Bree Wernicke
@breewernicke.bsky.social
actor, writer, SAG-AFTRA, Codex. words in: Fusion Fragment, Baffling, Strange Horizons, & more! she/her
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Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!
by Bree Wernicke
"Unless
you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail
to maintain proper quantities of teeth,
you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition
Association, permanently. Yay!"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry
by Bree Wernicke
"Unless
you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail
to maintain proper quantities of teeth,
you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition
Association, permanently. Yay!"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry
new poem out! contains vital safety tips for surviving amidst the horrors! try not to be our next fatality :)
Reposted by Bree Wernicke
Today's read is a fun story of Legos gone awry, a nice bit of epistolary weird fiction written by @breewernicke.bsky.social, and published by my fave mag @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
Read at the link below. Go. You won't regret it.
#weirdfiction #indiepublishing
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
Read at the link below. Go. You won't regret it.
#weirdfiction #indiepublishing
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
Bree Wernicke > Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed > Bourbon Penn
Help! Possible curse?? Hi! Not sure this forum is the right place to post this, but bear with me. So about a week ago I came down with horrible stomach cramps. I assumed it was something I ate (I’m la...
www.bourbonpenn.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today's read is a fun story of Legos gone awry, a nice bit of epistolary weird fiction written by @breewernicke.bsky.social, and published by my fave mag @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
Read at the link below. Go. You won't regret it.
#weirdfiction #indiepublishing
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
Read at the link below. Go. You won't regret it.
#weirdfiction #indiepublishing
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
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New poem by me out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social to help get all of us through the season (I hope). Whole issue is worth a look, but I trust that by now you don't need me to tell you that about an issue of Uncanny.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...
Prayer for Winter - Uncanny Magazine
It is cold, and I am a small animal compared to the heavy sky. Food to heat my blood is not plentiful. My friends are lean and sleepy. There is so much I am afraid of: that a stumble could lay a chi...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
New poem by me out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social to help get all of us through the season (I hope). Whole issue is worth a look, but I trust that by now you don't need me to tell you that about an issue of Uncanny.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...
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Story #3 in FF#26: "A White Day Comes" by @thesuiway.bsky.social
If you need a story with:
-finding love at the last minute
-existential angst (but also acceptance)
-greeting the day
Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
If you need a story with:
-finding love at the last minute
-existential angst (but also acceptance)
-greeting the day
Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Story #3 in FF#26: "A White Day Comes" by @thesuiway.bsky.social
If you need a story with:
-finding love at the last minute
-existential angst (but also acceptance)
-greeting the day
Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
If you need a story with:
-finding love at the last minute
-existential angst (but also acceptance)
-greeting the day
Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
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HALLOWEEN RELEASE: “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill is now available to read for free on FFO! Is it too much to call this horror delicious…? 😏
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
This Is What Mouths Are For
We snatch the centipedes off the boulder and crack their carapaces, sucking the insides out. There are rules to our eating. Guts slide, wriggling, into four mouths and down four throats. All this u…
www.flashfictiononline.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
HALLOWEEN RELEASE: “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill is now available to read for free on FFO! Is it too much to call this horror delicious…? 😏
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
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I don't have any scary stories to share for Halloween, but I do have a ghost story! "Handsomest Gentlest" is about the flaming-eyed fiend who stalks the forest of the dead. It's also a story about a boy and his dog. I have been told that it might make you sad. 🖤
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
Handsomest Gentlest by M. R. Robinson, Haven Spec Magazine
Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
www.havenspec.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I don't have any scary stories to share for Halloween, but I do have a ghost story! "Handsomest Gentlest" is about the flaming-eyed fiend who stalks the forest of the dead. It's also a story about a boy and his dog. I have been told that it might make you sad. 🖤
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
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available in e-versions so you can read comfortably like a curled up shrimp cat this very evening
books2read.com/uncertain
books2read.com/uncertain
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
available in e-versions so you can read comfortably like a curled up shrimp cat this very evening
books2read.com/uncertain
books2read.com/uncertain
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writing tip: put a creature in it
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
writing tip: put a creature in it
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ok. i am about to get sentimental on main.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
ok. i am about to get sentimental on main.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
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24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026!
It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!
A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
www.kickstarter.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026!
It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
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The narrator of Addison Smith's "I GROW," from Issue 22, is coming to grips with their transformation and what it means for them and the world around them.
I GROW - Small Wonders
I grew roots today. My body clings to the reef, latching onto budding polyps and the castoff shells of crustaceans by the seaside fish market.
smallwondersmag.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The narrator of Addison Smith's "I GROW," from Issue 22, is coming to grips with their transformation and what it means for them and the world around them.
HELLO i am doing Hamlet!! if you're looking for something spooky and halloweeny to do in LA next weekend, look no further:
Hamlet | Revelry Theatre Group
Hamlet by William Shakespeare - The perfect way to spend a spooky Halloweekend
www.revelrytheatregroup.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
HELLO i am doing Hamlet!! if you're looking for something spooky and halloweeny to do in LA next weekend, look no further:
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"What's your book about?"
Okay, hold on. Give me a second. I know this. I wrote it. It has a plot and things to say. I just need to think about how to explain it in under four hours of rambling tangents so I don't scare you away
Okay, hold on. Give me a second. I know this. I wrote it. It has a plot and things to say. I just need to think about how to explain it in under four hours of rambling tangents so I don't scare you away
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"What's your book about?"
Okay, hold on. Give me a second. I know this. I wrote it. It has a plot and things to say. I just need to think about how to explain it in under four hours of rambling tangents so I don't scare you away
Okay, hold on. Give me a second. I know this. I wrote it. It has a plot and things to say. I just need to think about how to explain it in under four hours of rambling tangents so I don't scare you away
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One of the things I enjoyed most about studying Victorian lit in college was how these people would read each other for filth in the most roundabout ways. And "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" by @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social puts me exactly in that mindset. I LAUGHED so many times here. Read it!
New Issue: BCS #443 out today, featuring stories by Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social (a new Eldshore story) and @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social, a podcast of the Ward, cover art by Bruce Brenneise @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #443 by Scott Andrews
A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library by Chris Willrich. My Sincere Apologies For the Demon by Adrian Ward. BCS 353: My Sincere Apologies For the Demon by Adrian Ward.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
One of the things I enjoyed most about studying Victorian lit in college was how these people would read each other for filth in the most roundabout ways. And "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" by @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social puts me exactly in that mindset. I LAUGHED so many times here. Read it!
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Our general submission window will open on the first of the month!
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
Guidelines & schedule:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
Guidelines & schedule:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
October 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Our general submission window will open on the first of the month!
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
Guidelines & schedule:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
Guidelines & schedule:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
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Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick.
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social
Bourbon Penn 37
Stories by Lavie Tidhar, Clelia Farris, Nick DiChario, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick. Cover art by Brian Haberlin.
www.bourbonpenn.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick.
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social
it was about an adventurer who finds a bunch of turtles stacked on top of each other endlessly into the sky. all these turtles want help removing whatever's on top of them, so the adventurer climbs up this tower of turtles, which get increasingly larger, until he reaches one too big to climb--
I was thinking about early writing recently and I'm curious—short fiction writers: what is the earliest short story you remember finishing that wasn't for a school project or anything?
October 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
it was about an adventurer who finds a bunch of turtles stacked on top of each other endlessly into the sky. all these turtles want help removing whatever's on top of them, so the adventurer climbs up this tower of turtles, which get increasingly larger, until he reaches one too big to climb--
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If you're looking for a spooky collection of strange stories to get you in the Halloween spirit, this one was rated 6/5 by someone on the internet.
undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
books2read.com/uncertain
undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
books2read.com/uncertain
Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you're looking for a spooky collection of strange stories to get you in the Halloween spirit, this one was rated 6/5 by someone on the internet.
undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
books2read.com/uncertain
undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
books2read.com/uncertain
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Looking for a short & spooky read this October? At only 750 words, my dark Grimm retelling 'A Single Song' offers a deadly taste of horror.
