wani gari  by Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi "the town has its own vision. its eyesight is perfect for destruction. anything beautiful is mislea ding." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Free Fiction Friday features the wrong frog by Crystal Sidell magazine.trollbreath.com/the-wrong-fr...

Free Fiction Friday features A Dragon or a Flower or a Boy by Lora Gray magazine.trollbreath.com/a-dragon-or-...

Welcome to episode 719. First, we meet a woman with a hunger for justice. Then, a man fears for his relationship thanks to his girlfriend’s obsession with a chatbot (by @keithlafountaine.bsky.social, read by @thevoicesinmyhead.com). talestoterrify.com/episodes/719-james-fritz-keith-lafountaine

"The government begins excavating the bones in late February" The Squatters, by Shawna Yang Ryan Narrator: Rebecca Wei Hsieh Host: Kat Day Audio: Chelsea Davis pseudopod.org/2025/11/07/p... This story originally appeared in the 2025 Anthology, Silk and Sinew

An unsettling but furry fantasy opener for our Nov 2025 FamPunk issue: “Ursula” by E.M. Linden is free to read on FFO. The tension is all in the choices we make as parents… 🥺 #fantasy #parenting #flashfiction #writingcommunity @emlinden.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/ursu...

It’s time to tally up “The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” in @trailofleaves.bsky.social’s charming new story. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

BCS #445 ebook out early today at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, w stories by thirteen-time BCS author @marissalingen.bsky.social and new one @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social, behind cover art by Bruce Brenneise: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

issue 98 is out in the world and yours to read! read it here for free! and hey, if you love what you find, consider subscribing. every sub helps us to keep bringing you the kinds of stories and poems you love 💖 psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

It's all about location, location, location in "skeletal arms will sprout" by Isabel Cañas:

Let's spin a little pink magic today, with "Pink Witches" by @melissajorndwrites.bsky.social :

Glob the organizer pulled themselves together—literally. -from "Arean Afterlife" by Mary Jo Rabe (@maryjorabe.bsky.social), in #Penumbric's Oct issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstory #scifi #mars

New fiction! "When Eve Chose Us" by Tia Tashiro www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

"The girl’s name was Sherri. She had very sharp teeth. These teeth were very good for swallowing others’ words." TODAY, beloveds! A STORY 💀 The Destruction of All That is Good and Holy, Otherwise Known as Green Beans by Erin Ulm read it here 🖤 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

New from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, "Green Leaves Against the Wind", a poem by @mariness.bsky.social expressing the deep, physical interconnection between people and plants: reckoning.press/green-leaves...

Our Nov 2025 FamPunk issue is now available on our website and via Weightless! Selected by our guest editor Emma Burnett, this issue features spec-fic families of all sorts. Go small and go home! #writingcommunity #flashfiction @slashnburnett.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

The November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld features stories by R.H. Wesley, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Tade Thompson, Ramiro Sanchiz, Chisom Umeh, Brent Baldwin, and Kemi Ashing-Giwa. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_230 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

“Finger by finger, my father’s hand sprouts like fungus from the cold hard ground.” it’s Fantasy Friday! 🍄 and today’s fantastic short is They Return by @ecastroianni.bsky.social read it here ✨ psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

The Sunday Morning Transport treks through the cold today with a story from Benjamin C. Kinney (@benjaminckinney.com) about hard situations and harder choices, making its internet debut! As the first story of the month, it's free for everyone to read! www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/here-at-th...

HALLOWEEN RELEASE: “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill is now available to read for free on FFO! Is it too much to call this horror delicious…? 😏 #horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading @parkeriswriting.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...

🎃👻 PseudoPod 1001: A Coven of Cats Under the Light of the Moon & The Halloween Parade "On this night, we escaped from our homes" Authors: M. Halstead & Alasdair Stuart Narrators: Laura Pearlman & Alasdair Stuart Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Chelsea Davis These pieces are PseudoPod originals

EPISODE 1000 🦑 🎉 “My name is Leicester” Novel of the White Powder, by Arthur Machen Narrators: Kat Day and Alasdair Stuart Host: Alasdair Stuart, with interview from Shawn Garrett Audio: Graeme Dunlop pseudopod.org/2025/10/30/p... This story first appeared in The Three Impostors in 1895

Cast of Wonders 662: It Grows Back by @grantcollier.bsky.social narrated by Wilson Fowlie produced by @jeremycarter42.bsky.social CW: broken bones, body horror, monster under the bed. www.castofwonders.org/2025/10/cast... Happy #Halloween!

