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🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.13/word. nightshadesmag.com
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🛸ok i’m going to close submissions this coming sunday november 9 at 11:59pm eastern. 🛸as always, anything sent even a minute late will be deleted unread! so you have five more days to send me your best stuff. 🛸pro pay! no rights! sim/sub ok! fast response!
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“The wolf howls in the eye of the serpent storm. All is obscured by the scorch of the earth from your fingers. Hidden, stars fall as mercury in a tube.” 🛸🛸 this week’s story is by
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
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A Refracted Truth
by Mizuki Yamamoto You strike a match. It is neither to see better in the dark or for warmth. You are beyond such basic desires. You strike a match with glee. For pleasure. For no reason but the sen...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/a-refracted-truth/
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“The wolf howls in the eye of the serpent storm. All is obscured by the scorch of the earth from your fingers. Hidden, stars fall as mercury in a tube.” 🛸🛸 this week’s story is by
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/a-refracted-...
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A Refracted Truth
by Mizuki Yamamoto You strike a match. It is neither to see better in the dark or for warmth. You are beyond such basic desires. You strike a match with glee. For pleasure. For no reason but the sen...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/a-refracted-truth/
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weirdly had a fire close to me today. smoke and ash here’s one on theme from
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weirdly had a fire close to me today. smoke and ash here’s one on theme from
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
add a skeleton here at some point
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🛸🛸 new today from
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
“It is easy to assume things about air, a blank canvas for projects of human imagination and for refracted perceptions.”
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A Refracted Truth
by Mizuki Yamamoto You strike a match. It is neither to see better in the dark or for warmth. You are beyond such basic desires. You strike a match with glee. For pleasure. For no reason but the sen...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/a-refracted-truth/
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🛸🛸 new today from
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
“It is easy to assume things about air, a blank canvas for projects of human imagination and for refracted perceptions.”
www.nightshadesmag.com/a-refracted-...
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A Refracted Truth
by Mizuki Yamamoto You strike a match. It is neither to see better in the dark or for warmth. You are beyond such basic desires. You strike a match with glee. For pleasure. For no reason but the sen...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/a-refracted-truth/
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🛸ok i’m going to close submissions this coming sunday november 9 at 11:59pm eastern. 🛸as always, anything sent even a minute late will be deleted unread! so you have five more days to send me your best stuff. 🛸pro pay! no rights! sim/sub ok! fast response!
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i just caught up the inbox yesterday so please query if you sent something before october 28!
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🛸 i’m going to stay open a bit longer! how long? who can say … so if you want to send something send it sooner 🛸 but you have until the 7th at the very least
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🛸 no new story this week, as it’s a fifth friday 🛸 get caught up on the archive, or write something for our ongoing open call
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Night Shades
Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/
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we’re still open. we have a lot of spots to fill! pro pay 🛸 send your weirdest
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perhaps a story to kick off your weekend? new one here 🛸🛸
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perhaps a story to kick off your weekend? new one here 🛸🛸
add a skeleton here at some point
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new story from
@radicaledward.bsky.social
🛸 hand in hand 🛸 until the end
www.nightshadesmag.com/boys-like-us/
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Boys Like Us
By e rathke Couldn’t deny the way the sky lit up with fire made me fall in love with you. With our masks filtering the smoke smothering the stars, no one saw the way I smiled when you took my hand. ...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/boys-like-us/
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new story from
@radicaledward.bsky.social
🛸 hand in hand 🛸 until the end
www.nightshadesmag.com/boys-like-us/
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Boys Like Us
By e rathke Couldn’t deny the way the sky lit up with fire made me fall in love with you. With our masks filtering the smoke smothering the stars, no one saw the way I smiled when you took my hand. ...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/boys-like-us/
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happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday
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night shades is OPEN for submissions 🛸 pro pay 🛸 500 words max 🛸 all speculative 🛸 quick response/ simul. ok 🛸 looking for 23 stories this time guest reader for this call is
@leilasedai.bsky.social
🛸 beam em to us!
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Night Shades
Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/
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happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday
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“The next day mom says we’re not going to Happy Kingdom with my friends this weekend, but I’m invited to Janie’s birthday - isn’t that nice?” 🎂 Chris Clemens got you a present
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All the Birthdays
by Chris Clemens After the exhausted bunnies and deflated bouncy-castle are discarded from Janie Ratzinger’s party, it’s time for cake. A pink monstrosity piled with melting Barbies drips in the summ...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/all-the-birthdays/
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new story new story new story🎂 this one has sticky fingers and a scary smile 🎂🎂🎂
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night shades is OPEN for submissions 🛸 pro pay 🛸 500 words max 🛸 all speculative 🛸 quick response/ simul. ok 🛸 looking for 23 stories this time guest reader for this call is
@leilasedai.bsky.social
🛸 beam em to us!
www.nightshadesmag.com
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Night Shades
Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/
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new story new story new story🎂 this one has sticky fingers and a scary smile 🎂🎂🎂
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“The next day mom says we’re not going to Happy Kingdom with my friends this weekend, but I’m invited to Janie’s birthday - isn’t that nice?” 🎂 Chris Clemens got you a present
www.nightshadesmag.com/all-the-birt...
