Juniper White 🦊
@junewhitewrites.bsky.social
"What a devious storyteller!"
rumors say i write short stories about haunted houses, obsessions, trans love, night skies, vertiginous stories and plays, revelry
slush reader for small wonders <3
she/her
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https://juniperwrites.neocities.org/
rumors say i write short stories about haunted houses, obsessions, trans love, night skies, vertiginous stories and plays, revelry
slush reader for small wonders <3
she/her
🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
https://juniperwrites.neocities.org/
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finally got around to making my collage for wine-dark eyes! this one's for those who like fish and mist and calm horror and missed connections.
finally read this and everyone else should too!! i'm obsessed with the aching character moments interspersed through this: it's a story that needs you to care about these characters and oh my god it makes you care
“Full Fathom Five” might be my favorite thing i’ve written to date, the hook i’ve hung my heart on, the story a writer i look up to immensely told me was his favorite at Clarion—
and you can read it in Kaleidotrope: kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...
and you can read it in Kaleidotrope: kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...
February 7, 2026 at 3:16 PM
finally read this and everyone else should too!! i'm obsessed with the aching character moments interspersed through this: it's a story that needs you to care about these characters and oh my god it makes you care
just read this and im going insane. multiple moments in here that made me react out loud. this story capitalizes on its premise in every way possible (especially the ones that explore the traumas and complexes and existential fears of it all, inescapable emotion)
Wanna read an excellent story?
@sarahpauling.bsky.social's new story is out in Clarkesworld: it's about universal cloud memory in every brain, memory cultists, and an assassin who can go underneath it all.
I was lucky enough to beta-read it and haven't stopped thinking about it.
@sarahpauling.bsky.social's new story is out in Clarkesworld: it's about universal cloud memory in every brain, memory cultists, and an assassin who can go underneath it all.
I was lucky enough to beta-read it and haven't stopped thinking about it.
Remember Me in the Meat by Sarah Pauling
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:27 PM
just read this and im going insane. multiple moments in here that made me react out loud. this story capitalizes on its premise in every way possible (especially the ones that explore the traumas and complexes and existential fears of it all, inescapable emotion)
i'm always a sucker for a story about dopplegangers/clones/shadow selves/the Self as something not singular (hashtag my dissociative disorder), and i'm especially a sucker for a story using second person to explore that. this story is such a perfect little dystopia. it's great
👀January 2026 Fiction👀
ICYMI, "And If You Must Be Wicked, You Must" is a short story by @keychild.bsky.social about being forced to outsource your anger. Read this one for its refusal of the patriarchy and its embracing of all the right kinds of wicked.
havenspec.com/fiction/and-...
ICYMI, "And If You Must Be Wicked, You Must" is a short story by @keychild.bsky.social about being forced to outsource your anger. Read this one for its refusal of the patriarchy and its embracing of all the right kinds of wicked.
havenspec.com/fiction/and-...
And If You Must Be Wicked, You Must, Haven Spec Magazine
"And If You Must Be Wicked, You Must" by Elou Carroll
havenspec.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:39 PM
i'm always a sucker for a story about dopplegangers/clones/shadow selves/the Self as something not singular (hashtag my dissociative disorder), and i'm especially a sucker for a story using second person to explore that. this story is such a perfect little dystopia. it's great
*two days of working on fiction in a row* i’m the best author ever. im doing it. i’m basically a star. the muses themselves want what i have
*one day of not writing* anyone else convinced that they’re just a hallucination of a person and not a full individual or
*one day of not writing* anyone else convinced that they’re just a hallucination of a person and not a full individual or
February 6, 2026 at 6:23 AM
*two days of working on fiction in a row* i’m the best author ever. im doing it. i’m basically a star. the muses themselves want what i have
*one day of not writing* anyone else convinced that they’re just a hallucination of a person and not a full individual or
*one day of not writing* anyone else convinced that they’re just a hallucination of a person and not a full individual or
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One of the funnest little thingies no one tells you about having long term writing workshop friends is that years later, you still know each others’ stories by descriptors instead of titles & cheer each other on about them
“the dolphin story”
“the lobster story”
“the weird quantum glory hole story”
“the dolphin story”
“the lobster story”
“the weird quantum glory hole story”
February 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM
One of the funnest little thingies no one tells you about having long term writing workshop friends is that years later, you still know each others’ stories by descriptors instead of titles & cheer each other on about them
“the dolphin story”
“the lobster story”
“the weird quantum glory hole story”
“the dolphin story”
“the lobster story”
“the weird quantum glory hole story”
finally worked on it again and my girlfriends response to the draft is “IM SCREAMING” so im feeling pretty good
i kinda wanna start revising this story but i'm kinda scared to once again deal with the world's most caustic protagonist
writing maybe the messiest short story i've ever written
February 2, 2026 at 2:41 AM
finally worked on it again and my girlfriends response to the draft is “IM SCREAMING” so im feeling pretty good
its really funny to me how i never write happy things. today i had a good conversation w friends where we resolved a conflict and talked about how much we love each other, then watched two of my girlfriends get closer to each other. now it's time to sit down and just write something so so sad
February 1, 2026 at 11:14 PM
its really funny to me how i never write happy things. today i had a good conversation w friends where we resolved a conflict and talked about how much we love each other, then watched two of my girlfriends get closer to each other. now it's time to sit down and just write something so so sad
really glad you liked it! :D this made me so psyched to see
1 month in to my year long reading challenge - go check out all the amazing stories I've read so far! Today, Day 32! I read Wine-Dark Eyes by @junewhitewrites.bsky.social published in @undertow.bsky.social Weird Horror Magazine. Read my review here:
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/s...
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/s...
February 1, 2026 at 10:58 PM
really glad you liked it! :D this made me so psyched to see
im stealing the trend. 1 like = 1 line from a published piece or WIP. i might lean towards WIP even though i should be promoting my published pieces bc there's nothing i love more than to be like haha,,, yes,,, there's a piece out there but not yet...
January 30, 2026 at 9:39 PM
im stealing the trend. 1 like = 1 line from a published piece or WIP. i might lean towards WIP even though i should be promoting my published pieces bc there's nothing i love more than to be like haha,,, yes,,, there's a piece out there but not yet...
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i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
January 29, 2026 at 4:50 PM
i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
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I wrote a thing about short stories, why they get rejected, and what you can apply to your own work.
clhellisen.beehiiv.com/p/a-view-fro...
clhellisen.beehiiv.com/p/a-view-fro...
A View from the Slush
clhellisen.beehiiv.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:15 PM
I wrote a thing about short stories, why they get rejected, and what you can apply to your own work.
clhellisen.beehiiv.com/p/a-view-fro...
clhellisen.beehiiv.com/p/a-view-fro...
writing a resume/cover letter agonizing experience. i'm really good at baking cookies and kissing my friends but no let me tell you about how i Provided Excellent Customer Service And Cash Handling
January 28, 2026 at 2:11 AM
writing a resume/cover letter agonizing experience. i'm really good at baking cookies and kissing my friends but no let me tell you about how i Provided Excellent Customer Service And Cash Handling
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Reposted by Juniper White 🦊
Buddy boy, I haven't read this yet but the tags and summary are making me think I mighta created InkFoundry just to find it:
January 26, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Buddy boy, I haven't read this yet but the tags and summary are making me think I mighta created InkFoundry just to find it:
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What makes a house haunted in Palestine? Is it the ghosts that linger - or is it something far more sinister?
Our Cut of Salt is about a haunted house in Palestine and the 3 generations of women who must discover the answer to this question for themselves. Preorder now: linktr.ee/deenahelm
Our Cut of Salt is about a haunted house in Palestine and the 3 generations of women who must discover the answer to this question for themselves. Preorder now: linktr.ee/deenahelm
January 20, 2026 at 9:05 PM
What makes a house haunted in Palestine? Is it the ghosts that linger - or is it something far more sinister?
Our Cut of Salt is about a haunted house in Palestine and the 3 generations of women who must discover the answer to this question for themselves. Preorder now: linktr.ee/deenahelm
Our Cut of Salt is about a haunted house in Palestine and the 3 generations of women who must discover the answer to this question for themselves. Preorder now: linktr.ee/deenahelm
really fucking hard when it starts looking like you might need to give up on a story you really wanted to get out into the world
January 16, 2026 at 9:37 PM
really fucking hard when it starts looking like you might need to give up on a story you really wanted to get out into the world
just read The Center of the Universe by @nadiashammas.bsky.social in Thyme Travelers, which is a wonderful anthology, and i was so glad to find that this story is online. its stunning and puts words to feelings that ive been struggling to articulate
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
The Center of the Universe
When Abigail doesn’t notice you, you don’t exist.
strangehorizons.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:21 PM
just read The Center of the Universe by @nadiashammas.bsky.social in Thyme Travelers, which is a wonderful anthology, and i was so glad to find that this story is online. its stunning and puts words to feelings that ive been struggling to articulate
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
sits up in bed in a cold sweat. i forgot about my antiimperialist ghostfucker story
January 14, 2026 at 7:58 PM
sits up in bed in a cold sweat. i forgot about my antiimperialist ghostfucker story
i'm at my best with a melancholy flash piece about girls in a strange situation feeling weird quiet sad emotions. light on plot, heavy on pretty prose and emotions and introspection. i also work a lot with stories about obsessive love, the second person, and stories shaped like spirals :3
Artists, I think we're all too comfortable sharing our imposter syndrome.
I would love to see you step out of your comfort zone and confidently state what you think you're actually really good at.
No self deprecation, just what you think you're the strongest at
Is anyone brave eniough? 👀
I would love to see you step out of your comfort zone and confidently state what you think you're actually really good at.
No self deprecation, just what you think you're the strongest at
Is anyone brave eniough? 👀
January 14, 2026 at 7:36 PM
i'm at my best with a melancholy flash piece about girls in a strange situation feeling weird quiet sad emotions. light on plot, heavy on pretty prose and emotions and introspection. i also work a lot with stories about obsessive love, the second person, and stories shaped like spirals :3
wrote a story on voice chat in my writing group server, which was fun and rewarding, but being in that call was just listening to me being dead silent for 30 minutes and then going "oh my god. i'm doing it. i'm writing. oh my god" and then falling silent again
January 9, 2026 at 7:40 AM
wrote a story on voice chat in my writing group server, which was fun and rewarding, but being in that call was just listening to me being dead silent for 30 minutes and then going "oh my god. i'm doing it. i'm writing. oh my god" and then falling silent again
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i have a new flash out today: about miners on jupiter, protest songs, and voices beating back the darkness, louder and louder and louder.
hoping it makes you want to sing louder, too 🫀
hoping it makes you want to sing louder, too 🫀
Lift up your voices and sing so even the stones join in. "Songbook for the Jovian Resistance" by @prioryruins.bsky.social is a shout into the darkness for dark times
Songbook for the Jovian Resistance - Small Wonders
That first night, after the massacre of the helium-3 miners’ union at Mare Placidus, there were only a dozen of us.
smallwondersmag.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:55 AM
i have a new flash out today: about miners on jupiter, protest songs, and voices beating back the darkness, louder and louder and louder.
hoping it makes you want to sing louder, too 🫀
hoping it makes you want to sing louder, too 🫀
new photo i'm using for professional stuff :3
January 6, 2026 at 1:42 AM
new photo i'm using for professional stuff :3
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No matter how much hate you have in your heart for the United States and the imperialist regime that has ruled here for so long, the capitalism that demands empire, it is not too much. It is not enough. Even if you are choking on pitch-black bile, they deserve more bile
January 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
No matter how much hate you have in your heart for the United States and the imperialist regime that has ruled here for so long, the capitalism that demands empire, it is not too much. It is not enough. Even if you are choking on pitch-black bile, they deserve more bile
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This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about.
As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.
As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.
January 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM
This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about.
As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.
As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.
death to america btw. wanna make my stance on that clear
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
death to america btw. wanna make my stance on that clear