🛸 night shades is back, it’s gonna be ok 🛸 read the newest from @susanllin.bsky.social, who presents us with a tiny mystery

🛸🛸🛸 Read @susanllin.bsky.social’s short, sharp little mystery. New this week! 🛸🛸🛸 www.nightshadesmag.com/all-i-could-...

🛸🛸🛸 Read @susanllin.bsky.social’s short, sharp little mystery. New this week! 🛸🛸🛸 www.nightshadesmag.com/all-i-could-...

New story today from @susanllin.bsky.social “A detective bearing a shovel rang my doorbell, hoping to dig up whatever I knew.” www.nightshadesmag.com/all-i-could-...

🛸 night shades is back, it’s gonna be ok 🛸 read the newest from @susanllin.bsky.social, who presents us with a tiny mystery

New story today from @susanllin.bsky.social “A detective bearing a shovel rang my doorbell, hoping to dig up whatever I knew.” www.nightshadesmag.com/all-i-could-...

🛸🛸🛸new story tomorrow! did you know you can subscribe and get the stories in your email? some folks find that helpful for keeping up with publications 🛸🛸🛸once a week, just the story. no ads or nonsense from me. an option which exists! www.nightshadesmag.com

ok i’ve been through all the submissions. if you haven’t heard back from me, please query

My cosmic horror “Root Words” will be out in sarossf.com in February alongside these stellar writers! I’m super excited.

I have a new story in a shared world anthology coming out Feb 24- "Wolves Always Howl Twice" where a rabbit PI gets the client of their dreams and a nightmare of a case Pre-orders are up now for Animal Noir books2read.com/animalnoir

My "artist stuck in a time loop trying to save her sword wife" short story will be out in A Breath Of Time this march :) www.flametreepublishing.com/a-breath-of-...

night shades authors, what do you have going on/coming up? reply here with books coming out, new stories getting published, awards being won

🛸🛸 no new story this week as it’s a fifth friday. i’ll be reading and responding to submissions (we are closed) and you should look back at the archive and find something you love www.nightshadesmag.com

“I was bog-standard startled there was someone in our kitchen. Kieran was startled even further, given as his mother had died when he was ten.” a visitation, from @annacarlakahn.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/salt/

new one today from @annacarlakahn.bsky.social missing someone is like its own sense

new one today from @annacarlakahn.bsky.social missing someone is like its own sense

I've got a story in the delightful Night Shades!

“I was bog-standard startled there was someone in our kitchen. Kieran was startled even further, given as his mother had died when he was ten.” a visitation, from @annacarlakahn.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/salt/

🛸🛸🛸 HEADS UP!🛸🛸🛸 🛸🛸I’m closing submissions on Sunday January 25 at 11:59pm eastern. Late submissions, even by a minute, are deleted unread 🛸🛸But I’ll be open again soon, possibly with new guidelines! please stay tuned 🛸🛸meantime, send me those stories!

take a good long look …. so you can be sure of what you saw 🛸 new one from D.S. Burton

🛸🛸🛸 HEADS UP!🛸🛸🛸 🛸🛸I’m closing submissions on Sunday January 25 at 11:59pm eastern. Late submissions, even by a minute, are deleted unread 🛸🛸But I’ll be open again soon, possibly with new guidelines! please stay tuned 🛸🛸meantime, send me those stories!

take a good long look …. so you can be sure of what you saw 🛸 new one from D.S. Burton

“Part of me wondered how many angles you’d painted yourself from, on those eight or ten or fifteen canvases that barricaded you from the other students.” strange tales from the community centre art class, by D.S. Burton www.nightshadesmag.com/arachnophobia/

Thank you so much @iamchrisscott.bsky.social for the kind words about my piece in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social! Honored to be selected among so many wonderful writers!

