A new story of mine just dropped, and it's the bleakest one yet. It's also one for the musicians of the world, with gratitude. Eternal thanks to Fred Coppersmith at Kaleidotrope for seeing past all that ghastliness... #SFF #Kaleidotrope #musician

(C/W scaffold violence) https://kaleidotrope.net/summer-2023/niru-wallowed-by-ranylt-richildis/

In case you missed it—and trust me, you don’t want to miss this!—there’s a new issue of Kaleidotrope this week!

The Winter 2023 issue, full of a dozen fantastic stories and nearly as many equally fantastic poems, is now live at www.kaleidotrope.net!
#stories #poems #poetry #fiction #FreeReads #kaleidotrope #zines

In this week’s Kaleidonotes—Kaleidotrope’s weekly newsletter—@Mari_Ness discusses how her poem “Beneath the Palace Dictionary Last Evil Mars Moth Sleeps” was inspired by a word cloud from an earlier Kaleidotrope issue. And it occurred to me that I hadn’t posted one of those in a little while.

So here, then, are all the words that appear in all the stories in the Winter 2023 issue of Kaleidotrope. May it inspire you too! #stories #words #kaleidotrope

Plus stunning artwork by Aylin S Erkan! #art #artwork #kaleidotrope

I hope you'll enjoy the Winter 2023 issue and help spread the word! www.kaleidotrope.net

The new issue features a dozen new stories by Rachel Rodman, Gregory Norman Bossert, A.J. Hammer, Eden Frenkel, Fernanda Castro, Louise Hughes, Beth Goder,Jennifer Lee Rossman, Shelly Jones, Archita Mittra, Michael Canfield, and H. Pueyo! #fiction #stories #kaleidotrope

And 8 new poems by Robert Borski, Bruce McAllister, Annika Barranti Klein, Charles Payseur, Zana Ali, Chris J. Bahnsen, Brian Hugenbruch, and Lynne Sargent! #poems #poetry #kaleidotrope

Meanwhile, eBook copies of the Winter 2023 issue have now been emailed to Patreon supporters. If you’d like a copy too—and you’d like to help support each issue with just a couple bucks a month—be sure to sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/kaleidotropezine #patreon #kaleidotrope #ezines

Today's #sffshortsclub story is "The Alternity of Dead Universes," by #MonteLin, published in #Kaleidotrope!

>The Alternity, a council of sentient dead universes, has come to watch another universe die, but receives a puzzling message broadcasted on all frequencies.<

Story here: https://kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/spring-2022/the-alternity-of-dead-universes-by-monte-lin/

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#sff #ShortFiction #bookclub @shortsff @bookstodon
#AlternityOfDeadUniverses

Hey, friends of the #sffshortsclub!

Our next selection is "The Alternity of Dead Universes," by Monte Lin, published in Kaleidotrope!

Read it here: https://kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/spring-2022/the-alternity-of-dead-universes-by-monte-lin/

I'll open discussion on SUNDAY, be sure to check the #sffshortsclub tag to join in!

This story was recommended by @elisec — and we're always happy for new recommendations! Thank you, Elise!

#sff #ShortFiction #bookclub @shortsff #MonteLin #Kaleidotrope

Right now, Kaleidotrope’s weekly newsletter is called “Kaleidotropes,” because my brand management is just that much on point.

Should I rename the newsletter? What should I call it? #kaleidotrope #newsletters #names

Kaleidotrope published 50 short stories and 30 poems in 2022. That's a lot—more than a 50% increase over the year before! So you might have missed some of it.

But you can still find all of it, free to read, right here: https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/kaleidotrope-2022/

#AwardsEligibility #kaleidotrope #ShortStories #Poetry #SFF

Find out why the caged bird slings in Robert Jeschonek’s new flash story, “Requiem for a Bird-Slinger.”

https://kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2022/requiem-for-a-bird-slinger-by-robert-jeschonek/

#freefiction #kaleidotrope #stories #flash

You'll find some fantastic stuff in the Kaleidotrope newsletter that you won't find anywhere else—like weird thingamabobs from the archives, or detailed notes from the authors about their stories and poems! http://tinyletter.com/Kaleidotrope #kaleidotrope #newsletters #magazines #stuff

Well this is a problem that needs fixing! #kaleidotrope

Hey, if you’re a #kaleidotrope author on here and I haven’t followed you yet, let me know!