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Quarterly speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction
Unapologetically antifascist and feminist
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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 4d
We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
Trollbreath Magazine Issue 6, Winter 2025 Bernie Jean Schiebeling, Jonathan Helland, Gretchen Tessmer, Mir Rainbird Cover of the December 1st Issue: A street corner with a bookshop. A little girl, a shadow, and a dog peek down a hole in the street leading into lights.
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30 Strange Topography by Mir Rainbird 49 Whittled and Burned by Nico Martinez Nocito 70 Aurora, Apricot by Devan Barlow 92 Superstring by AJ Dalton
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Subscribe now magazine.trollbreath.com to get the full issue on Dec. 1st!
@bernie-jsyk.bsky.social @kkoopman.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @jonathanhelland.bsky.social @brandoncase101.bsky.social @kergankergan.bsky.social @wallet55.bsky.social Alex Atkins Matthew Sanborn Smith Phil Emery
FICTION 11 Havel Ever Told You About When We Were Eaten? by Bernie Jean Schiebeling 22 Frequently Asked Questions About the Portals at Frank's Late-Night Starlite Drive-In by Kristen Koopman 31 Leygr by Gwendolyn Maia Hicks 40 Drink Poetry, Devour the Sun by Jonathan Helland 50 The Death of Demons by Brandon Case 60 Skipping Stones over the Barrier by Antoine Rotival 71 Chuck's Gun by Robert Morrell Jr. 83 Tempus by Alex Atkins 93 All the Trees Will Scream by Matthew Sanborn Smith Q6 Sleevenotes by Phil Emery
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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A story from the vaults pseudopod.org/2018/08/31/p...

Did you know that if you subscribe to our Patreon, you can get (nearly) our ENTIRE back catalogue in your podcatcher to listen to at your leisure, ad-free?
PseudoPod 610: Beneath Their Hooves | PseudoPod
We go to Grandmère’s house to ride the unicorns. We only go once or twice a year, and it’s never enough. Riding the unicorns is the most fun a person could have, and I don’t know why we can’t do it…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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undertow.bsky.social
And the titular story is free to read til the end of the month.

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November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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🌟 DreamForge is now open for Winter 2025 submissions!
They want optimistic sci-fi & fantasy that celebrates connection, hope, and the human spirita about “Open Channel: The Art of Connection”
Pays $0.08/word Due: Dec 31, 2025.
Submit: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I have a poem in Issue 6 of Trollbreath! "Whittled & Burned" is a tale of...

🦴 Skulls & memorials
🔥 Burning time
🕰️ Bitter reflections

Releasing for subscribers in just 7 days!

🩸📚💙
trollbreathmag.bsky.social Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 4d
We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
Trollbreath Magazine Issue 6, Winter 2025 Bernie Jean Schiebeling, Jonathan Helland, Gretchen Tessmer, Mir Rainbird Cover of the December 1st Issue: A street corner with a bookshop. A little girl, a shadow, and a dog peek down a hole in the street leading into lights.
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I've updated my 2025 awards eligibility post. Also threaded, a little bit about some of my favorite stories I've published this year. One more to come on Dec. 1. As always, you can find links to everything I published this year here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-...
P.A. Cornell – 2025 Awards Eligibility… • “Through the Machine” (SF / 5000 w) – Lightspeed • “The Space Between Us” (SF / 1499 w) – Lightspeed (Coming in December) • “What Happened That Night” (H / 1494 w) – Short Édition • “Spells for the Afterlife” (F / 2588 w) – Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite • “Falling Forever” (SF / 893 w) – Factor Four • “And I Will Read to You About Butterflies” (SF / 3647 w) – Heartlines Spec • “The Futility of Warning You” (SF / 750 w) – Factor Four • “Feathers” (F / 760 w) – Worlds of Possibility • “So Many Things to See” (SFF / 2415 w) – Trollbreath • “Fire & Flight” (SFF / 4941 w) – Plott Hound • “After the Rain” (SF ECO / 3706 w) – Escape Pod • “After the Suns Go Down” (SFH / 8675 w) – The Growers • “Twelve Things that Will Occur Immediately Following Your Invention of Teleportation” (SF Humor / 880 w) – Factor Four • “The Underlying Cause of Her Insomnia” (FH / 1000 w) Trembling With Fear • “Hard Times at the Four Pines Motel” (SF / 1000 w) – Short Circuit
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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i’m in this one! with a story about:

🧡 immortals coming to terms with death
🧡 the smell of loam and moss
🧡 friendships that transcend life
🧡 how much i loved my cat
trollbreathmag.bsky.social Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 4d
We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
Trollbreath Magazine Issue 6, Winter 2025 Bernie Jean Schiebeling, Jonathan Helland, Gretchen Tessmer, Mir Rainbird Cover of the December 1st Issue: A street corner with a bookshop. A little girl, a shadow, and a dog peek down a hole in the street leading into lights.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
Trollbreath Magazine Issue 6, Winter 2025 Bernie Jean Schiebeling, Jonathan Helland, Gretchen Tessmer, Mir Rainbird Cover of the December 1st Issue: A street corner with a bookshop. A little girl, a shadow, and a dog peek down a hole in the street leading into lights.
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Free to read now! And I love the brass flowers. They fit perfectly.
trollbreathmag.bsky.social Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 7d
Free Fiction Friday! Our last short fiction from the fall issue. Dark secrets and sweet freedom from R.J. Howell magazine.trollbreath.com/children-of-...
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Text in brass script with metallic floral flourishes in the upper right and lower left corners Children of Miracles, Coffins of brass by R.J. Howell. Black and red background
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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We're closing out our Free Fiction Fridays for issue 5.