Happy to say that my story "Things in Threes," published in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social, was selected for inclusion in the Best Microfiction 2026 collection. Very excited about this! I'll provide more info on availability of the collection once I have it. :)

“Part of me wondered how many angles you’d painted yourself from, on those eight or ten or fifteen canvases that barricaded you from the other students.” strange tales from the community centre art class, by D.S. Burton www.nightshadesmag.com/arachnophobia/

🛸 new story this week from D.S. Burton. 🛸 it creeps up on you

🛸 new story this week from D.S. Burton. 🛸 it creeps up on you

“You know, I used to think you were my doppelgänger. I got this notion from strands of hair, skin, and sweater vests glimpsed between canvas.” 🛸🛸 from D.S. Burton www.nightshadesmag.com/arachnophobia/

“You know, I used to think you were my doppelgänger. I got this notion from strands of hair, skin, and sweater vests glimpsed between canvas.” 🛸🛸 from D.S. Burton www.nightshadesmag.com/arachnophobia/

new story coming tomorrow. wish it was your pub day? well you gotta play to win baby… we’re open! www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

still open! response time is about 2-24 hours right now so send me something to read and i’ll get back to you super fast (also if you haven’t heard as of right now 5:20 eastern on jan 8, please query)

"A Tall Glass of Water," by Xochilt Avila @xavilawrites.bsky.social in Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social Fiction that truly goes by all in a flash, but so fucking fantastic - it's fun, it's funny, it's hot, it hurts. www.nightshadesmag.com/ns-a-tall-gl...

“But a soul was a fish in a trap, you see: midway through an open hole it couldn’t find its way out.” a tale of woe, from @bric-a-bryce.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/bottle-green...

“That Old Nick would whistle, and the voice in every bottle would come alive. Bottle-green, bottle-blue, (bottle-clarity that usually meant you had reached the bottom) every soul hummed in his bottle rack before he’d even touched them.” www.nightshadesmag.com/bottle-green...

🛸🛸why not spend your saturday on stories 🛸🛸new on here from @bric-a-bryce.bsky.social

“That Old Nick would whistle, and the voice in every bottle would come alive. Bottle-green, bottle-blue, (bottle-clarity that usually meant you had reached the bottom) every soul hummed in his bottle rack before he’d even touched them.” www.nightshadesmag.com/bottle-green...

new story today!

“But a soul was a fish in a trap, you see: midway through an open hole it couldn’t find its way out.” a tale of woe, from @bric-a-bryce.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/bottle-green...

still open! response time is about 2-24 hours right now so send me something to read and i’ll get back to you super fast (also if you haven’t heard as of right now 5:20 eastern on jan 8, please query)

i’m clearing the inbox like every other day right now so if you’d like a quick response send me something!

🛸 another first publication, my favorite thing to publish :) 🛸 give alice some eyes on this please

🛸 another first publication, my favorite thing to publish :) 🛸 give alice some eyes on this please

“I saw the bloodshed and heard the screaming but I was there, with my Swiss Army knife, thinking it was the right thing to do.” a tale of revolution (and a first publication!) new today from Alice Webb-Smith. www.nightshadesmag.com/red-dawn/

“I swung my knife around, again and again and again until I found a gun, and even then I made sure it was not one of their guns, the guns that made you into a soldier whether you wanted it or not …” from Alice Webb-Smith www.nightshadesmag.com/red-dawn/

“I saw the bloodshed and heard the screaming but I was there, with my Swiss Army knife, thinking it was the right thing to do.” a tale of revolution (and a first publication!) new today from Alice Webb-Smith. www.nightshadesmag.com/red-dawn/

“I swung my knife around, again and again and again until I found a gun, and even then I made sure it was not one of their guns, the guns that made you into a soldier whether you wanted it or not …” from Alice Webb-Smith www.nightshadesmag.com/red-dawn/

new story coming tomorrow. wish it was your pub day? well you gotta play to win baby… we’re open! www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

night shades is OPEN! 🛸 500 words max, any speculative 🛸 sim subs ok (multiples not) 🛸 quick response and pro+ pay please read the guidelines! www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025 Shelter in Place by @hanmarin.bsky.social in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/shelter-in-p...