🛸NEWS🛸 NS will open for submissions again JUNE 1, no closing date yet 🛸 any speculative 🛸500 wds max/$75 flat 🛸sim subs ok 🛸one story at a time but ok to resub after a rejection !!read the mag before you submit please!! guidelines here: www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

take a little time today to wander around @shanwestonwrites.bsky.social’s airport story 🛫

periodic reminder that you can subscribe on the site to get the stories in your email. nothing but twice monthly stories go out on that list, so no fear of spam. latest here ⬇️

periodic reminder that you can subscribe on the site to get the stories in your email. nothing but twice monthly stories go out on that list, so no fear of spam. latest here ⬇️

take a little time today to wander around @shanwestonwrites.bsky.social’s airport story 🛫

So thrilled to have my piece published by the phenom @nightshadesmag.bsky.social ! Thank you so much.

“There’s a minuscule movie theater in concourse B. I watch a short film about a rabbit who lost their foot. It’s the only movie that plays.” 🐇 new one from @shanwestonwrites.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/terminal/

new story this week! get caught up with the latest 🛸🛸

“The Devil planned our Australian trip in greatest detail, though I sensed our plane would probably crash or land somewhere unpleasant like Baltimore or the surface of the sun.” 🛸🛸🛸 new one from @sandrakasturi.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/me-and-the-d...

hey if you have a <=100 word story you can just publish it via burger (originally published in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social lol)

“The Devil planned our Australian trip in greatest detail, though I sensed our plane would probably crash or land somewhere unpleasant like Baltimore or the surface of the sun.” 🛸🛸🛸 new one from @sandrakasturi.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/me-and-the-d...

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“I dreamt my boyfriend was the Devil. He had floppy hair and looked suspiciously like a writer I know. Because really all writers are the Devil—these are just facts.” @sandrakasturi.bsky.social returns with a little scorcher www.nightshadesmag.com/me-and-the-d...

“I dreamt my boyfriend was the Devil. He had floppy hair and looked suspiciously like a writer I know. Because really all writers are the Devil—these are just facts.” @sandrakasturi.bsky.social returns with a little scorcher www.nightshadesmag.com/me-and-the-d...

🛸🛸🛸 tomorrow @sandrakasturi.bsky.social returns to NS! 🛸🛸🛸 read this (which is nominated for a Rhysling Award btw) to get ready: www.nightshadesmag.com/beard-of-bir...

Day 116! I read A Refracted Truth by Mizuki Yamamoto published in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social. Perhaps the rain can wash away your sins. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/s...

“Shelter in Place” ( @nightshadesmag.bsky.social ) is a far-future, single-sentence whirlwind of pain and the grim realization that we must protect what we have now, here on Earth, at all costs: www.nightshadesmag.com/shelter-in-p...

🛸🛸🛸 let this one slip through your fingers

🛸🛸🛸 let this one slip through your fingers

“There’s a void behind the Larsons’ house. They had a yard sale. They found a buyer.” 🛸🛸 new one from @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/everything-m...

“There’s a void behind the Larsons’ house. They had a yard sale. They found a buyer.” 🛸🛸 new one from @goodvibesnerd.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/everything-m...

new story in the morning, sleep tight 🛸💜

Saddled, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social -- my notebook reads: "weird! like really quite weird! im into it!" I agree with myself. A stylish, bizarre little bite of?? Horror??? www.nightshadesmag.com/saddled/

@chasej.xyz returns with another banger! 🛸🛸

🛸🛸 read the latest, from @chasej.xyz

🛸🛸 read the latest, from @chasej.xyz

🛸🛸 new one from @chasej.xyz “The rod creaks under Your weight. i undress as fast as possible, leave the clothes just outside the curtain, pre-warmed and safe.” www.nightshadesmag.com/watching-as-...

@chasej.xyz returns with another banger! 🛸🛸

story about sittin down in the shower!!!!

🛸🛸 new one from @chasej.xyz “The rod creaks under Your weight. i undress as fast as possible, leave the clothes just outside the curtain, pre-warmed and safe.” www.nightshadesmag.com/watching-as-...

🛸🛸 this week @chasej.xyz returns to NS!🛸🛸 🛸🛸 you may begin the necessary preparations, by reading this: www.nightshadesmag.com/ns-what-id-w...

🛸🛸 this week @chasej.xyz returns to NS!🛸🛸 🛸🛸 you may begin the necessary preparations, by reading this: www.nightshadesmag.com/ns-what-id-w...

happy opening day to all who celebrate 🛸⚾️ www.nightshadesmag.com/ns-butane-ci...

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I'm gonna have a weird little story in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social! Read more here diebooth.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/d... and do please check out their bite-sized free reads, an excellent magazine! #freereads #shortstory #flashfiction #indieauthor #booksky

i can’t really pull another quote from @monicalyrehart.bsky.social’s new piece without giving the whole thing away … it’s so short and weird! 👁️👁️

If you get it, you get it. It's also okay if you don't 🫶. Thanks, @nightshadesmag.bsky.social, for sharing this over the weekend! www.nightshadesmag.com/your-head/

i can’t really pull another quote from @monicalyrehart.bsky.social’s new piece without giving the whole thing away … it’s so short and weird! 👁️👁️

you don’t know where this one is going, i promise

👁️👁️ new one from @monicalyrehart.bsky.social “You keep your eyes on the clock and your breakfast, the analog arms ticking red circles in your syrupy stack.” www.nightshadesmag.com/your-head/

you don’t know where this one is going, i promise

👁️👁️ new one from @monicalyrehart.bsky.social “You keep your eyes on the clock and your breakfast, the analog arms ticking red circles in your syrupy stack.” www.nightshadesmag.com/your-head/

🛸 new story in the morning 🛸 🛸 NS publishes 2 stories a month and pays $75 flat for 500 words max. that’s a pro rate 🛸 NS is for speculative fiction. short and strange! 🛸 subscribe via email for free www.nightshadesmag.com

🛸🛸 submissions are closed and all replies have gone out 🛸🛸 if you haven’t heard from me please query

🛸🛸 closing tonight at 11:59pm eastern! send me your stuff. new for this call if you got a rejection you can submit again! no rights pro pay sim subs ok!!

🛸 i’m going to close submissions on monday march 16 at 11:59 pm. submissions sent after that (even one minute!) will be deleted unread. but i’ll be open again soon. 🛸 if you haven’t heard back from me as of this post you’re in my read again folder and you’ll hear by end of the day monday

🛸🛸”I want to be a bear. I want to do some damage. That’s how angry I am. But the best I can manage is panda.” 🛸🛸from Justin Ocelot www.nightshadesmag.com/in-my-world/

🛸🛸 welcome to Justin Ocelot’s world 🛸🛸 “So I send you an invitation and a first-class ticket. The glass rocking horse will collect you at the station. The glass key will let you in.” www.nightshadesmag.com/in-my-world/