Allan Dyen-Shapiro · @Allan_author_SF
384 followers · 255 posts · Server wandering.shop

Cooking this morning, following six weekends of intensive writing for Weekend Warrior with other folks, I came across the natural sea salt, as I needed to salt the cut-up eggplant. It occurred to me, what would "unnatural sea salt" be? I'm imagining eldritch cosmic horrors emerging from a cylindrical container in the kitchen corner.

This idea is sufficiently stupid that I might try getting to write the story for me, hoping for unintentional humor.

#flashfiction #Codexian #chatgpt

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro · @Allan_author_SF
372 followers · 250 posts · Server wandering.shop

And one more great 2022 story from a . @slhuang wrote this one in the style of a journalist--think The Atlantic or Rolling Stone--and managed to rope in a lot of real stuff about AI, complete with hyperlinks. The story you think you're reading changes into a very different one. Loved it.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/huang

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro · @Allan_author_SF
372 followers · 249 posts · Server wandering.shop

Still catching up on 2022 , this one by @divyastweets is a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. It had some very clever twists that I enjoyed.

uncannymagazine.com/article/tw

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro · @Allan_author_SF
366 followers · 241 posts · Server wandering.shop

More reading of 2022 output, "A Dream of Electric Mothers" by Wole Talabi, in the Africa Risen anthology, is a very cool take on the uploading of consciousnesses set amidst rising conflict between two far-future nations roughly corresponding to Benin and Nigeria. The resolution of the interior arc was my favorite part. Available as a .pdf for SFWA members on the SFWA site.

#Codexian #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon #writingcommunity #afrofuturism #amreadingscifi #amreadingsciencefiction

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro · @Allan_author_SF
366 followers · 239 posts · Server wandering.shop

Getting toward the end of my in-box full of written by a in 2022. I liked this one by @michaelhaynes a lot. A feel-good story about a magical guitar that went places I never expected it to. Enjoy! havenspec.com/carolina

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro · @Allan_author_SF
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A 48-hour contest posts to the Codex loop. The prompt will drop at 10 am the same day that the Weekend Warrior Week #2 prompt posts at 9 pm. Yeah, right. I can't do both. I work today. But the prompt entices. It's a great prompt. I get home, write furiously, and at 8:45 pm, I am one read-through tomorrow morning from submitting. Thirteen more minutes until I check the Codex loop. Boo-yah!

#flashfiction #Codexian #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon #writing #writingcommunity #writinglife

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro · @Allan_author_SF
350 followers · 223 posts · Server wandering.shop

And that's one more with all critique incorporated, polished up, and out the door to a market before this year's Codex Weekend Warrior flash fiction competition consumes most of my writing time for the next seven weeks.

#shortstory #Codexian #amwriting #amwritingscifi #amwritingsciencefiction #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon #writinglife #writerslife #writingcommunity #AmSubmitting

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro · @Allan_author_SF
312 followers · 185 posts · Server wandering.shop

I'd seen this from a fellow in draft form in a Codex contest. Yeah, I was the one who came in from another division, voted it 10/10, and told the others they were crazy for not loving this one. Absolutely hysterical. I could hear Laser Squid's booming voice in my head as I read it.

escapepod.org/2022/08/18/escap

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro · @Allan_author_SF
293 followers · 174 posts · Server wandering.shop

Excellent by Evan Marcroft in the May/June 2022 issue of Asimov's: "Coyoteland." First encountered it on the crit loop. Strongly recommended. Unfortunately, only accessible to s or Asimov's subscribers. Like an updated version of Zelazny's Damnation Alley, but with the trip being in the opposite direction.

