Elisabeth Ring
@elisabethring.bsky.social
Obsessive reader and writer of weird things. I review some of what I read at ringreads.com. Some of what I write has been published in Apex, Cast of Wonders, and others. Repped by Jenissa Graham with @bookendsliterary.bsky.social. She/her.
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There's only ONE WEEK LEFT to fund Apex Magazine in 2026, and we JUST unlocked our 70% reward!!
The Apex editors will host a live affirmation critique of the Internet's most beloved amateur horror stories! 📸🌲🥩
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The Apex editors will host a live affirmation critique of the Internet's most beloved amateur horror stories! 📸🌲🥩
🎃 Help us reach our funding goal and donate TODAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
There's only ONE WEEK LEFT to fund Apex Magazine in 2026, and we JUST unlocked our 70% reward!!
The Apex editors will host a live affirmation critique of the Internet's most beloved amateur horror stories! 📸🌲🥩
🎃 Help us reach our funding goal and donate TODAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
The Apex editors will host a live affirmation critique of the Internet's most beloved amateur horror stories! 📸🌲🥩
🎃 Help us reach our funding goal and donate TODAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex has some of the best short fiction around! Chuck a few bucks their way if you can!
It finally feels like autumn in our neck of the woods, and you know what that means — our Kickstarter exclusive hoodie has arrived! 🧥✨
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Bundle up in our 2026 design, featuring an eco-inspired take on our iconic alien head logo 🍄🌿👽 Available only on Kickstarter! ⬇️
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October 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Apex has some of the best short fiction around! Chuck a few bucks their way if you can!
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Here's a little cartoon for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Here's a little cartoon for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙
...and contains my body-horror story "Like An Arm Outstretched, Reaching"! Check out the whole fantastic issue, or just click for a bit of squick: www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/lik...
October 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
...and contains my body-horror story "Like An Arm Outstretched, Reaching"! Check out the whole fantastic issue, or just click for a bit of squick: www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/lik...
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Scifi body horror and October, name a more iconic duo
September 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Scifi body horror and October, name a more iconic duo
SO excited to reveal that my short body horror story "Like An Arm Outstretched, Reaching" will be in issue 11 of @radonjournal.bsky.social! Let the countdown begin!
September 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
SO excited to reveal that my short body horror story "Like An Arm Outstretched, Reaching" will be in issue 11 of @radonjournal.bsky.social! Let the countdown begin!
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Acceptances for Issue 11 have gone out and all contracts are signed. October 1 will bring the world eight new poems and seven new stories. We've got a great mix we can't wait to tell you about soon. From cybernetic revolution to scifi body horror.
September 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Weird fiction is always needed but it's more crucial in these strange and horrible times than ever. Back 3LBE if you can!
72% of our funding goal with only 45 hours left. We need your support now to publish another year of stories that are strange terrifying numinous inspiring queer heartening subversive unexpected intrepid. kck.st/4mIkEm1
September 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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This week's #BookReview is a twisty, witchy mystery! ringreads.com/2025/08/12/o...
‘Orchard’ a Twisty Mystery in Small-Town Appalachia
Annie is a delight of a modern-day PI, with all the crustiness and baggage of any private dick in the genre, though Sullivan manages to make her feel more human than trope.
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August 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This week's #BookReview is a twisty, witchy mystery! ringreads.com/2025/08/12/o...
As an ardent lover of em dashes and not a computer, I really appreciate that my favorite punctuation mark has finally broken its silence. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
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August 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
As an ardent lover of em dashes and not a computer, I really appreciate that my favorite punctuation mark has finally broken its silence. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
If ever there was a book that said, "Come, weary traveler, and rest," it's The Alchemy of Flowers by @lauraresau.bsky.social. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/07/29/a...
‘Alchemy’ Is As Sweet As Its Flowers
Resau’s descriptions are lush, making the scent of jasmine or lavender, the feel of a refreshing stream, or the taste of a character’s cooking almost come off the page (or the phone scr…
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July 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If ever there was a book that said, "Come, weary traveler, and rest," it's The Alchemy of Flowers by @lauraresau.bsky.social. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/07/29/a...
Happy weekend! I'm excited to announce that my flash story "From This Beating Heart, From This Fractured Mind," originally published in @apexmag.bsky.social, has gotten the audio treatment from @cbdroege.bsky.social. Check it out here: podcastaddict.com/episode/http...
July 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Happy weekend! I'm excited to announce that my flash story "From This Beating Heart, From This Fractured Mind," originally published in @apexmag.bsky.social, has gotten the audio treatment from @cbdroege.bsky.social. Check it out here: podcastaddict.com/episode/http...
Sequels can be hit or miss, but Tricks of Fortune by @linachern.bsky.social is even funner than its predecessor. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/07/01/f...
‘Fortune’ Pits Truth Against Reputation in Murder Mystery
Rather than being simply a vehicle for plot, Chern’s writing sings with artful composition and delightful turns of phrase that not only make reading easy but pleasant, too.
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July 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Sequels can be hit or miss, but Tricks of Fortune by @linachern.bsky.social is even funner than its predecessor. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/07/01/f...
It feels weird to use the word "delightful" and The Nightmare Box by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social in the same sentence, but it was a pretty darn delightful collection of horrifying tales. Full #bookreview here: ringreads.com/2025/06/03/n...
‘Nightmare Box’ Tinged With Real-Life Horror and Fictional Justice
There are few happy endings in The Nightmare Box, though it does seem that Gómez intentionally left off on one of the more optimistic stories—an unexpected choice but one that ultimately informs th…
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June 4, 2025 at 4:45 AM
It feels weird to use the word "delightful" and The Nightmare Box by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social in the same sentence, but it was a pretty darn delightful collection of horrifying tales. Full #bookreview here: ringreads.com/2025/06/03/n...
