get so bad that I couldn’t contain my problems. The chaos and the despair were things I could keep tucked behind my ribcage." From "Passenger of the Weyward" 🚂

I made a post about seeing this book out in the wild, and my regret in not purchasing it. My wonderful big sister found it and mailed it to my door. The people we love are everything 💙🪶

If you're looking for a story to read while you're nesting in a pile of warm blankets this autumn, check out, "The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been" by @leahning.bsky.social ✨

Enjoying my roses a little while longer, knowing they'll soon be sleeping. This one is called Earth Angel 🌹

Number 9, number 9, number 9. Issue 9 has been released! It's a bittersweet one as we welcome @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social as Poetry Editor and say goodbye to Jess Cho 2 pieces are available now to all subscribers! Snow, Stars, Stone and grotto www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-9/

I love cutting bouquets for myself from my own garden 💐

Missing you, No Matter Where I Am by @brokenswanquill.bsky.social has all the yearning of a Celine song and the hope of a good tarot spread Coming soon to paid subscribers Nov 30th!

A couple glass feathers I made as gifts 🪶 🪟 I wrapped them and send them to their true homes, only to find they'd broken in transit.

Scepter'd Isle blooming in my garden 🌹

The Book House in St. Louis. It's one of my favorites 📚

A little cyberpunk story of mine based on Stephanie St. Clair, published by the wonderful @apparitionlit.com and free to read on their website! 🎶💉👑🤝

There's just 9 DAYS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! November's contest theme is CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE. You have until the 30th to submit! 🐱🧶 also, PSA 📢 Our flash fiction contest will be on a holiday hiatus in December, but we'll be returning in January! ❄️ www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...

What does the ECO series have in common with pears and plums? They all grow back stronger every spring 🍐✨ THANK YOU SO MUCH for supporting ECO24! Don't forget to grab your copy of the first in the ECO series, and watch your bookshelf grow year after year 🌱📚💚 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

I made sure to grab some more ranunculus bulbs the other day, because they're my favorite springtime flower 🌷

The Last Bookstore in LA 📚

McKinney Falls State Park. I had a nice solo reflective hike here after ArmadilloCon 🥾

Good book, good snack. Win-win!

Can you outrun your own death, winging close, even as it sings out to you? 🫀🪶🌠❄️

This is Old Baldy. A bald cypress tree that's estimated to be over 500 years old 🌳

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Taking Submissions: Stone’s Throw - Dec 2025 🗓 Dec 1–3, 2025 | 💰 $25 Theme: Noir on the theme of dreams Send 1–2K word dark fiction or crime noir to RHP Press. One story wins publication + $25, later featured in an annual anthology. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #Noir

Writers, the age-old question: Do you spell it GRAY or GREY?

ICYMI 🔮 Violet Lichen's first fiction novella, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, is available for preorder at a 30% discount! A surreal folk horror inspired by Russian fairytales, solar storms, and the secrets we keep buried underground 🌌☀️ Cover reveal coming soon!

"Grown From an Alder-Wolf's Skull" is a story about sisterhood, magic, green thumbs, and a wolf’s skull capable of hunting love as if it were prey. 🌷💐🌳🐺

I was still in bed when Monday Morning said "Wake up, sleepyhead."

Mist 💙💚

My walks haven't been this green in awhile. Here's to memories of the spring 🌿💚

Nature-y issues are my vibe!! I have a little poem included called "Missing You, No Matter Where I Am" 🐦‍⬛🌒🌳🕯️ It's about how you can feel homesick and lost even if you're somewhere magical.

This was an interesting looking read. Had some real weight to it too 📖

there should also be a couple copies of this at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social

And the issue is officially out! Stories will start to go online from tomorrow onwards, but this is a good moment for you to subscribe to a truly excellent magazine and read the whole thing right now psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Print copies of Short Fantasy Stories @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social are available on Amazon! ✨

There are tiny ghost stories and urban legends caught between the chapters of HONEYEATER. I wanted them to fit on single pages, title and all. So between first and final versions, "Moon" was halved in length.

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Main Barn and Attic Antiques in Azle, TX. I spent 85% of my time there sitting on the floor, looking through those books 📚

We’re $436 away from unlocking nonfiction! That means we’ll open to submissions of everything from moving personal essays to excavations of queer SFF history to incisive literary criticism. PLUS we’re only 8 backers from our final backer goal—help us get there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Translunar Travelers Lounge welcomes submissions of speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Full details are at the link.https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

Here's my contributor's copy of Saros, Issue 3! Isn't it vibrant? I have a set of three drabbles included within. Feed your heart to a demon met in a digital-forest. Listen to the trees' music played through fungal threads. Find what waits beneath the moon of the forest-city.

MetaStellar Year Four anthology is available, full of singing forests, cybernetic parents, diamond chokers full of shadows, visits by Death and demons a plenty, and more! Available at your favorite retailers like www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-o... #metastellar #speculativefiction

You all voted for spooky vibes this month, and we heard you loud and clear! 🎃🌒 Gather round the campfire, because October's flash fiction theme is FOLKLORE! You have until October 31st to submit! www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

We are a work in progress, but loving the support!

People keep submitting, we keep reading. Submitting, reading, submitting, reading - will it ever end? (Yes - 15th October, be sure to submit by then as this the last submission period of 2025! We however will keep reading after that until they've all been considered.)

As I'm in between payments and just had to pay a wicked internet bill, any current support would be most welcome!

Found The Spellshop out in the wild the other day at an eclectic little thrift store called Ruth's Room in Denton, TX.

Happy to announce "From the Diary of a Swan Bride" will be included in @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social's Happily Never After (guest edited by the micro-wizard @kaidelmas.bsky.social)! A story of sacrifice, marriage, and swan feathers 🏹💍🦢🪾