Kai Delmas
@kaidelmas.bsky.social
German-American | Codexian |
Stories in Martian, Wyldblood, Tree And Stone, Etherea, and several Shacklebound anthos.
https://linktr.ee/kaidelmas
Stories in Martian, Wyldblood, Tree And Stone, Etherea, and several Shacklebound anthos.
https://linktr.ee/kaidelmas
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Many thanks to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for this lovely review of the inaugural Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
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Review: “The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Volume 1” curated by Michael Kelly
Release Date: October 21, 2025Publisher: Undertow PublicationsGenre: Anthologies Description A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Many thanks to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for this lovely review of the inaugural Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
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IT IS HERE
Spooky middle grade
The Nowhere Series book 2
BEWARE THE BLACK
📚🩸
Spooky middle grade
The Nowhere Series book 2
BEWARE THE BLACK
📚🩸
HAPPY RELEASE DAY, @kathleenpalm.bsky.social!
WITHIN THE BLACK, the second book in the Nowhere series, is out now! Heartfelt middle grade horror for the introspective kid in all of us.
GO GRAB A COPY: www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...
CONGRATS, PEPPERS!!!!! 🌶️ #booksky
WITHIN THE BLACK, the second book in the Nowhere series, is out now! Heartfelt middle grade horror for the introspective kid in all of us.
GO GRAB A COPY: www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...
CONGRATS, PEPPERS!!!!! 🌶️ #booksky
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
IT IS HERE
Spooky middle grade
The Nowhere Series book 2
BEWARE THE BLACK
📚🩸
Spooky middle grade
The Nowhere Series book 2
BEWARE THE BLACK
📚🩸
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It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph🖤
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph🖤
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Yall want a lewd award in the mail? Submit yourself and your friends for a Cummie! I'll be making these by hand....again 😅
It's time.
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Nom yourself, nom your friends, nom your enemies or whatever
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Nom yourself, nom your friends, nom your enemies or whatever
The Dead Languages' Cummies
For the second year in the row, we are proud to announce the annual Dead Languages' Cummies award.
What are the DLP Cummies?
The Cummies will juicily celebrate horror authors and presses. These a...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Yall want a lewd award in the mail? Submit yourself and your friends for a Cummie! I'll be making these by hand....again 😅
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I have a story in this! The ToC is wild, the stories are incredible. If you want a weird west anthology, that's the one you NEED. Buy a copy, and check out 'Five Lemons in a Net', my story of trauma, soul-eating shadows, and of course, the importance of shopping lists 🔥
Out today! Twisted Trails is an anthology of weird west flash fiction stories!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books)
Amazon.com: Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books) eBook : Fomley, Eric: Kindle Store
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November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I have a story in this! The ToC is wild, the stories are incredible. If you want a weird west anthology, that's the one you NEED. Buy a copy, and check out 'Five Lemons in a Net', my story of trauma, soul-eating shadows, and of course, the importance of shopping lists 🔥
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Thrilled to be in this anthology - not just because I loved the piece they accepted from me, but because its an awesome TOC of authors I admire!!
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thrilled to be in this anthology - not just because I loved the piece they accepted from me, but because its an awesome TOC of authors I admire!!
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(If you like the idea of Sheckleys, then check out Hungry Skins, my Zombies Need Brains story, available on their Patreon, or via the Year 2 anthology:
www.amazon.co.uk/ZNB-Presents...
Much longer piece that has two cryptid investigators hunting one...)
www.amazon.co.uk/ZNB-Presents...
Much longer piece that has two cryptid investigators hunting one...)
Amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
(If you like the idea of Sheckleys, then check out Hungry Skins, my Zombies Need Brains story, available on their Patreon, or via the Year 2 anthology:
www.amazon.co.uk/ZNB-Presents...
Much longer piece that has two cryptid investigators hunting one...)
www.amazon.co.uk/ZNB-Presents...
Much longer piece that has two cryptid investigators hunting one...)
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I wish I was, a weirrddd west, a weirrddd west, heeeroooo...
@shackleboundbooks.bsky.social
Out now ft. my flash fiction, "Ghost Town".
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
(This story involves a Sheckley - my invented term for predatory mimic cryptids, after Robert Sheckley's Dimension of Miracles)
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Out now ft. my flash fiction, "Ghost Town".
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
(This story involves a Sheckley - my invented term for predatory mimic cryptids, after Robert Sheckley's Dimension of Miracles)
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I wish I was, a weirrddd west, a weirrddd west, heeeroooo...
@shackleboundbooks.bsky.social
Out now ft. my flash fiction, "Ghost Town".
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
(This story involves a Sheckley - my invented term for predatory mimic cryptids, after Robert Sheckley's Dimension of Miracles)
@shackleboundbooks.bsky.social
Out now ft. my flash fiction, "Ghost Town".
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
(This story involves a Sheckley - my invented term for predatory mimic cryptids, after Robert Sheckley's Dimension of Miracles)
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Cool news! Twisted Trails, a new anthology from @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social is out now. My latest short western, "Whisper from a Colt" is in it.
Find it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
Find it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Cool news! Twisted Trails, a new anthology from @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social is out now. My latest short western, "Whisper from a Colt" is in it.
Find it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
Find it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
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Check out our bookstore!
We have two new bundles in our bookstore. You can get 11 of our flash fiction anthologies for $8, or 15 or our drabble anthologies for $12.
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We have two new bundles in our bookstore. You can get 11 of our flash fiction anthologies for $8, or 15 or our drabble anthologies for $12.
payhip.com/shacklebound...
Shacklebound Books
Shacklebound Books is the publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror short fiction.https://shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/
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November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Check out our bookstore!
We have two new bundles in our bookstore. You can get 11 of our flash fiction anthologies for $8, or 15 or our drabble anthologies for $12.
payhip.com/shacklebound...
We have two new bundles in our bookstore. You can get 11 of our flash fiction anthologies for $8, or 15 or our drabble anthologies for $12.
payhip.com/shacklebound...
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So, I listened to the first half of Pre-Approved for Haunting (collection) by @patrickbarb.bsky.social last night right before falling asleep, and then I had a nightmare. I don’t have nightmares??? Wtaf Patrick? Anywho, you should read or listen to it.
www.amazon.com/Pre-Approved...
www.amazon.com/Pre-Approved...
Pre-Approved for Haunting: And Other Stories
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November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
So, I listened to the first half of Pre-Approved for Haunting (collection) by @patrickbarb.bsky.social last night right before falling asleep, and then I had a nightmare. I don’t have nightmares??? Wtaf Patrick? Anywho, you should read or listen to it.
www.amazon.com/Pre-Approved...
www.amazon.com/Pre-Approved...
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I setup a Payhip store and put some cool stuff in it. 👀 My flash fiction collections, a drabble collection, a Collab collection with Eric Fomley, and a horror novelette that isn't published anywhere else. 👀 Direct sales, so all proceeds go to me, not Amazon. <3
Repost and buy some books!
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Addison Smith
Addison Smith is an author and laborer living in upstate New York. His fiction can be found in Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Daily Science Fiction and others. He has recently discovered the joy...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I setup a Payhip store and put some cool stuff in it. 👀 My flash fiction collections, a drabble collection, a Collab collection with Eric Fomley, and a horror novelette that isn't published anywhere else. 👀 Direct sales, so all proceeds go to me, not Amazon. <3
Repost and buy some books!
Repost and buy some books!
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🔨 What would you sacrifice to keep a secret from yourself?
Mason Riley knew death lay behind that old cellar door in the woods. He'd known it since his tenth birthday, when his father handed him a hammer and told him to drive his first nail. "We hold it back," his father said all those years ago.
Mason Riley knew death lay behind that old cellar door in the woods. He'd known it since his tenth birthday, when his father handed him a hammer and told him to drive his first nail. "We hold it back," his father said all those years ago.
The House of Forgotten Things
What would you sacrifice to keep a secret from yourself?Mason Riley knew death lay behind that old cellar door in the woods. He'd known it since his tenth birthday, when his father handed him a hammer...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🔨 What would you sacrifice to keep a secret from yourself?
Mason Riley knew death lay behind that old cellar door in the woods. He'd known it since his tenth birthday, when his father handed him a hammer and told him to drive his first nail. "We hold it back," his father said all those years ago.
Mason Riley knew death lay behind that old cellar door in the woods. He'd known it since his tenth birthday, when his father handed him a hammer and told him to drive his first nail. "We hold it back," his father said all those years ago.
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Want some flash fiction? 👀
Want stories about crabs and queers and love and regret?
This is a ridiculous amount of flash from my first couple years of seriously publishing fiction. I love everything in here. <3
Please repost! I'll be your best friend! <3
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Want stories about crabs and queers and love and regret?
This is a ridiculous amount of flash from my first couple years of seriously publishing fiction. I love everything in here. <3
Please repost! I'll be your best friend! <3
payhip.com/b/SDBhA
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Want some flash fiction? 👀
Want stories about crabs and queers and love and regret?
This is a ridiculous amount of flash from my first couple years of seriously publishing fiction. I love everything in here. <3
Please repost! I'll be your best friend! <3
payhip.com/b/SDBhA
Want stories about crabs and queers and love and regret?
