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lowry (they/them)
@ferretly.bsky.social
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black author, artist, veterinarian, and aspiring renaissance man 🌿 clarion west '23 🌿 words in strange horizons, baffling, fantasy, and lightspeed

https://lowrypoletti.wordpress.com/
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lowry (they/them) @ferretly.bsky.social · Nov 14
looks like its time to make an awards eligibility post :) two of my stories were published this year:

my novelette "BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE" in Strange Horizons, and my flash piece "The Blooming Pond" in Baffling. i'll post the links below this
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cypayseur.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈
I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!!
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Some Queer Short SFF - September 2025 | Charles Payseur
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October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...
FIYAH magazine cover art
September 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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strangehorizons.bsky.social
📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢

Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!

Donate at the link ⬇️
Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
www.kickstarter.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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jasonsanford.bsky.social
The @apexmag.bsky.social drabble contest is looking for 300 word stories based on the concept of a blood-maw. These are pocket hells used to punish evil people and are featured heavily in my upcoming novella We Who Hunt Alexanders.

Deadline for submissions is June 20. Details in the thread.
June 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
ferretly.bsky.social
My story "See Now the Misfortune of the Thinking Tenax" is in this issue of @lightspeedmagazine.com!
June 2025 (Issue 181) - Lightspeed Magazine
We have original science fiction by Peter Watts (“The Twenty-One Second God”) and Marissa Lingen (“All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: (“Dimensional Living Comp...
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June 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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locusmag.bsky.social
THIS IS OUR LAST PUSH!
We have 2 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a ways to go!!

Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!

Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky
text: 2 days left to reach our fundraiser goal, we need you ! Indiegogo and Locus logos and Cluso alien
May 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
ferretly.bsky.social
The fact that BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE is on the 2025 Notable Stories list for Best American is almost unbelievable to me 🥰🥰 I'm so touched that anyone likes this weird little story.

www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/bes...
May 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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hortensjjja.bsky.social
the florist of a witching garden

#art #oc #ocsky #dnd
A digital interpretation of a painting titled "Dionisia" by Pierre Auguste Cot, featuring my OC - Eshmara. The character has a warm green complexion with striking big orange eyes, smiling softly at the camera while holding a plethora of flowers on her lap and sitting on a tree stump. She has double pointy ears that are garnished by yellow-orange grapes with leaves, and a branch-like horns, also with autumn leaves, growing out from her head which is decorated bountifully by wavy auburn hair reaching just under her shoulder blades. She has a few moles on her face - two above her lips on her right and one above her eye on her right. She is dressed in a white shirt hugged by a scarf-like pink cloth that goes beyond the view in the left corner. Her long skirt is orange with a brown apron that holds the flowers together on her lap. The background is dark, seemingly in a forest away from the sun, primarily greens and browns. There's a faint halo-like circle behind the character's head to give the character better focus. End ID.
May 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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locusmag.bsky.social
“Fox and Troll Bake a Cake” by Jeff Reynolds from @giganotosaurus.bsky.social, “It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand” by Lowry Poletti from @LightspeedMag (@lightspeedmagazine.com), and more short fic recs from @ClowderofTwo locusmag.com/2025/05...
Small Wonders, GigaNotoSaurus, and Lightspeed: Reviews by Charles Payseur
Small Wonders 2/25 GigaNotoSaurus 2/25 Lightspeed 2/25 The February Small Wonders features “Echo Syndrome”, a new story by Jennifer Hudak. In it, a mother notices that her daughter has split into s…
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May 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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scholes.bsky.social
Pleased as punch to contribute even just a little bit to Dragon Age! Many thanks to AD Matt Rhodes for bringing me on; really great to experience your approach!

Here are a few scene sketches; full project on my website!
Freelance schedule is now OPEN!
April 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
With alt-text
NBC NEWS New images could change cancer diagnostics but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Jean Lee Mon, April 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM EDT / min read 086. A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months — putting crucial scientific advancements at risk.
April 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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neonhemlock.bsky.social
If you'd like to get in on our newest novella series as well as a short story collection from Christopher Caldwell, we'd love for you to check out our latest crowdfund at Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Six
Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly
www.kickstarter.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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thaisibir.bsky.social
Cover reveal for the inaugural issue of Plott Hound Magazine! Cover art by the amazing @wolfskulljack.bsky.social. The issue is slated to be published this May. I hope you look forward to it!
April 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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mickallister.bsky.social
Hold on, there's a new @strangehorizons.bsky.social fiction podast episode out? and it's BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE by @ferretly.bsky.social read by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social.
Get your headphones on right now for this brilliant story from 2024.
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Podcast: BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE
In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Lowry Poletti's BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE read by Emmie Christie Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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April 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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patsux.bsky.social
#NationalUnicornDay

can centaurs count? 🥺
Digital illustration of a knight on horseback. The knight is pale, has a unicorn horn on his forehead, and he is wielding a blue sword and shield. His horse is a pale ghastly figure. Digital painting of a centaur with unicorn horn on his forehead, and big butterfly wings. He has elegant hair and tail that is flowing in the wind. Digital painting of a centaur with unicorn horn and a pair of pegasus wings. Digital painting of a centaur. He has a unicorn horn on the middle of his forehead, his sclera are bloodshot but his iris are icy and blank, and he is baring a devious sinister smile. He is wearing a necklace made of severed ears, tongue, and jaw-bone, and there are several decapitated heads hanging by his waist. He is wielding two curved blades.
April 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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yvettel.bsky.social
Reminder the AfroSurrealism special issue opens to submissions next week on April 15! Calling all poets & prose writers, send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic @strangehorizons.bsky.social

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April 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
ferretly.bsky.social
WYRM art WYRM art WYRM art
A digital painting of a man walking in front of a silhouetted monster. The man is muscular and holds a spear; he's missing his left arm. He has brown skin. His face is cloaked in shadow, replaced instead by a glinting, gold lens flare and black smoke. He wears gold jewelry around his neck, wrist, and ankle. His cock is censored with a black smudge. The monster behind him has fluffy black wings that frame the space where the man's head should be. It sits on its haunches and its long tail unfurls behind it. The sky is full of tumultuous clouds, swirling around two suns.
March 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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shpedovski.bsky.social
Bugbirds are getting traction on Tumblr again so I thought it would be nice to show them here as well :D
One day I want to make a refsheet for them and make an open species officially, so people could have fun and make their own weevil-gryphon-thing
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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anatomoth.bsky.social
Another flash idea: Bleeding heart pigeon.
How lot of my flashes start out. Pencil sketch with notes to myself on what references to look up and which details to finesse.
It will be mainly blackwork design, but wish to colour in the heart with red.

#tattoosky #europetattoo #hungarytattoo
Surreal bleeding heart pigeon sketch with red pencil in a sketchbook
February 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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fernwhisker.bsky.social
evening hunt 🌙
February 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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dntlz.bsky.social
Today is @hachepueyo.bsky.social's BUT NOT TOO BOLD book birthday, so I made another silhouette animation in Lotte Reiniger's style, this time of Dália and Lady Anatema 🕷️
February 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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partyinthefront.bsky.social
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Just announced by @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social, my cover for the a "Sword and Planet" issue, featuring adventures in outer planets!
Collage illustration for the cover of a New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine dedicated to the "Sword and Planet" genre. A couple of sexy heroes, a man with two swords and a woman with a rifle, are cornered and ready to fight some monsters. There's an arabian-inspired futuristic castle on top of a mountain, and the scene is topped by a starry sky and deveral planets.
February 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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jimmymakepeace.bsky.social
ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ
2024
The albino prince Elric at the head of a boat, wearing a mish mash of ancient armours and a cloak, holding his evil red glowing sword with the tip dragging in the water.
November 26, 2024 at 6:06 PM