Cetera Magazine
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Every Thursday, we publish original short stories that challenge, comfort, and hopefully astonish. Account run by Natalia Emmons. Open for submissions.
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Cetera Magazine
New short stories. Every Thursday.
ceteramagazine.com
Hey there, Bluesky! We publish multi-genre fiction every week for both free subscribers and paid members (they get extra stories once in a while). All our work is AI-free, so please consider sharing word of our existence to your friends!
ceteramagazine.com
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i wrote a gentrification horror story where a broke copywriter invents fake families for a redevelopment company and then watches them become real. definitely not based on a true story, for sure!
it's called LITTLE GOOD PEOPLE and hey look at that you can read it for free!
it's called LITTLE GOOD PEOPLE and hey look at that you can read it for free!
Little Good People
She was paid to invent the perfect neighbors. Now she can't prove who's real.
www.ceteramagazine.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
i wrote a gentrification horror story where a broke copywriter invents fake families for a redevelopment company and then watches them become real. definitely not based on a true story, for sure!
it's called LITTLE GOOD PEOPLE and hey look at that you can read it for free!
it's called LITTLE GOOD PEOPLE and hey look at that you can read it for free!
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October 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
wrote a body horror story for @ceteramagazine.bsky.social about what happens when you can literally sell your feelings to strangers
"A disgraced influencer sells her emotions as consumable flavors. But the technology under her tongue has plans of its own."
It's weird! Enjoy!
"A disgraced influencer sells her emotions as consumable flavors. But the technology under her tongue has plans of its own."
It's weird! Enjoy!
The Petals Beneath Her Tongue
A disgraced influencer sells her emotions as consumable flavors. But the technology under her tongue has plans of its own.
www.ceteramagazine.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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wrote a body horror story for @ceteramagazine.bsky.social about what happens when you can literally sell your feelings to strangers
"A disgraced influencer sells her emotions as consumable flavors. But the technology under her tongue has plans of its own."
It's weird! Enjoy!
"A disgraced influencer sells her emotions as consumable flavors. But the technology under her tongue has plans of its own."
It's weird! Enjoy!
The Petals Beneath Her Tongue
A disgraced influencer sells her emotions as consumable flavors. But the technology under her tongue has plans of its own.
www.ceteramagazine.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
wrote a body horror story for @ceteramagazine.bsky.social about what happens when you can literally sell your feelings to strangers
"A disgraced influencer sells her emotions as consumable flavors. But the technology under her tongue has plans of its own."
It's weird! Enjoy!
"A disgraced influencer sells her emotions as consumable flavors. But the technology under her tongue has plans of its own."
It's weird! Enjoy!
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holy crap. apparently ireland passed a living wage for artists. this is something every country should have—particularly in the states.
October 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
holy crap. apparently ireland passed a living wage for artists. this is something every country should have—particularly in the states.
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It's horror month at Cetera Magazine, so this week I'm publishing a short story I've been dreading to share for deeply personal reasons. But I'm so glad it's finally out!
Here's "Housekeeping for the Dead" (with an audio version where partway through I start crying!)
@ceteramagazine.bsky.social
Here's "Housekeeping for the Dead" (with an audio version where partway through I start crying!)
@ceteramagazine.bsky.social
Housekeeping for the Dead
Seven rooms. Seven deaths. I have to clean up all of them.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's horror month at Cetera Magazine, so this week I'm publishing a short story I've been dreading to share for deeply personal reasons. But I'm so glad it's finally out!
Here's "Housekeeping for the Dead" (with an audio version where partway through I start crying!)
@ceteramagazine.bsky.social
Here's "Housekeeping for the Dead" (with an audio version where partway through I start crying!)
@ceteramagazine.bsky.social
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Horror month at @ceteramagazine.bsky.social continues with a bonus short story just for our members!
"The Ghost Census" follows a nonbinary necromancer named Kye who is tasked with counting the votes for if humanity gets to continue another century. And the ones placing the votes are the dead...
"The Ghost Census" follows a nonbinary necromancer named Kye who is tasked with counting the votes for if humanity gets to continue another century. And the ones placing the votes are the dead...
The Ghost Census
Every hundred years, the dead cast their votes. And the living wait to see if they still deserve tomorrow.
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October 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Horror month at @ceteramagazine.bsky.social continues with a bonus short story just for our members!
"The Ghost Census" follows a nonbinary necromancer named Kye who is tasked with counting the votes for if humanity gets to continue another century. And the ones placing the votes are the dead...
"The Ghost Census" follows a nonbinary necromancer named Kye who is tasked with counting the votes for if humanity gets to continue another century. And the ones placing the votes are the dead...
artwork for Thursday's story and it's an emotional one
October 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
artwork for Thursday's story and it's an emotional one
We're kicking off our October of Horror with (you guessed it) a new horror short story by Natalia Emmons. Audio version narrated by @jonnegroni.bsky.social
Read "The Morrow Twins" if you dare...
Read "The Morrow Twins" if you dare...
The Morrow Twins
There had been three girls in the attic, once. Two names I knew. One I had burned.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We're kicking off our October of Horror with (you guessed it) a new horror short story by Natalia Emmons. Audio version narrated by @jonnegroni.bsky.social
Read "The Morrow Twins" if you dare...
Read "The Morrow Twins" if you dare...
From our archives, and absolute honesty this short story might be my personal favorite we’ve ever published. Kicks the teeth of the entertainment industry and how America makes a commodity out of death. By @jonnegroni.bsky.social
Everything I Told You Was True
The memory of a girl, the industry of forgetting her.
www.ceteramagazine.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
From our archives, and absolute honesty this short story might be my personal favorite we’ve ever published. Kicks the teeth of the entertainment industry and how America makes a commodity out of death. By @jonnegroni.bsky.social
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Over at @ceteramagazine.bsky.social we'll soon be kicking off our "October of Horror" with a gothic horror debut from our managing editor Natalia Emmons. Here's a sneak peak at the artwork she did for her piece, "The Morrow Twins!"
September 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Over at @ceteramagazine.bsky.social we'll soon be kicking off our "October of Horror" with a gothic horror debut from our managing editor Natalia Emmons. Here's a sneak peak at the artwork she did for her piece, "The Morrow Twins!"
We will only be publishing horror stories for the entirety of October! Our goal is to cover a different subgenre each week from gothic to slasher and plenty in between. If you haven't already, become a free subscriber so you never miss a story from us. ceteramagazine.com
a dark forest with trees and leaves in the dark
ALT: a dark forest with trees and leaves in the dark
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September 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We will only be publishing horror stories for the entirety of October! Our goal is to cover a different subgenre each week from gothic to slasher and plenty in between. If you haven't already, become a free subscriber so you never miss a story from us. ceteramagazine.com
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I am so so so excited to share this story!! Really proud of how it turned out and how Natalia's edits made it actually releasable
Our new short fiction this week. "I Am the Wolf, I Am the Boy" is a dark romantic fantasy about a bard who finds a cursed prince in the woods. The cursed prince tells him almost in the first breath: "Do not love me."
I Am the Wolf, I Am the Boy
When someone loves him, he becomes a wolf. Then he forgets them forever.
www.ceteramagazine.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I am so so so excited to share this story!! Really proud of how it turned out and how Natalia's edits made it actually releasable
Our new short fiction this week. "I Am the Wolf, I Am the Boy" is a dark romantic fantasy about a bard who finds a cursed prince in the woods. The cursed prince tells him almost in the first breath: "Do not love me."
I Am the Wolf, I Am the Boy
When someone loves him, he becomes a wolf. Then he forgets them forever.
www.ceteramagazine.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our new short fiction this week. "I Am the Wolf, I Am the Boy" is a dark romantic fantasy about a bard who finds a cursed prince in the woods. The cursed prince tells him almost in the first breath: "Do not love me."
Anybody can write something tidy. Anybody can play it safe. But if you never risk making something crooked, you’ll never get to that moment where the work feels alive, where it even scares you a little.
September 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Anybody can write something tidy. Anybody can play it safe. But if you never risk making something crooked, you’ll never get to that moment where the work feels alive, where it even scares you a little.
Our story for Thursday is shaping up nicely...
September 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Our story for Thursday is shaping up nicely...
The clock is ticking on submitting your story to Chestnut Review for their Winter Issue. Keep in mind they allow free prose submissions for Black and Indigenous authors:
chestnutreview.submittable.com/submit
chestnutreview.submittable.com/submit
Submissions for our winter issue are open now through September 30th! Share your best work in any of our five categories:
✏️ Poetry
📸 Flash
📃 Prose
🖼️ Visual Art & Photography
🎨 Mixed-Genre & Mixed-Media
For more info, click link in bio.
✏️ Poetry
📸 Flash
📃 Prose
🖼️ Visual Art & Photography
🎨 Mixed-Genre & Mixed-Media
For more info, click link in bio.
September 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The clock is ticking on submitting your story to Chestnut Review for their Winter Issue. Keep in mind they allow free prose submissions for Black and Indigenous authors:
chestnutreview.submittable.com/submit
chestnutreview.submittable.com/submit
"Juan Albizú had always been an industrious man. His shop, a narrow sliver of whitewashed stone wedged between the haberdasher and the baker’s wife’s miserable excuse for a confectionary, was a place of unimpeachable respectability."
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"Juan Albizú had always been an industrious man. His shop, a narrow sliver of whitewashed stone wedged between the haberdasher and the baker’s wife’s miserable excuse for a confectionary, was a place of unimpeachable respectability."
Truly one of the best interpretations of Arthurian legend in modern times. We need more books pushing for this type of innovative storytelling that is both fresh and familiar without compromising character and cultural commentary.
Finished reading: Legendborn
5/5⭐️
I was hooked into this book immediately! Absolutely amazing work!
#booksky #books #bookreview #review #legendborn
5/5⭐️
I was hooked into this book immediately! Absolutely amazing work!
#booksky #books #bookreview #review #legendborn
September 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Truly one of the best interpretations of Arthurian legend in modern times. We need more books pushing for this type of innovative storytelling that is both fresh and familiar without compromising character and cultural commentary.
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#writingcommunity #booksky #fans #patrons #seeds
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September 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Both of your support categories are vitally important to your career. Your network has mouths. Word of mouth is an excellent way to grow your brand. Positive recommendations from trustworthy people helps you grow. Each patron or fan is a SEED.
#writingcommunity #booksky #fans #patrons #seeds
#writingcommunity #booksky #fans #patrons #seeds
"Men used to ask for our siren songs.
Now they ask if we’re real. Real enough to kill them."
Now they ask if we’re real. Real enough to kill them."
FINALLY finished producing the audio narration for "Songs of the Dead and Drowning," one of our most popular short fantasy releases this year! In the story, a nameless siren enacts bloody revenge on the sailor who murdered her songsister.
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September 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"Men used to ask for our siren songs.
Now they ask if we’re real. Real enough to kill them."
Now they ask if we’re real. Real enough to kill them."
Hey there, Bluesky! We publish multi-genre fiction every week for both free subscribers and paid members (they get extra stories once in a while). All our work is AI-free, so please consider sharing word of our existence to your friends!
ceteramagazine.com
ceteramagazine.com
Cetera Magazine
New short stories. Every Thursday.
ceteramagazine.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hey there, Bluesky! We publish multi-genre fiction every week for both free subscribers and paid members (they get extra stories once in a while). All our work is AI-free, so please consider sharing word of our existence to your friends!
ceteramagazine.com
ceteramagazine.com