“I shut my eyes and wake up in the past. A rapier pins my heart between its beats with the soap-and-lilies smell of your shampoo and the dusty soul-stuff of antique books…” Don Norum’s flash fiction “The Art of Forgetting” is now live! www.dreamtheory.media/the-art-of-f...

ICYMI: second of two great stories we published this week.

ICYMI: We published two great stories this week. First one from @mmschreier.bsky.social right here.

“They penned diabolical monsters you longed to vanquish. But when the artist confessed that every character was them in disguise, they should have added, ‘Especially the monsters.’“ Liz Levin’s “You Are Invited to the Artist’s Unmaking” is now live! www.dreamtheory.media/you-are-invi...

Oh, lookie! I did a thing! #amwriting #flashfiction

“In a haze of Cabernet-fueled shame, I shouldn’t have opened a second bottle. I shouldn’t have finished that one too... Then the demon wouldn’t have gotten out.” MM Schreier’s “<gobble>” is now live! www.dreamtheory.media/gobble/

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In the future, teenagers will look back and marvel on how humanity sent pop music to the stars. Cody Schell explores this and more in his latest visual strip of “ART of the Solar System”! www.dreamtheory.media/art-of-the-s...

“I know everything about you. I even know what will happen next.” “No,” I said, snapping up. “You don’t know that. No one does.” Matt Bliss examines loss and acceptance in “Even Talking Trees Die”, now live on Dream Theory: www.dreamtheory.media/even-talking...

“It paid no attention to the heap of smoldering obsidian armor sprawled out on the ground before the fallen shieldmaiden, arrayed as though it had once contained a giant's body...” Patrick Hurley’s “Wings of the Gray Swallow” is now live! www.dreamtheory.media/wings-of-the...

“It paid no attention to the heap of smoldering obsidian armor sprawled out on the ground before the fallen shieldmaiden, arrayed as though it had once contained a giant's body...” Patrick Hurley’s “Wings of the Gray Swallow” is now live! www.dreamtheory.media/wings-of-the...

Cody Schell explores a curious gateway to higher dimensions in his latest “ART of the Solar System” visual strip! www.dreamtheory.media/art-of-the-s...

Cody Schell explores a curious gateway to higher dimensions in his latest “ART of the Solar System” visual strip! www.dreamtheory.media/art-of-the-s...

“I used to love hospitals. Being inside them. Their corridors and wards, as familiar as the veins crawling up my arm. The creaking leather chairs, womb-like in their enveloping.” Callum Rowland’s “Healing Properties of a Hypodermic to the Hippocampus” is live! www.dreamtheory.media/healing-prop...

“Magic still suffused them, glittering like motes of light-reminders of Solsulien’s lingering influence. It should have been comforting, but instead, it merely filled him with dread.” Catherine Yeates’ “Epiphany at the Temple of the Shadow Goddess” is live! www.dreamtheory.media/epiphany-at-...

“Magic still suffused them, glittering like motes of light-reminders of Solsulien’s lingering influence. It should have been comforting, but instead, it merely filled him with dread.” Catherine Yeates’ “Epiphany at the Temple of the Shadow Goddess” is live! www.dreamtheory.media/epiphany-at-...

"Bramblethwaite hadn’t expected the Chosen One to be so… greasy, but Chosen Ones came in all forms..." Christopher Degni's lighthearted fantasy flash fiction story "Bramblethwaite, Malinor, and Todd" is now live! www.dreamtheory.media/bramblethwai...

“…it feels wasteful to count the seconds here, at the end of time. But I know it must be there. In the depths of my heart, I know that you wouldn’t abandon me to this fate.” “At the Threshold, There was Light” by Elijah J. Mears is now live! www.dreamtheory.media/at-the-thres...

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“…it feels wasteful to count the seconds here, at the end of time. But I know it must be there. In the depths of my heart, I know that you wouldn’t abandon me to this fate.” “At the Threshold, There was Light” by Elijah J. Mears is now live! www.dreamtheory.media/at-the-thres...

Time to celebrate one year of "ART of the Solar System"! As Cody Schell's visual strip completes one Earth solar rotation, it follows up on an artist showcased previously as they continue to transform the skies of Venus! www.dreamtheory.media/art-of-the-s...

Time to celebrate one year of "ART of the Solar System"! As Cody Schell's visual strip completes one Earth solar rotation, it follows up on an artist showcased previously as they continue to transform the skies of Venus! www.dreamtheory.media/art-of-the-s...

