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@oluwasigma.bsky.social
he/him. part-time god of stories. applied mathematician. ✍🏾: F&SF, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Podcastle, Baffling Magazine etc. Ignyte Award winner.
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My first story of 2026 is out now in Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com
Read "Hunter, Hunter" now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hunt...
Read "Hunter, Hunter" now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hunt...
Hunter, Hunter - Lightspeed Magazine
Today, like every other day, I wake up expecting to die before night comes. No, I’m not suicidal and I don’t have a death wish. I am just a Hunter. The life expectancy of the average Hunter in the Sec...
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January 22, 2026 at 12:23 PM
My first story of 2026 is out now in Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com
Read "Hunter, Hunter" now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hunt...
Read "Hunter, Hunter" now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hunt...
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Cast of Wonders, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Kaleidotrope: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...
February 14, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Cast of Wonders, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Kaleidotrope: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...
My first story of 2026 is out now in Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com
Read "Hunter, Hunter" now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hunt...
Read "Hunter, Hunter" now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hunt...
Hunter, Hunter - Lightspeed Magazine
Today, like every other day, I wake up expecting to die before night comes. No, I’m not suicidal and I don’t have a death wish. I am just a Hunter. The life expectancy of the average Hunter in the Sec...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:23 PM
My first story of 2026 is out now in Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com
Read "Hunter, Hunter" now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hunt...
Read "Hunter, Hunter" now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hunt...
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FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025
Those Who Seek to Embrace the Sun by @oluwasigma.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thos...
Those Who Seek to Embrace the Sun by @oluwasigma.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thos...
Those Who Seek to Embrace the Sun - Lightspeed Magazine
The humans crawl into us, carrying their instruments and consulting their manuals. Their hands run over us, searching for nuts and bolts and hidden crevices. We are big toys that they all long to play...
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December 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025
Those Who Seek to Embrace the Sun by @oluwasigma.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thos...
Those Who Seek to Embrace the Sun by @oluwasigma.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thos...
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BCS of 2025! "A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" @oluwasigma.bsky.social BCS #444 "a seven-foot-tall demon emerges. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up with unnatural speed" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Librarian’s Resolution In The Land Of Demons by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe
Even as I watch, a seven-foot-tall demon emerges. It growls and looks at the wall that divides the city. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up with unnat...
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December 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
BCS of 2025! "A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" @oluwasigma.bsky.social BCS #444 "a seven-foot-tall demon emerges. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up with unnatural speed" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li... #BCSof2025
I haven't written a word in weeks...
December 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I haven't written a word in weeks...
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We publish many new & emerging authors; they deserve pro pay. Our First Readers write personalized comments in ALL replies; they deserve pay. If you read BCS & you're able to support, please consider it. If you have, THANK YOU. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... weightlessbooks.com/genre/fictio... 2/3
Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We publish many new & emerging authors; they deserve pro pay. Our First Readers write personalized comments in ALL replies; they deserve pay. If you read BCS & you're able to support, please consider it. If you have, THANK YOU. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... weightlessbooks.com/genre/fictio... 2/3
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BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
www.patreon.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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Live in BCS #444: "A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe "Even as I watch, a demon emerges. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up and wraps itself around the demon's waist." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Librarian’s Resolution In The Land Of Demons by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe
Even as I watch, a seven-foot-tall demon emerges. It growls and looks at the wall that divides the city. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up with unnat...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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It's also got some action in it but is a bit more focused on relationships, power, magic, and pain. There is a relentless quality to the piece, as this great weight of history comes crashing down, and only one person can truly face it. It's beautifully accomplished.
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It's also got some action in it but is a bit more focused on relationships, power, magic, and pain. There is a relentless quality to the piece, as this great weight of history comes crashing down, and only one person can truly face it. It's beautifully accomplished.
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"A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe returns to the half-ruined city introduced in “A Witch's Transition In The City Of Ghosts” and completes the destruction, giving some background to the setting and exploring more of its depth and tragedy.
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe returns to the half-ruined city introduced in “A Witch's Transition In The City Of Ghosts” and completes the destruction, giving some background to the setting and exploring more of its depth and tragedy.
