Storm Humbert
@stormhumbert.bsky.social
SFF author, editor, gamer, and gym rat. www.stormhumbertwrites.com
New project announcement! Here’s the next anthology by @calendaroffools.bsky.social! Follow to be alerted upon launch. Open call to follow funding :)
Big announcement! Our next project, "Missed-Fits" is coming soon! This anthology features stories of awkward lengths (1200-2100 words) about things that don't fit or are out of place. An open call will follow, provided we fund. Click the link and follow to be notified upon launch!
Coming soon: Missed-Fits: A Calendar of Fools Anthology
An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New project announcement! Here’s the next anthology by @calendaroffools.bsky.social! Follow to be alerted upon launch. Open call to follow funding :)
Writing research fact: ravens and crows are only black *to us*. Animals that see a wider range of the spectrum see them as explosions of color (think parrots, but colors shift with angles, like chameleon paint). They look glossy to us sometimes because their violet, hues border what we can perceive.
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Writing research fact: ravens and crows are only black *to us*. Animals that see a wider range of the spectrum see them as explosions of color (think parrots, but colors shift with angles, like chameleon paint). They look glossy to us sometimes because their violet, hues border what we can perceive.
Another free story! Three weeks only. Read it while you can :)
We've got another free story! For the next three weeks, come check out Rich Larson's "Pod People." It's a fantastic story about found family and transcendent empathy, so you'll be glad you did.
Pod People
by Rich Larson
Back when Danny was alive still, he was always giving me ocean facts, always real solemnly. Like: Dad, there’s a wrinkly gray shark in the Arctic Ocean that trades its eyes for parasite...
calendaroffools.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Another free story! Three weeks only. Read it while you can :)
Another new free story! This one’s a happy, heartfelt ghost story about love and family and motherhood, and I know you’ll love it.
It's time for another free story! For the next three weeks, head over to our site and read "Tears in the Nursery" by Catherine Wells for free. Make sure you don't miss out!
Tears in the Nursery
by Catherine Wells
Roxanne had been in labor for forty-two hours: forty-two hours of pains that gripped her, squeezed her, then slipped away for what seemed only a moment before they clutched at her a...
calendaroffools.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Another new free story! This one’s a happy, heartfelt ghost story about love and family and motherhood, and I know you’ll love it.
Another free story! Check out @chrisblake.bsky.social’s “Life After Life After Life” from our recent anthology. Three weeks only to read it for free.
Free story time! This one is "Life After Life After Life" by Christopher Blake. This story is about life, legacy, love, and sacrifice. Plus, it's got sentient machines living at the edge of our solar system, so that's pretty cool. Don't miss out. It's only available for free for three weeks 🙂.
Life After Life After Life
by Christopher Blake
We swim, singing with joy to the Stars, weaving and darting and skimming photo-plankton from the exosphere of Harvest, our home asteroid. The pod sings and the Stars sing back: ol...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Another free story! Check out @chrisblake.bsky.social’s “Life After Life After Life” from our recent anthology. Three weeks only to read it for free.
Another great story temporarily available for free! Don’t miss out.
It's time for another free story! Up next is "For the Rectitude of Our Intentions" by @ourmankoto.bsky.social. What if the U.S. was founded on black magic? What if its success and protection was linked to some profane spell? Read and find out, and be sure to run the numbers at the end 🙂.
For the Rectitude of Our Intentions
by Stephen Kotowych
It wasn't fully signed yet, of course. Even now, delegates of the Continental Congress who had not been in Philadelphia during the final vote earlier in the week made their way to ...
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September 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Another great story temporarily available for free! Don’t miss out.
Another free story. A quick read at only 250 words, and well worth your time!
We have another free story available! Now, and for the next 3 weeks, read "Disclaimer: This is Not Your Child" by @sloiaconi.bsky.social. It is, sadly, a very timely story, but powerful and well worth your time. And don't forget that "Birdsong" by @renfestklingon.bsky.social is up for 10 more days.
Disclaimer: This is Not Your Child
by Steve Loiaconi
After recent tragic events at Holman Elementary School, your child's memories have been downloaded to the enclosed synthoid. Please charge the robot for at least 36 hours using a USB...
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September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Another free story. A quick read at only 250 words, and well worth your time!
A speaker in the political theater promoting political violence is like a rancher who sets his rivals field ablaze then curses the wind when his own house burns… those who start fires aren’t entitled to pity. We can decry wildfires without pitying arsonists, or missing them, for that matter.
September 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A speaker in the political theater promoting political violence is like a rancher who sets his rivals field ablaze then curses the wind when his own house burns… those who start fires aren’t entitled to pity. We can decry wildfires without pitying arsonists, or missing them, for that matter.
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We have another free story! @renfestklingon.bsky.social (Erica Ruppert's) "Birdsong" is free to read on the Calendar of Fools site for three weeks. Don't miss out! calendaroffools.com/stories/bird...
Birdsong
by Erica Ruppert
Meara bent to look more closely at the curved length of bone tangled in the dusty weeds. It looked like it could be part of an arm. It might have been someone she knew once, before th...
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September 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We have another free story! @renfestklingon.bsky.social (Erica Ruppert's) "Birdsong" is free to read on the Calendar of Fools site for three weeks. Don't miss out! calendaroffools.com/stories/bird...
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Time for another free story! Now available on our site is "Upsized Savior," by @denverauthor.bsky.social! It'll be there for three weeks, and don't forget there's still 10 days left to read "Horses of Pazyryk," by S.L. Harris! calendaroffools.com/stories/upsi...
Upsized Savior
by David Boop
Hi! I'm Zack Sunstrom. You may remember me as the captain of the first faster-than-light mission to Alpha Centauri. Since coming face-to-face with death, I've had a special appreciation ...
calendaroffools.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Time for another free story! Now available on our site is "Upsized Savior," by @denverauthor.bsky.social! It'll be there for three weeks, and don't forget there's still 10 days left to read "Horses of Pazyryk," by S.L. Harris! calendaroffools.com/stories/upsi...
Free stories from the “Intergalactic Rejects” anthology, for a limited time only. Starting with “The Horses of Pazyryk” by @slharris.bsky.social!
We've been so happy with the responses the stories in "Intergalactic Rejects," we'd like to share them with even more people. Therefore, we're going to offer the original stories for free, individually, a few weeks at a time, starting with "The Horses of Pazyryk" by @slharris.bsky.social .
The Horses of Pazyryk
by S. L. Harris
All those long black winter afternoons, I hid in the belly of the museum surrounded by the ghosts of horses screaming. Their golden bridle ornaments shone in the greenish light, their ...
calendaroffools.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Free stories from the “Intergalactic Rejects” anthology, for a limited time only. Starting with “The Horses of Pazyryk” by @slharris.bsky.social!
See, these are the kinds of conspiracy theories I can get behind…
August 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
See, these are the kinds of conspiracy theories I can get behind…
Anyone see the one-man play Trump put on at the White House today? I hear he’s calling it “Diddler on the Roof.”
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Anyone see the one-man play Trump put on at the White House today? I hear he’s calling it “Diddler on the Roof.”
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Palestinian babies & children like Huda & Ali are being starved to death with their families in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you have anything to spare:
August 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Palestinian babies & children like Huda & Ali are being starved to death with their families in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you have anything to spare:
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Palestinian children & babies like Rima's are being starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can:
August 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Palestinian children & babies like Rima's are being starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can:
He’s right, you know.
Stop feeding the state surveillance sloppy content generation machines. All they do is also generate slop and poison wells.
I get it, who among you doesn't love a little sloppy. But this kinda sloppy is a big sloppy mess. That's right. And the people who produce slop, Sloppers, well they love--
I get it, who among you doesn't love a little sloppy. But this kinda sloppy is a big sloppy mess. That's right. And the people who produce slop, Sloppers, well they love--
July 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
He’s right, you know.