Next up: Issue 6 is on deck for its December 1st release!

Look for Free Fiction Fridays to return on December 5th with a brilliant fairy-tale retelling from @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social, "Have I Ever Told You About When We Were Eaten?"
Cover of Trollbreath Magazine issue 6, with artwork by Laura Els. The art is an evening scene of a town with a store in the background called The Corner Bookstore. In front of the store there is a hole in the sidewalk. A girl sits dangling her legs into the hole, while a tall, dark, ghostly creature dangles a rope into the hole. We can see below the sidewalk the hole descends and sparkles of yellow light rise up out of it. A dog is also sniffing the hole.
November 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Free Fiction Friday! Our last short fiction from the fall issue. Dark secrets and sweet freedom from R.J. Howell magazine.trollbreath.com/children-of-...
@mytherea.bsky.social
Text in brass script with metallic floral flourishes in the upper right and lower left corners Children of Miracles, Coffins of brass by R.J. Howell. Black and red background
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Another Free Fiction Friday is almost here!
a close up of an otter wearing a leash on a leash .
Alt: a close up of an otter turning toward the camera, looking shocked with an open mouth and paw raising up to mouth
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November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Hey, my strange little story about a woman and her washing machine is available free today only in Trollbreath Magazine.

Please check it out and consider subscribing to Trollbreath to support more writers like me.
trollbreathmag.bsky.social Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 14d
Free Fiction Friday!! Take break and climb into this absolute treat!!
A Sea of Laundry
by J. M. Bask
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An ocean hides inside the door of a washing machine Sea of Laundry by JM Bask Trollbreath Magazine
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Free Fiction Friday!! Take break and climb into this absolute treat!!
A Sea of Laundry
by J. M. Bask
magazine.trollbreath.com/a-sea-of-lau...
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An ocean hides inside the door of a washing machine Sea of Laundry by JM Bask Trollbreath Magazine
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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From A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, "Ocean Vengeance" by @mspicone.bsky.social, a poem in which a woman, transfigured, becomes the ocean itself: reckoning.press/ocean-vengea...
Ocean Vengeance | Reckoning
She drowned & kept drowning, surrounded by water like her country submerged until neither ghost nor body rose; she became a foaming of wave, a froth of tide, an erased border— coming in for those who ...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Out today! Super excited to share a new essay with you: “The Duchess Who Invented Science Fiction,” a silly and sincere ode to my beloved Margaret Cavendish, a 17th-century duchess who teaches us to 1. think speculatively and 2. wear ridiculous outfits.

compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/the-du...
A painting of Margaret Cavendish. She’s smiling slightly and wearing an extravagant feathered hat, plus a fancy cape-dress situation. The background includes golden fabric and columns.
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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So if you’re a new follower who also happens to promote AI, you are blocked as soon as I catch on. We won’t welcome people who steal from our artists and writers.
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Winter Cover Reveal!!!! Issue 6 drops on December 1st, 2025
Subscribe now at magazine.trollbreath.com
Trollbreath Magazine Issue 6, Winter 2025 Bernie Jean Schiebeling, Jonathan Helland, Gretchen Tessmer, Mir Rainbird Cover of the December 1st Issue: A street corner with a bookshop. A little girl, a shadow, and a dog peek down a hole in the street leading into lights.
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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My longest new story released this year, "Who Could Feel Haunted with Luck in Their Pocket?" at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social is about a woman who accidentally exposes the ghostly source of all her estranged family's luck... (5,600 words).
Who Could Feel Haunted with Luck in Their Pocket? - Trollbreath Magazine
Who Could Feel Haunted with Luck in Their Pocket?
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November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Authors - all Trollbreath submissions from September have been responded to. If you have not received a response, please email by replying to your confirmation form or use the Contact form on our site.

Now I get to start reading again for a grant award I'm helping with. Back into the slush I go...
October 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Just for funnsies, here's an interview with one of the co-editors of Trollbreath Magazine, posted by @duotrope.com today.

Said editor being me (Jennifer helped me write the answers once she got up)

duotrope.com/interview/ed...
Duotrope's Interview with Trollbreath Magazine
Read Duotrope's editor interview with Trollbreath Magazine to learn what they're looking for and gain more insight into this publication.
duotrope.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Trollbreath is one to watch (never mind they’ve published me twice!). Each issue is splendidly diverse, compulsively readable.
November 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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2025 Awards Eligibility

I had five stories come out this year -
if you are reading for awards I’d be really grateful if you gave them your consideration, or maybe even told a friend.

(My graphic is very bad but in my defence I don’t know what I’m doing)

www.louisinglishall.com/blog/awards-...
Louis Inglis Hall 2025 Award Eligibility Short Stories: Numismatic Archetypes in the Year of Five Regents, Clarkesworld founders keepers, Trollbreath MALO MALO MALO MALO, The Dark Novelettes: The Eighth Pyramid, Clarkesworld Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins, Clarkesworld
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Folded Space is a work in progress from the editor of the Tales to Terrify Podcast. As we get closer to launch we will update our page @ www.foldedspacepodcast.com
Folded Space, an Audio Science Fiction Anthology
Folded Space is a work in progress with a clear mission: Deliver the finest short space science fiction each season, exploring new worlds, future possibilities, and…
www.foldedspacepodcast.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM