Bree Wernicke
@breewernicke.bsky.social
actor, writer, SAG-AFTRA, Codex. words in: Fusion Fragment, Baffling, Strange Horizons, & more! she/her
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Bree Wernicke
@breewernicke.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!
by Bree Wernicke
"Unless
you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail
to maintain proper quantities of teeth,
you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition
Association, permanently. Yay!"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry
by Bree Wernicke
"Unless
you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail
to maintain proper quantities of teeth,
you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition
Association, permanently. Yay!"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry
new poem out! contains vital safety tips for surviving amidst the horrors! try not to be our next fatality :)
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I'm happy to welcome back @breewernicke.bsky.social, whose story "May It Please the Profit" has been acquired for FF#29!
In addition to FF and Saros, Bree's work has also appeared in Bourbon Penn, Haven Spec, and Baffling, just to name a few.
In addition to FF and Saros, Bree's work has also appeared in Bourbon Penn, Haven Spec, and Baffling, just to name a few.
December 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I'm happy to welcome back @breewernicke.bsky.social, whose story "May It Please the Profit" has been acquired for FF#29!
In addition to FF and Saros, Bree's work has also appeared in Bourbon Penn, Haven Spec, and Baffling, just to name a few.
In addition to FF and Saros, Bree's work has also appeared in Bourbon Penn, Haven Spec, and Baffling, just to name a few.
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Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
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For your general consideration....we published eight novellas this year. Three issues of Baffling. And a short story collection by Christopher Caldwell.
(Plus we are sneaking out AT LEAST two more anthologies, an issue of Baffling, and a chapbook by Izzy Wasserstein before the end of the year.)
(Plus we are sneaking out AT LEAST two more anthologies, an issue of Baffling, and a chapbook by Izzy Wasserstein before the end of the year.)
December 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
For your general consideration....we published eight novellas this year. Three issues of Baffling. And a short story collection by Christopher Caldwell.
(Plus we are sneaking out AT LEAST two more anthologies, an issue of Baffling, and a chapbook by Izzy Wasserstein before the end of the year.)
(Plus we are sneaking out AT LEAST two more anthologies, an issue of Baffling, and a chapbook by Izzy Wasserstein before the end of the year.)
this weekend i lost my phone because it fell off a rollercoaster, which is the most baffling thing that's happened to me all year
i didn't even notice until i stood up, and turned back thinking it must've fallen in my seat, but then several people went "we saw a phone fall! :D ...was it yours"
i didn't even notice until i stood up, and turned back thinking it must've fallen in my seat, but then several people went "we saw a phone fall! :D ...was it yours"
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
this weekend i lost my phone because it fell off a rollercoaster, which is the most baffling thing that's happened to me all year
i didn't even notice until i stood up, and turned back thinking it must've fallen in my seat, but then several people went "we saw a phone fall! :D ...was it yours"
i didn't even notice until i stood up, and turned back thinking it must've fallen in my seat, but then several people went "we saw a phone fall! :D ...was it yours"
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The first story I wrote in 2025 is also my final story of 2025! "Ornithogonia, or Five Featherings" is the tale of a priestess and the woman she wants desperately not to love, told by a bitter goddess. It's about faith, all-consuming love, and also birds 🐦⬛ Out now at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!
Ornithogonia, or Five Featherings
The first time you plucked a feather from your lover’s skin, you did so laughing.I laughed with you, my laugh as true as yours was false, and—though you could not hear me, Korone, my sweet-bitter g…
www.flashfictiononline.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The first story I wrote in 2025 is also my final story of 2025! "Ornithogonia, or Five Featherings" is the tale of a priestess and the woman she wants desperately not to love, told by a bitter goddess. It's about faith, all-consuming love, and also birds 🐦⬛ Out now at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!
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Duel Point of View, a swordsman4swordsman romcom where they simply cannot stop challenging each other to meet on the duelling ground
December 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Duel Point of View, a swordsman4swordsman romcom where they simply cannot stop challenging each other to meet on the duelling ground
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WILF! It’s one of the best days of the year: the day we celebrate the miracle that is this guy somehow living long enough to find us. I’m so glad he did.