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All the Birthdays
by Chris Clemens After the exhausted bunnies and deflated bouncy-castle are discarded from Janie Ratzinger’s party, it’s time for cake. A pink monstrosity piled with melting Barbies drips in the summ...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/all-the-birthdays/
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important news! night shades will open for submissions again this coming friday october 17. 🛸 staying open to fill the calendar, 23 spots. all the details are here :
www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
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Submissions
Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is opening October 17, 2025. Staying open until the calendar is full through April. There ar...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
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important news! night shades will open for submissions again this coming friday october 17. 🛸 staying open to fill the calendar, 23 spots. all the details are here :
www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
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Submissions
Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is opening October 17, 2025. Staying open until the calendar is full through April. There ar...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
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short sunday siren story 👇
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“Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover.” 🛸 new story from Megan Baffoe
www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysant...
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The Chrysanthemum
by Megan Baffoe Thirty-eight men were lost to the sirens, and one chrysanthemum. Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover. Maybe. I’d heard the o...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysanthemum/
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“Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover.” 🛸 new story from Megan Baffoe
www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysant...
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The Chrysanthemum
by Megan Baffoe Thirty-eight men were lost to the sirens, and one chrysanthemum. Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover. Maybe. I’d heard the o...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysanthemum/
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this new one from Megan Baffoe has one of my favorite sentences i’ve published so far. 🛸🛸🛸 get your socks knocked off by this one
www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysant...
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The Chrysanthemum
by Megan Baffoe Thirty-eight men were lost to the sirens, and one chrysanthemum. Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover. Maybe. I’d heard the o...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysanthemum/
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this new one from Megan Baffoe has one of my favorite sentences i’ve published so far. 🛸🛸🛸 get your socks knocked off by this one
www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysant...
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The Chrysanthemum
by Megan Baffoe Thirty-eight men were lost to the sirens, and one chrysanthemum. Why did the boy offer it? They say it was the song, that he thought he was greeting a lover. Maybe. I’d heard the o...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/the-chrysanthemum/
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comin’ out of my cage and I’ve been doin’ just fine 🛸🛸
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comin’ out of my cage and I’ve been doin’ just fine 🛸🛸
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🛸 “… we never managed to communicate let alone conspire.” 🛸 a choice 🛸 from
@pbarmby.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/
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Blackout
by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/
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🛸 “… we never managed to communicate let alone conspire.” 🛸 a choice 🛸 from
@pbarmby.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/
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Blackout
by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/
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🛸🛸 new today 🛸🛸 a spare little space horror from
@pbarmby.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/
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Blackout
by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/
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🛸🛸 new today 🛸🛸 a spare little space horror from
@pbarmby.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/
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Blackout
by Pauline Barmby Gravity, lights, and my restraints fail. I extricate the needle; blood sludges down my arm. I drag myself along the ship’s frigid metal wall, passing writhing sentients of many spe...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/blackout/
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new story tomorrow. catch up on the most recent stories. you can expect: 🛷 🦀 🦷 💀
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ghost mom is here now, too 🛸🛸🛸
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ghost mom is here now, too 🛸🛸🛸
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i think this month has been a banger. spend part of your sunday catching up
www.nightshadesmag.com/tag/issue-5/
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Issue 5 - Night Shades
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/tag/issue-5/
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let Ghost Mom haunt your weekend 🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson
www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/
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Ghost Mom
by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/
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let Ghost Mom haunt your weekend 🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson
www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/
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Ghost Mom
by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/
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“Silence was lightning before Ghost Mom thundered the shit out of you.” 🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson
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🛸🛸oh no. it’s Ghost Mom. 🛸🛸new today from Sophie Ann Hinkson
www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/
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Ghost Mom
by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/
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“Silence was lightning before Ghost Mom thundered the shit out of you.” 🛸🛸 Sophie Ann Hinkson
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🛸🛸oh no. it’s Ghost Mom. 🛸🛸new today from Sophie Ann Hinkson
www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/
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Ghost Mom
by Sophie Ann Hinkson Ghost Mom lives in countries she has never visited. She’s the invisible worm that enters your ear and finds her way to your brain. She cannot reach your heart, though, and this ...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/ghost-mom/
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click through to see
@culagovski.net
’s photos which inspired his story A Track of Color Among the Wars
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🛸🛸catch up on the latest from
@reasie.bsky.social
🛸🛸before a new story drops tomorrow 🦷🦷🦷
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Marie Vibbert
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I got capricious and wrote an abecedarian:
www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...
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At the Library of Teeth
by Marie Vibbert At the library of teeth, you will find a truth you had forgotten. Begin in the comfortable colors of the children’s room. Comb through bicuspids like lentils and molars like castings...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-library-of-teeth/?ref=night-shades-newsletter
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