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Abigail Kemske 🍁
@abigailkemske.bsky.social
🚀 Speculative fiction writer from MN

✏️ Apex, The Dark, Flame Tree Press, Nature: Futures, The Saturday Evening Post & more

🌿 sometimes moss

✨HWA, SFWA, Codex

AbigailKemske.com 🌳 https://linktr.ee/abigailkemske
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It's award eligibility season! Here's a list of everything I've published in 2025. This is also my first year of eligibility for the Astounding Award! 💫

Follow the thread below for links and info on my stories. Or see my website/linktree in my bio. 🔗

DM me for copies. 👩‍💻

Thank you for reading! 🙏
Ugh. Waistbands are the absolute worst.
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Psst! I've added a whole bunch of new links to my eligibility and recommendation round up post with further updates to come. Keep sending your links my way!

acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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For your consideration this year, I have eight originals! Most are free to read!
In order of publication: "Martian Wallpaper" at The Daily Tomorrow dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/martian-wa... It's Yellow Wallpaper on Mars!
Martian Wallpaper — Full Story
By Wen Wen Yang
dailytomorrow.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I'm gonna try to get 362 words done by lunch, so my current novel word count will be over 13k words. I'll report back soon.
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Both excellent stories! Check them out!!
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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If you’re looking for something to read this weekend, I’ve published 13 short pieces this year with 2 more coming soon. I figured I’d make a thread of just a few of my faves that are free-to-read. (You can still find my complete eligibility post through my link in bio) 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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New story in Blood+Honey! Out of my comfort zone with this one! 😬

@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
Flash fiction "Tough Guys" by Myna Chang

“She shoves my tie aside, taps a button mid-chest with the blade, tap tap tap. Who is this bitch? She’s grinning again, all teeth, and she smells like copper, like old pennies…”

www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/toug...
tough guys — Blood+Honey
by Myna Chang “She shoves my tie aside, taps a button mid-chest with the blade, tap tap tap . Who is this bitch? She’s grinning again, all teeth, and she smells like copper, like old pennies…”
www.bloodhoneylit.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...
18.168.63.88
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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"...unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller. Readers will be on the edges of their seats."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BABY

www.publishersweekly.com/9781787589186
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Ava plucked four more hairs and added them end-to-end to the others, making one long string of hair that draped over her lap and pooled on the floor. She threaded the needle with the hair." 🪡

New story published last week @satevepost.bsky.social ! 💙

www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/thre...
Threaded Lives | The Saturday Evening Post
A grandmother shares the patchwork stories of her life with her granddaughter.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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and this is your regular PSA to remind you that YOU can hire ME to design YOUR book cover…and logos…and shirts…and tombstones…

jordanshiveley.myportfolio.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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joinery like fallow earth
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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2025 eligibility post

just one thing published this year as I work on a few larger projects but it is a good one!

all signal boosts appreciated
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Oh, Jordan. Now you have me dreaming. 🤩 Someday…someday…
Me: gonna do a bunch of housecleaning

Also me: **immediately gets distracted making fake book covers for @abigailkemske.bsky.social ‘s as of yet non existent collection**

🙇🏻‍♂️
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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It's that time of year again! I've started collecting my annual list of eligibility and recommendation lists and award resources. Check out what people have done and loved this year and send me your own posts to add to the list!

acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The aurora was pretty insane tonight!
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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YOU are a good writer
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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I've never bothered doing one of these because it felt kinda silly, but I'm trying new things.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My agent keeping me on task…for pets.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
💫 Here’s a list of my award eligible stories from this year! 💫

(Had to update/repost this because of the surprise last minute publication!)

See my website or LinkTree for more info on these stories. Contact me if you’re a voting member and need a copy.

Thanks for reading!
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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So excited that "Our Lady of the Grain" is part of Harvest the Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror, ed. by C.M. Muller and out now from Chthonic Matter. I can't wait to read the other spooky stories in this anthology!
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
✨ICYMI✨ I have a new story up on @satevepost.bsky.social ! I’m still in shock about this one. Check it out!!
Touching moments between a woman and her granddaughter, some magical realism, a big ole quilt, and a touch of horror come together in this week’s #NewFictionFriday story, Abigail Kemske’s “Threaded Lives”.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/thre...
Threaded Lives | The Saturday Evening Post
A grandmother shares the patchwork stories of her life with her granddaughter.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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It’s that time of the year again! If you’re voting for the Hugos, the Nebulas or any other SFF awards, I hope you will consider my two very Greek, very angry offerings. Both free to read!
Short story: translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/1...
Non-fiction essay: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The definition of trapped. 😸
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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An amazing, emotional story definitely worth checking out!
My latest story is up on Saturday Evening Post! Check it out!! 💛
Touching moments between a woman and her granddaughter, some magical realism, a big ole quilt, and a touch of horror come together in this week’s #NewFictionFriday story, Abigail Kemske’s “Threaded Lives”.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/thre...
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM