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In today's featured Editor Pick: A lonely boy crowns a pair of scissors king, and his bedroom becomes a kingdom. But the dragon at the door is more than make-believe. It's The Boy and The Scissors by E. Thade. Read it for free at gavagai.com

"The night before Zakar Hussani was abruptly abandoned by his Oga at the golden gates of the mansion, a boy died." The Adventures of Zakar Hussani, Boy Oracle by Amanda Ilozumba www.adventitious.net/stories/the-... #FirstLineSaturdays

Speaking of loose children, a Halloween story for you: pseudopod.org/2022/11/07/p...

I am SO EXCITED for my cover reveal for Book 3 + pre-order coming up that I thought I'd start a countdown till Nov 3rd! 12 days from now you're getting book 3: Between Loving & Letting Go. If you are new here, Book 1, A Caged and Restless Magic, is here! books2read.com/b/4jdeNY

Great night last night at Spooky Stories at Gang Gang cafe with MC Ben O'Mara, writers Chelsea Fritzlaff, S.R. Underschultz, poet Imogen Wall, John Lombard and guitarist Connor Whyte! Love the cover of Lost Souls 04, can't wait to read 👀 📚 👻 🖤

I posted another random new short bit of silliness on @gavagai.com this morning:

Happy to announce that my poem “precious cache” is forthcoming as an Editor Pick in Gavagai! @gavagai.com If you like dragons and books, take a gander when it drops!

Do you like TIME LOOPS?? Well I have a dark fantasy novelette, "How Gods Feed" in BCS (beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/how-...) with an ace protag and a fucked up unicorn! ...and a noir, "Can't Rain All the Time," in Gavagai (gavagai.com/posts/6381)! THEY MAKE ME SO HAPPY!!

Lovely shout out for "In the Time of Tenebrae" here alongside some other truly fantastic stories. Thank you so much!

In today's featured Editor Pick: When a woman asks her doctor for help with the itching in her veins, he becomes more concerned with her surname. Outside the office, a stranger offers a different kind of remedy. It's Under the Judas Tree by Darcy L. Wood. Read it for free at gavagai.com

In our latest eco review, our editor reviews Joe Koch's (@horrorsong.blog) recent short story, "Take Him", published in @gavagai.com: www.briefecology.com/life-after-w...

In today's Editor Pick: A woman brings her son back to the Maine town where she grew up. Along a ruined shoreline laden with memories of better summers, it's a homecoming that offers little comfort. It's The Holes that Hold the Dead by Dana Marie Vickerson. Read it for free at gavagai.com

In today's featured Editor Pick: The words are familiar. The rituals less so. Back in Romania to bury her grandfather, Elena struggles with what is expected of her and what she actually feels. It's Tiny Gods by Giulia Cassarà. Read it for free at gavagai.com

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12. “Work in Progress” | WYSR Review @gavagai.com A doctor performs surgery on an insistent patient with an uncanny healing ability. inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...

Posted a little Halloween silliness to @gavagai.com for y'all: api.gavagai.com/share/posts/...

Writer friends: don’t give up. I was rejected 299 times before I got my 300th rejection.

Thank you, Emmie, again for doing these spotlights! So glad you liked A Cup Before You Go! malarkeybooks.com/fiction/2024...

How many versions of yourself in mirror realities have already purchased a copy?

In today's featured Editor Pick: The living have strong opinions about what the dead expect of their children. Tonight, over tea, the dead will have an opportunity to offer up their side. It's When We Venture Too Far from Family Calling by Annie ZH Sun. Read it for free at gavagai.com

28 hours left! We are SO CLOSE!!! Who can help us cross the finish line??? A little over $100 to go! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

More great news!! 🥳 My short film "How to Prepare for Time Travelers in the Workplace" will be part of the Indie Cine Tube Awards as well as a finalist at the upcoming National Independent Film Association Awards in Appleton, WI! :) To quote Mad Max: Fury Road, "Oh what a day! What a lovely day!" 😀

Pleased and downright fascinated to read a review of my short story "Take Him" in Brief Ecology. The story was recently an editor's pick on @gavagai.com & I'll confess it was very difficult to place & rejected many times, which makes the interest and attention of the reviewer especially lovely.

In today's Editor Pick: A headmaster, a decorated veteran and a jackalope that won’t quite cooperate: At a school devoted to passing on the art of illusion, the students aren’t the only ones with something to learn. It's Being Enough is an Illusion by Wen Wen Yang. Read it for free at gavagai.com

Excellent piece this morning on Gavagai! Immerse yourself in some melancholy with an unsettling edge #WriterSky #WritingCommunity #scifi #speclit

In today's featured Editor Pick: The ghosts of dead planets begin appearing in the sky, awakening a strange ache in Leigh. But holding on to a feeling is hard when even entire worlds can slip away. It's Deja Vécu by AM Sutter. Read it for free at gavagai.com

🍁Happy Autumnal Equinox! 🍁 Here is my most seasonally appropriate #horror from earlier this year for your reading pleasure today. 🍂 Maybe be careful when you're hanging out with the trees. 👁️

My story “Mother Moon” is in this issue. 🐍🌕 “I was born on too warm a night, egg-beaked, talon-lifted. But before the drop, before the stones far below, between those scaled toes, I glimpsed the moon, full and blazing. The first thing you see is your mother.”

Suppose it's not much to some of the more popular authors, but 6 reviews this early means the world to me! Thank you, energetic early readers! 💛 www.

An accurate representation of my novels.

I truly love this convention. It's an excellent space and an almost-unbelievable resource with the level of access it provides. Writers, publishers, readers, gamers, all mixing together. A truly special org and group of people.

about to get freaky with a centaur that fills you up with triangles (?!), horror fishing rpgs, and sexy sexy cannibals, of course! (my story, “Devotional for the Starved”, may feature one of these) preorder @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ‘s “Your Body is a Fever Dream”, you absolutely won’t regret it

*heavy iron trunk rattles as I pound at the inner lid* YOU THERE, BOY. WHAT DAY IS IT? Grown Urchin: WHAT DAY IS IT? Grown Urchin: *stubs his cigarette with a sigh, looking up at the swirling vortex above us* The day of your panel on Survival Fiction at 1 pm CDT and your reading at 7 pm CDT.

Today Chile celebrates its independence! If Hispanic Heritage Month is too broad for you and you’d like to very specifically support a Chilean author (kinda weird, but ok) I happen to be one. 🙂 🇨🇱 Here are some things I’ve published this year: www.pacornell.com/2026-awards-...

I hope you’ll make time to listen to this interview. It’s one of my favorites, and I’ve done a lot of them. Trevor asked so many great questions, I even think I learned new things about myself on this one. We certainly took a deep dive into some of the stories in my collection.

I'M SO EXCITED my story "How to Understand Each Other" is going to be in Adventitious!!