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Derrick Boden
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Writer, adventurer, father. SFWA, HWA, Codexian, Clarion West '19. Sturgeon Award Finalist. Stories in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Apex, Analog, etc. He/him.
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Our Kickstarter ends in just 24 HOURS! This is your LAST CHANCE to shop our catalogue of new ebooks, author critiques, and exclusive merch before it's gone for good. Check the 🧵 to see our full selection!

Thank you all for supporting another year of Apex. 🖤👽

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Cow piloting a UFO. "Kickstarter Countdown: T-Minus 24 HOURS Next Stretch Goal: $1,294 Click the link in our bio to help us fund the next year of Alex Magazine!"
October 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Let's reach that stretch goal!!! 💪👽🎉
I'd love to judge another drabble contest. It's always so much fun to read what everyone comes up with. 😁💙
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Oct 28
There's just 69 (yes really) HOURS LEFT to donate to the Apex Magazine Kickstarter! ⏰

We're thrilled to bring you more Apex in 2026, but there's still time to unlock our stretch goals! At $22,500, we unlock drabble submissions with editor @kaidelmas.bsky.social!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
The cow is now piloting the UFO! "$20,526! Kickstarter Countdown: T-MINUS: 69 HOURS Next Stretch Goal: $1,974" Only 9% to go until... Editor Kai Delmas will return to Apex Magazine to hold another themed Drabble submission period in 2026! Kai will select three submissions to be published in Apex Magazine."
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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There's just 69 (yes really) HOURS LEFT to donate to the Apex Magazine Kickstarter! ⏰

We're thrilled to bring you more Apex in 2026, but there's still time to unlock our stretch goals! At $22,500, we unlock drabble submissions with editor @kaidelmas.bsky.social!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
The cow is now piloting the UFO! "$20,526! Kickstarter Countdown: T-MINUS: 69 HOURS Next Stretch Goal: $1,974" Only 9% to go until... Editor Kai Delmas will return to Apex Magazine to hold another themed Drabble submission period in 2026! Kai will select three submissions to be published in Apex Magazine."
October 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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As my daughter would say, there's only SIX-SEVEN days left:
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Oct 23
There's only ONE WEEK LEFT to fund Apex Magazine in 2026, and we JUST unlocked our 70% reward!!

The Apex editors will host a live affirmation critique of the Internet's most beloved amateur horror stories! 📸🌲🥩

🎃 Help us reach our funding goal and donate TODAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Cow getting sucked into UFO tractor beam. "Kickstarter Countdown: T-Minus 7 DAYS Needed for Liftoff: $5,669 $14,331/$20,000 Click the link in our bio to help us fund the next year of Alex Magazine!" 70% UNLOCKED! Lesley and Rebecca will be reading CreepyPasta stories selected by our followers and doing a small affirmation critique of the story. This live event is sure to be hysterical!
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Get it while you can:
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Oct 20
We're only 10 DAYS AWAY from the end of our Apex Magazine 2026 Kickstarter! It's scary cutting it so close at only $11,985/$20k so far, but Apex is used to scary! We have a fancy new banner, a WHOLE CATALOG of rewards, and earnest optimism!

Let's get to 20k! 💜👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Graphic with current Kickstarter funding: $11,985 Story/Excerpt Critiques E. Catherine Tobler (up to 5,000 words) Spencer Nitkey (up to 7,500 words) A.C. Wise (up to 8,000 words) Aimee Ogden (up to 6,000 words) Anne Gresham (up to 10,000 words) Lindz McLeod (up to 5,000 words) Risa Wolf (7,500 words) Slush Reader Critique Cool Offerings Tarot card affirmation by Los Mei-en Kwa Marie Vibbert Tuckerization Apex Appreciation Online Workshop "World-building from the Inside Out" Ebooks The Death of Mountains by Jordan Kurella Turducken by Lindz McLeod Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle by Renan Bernardo Shadows on Glass and Other Stories by Jamie Lackey The Jen Donohue catalog The Best of Apex Magazine edited by Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore ChloroPhilia by Cristina Jurado (trans. by Sue Burke) Do Not Go Quietly: Stories of Resistance edited by Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore Apex Magazine: 2021 edited by Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore Robotic Ambitions edited by Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore The Map of Lost Places edited by Sheree Renee Thomas & Lesley Conner The Kraken Sea and The Grand Tour by E. Catherine Tobler Strange Libations edited by Marissa van Uden Strange Locations edited by Marissa van Uden Strange Machines edited by Marissa van Uden Strange Anthology Bundle edited by Marissa van Uden Apex Magazine Subscription
October 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! 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 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Help keep the lights on at Apex! Only 11 days left:
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Oct 18
NEW BACKER REWARD! 📢✨👽

For our backers who donate at least $500, we will send you a Live Rat! 💸 That's right, a ❗🐀 LIVE RAT!! 🐀❗

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! For $1k or more, you'll receive ANOTHER 🐀 LIVE 🐀 RAT!! Don't miss this INCREDIBLE OFFER and get live rats delivered to your bare hands TODAY1!! 👇
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Let's go.
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Oct 16
WE'RE OVER HALFWAY TO OUR GOAL!! 🎉🎉🎉 THANK YOU for all your support! 💜👽

We're celebrating with a TON of amazing new rewards (check the 🧵 to see them all!) including signed books, author critiques, WORLDWIDE SHIPPING and more!

