S.L. Harris
@slharris.bsky.social
Writer, educator, sometime archaeologist | husband & dad | roots and beginnings | fiction website: ifchanceyoucallit.wordpress.com
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S.L. Harris
@slharris.bsky.social
· Dec 16
Here's a roundup of the stories I had published in 2025. Links in thread below.
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Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access:
Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).
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Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
January 28, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access:
Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
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Two fantastic stories from Kaleidotrope are on the short fiction longlist—“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by @trailofleaves.bsky.social and “The Hunting of the Phoenix” by @slharris.bsky.social. If you’re a BSFA member, I hope you’ll consider voting for them by February 19th
Second Round of 2025 BSFA Awards Nominations Begins
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January 27, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Two fantastic stories from Kaleidotrope are on the short fiction longlist—“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by @trailofleaves.bsky.social and “The Hunting of the Phoenix” by @slharris.bsky.social. If you’re a BSFA member, I hope you’ll consider voting for them by February 19th
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Reading Malinowski’s account of mist magic in Argonauts of the Western Pacific in proximity to A Wizard of Earthsea makes me strongly suspect that the former influenced Le Guin in her description of Ged’s first serious magic, calling up a concealing mist.
January 26, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Reading Malinowski’s account of mist magic in Argonauts of the Western Pacific in proximity to A Wizard of Earthsea makes me strongly suspect that the former influenced Le Guin in her description of Ged’s first serious magic, calling up a concealing mist.
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This is a season of grief and struggle. Today we're going to share a long list of stories and poems - of hope, of not just surviving but thriving, of resistance, of unexpected kindness and connection in the midst of darkness. Save these up for when you need them.
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January 26, 2026 at 7:43 PM
This is a season of grief and struggle. Today we're going to share a long list of stories and poems - of hope, of not just surviving but thriving, of resistance, of unexpected kindness and connection in the midst of darkness. Save these up for when you need them.
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This is such a gorgeous story. Especially in times like these, it's a balm to read such a deft work touching on friendship, care, love, creation, injury, separation, and healing.
Honoured to see my novelette “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com on the BSFA Longlist for Best Shorter Fiction✨🌿
January 26, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This is such a gorgeous story. Especially in times like these, it's a balm to read such a deft work touching on friendship, care, love, creation, injury, separation, and healing.
Reading Malinowski’s account of mist magic in Argonauts of the Western Pacific in proximity to A Wizard of Earthsea makes me strongly suspect that the former influenced Le Guin in her description of Ged’s first serious magic, calling up a concealing mist.
January 26, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Reading Malinowski’s account of mist magic in Argonauts of the Western Pacific in proximity to A Wizard of Earthsea makes me strongly suspect that the former influenced Le Guin in her description of Ged’s first serious magic, calling up a concealing mist.
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With snow general over much of the U.S., I’m once again asking for someone to create a life-size snowman scene of the Fellowship on Caradhras.
January 25, 2026 at 7:25 PM
With snow general over much of the U.S., I’m once again asking for someone to create a life-size snowman scene of the Fellowship on Caradhras.
With snow general over much of the U.S., I’m once again asking for someone to create a life-size snowman scene of the Fellowship on Caradhras.
January 25, 2026 at 7:25 PM
With snow general over much of the U.S., I’m once again asking for someone to create a life-size snowman scene of the Fellowship on Caradhras.
Another great episode.
New KEN AND ROBIN TALK ABOUT STUFF podcast episode drops, feat. selecting PAGE TURNERS stories, Russia vs. archaeology in Crimea, @robindlaws.bsky.social as Creative Director, and Bugsy Siegel vs. Goering!! www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/ep...
Episode 683: Disturbing Holes and Barrows « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
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January 23, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Another great episode.
So great to see "The Hunting of the Phoenix" on the BSFA longslist! If for some reason you want a story of hope in a time of wicked rulers, corruption, destruction, and despair... kaleidotrope.net/archives/aut...
January 22, 2026 at 4:36 PM
So great to see "The Hunting of the Phoenix" on the BSFA longslist! If for some reason you want a story of hope in a time of wicked rulers, corruption, destruction, and despair... kaleidotrope.net/archives/aut...
Post a game you remember playing that no one else remembers
January 16, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Post a game you remember playing that no one else remembers
So pleased to see "The Island at the End of the World" on this list, in such fine company. www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-island-a...
January 14, 2026 at 5:47 PM
So pleased to see "The Island at the End of the World" on this list, in such fine company. www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-island-a...
My favorite book of 2025. Just downright brilliant. And the ebook's on sale right now for a mere $3! If you haven't picked this one up, you owe it to yourself. undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
We're so proud and happy to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social is a 2025 Philip K.Dick Award Nominee for UNCERTAIN SONS.
Congratulations, Thomas!
Congratulations, Thomas!
January 14, 2026 at 5:44 PM
My favorite book of 2025. Just downright brilliant. And the ebook's on sale right now for a mere $3! If you haven't picked this one up, you owe it to yourself. undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
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The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx…
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January 7, 2026 at 9:34 AM
The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx…
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"A serious human life...can hardly begin until we see an element of illusion in what is really there, and something real in fantasies about what might be there instead." - Northrop Frye
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
"A serious human life...can hardly begin until we see an element of illusion in what is really there, and something real in fantasies about what might be there instead." - Northrop Frye
"A serious human life...can hardly begin until we see an element of illusion in what is really there, and something real in fantasies about what might be there instead." - Northrop Frye
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
"A serious human life...can hardly begin until we see an element of illusion in what is really there, and something real in fantasies about what might be there instead." - Northrop Frye
"An open mind, to be sure, should be open at both ends, like the foodpipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake." - Northrop Frye
January 12, 2026 at 2:37 PM
"An open mind, to be sure, should be open at both ends, like the foodpipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake." - Northrop Frye
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Not finished with awards reading, but here is a batch of stories I really loved by @bethgoder.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, @reasie.bsky.social, @emlinden.bsky.social, @effies.bsky.social, and @samtasticbooks.com.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
January 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Not finished with awards reading, but here is a batch of stories I really loved by @bethgoder.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, @reasie.bsky.social, @emlinden.bsky.social, @effies.bsky.social, and @samtasticbooks.com.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
Whatever else Argonauts of the Western Pacific may be, it's beautiful literature.
January 10, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Whatever else Argonauts of the Western Pacific may be, it's beautiful literature.
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Here's a roundup of the stories I had published in 2025. Links in thread below.
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Here's a roundup of the stories I had published in 2025. Links in thread below.
This piece is a tour de force. A great read.
October 2025 saw the 17th anniversary issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and my story "Pools of Light at the Center of the World," a 2800-word sentence about a shipwrecked Andalusian merchant losing his mind. Weird fiction with shades of cosmic horror. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/pool...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Pools of Light at the Center of the World by Will McMahon
...and he now wandered alone through the green and bright land of his desire, its air thick with the heady buzz of life, of unseen life, and he paused again and crouched, the joints of his body creaki...
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January 1, 2026 at 2:24 AM
This piece is a tour de force. A great read.
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10. If you want a masterclass in both character voice and using a fairly slight speculative element to explore the human condition, look no further than "Root Hog or Die" by @slharris.bsky.social.
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
Issue #26
“A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above” by Nkereuwem Albert: the city above and the city below / spirit bots / revolution”A White Day Comes” by A.D. Sui: solar destruction…
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December 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
10. If you want a masterclass in both character voice and using a fairly slight speculative element to explore the human condition, look no further than "Root Hog or Die" by @slharris.bsky.social.
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
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FFer Read of the Day: "The Pelican in its Piety" by @slharris.bsky.social in @reckoningmag.bsky.social
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The Pelican in its Piety | Reckoning
The boy in his Sunday clothes stared at the pelicans scattered blackly on the shore like slick and globous stones, right where the monster had left them. He remembered them flying in great lines above...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
FFer Read of the Day: "The Pelican in its Piety" by @slharris.bsky.social in @reckoningmag.bsky.social
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And now, the #Pope, in an apostolic letter on … the importance of #archaeology:
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
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"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV on the importance of Archaeology on the occasion of the Centenary of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (11 December 2025)
APOSTOLIC LETTER OF THE HOLY FATHER POPE LEO XIV ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE OF CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
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December 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And now, the #Pope, in an apostolic letter on … the importance of #archaeology:
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Namari-em.
A lord of the rings cover band called Rivendel Amitri
A lord of the rings cover band called Wet Legolas
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Namari-em.