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Story Hour
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Every Wednesday at 7:00 PT, gather round the virtual campfire and listen to SFFH short stories read by their authors. Follow the links on our site to Zoom or Facebook. Updates by @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social.
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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 7h
This Story Hour, we are delighted to welcome Laurence Raphael Brothers back! We are equally delighted to welcome Michael Merriam back! You are welcome, too! Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PST! @lrb.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
Closeup color photo of Laurence Raphael Brothers, a man with brown eyes, wavy silver hair worn short, and a black and mustache beard going gray. He wears a dark shirt and stands in a well-lit interior. He looks into the camera and smiles warmly. Closeup color photo of Michael Merriam, a fair-skinned man with wavy silver hair worn short, and a dark beard and mustache going gray. He wears a wears a medium-blue Henley shirt and a silver chain at his neck. He stands before a neutral background in a well-lit interior, looking into the camera and smiling quietly.
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This Story Hour, we are delighted to welcome Laurence Raphael Brothers back! We are equally delighted to welcome Michael Merriam back! You are welcome, too! Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PST! @lrb.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
Closeup color photo of Laurence Raphael Brothers, a man with brown eyes, wavy silver hair worn short, and a black and mustache beard going gray. He wears a dark shirt and stands in a well-lit interior. He looks into the camera and smiles warmly. Closeup color photo of Michael Merriam, a fair-skinned man with wavy silver hair worn short, and a dark beard and mustache going gray. He wears a wears a medium-blue Henley shirt and a silver chain at his neck. He stands before a neutral background in a well-lit interior, looking into the camera and smiling quietly.
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Hi! If you missed it on Wednesday, you can watch here!
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 5d
This week, Story Hour explores the stars—and our human ideas of intelligence and emotion. Sonia Focke reads about kittens and octopuses, and Daniel Marcus responds to a famous 1954 sci-fi story. You can still watch! #Booksky
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November 12, 2025: Sonia Focke and Daniel Marcus read sci-fi!
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November 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Science fiction, baby! Watch until the end to see Sonia's adorable octopus plush!
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 5d
This week, Story Hour explores the stars—and our human ideas of intelligence and emotion. Sonia Focke reads about kittens and octopuses, and Daniel Marcus responds to a famous 1954 sci-fi story. You can still watch! #Booksky
@soniafocke.bsky.social @danmarcus.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025: Sonia Focke and Daniel Marcus read sci-fi!
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November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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This week, Story Hour explores the stars—and our human ideas of intelligence and emotion. Sonia Focke reads about kittens and octopuses, and Daniel Marcus responds to a famous 1954 sci-fi story. You can still watch! #Booksky
@soniafocke.bsky.social @danmarcus.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025: Sonia Focke and Daniel Marcus read sci-fi!
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November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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If our spooky October scared you away, it’s safe to return to Story Hour now. This week, Sonia Focke will read us something fun! Host Daniel Marcus joins as a reader. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PST! @soniafocke.bsky.social @danielmarcus.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
Head-and-shoulders color photo of author Sonia Focke, fair-skinned woman with dark, straight hair worn back. She wears a white blouse with a bow and a pleated stand-up collar, a lace-edged bluish-purple vest, and dangling earrings that resemble leatherbound books. She stands before a dark interior backdrop, one arm resting on a rail of weathered wood. With her face in three-quarters view, she looks directly into the camera with large hazel eyes, smiling mysteriously. Head-and-shoulders color photo of Daniel Marcus, a fair-skinned man with gray hair and beard worn short. He stands in front of brightly backlit, almost silhouetted palm trees. He wears a black tee and glasses with black plastic retro frames. With a serious expression, he looks down into the camera.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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This is a truly touching Story Hour (that runs more like 50 minutes), and I really want to prove that it was worth Natasha's while to log on in the middle of the British night and read to us even though she had a cold. Could you show this reading some love?
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 12d
This week, two elusive favorites return to Story Hour! Natasha Calder reads her uncomfortably-near-future SF "hotBooley," and Michael Haynes reads the gentler, guitar-fueled hopefulness of "Carolina." You can still watch! @michaelhaynes.bsky.social youtu.be/dq0aWfJbbv0
November 5, 2025 Story Hour: Natasha Calder and Michael Haynes
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November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I've updated my blog with a post covering many writing and publishing updates from the past several months, including my recent appearance at #MileHiCon where I won the "Flash Fiction Chopped" competition. michael-haynes.blogspot.com/2025/11/rece...
Recent Publications and Appearances
It's been a while since I put an update out here. I'm intending to work at being at least a bit more consistent about this, rather than savi...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Gorgeous stories, so good. Watch or listen wherever you are!
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 12d
This week, two elusive favorites return to Story Hour! Natasha Calder reads her uncomfortably-near-future SF "hotBooley," and Michael Haynes reads the gentler, guitar-fueled hopefulness of "Carolina." You can still watch! @michaelhaynes.bsky.social youtu.be/dq0aWfJbbv0
November 5, 2025 Story Hour: Natasha Calder and Michael Haynes
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November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Today’s cat is a loving mama and her grown-up son #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky
Two cats curl up together on top of a dark red, plush blanket. The cat on the left is jet black with gold-green eyes. The cat on the right is soft gray with copper-green eyes. Both cats look incredibly comfortable.
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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And folks who missed Michael's reading with Natasha Calder can watch on YouTube! youtu.be/dq0aWfJbbv0
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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This week, two elusive favorites return to Story Hour! Natasha Calder reads her uncomfortably-near-future SF "hotBooley," and Michael Haynes reads the gentler, guitar-fueled hopefulness of "Carolina." You can still watch! @michaelhaynes.bsky.social youtu.be/dq0aWfJbbv0
November 5, 2025 Story Hour: Natasha Calder and Michael Haynes
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November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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One magical spring evening in 2023, Natasha Calder and @michaelhaynes.bsky.social read for Story Hour. That video is now lost, but now Natasha and Michael return! They won’t weave the exact same spell, but rather will enchant us anew. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
Color photo headshot of author Natasha Calder, a fair-skinned woman with long, wavy, auburn hair pushed back from a widow’s peak. She wears a black top and a black leather jacket. She stands in front of a background of greenery, looking steadily into the camera, smiling slightly. Photo by Alex Krook. Candid color photo of Michael Haynes, a fair-skinned man with brown hair worn short and a stubbly salt-and-pepper beard and mustache. He stands in front of a hill covered with dry grass and looks directly into the camera, smiling happily. He wears a white tee and a pair of brown-lensed sunglasses that are light enough to show the smile in his eyes.
November 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Spookymonth is never over in my heart.
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 19d
This Story Hour is the perfect capstone to Spookymonth. EC Dorgan and M Belanger both read stories of invasion and self-reliance (with some body horror, okay). Just the thing to ready us for Halloween. You can still watch! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social youtu.be/jU802L47bXw
October 29, 2025 Story Hour: EC Dorgan and M Belanger
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November 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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As often happens with Story Hour, although we didn’t coordinate, our tales complement one another and have interesting intersections:
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 19d
This Story Hour is the perfect capstone to Spookymonth. EC Dorgan and M Belanger both read stories of invasion and self-reliance (with some body horror, okay). Just the thing to ready us for Halloween. You can still watch! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social youtu.be/jU802L47bXw
October 29, 2025 Story Hour: EC Dorgan and M Belanger
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October 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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This Story Hour is the perfect capstone to Spookymonth. EC Dorgan and M Belanger both read stories of invasion and self-reliance (with some body horror, okay). Just the thing to ready us for Halloween. You can still watch! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social youtu.be/jU802L47bXw
October 29, 2025 Story Hour: EC Dorgan and M Belanger
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October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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this is an awesome series (2 books this far) fun, engaging and delightful in story and drawings. perfect for fans of cozy murder mysteries and Louisa may alcolt and that era
shaenon.bsky.social Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 19d
Last chance to read THE NEFARIOUS NIGHTS OF WILLOWWEEP MANOR for free on Simon Teen this month!
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October 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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This is TONIGHT! Join us!
