I’m published! Super stoked to debut my short story “The Stranger in Apartment 3A, First Floor.” Thank you so much to the team at Cetera Magazine for the opportunity ❤️ #writingcommunity

A dead girl haunts her old apartment’s new tenant, only to discover grief can trap the living and the dead alike. Read or listen to "The Stranger in Apartment 3A, First Floor" by @miravlevywrites.bsky.social. Artwork by @jonnegroni.bsky.social www.ceteramagazine.com/the-stranger...

This week's new short story is "Notch: The Lost Years" by Patricia Caspers. Part Magical Realism, part Queer Coming-of-Age, and totally unexpected. Edits and artwork by @jonnegroni.bsky.social www.ceteramagazine.com/notch-the-lo...

A god of cold is dragged from extinction to retrieve a stolen child. He has no idea what the child is capable of. "Cold Genius" is a new fantasy short story by Daria Agad that expands the King Arthur aria. Edited by Natalia Emmons and Jon Negroni. Artwork by @jonnegroni.bsky.social

Our first poetry issue is officially live and free to download. "The Things That Survive Us "collects 11 poems from 10 poets, each one documenting a different aspect of afterlife in real life. www.ceteramagazine.com/cetera-poetr...

Thrilled to share my dark fiction story, The Big Black Square, which was published today in @ceteramagazine.bsky.social. A woman returns to her hometown, where an unusual building has been constructed. No one will tell her a thing about it. Peep the incredible artwork by @jonnegroni.bsky.social

A woman returns home to a town reshaped by a black cube that promises happiness and delivers something else. Read or listen to "The Big Black Square," a new short story by Kasey Soska for free. Edited by Natalia Emmons. Artwork by @jonnegroni.bsky.social www.ceteramagazine.com/the-big-blac...

A vampire on his death bed meets a young girl who tests both his patience and his religion. Read or listen to "Starving for Salvation" by E.J. LeRoy for free. Edited by Natalia Emmons. Artwork by Jon Negroni. www.ceteramagazine.com/starving-for...

my newest short story is called "Second Run" and I do hope you read it because it centers around a dollar theater

A woman in her 30s leaves her corporate job to go work at her hometown movie theater, and she can't seem to figure out why. "Second Run" is a new literary short story by @jonnegroni.bsky.social and is free to read now. Art by Jon Negroni. Edited by Natalia Emmons. www.ceteramagazine.com/second-run/

If you have a poem that fits this themed call, we want to read it! We're putting together our first digital issue of the magazine and have four poems already in the wings. I'm already starting illustration for the artwork, it's gonna be a good time.

We're now accepting poetry submissions for our inaugural digital issue, which will be centered around the theme: "The Things That Survive Us." Check out our submission guidelines for more info: www.ceteramagazine.com/submit-to-ce...

We're approaching the anniversary of our first published short story for the magazine. Check out "To Feel Like a Person Again" (with audio version included) written by @jonnegroni.bsky.social and edited by Natalia Emmons: www.ceteramagazine.com/to-feel-like...

A former mercenary struggles to lead a rag-tag team of soldiers across a colonized planet that is desperate to kill them. We're thrilled to share our first sci-fi short story by author C. Inanen, now available to read or listen to below! www.ceteramagazine.com/hanh-tinh-th...

My short story "The Empathy Gig" is the 40th story/poem to be published on @ceteramagazine.bsky.social! This is a speculative romance about a world where dating apps have been replaced with "heart drones" that manipulate people's emotions while they're on dates. It's weird I guess!

i wrote a gentrification horror story where a broke copywriter invents fake families for a redevelopment company and then watches them become real. definitely not based on a true story, for sure! it's called LITTLE GOOD PEOPLE and hey look at that you can read it for free!

The Caller Isn't Human #inktober #art #procreate

#ShortStory #BodyHorror #SpeculativeFiction #FreeToRead

wrote a body horror story for @ceteramagazine.bsky.social about what happens when you can literally sell your feelings to strangers "A disgraced influencer sells her emotions as consumable flavors. But the technology under her tongue has plans of its own." It's weird! Enjoy!

holy crap. apparently ireland passed a living wage for artists. this is something every country should have—particularly in the states.

It's horror month at Cetera Magazine, so this week I'm publishing a short story I've been dreading to share for deeply personal reasons. But I'm so glad it's finally out! Here's "Housekeeping for the Dead" (with an audio version where partway through I start crying!) @ceteramagazine.bsky.social

Horror month at @ceteramagazine.bsky.social continues with a bonus short story just for our members! "The Ghost Census" follows a nonbinary necromancer named Kye who is tasked with counting the votes for if humanity gets to continue another century. And the ones placing the votes are the dead...

artwork for Thursday's story and it's an emotional one

We're kicking off our October of Horror with (you guessed it) a new horror short story by Natalia Emmons. Audio version narrated by @jonnegroni.bsky.social Read "The Morrow Twins" if you dare...

From our archives, and absolute honesty this short story might be my personal favorite we’ve ever published. Kicks the teeth of the entertainment industry and how America makes a commodity out of death. By @jonnegroni.bsky.social

Over at @ceteramagazine.bsky.social we'll soon be kicking off our "October of Horror" with a gothic horror debut from our managing editor Natalia Emmons. Here's a sneak peak at the artwork she did for her piece, "The Morrow Twins!"

We will only be publishing horror stories for the entirety of October! Our goal is to cover a different subgenre each week from gothic to slasher and plenty in between. If you haven't already, become a free subscriber so you never miss a story from us. ceteramagazine.com

I am so so so excited to share this story!! Really proud of how it turned out and how Natalia's edits made it actually releasable

Our new short fiction this week. "I Am the Wolf, I Am the Boy" is a dark romantic fantasy about a bard who finds a cursed prince in the woods. The cursed prince tells him almost in the first breath: "Do not love me."

Anybody can write something tidy. Anybody can play it safe. But if you never risk making something crooked, you’ll never get to that moment where the work feels alive, where it even scares you a little.

Our story for Thursday is shaping up nicely...

The clock is ticking on submitting your story to Chestnut Review for their Winter Issue. Keep in mind they allow free prose submissions for Black and Indigenous authors: chestnutreview.submittable.com/submit

"Juan Albizú had always been an industrious man. His shop, a narrow sliver of whitewashed stone wedged between the haberdasher and the baker’s wife’s miserable excuse for a confectionary, was a place of unimpeachable respectability."

Truly one of the best interpretations of Arthurian legend in modern times. We need more books pushing for this type of innovative storytelling that is both fresh and familiar without compromising character and cultural commentary.

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"Men used to ask for our siren songs. Now they ask if we’re real. Real enough to kill them."

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