“Handsomest Gentlest” is a love letter to my boy. Today might be a good day to read it: www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
“Handsomest Gentlest” is a love letter to my boy. Today might be a good day to read it: www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
December 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WILF! It’s one of the best days of the year: the day we celebrate the miracle that is this guy somehow living long enough to find us. I’m so glad he did.
“Handsomest Gentlest” is a love letter to my boy. Today might be a good day to read it: www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
“Handsomest Gentlest” is a love letter to my boy. Today might be a good day to read it: www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
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Issue 30 (ISSUE 30!!!), with cover art by Amanda Yskamp, comes out tomorrow! It's not too late to subscribe and get all of our stories and poems as an ebook and in your inbox as they show up on our website. smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
December 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Issue 30 (ISSUE 30!!!), with cover art by Amanda Yskamp, comes out tomorrow! It's not too late to subscribe and get all of our stories and poems as an ebook and in your inbox as they show up on our website. smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
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This short story by @breewernicke.bsky.social is so bizarrely wonderful, especially if you think *stepping* on Legos is painful ... 👀
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
Bree Wernicke > Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed > Bourbon Penn
Help! Possible curse?? Hi! Not sure this forum is the right place to post this, but bear with me. So about a week ago I came down with horrible stomach cramps. I assumed it was something I ate (I’m la...
www.bourbonpenn.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This short story by @breewernicke.bsky.social is so bizarrely wonderful, especially if you think *stepping* on Legos is painful ... 👀
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
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Just read @breewernicke.bsky.social's outrageously fantastic "Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed" and I can't stop thinking about it! If you're in the mood for a strange and twisted tale of cursed Legos relayed through a series of online forum posts...⬇️
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
Bree Wernicke > Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed > Bourbon Penn
Help! Possible curse?? Hi! Not sure this forum is the right place to post this, but bear with me. So about a week ago I came down with horrible stomach cramps. I assumed it was something I ate (I’m la...
www.bourbonpenn.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Just read @breewernicke.bsky.social's outrageously fantastic "Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed" and I can't stop thinking about it! If you're in the mood for a strange and twisted tale of cursed Legos relayed through a series of online forum posts...⬇️
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
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Today's read is a fun story of Legos gone awry, a nice bit of epistolary weird fiction written by @breewernicke.bsky.social, and published by my fave mag @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
Read at the link below. Go. You won't regret it.
#weirdfiction #indiepublishing
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
Read at the link below. Go. You won't regret it.
#weirdfiction #indiepublishing
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
Bree Wernicke > Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed > Bourbon Penn
Help! Possible curse?? Hi! Not sure this forum is the right place to post this, but bear with me. So about a week ago I came down with horrible stomach cramps. I assumed it was something I ate (I’m la...
www.bourbonpenn.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today's read is a fun story of Legos gone awry, a nice bit of epistolary weird fiction written by @breewernicke.bsky.social, and published by my fave mag @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
Read at the link below. Go. You won't regret it.
#weirdfiction #indiepublishing
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
Read at the link below. Go. You won't regret it.
#weirdfiction #indiepublishing
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...
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New poem by me out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social to help get all of us through the season (I hope). Whole issue is worth a look, but I trust that by now you don't need me to tell you that about an issue of Uncanny.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...
Prayer for Winter - Uncanny Magazine
It is cold, and I am a small animal compared to the heavy sky. Food to heat my blood is not plentiful. My friends are lean and sleepy. There is so much I am afraid of: that a stumble could lay a chi...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
New poem by me out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social to help get all of us through the season (I hope). Whole issue is worth a look, but I trust that by now you don't need me to tell you that about an issue of Uncanny.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...
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Story #3 in FF#26: "A White Day Comes" by @thesuiway.bsky.social
If you need a story with:
-finding love at the last minute
-existential angst (but also acceptance)
-greeting the day
Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
If you need a story with:
-finding love at the last minute
-existential angst (but also acceptance)
-greeting the day
Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Story #3 in FF#26: "A White Day Comes" by @thesuiway.bsky.social
If you need a story with:
-finding love at the last minute
-existential angst (but also acceptance)
-greeting the day
Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
If you need a story with:
-finding love at the last minute
-existential angst (but also acceptance)
-greeting the day
Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
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HALLOWEEN RELEASE: “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill is now available to read for free on FFO! Is it too much to call this horror delicious…? 😏
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
This Is What Mouths Are For
We snatch the centipedes off the boulder and crack their carapaces, sucking the insides out. There are rules to our eating. Guts slide, wriggling, into four mouths and down four throats. All this u…
www.flashfictiononline.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
HALLOWEEN RELEASE: “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill is now available to read for free on FFO! Is it too much to call this horror delicious…? 😏
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...