This is a ridiculous amount of flash from my first couple years of seriously publishing fiction. I love everything in here. <3
Please repost! I'll be your best friend! <3
payhip.com/b/SDBhA
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Releasing my horror novelette "The House of Forgotten Things" into the world today! In the spirit of "Fuck Amazon," the book is only available on my Payhip store, which provides information for downloading and transferring to your device!
Please share! 🥹
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Please share! 🥹
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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Releasing my horror novelette "The House of Forgotten Things" into the world today! In the spirit of "Fuck Amazon," the book is only available on my Payhip store, which provides information for downloading and transferring to your device!
Please share! 🥹
payhip.com/b/Dxa78
Please share! 🥹
payhip.com/b/Dxa78
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My friend is on a limited time window at this point and could really use some help saving up for a gender affirming surgery. Even if you can only donate $5, I'd very much appreciate it. (That sort of thing adds up over time.)
#funding #help
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#funding #help
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Donate to Support Dakota’s Gender Affirming Surgery, organized by Dakota King
Hi, all! My name's Dakota!
I'm a transmasc guy in Colorado who's be… Dakota King needs your support for Support Dakota’s Gender Affirming Surgery
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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
My friend is on a limited time window at this point and could really use some help saving up for a gender affirming surgery. Even if you can only donate $5, I'd very much appreciate it. (That sort of thing adds up over time.)
#funding #help
www.gofundme.com/f/donate-for...
#funding #help
www.gofundme.com/f/donate-for...
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Today's community drabble is, "Phantom People" by Sarah Oakes. The theme was "apparition."
Find Sarah Oakes on Bluesky @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social
Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl
#authors #drabbles #writingprompts
Find Sarah Oakes on Bluesky @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social
Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl
#authors #drabbles #writingprompts
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Today's community drabble is, "Phantom People" by Sarah Oakes. The theme was "apparition."
Find Sarah Oakes on Bluesky @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social
Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl
#authors #drabbles #writingprompts
Find Sarah Oakes on Bluesky @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social
Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl
#authors #drabbles #writingprompts
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NEW FICTION:
"Final Log Fragment Retrieved from the Derelict Hauler MV Ironside" by D. Thomas Minton
#SFF #flashfiction
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"Final Log Fragment Retrieved from the Derelict Hauler MV Ironside" by D. Thomas Minton
#SFF #flashfiction
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Final Log Fragment Retrieved from the Derelict Hauler MV Ironside
During scheduled transit from Caliban Mining Operations to Mars Orbital Station, ore hauler MV Ironside investigated a transponder anomaly.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
NEW FICTION:
"Final Log Fragment Retrieved from the Derelict Hauler MV Ironside" by D. Thomas Minton
#SFF #flashfiction
flashpointsf.com/2025/10/31/f...
"Final Log Fragment Retrieved from the Derelict Hauler MV Ironside" by D. Thomas Minton
#SFF #flashfiction
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Psst, hey you...
...the Drabble Contest is open. 💯
...the Drabble Contest is open. 💯
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Psst, hey you...
...the Drabble Contest is open. 💯
...the Drabble Contest is open. 💯
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It's that time of the year again!
FPSF is launching its annual Kickstarter on Sunday the 16th. Please help us keep a good thing going for another year.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...
FPSF is launching its annual Kickstarter on Sunday the 16th. Please help us keep a good thing going for another year.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...
Coming soon: Flash Point SF 2025
An online literary publication for science fiction & fantasy short stories under 1000 words.
www.kickstarter.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It's that time of the year again!
FPSF is launching its annual Kickstarter on Sunday the 16th. Please help us keep a good thing going for another year.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...
FPSF is launching its annual Kickstarter on Sunday the 16th. Please help us keep a good thing going for another year.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...
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Out today! Twenty flash fiction stories of the weird wild west, infusing horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Check it out and snag a copy! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Out today! Twenty flash fiction stories of the weird wild west, infusing horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Check it out and snag a copy! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
I've got a new flash story in this one. Lots of great weird west stories. Come and get 'em! 😁🙌💙
Out today! Twisted Trails is an anthology of weird west flash fiction stories!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books)
Amazon.com: Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books) eBook : Fomley, Eric: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I've got a new flash story in this one. Lots of great weird west stories. Come and get 'em! 😁🙌💙
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People are doing year wrap-ups already (give December a chance, people!) buuuut I'm curious -- What's the thing that's most dear to you that you've published this year and why?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
People are doing year wrap-ups already (give December a chance, people!) buuuut I'm curious -- What's the thing that's most dear to you that you've published this year and why?
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For AaN it would be our "Mmeory" memory manipulation anthology. A lot of first time professional rate authors in this one from around the world.
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
For AaN it would be our "Mmeory" memory manipulation anthology. A lot of first time professional rate authors in this one from around the world.