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Go read my newest short story featuring gay witches and grotesque demons!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
New Issue: BCS #444 out today, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to his @theignyteawards.bsky.social winning BCS story), cover art @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #444 by Scott Andrews
Scary stories for the Halloween season by Peter Darbyshire--a new tale in his series of the gunslinging fallen angel Azrael--and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe--a sequel to his Ignyte Award-winning story “A Witc...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Go read my newest short story featuring gay witches and grotesque demons!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
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New Issue: BCS #444 out today, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to his @theignyteawards.bsky.social winning BCS story), cover art @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #444 by Scott Andrews
Scary stories for the Halloween season by Peter Darbyshire--a new tale in his series of the gunslinging fallen angel Azrael--and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe--a sequel to his Ignyte Award-winning story “A Witc...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New Issue: BCS #444 out today, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to his @theignyteawards.bsky.social winning BCS story), cover art @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
Go read my newest short story featuring gay witches and grotesque demons!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
New Issue: BCS #444 out today, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to his @theignyteawards.bsky.social winning BCS story), cover art @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #444 by Scott Andrews
Scary stories for the Halloween season by Peter Darbyshire--a new tale in his series of the gunslinging fallen angel Azrael--and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe--a sequel to his Ignyte Award-winning story “A Witc...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Go read my newest short story featuring gay witches and grotesque demons!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
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Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiverity reprints issue, "That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by @oluwasigma.bsky.social, an SF poem in which giant metal mechs stand for the resistance of language to the forces of empire reckoning.press/that-time-my...
That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’ | Reckoning
Have you ever seen a behemoth? The ones brought in by the foreigners after the silent war? I was a boy, eight, nine years old, when I saw it. Have you ever seen a forest catch fire? Your entire villag...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiverity reprints issue, "That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by @oluwasigma.bsky.social, an SF poem in which giant metal mechs stand for the resistance of language to the forces of empire reckoning.press/that-time-my...
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"The Last Word" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, from LIGHTSPEED (2024) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
LS also published "A Dish Best Served Cold Or An Excerpt From The Cookbook Of The Gods" by him in July www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
LS also published "A Dish Best Served Cold Or An Excerpt From The Cookbook Of The Gods" by him in July www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
The Last Word - Lightspeed Magazine
I am running out of Words. I stumble down the temple steps, clutching my wounded side. I had been too slow to use my fourth Word and the prison guard’s spear had drawn blood before he choked to death ...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"The Last Word" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, from LIGHTSPEED (2024) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
LS also published "A Dish Best Served Cold Or An Excerpt From The Cookbook Of The Gods" by him in July www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
LS also published "A Dish Best Served Cold Or An Excerpt From The Cookbook Of The Gods" by him in July www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
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How does depression feel like? Like a rock sitting on your head. Like a portal made of broken glass, that you created. In @nightmare-magazine.com is Body? Glass, a world where you can feel every pain. But what if you could feel more than just suffering? www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/body...
Body? Glass - Nightmare Magazine
My head. Let’s start with my hair, more specifically, follicle by follicle. Brown in color to match my eyes; curly like traps—I’m Black—see it now. My hair lies fluffy on my head, like a good wig for ...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
How does depression feel like? Like a rock sitting on your head. Like a portal made of broken glass, that you created. In @nightmare-magazine.com is Body? Glass, a world where you can feel every pain. But what if you could feel more than just suffering? www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/body...
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BCS #444 ebook out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store & subscribers, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) & @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to @theignyteawards.bsky.social Winner): weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #444
Issue #444 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe and cover art by Bruce Brenneise.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
BCS #444 ebook out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store & subscribers, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) & @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to @theignyteawards.bsky.social Winner): weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...
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New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social and cover art by Bruce Brenneise:
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #444
Issue #444 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe and cover art by Bruce Brenneise.
weightlessbooks.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social and cover art by Bruce Brenneise:
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Congratulations to Fasasi Ridwan who wins the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Speculative Poetry for RELIVING: POST TRAUMA OF THE LEKKI TOLLGATE MASSACRE strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
October 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Congratulations to Fasasi Ridwan who wins the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Speculative Poetry for RELIVING: POST TRAUMA OF THE LEKKI TOLLGATE MASSACRE strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is out today! Edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, with artwork by @abistevensart.bsky.social, this special issue celebrates neurodiverse creators with reprinted work from Reckoning's first 10 years. Check out the full ToC and read CG's editorial here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...
October 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is out today! Edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, with artwork by @abistevensart.bsky.social, this special issue celebrates neurodiverse creators with reprinted work from Reckoning's first 10 years. Check out the full ToC and read CG's editorial here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...
Contract signed & I'm happy to announce that my short story, A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons, which is a sequel to my Ignyte Award winning story, will be published in a future issue of the inimitable Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. 📜🧙🏿😈
October 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Contract signed & I'm happy to announce that my short story, A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons, which is a sequel to my Ignyte Award winning story, will be published in a future issue of the inimitable Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. 📜🧙🏿😈
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I have a new flash story in Lightspeed!
"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"
Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com
"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"
Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com
On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting - Lightspeed Magazine
Dear Dr. Erzsébet Krajcsik-Nagy, I am contacting you as a member of the general public, and not as a fellow scholar, though I must say my chosen field of art history does have certain similarities to...
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September 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I have a new flash story in Lightspeed!
"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"
Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com
"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"
Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com