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I don't have any scary stories to share for Halloween, but I do have a ghost story! "Handsomest Gentlest" is about the flaming-eyed fiend who stalks the forest of the dead. It's also a story about a boy and his dog. I have been told that it might make you sad. 🖤
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
Handsomest Gentlest by M. R. Robinson, Haven Spec Magazine
Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
www.havenspec.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I don't have any scary stories to share for Halloween, but I do have a ghost story! "Handsomest Gentlest" is about the flaming-eyed fiend who stalks the forest of the dead. It's also a story about a boy and his dog. I have been told that it might make you sad. 🖤
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...
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available in e-versions so you can read comfortably like a curled up shrimp cat this very evening
books2read.com/uncertain
books2read.com/uncertain
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
available in e-versions so you can read comfortably like a curled up shrimp cat this very evening
books2read.com/uncertain
books2read.com/uncertain
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writing tip: put a creature in it
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
writing tip: put a creature in it
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ok. i am about to get sentimental on main.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
ok. i am about to get sentimental on main.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.
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24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026!
It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!
A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
www.kickstarter.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026!
It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
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The narrator of Addison Smith's "I GROW," from Issue 22, is coming to grips with their transformation and what it means for them and the world around them.
I GROW - Small Wonders
I grew roots today. My body clings to the reef, latching onto budding polyps and the castoff shells of crustaceans by the seaside fish market.
smallwondersmag.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The narrator of Addison Smith's "I GROW," from Issue 22, is coming to grips with their transformation and what it means for them and the world around them.
HELLO i am doing Hamlet!! if you're looking for something spooky and halloweeny to do in LA next weekend, look no further:
Hamlet | Revelry Theatre Group
Hamlet by William Shakespeare - The perfect way to spend a spooky Halloweekend
www.revelrytheatregroup.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
HELLO i am doing Hamlet!! if you're looking for something spooky and halloweeny to do in LA next weekend, look no further:
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"What's your book about?"
Okay, hold on. Give me a second. I know this. I wrote it. It has a plot and things to say. I just need to think about how to explain it in under four hours of rambling tangents so I don't scare you away
Okay, hold on. Give me a second. I know this. I wrote it. It has a plot and things to say. I just need to think about how to explain it in under four hours of rambling tangents so I don't scare you away
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"What's your book about?"
Okay, hold on. Give me a second. I know this. I wrote it. It has a plot and things to say. I just need to think about how to explain it in under four hours of rambling tangents so I don't scare you away
Okay, hold on. Give me a second. I know this. I wrote it. It has a plot and things to say. I just need to think about how to explain it in under four hours of rambling tangents so I don't scare you away
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One of the things I enjoyed most about studying Victorian lit in college was how these people would read each other for filth in the most roundabout ways. And "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" by @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social puts me exactly in that mindset. I LAUGHED so many times here. Read it!
New Issue: BCS #443 out today, featuring stories by Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social (a new Eldshore story) and @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social, a podcast of the Ward, cover art by Bruce Brenneise @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #443 by Scott Andrews
A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library by Chris Willrich. My Sincere Apologies For the Demon by Adrian Ward. BCS 353: My Sincere Apologies For the Demon by Adrian Ward.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
One of the things I enjoyed most about studying Victorian lit in college was how these people would read each other for filth in the most roundabout ways. And "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" by @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social puts me exactly in that mindset. I LAUGHED so many times here. Read it!
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Our general submission window will open on the first of the month!
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
Guidelines & schedule:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
Guidelines & schedule:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
October 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Our general submission window will open on the first of the month!
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
Guidelines & schedule:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
Guidelines & schedule:
www.havenspec.com/submit/