#shortstory #Codexian #dystopia #amreadingscifi #amreading #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro · @Allan_author_SF
277 followers · 156 posts · Server wandering.shop

Wow! This story is by a keeping their identity secret. My suspicion is that they are a scientist who doesn't want protestors at their door. Their pen-name is part of the sequence of a variant. And the details of the procedure that undergird the story definitely sound like someone who has done some of these techniques. (PhD biochemist here; I know of what I speak). This story is angry, angry at the denial of women's body autonomy. Read it. Get angry. lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction

#Codexian #crispr

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Allan Dyen-Shapiro · @Allan_author_SF
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Fellow @nassos has written one of the best examples I've seen of the tale told as direct address to a character (think Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, for example) I've ever read. Enjoy! uncannymagazine.com/article/th

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Clayton Hackett · @Hackett
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Rachel Kolar · @RachelKolar
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Doing a new intro post now that I'm on a new server:

Hi! I'm Rachel. I wrote a book for kids and also dark fantasy/horror comedy shorts for adults. I love , especially . Most of my posts on mindly.social were either or related (especially and , though I like sff also). I'm a queer progressive Catholic, but Catholic Twitter was so toxic that I'm hesitant to engage with Cathstodon.

#halloween #ttrpgs #ravenloft #dnd #bookstodon #HorrorBooks #fantasybooks #romancebooks #kidlit #scbwi #Codexian

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Julie C. Day · @thisjulieday
207 followers · 67 posts · Server mastodon.lol

Hello👋 Introduction Redux! (I just moved servers.) I'm a writer who tends to go short, tends to go dark, and always ends up landing on surreal and unexpected. I have 2 , 2 , a partner, and offspring. My latest story is coming out in the final issue of . I'm also the & in chief of Essential Dreams Press. Our latest themed charity anthology came out Nov.1. Truly enjoying Mastodon!

#greyhounds #cats #blackstatic #publisher #editor #mastodonmigration #writingcommunity #sff #Codexian #sfwa #smallpress

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Julie C. Day · @thisjulieday
151 followers · 1 posts · Server mastodon.lol

Introduction Redux! (I just moved servers.) I'm a writer who tends to go short, tends to go dark & always ends up landing on surreal & unexpected. I have 2 , 2 , a partner & offspring. My latest story is coming out in the final issue of any moment now. I'm also the & in chief of Essential Dreams Press. Our latest themed charity anthology came out Nov.1. Truly enjoying Mastodon!

#greyhounds #cats #blackstatic #publisher #editor #mastodonmigration #writingcommunity #sff #Codexian #sfwa #smallpress

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Isabel Cañas · @isabelcanas
466 followers · 320 posts · Server wandering.shop

now that I'm done with my PhD and won't be slammed by teaching/dissertation writing, i might... actually... do... weekend warrior this year? :blobuwu:

#codex #flashfiction #Codexian

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R. Leigh Hennig · @semioticstandard
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Brilliant. A while back, fellow and pro research analyst Bob McHugh did a survey of 100 pro SFF/horror writers:

"The idea behind this survey is to gauge the attitudes of writers and editors fairly plugged into the current speculative fiction landscape towards some common divisive topics, to discover which subjects are actually hard sells, and which are just a tad tricky."

Check out the results: rejectionletter.substack.com/p

#Codexian #writing #submissions

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Isabel Cañas · @isabelcanas
292 followers · 211 posts · Server wandering.shop

are award eligibility posts a thing we're doing here? 🤔

#sff #Codexian #sfwa

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Isabel Cañas · @isabelcanas
292 followers · 211 posts · Server wandering.shop

new followers = Intro post with a zillion dorky hashtags!

I'm a writer, graduate of , , & current student living in and . PhD from UChicago in . I'm the author of the novel The Hacienda! I write , , dark & spooky , shiny , and . My can be found in the Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fireside, and more!

#latinx #sff #clarionwest #Codexian #odyssey #nyc #pnw #medieval #IslamicHistory #gothichorror #ya #historicalfantasy #fantasy #spacefantasy #magicalrealism #shortfiction #writingcommunity #litmag

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Yilin Wang · @yilinwriter
817 followers · 336 posts · Server wandering.shop

I haven't been on for a while but in fact I am a ! Hello to fellow Codexians moving to mastodon 👋

#codex #Codexian

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