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22 hours later, it's been revealed by the Chicago-Sun times that the books are indeed Fake
none of you can prove that there are still Books
May 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
22 hours later, it's been revealed by the Chicago-Sun times that the books are indeed Fake
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We stand together or we all fall.
- NO AI audiobooks
- NO AI covers
- NO AI book trailers
- NO AI character drawings
- NO AI marketing copy
- NO AI “research”
- NO AI editors
- NO AI translation
- NO AI at all
- NO AI audiobooks
- NO AI covers
- NO AI book trailers
- NO AI character drawings
- NO AI marketing copy
- NO AI “research”
- NO AI editors
- NO AI translation
- NO AI at all
Very weird to see writers cheering for A.I. audiobooks. This is the same horrible machine that they want to replace YOU. Audiobook narrators are your peers.
May 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
We stand together or we all fall.
- NO AI audiobooks
- NO AI covers
- NO AI book trailers
- NO AI character drawings
- NO AI marketing copy
- NO AI “research”
- NO AI editors
- NO AI translation
- NO AI at all
- NO AI audiobooks
- NO AI covers
- NO AI book trailers
- NO AI character drawings
- NO AI marketing copy
- NO AI “research”
- NO AI editors
- NO AI translation
- NO AI at all
I am in no way paid by or representing @thriftbooks.bsky.social but here's a PSA: they're having a massive sale on kids and YA books. I just filled in a ton of the holes in my personal library and I am positively GIDDY about this. www.thriftbooks.com/b/kids-summe...
Summer Book Fair
Get children's books for only $2.99, with FREE US SHIPPING on orders over $15.
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May 8, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I am in no way paid by or representing @thriftbooks.bsky.social but here's a PSA: they're having a massive sale on kids and YA books. I just filled in a ton of the holes in my personal library and I am positively GIDDY about this. www.thriftbooks.com/b/kids-summe...
Not to gush but Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker is already one of my favorite reads of 2025. Terrifying? Check. Entertaining? Check. Set in the pandemic but doesn't use lockdown as a gimmick? Somehow also check. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/04/29/b...
‘Bat Eater’ Brings New Fears to Pandemic Lockdown
Bat Eater is a marvelous friendship bracelet of plot threads that sometimes take turns and sometimes work in tandem but are always engrossing, and all feel like facets of a terrifying and claustrop…
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April 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Not to gush but Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker is already one of my favorite reads of 2025. Terrifying? Check. Entertaining? Check. Set in the pandemic but doesn't use lockdown as a gimmick? Somehow also check. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/04/29/b...
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Will I fail without using AI if everyone else is using it? Depends on your definition I guess. But failures can be building blocks for many other things. Being unwilling to fail is being unwilling to grow.
And I will fail differently than the people who cede their thinking to the mimic machine.
And I will fail differently than the people who cede their thinking to the mimic machine.
April 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Will I fail without using AI if everyone else is using it? Depends on your definition I guess. But failures can be building blocks for many other things. Being unwilling to fail is being unwilling to grow.
And I will fail differently than the people who cede their thinking to the mimic machine.
And I will fail differently than the people who cede their thinking to the mimic machine.
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And say it with me now and forever: high needs people of all stripes are just as valuable and loved as low needs folks
Any differences physically, mentally, developmentally and so on must be protected. When one is attacked, all are attacked eventually
Any differences physically, mentally, developmentally and so on must be protected. When one is attacked, all are attacked eventually
April 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
And say it with me now and forever: high needs people of all stripes are just as valuable and loved as low needs folks
Any differences physically, mentally, developmentally and so on must be protected. When one is attacked, all are attacked eventually
Any differences physically, mentally, developmentally and so on must be protected. When one is attacked, all are attacked eventually
As I've revisited @kaaauthor.bsky.social's Animorphs through the years, I both wonder who thought they were appropriate for children and feel grateful for whatever lapse in publisher judgement allowed me to think about war and sacrifice and morality from such a young age.
This article reminds me of how the Animorphs series is sometimes described as a goofy shapeshifting ya series, when it's really some of the bleakest and harshest war stories I've read in the spec fic genre.
March 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
As I've revisited @kaaauthor.bsky.social's Animorphs through the years, I both wonder who thought they were appropriate for children and feel grateful for whatever lapse in publisher judgement allowed me to think about war and sacrifice and morality from such a young age.
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We're now approaching our final 24 hours. Kickstarter is all or nothing so only a limited time remains to make use of these deals and help secure the future of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine.
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March 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I keep thinking of this
February 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I keep thinking of this
Hello, everyone, welcome to another week of The Horrors (TM), and also here's a nifty graphic with my two awards-eligible stories from 2024 if you'd like some reading material in your blanket bunker
February 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Hello, everyone, welcome to another week of The Horrors (TM), and also here's a nifty graphic with my two awards-eligible stories from 2024 if you'd like some reading material in your blanket bunker
Happy story day to me! My spooky little flash story "Safe and Warm" is out in the world over at PulpAsylum. Check it out here! www.pulpasylum.com/safe-and-war...
Safe and Warm by Elisabeth Ring
Elisabeth Ring (she/her) is a writer and reader of eclectic things. Her fiction has appeared in several publications including Apex and Cast of Wonders . She spends most of her time trying to...
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February 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Happy story day to me! My spooky little flash story "Safe and Warm" is out in the world over at PulpAsylum. Check it out here! www.pulpasylum.com/safe-and-war...