Felix
@schundundsyntax.bsky.social
Linguist by day, writer by day because I get tired at 9pm
humour, science-fiction and weird stuff (German and English) here:
felixanker.com/publications
humour, science-fiction and weird stuff (German and English) here:
felixanker.com/publications
Somehow, one of my worst stories managed to win one of the best prizes, the 'Anxious Nihilist Prize for Fiction'. Big thanks to Cody and the others who had to read this! You can find 'À Rielle' here:
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/09/fict...
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/09/fict...
Fiction: À Rielle (Winner Of The 2025 Anxious Nihilist Prize For Fiction)
Because Life is too Short to Read Bullshit
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Somehow, one of my worst stories managed to win one of the best prizes, the 'Anxious Nihilist Prize for Fiction'. Big thanks to Cody and the others who had to read this! You can find 'À Rielle' here:
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/09/fict...
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/09/fict...
One year ago – inspired by 'Don't Submit!' (donotsubmit.net) – I started the German lit mag 'Rehkitzler', and so far this has been a strange but wonderful journey. If you understand German, feel free to check out the absurd, surreal, and bizarre pieces I got to publish.
www.rehkitzler.de
www.rehkitzler.de
Rehkitzler E-Zine
absurde, surreale, bizarre Flash Fiction und Lyrik
www.rehkitzler.de
November 28, 2024 at 6:33 AM
One year ago – inspired by 'Don't Submit!' (donotsubmit.net) – I started the German lit mag 'Rehkitzler', and so far this has been a strange but wonderful journey. If you understand German, feel free to check out the absurd, surreal, and bizarre pieces I got to publish.
www.rehkitzler.de
www.rehkitzler.de
The dismantling and remantling of Rupi Kaur
February 17, 2024 at 11:49 AM
The dismantling and remantling of Rupi Kaur
Just got my little weird story "X marks the void" published over at Maudlin House
maudlinhouse.net/x-marks-the-...
maudlinhouse.net/x-marks-the-...
February 14, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Just got my little weird story "X marks the void" published over at Maudlin House
maudlinhouse.net/x-marks-the-...
maudlinhouse.net/x-marks-the-...
Wiewiewieschschsch
February 1, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Wiewiewieschschsch
Reposted by Felix
"I was ten when my father took me to see the vampire."
This week on hex, a contender for our most disquieting. A short visit with a vampire on a rainy day. Don't miss being haunted by @jackklausner.bsky.social ‘s Memory of Biting." 🧛😱
This week on hex, a contender for our most disquieting. A short visit with a vampire on a rainy day. Don't miss being haunted by @jackklausner.bsky.social ‘s Memory of Biting." 🧛😱
A Memory of Biting by Jack Klausner
I was ten when my father took me to see the vampire.
He lived in a terraced house in one of the damp little streets behind Safeway. My father parked in the supermarket car park, which struck me as ...
hexliterary.com
January 30, 2024 at 3:41 PM
"I was ten when my father took me to see the vampire."
This week on hex, a contender for our most disquieting. A short visit with a vampire on a rainy day. Don't miss being haunted by @jackklausner.bsky.social ‘s Memory of Biting." 🧛😱
This week on hex, a contender for our most disquieting. A short visit with a vampire on a rainy day. Don't miss being haunted by @jackklausner.bsky.social ‘s Memory of Biting." 🧛😱
Happy to have another one of my strange texts published by one of my favourite lit mags
donotsubmit.net/alphabet-son...
donotsubmit.net/alphabet-son...
January 21, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Happy to have another one of my strange texts published by one of my favourite lit mags
donotsubmit.net/alphabet-son...
donotsubmit.net/alphabet-son...
If you're craving something weird and prefer your fingers al dente, you might like this lottle experimental story I just got published
"ALT + END" by Felix Anker
According to my grandmother, not finishing my meal would bring rain, but it never did. Until last week. Last week we had potato soup, I hate soup and I hate potatoes and I hate that two wrongs didn��...
www.bizarrepublishinghouse.com
January 13, 2024 at 3:37 PM
If you're craving something weird and prefer your fingers al dente, you might like this lottle experimental story I just got published
Today we published the first issue of Germany's only lit mag dedicated to humour and I'm a bit proud actually
www.derschuhschnabel.de/veroffentlic...
www.derschuhschnabel.de/veroffentlic...
January 11, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Today we published the first issue of Germany's only lit mag dedicated to humour and I'm a bit proud actually
www.derschuhschnabel.de/veroffentlic...
www.derschuhschnabel.de/veroffentlic...
I definitely need more stories that involve vegetable-fighting
January 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
I definitely need more stories that involve vegetable-fighting
Just had some surreal poetry published in one of my favourite lit mags
donotsubmit.net/cycles-by-fe...
donotsubmit.net/cycles-by-fe...
December 26, 2023 at 6:07 PM
Just had some surreal poetry published in one of my favourite lit mags
donotsubmit.net/cycles-by-fe...
donotsubmit.net/cycles-by-fe...
Dance like everybody's judging
December 25, 2023 at 9:58 PM
Dance like everybody's judging
Are there any lit mags that don't want a specific number of words but rather the exact Scrabble score of all the letters used in the text?
December 25, 2023 at 8:30 PM
Are there any lit mags that don't want a specific number of words but rather the exact Scrabble score of all the letters used in the text?
Eine möglicherweise lustige Kurzgeschichte von mir gibt's jetzt im neuen UND-Heft
December 19, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Eine möglicherweise lustige Kurzgeschichte von mir gibt's jetzt im neuen UND-Heft
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"A bird called my name with perfect consonant-and-vowel alignment... I offered it some sunflower seeds. The bird ate from my hand, then ate my hand..." Don't miss @ThadDeVassie.bsky.social's gorgeous ornithological (dream?) (nightmare?), fresh on hex 🦅🪶🐦
hexliterary.com?p=1923
hexliterary.com?p=1923
Featherhand: Inquiry for the Department of Ornithology by Thad DeVassie
It was just another walk in the park as I tried logging my necessary steps and subsequent hydration. I recently began eating sunflower seeds, popping them like energy pills on these walks, which made ...
hexliterary.com
December 19, 2023 at 3:12 PM
"A bird called my name with perfect consonant-and-vowel alignment... I offered it some sunflower seeds. The bird ate from my hand, then ate my hand..." Don't miss @ThadDeVassie.bsky.social's gorgeous ornithological (dream?) (nightmare?), fresh on hex 🦅🪶🐦
hexliterary.com?p=1923
hexliterary.com?p=1923
Reposted by Felix
Sendet uns eure Texte. Link zum Call in der Bio
December 12, 2023 at 9:25 AM
Sendet uns eure Texte. Link zum Call in der Bio
"As they surrender, they creak louder and harsher, their bones snap until they collapse into the dark embrace of the soil, finding peace in the light they had blocked for so many years."
Got a short story about dying trees published in 'A Thin Slice of Anxiety'
Got a short story about dying trees published in 'A Thin Slice of Anxiety'
Fiction: The Forester
Because Life is too Short to Read Bullshit
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com
December 11, 2023 at 12:47 PM
"As they surrender, they creak louder and harsher, their bones snap until they collapse into the dark embrace of the soil, finding peace in the light they had blocked for so many years."
Got a short story about dying trees published in 'A Thin Slice of Anxiety'
Got a short story about dying trees published in 'A Thin Slice of Anxiety'
Reposted by Felix
Can we all agree that all ears look so weird yet we never really notice unless they're slightly weirder than normal?
December 9, 2023 at 8:52 AM
Can we all agree that all ears look so weird yet we never really notice unless they're slightly weirder than normal?
Meine humoristische Wannabe-Wodehouse'sche Kurzgeschichte "Mann über Bord, Karl!" (1920er-Jahre, Dorf, aber ganz ohne Politik, keine Angst) gibt's jetzt im Literaturmagazin 'Sechzehn Seiten'
Felix Anker - Mann über Bord, Karl! - Sechzehn Seiten
Die Symptome waren eindeutig. Im Baum schrien die Vögel, vor dem Fenster bienten die Bienen und die Sonne stürzte sich auf meine Zehen ...
sechzehnseiten.de
December 9, 2023 at 7:27 AM
Meine humoristische Wannabe-Wodehouse'sche Kurzgeschichte "Mann über Bord, Karl!" (1920er-Jahre, Dorf, aber ganz ohne Politik, keine Angst) gibt's jetzt im Literaturmagazin 'Sechzehn Seiten'
Reposted by Felix
NASA launches the entire world's supply of mistletoe into orbit so everybody has to make out all the time.
December 8, 2023 at 2:05 PM
NASA launches the entire world's supply of mistletoe into orbit so everybody has to make out all the time.
