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Inner Worlds
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Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives. Issue 8 out now! Submissions are open throughout October.
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/
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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · Aug 31
💚💫 Issue Eight has landed! 💫💚

This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.

If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...

#SFF #Horror
Inner Worlds cover with acid green masthead and artwork showing a part of a Black person's face in dark blue with a glitchy texture, surrounded by flame like shapes like heatvision hotspots, with green and yellow edges and bright scarlet centres. The person's gaze is very intense, and seems hurt, wary, angry.
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devanbarlow.bsky.social
🎉It's my book day!🎉

SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library!

Full of short fiction and poetry retellings!

books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...
Cover of Shells For Hearts: Retellings, by Devan Barlow. The cover is by Arden Powell, and features seashells, perfume bottles, a pumpkin, and assorted animals against a green background.
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social
I’m so happy to share that my story “Wonderful” will be appearing in @innerworlds.bsky.social Issue 9 at the end of the month! ✨

In a few words: sartorial, surreal, warm, wistful, like a good cry
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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jamielnathan.bsky.social
Exciting news! 🎉

My short story, 'Hoofbeats', will appear in the next issue of @innerworlds.bsky.social ! My first piece published in a magazine AND it's comes out on my birthday!

How cool is that?!? Very cool! 🎉 💙📚📝
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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emmikhor.bsky.social
I just enjoyed this awesome story by @esichr.bsky.social published in @innerworlds.bsky.social
Try out this sci-fi read... It'll leave you thinking!

inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...

#shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #amreading #shortstories
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky
Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.
inner-worlds.ghost.io
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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sagetyrtle.bsky.social
Moth GrandSLAM winner Sage Tyrtle helps you find your most powerful personal narrative. Want to write #CNF / #memoir and unsure how to start or which of your stories are the ones that will work best? Join me for this #WritingWorkshop:

writingworkshops.com/en-ca/produc...

#WritingCommunity #Writer
The Story Only You Can Tell: Finding Your Most Powerful Narrative
In this workshop, you’ll explore what makes a personal story compelling, uncover overlooked moments, and learn how to shape them into powerful narratives.
writingworkshops.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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electricliterature.com
Time to polish up your essays! 📝 ⚡ 💡 Electric Literature will open for submissions in ✨Personal Narrative✨ on Monday, December 1! All submissions will be accepted through our Submittable page. Portal closes at 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, December 14, or when we receive 500 submissions.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged.
bookjockeyalex.com/contact/
Contact
I’m currently open to sensitivity/authenticity reading. Please see the full list of what I cover and rates. In your email below, please include a description of the work, the estimated word c…
bookjockeyalex.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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innerworlds.bsky.social
Ok, responses for all 450 submissions for issue 9 have gone out now 📨

Yet more incredibly tough choices on the final selection! 😫

Thank you to everyone who sent something in, it really is a huge honour to read your words, and I'm sorry if we didn't take your story this time ❤️
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
innerworlds.bsky.social
All great reads, these! Thank you @thepinkhydra.com 🖤
thepinkhydra.com EmmyKtz 🐙 The Pink Hydra @thepinkhydra.com · 3d
For my review in this, I trawled all 8 issues of @innerworlds.bsky.social looking for the goriest and most unsettling stories.

The editor, Sarah Jackson, has a talent for finding fiction that scratches a particularly deep itch in the realm of body horror.

Here are my picks from each issue. 🧵
thepinkhydra.com EmmyKtz 🐙 The Pink Hydra @thepinkhydra.com · 10d
Minizine #3 is officially released! ⚔️

Our featured short story is "The Sword of Bellerose" by @mxgomez78.bsky.social. It's a dark S&S-type fantasy with a twisted relationship between the Lady Bellerose and her "sword."

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/s/e5c9440194

itch: thepinkhydra.itch.io/something-ol...
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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alexdavis1981.bsky.social
Spookiness aplenty for the season, with my four-week look at WRITING GHOST STORIES kicking off on the 18th November! And we're online, so you can haunt us from anywhere in the world... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-gh... #ghoststory #ghoststories #course #courses #writingcourse #writingcourses
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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press-android.bsky.social
You're invited to The Cookout @tco-anthology.bsky.social, an anthology of speculative fiction from the African diaspora! Both the campaign and submissions launch in February 2026. #readers #readingcommunity #authors #writingcommunity
Coming soon: The Cookout: A Speculative Fiction Anthology
Sci-fi, fantasy, & horror stories by Black authors, centering traditions of “the cookout” — the joy, the drama, and the delicious food.
www.kickstarter.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
innerworlds.bsky.social
Ok, responses for all 450 submissions for issue 9 have gone out now 📨

Yet more incredibly tough choices on the final selection! 😫

Thank you to everyone who sent something in, it really is a huge honour to read your words, and I'm sorry if we didn't take your story this time ❤️
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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emmikhor.bsky.social
Ahhhhhh!!! Thanks so much @cypayseur.bsky.social for recommending "Feeding Spirits" 🥹

There are some great stories in this list reviewed by Payseur. Take a reading break and check them all out! 💖✨

#shortstories #amreading
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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thepinkhydra.com
I would very much like to publish six novelettes or novellas for Pink Hydra Press next year.

Submissions open Monday! www.thepinkhydra.com/submissions/...

We are a one-woman operation situated in South Africa, and afaik the only one welcoming international queer SFF authors and erotic fiction.
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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khoreo.bsky.social
November submissions are OPEN!

The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS!

We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
Exploding colors with overlayed text reading: Submissions open on November 1 and run until November 30th under the theme Revolutions.
November 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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older.bsky.social
still time to pre-order this anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about activism!
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
innerworlds.bsky.social
Sorry not to see some of you at World Fantasycon this weekend. I took a freelance opportunity that meant I couldn't go in the end. BUT once I have been paid for the work I'll have a much better financial cushion for Inner Worlds (and you know, my bills and things)
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
innerworlds.bsky.social
Working my way through all the submissions for issue 9. A shade under 450, this time!

I hope the new submission manager is working out OK for everyone. Massive thanks to everybody who used the 'tip jar' feature, that has really helped to balance out the higher costs 😊
November 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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neilwillcox.bsky.social
I read Deliver by Safiya Cherfi in @innerworlds.bsky.social in which a reporter goes to a remote Scottish island to learn about the sea-child. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-re...
I Read Stories: Deliver by Safiya Cherfi
Deliver by Safiya Cherfi in Inner Worlds On a remote Scottish island a reporter follows a strange story. About a mermaid, which he re...
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
innerworlds.bsky.social
Really enjoying seeing everyone's halloween costume pics! 🎃🖤

I'm not dressing up until next weekend, but I will take the opportunity to share last year's Kirk costume again 😁🖖🏻
A white person with short blonde-brown hair and a gold Star Trek TOS jersey.
October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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metuiteme.bsky.social
Oh damn, this is great 🔥🔥🔥
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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dielaughingmag.bsky.social
Hello scary, silly friends! We are proud to present the FIFTH issue of Die Laughing Mag, complete with four shorts, 2 flashes, and more laughs and scares than you can shake a stick at. Available now for a perfect Halloween treat!

Buy DL Issue 5 here for $5: ko-fi.com/s/3936f3817e
A woman lies on her back, in bed, fast asleep. One arm is draped behind her head. A small creature, perhaps a demon, crouches on her chest. A black horse with very white teeth leans in from the window. Both the creature and the horse are wearing festive birthday hats, and the creature holds a party blower in its mouth. When she awakes, the woman will have a very special birthday surprise.
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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chasej.xyz
* literary-y psychological horror (aka the monster is society): therazormag.com/articles/i-s...
* literary-y psychological horror (aka the monster is ur abusive relationship with ur mom): thevoice.dog?episode=moth... (and i love how this narration came out!)
The Voice of Dog
Furry stories to warm the ol' cockles, read by Rob MacWolf and guests.
thevoice.dog
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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chasej.xyz
since it is SPOOKY DAY here are my spooky stories:
* a ghost story (in SPACE!!!!): www.abilitymaine.org/bs2025summer...
* literary-y psychological horror (aka the monster is ur mental trauma): inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds...
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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cindyphanauthor.com
Wishing everyone a safe and happy and wicked Halloween!!

But just in case: do you know what to do if a demon is talking shit at you? @innerworlds.bsky.social's got you covered 👿
What to Do When A Demon is Talking Shit at You by Cindy Phan
The demon rears on its splayed legs and slaps its naked thighs, leering as it talks shit at you with its long, forked tongue. So listen, and listen good:
inner-worlds.ghost.io
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM