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Storm Humbert
@stormhumbert.bsky.social
SFF author, editor, gamer, and gym rat. www.stormhumbertwrites.com
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We're in the last 24 hours to claim bonus ebooks for backing the "Missed-Fits" anthology in the first five days! If you haven't looked yet, check out our rewards to see if anything speaks to you. If you have, refer a friend so you both get a referral bonus AND they get their first five days bonus!
Missed-Fits: A Calendar of Fools Anthology
An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.
www.kickstarter.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Thanks so much to any who have already supported our "Missed-Fits" kickstarter. We're announcing a new bonus reward for referrals! Refer a friend to the project and you both get an e-book of John Campbell's "The Tiger and the Waif!" So, if you back, tell a friend, and get even more for you both!
Missed-Fits: A Calendar of Fools Anthology
An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.
www.kickstarter.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
We’re already a “Project We Love!” Go check us out if you haven’t already and see if any of our rewards interest you :)
One day in and already nearly 20% funded! Thanks so much for your support! If you haven't supported yet, there's still time to grab both the First Five Days and First 100 Backers bonus rewards! Link in the comments.
February 10, 2026 at 4:36 PM
The project is live! Check out all the cool rewards and add-ons we have to offer! Bonus rewards for all who back in first 5 days and different bonus for first 100, and you *can* claim both!
The Kickstarter for our "Missed-Fits" anthology is live! We have great rewards and add-ons for writers and readers alike, so come check them out. Plus, we have bonus rewards for anyone who backs in the first five days and our first 100 backers, so get in early to snag those! Link in the comments.
February 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Issue #152 from @apexmag.bsky.social is live, and it’s got my debut essay, “Not a Scab, but a Wound!” Subscribers can read now, and it’ll be free to all in two weeks. I’ll post again then, but I hope people read and that it inspires discussion. Link below.
February 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Three weeks to launch! Follow the project to be alerted on launch, and lock in bonus rewards if you’re either among the first 100 backers or back in the first five days (or both)!
Three weeks until launch for our "Missed-Fits" Kickstarter campaign, and we have an update! There will be bonus rewards for our first 100 backers and all who back within the first five days! Click the link in the commens and follow the project to be alerted on launch and lock in these bonuses!
January 20, 2026 at 6:09 PM
@apexmag.bsky.social made me a pro, and now they’ve made me an essayist as well :). So excited to have my essay “Not a Scab, but a Wound,” set to appear in their February issue! I hope you’ll all check it out once it’s available and let me know what you think of it.
January 15, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Anchor author announcement :)
We've got the full list of anchor authors for our upcoming project, "Missed-Fits":

@rrvirdi.bsky.social, @retreasure.bsky.social, @jasonsanford.bsky.social, @gryphonrose.bsky.social, Erin Roberts, @nameshiv.bsky.social, @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social, @henryherz.bsky.social, and Rob Cameron!
December 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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.
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 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.
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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 new free story! This one’s a happy, heartfelt ghost story about love and family and motherhood, and I know you’ll love it.
October 13, 2025 at 7:55 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.
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...
calendaroffools.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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 ...
calendaroffools.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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...
calendaroffools.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 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.
September 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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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...
calendaroffools.com
September 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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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 ...
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August 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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
See, these are the kinds of conspiracy theories I can get behind…
August 7, 2025 at 10:15 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.”
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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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
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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
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--
July 30, 2025 at 6:40 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.
July 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM