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Aggie Novak
@aggie-novak.bsky.social
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Reader and writer of silly little words.
Published stories: https://aggienovak.com/
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Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · Aug 20
Super excited to have a story out in this anthology!
tychebooks.bsky.social Tyche Books 🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · Aug 19
Happy Book Birthday to Shannon Allen, JR Campbell, & all the contributing authors to Starship Librarians!

Be sure to add this one to your home library! (& if you ever find bookcarts with rocket thrusters, please let us know).

Amazon: www.amazon.com/Stars...

Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
Book promo post. A textured orange-hued background with a book cover overlaid it. The book cover is for Starship Librarians and features a humanoid librarian in a retro-coloured spacesuit of oranges, creams, and teal, shelves books. They are framed by a window looking out onto space. Behind them is a bookcart with thrusters instead of wheels. Additional text says Now Available.
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My story "His Soul Lives in the Air" is live on MetaStellar! I originally wrote this for a Writing Battle competition back in January.

read it: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

& my blog post: www.scmills-books.com/blog/open-vein

Thank you @metastellar.bsky.social & @writingbattle.bsky.social!
His Soul Lives in the Air
Racing to see her dying grandmother, Rebecca confronts her fear of flying only to discover that some passengers carry more than just luggage from the past.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Excited to share my piece for Augur's micro fiction contest!
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#AugurMicros2025
Soothsayer for the 21st Century by Aggie Novak You come to me— (fabric draped, costume jewelled, incense clouded). You ask me real questions, but you don’t seek real answers. You want— Comfort. Platitudes. It’s not your fault, there was nothing you could do. Tell me, you ask— What the future holds. Where I will be in 20 years. How successful. How loved. How normal. I draw the cards— The Star, reversed. All hope gutters out. The Tower. Cities, fire in their bones. The World, reversed. The circle breaks. Well? Your eyes wide, full of— Hope, I say. New constellations. Collapse clears the way. The world resets. @augursociety #augurmicros2025
September 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
aggie-novak.bsky.social
Super excited to have a story out in this anthology!
tychebooks.bsky.social Tyche Books 🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · Aug 19
Happy Book Birthday to Shannon Allen, JR Campbell, & all the contributing authors to Starship Librarians!

Be sure to add this one to your home library! (& if you ever find bookcarts with rocket thrusters, please let us know).

Amazon: www.amazon.com/Stars...

Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
Book promo post. A textured orange-hued background with a book cover overlaid it. The book cover is for Starship Librarians and features a humanoid librarian in a retro-coloured spacesuit of oranges, creams, and teal, shelves books. They are framed by a window looking out onto space. Behind them is a bookcart with thrusters instead of wheels. Additional text says Now Available.
August 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Do you need a rundown of the SFF books out this week? Because I have TEN new books to ft! Incl

🏳️‍🌈 📚 queer witches and book nerdery by @charliejane.bsky.social!
☠️ 🐍 poison via the scientific method with @tkingfisher.com!
📖 🚀 librarians in starships, coming from @tychebooks.bsky.social!
Must-Have Monday #250 - Every Book a Doorway
Librarians on spaceships, several queer witches, and a world where people don't die!
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August 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Check out this awesome fantasy mystery story by S.C!
scmillsbooks.bsky.social S. C. Mills @scmillsbooks.bsky.social · Jun 30
It’s here!! I’m touched to see such gorgeous art for what might be my favorite of my short stories. Thank you @frivolouscomma.bsky.social
frivolouscomma.bsky.social Frivolous Comma @frivolouscomma.bsky.social · Jun 30
“The holy man was bringing healing water from the sacred mountain.” Claudio bends down to her height, hunching his broad shoulders to whisper to her. “Guess somebody killed him for it.” Read June's Speculative mystery by @scmillsbooks now!

www.frivolouscomma.com/all-gods-wor...
June 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Beware of harvesting your fields on a hot day. Lady Midday will emerge from whirling dust clouds in the form of an old hag, a lovely woman, or a young girl, carrying a scythe. If you can't answer her riddles, she'll kill you by beheading or heat stroke. #FolkyFriday
June 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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🚀 TWO of my stories made it into the Afrofuturism Short Stories anthology 🥹 co-edited by Isis Asare! With foreword by @nisishawl.bsky.social. Out October 2025✨

#Blacksky #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #ShortStory
#Blacksky #Afrofuturism #Anthology
June 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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So excited to have a story in this upcoming anthology from @tychebooks.bsky.social !!
A black cover with a small part revealed where you can make out the word "librarian". Text to the side says: Cover reveal coming soon. Tychebooks.com.
June 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Ready to test my writing skills in the Twisted Teams challenge "Twisted Teams 1"! Looking forward to the creative prompts and team collaboration. Any other writers joining me? twistedtournament.com/homepageteams #TwistInTaleContest #writingcontest
Twisted Teams - A Writing Competition with a Twist
Join Twisted Teams - A Writing Competition Balancing Individual Creativity with Team Collaboration
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April 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Slightly belated, but so happy to have a story out in the lovely Howl Anthology from Graveside press. Available from a range of places: graveside-press.com/product/howl/
Howl: A Shapeshifting Anthology. Shows a werewolf hunched over on a log by a pond.
April 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I have a story out in this one! All proceeds go to Scares that Care.
March 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Just won Writing Battle!!! So excited and touched by all the lovely feedback 💜
An image saying congratulations for having the winning story, including a picture of my three prompts: time travel romance, rebel, doll
March 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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A beautiful story!
radonjournal.bsky.social Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · Mar 11
“The Fish in the Garden” by Eleanor Lennox will have you avoiding nostalgia at all costs.

Read it in Issue 9 on radonjournal.com.

You can find more of Eleanor Lennox at eleanorlennox.com.

@eleanorlennox.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“In the Slipstream” by @sarlynh.bsky.social is now up!

Art by @keelyhoneywell.bsky.social

flash-frog.com/2025/01/13/i...
In the Slipstream by Sarah Lynn Hurd
We filled our arms with cool bottles of syrupy soda, strawberry licorice, peanut butter crackers, crinkle-cut potato chips—as much as we could carry. Throwing our heads back under the fluorescent l…
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January 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Congrats @cuylermeade.bsky.social !!
February 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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A second little story out at Hawthorn & Ash ironfaeriepublishing.com/2025/01/27/h...
Hawthorn & Ash #68
Welcome to this week’s installment of many micro stories, ranging in length from 100 words to 500 words. With each story we hope to deliver a little whimsy into the lives of our readers. A TH…
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January 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Little flash piece out with Hawthorn & Ash ironfaeriepublishing.com/2025/01/16/h...
Hawthorn & Ash #65
Welcome to this week’s installment of many micro stories, ranging in length from 100 words to 500 words. With each story we hope to deliver a little whimsy into the lives of our readers. THE …
ironfaeriepublishing.com
January 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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My short story “Svalka” is out in the beautiful Other Anthology from Bannister Press bannisterpress.com/other-anthol...
OTHER: the 2024 speculative fiction anthology
Release date: December 12, 2024 Many of us feel that we are other; that we are on the outside looking in, wanting desperately to be over there while tethered to the here. T…
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December 12, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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My friend made this I feel so seen
A Spotify playlist titled ‘Songs giving energy of an Aggie Novak story about a woman unhappy with her lot in life’ including songs by Paris Paloma, Kiki Rockwell, and Florence + The Machine.
December 3, 2024 at 7:28 AM
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swilua.bsky.social
The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th”

When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn
The excerpt from William and the Werewolf showing singular they spelled with a Thorn
November 17, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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lyndishere.bsky.social
Could tonight be the night?
November 16, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.
November 15, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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tacobellquarterly.org
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
November 16, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.
An example of Acción Ortográfica Quito doing the Lord's work (graffiti on a wall corrected with red spray paint)
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
Today, I translated four poems by Sophia Parnok, an out, horny Russian lesbian poet who lived and loved through a revolution, a civil war, and the rise of a repressive dictator. In style.

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How to Stay Alive and Horny Under Authoritarianism
Sophia Parnok (1885-1933) was born in Taganrog, Russia—Anton Chekhov’s hometown, on the sea of Azov—two decades or so before her country exploded. Born into...
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November 12, 2024 at 6:06 PM