Spencer Nitkey
@spencerwriting.bsky.social
fun not cool.
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Tis the season (to make a poorly but earnestly designed awards eligibility post)! I'm really proud of the work I've published this year, so here they are! Please consider reading them, adding them to any recommended reading lists, and then telling me how wonderful they are! Details and links below!
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'Bush Flowers' by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Indigenous Australian painter from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
'Bush Flowers' by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Indigenous Australian painter from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt
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Composition No. 142 by Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1943
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137723
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137723
November 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Composition No. 142 by Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1943
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137723
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137723
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New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out.
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
The House of Illusionists – Vanessa Fogg, Writer
vanessafogg.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out.
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
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Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. (“It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.”)
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. (“It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.”)
This @champwongs.bsky.social story is really *really* good.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto...
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto...
Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine
Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This @champwongs.bsky.social story is really *really* good.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto...
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto...
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A Cover Reveal! 🌕
Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026
Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A Cover Reveal! 🌕
Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026
Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026
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2025 READING THREAD: If you're interested in what this editor is reading throughout the year, I'm going to drop each book in here as I complete it. I'm pretty ruthless about DNFing books I don't vibe with, so if you see it on this list you can consider it a recommendation.
February 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
2025 READING THREAD: If you're interested in what this editor is reading throughout the year, I'm going to drop each book in here as I complete it. I'm pretty ruthless about DNFing books I don't vibe with, so if you see it on this list you can consider it a recommendation.
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There is no new work up on ergot. today.
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
There is no new work up on ergot. today.
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
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The history of astrophotography is absurdly fascinating. This is a picture from the Orion Nebula taken in 1883 by Andrew Common.
January 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The history of astrophotography is absurdly fascinating. This is a picture from the Orion Nebula taken in 1883 by Andrew Common.
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Thank you everyone who came yesterday to the online launch party for The House of Illusionists! Thanks, @interstellarflight.bsky.social for putting it together! I loved meeting you all! (Also, I hate hearing my recorded voice, but for those who don't, here's some clips from last night)
Vanessa Fogg, author of THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS, on writing, daydreams, and reading.
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Thank you everyone who came yesterday to the online launch party for The House of Illusionists! Thanks, @interstellarflight.bsky.social for putting it together! I loved meeting you all! (Also, I hate hearing my recorded voice, but for those who don't, here's some clips from last night)
Yet another reminder that some of the very best flash fiction in the world is being published as anonymous comments on YouTube videos
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Yet another reminder that some of the very best flash fiction in the world is being published as anonymous comments on YouTube videos
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I don't have any scary stories to share for Halloween, but I do have a ghost story! "Handsomest Gentlest" is about the flaming-eyed fiend who stalks the forest of the dead. It's also a story about a boy and his dog. I have been told that it might make you sad. 🖤
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
Handsomest Gentlest by M. R. Robinson, Haven Spec Magazine
Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
www.havenspec.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I don't have any scary stories to share for Halloween, but I do have a ghost story! "Handsomest Gentlest" is about the flaming-eyed fiend who stalks the forest of the dead. It's also a story about a boy and his dog. I have been told that it might make you sad. 🖤
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
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ANNOUNCEMENT
1. Afterlives 2024 curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social has been COVER REVEALED
2. the collection will be available FOR FREE to paid patrons of @thedeadlands.com
3. join now, read The Deadlands, and receive the book magically when it is released beginning of November
go see! 👇
1. Afterlives 2024 curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social has been COVER REVEALED
2. the collection will be available FOR FREE to paid patrons of @thedeadlands.com
3. join now, read The Deadlands, and receive the book magically when it is released beginning of November
go see! 👇
Afterlives 2024: Cover Reveal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
One cool thing about being a psychopomp is the ability to lead people to places they haven't been before. Sure sure, the main place we lead people is the Realm of the Dead, yeah yeah, but we can take ...
psychopomp.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT
1. Afterlives 2024 curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social has been COVER REVEALED
2. the collection will be available FOR FREE to paid patrons of @thedeadlands.com
3. join now, read The Deadlands, and receive the book magically when it is released beginning of November
go see! 👇
1. Afterlives 2024 curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social has been COVER REVEALED
2. the collection will be available FOR FREE to paid patrons of @thedeadlands.com
3. join now, read The Deadlands, and receive the book magically when it is released beginning of November
go see! 👇
The slime mold continues to grow.! Thanks so much @fusionfragment.bsky.social for highlighting and of course @hexliterary.bsky.social for publishing.
FFer Read of the Day: "A Visit From the Sentient Slime Mold Specialist" by @spencerwriting.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=2708
hexliterary.com?p=2708
A Visit From the Sentient Slime Mold Specialist by Spencer Nitkey
“So, ok boss, yes, you probably should have attended to the mold beneath your shower head before it got to this point. Shoulda being the operant word here. But shoulds only count in wouldas and coulda...
hexliterary.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The slime mold continues to grow.! Thanks so much @fusionfragment.bsky.social for highlighting and of course @hexliterary.bsky.social for publishing.
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FFer Read of the Day: "A Visit From the Sentient Slime Mold Specialist" by @spencerwriting.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=2708
hexliterary.com?p=2708
A Visit From the Sentient Slime Mold Specialist by Spencer Nitkey
“So, ok boss, yes, you probably should have attended to the mold beneath your shower head before it got to this point. Shoulda being the operant word here. But shoulds only count in wouldas and coulda...
hexliterary.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
FFer Read of the Day: "A Visit From the Sentient Slime Mold Specialist" by @spencerwriting.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=2708
hexliterary.com?p=2708
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this review got me in the gut and the heart
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
this review got me in the gut and the heart
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Thinking of Barthelme as speculative, or floating within the larger pool of irrealism, is syncing up nicely with some thoughts I’ve been working on with weird genre/canon formation, especially pulling on this excellent thought by Timothy Jarvis and Helen Marshall
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Thinking of Barthelme as speculative, or floating within the larger pool of irrealism, is syncing up nicely with some thoughts I’ve been working on with weird genre/canon formation, especially pulling on this excellent thought by Timothy Jarvis and Helen Marshall
"The weird, beginning at a point, the exact location of which Zach cannot reveal, expanded northward all one night, while people were sleeping."
Thinking of Barthelme as speculative, or floating within the larger pool of irrealism, is syncing up nicely with some thoughts I’ve been working on with weird genre/canon formation, especially pulling on this excellent thought by Timothy Jarvis and Helen Marshall
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"The weird, beginning at a point, the exact location of which Zach cannot reveal, expanded northward all one night, while people were sleeping."
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*pushes aside grave dirt*
i heard that every tenth coin sold is cursed
but like a fun curse
what? i don't make the rules
WAIT *cackles* I DO
💀🫶
buy a coin here: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
i heard that every tenth coin sold is cursed
but like a fun curse
what? i don't make the rules
WAIT *cackles* I DO
💀🫶
buy a coin here: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
*pushes aside grave dirt*
i heard that every tenth coin sold is cursed
but like a fun curse
what? i don't make the rules
WAIT *cackles* I DO
💀🫶
buy a coin here: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
i heard that every tenth coin sold is cursed
but like a fun curse
what? i don't make the rules
WAIT *cackles* I DO
💀🫶
buy a coin here: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
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Apex is funded, but there are still more stretch goals to meet to restore it to its former glory!
Spread the word for more issues (including one specifically for unpublished authors!), new drabble contests, and more.
Spread the word for more issues (including one specifically for unpublished authors!), new drabble contests, and more.
WE DID IT!!! 🎉🎉🎉
over $20,000 raised with 3 days still left to go! Thank you all so much to everyone who shared and supported our Kickstarter; we truly, TRULY couldn't have done it without you! 💜👽
Bask in the warm glow of a fully funded Kickstarter with us 🌟
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
over $20,000 raised with 3 days still left to go! Thank you all so much to everyone who shared and supported our Kickstarter; we truly, TRULY couldn't have done it without you! 💜👽
Bask in the warm glow of a fully funded Kickstarter with us 🌟
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Apex is funded, but there are still more stretch goals to meet to restore it to its former glory!
Spread the word for more issues (including one specifically for unpublished authors!), new drabble contests, and more.
Spread the word for more issues (including one specifically for unpublished authors!), new drabble contests, and more.
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Watch this space...
October 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Watch this space...
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Wanna read some stories?
Here's a 🧵 of my 2025 publications so far...
1) "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social : resistance in the face of systemic oppression, from the pov of the old Erie Canal bed in Rochester NY
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
Here's a 🧵 of my 2025 publications so far...
1) "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social : resistance in the face of systemic oppression, from the pov of the old Erie Canal bed in Rochester NY
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
Written on the Subway Walls
For February, The Sunday Morning Transport brings you stories by Jennifer Hudak, John Chu, Carrie Vaughn, and Marie Brennan.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Wanna read some stories?
Here's a 🧵 of my 2025 publications so far...
1) "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social : resistance in the face of systemic oppression, from the pov of the old Erie Canal bed in Rochester NY
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
Here's a 🧵 of my 2025 publications so far...
1) "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social : resistance in the face of systemic oppression, from the pov of the old Erie Canal bed in Rochester NY
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
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We're SIX DAYS AWAY from the end of our Kickstarter and 75% FUNDED 🚀✨
Remember, it's YOUR donations keeping us a proudly pro-rate magazine, which financially compensates the skilled authors who bring Apex to life. Help artists thrive in 2026 and donate TODAY 💜👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Remember, it's YOUR donations keeping us a proudly pro-rate magazine, which financially compensates the skilled authors who bring Apex to life. Help artists thrive in 2026 and donate TODAY 💜👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We're SIX DAYS AWAY from the end of our Kickstarter and 75% FUNDED 🚀✨
Remember, it's YOUR donations keeping us a proudly pro-rate magazine, which financially compensates the skilled authors who bring Apex to life. Help artists thrive in 2026 and donate TODAY 💜👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Remember, it's YOUR donations keeping us a proudly pro-rate magazine, which financially compensates the skilled authors who bring Apex to life. Help artists thrive in 2026 and donate TODAY 💜👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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FFer Read of the Day: "Everything We Lost in the Apocalypse" by @marofthebooks.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
Everything We Lost in the Apocalypse
This story is about fridge drawings and photo albums and vinyl records and video game consoles and sewing machines and reading nooks and koi ponds and board games and polished rocks
strangehorizons.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
FFer Read of the Day: "Everything We Lost in the Apocalypse" by @marofthebooks.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...