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Stories in Apex, Lightspeed, Fusion Fragment, Kaleidotrope, Flash Fiction Online, The Baltimore Review, Milk Candy Review, &c • 2024 Wigleaf Top 50 • pfp by @evelynepark.bsky.social

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Cressida @eggandcressida.bsky.social · Nov 11
2025 awards eligibility post - take two!

I have two short stories out this year, and I would be so grateful if you kept them (and me) in mind during awards season! Links threaded below - thanks for reading!
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jenniferhudak.bsky.social
WOW -- I just saw that my story "How to Cook with the Negative Space in Your Grandmother's Recipes" made the Locus Recommended Reading list...! There are sooo many incredible titles on that list; go forth and read (and then nominate for the Locus Awards--anyone can!)

locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:20 PM
eggandcressida.bsky.social
this latest from @mruthrobinson.bsky.social is the only piece of fiction that deserves the designation of “dark academia,” i said what i said. brooding white guys are OUT doomed postdocs doing their best in the face of devilish fascism is IN

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/acad...
Academic Neutrality - Lightspeed Magazine
When Amy begins to flay herself during office hours, you aren’t quite sure what to do. You hate office hours. You used to enjoy them, actually, back before the flayings started. Sure, it’s hard sharin...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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eggandcressida.bsky.social
After 348 days and 3 rounds of edits, I'm overjoyed that my queer coming of age shapeshifter story, "Skin Deep," will be in the next issue of @havenspec.bsky.social!!! Many thanks to @leonp.bsky.social for accepting it and working through the revisions with me--I can't wait to share this one!
January 31, 2026 at 7:07 PM
eggandcressida.bsky.social
After 348 days and 3 rounds of edits, I'm overjoyed that my queer coming of age shapeshifter story, "Skin Deep," will be in the next issue of @havenspec.bsky.social!!! Many thanks to @leonp.bsky.social for accepting it and working through the revisions with me--I can't wait to share this one!
January 31, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Is it better to remember or forget? How do you ever know? That’s the question posed by “The Memory Swap” by Cressida Roe, one of our final January stories
#writingcommunity #fantasy #amreading
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www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
The Memory Swap
The request is short, to the point: “Wanted: memory of Mother. Trade for memory of First Kiss. #memoryswap #memoryexchange #mom.”I’m not sure why it catches my attention. I’ve been lurking on the M…
www.flashfictiononline.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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eggandcressida.bsky.social
My flash SF piece on daughterhood and what you lose when you don’t realize what you have is now free to read at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! So many thanks to @aijiang.bsky.social and @beckyhalsey.bsky.social for giving it a home in the Regret issue!

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
The Memory Swap
The request is short, to the point: “Wanted: memory of Mother. Trade for memory of First Kiss. #memoryswap #memoryexchange #mom.”I’m not sure why it catches my attention. I’ve been lurking on the M…
www.flashfictiononline.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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jessieroywrites.bsky.social
You have to read this one! I read it when the issue came out Jan 1, and I still can't stop thinking about it.
January 27, 2026 at 6:17 PM
eggandcressida.bsky.social
My flash SF piece on daughterhood and what you lose when you don’t realize what you have is now free to read at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! So many thanks to @aijiang.bsky.social and @beckyhalsey.bsky.social for giving it a home in the Regret issue!

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
The Memory Swap
The request is short, to the point: “Wanted: memory of Mother. Trade for memory of First Kiss. #memoryswap #memoryexchange #mom.”I’m not sure why it catches my attention. I’ve been lurking on the M…
www.flashfictiononline.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:08 PM
eggandcressida.bsky.social
sending this around once more :)
eggandcressida.bsky.social Cressida @eggandcressida.bsky.social · Nov 11
2025 awards eligibility post - take two!

I have two short stories out this year, and I would be so grateful if you kept them (and me) in mind during awards season! Links threaded below - thanks for reading!
January 24, 2026 at 3:12 PM
eggandcressida.bsky.social
rereading john crowley’s LITTLE, BIG, which i will always recommend to anyone who likes beautifully written modern fairy tales, but just like the first time i read it, i keep wishing john could be normal about women for 5 minutes :/
January 24, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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fusionfragment.bsky.social
With awards season ramping up, I'm once again compiling a 2025 "Best of" list of works by FFers for your readings lists. So far, it contains work on the BSFA Longlist and recommendations made in Locus, Reactor, and Charles Payseur's Quick Sips.

www.fusionfragment.com/2025-best-of/
2025 “Best Of”
In compiling this inevitably incomplete “Best Of” list, I’ve listed stories by FFers that appeared on either the Locus Recommended Reading List, the Recommended Reading List in individual issues of…
www.fusionfragment.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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eggandcressida.bsky.social
whenever i see “lmaooo” written out i pronounce it “la moooo” to myself, like a frenchman is attempting to convey the meaning of a cow. with these little delights i get through life.
January 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
eggandcressida.bsky.social
thank you so much for including “the fifth horseman” on this list!! such great company to be in and so many stories i still have to check out 😊
January 13, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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eggandcressida.bsky.social
sooooo excited to be part of this issue!
January 1, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
OTHERSIDE is officially OPEN for fiction and poetry submissions 🪐🗡️

If you’re part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, send us your speculative fiction and poetry: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and everything in between!

📚 Open window: Jan 1-14
📑 See guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
White text atop a purple illustrated background. The OTHERSIDE logo is at the top. Below that, it reads: "FICTION: We are looking for unpublished speculative fiction (up to 4000 words) by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror: we love it all! Simultaneous submissions are welcome! We pay 8 cents/word (USD). OPEN NOW! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines" White text atop a purple illustrated background. The OTHERSIDE logo is at the top. Below that, it reads: "POETRY: We are looking for unpublished speculative poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. You can submit up to three poems at a time, and simultaneous submissions are always welcome. We pay $50 per poem (USD). OPEN NOW! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines"
January 1, 2026 at 6:31 PM
eggandcressida.bsky.social
sooooo excited to be part of this issue!
January 1, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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emmikhor.bsky.social
A micro story that cuts beautifully! By Cressida Roe in @apexmag.bsky.social Check it out!

www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

#microstories #speculative #flashfiction #horsemen #drabble
The Fifth Horseman
When the echo of other hoof beats fades away, I dismount.
www.apexbookcompany.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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fusionfragment.bsky.social
17. I have a real love/hate relationship with myth and fairy-tale retellings. But when I love them, I really love them. "Mrs. No Face" by @eggandcressida.bsky.social is a great example of one that really worked for me.

www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
Issue #26
“A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above” by Nkereuwem Albert: the city above and the city below / spirit bots / revolution”A White Day Comes” by A.D. Sui: solar destruction…
www.fusionfragment.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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fusionfragment.bsky.social
Story #7 in FF#26: "Mrs. No Face" by @eggandcressida.bsky.social

If you need a story with:
-Evil colonizer husbands
-Sentient (?) gothic estates
-Wives in the attic

Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
"Mrs. No Face" by Cressida Roe Two rows of painted faces stared at me out of the gloom, expressions frozen in their eternally mandated roles. I had gone to a Noh performance with my okan once, before she died. Look, she said, when the characters switched their masks over the course of the play. People may seem to change, but they don’t really. You must know them at their heart; you cannot trust the face they try to show you. home? / the brides in the mirror / a post-colonial Bluebeard
December 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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bfletcherwatson.bsky.social
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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neonhemlock.bsky.social
Baffling will open for submissions on December 1st!

More info here: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
Yellow/purple ink blobs. Open to submissions: Dec 1-15. arrows pointing to "unthemed" and "timefuckery" (the two themes for issues we're reading for).
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
eggandcressida.bsky.social
reposting, as “singularities” made @reactorsff.bsky.social’s must-reads of october list!!
eggandcressida.bsky.social Cressida @eggandcressida.bsky.social · Nov 11
2025 awards eligibility post - take two!

I have two short stories out this year, and I would be so grateful if you kept them (and me) in mind during awards season! Links threaded below - thanks for reading!
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
eggandcressida.bsky.social
just received the formiest form R on a 344-day submission which is definitely a record 🙃
December 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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fusionfragment.bsky.social
Short SFFH reading recommendations for you! Includes recent work by FFers @eggandcressida.bsky.social and @andtatcat.bsky.social!
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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ammansabet.bsky.social
Some great selections here!
Of course, proud to share "Affinity Gradient" by Miah O'Malley. But also loved reading "Singularities" by Cressida Roe (at Kaleidotrope) and "Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares (at Apex).
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Nov 25
Check out the must-read short fiction of October 2025 if you:

- are a short fiction author
- love reading short stories
- could not be located at 12:35 AM on Wednesday, April 4th, in 1945
Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: October 2025 - Reactor
This month's short fiction recommendations include ghosts and grief, recipes and multiverses...
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM