Chloe Smith
@chloehsmith.bsky.social
I write stories. I also teach middle school. Both can be fairly surreal. She/her. Imaginaryresearch.wordpress.com
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Contract signed, so I’m happy to announce that my story “Ten Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Fire Me from This Job at the Galactic Hippodrome” will appear in a future issue of @goblins-galaxies.bsky.social! It’s about surviving end-stage capitalism in spaaaaaace
December 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Contract signed, so I’m happy to announce that my story “Ten Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Fire Me from This Job at the Galactic Hippodrome” will appear in a future issue of @goblins-galaxies.bsky.social! It’s about surviving end-stage capitalism in spaaaaaace
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Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a good grace.
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a good grace.
Signal boosting Apex Magazine 2026. They’re getting down to the wire… @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Signal boosting Apex Magazine 2026. They’re getting down to the wire… @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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Doing a LitCrawl! Months ago I was given a prompt and asked to curate a lineup. @prioryruins.bsky.social @chloehsmith.bsky.social @nmamatas.bsky.social & Giovanna Lomanto said yes! We were granted the power to change one literary event from history. What did we change? How is the world different?!
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Doing a LitCrawl! Months ago I was given a prompt and asked to curate a lineup. @prioryruins.bsky.social @chloehsmith.bsky.social @nmamatas.bsky.social & Giovanna Lomanto said yes! We were granted the power to change one literary event from history. What did we change? How is the world different?!
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Your monthly reminder:
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.
October 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Your monthly reminder:
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.
So great
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
October 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
So great
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Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
Drag Queens Tag Sharks in Annual Florida Science Celebration
The annual “Drag ’n Tag” expedition takes place amid a wave of antitransgender legislation
www.scientificamerican.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
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"Each time I align the jump ignition sequence, I feel the shipsuit respond to my intention, its answer a thrum of power I can hardly comprehend. It opens a rift in space, and I slip through."
Read 'In The Vanguard' by @chloehsmith.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/in-the-vangu...
#SFF #SciFi
Read 'In The Vanguard' by @chloehsmith.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/in-the-vangu...
#SFF #SciFi
In The Vanguard by Chloe Smith
When I’m back from a vanguard run, they all say they can’t understand me. My neighbors, my family, my lover, they all ask, how do you do it?
inner-worlds.ghost.io
September 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
"Each time I align the jump ignition sequence, I feel the shipsuit respond to my intention, its answer a thrum of power I can hardly comprehend. It opens a rift in space, and I slip through."
Read 'In The Vanguard' by @chloehsmith.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/in-the-vangu...
#SFF #SciFi
Read 'In The Vanguard' by @chloehsmith.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/in-the-vangu...
#SFF #SciFi
New story day!!!
💚💫 Issue Eight has landed! 💫💚
This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.
If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...
#SFF #Horror
This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.
If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...
#SFF #Horror
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
New story day!!!
Hoo boy
“All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.”
Speech at anniversary of the
People’s Paper, 1856
-Karl Marx
Speech at anniversary of the
People’s Paper, 1856
-Karl Marx
August 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Hoo boy
Yay! I'm so excited for this story of transformation-for-survival to be out in the world! Thank you to amazing @innerworlds.bsky.social for choosing to publish it, and in such fine company.
⭐️ One week to go and it's Issue Eight TOC time! ⭐️
Featuring 14 fantastic stories by
@cindyphanauthor.com
@busayo.bsky.social
@jolantru.bsky.social
@catherinemccarthy.bsky.social
@katharinetyndall.bsky.social
@esichr.bsky.social
@chloehsmith.bsky.social
@lost-squonk.bsky.social
& more!
Featuring 14 fantastic stories by
@cindyphanauthor.com
@busayo.bsky.social
@jolantru.bsky.social
@catherinemccarthy.bsky.social
@katharinetyndall.bsky.social
@esichr.bsky.social
@chloehsmith.bsky.social
@lost-squonk.bsky.social
& more!
August 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Yay! I'm so excited for this story of transformation-for-survival to be out in the world! Thank you to amazing @innerworlds.bsky.social for choosing to publish it, and in such fine company.
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PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb
August 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb
So many little guys!
