How about another story?

I loved "Where Are You Right Now?" by @culagovski in Translunar Travelers Lounge
http://translunartravelerslounge.com/2023/02/15/where-are-you-right-now-by-rodrigo-culagovski/

#SFF #SpeculativeFiction #ShortSFF #ShortStory

In the run up to opening for submissions in October I thought I'd share some of the stories that helped to inspire the zine.

First up is "Away With the Wolves" by Sarah Gailey in @UncannyMagazine
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/away-with-the-wolves/

#SFF #ShortSFF #ShortFiction #ShortStories #Fantasy

We have a special interest in speculative stories
- about neurodiversity
- about mental health, psycho-emotional distress, or Madness
- about the perspectives and experiences of marginalised groups.
But we're open to everyone, and we want to know how it feels to be *you*. We'll walk with you in the dark places, but we'd love to read about your joy and pleasure too!
http://www.inner-worlds.org

#ShortSFF #SFFH #SpeculativeFiction #LitMags

For anyone reading my story in @SmallWondersSFF this week, I wrote a tiny bit about it's writing on my website, here:

https://louisehugheswrites.wordpress.com/2023/08/21/new-story-the-only-way-out/

#writingcommunity #shortsff

New short story!

In which a taxi driver, helping those in need, receives an unexpected request.

My flash piece in Issue 2 of @SmallWondersSFF is free to read from today on their website:

https://smallwondersmag.com/pieces/the-only-way-out/

#writingcommunity #shortsff #shortfiction

Hey hey the summer issue of @fantasticother is out now!

https://fantasticother.com/

#SpeculativeFiction #SpeculativePoetry #ShortStories #ShortSFF #ShortFiction #LitMag

Extremely excited that Spouseperson @rblemberg is a Le Guin prize finalist!!

https://electricliterature.com/announcing-the-2023-shortlist-for-the-ursula-k-le-guin-prize-for-fiction/?fbclid=IwAR2t6FwOtgdnJPa5wpwM8BY7SUFb8It-OrVrogzPsaHcoeOJhGKXNNTtdNw

Doubly so that it is the Birdverse short story collection from Fairwood, I feel like this book has gone a bit underappreciated with RB's other books being out this year, BUT IT IS SO GOOD and I am so happy.

#Fantasy #SFF #SpeculativeFiction #LeGuin #LeGuinPrize #RBLemberg #Birdverse #ShortStories #Bookstodon @bookstodon @shortsff #ShortSFF #Fairwood #Mazeldon #JewishAuthors #TransLit

"Mr. Fifteen was a hand-me-down Camera from Aunt Lucy when she died. She used to dress him up in a little suit and call him Herbie. When the Cameras were invented, so were many excuses to think of them as people."

Read "Mr Fifteen" by Tom Pike in Issue 6 🤖

https://fantasticotherbloghome.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/thefantasticother_issue06.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A71%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C33%2C734%2C0%5D

#SFF #ShortSFF #ShortStory #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SpeculativeFiction

"The full moon isn’t necessary. But shapeshifters are nothing if not concerned with appearances..."

Read "The Shapeshifter's Apprentice" by C.N. Heaton in Issue Six:

https://fantasticotherbloghome.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/thefantasticother_issue06.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A52%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C33%2C734%2C0%5D

#SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #ShortSFF #ShortStory

"Razi turned to the creature, who had watched the performance quietly, and they stared,
brown eyes meeting amber. Razi had been around for a while, a century in Armenia alone, and knew the creature wasn’t a dog or a bird—but something more complicated."

Read Marianne Xenos' beautiful story "A Thousand Ways To Go Home" in Issue 6, out now! https://fantasticotherbloghome.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/thefantasticother_issue06.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A108%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C33%2C731%2C0%5D

Photo by Aram Grigoryan via Unsplash

#ShortSFF #ShortStory #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #Armenia

New from Silver Press:

"The Space Crone Prize invites short fiction that speculates about questions about difference and gender. The prize is open to UK-based entrants who identify as one or more of: women, intersex, non-binary, agender, genderfluid and trans, and will be awarded by a selection panel (to be announced)."

Deadline 30 April. Submission guidelines and form: https://form.jotform.com/230662861636056?mc_cid=0507019539&mc_eid=466c1412e1

#Gender #SpeculativeFiction #ShortSFF #SubmissionCall

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

I'm guest-editor for @diabolicalplots' special themed telepathy issue, DIABOLICAL THOUGHTS!

The full issue is up now:
https://www.diabolicalplots.com/issue-97-diabolical-thoughts-is-ready-for-transmission/

@shortsff #ShortSFF #ShortFiction #telepathy

New Story Day!

My story, "AI Aboard the Golden Parrot" is now up @clarkesworld. It is fun story about some AI on a Pirate Ship. There are references to sea shanties, and imaginative robots. #shortfiction #sf #shortsff #robots

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hughes_03_23/

🏖☕⚡New story! ⚡☕🏖

"The Willingham Bay Witches" is out now in Electric Spec. Would-be detective Sandy works a case in their seaside town and makes some poor decisions...

http://www.lesleylsmith.com/electricspec/Volume18/Issue1/jackson.html

#ShortSFF #UrbanFantasy #ShortStory #QueerSFF #SpeculativeFiction #ShortStories #Fantasy #SFF

Delighted to find my novelette ’Carapace’ is on the Tangent Online recommended reading list for 2022!https://tangentonline.com/news/tangent-online-2022-recommended-reading-list/

You can read and listen to it on the @clarkesworld website here https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/goodman_07_22/

If you’re a #SFWA member voting I’m for the #NebulaAwards I’d love to have your consideration.

#ShortSFF #WritingCommunity

❄️ ✨ Our winter issue is out now!!! ✨ ❄️

Download the PDF here: https://fantasticotherbloghome.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/thefantasticother_issue06.pdf

Featuring stories about ancient creatures, deadly roses, watchful robots and more, plus this incredible cover art by Larissa Monique Hauck 🐺

#SpeculativeFiction #SpeculativePoetry #Fantasy #Horror #SciFi #ScienceFiction #LitMag #ShortSFF #ShortStory #Poetry

My story "Great Mother Broth" is out in Translunar Travelers Lounge today!!! 😮

It's my favourite thing I've written so far. CW for grief / bereavement (though on the whole it's an uplifting story) and troll swears! 👹

https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2023/02/15/great-mother-broth-by-sarah-jackson/

#ShortSFF #SFF #SFFShorts #Fantasy #SpeculativeFiction

Short story recommendation for today is ‘Sharp Undoing’ by Natasha King in January’s @clarkesworld, an incredible and masterfully delivered piece of first-person plural futureshock that is well worth your time #ShortSFF https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/king_01_23/

Locus Award voting is open! Anyone can vote in the awards. And titles can be written in! So, I offer for your consideration my story “Carolina” (https://www.havenspec.com/carolina) and my collection AT THE INTERSECTION OF LOVE AND DEATH (https://michael-haynes.blogspot.com/p/at-intersection-of-love-and-death.html). Message me if you’re planning to vote & would like a review copy. To start the voting process, go to https://poll.voting.locusmag.com. #locusawards #shortsff #shortfiction #sff

Here it is! My latest #shortStory is a #gaslamp #fantasy, out today in Sunday Morning Transport: “The Work-Clock” follows Apprentice Inspector Zek, who just wants to keep his job fixing the air-conditioning runes in the industrialized (and for-profit) prison for the Evil One.

Free to all at https://www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/the-work-clock #shortsff @shortsff @shortstory @shortstoryodon