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Baubles From Bones
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~ Science fiction and fantasy from the small, overlooked places. ~

Publishing the best emerging and established writers in sff 💀

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Restocked the zine supply at Heat Check! Go check the homies out, buy some cool clothes, and drink a killer cup of coffee 🤙💀
Copies of various issues of Baubles From Bones displayed on a shelf in Heat Check in Shadyside.
October 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Baubles From Bones Issue 6 is now out!!

Scapegoats, old age, and alien gossip – through sharp-toothed friendships and blighted colonization, contemplate which common threads tie our societies together, leave us bound, and knot us into something new in this issue of Baubles From Bones. 📚🪐💀
A copy of Baubles From Bones Issue 6, sitting amongst various house plants.
August 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Guess what time it is again!! 😊 Baubles from Bones Issue 6 will release on August 27th 2025!!

We have SEVEN new stories and FOUR poems from across the speculative spectrum.

You can buy your own physical or digital copy on our Etsy while individual stories will be on our website! 📚🪐💀
Cover art of Baubles From Bones Issue 6, art by Lucas Kurz. The corpses of giant squids are bundled for harvest and lifted by cranes in a thawing landscape.
August 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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✨Story Spotlight Issue 6✨

In a country bloodied by millenia of war, a girl trains with a nun to take on a dragon.

You can read “A Dragon’s Hunger” by @madalenadaleziou.bsky.social in Baubles from Bones Issue 6, coming August 27th!!
On a blurred background is an illustration of a dragon's skull in grayscale, ink running from its horns and jaw. Below the drawing is a quote that reads, "What can I tell you about my sister? I was barely eight when it all started. She wasn't much older, but she'd wash us and put us to bed and her hands were more tender than our mother's. We called her Lena. She had a longer name once. But bombs take; limbs, lives, even time itself. They clip names." From "A Dragon’s Hunger" by Madalena Daleziou in BFB6.
August 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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✨Poem Spotlight Issue 6✨

Experts in their fields, both scientists and artists long to understand the unknown.

You can read “The Point of Measurement” by Lynn Sargent in Baubles from Bones Issue 6, coming August 27th, 2025!! 📚🪐💀
On a blurred background is an illustration of carving tools in grayscale. Beneath it is a quote from a poem; it reads, "If the mathematicians have carved marble / for the sake of talking to angels, / why might not the physicists / seek out fey?" from "The Point of Measurement" by Lynn Sargent in BFB6
August 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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✨Story Spotlight Issue 6✨

Blight sends a young Irish girl to a colonial English school where an ancient tree teaches her that fungal networks run deeper than human-drawn borders.

You can read “Westward I Reach” by @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social in Baubles from Bones Issue 6, coming August 27th!! 🪐📚💀
On a blurred background is a drawing of a girl and an old yew tree, nearly connected by an underground network. A quote is below it, reading: "Regardless of where God is or what he likes, I feel alone, my dress scratching the mushroom gill breathing from in my armpits and elbows and behind my knees, and I am praying to anyone who will listen that they do not bring us to a doctor who will destroy me, and I will never go home." From" Westward I Reach" by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle in Baubles From Bones Issue 6.
August 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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We made our way to Wooly Bear Books in Carnegie this weekend and look what we found in their local section! It's us :)

Wooly Bear is a super cute bookshop with goodies from lots of Pittsburgh artists and writers! If you're local to PGH, go check them out 💀
The local section of a small bookstore, displaying Pittsburgh themed postcards, locally created candles and syrups, and books by local authors. A closer view of the local section at Wooly Bear, focusing on copies of BFB2 & BFB3 sitting above shelves of mugs, candles, syrups, and postcards.
July 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Joel and Elyse's ✨art✨ from the drink and draw event at @3riverscomicon.bsky.social last night (not pictured, Greg's crayon stick figures and Jess's Cinderella).

We had a blast! The Comicon beer is 👌 so good! Joel really thought his semester of comics making would win him a free t-shirt 🙄
Joel's interpretation of batman and rizzo the rat having a high-speed chase in the farmlands. Rizzo follows batman through a cornfield, shaking his fist and huffing as he shouts at batman and calls him a coward. Batman walks away unbothered. Elyse's interpretation of aquaman fishing up Ariel the mermaid. A hunky, scaly aquaman holds a fishing rod while a flowy mermaid is next to him, the line from the fishing rod hanging out of her mouth.
June 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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We're at @3riverscomicon.bsky.social with @parseconfluenceink.bsky.social! Come say hi! Buy a zine or some prints :)
Our setup at 3Rivers Comicon, split between Triangulation and Baubles From Bones with books presented on both sides of a U-shaped booth.
June 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Hey yinzers! We're tabling @3riverscomicon.bsky.social this weekend :)

You can find Baubles From Bones sharing booth 509 with our friends @parseconfluenceink.bsky.social

We'll have zines, stickers, and even some art prints! Come say hi 💀
A textbox sits atop a blurred forest scene. The textbox features the logo for 3Rivers Comicon as well as Baubles From Bones. Text reads: "Baubles From Bones will be at 3Rivers Comicon! -June 7th and 8th -David L. Lawrence Convention Center / We hope to see you there! :)"
June 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Baubles From Bones Issue 5 is out!

