Dear Xeno Hive, friends, contributors, and readers: we have some important news to share with everyone. We’re going on hiatus for 2025 to recharge, reorganize, and eventually return to uplifting writers in our community ❤️👽 Read more here ⬇️ www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

My first ever piece of published FICTION is up on @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social !

Branched out into some speculative fiction with “After the Flood Recedes” at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2023...

And last but not least @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social published my story about a modern Cassandra. In case you're wondering, she's queer and autistic. www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

Followed by "The Devil's Lake Social Club" a month or so ago in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone who gave them a read! www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

Got a flash up at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social on all the weird ways a relationship could go wrong :)

I mention this all the time in conversations and no one I speak to seems to have heard about it. theconversation.com/ai-is-a-mult...

“We fall asleep and dream together of another planet drenched in swirling oceans where thousands of people are sinking or swimming.” 💞 @sdobbie.bsky.social in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social

Does anyone know of places to submit flash publications for award consideration this year? I would love to send out my @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social story for consideration, Lockerbie, 1988 www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

Very excited to have a weird little story up at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social today! www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

“Sometimes, the stars send down spider silk threads with messages attached on thin slips of parchment. Fortune cookie predictions, like…” A gorgeous dream-touched story by @sdobbie.bsky.social in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social

If you want to read a piece of flash about the haunted library I used to work in, check out Sometimes the Library Looks Like the Amityville Horror House, published over in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social! www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

i absolutely love @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social as a lit magazine. they are terrific and their editorial staff is top notch. i wrote this story as an exercise, and finished it for Cotton Xenomorph specifically. it’s my only lit fic published piece. love it. www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2018...

This is the story I’m most proud of, this year. Still so thankful to @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social for giving this little lady a home. www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

Nature Walk & Poem in Superposition (in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social)

I have the great honor of being @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social's first-ever publication! from back in 2017, check it out

And a flash piece about a haunted library where I used to work in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social called Sometimes The Library Looks Like The Amityville Horror House www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

I have a cute little story over at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social about meeting a ghost at the grocery store and really feeling "living on a prayer" by bon jovi 👻😻 www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

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Hello blueskyers I've done an intro before but with everyone finally starting to come over here 🥺 I thought I'd do a little intro thread of some of my writing to get to know me First up this story about the cost of memory, trauma, and friendship electricliterature.com/accidental-g...

Major congratulations to our co-editor Teo for his debut poetry collection news 🤗🎉🥳👏🎊🙌🎁🎈

Today’s poem “Glances / Men 1994” by Kami Enzie is definitely a poem that stays with you long after you finish reading it. We love found/erasure poetry and this one especially hits hard www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

We’re creating a CX starter pack! If you’re a contributor, please let us know so we can add you here - we’ve got years of archives! go.bsky.app/BJY7Tn3

We’re creating a CX starter pack! If you’re a contributor, please let us know so we can add you here - we’ve got years of archives! go.bsky.app/BJY7Tn3

hey everybody 👋 we’re the OG “No Creeps Allowed” online lit journal aka Bleep Blorp Review aka the coolest magazine ever let’s make it happen here 👽👾🛸

I read for @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social , but before I was on staff they published a werewolf flash of mine: www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2021...

So excited for this new piece up in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social!!! www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

Hey Hey!!!! My haunted Library story (based on real events) is up at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social today!!! Check out Sometimes The Library Looks Like The Amityville Horror House at www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

In the mood to read a small HAUNTED LIBRARY story today??? If so, check out my new one Sometimes The Library Looks Like The Amityville Horror House over in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social :) www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

seasonal bangers are always the best, amiright? AE Lhamon wrote one of my very favs called "Trapper Man" over @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social -- love me some snowy spooky stories <33

New story alert about walking your ghosts in suburbia. Many thanks to @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social and @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social for giving my stray ghost a home. www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

“No,” I said, feeling defensive. “This is my house now.” New flash fiction piece (by me) up at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social.

Halloween's over, shit is still spooky. Distract yourself over @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social with this little ghost story I wrote. www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

I have a new short story published by the good folks at the literary journal @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

In case you're wondering what a modern Cassandra would look like, she's definitely queer and autistic. I wrote a flash about it that's up at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social! #flash #flashfiction www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

Per @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social bylaws, if you see a Waffle House, you go to a Waffle House

🚨👻CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THIS PLACE IS HAUNTED👻🙀 Remember Cotton Xenomorph submission window opens today! Please follow the guidelines for this special theme call 🌚🐍 We can’t wait to see what you have! cx.submittable.com/submit

Reminder that Cotton Xenomorph's This is Haunted Call opens July 1st! We'll only be open until we hit 100 subs, so get em in early!

Happy six years of accepting the wild, the weird, the wonderful written works. We started out as a Twitter meme and somehow became an awesome literary journal! Thanks for all the support, Xeno Hive 👽❤️

It's @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social 6th birthday!!

Happy that my first post here is this one! Thrilled to have this story out now and join the Xeno Hive.

A reminder that we at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social are open for “Cryptids and Climate Change” until 9/2! https://www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2023/8/2/call-for-submissions-cryptids-and-climate-change

We have another musical without music tale up on the journal today, this time by Catherine Buck! Please read "Pomp and Circumstance" and welcome Catherine to the Xeno Hive! https://www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2023/8/12/pomp-and-circumstance

Today's NEW short story is aptly titled "CVS" by Coleen Herbert! https://www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2023/8/8/cvs

Hi friends! Forgot to share the poem we published on August 4, so please read "Miss T" by R. Thursday! You'll love this poem so much! https://www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2023/8/4/miss-t

attention Xeno Hive: we have landed on a new planet! we are COTTON XENOMORPH and we are HAPPY to be here <3 https://www.cottonxenomorph.com/