Shout out time! This climbing horror makes looking down at where you’ve been the least of your concerns… ‘Ascension’ by @authorplm.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social’s Issue 152

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This week's shout out comes a day late, but the story is evergreen: Check out @abigailkemske.bsky.social's "The Earth Inside Us" in the latest issue of The Dark. www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-earth-in...

Shout out time! Katherine Quevedo's story "The Sauce Packet King of the West Hills" captures a fun moment at the end of civilization and reminds us its the simple pleasures we should cherish. Give it a read at smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-sa... where it has been reprinted. @smallwondersmag.com

We’re nearly halfway through our submission window! Join our discord for updates on how may submissions we’ve received so far ☠️ discord.gg/28uMZrBwjf

This week’s shout out is for @samanthamurray.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com! We loved her story “The Stars You Can’t See By Looking Directly” and the flawless cascading of imagery and thoughts that delivers you to stars at the end of the world. clarkesworldmagazine.com/murray_01_26/

A quick FYI. We are renaming our "story of the week" posts to "shout out of the week". Our weekly shout out goes to Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social and her story "We Used to Wake to Song" from @apexmag.bsky.social. Harrowing family relationships wrapped in water's inevitable pull. We loved it!

Week one of submissions has been incredible! Looking forward to more. In the meantime, our Patreon is officially live. If you are looking to support us in the lead up to our first issue, check it out. www.patreon.com/14807269/join

Check it out: the story of the week! "I Think She is Starting to Suspect Something" by @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social issue #22 is a slinking tale of Yearning that'll leave you looking askance at the faces of those you know and love www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

The haunt begins today.

The Phantom Pulse opens for submissions tomorrow! Check our guidelines and instructions for sending stories and art at thephantompulse.com

Last Story of The Week before we open for subs: “Who Are You Wearing?” by @russellnichols.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. We enjoyed this balanced bite of a story that picks at and peels back the layers of human autonomy and family until all you see is the exoskeleton that moves you.

It's time for the story of the week! Give a read to "Songs Never Sung" by @premeemohamed.com in Issue 46 of @3lobedmag.com. So much broken world and endless years delivered in the few words of a decaying yet deathless protagonist. It's what your weekend needs 🖤 www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

I have two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines, podcasts, and publishers. You can follow all or some from these lists. 1. bsky.app/starter-pack... 2. bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Our story of the week: "Hope is the Thing with Circuits and Steel" by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska from FFO. The story is weird and ripe with warnings for humanity. Grannies. Consumption. A question probing the nature of emotion acquisition. Give it a read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.

🕯️ The Phantom Pulse is open Jan 1–Feb 14, 2026! Seeking speculative fiction that lingers in the grey corners of humanity - dread that seeps under the skin, strange obsessions, and the beautifully bizarre. 💰 $0.03/word (unpublished) 📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi... @thephantompulse.bsky.social

This is Phantom Pulse's first story of the week! From Cosmic Horror Monthly comes "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" by Joule K. Zelman. The story is pleasantly weird, the pacing is seamless, and the characterization is delightful. Shout out to Joule K. Zelman! @joulekzelm.bsky.social

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Excited to see TWO NEW MAGS (!!) launched by past and present FF reading team members this week. @rottingleafmag.bsky.social edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social <1.5k word eco-fiction @thephantompulse.bsky.social co-edited by @jexewizabee.bsky.social <3k originals/<5k reprints horror/dark fantasy

We're a new literary magazine for eco-fiction. We're going to start publishing in January of 2026, with subs opening in December. - Published by @briefecology.bsky.social - Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website - $ 0.06/word - 1,500 words or less - More details at the link 👇

We launched our new horror magazine today! Check us out at thephantompulse.com and help us spread the word.

My story "The Sky was Made for Wings" is in this awesome anthology! The news got you down? You've read too many dark thrillers? Buy a copy of "Hope: The Thing With Feathers" to inject a little hope in your day! @metaphorosis.com

On this episode, @benjamingorman.bsky.social gabs with @bmorrisallen.com , @maggiedotwrites.bsky.social , Lisa Fransson, and Louie Sullivan, authors of HOPE: THE THING WITH FEATHERS, a new anthology from @metaphorosis.com . Show: bit.ly/WNWHome Ad-free version: bit.ly/PatreonBG

It is time for the first volume of Tiny Terrors from @gravesidepress.bsky.social There are many fantastic stories in this anthology and they nailed the cover! Grab your copy and support Graveside Press: graveside-press.com/product/tiny...

THE SKULL & LAUREN - ISSUE 003 (via @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ) Columns of meat birthed on cursed cattle ranches. The partial assimilation of a petrochemical nightmare. Flocks of mutated seagulls that can strip a car bare. A weird cult that sends you a magazine in the mail every few months.

New story out soon! You'll be able to read "This Flesh'll Run Free" in The Skull & Laurel Issue 3, out April 15! It's about factory farms and labor under capitalism. But also, it's about the thing that lives in the barn and can chew through steel... store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

Ooh FF Reading Team members @hannahgreer.bsky.social and @jexewizabee.bsky.social on the Brave New Weird shortlist!! Congrats!

The Howl anthology is out! Check out my story "The Last Bus Out of Black Mouth Canyon"! The entire anthology is filled to the brim with stories that will transform 🐺 your life. graveside-press.com/product/howl/

The Bite anthology from @gravesidepress.bsky.social has arrived! Check out all the awesome vampire stories including my story, The Septimus cure! 🦇 graveside-press.com/product/bite/

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