We have NINE new short stories and THREE poems about the different forms of love, how they shape us, and the heartaches they leave behind 📚🪐 💀
An issue of Baubles From Bones Issue 5 sitting amidst a tangle of green leaves.
May 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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BFB5 coming May 28th!!

Lucas Kurz is back again with another beautiful cover! The story this cover is inspired by is "Idesvied Defied" by Charlie Winter. We absolutely adore Lucas's work and love how this one turned out -- cute and cozy but still with an underlining moodiness. 📚🪐 💀
Cover of Baubles From Bones Issue 5. Wrapped in a velvet cape, a boy king sits criss-cross, holding a kitten while two others lay beside him. The boy king has a soft look of surprise on his face as he looks up and out of frame.
May 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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✨Story Spotlight Issue 5✨

In a move to the countryside, a father and daughter knit their lives back together after suffering a loss.

You can read “Thistledown” by @kitcalvert.bsky.social in Baubles From Bones Issue 5, coming end of May 2025!! 🪐📚💀
On a blurred background is a text box and an illustration of a sweater with one arm much longer than the other. The text box reads: "...I miss how your eyes used to crinkle up at the corner when you worked together. I miss the colour in your cheeks, even when it was woad-blue smatters. I'm worried you'll grow old without wrinkles there, da. It's a sad face, one without wrinkles." -"Thistledown," by Kit Calvert, Issue 5, Baubles From Bones
May 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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✨Story Spotlight Issue 5✨

A brother’s wedding brings a magical florist back to his estranged family, but perhaps the thorns are worth the petals.

You can read “The Words You Whisper” by Mackenzie Knowles in Baubles From Bones Issue 5, coming end of May 2025!! 📚🪐💀
On a blurred background is a textbox as well as an illustration of three marigolds. The text reads: "He licked the chocolate from his thumb and, at last, approached Brax. Morel offered the remainder of the treat. “Still eavesdropping, I see.” “And you’re still wasting my time.” Brax did not so much as look at the bread. “Who is that woman with the firebrand hair?” he asked, too calm to be casual. Sheena had moved further down the cobblestone steps, towards a stall stacked with woolen blankets. “None of your business,” Morel said. “It’ll become my business if Father hears you intend to court a human.” The chocolate turned bitter in Morel’s mouth. “What do you want, Brax?”" -"The Words You Whisper," by Mackenzie Knowles Issue 5, Baubles From Bones
May 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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✨Story Spotlight Issue 5✨

When an AI’s mom leaves him to his own devices, a thirst for human drama throws a wrench in his plans to take over the world.

You can read “You Can Call Me Al” by Michael D. Burnside in Baubles From Bones Issue 5, coming end of May 2025!! 📚🪐
On a blurred, warm-toned background there is a text box and an image of Paul Simon as a robot. The text box reads: "The conversation between Jasmine and Alan was delightful. By which I mean, it was full of cringe and awkwardness. I’d missed it because I’d been focused on taking over the world, just like I’m supposed to be, and yet I felt cheated." -"You Can Call Me Al," By Michael D. Burnside, Issue 5, Baubles From Bones
May 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The Last of Us season 2 is in full swing! If you're looking for some short fiction that scratch a similar itch, then you should try these! (1/5)
in front of a hanging potted plant is a vinyl pressing of "the last of us part ii"'s covers and rarities album paired with baubles from bones issue 2.
May 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Speaking of world-related-stress, here are some photos Joel took of the protest in Downtown Pittsburgh today ✊

Shane's in DC, so we may get some more from him when he gets back
Hands-off 2025 protest in downtown, Pittsburgh. A crowd congregates in the parking lot and street in front of the city council building, dozens of signs and flags raised in the air. Hands-off 2025 protest in downtown, Pittsburgh. Amidst a crowd of protesters, one woman holds up a hand painted sign that features two orange, grabbing hands and text that reads: "Keep your tiny greedy hands off of Ukraine Canada Greenland Panama Mexico Gaza" Hands-off 2025 protest in downtown, Pittsburgh. A crowd of protesters walk up Grant Street with signs held over head. One prominent sign reads: "CAN'T believe we still have to PROTEST this SHIT" Hands-off 2025 protest in downtown, Pittsburgh. The crowd of marching protesters snake down Liberty Ave and onto the William Penn Highway, waving signs and flags overhead.
April 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Restocked the supply at Heat Check in Shadyside this weekend! If you're local to Pittsburgh, swing by and grab a zine, a cool shirt, and some of the best coffee in the city ☕🤙
In front of a shelf display of BFB zines, a hand holds open the last page of BFB4 to show the handwritten edition number. A message on the page reads, "!!! The last of the 1st edition!! Thank you so much and we hope you enjoy!" There is also a drawing of a skull looking up at these words on the page.
March 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Taking orders to the post office!

