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Alyssa Beatty
@alyssabeattywrites.bsky.social
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Writer of speculative short fiction.
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Honored to have won The Writers’ Playground 10th challenge with my story “The Vocabulary of Love.” Check it out here:

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Short Stories — Writers' Playground
Original and classic short stories.
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May 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Check out my story “Hell is Other People’s Laundry” in this issue of Jersey Devil Press. Because doing laundry is the worst.
May 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Check out my little horror tale “Yosemite” in this collection:

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Head First into the Maw: Winners of the 2024 2k Terrors Competition
Head First into the Maw: Winners of the 2024 2k Terrors Competition - Kindle edition by Press, TL;DR. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Head First into the Maw: Winners of the 2024 2k Terrors Competition.
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March 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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There would be destruction, on a scale you could not conceive. But that’s the way it is with family, sometimes.

-from "Pangaea" by Alyssa Beatty (@alyssabeattywrites.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... (pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...)

#poetry #scifi #clifi
"Pangaea" by Alyssa Beatty, in February's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/beattyPangaea.html
February 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Thank you to all the contributors in February's #Penumbric! @alyssabeattywrites.bsky.social, Carl Scharwath, Ron Sanders, Ryan Hyatt, Shikhar Dixit, @andyetpoetry.bsky.social, Marge Simon, Amanda Bergloff...

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#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror
February 2025 Penumbric table of contents
February 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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"I'm the voice in her head now; just a future echo, longing for an uncapturable past."

from "Call of the Void" by Alyssa Beatty
www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/059
Luna Station Quarterly
Stellar short fiction by women-identified writers since 2010
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September 28, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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Absolutely thrilled to have my story “Call of the Void” in this issue of @lunastation.bsky.social.

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Luna Station Quarterly
Stellar short fiction by women-identified writers since 2010
www.lunastationquarterly.com
September 2, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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New story out in Flash Fiction Magazine today!

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Don’t Show Him Your Teeth
When Ulrich gets drunk, he goes out and preaches to the turkeys at the farm next door. He’s not a preacher, but he was raised by fire-and-brimstone evangelicals, so he has a pretty good sense for th...
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December 29, 2023 at 5:53 PM
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New story up at @sawwflashfiction.bsky.social today!

www.suddenlyandwithoutwarning.com
Suddenly, And Without Warning – Flash Fiction
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September 23, 2023 at 8:24 PM
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smallwondersmag.com
Today we indulge in a little what-iffing, starting with "Let us say / the airlock safety catch didn’t fail" in @mynachang.bsky.social’s lovely SF horror poem "Let Us Dream."

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Let Us Dream - Small Wonders
Let us say / the airlock safety catch didn’t fail.
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September 20, 2023 at 4:13 PM
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Beyond excited to be included in this inaugural anthology from Page Turn Press. Stayed tuned for a release date.
September 16, 2023 at 2:11 PM