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 21d
It’s the final Story Hour of Spookymonth! Eternal favorite M Belanger returns, and new favorite EC Dorgan makes her Story Hour debut! Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Head-and-shoulders color photo of author M Belanger, a fair-skinned person with light brown hair worn short and parted on one side. M’s bangs are fluffy and swooped to the other side. M wears rectangular wire-rimmed glasses and a black leather jacket. M sits in front of a wall covered with dark wood bookcases. M looks past the camera and to one side with a serious expression. Head-and-shoulders color photo of author EC Dorgan, a woman with dark eyes and dark hair worn at shoulder length and parted on the side. She doesn’t have bangs. She wears a red-and-pink plaid over a black crewneck and stands before a backdrop of green foliage and weathered wood. She looks directly into the camera, smiling slightly.
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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It’s the final Story Hour of Spookymonth! Eternal favorite M Belanger returns, and new favorite EC Dorgan makes her Story Hour debut! Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Booksky @sethanikeem.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Head-and-shoulders color photo of author M Belanger, a fair-skinned person with light brown hair worn short and parted on one side. M’s bangs are fluffy and swooped to the other side. M wears rectangular wire-rimmed glasses and a black leather jacket. M sits in front of a wall covered with dark wood bookcases. M looks past the camera and to one side with a serious expression. Head-and-shoulders color photo of author EC Dorgan, a woman with dark eyes and dark hair worn at shoulder length and parted on the side. She doesn’t have bangs. She wears a red-and-pink plaid over a black crewneck and stands before a backdrop of green foliage and weathered wood. She looks directly into the camera, smiling slightly.
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Feeling the spooky spirit? Story Hour has been celebrating Spookymonth all October long! We're not done yet, either! And did you know that our last few Octobers have been all-horror all-the-time? Check out our annual playlists on YT for all the scares you can handle! www.youtube.com/@StoryHour20...
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It's the oldest form of entertainment: sitting around telling each other beautiful lies. Every week, Story Hour brings you an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From ...
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October 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Aquí podéis escuchar a dos autoras del blog, Nadia Bulkin y A. C. Wise, leyendo cada una uno de sus relatos. ¡Menudo lujo!
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 26d
Spookymonth continues with explorations of abandoned buildings and possible hauntings! Let @acwise.bsky.social and @nadiabulkin.bsky.social guide you, chill you, and (thank god) let you laugh. An exquisite hour that you can still watch! #Booksky youtu.be/CAC0NvCMpYk
October 22, 2025 Story Hour: Nadia Bulkin and A.C. Wise
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October 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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You need to listen to @acwise.bsky.social's story. It's terrifying and sad and a total October vibe.
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 26d
Spookymonth continues with explorations of abandoned buildings and possible hauntings! Let @acwise.bsky.social and @nadiabulkin.bsky.social guide you, chill you, and (thank god) let you laugh. An exquisite hour that you can still watch! #Booksky youtu.be/CAC0NvCMpYk
October 22, 2025 Story Hour: Nadia Bulkin and A.C. Wise
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October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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If you missed Wednesday night's reading, you can catch it here. Let me and @nadiabulkin.bsky.social creep you out with lonely schoolhouses and abandoned hospitals. Happy spooky season!
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 26d
Spookymonth continues with explorations of abandoned buildings and possible hauntings! Let @acwise.bsky.social and @nadiabulkin.bsky.social guide you, chill you, and (thank god) let you laugh. An exquisite hour that you can still watch! #Booksky youtu.be/CAC0NvCMpYk
October 22, 2025 Story Hour: Nadia Bulkin and A.C. Wise
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October 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Usually I post about Story Hour during the day, but this one? This one wanted to wait until it was dark out.
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 26d
Spookymonth continues with explorations of abandoned buildings and possible hauntings! Let @acwise.bsky.social and @nadiabulkin.bsky.social guide you, chill you, and (thank god) let you laugh. An exquisite hour that you can still watch! #Booksky youtu.be/CAC0NvCMpYk
October 22, 2025 Story Hour: Nadia Bulkin and A.C. Wise
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October 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Spookymonth continues with explorations of abandoned buildings and possible hauntings! Let @acwise.bsky.social and @nadiabulkin.bsky.social guide you, chill you, and (thank god) let you laugh. An exquisite hour that you can still watch! #Booksky youtu.be/CAC0NvCMpYk
October 22, 2025 Story Hour: Nadia Bulkin and A.C. Wise
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October 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM