Chad Gayle
@chadgayle.bsky.social
Science fiction & fantasy author 🚀 NYC photographer 📷 Words in DreamForge, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Inner Worlds, etc. 🌞 SFWA / Codex
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https://chadgayle.com/
Banner: B&W photo of NYC skyline centered on the Chrysler Building (by me)
* ABSOLUTELY NO AI *
https://chadgayle.com/
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Chad Gayle
@chadgayle.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Pleased to announce that I am now a full member of the SFWA!
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“Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head” is available now in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s about a homeless orphan girl who discovers she can speak to one of the severed heads mounted over the city gate.
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head” is available now in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s about a homeless orphan girl who discovers she can speak to one of the severed heads mounted over the city gate.
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💫 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!
(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
💫 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!
(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!
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It's here!! My biggest ever bog story, featuring the world's biggest blanket bog 🤘 along with possibly the longest ever car chase and the sleepiest ever hitman. Enjoy! ❤️ 🚗 🦌 www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
3LBE Magazine - The Somnambulist by Katie McIvor
It was supposed to be a simple job. I fly into Edinburgh and get the gun from a contact in the Grassmarket. All smooth. I check into my hotel near the mark's flat and spend a couple hours scoping out ...
www.3lobedmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's here!! My biggest ever bog story, featuring the world's biggest blanket bog 🤘 along with possibly the longest ever car chase and the sleepiest ever hitman. Enjoy! ❤️ 🚗 🦌 www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
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Putting this together was heartening. I'd honestly forgotten that some of these were 2025.
In a tough year, I really needed to reflect on my #writing wins.
What's not pictured? All the other amazing stories I wrote! (Stay tuned for 2026+?)
If you want to nominate anything, I won't stop you. 😘🖤
In a tough year, I really needed to reflect on my #writing wins.
What's not pictured? All the other amazing stories I wrote! (Stay tuned for 2026+?)
If you want to nominate anything, I won't stop you. 😘🖤
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Putting this together was heartening. I'd honestly forgotten that some of these were 2025.
In a tough year, I really needed to reflect on my #writing wins.
What's not pictured? All the other amazing stories I wrote! (Stay tuned for 2026+?)
If you want to nominate anything, I won't stop you. 😘🖤
In a tough year, I really needed to reflect on my #writing wins.
What's not pictured? All the other amazing stories I wrote! (Stay tuned for 2026+?)
If you want to nominate anything, I won't stop you. 😘🖤
Part LXXVII
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Part LXXVII
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In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Somehow I always manage to forget there's a DUNE reference in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice."
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Somehow I always manage to forget there's a DUNE reference in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice."
Pete Holmes put on a phenomenal show tonight at Town Hall as part of the New York Comedy Festival.
I've been a Pete Holmes fan for years, very grateful to see him perform in NYC!
Thanks Pete!
I've been a Pete Holmes fan for years, very grateful to see him perform in NYC!
Thanks Pete!
a man says i 'm really special in front of a white background
Alt: Pete Holmes says i 'm really special in front of a white background
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November 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Pete Holmes put on a phenomenal show tonight at Town Hall as part of the New York Comedy Festival.
I've been a Pete Holmes fan for years, very grateful to see him perform in NYC!
Thanks Pete!
I've been a Pete Holmes fan for years, very grateful to see him perform in NYC!
Thanks Pete!
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2025 Awards Eligibility
I had five stories come out this year -
if you are reading for awards I’d be really grateful if you gave them your consideration, or maybe even told a friend.
(My graphic is very bad but in my defence I don’t know what I’m doing)
www.louisinglishall.com/blog/awards-...
I had five stories come out this year -
if you are reading for awards I’d be really grateful if you gave them your consideration, or maybe even told a friend.
(My graphic is very bad but in my defence I don’t know what I’m doing)
www.louisinglishall.com/blog/awards-...
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
2025 Awards Eligibility
I had five stories come out this year -
if you are reading for awards I’d be really grateful if you gave them your consideration, or maybe even told a friend.
(My graphic is very bad but in my defence I don’t know what I’m doing)
www.louisinglishall.com/blog/awards-...
I had five stories come out this year -
if you are reading for awards I’d be really grateful if you gave them your consideration, or maybe even told a friend.
(My graphic is very bad but in my defence I don’t know what I’m doing)
www.louisinglishall.com/blog/awards-...
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I had 4 new short stories published this year but would be honored if you checked out these two for Nebula/Hugo/Locus consideration 🙏
1) “Barbershops of the Floating City” (fantasy)
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
2) “Brainstem Disco, 2191” (sci-fi)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/
1) “Barbershops of the Floating City” (fantasy)
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
2) “Brainstem Disco, 2191” (sci-fi)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/
Barbershops of the Floating City - Uncanny Magazine
Content note: child abuse You used to be in a band. Now you cut hair. The Institute hired you because you’re the daughter of the Floating City’s Founder’s fourth mistress, the one who always cooks u...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I had 4 new short stories published this year but would be honored if you checked out these two for Nebula/Hugo/Locus consideration 🙏
1) “Barbershops of the Floating City” (fantasy)
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
2) “Brainstem Disco, 2191” (sci-fi)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/
1) “Barbershops of the Floating City” (fantasy)
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
2) “Brainstem Disco, 2191” (sci-fi)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/
"AI may blunt our thinking skills -- here's what you can do about it."
Here's a better take, New Scientist:
"AI may blunt our thinking skills -- another great reason not to use it!"
Here's a better take, New Scientist:
"AI may blunt our thinking skills -- another great reason not to use it!"
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"AI may blunt our thinking skills -- here's what you can do about it."
Here's a better take, New Scientist:
"AI may blunt our thinking skills -- another great reason not to use it!"
Here's a better take, New Scientist:
"AI may blunt our thinking skills -- another great reason not to use it!"
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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...
“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...
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
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...
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
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New story this morning! The Crow's Second Tale in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... This is one of my stories that is 100% not autobiographical except the part that is, which is that I tell stories to crows too, just in case.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Crow’s Second Tale by Marissa Lingen
So Kiris knew, even at the age of five: no one should only know one story. Not even a crow, like in the song. And if she was the only one who had spotted the problem, she felt down to her five-year-ol...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New story this morning! The Crow's Second Tale in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... This is one of my stories that is 100% not autobiographical except the part that is, which is that I tell stories to crows too, just in case.
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For the evening crowd: "Hotcakes at the End Times" is out now with Nature Futures!
Come for the hotcakes. Stay for the comfort amidst chaos. Bring both a fork and tissues.
Happy Reading!
🥞🚀
Come for the hotcakes. Stay for the comfort amidst chaos. Bring both a fork and tissues.
Happy Reading!
🥞🚀
Hotcakes at the end times | Nature
Another satisfied customer. Another satisfied customer.
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
For the evening crowd: "Hotcakes at the End Times" is out now with Nature Futures!
Come for the hotcakes. Stay for the comfort amidst chaos. Bring both a fork and tissues.
Happy Reading!
🥞🚀
Come for the hotcakes. Stay for the comfort amidst chaos. Bring both a fork and tissues.
Happy Reading!
🥞🚀
Someone should invent a keyboard cat jacket, then the cat never needs to leave the lap.
"Typed this novel on my emotional support cat & won the Pulitzer Prize, thanks keyboard cat jacket!"
"Typed this novel on my emotional support cat & won the Pulitzer Prize, thanks keyboard cat jacket!"
The cat *really* wants to be on my lap, but I'm trying to write on my laptop, which makes my lap less accommodating, and my wireless mouse isn't working and I'm super-annoyed so I keep shooing her off.
WRITING IS HARD
WRITING IS HARD
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Someone should invent a keyboard cat jacket, then the cat never needs to leave the lap.
"Typed this novel on my emotional support cat & won the Pulitzer Prize, thanks keyboard cat jacket!"
"Typed this novel on my emotional support cat & won the Pulitzer Prize, thanks keyboard cat jacket!"
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surviving these motherfuckers through the power of art
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
surviving these motherfuckers through the power of art
You can get just about anything delivered but what I really want is an hors d'oeuvres tray that you wear around your neck like a fancy feeding trough, then I'd never have to get out of bed.
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
You can get just about anything delivered but what I really want is an hors d'oeuvres tray that you wear around your neck like a fancy feeding trough, then I'd never have to get out of bed.
Polaroid taken last spring of my Yashica LM medium format TLR, modded to allow a light meter to be mounted in front of the viewing hood via cold shoe.
#photography #instant #instantfilm #polaroids #sx70 #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead
#photography #instant #instantfilm #polaroids #sx70 #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Polaroid taken last spring of my Yashica LM medium format TLR, modded to allow a light meter to be mounted in front of the viewing hood via cold shoe.
#photography #instant #instantfilm #polaroids #sx70 #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead
#photography #instant #instantfilm #polaroids #sx70 #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out.
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
The House of Illusionists – Vanessa Fogg, Writer
vanessafogg.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out.
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
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It's awards season! I have two short stories I'm most proud of this year.
If you only read one thing of mine, make it "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", a piece Locus called a "sharp satire" which should give you lols and catharsis. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
1/4
If you only read one thing of mine, make it "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", a piece Locus called a "sharp satire" which should give you lols and catharsis. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
1/4
DP FICTION #123B: “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg – Diabolical Plots
www.diabolicalplots.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It's awards season! I have two short stories I'm most proud of this year.
If you only read one thing of mine, make it "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", a piece Locus called a "sharp satire" which should give you lols and catharsis. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
1/4
If you only read one thing of mine, make it "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", a piece Locus called a "sharp satire" which should give you lols and catharsis. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
1/4
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Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
Reprint acceptance this morning.
The work continues.
The work continues.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reprint acceptance this morning.
The work continues.
The work continues.