🪦 Join the monster mash here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
New Kickstarter rewards are here!! Author critiques, discounted ebooks from your favorite speculative fiction authors, and more! Stickers and hoodie now available worldwide! SHORT STORY CRITIQUES FROM: Spencer Nitkey, Risa Wolf, E. Catherine Tobler, Jordan Kurella Plague Birds & We Who Hunt Alexanders SIGNED copies of Plague Birds and We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford.
October 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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If you love spec fiction and have a few bucks to spare:
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Oct 13
There's just 17 DAYS LEFT to back the 2026 Apex Magazine Kickstarter! We've been supporting outstanding authors writing strange, shocking, beautiful stories for 20 years...help us keep doing it for 20 more! 💜👽

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
"Only 3% to go until...Lesley and Rebecca host a Watch a Horror Movie with the Editors night!" Current Kickstarter funding: $7,323
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Always worth supporting this badass magazine:
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Oct 1
Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Episode 264 of my Eating the Fantastic podcast is now live with guest @foxesandroses.bsky.social! Join us at the table and learn why she ended up as a fantasy writer rather than a comic book creator, how a pantser handles world building — and much more. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
Eugenia Triantafyllou across the table from me holding a spoon with a soup dumpling up to her mouth with one hand while holding chopsticks in the other. Her hair is orange, and she's wearing a green T-shirt with the number 1990 on it in black lettering.
September 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Very happy to share that my story Unsung has been accepted for publication at @analogsf.bsky.social. It's about heroism and exploitation and very uncomfortable spaceships, among other things. Can't wait to share it with you all!
August 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Love a good bone story, happy to see "Valor Bones" in this list (first appeared in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social a few years back). Thanks for the shout-out, @reactorsff.bsky.social!
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jul 30
Bones fill all sorts of roles in fantasy tales, from protective talismans to medicines to spiritual relics; here are five short stories about bones and the uses people find for them (for good or ill...)

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Five Stories About Bones and Bone Magic - Reactor
Fantasy's favorite morbid material for talismans, relics, healing powders, etc.
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July 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Happened to be in Kyoto shortly after the release of Babelzine Vol 4, managed to track down a physical copy at the lovely @cavabooks.bsky.social store. What a joy to see my story in translation! Thanks so much to everyone involved.
July 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Great thread and some great opening lines from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social!
June 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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BCS opening lines:

"On a sweltering winter morning, at the edge of town where the wailing desert clawed at her shanty door, the Patron held court."

The Patron
@derrickboden.bsky.social
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Patron by Derrick Boden
Outside, the cries of the blood locusts swelled, as they would until month's end. These creatures writhed below ground for seven years before breaching the surface to feast on fruits and flesh alike. ...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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This is sure to be a good one:
kristinaten.bsky.social Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · Jun 2
Cover reveal!! 🐇🎀❤️‍🔥 So good to put a name to the heart. So good to put a face to the name. Ty Stillhouse Press for this creepy, frenzied, sour-candy beauty—the book cover of my dreams and best nightmares. TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE will be available for preorder starting this Friday 6.6.25!
June 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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My new "What to Read" column also features fiction by @ecastroianni.bsky.social @avgreenewrites.bsky.social @ravenjake.bsky.social @derrickboden.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social @translunarytree.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social & more.
What to Read – the Monster Edition - Ruadán Books
by Maria Haskins Where there are humans telling stories, there are monsters. From the very beginning, monsters have taken center stage in our myths, fairytales, and fiction. The vampire is one of the ...
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June 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Honored to be @lightspeedmagazine.com’s Author Spotlight and once again be interviewed by @phoebebarton.bsky.social who always asks such thought-provoking questions. “Through the Machine” comes out next week. Meanwhile, find out what went into writing it.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/a...
Author Spotlight: P.A. Cornell - Lightspeed Magazine
What I’d like readers to take away from this is that there’s value to art. That it is in fact an essential service that provides us with something that can improve our lives just by being exposed to i...
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May 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Loved this creepy new story by Ian Muneshwar: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/beak/
Beak - Nightmare Magazine
The landlord requires proof of the infestation, and proof---per clause twelve, subsection three of the lease---must come in the form of a living specimen, safely contained. A dead specimen is insuffic...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Very stoked to see my story "The Unfactory" in @reactorsff.bsky.social's April roundup.

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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: April 2025 - Reactor
This month's stories have a little god murder, some necromancy, and some brain swapping...
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May 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Really enjoyed this one by @cornellwriter.bsky.social.
escapepod.org Escape Pod @escapepod.org · May 2
Joyous endweek, sapient observers! Today we have a fresh solarpunk original for you, "After the Rain" by
@cornellwriter.bsky.social, and we promise it has nothing to do with those punks who keep spray-painting family might/coulds on our solar panels. Enjoy!
Escape Pod 991: After the Rain
I love a heavy summer storm. I love it when the rain falls so suddenly there’s no avoiding it and you’re drenched in seconds, or when the drops hit the ground so hard they bounce right back up at you.
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May 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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SALVAGIA is part of the Barnes and Noble pre-sale event! Use PREORDER25 at checkout (B&N members only (membership is free!))

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April 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The Unfactory, by Derrick Boden in Diabolical Plots. I've read a few other works by Boden and honestly they're pretty consistently bangers (I still think about his story in Escape Pod, Hustle, every now and then without warning). This story about unmaking is no exception.
DP FICTION #122A: “The Unfactory” by Derrick Boden – Diabolical Plots
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April 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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I voted. Have you? Deadline is the 15th and anyone can vote. You can even write-in your faves! If you’re still considering short fiction, here’s a link to my eligible stories: www.pacornell.com/2024-awards-...
camestrosf.bsky.social Camestros Felapton @camestrosf.bsky.social · Apr 8
It looks like there's a push from the usual (right wing) suspects to game the Locus Poll Award.
Voting is open to anybody but the vote of subscribers count double.

Vote for whatever you want here poll.voting.locusmag.com
Welcome to the Locus Awards Poll. Deadline for voting is April 15. You can return and edit or add to your ballot up until the deadline.
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April 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM