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Chris Doty-Dunn
@chrisdotydunn.com
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Writer of weird + gay spec fic. Words in Crepuscular Magazine, Dream Theory Media, and more + forthcoming at Drabblecast. PhD in linguistics. 🏳️‍🌈👬

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Chris Doty-Dunn @chrisdotydunn.com · Sep 27
My story "Bubbe's Last Kugel" is out today! It took 13th in @tldrpress.bsky.social's Word Herd contest, and was published as part of this anthology. All proceeds go to support Trans Lifeline, so I have no qualms in telling you to go buy it (at least once, maybe a few times)!
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Folded Space is a work in progress from the editor of the Tales to Terrify Podcast. As we get closer to launch we will update our page @ www.foldedspacepodcast.com
Folded Space, an Audio Science Fiction Anthology
Folded Space is a work in progress with a clear mission: Deliver the finest short space science fiction each season, exploring new worlds, future possibilities, and…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Our next live workshop is "Sellable Short Stories: What Editors Want (And What To Avoid)" led by award-winning author, KC Grifant. Join us!

November 14, Friday, at 2pm ET | 1PM CT | 12PM MT | 11AM PT | 18:00 UTC

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#authors #writingworkshops
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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mruthrobinson.bsky.social
This story by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social ruined my whole morning, and I mean that as the highest of compliments. Perfect Halloween read.
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The 2K Terrors Competition @tldrpress.bsky.social (Fiction; Horror; pays) opened to fee-based fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: The 2K Terrors Competition
The 2K Terrors Competition @tldrpress.bsky.social (Fiction; Horror; pays) opened to fee-based fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com/contest/the-2k-terrors-competition-36275 #amwriting
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October 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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A pumpkin carved with a human shaped opening, and then the guy from The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito has been cut out with a text bubble saying “it was made for me!” And attacked to the pumpkin so it recreates the scene from the manga where the guy is climbing into the human shaped hole in a cliff side except now it’s a human shaped hole in a pumpkin.
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Today's story is "A Fair Trade" by Katie Dee
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros

ratbaglit.substack.com/p/a-fair-trade
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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This is a deep cut, but a good one.
mimulus.bsky.social Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 12d
A Court of Bouba and Kiki.
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Hey, that's me! Check out my funky little post-apocalyptic story below!
crepuscularmag.bsky.social Crepuscular Magazine @crepuscularmag.bsky.social · 13d
"Bad Advice" by Chris Doty-Dunn is free to read today!

www.patreon.com/post...
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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yeeeerika.bsky.social
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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let's play a game...
window of a bookstore shows letters in large, bold, white text reading: “FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA. MARRY BOOKS. KILL AI.” Inside the shop, tables and shelves are filled with books.
October 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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@ratbaglit.bsky.social new cross promotion opportunity? 🤔
retreasure.bsky.social ReBOOcca E. Treasure 👻 👻 👻 @retreasure.bsky.social · 23d
Please for the love of all that is horror TAKE THE RATS
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 24d
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October 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Hey, it's my 33rd birthday today! My selfish wish is to raise enough money to edit another zine bundle with these themes:

-Cunty Horrors
-Cursed Concerts
-Monstrous Dating Profiles
-Batshit LinkedIn Posts
-Nightmare Grifters

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October 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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rhunedhel.bsky.social
To introduce the Fall issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, releasing next Saturday, I'm introducing its authors first.

D.A. Cooper is publishing "Hellhound" (based on a scene from Dante's Inferno) in FGR. Previous publications include "Rise" in The North American Anglican:

northamanglican.com/rise/
Rise | The North American Anglican
Thick, mist-forged shackles held us in the cave, imprisoned for the crime of losing all. We saw nothing but shadows on the wall— they gamboled and they taunted us. We gave in to the dark. A crushing f...
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October 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"In an era when it’s exceedingly hard to learn what the Old Masters knew, Art + Water will impart those skills. These emerging artists must know how to draw, and from there, they’ll be taught everything Rembrandt was taught." - Dave Eggers
The Story of Art + Water
For fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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khoreo.bsky.social
📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions!

We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!

⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
Colorful illustration of a hand holding a megaphone with text reading Submissions open, November 1 - 31, Theme: Revolutions.
October 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Waffles!!! 🧇
mruthrobinson.bsky.social M. R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 27d
Read about the kinds of poems Jess hopes to find in our queue next year! Catch up on all our October updates! And meet Waffles, our latest intern, described by @chrisdotydunn.com as looking uncannily like a portrait of George Washington!
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 27d
Our newsletter for all patrons is out now! Wherein we scream about the Kickstarter thus far, share a Q&A with our poetry editor Jess Cho, and of course feature a delightful intern of the month! (And if you aren't already a patron, sign up for free today!)
October 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ברוך מתיר אסורים
October 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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moirariom.bsky.social
Finally… was getting a bit twitchy without #anotherrejection #submitelsewhere
Dear author, be disheartened
October 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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My therapist has to remind me constantly that just because I'm anxious something may happen doesn't necessarily mean it will.

#art
Artwork showing a frazzled looking possum holding onto an orb/crystal ball with the text " you are not predicting the future. You have anxiety!"
October 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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fraggle rock coordinates
October 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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October 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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flashpointsf.bsky.social
Welcome to our Fall submissions window! Open until 10/31
flashpointsf.com/submissions/
Submissions
UPDATE: We are open to submissions through October 31.We are open to submissions:Feb. 1 – Mar. 31Jun. 1 – Jul. 31Oct. 1 – Oct. 31Nov. 1 – Nov. 30 (Drabbles only)Before submi…
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October 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social
It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM