“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/

🛸🛸”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/

🛸hello from the awp registration line i live here now 🛸catch up on the latest while you’re waiting

🛸big week in night shades world 🛸🛸it’s the first week of the new $75 flat rate. only 2 stories this month! 🛸🛸we’re still open for subs! 🛸🛸i’ll be lurking awp with stickers! 🛸much to consider

“This is how I know the gun is in my mouth. It’s not transparent. It would block the pathway to her insides. With the plan being that it would make a new one.” 🛸🛸🛸 from Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece www.nightshadesmag.com/saddled/

“This is how I know the gun is in my mouth. It’s not transparent. It would block the pathway to her insides. With the plan being that it would make a new one.” 🛸🛸🛸 from Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece www.nightshadesmag.com/saddled/

ok you’ve been at it all weekend take a break from the news and read jocelyn’s story 🛸🛸a freaker-outer but in a different way than current events

🛸big week in night shades world 🛸🛸it’s the first week of the new $75 flat rate. only 2 stories this month! 🛸🛸we’re still open for subs! 🛸🛸i’ll be lurking awp with stickers! 🛸much to consider