🏳️⚧️ Trans MC
🎵 Musical possession
🦴 A harp made of bones
🩸 Lies behind the legends
Read for free online:
factorfourmag.com/a-single-son...
🩸📚🤏🌈🚀💫📚💙
🏳️⚧️ Trans MC
🎵 Musical possession
🦴 A harp made of bones
🩸 Lies behind the legends
Read for free online:
factorfourmag.com/a-single-son...
🩸📚🤏🌈🚀💫📚💙
A Single Song by Nico Martinez Nocito
A harp made of bones, they say, will only ever play a single song. Haunting, my listeners called my melody, and beautiful. My fingers glided over the sinuous strings and my voice, the harp’s voice,…
factorfourmag.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Looking for a short & spooky read this October? At only 750 words, my dark Grimm retelling 'A Single Song' offers a deadly taste of horror.
🏳️⚧️ Trans MC
🎵 Musical possession
🦴 A harp made of bones
🩸 Lies behind the legends
Read for free online:
factorfourmag.com/a-single-son...
🩸📚🤏🌈🚀💫📚💙
🏳️⚧️ Trans MC
🎵 Musical possession
🦴 A harp made of bones
🩸 Lies behind the legends
Read for free online:
factorfourmag.com/a-single-son...
🩸📚🤏🌈🚀💫📚💙
new poem out! contains vital safety tips for surviving amidst the horrors! try not to be our next fatality :)
Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!
by Bree Wernicke
"Unless
you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail
to maintain proper quantities of teeth,
you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition
Association, permanently. Yay!"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry
by Bree Wernicke
"Unless
you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail
to maintain proper quantities of teeth,
you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition
Association, permanently. Yay!"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry
October 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
new poem out! contains vital safety tips for surviving amidst the horrors! try not to be our next fatality :)
Reposted by Bree Wernicke
Ogress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)
by Shana Ross
"I cannot give anyone answers, so I become a small
chip of flint, a small silence in a conversation, a small carving in the rock
face."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff
by Shana Ross
"I cannot give anyone answers, so I become a small
chip of flint, a small silence in a conversation, a small carving in the rock
face."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff
October 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Ogress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)
by Shana Ross
"I cannot give anyone answers, so I become a small
chip of flint, a small silence in a conversation, a small carving in the rock
face."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff
by Shana Ross
"I cannot give anyone answers, so I become a small
chip of flint, a small silence in a conversation, a small carving in the rock
face."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff
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Our departments have come together to regale you with a poem for our 25th anniversary!
Behind the Scenes at Strange Horizons
by the Strange Horizons staff
"Not ivory towers, but towers that telescope,
each climbing step an irregular height."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Behind the Scenes at Strange Horizons
by the Strange Horizons staff
"Not ivory towers, but towers that telescope,
each climbing step an irregular height."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
October 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Our departments have come together to regale you with a poem for our 25th anniversary!
Behind the Scenes at Strange Horizons
by the Strange Horizons staff
"Not ivory towers, but towers that telescope,
each climbing step an irregular height."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Behind the Scenes at Strange Horizons
by the Strange Horizons staff
"Not ivory towers, but towers that telescope,
each climbing step an irregular height."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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I'm thrilled to present you my new novel, LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE, coming in April 2026 from Dark Matter Ink.
It's all the things I usually obsess about: Slavic gods and cursed deals, political turmoil, trauma, revenge and duty - but this time with a hefty dose of love 💀
It's all the things I usually obsess about: Slavic gods and cursed deals, political turmoil, trauma, revenge and duty - but this time with a hefty dose of love 💀
October 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I'm thrilled to present you my new novel, LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE, coming in April 2026 from Dark Matter Ink.
It's all the things I usually obsess about: Slavic gods and cursed deals, political turmoil, trauma, revenge and duty - but this time with a hefty dose of love 💀
It's all the things I usually obsess about: Slavic gods and cursed deals, political turmoil, trauma, revenge and duty - but this time with a hefty dose of love 💀
Reposted by Bree Wernicke
DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰
Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳
Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳
September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰
Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳
Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