I installed a camera to see what was going on with our water feature that kept being taken apart at night (I recently filled it with rocks with a central fountain so it wouldn’t be constantly muddy), figuring I’d see a raccoon. I hadn’t expected an all-night pool party! 😂
Mystery solved! ⛲️🦝🦝🦝🦝
Mystery solved! ⛲️🦝🦝🦝🦝
August 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
So many little guys!
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SURPRISE! We couldn't wait until next week—our Kickstarter pre-launch page is live right now!!! Sign up to be the first to know when it launches in October, and please spread the word and tell a friend! Every sign-up makes a huge difference. We are officially one step closer to OTHERSIDE!
Coming soon: 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
July 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
SURPRISE! We couldn't wait until next week—our Kickstarter pre-launch page is live right now!!! Sign up to be the first to know when it launches in October, and please spread the word and tell a friend! Every sign-up makes a huge difference. We are officially one step closer to OTHERSIDE!
I have a new story coming soon! It will be out in an anthology from @metaphorosis.com, HOPE: The Thing With Feathers and will feature sad sibling relationships and a giant bird mom.
New interview up with Chloe Smith, author of "The Letter Writers" in HOPE: The Thing with Feathers. This story will charm anyone who has a soft spot for Italo Calvino's INVISIBLE CITIES or Hayao Miyazaki's surreal magic in SPIRITED AWAY.
maggieslater.com/2025/07/11/t...
maggieslater.com/2025/07/11/t...
THREE QUESTIONS: Chloe Smith
In the lead-up to the release of Hope: The Thing with Feathers, I’m going to be posting mini-interviews with my fellow ToC-mates! You can pre-order Hope: The Thing with Feathers here. In R…
maggieslater.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I have a new story coming soon! It will be out in an anthology from @metaphorosis.com, HOPE: The Thing With Feathers and will feature sad sibling relationships and a giant bird mom.
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This article is talking about an ideal beach body so I think it's time to grow a carapace and six extra legs.
Any tips on scuttling.
Any tips on scuttling.
a crab is walking on a sandy surface with its arm up
Alt: a crab is walking on a sandy surface with its arm up
media.tenor.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This article is talking about an ideal beach body so I think it's time to grow a carapace and six extra legs.
Any tips on scuttling.
Any tips on scuttling.
👀
Augur Press submissions for novellas & novelettes open tomorrow.
🫡
Stay tuned !!!
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Stay tuned !!!
July 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
👀
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whelve [welv]
(v.)
-To conceal, hide or bury something beneath something else.
-To turn over and hide something underneath; to bury something.
Used in a sentence:
“Housekeeping around here is basically a frantic scurryfunge where I whelve everything under the coats in the hall closet.”
(v.)
-To conceal, hide or bury something beneath something else.
-To turn over and hide something underneath; to bury something.
Used in a sentence:
“Housekeeping around here is basically a frantic scurryfunge where I whelve everything under the coats in the hall closet.”
June 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Whelve [welv]
(v.)
-To conceal, hide or bury something beneath something else.
-To turn over and hide something underneath; to bury something.
Used in a sentence:
“Housekeeping around here is basically a frantic scurryfunge where I whelve everything under the coats in the hall closet.”
(v.)
-To conceal, hide or bury something beneath something else.
-To turn over and hide something underneath; to bury something.
Used in a sentence:
“Housekeeping around here is basically a frantic scurryfunge where I whelve everything under the coats in the hall closet.”
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ok here's my dung beetle love poem
June 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
ok here's my dung beetle love poem
I have a story in this! I'm excited that it's in such fine-feathered company.
Does your hope chest need restocking?
Pre-order HOPE: The Thing With Feathers - a coming anthology of hopeful stories (with feathers)! Coming 2 August 2025, but available for pre-order now on Amazon and soon at other retailers.
Pre-order HOPE: The Thing With Feathers - a coming anthology of hopeful stories (with feathers)! Coming 2 August 2025, but available for pre-order now on Amazon and soon at other retailers.
HOPE: The Thing With Feathers
June 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I have a story in this! I'm excited that it's in such fine-feathered company.
Such a good reminder
Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.
May 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Such a good reminder