Every lie is a debt taken out against the truth, and the bill always comes due.
Poverty hurts you. Not poor people.
Suppression hurts you. Not LGBTQIA+ people.
Illiteracy hurts you. Not science.
Wealth inequality hurts you. Not immigrants.
War kills you. Not social progress.
Wake up.
Poverty hurts you. Not poor people.
Suppression hurts you. Not LGBTQIA+ people.
Illiteracy hurts you. Not science.
Wealth inequality hurts you. Not immigrants.
War kills you. Not social progress.
Wake up.
July 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Every lie is a debt taken out against the truth, and the bill always comes due.
Poverty hurts you. Not poor people.
Suppression hurts you. Not LGBTQIA+ people.
Illiteracy hurts you. Not science.
Wealth inequality hurts you. Not immigrants.
War kills you. Not social progress.
Wake up.
Poverty hurts you. Not poor people.
Suppression hurts you. Not LGBTQIA+ people.
Illiteracy hurts you. Not science.
Wealth inequality hurts you. Not immigrants.
War kills you. Not social progress.
Wake up.
Apropos of nothing, of course… m.youtube.com/watch?v=RTgv...
Daniel Sloss: SOCiO - Some People Deserve To Die
YouTube video by Daniel Sloss
m.youtube.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Apropos of nothing, of course… m.youtube.com/watch?v=RTgv...
Back from @readercon.bsky.social! I had an incredible time, as always. Thanks to all the chairs, organizers, volunteers, etc. There’s no con at all without you, and this year’s was a great one. Fantastic panels, great books, and even better company :). Can’t wait until next year!
July 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Back from @readercon.bsky.social! I had an incredible time, as always. Thanks to all the chairs, organizers, volunteers, etc. There’s no con at all without you, and this year’s was a great one. Fantastic panels, great books, and even better company :). Can’t wait until next year!
Here’s my schedule for @readercon.bsky.social! I’m excited for all my events and so many others on the schedule. Come on out and see us :)
July 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Here’s my schedule for @readercon.bsky.social! I’m excited for all my events and so many others on the schedule. Come on out and see us :)
At the airport getting ready to head to @readercon.bsky.social! Can’t wait to see everyone :)
July 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
At the airport getting ready to head to @readercon.bsky.social! Can’t wait to see everyone :)
So excited this story is available to everyone today, and especially happy to be back in @apexmag.bsky.social !
“'I still don’t understand,' I said. 'This boy grows up a man of letters. He uses his words, not his face. What do we care about his smile?'” ⏰👁️
New fiction today by @stormhumbert.bsky.social: "Moebius Syndrome"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
New fiction today by @stormhumbert.bsky.social: "Moebius Syndrome"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
July 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
So excited this story is available to everyone today, and especially happy to be back in @apexmag.bsky.social !
More reviews for “Intergalactic Rejects”! Better still, they liked it :)
More reviews have rolled in from Abyss & Apex and the Jenny Cruise blog! www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/05/aa-r... arghink.com/2025/07/argh... . Thanks to the reviewers for taking the time to read "Intergalactic Rejects," and we're thrilled they enjoyed it!
A&A reviews Intergalactic Rejects | Abyss & Apex
www.abyssapexzine.com
July 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
More reviews for “Intergalactic Rejects”! Better still, they liked it :)
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I've faced my fair share of writerly rejection and so am truly honoured to be a part of the Intergalactic Rejects anthology from @calendaroffools.bsky.social now available at calendaroffools.com/intergalacti... and anywhere books are sold!
Intergalactic Rejects
Story writers face rejection all too often. It can be disheartening, depressing, and downright defeating. Every writer has heard that it happens to all of us, but also to show, don't tell. This anthol...
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June 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I've faced my fair share of writerly rejection and so am truly honoured to be a part of the Intergalactic Rejects anthology from @calendaroffools.bsky.social now available at calendaroffools.com/intergalacti... and anywhere books are sold!