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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. 📚🪐💀
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. 📚🪐💀
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! 📚🪐💀
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! 📚🪐💀
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!!
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!!
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!! 📚🪐💀
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!! 📚🪐💀
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!! 🪐📚💀
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!! 🪐📚💀
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 💀
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 💀
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 🙄
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 🙄
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 💀
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 💀
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 📚🪐 💀
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 📚🪐 💀
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. 📚🪐 💀
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. 📚🪐 💀
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!! 🪐📚💀
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!! 🪐📚💀
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!! 📚🪐💀
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!! 📚🪐💀
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!! 📚🪐
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!! 📚🪐
Shane's in DC, so we may get some more from him when he gets back
Shane's in DC, so we may get some more from him when he gets back
One of the ladies behind the counter now recognizes me, and I feel like that's a good sign ☠️
One of the ladies behind the counter now recognizes me, and I feel like that's a good sign ☠️
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Send us your stories! Your poetry! Send it all before it's too late ☠️
Baublesfrombones.com/submission-guidelines
Send us your stories! Your poetry! Send it all before it's too late ☠️
Baublesfrombones.com/submission-guidelines