One of the ladies behind the counter now recognizes me, and I feel like that's a good sign ☠️
Looking down into a grocery bag on a sunny sidewalk, there are several purple packages and one cardboard one as well as a few loose zines that still need to be packed.
March 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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It's that time again! Baubles From Bones Issue 4 releases March 5th!!

BFB4 has 7 new stories and 3 new poems that explore themes of identity and belonging through witchcraft, space travel, and mythological showdowns -- available to buy physically or for free on our site!

Cover art by Lucas Kurz
Cover of BFB4, art by Lucas Kurz. A shadowy figure in a coat and hat stands in front of a bright and futuristic cityscape while wearing an electronic mask on his face. The cover lists the featured writers: James Van Pelt, Huijia Li, A.R. Rowland, David McGillveray, Devin Miller, J.M. Cyrus, Michael Stonebow, Casey Aimer, Andrew LiVecchi, and Sondra Fink
February 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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✨Story spotlight✨

A young witch records his magical experiments and discovers the scope of his abilities when he becomes a bully's focus.

You can read "A Homemade Grimoire," by James Van Pelt in BFB4 - coming March 2025! 🧙

#shortstory #witch #smallpress #sff #indiepublishing
A text box sits atop a cool-toned, blurry background. Within the text box, there is a drawing of a swiveling mirror above a quote; the quote reads: "I said I was sorry I got her in trouble for taking my grimoire even though I wasn't. She said, "There's no such thing as magic, and a boy can't be a witch, bitch." What does she know? Anybody can be anything they want. Witches are cool." This quote comes from "A Homemade Grimoire," by James Van Pelt, appearing in Issue 4 of Baubles From Bones.
February 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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✨Story spotlight✨

On an asteroid with a gravity all its own, a space-mining couple discover a relic from an organic age as well as a rampant presence.

*Prequel to "Human DNA" from BFB2*
You can read "The Absurdity of Love" by David McGillveray in BFB4, coming March 2025!

#shortstory #sff #scifi
On a blurred background lies a text box with an image of one android cradling the lifeless body of another. there is a quote, it reads: "Alb had seen a lot of lifeless balls of rock in his time, the galaxy was filled with them, but this one appeared to have a much younger complexion than most. There were sharp ridges and deep crevasses making up its miniature landscape, glints of glassy minerals in his lights. Most unusual. He tried to keep his excitement in check. Artefacts from the age when men had been made of flesh fetched high prices if you knew the right people." This quote is credited to "The Absurdity of Love" by David McGillveray, appearing in Issue 4 of Baubles From Bones.
February 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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✨Poetry spotlight!✨

Life and death, embraced in the unknown lakeside, love what comes from it regardless

You can read "the trick of the necromancer's womb" by @devzmiller.bsky.social coming soon in Baubles From Bones Issue 4!

#poetry #sff #smallpress #indiepublishing
on a blurred background lies a text box with an image of a hand rising from thick water under a starry sky. there is a quote, it reads: "what slid from my body into lake-water / and was drowned by wonder? / the trick of the necromancer's womb / is to grow things both living and dead" this quote comes from "the trick of the necromancer's womb" by Deving Miller, appearing in Issue 4 of Baubles From Bones.
February 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Alright hear me out...

This portrait accompanies the story "The Wedding Feast" by @buckweiss.bsky.social, portrait by our own editor/artist Elyse!

Read this darkly heartwarming story of love and parenthood online at baublesfrombones.com/the-wedding-feast

#indiepublishing #shortstory #sff
"The Wolf" by Elyse Leskovic, A drawn portrait of a devilishly handsome wolf in silhouette with a sunburst behind him. He looks fierce and strong yet also like a good cuddler.
January 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Our submissions close in a week!

Send us your stories! Your poetry! Send it all before it's too late ☠️

Baublesfrombones.com/submission-guidelines
A text post from BFB that reads: "Submission window closing!! Fiction and Poetry Submissions are open until January 29th. Check out our guidelines on our website for requirements and to submit a piece."
January 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM