Parker M. O'Neill
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
Speculative fiction writer. Words in Apex, Crepuscular, Flame Tree Press, elsewhere.
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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 🔥
every time I make a short story sale on a cold day I think about spending all the cash on a gigantic polo coat like this one and then I look up how much gigantic polo coats cost and then I get bummed out and think about how cool it would be to win the lottery
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
every time I make a short story sale on a cold day I think about spending all the cash on a gigantic polo coat like this one and then I look up how much gigantic polo coats cost and then I get bummed out and think about how cool it would be to win the lottery
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This story by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social ruined my whole morning, and I mean that as the highest of compliments. Perfect Halloween read.
HALLOWEEN RELEASE: “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill is now available to read for free on FFO! Is it too much to call this horror delicious…? 😏
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
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#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
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This Is What Mouths Are For
We snatch the centipedes off the boulder and crack their carapaces, sucking the insides out. There are rules to our eating. Guts slide, wriggling, into four mouths and down four throats. All this u…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This story by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social ruined my whole morning, and I mean that as the highest of compliments. Perfect Halloween read.
Go read Ash’s newsletter! This is not a drill!
happy halloween folks!!!
my monthly newsletter is out now, with some updates about story sales, and a story out TODAY from @dielaughingmag.bsky.social
story recs from @parkeriswriting.bsky.social and @spicycloaca.bsky.social also included 👺
my monthly newsletter is out now, with some updates about story sales, and a story out TODAY from @dielaughingmag.bsky.social
story recs from @parkeriswriting.bsky.social and @spicycloaca.bsky.social also included 👺
Ash Vale Updates: October 2025
Happy Halloween!!
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October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Go read Ash’s newsletter! This is not a drill!
Happy Halloween! I can’t recommend you read this one while eating, but I can recommend you read it over and over for every other waking minute of your day today
HALLOWEEN RELEASE: “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill is now available to read for free on FFO! Is it too much to call this horror delicious…? 😏
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
This Is What Mouths Are For
We snatch the centipedes off the boulder and crack their carapaces, sucking the insides out. There are rules to our eating. Guts slide, wriggling, into four mouths and down four throats. All this u…
www.flashfictiononline.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Happy Halloween! I can’t recommend you read this one while eating, but I can recommend you read it over and over for every other waking minute of your day today
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I want to take a sec today to talk about how awesome @apexmag.bsky.social is. They've published me twice & both have been stories that are super weird and queer and violent and tender all at once. There are other excellent mags out there, but I would argue that *nobody* does it quite like Apex.
October 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I want to take a sec today to talk about how awesome @apexmag.bsky.social is. They've published me twice & both have been stories that are super weird and queer and violent and tender all at once. There are other excellent mags out there, but I would argue that *nobody* does it quite like Apex.
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The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is currently sitting at $6,717 of our $20K goal! That means we're a third of the way to funding four issues of Apex for next year! Can we hit 50% before the end of the week? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is currently sitting at $6,717 of our $20K goal! That means we're a third of the way to funding four issues of Apex for next year! Can we hit 50% before the end of the week? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Huge news for fans of birds/songs/dreaming/science fiction/the obliteration of the universe: “To Dream of Birdsong” is free to read online!
"To Dream of Birdsong" by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social now free to read online!
"Ren dreams in her pyrobed for three years as the ship diverts its course, travels to the next destination. She has died six hundred and seventeen times."
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"Ren dreams in her pyrobed for three years as the ship diverts its course, travels to the next destination. She has died six hundred and seventeen times."
plotthoundmag.com/to-dream-of-...
October 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Huge news for fans of birds/songs/dreaming/science fiction/the obliteration of the universe: “To Dream of Birdsong” is free to read online!
Double pub day for me!