Happy Halloween, Blessed Samhain, or TGIF. Whatever this day means to you, you deserve to laugh at life and unlife. Free Fiction Friday: Rashomonster by Michael Allen Rose magazine.trollbreath.com/rashomonster... @michaelallenrose.bsky.social

Happy Halloween and welcome to 718. First, we meet the four runners-up and one winner of our first ever Halloween Flash Fiction Contest. Then, a classic tale about a man who inherits a house and the dark history that comes with it. talestoterrify.com/episodes/718-halloween-flash-contest-e-f-benson

Hunger is scary. How many little ghosts and goblins in your neighborhood go to bed hungry? We just donated to our local Food Bank at westmorelandfoodbank.org Even a few dollars helps, especially the kids. Donate to Westmoreland Food Bank, or find your local food bank at give.feedingamerica.org

Story #2 in FF#26: "Pig Lion" by @leokaaolive.bsky.social If you need a story with: -robot monsters -people isolating themselves due to self-hatred -life as screenplay Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

"This could be a good day. If? If. If a whole generation stops dying." TODAY'S POETRY! I had a dream and in the dream I knew I was dreaming so I believed I could change things by @shanaross.bsky.social psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

When you hear the words “You have no respect for the Kutulu. You’re fired!” it just might be time to take your job more seriously- like life or death! dreamforgemagazine.com/story/kutulu...

When I look between my arms I see you, Andromeda -from "Collision Course" by Lydia O’Donnell, in October's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... (To be sure you see the right formatting, view the pdf!) #poem #poetry #poet #scifi #scifipoetry

Sometimes you just need to escape for a little while. Short stories are great for that. Visitors welcome. Subscriptions are good too. clarkesworldmagazine.com

In a chilling Halloween tale, Devon Hand finds himself imprisoned and hanging from a gibbet, branded as a witch, and left to die under the watchful gaze of an impatient raven. dreamforgemagazine.com/story/the-vi...

#PC915: The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been by Leah Ning, read by Amanda Ching. Previously published in Monster Lairs (Dark Matter INK, October 2023). Rated PG-13 podcastle.org/2025/10/28/p...

An inescapable wilderness is the setting for Arthur H. Manners’ story “Woodsong.” At the edge of survival this indomitable father-son pair cling to hope #horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading @arthurmanners.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...

Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiverity reprints issue, "That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by @oluwasigma.bsky.social, an SF poem in which giant metal mechs stand for the resistance of language to the forces of empire reckoning.press/that-time-my...

FF#26 and Saros #4 have arrived! Get your copies for free (or toss us a few bucks!) all in one handy download at fusionfragment.com/issue-26 Or head downthread for more info on the great stories in these two issues!

"Your mother turned you up and down in the dim flickering glow of the candle, her hands searching for a sign that you were a fragile evil thing reborn." this one's a tear-jerker, beloveds and so good 🖤 Hamaka, Leave Me Alone by Testimony Odey psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Scary BCS! "The Study of Monstrosities" Greg Kurzawa, BCS #127 & podcast 109, read by @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social "Seven subjects. All of them torn into two distinct beings: a functional husk and an abomination. Ethan had read the doctor's journal." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

We're kicking off our story/poem spotlights with ABSOLUTION by Jared Chen-Wynn! Eerie and haunting, just in time for Halloween. If you could start over with a clean slate, would you also accept a clean brain? Read it here: www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/abs...

The Sunday Morning Transport makes plans for the future today with a story from John P. Murphy (@johnpmurphy.bsky.social) that takes a hard look at identity, ownership, and perpetuity. Read a sample or subscribe to get the whole thing!

What's Halloween without a good zombie story? Our only complaint, it should have taken place in Pittsburgh instead of Chicago, but just remember - what is said at your Undead Support America group stays in your USA group. A safe place for all cadaverous beings. dreamforgemagazine.com/story/z-spot/

We've got all of the coins but the first one and love them. Help support The Deadlands by purchasing these unique and truly awesome coins!

We’ve got a story about pasta… 🍝 #WorldPastaDay PseudoPod 834: To the Tooth pseudopod.org/2022/10/25/p...

final proofs for the coin are looking 🤌💀🤌 have you grabbed yours yet? psychopomp.com/product/ferr...

Holy Days by Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social "On the awnings, leaves and girls fall, pile, and rot. All this, the natural order." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Author Rachael K. Jones is known for writing stories that are so knife-sharp that you cut yourself when you pick them up. Her story "Five Functions of Your Binosaur," from Issue 4, is a gentler story, though still bittersweet.

Lora Gray's poem "Sever" is a _lot_, from pregnancy to violence to love to defiance.

“I’m reaching for the scissors when the lamp bulb flickers and dies.” Barghest by Susan King Author: Susan King Narrator: Louise Hewitt Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Graeme Dunlop pseudopod.org/2025/10/24/p... This story was first published Modern Folklore: A Comma Press Course Anthology

Free Fiction Friday is here!!!! Enjoy Draconis astronomus by Catherube Tavares. In the depths of space, here there be dragons magazine.trollbreath.com/draconis-ast... @cjtavares.bsky.social

Bullet Time at the Kink Party  by miriam "Leah is queer community. Leah is expanding and expansive. Leah wants to fall in love with everyone still alive in this room and beyond and be their bottom for a night, just one night..." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...