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Hey, folks! We've got a Kickstarter going for SOUTHWATCH STORIES, a new antho of steampunk tales from Crazy 8 Press and StarWarp Concepts. Stories by Natalie Bartley, Phil Giunta, Robert Greenberger, Paul Kupperberg, Bobby Nash, Aaron Rosenberg, Steve Saville, Hildy Silverman, Richard White, and me!

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"And all that is best of dark and bright  Shall emerge from what has ionised.   [—ise—]  [—surprised at the amount of junk data in here. What the hell is this thing returning my pings with?" @joberry.bsky.social's lyrical "The Song Shines On" is now live! www.dreamtheory.media/the-song-shi...

I fit post-scarcity anarcho-socialist utopia meets generation ship eugenicist villainy into a 1,000 words. Please clap.

ICYMI: "The carousel shudders and starts turning. The basement's dim corners and cobwebs, the ghost, the little square of moonlight at the top of the stairwell swirls and blurs into a slurry of golden light that consumes her."

We've been remiss in announcing that @vincestadon.bsky.social joined Dream Theory Media a few months ago! In his role as Creative Director, he's been working behind the scenes on development and caretaking some of our upcoming and ongoing publishing initiatives (and killing it!).

If you want to preorder a SIGNED copy of my forthcoming poetry collection, Offerings for Ordinary Gods ( @clashbooks.bsky.social ) , you can! Follow the Inkwood bookstore link below, then during checkout, in the Instructions/Comments box, write signed and/personalized! How fabulous is that??

"The ghost unwraps the pocket square. Inside, three orbs glow softly blue. He snatches one up, produces thin paper from his breast pocket, and rolls a cigarette." Lyrical images & a surprising plot - check it out! @prof-bogs.bsky.social in @dreamtheorymedia.bsky.social

"For another memory, I can show you more possibilities." @prof-bogs.bsky.social's haunting meditation on trauma and memory is now live at Dream Theory: "Claire de Lune" www.dreamtheory.media/claire-de-lu...

It’s been so long since I posted any #art & I just haven’t been able to get back to my iPad yet, so I finished this Procreate Pocket doodle of Cesare (Conrad Veidt) from THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920), drawn on my iPhone with my right index finger. I’m pretty happy with it given the constraints.

What happens when a generation ship arrives at a world long since colonized by ftl utopia its crew could never have imagined?

ICYMI: @rkduncan.bsky.social's latest flash fiction story was published this week on Dream Theory.

A reminder that if you enjoy Dream Theory, you can support it in a couple of ways: www.dreamtheory.media/support-us/

Over the past year, it's crazy to me that we've released a steady flow of stories, art and essays: 36 flash fiction stories 21 essays 11 visual strips 1 poem (last but not least) Almost 70 pieces of prose and art delivered to the world by an amazing set of writers and artists. I am honored.

"Recommendation: Forcible liberation of subject castes. Landing refusal and permanent non-contact with oligarch caste..." R. K. Duncan's flash fiction story "Evidence Before the Committee" is now live! www.dreamtheory.media/evidence-bef...

#BookBingo update! I've read 20 flash fiction stories so far this year. Most were from @smallwondersmag.com. Their Feb issue was great. Also read stories from @dreamtheorymedia.bsky.social and @crypticfrogpub.bsky.social and I found old stories by Isaac Asimov & Gene Wolfe siting on my bookshelf.

I love this series. Check it out:

Cody Schell's latest "ART of the Solar System" gives us a peak into the life of an artist and the curious symmetry between Earth and Ganymede: www.dreamtheory.media/art-of-the-s...

We're really just 6 weeks away from our 1-year anniversary? 👀

Part 48 as we go through one of the longest epilogues in the history of novelkind . . . 🧐 jetse.substack.com/p/the-replic... #nearfuture #optimistic #sciencefiction #novel #upbeat

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“There’s a difference,” said Dr. Burns, “between something being unkillable and something being unable to die.” @rubycosmos.bsky.social delivers a tale involving kaiju and revenge in "The Whole Beast", now live on Dream Theory! www.dreamtheory.media/the-whole-be...

"Learning—most importantly, learning when not to do magic—a vital part of our training, and why it took so many years." A very short but graceful story that posits a world where the path to power leads through acquiring the wisdom of living in the real world and spending the time to understand it.