Check out “Instructions for Self-Reflection”, now available in Radon’s Issue 11
Check out “Instructions for Self-Reflection”, now available in Radon’s Issue 11
Issue 11 is live!
www.RadonJournal.com
This October issue features scifi body horror, AIs fighting to prevent execution, government-forced rebirth, underground rebellion, reclaiming your sexuality and name, critiques of Saudi Arabia, and much more.
www.RadonJournal.com
This October issue features scifi body horror, AIs fighting to prevent execution, government-forced rebirth, underground rebellion, reclaiming your sexuality and name, critiques of Saudi Arabia, and much more.
October 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Double pub day for me!
Check out “Instructions for Self-Reflection”, now available in Radon’s Issue 11
Check out “Instructions for Self-Reflection”, now available in Radon’s Issue 11
Story release day!
“This Is What Mouths Are For” is my answer to the question: what if everything was creepy and gross?
Despite the fact that revising this story made me nauseous, I’m very, very proud of this one.
“This Is What Mouths Are For” is my answer to the question: what if everything was creepy and gross?
Despite the fact that revising this story made me nauseous, I’m very, very proud of this one.
NOW AVAILABLE: FFO October 2025!! This issue is a collection of wilderness horror, selected by our guest editor C.R. Langille. What better way to enter spooky season than by getting lost in the woods?! 💀
#writingcommunity #horror
@crlangille.bsky.social
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#writingcommunity #horror
@crlangille.bsky.social
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Flash Fiction Online October 2025
Flash Fiction Online’s October 2025 issue is a special collection of wilderness horror, selected by our guest editor this month C.R. Langille. Stories this month include: “To Breach a C…
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October 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Story release day!
“This Is What Mouths Are For” is my answer to the question: what if everything was creepy and gross?
Despite the fact that revising this story made me nauseous, I’m very, very proud of this one.
“This Is What Mouths Are For” is my answer to the question: what if everything was creepy and gross?
Despite the fact that revising this story made me nauseous, I’m very, very proud of this one.
Apex is (in my completely unbiased opinion) one of the best mags out there. Throw them some support!
HAPPY KICKSTARTER DAY!! 🎉🎉🎉
Kick(start) the first day of Spooky Month with us and come check out the cool stuff we've got planned for you!! 🎃✨
👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Kick(start) the first day of Spooky Month with us and come check out the cool stuff we've got planned for you!! 🎃✨
👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
two skeletons are shaking hands in a cemetery .
Alt: spooky scary skeletons silly symphony dance
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October 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Apex is (in my completely unbiased opinion) one of the best mags out there. Throw them some support!
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The @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter launches tomorrow! Will you help us fund 2026 and kickoff another 20 years of strange, surreal, shocking, and beautiful short fiction? I hope you will! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Coming soon: Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter launches tomorrow! Will you help us fund 2026 and kickoff another 20 years of strange, surreal, shocking, and beautiful short fiction? I hope you will! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!
A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
www.kickstarter.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
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In about an hour I'm doing a reading at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social !!
I'll probably read a couple flash pieces, and if there's time, maybe a chapter from my WIP book? We'll see where the wind takes us
It's free, and there's still time to register at flights-of-foundry.org/registration/
I'll probably read a couple flash pieces, and if there's time, maybe a chapter from my WIP book? We'll see where the wind takes us
It's free, and there's still time to register at flights-of-foundry.org/registration/
Registration – Flights of Foundry
flights-of-foundry.org
September 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
In about an hour I'm doing a reading at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social !!
I'll probably read a couple flash pieces, and if there's time, maybe a chapter from my WIP book? We'll see where the wind takes us
It's free, and there's still time to register at flights-of-foundry.org/registration/
I'll probably read a couple flash pieces, and if there's time, maybe a chapter from my WIP book? We'll see where the wind takes us
It's free, and there's still time to register at flights-of-foundry.org/registration/
No one talk to me, I’m hibernating until October
September 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
No one talk to me, I’m hibernating until October
You can’t tell, but as this photo was taken I was repeating the Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front manifesto in my head
Fists up for the IILF! Big thanks to @donfoolery.com, @parkeriswriting.bsky.social, and everyone who came out for our September reading!
September 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
You can’t tell, but as this photo was taken I was repeating the Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front manifesto in my head
putting delight in my author bio from now on
if you live nearby, go listen to Parker read!!!! he's a delight!
Rochester area writing buddies, come listen to me yap! Non Rochester area writing buddies, now might be a great time for a road trip
September 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
putting delight in my author bio from now on
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Irrealists: join us TONIGHT at Liquid State Brewing in downtown Ithaca for readings by @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Onward!
Irrealists: Our next reading will be on Monday, September 22nd from 7-9pm at Liquid State, featuring @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Join us for good fiction, good beer, and good company.
September 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Irrealists: join us TONIGHT at Liquid State Brewing in downtown Ithaca for readings by @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Onward!
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Granted, "the 22nd night of September" doesn't have the same ring to it as the Earth, Wind & Fire line, but I'm sure @parkeriswriting.bsky.social and I will make it one to remember!
If you're around the 607, come by Liquid State at 7 pm!
If you're around the 607, come by Liquid State at 7 pm!
Irrealists: Our next reading will be on Monday, September 22nd from 7-9pm at Liquid State, featuring @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Join us for good fiction, good beer, and good company.
September 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Granted, "the 22nd night of September" doesn't have the same ring to it as the Earth, Wind & Fire line, but I'm sure @parkeriswriting.bsky.social and I will make it one to remember!
If you're around the 607, come by Liquid State at 7 pm!
If you're around the 607, come by Liquid State at 7 pm!
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Super grateful for this generous review and recommendation of “A Runaway Android’s Guide to the Oro-Ti Night Market,” online now at Locus (and super grateful to @smallwondersmag.com and guest editor @premeemohamed.com for giving it a home in the first place, too): locusmag.com/review/gigan...
GigaNotoSaurus, Small Wonders and Lightspeed: Reviews by Charles Payseur
GigaNotoSaurus 6/25 Small Wonders 6/25 Lightspeed 6/25 The June GigaNotoSaurus story is “The Starter Family” by Sage Tyrtle, which introduces readers to Charles, a supposedly good citizen and Forev…
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September 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Super grateful for this generous review and recommendation of “A Runaway Android’s Guide to the Oro-Ti Night Market,” online now at Locus (and super grateful to @smallwondersmag.com and guest editor @premeemohamed.com for giving it a home in the first place, too): locusmag.com/review/gigan...
Rochester area writing buddies, come listen to me yap! Non Rochester area writing buddies, now might be a great time for a road trip
Irrealists: Our next reading will be on Monday, September 22nd from 7-9pm at Liquid State, featuring @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Join us for good fiction, good beer, and good company.
September 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Rochester area writing buddies, come listen to me yap! Non Rochester area writing buddies, now might be a great time for a road trip
Contract signed! “Instructions for Self-Reflection” is coming next month in Radon’s Issue #11.
September 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Contract signed! “Instructions for Self-Reflection” is coming next month in Radon’s Issue #11.
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Apex is reopening to submissions and launching our Kickstarter to fund 2026 on Oct. 1st! If you want to be one the first backers and make sure you don't miss out on any of the exciting this we have planned next month, click the "Notify me on launch button" here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Coming soon: Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Apex is reopening to submissions and launching our Kickstarter to fund 2026 on Oct. 1st! If you want to be one the first backers and make sure you don't miss out on any of the exciting this we have planned next month, click the "Notify me on launch button" here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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new story day! sometimes you gotta write a kinda fucked up little post-apocalyptic microfiction ✨
🛸🛸yes it’s friday, time once again.
🛸🛸today we have something … tender… from @elijah.mea.rs
www.annareser.com/ns-we-keep-m...
🛸🛸today we have something … tender… from @elijah.mea.rs
www.annareser.com/ns-we-keep-m...
We Keep Moving
by Elijah J. Mears
It’s hard to breathe the smoky air, stepping over shattered concrete and broken glass, but we keep moving, shuffling along the cracked pavement like zombies.
My sister is hungry. ...
www.annareser.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
new story day! sometimes you gotta write a kinda fucked up little post-apocalyptic microfiction ✨