Stuart Docherty
@doc12345.bsky.social
My weird flash piece about an Italian reincarnated as a glob of old hair conditioner is out today in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social. It’s the first time my names appeared on a cover so I’m absolutely chuffed. Check it out here:
www.amazon.com/Colored-Lens...
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The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025
Amazon.com: The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025 eBook : Brinegar, Rachael, Newkirk, David, Hoyt, Ellie, McIntosh, Parker, Klass, Judy, Vance, Michael, Clairval, Gio, Morrey, Josh, Apsley, JS, Docherty, Stuart: Kindle Store
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October 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
My weird flash piece about an Italian reincarnated as a glob of old hair conditioner is out today in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social. It’s the first time my names appeared on a cover so I’m absolutely chuffed. Check it out here:
www.amazon.com/Colored-Lens...
www.amazon.com/Colored-Lens...
@perfidiousscript.bsky.social this came in the post yesterday and I’m very excited to start reading.
October 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
@perfidiousscript.bsky.social this came in the post yesterday and I’m very excited to start reading.
@slashnburnett.bsky.social What an awesome cover! Congrats! I'm looking forward to reading.
COVER REVEAL!
Issue 64 includes stories from Sebastian Gray, Emma Burnett, Joule K. Zelman, Elena Sichrovsky, and more!
Cover art by Lars Strömquist.
Issue 64 includes stories from Sebastian Gray, Emma Burnett, Joule K. Zelman, Elena Sichrovsky, and more!
Cover art by Lars Strömquist.
October 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
@slashnburnett.bsky.social What an awesome cover! Congrats! I'm looking forward to reading.
Dead chuffed to have a story in this excellent anthology. Haven't finished reading all the excellent writing in it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
August 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Dead chuffed to have a story in this excellent anthology. Haven't finished reading all the excellent writing in it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
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Releasing August 7th!
July 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Releasing August 7th!
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Full cover reveal of This Exquisite Topology!
June 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Full cover reveal of This Exquisite Topology!
Really enjoyed this one over at scaffold: www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
perv mayor by john pinto — scaffold literary magazine
micro fiction
www.scaffoldlit.com
July 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Really enjoyed this one over at scaffold: www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
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🍝 Marinara, Marinara by Stuart Docherty https://foofaraw.press/marinara-marinara-by-stuart-docherty/
🍝 Marinara, Marinara by Stuart Docherty
a messy mix-up
foofaraw.press
July 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🍝 Marinara, Marinara by Stuart Docherty https://foofaraw.press/marinara-marinara-by-stuart-docherty/
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My story "Small Sacks of Children" is out now in After Happy Hour's second chance issue, featuring work from magazines that are now defunct. This story was in Daily Science Fiction and is about building a wall with small children. Read it (and the rest) here (via downloadable PDF).
AHH! Issues
afterhappyhourreview.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My story "Small Sacks of Children" is out now in After Happy Hour's second chance issue, featuring work from magazines that are now defunct. This story was in Daily Science Fiction and is about building a wall with small children. Read it (and the rest) here (via downloadable PDF).
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Unpackaging: @doc12345.bsky.social reviews Thomas Morris's OPEN UP (@unnamedpress.bsky.social)
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Unpackaging: Review of Thomas Morris’s Open Up
Stuart Docherty Under Review:Open Up. Thomas Morris. Unnamed Press, April 2025. Thomas Morris’s Open Up depicts a host of male outsiders with parental issues ostensibly trying to fit in. Morris’s s…
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June 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Unpackaging: @doc12345.bsky.social reviews Thomas Morris's OPEN UP (@unnamedpress.bsky.social)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/06/09/u...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/06/09/u...
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"And my grandmother said: I’ve never wanted to do something so badly in my entire life. It was such a wonderful thing. Such a wonderful, wonderful thing."
Today on ergot.: 'A Wonderful Thing' by Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Jack...
Today on ergot.: 'A Wonderful Thing' by Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Jack...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
May 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"And my grandmother said: I’ve never wanted to do something so badly in my entire life. It was such a wonderful thing. Such a wonderful, wonderful thing."
Today on ergot.: 'A Wonderful Thing' by Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Jack...
Today on ergot.: 'A Wonderful Thing' by Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Jack...
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OUT TODAY - THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION!
Thanks to @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social and cover artist @lukespoonerartist.bsky.social!
Thanks to @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social and cover artist @lukespoonerartist.bsky.social!
April 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
OUT TODAY - THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION!
Thanks to @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social and cover artist @lukespoonerartist.bsky.social!
Thanks to @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social and cover artist @lukespoonerartist.bsky.social!
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I am so super excited to be guest editing a FamPunk FFO!
Take a break from the big-picture. Casually incorporate science & technology. Embrace quotidian else-when life. Give us alternative families in alternative spaces.
Read more (& feel free to ask questions below): ffo.submittable.com/submit
Take a break from the big-picture. Casually incorporate science & technology. Embrace quotidian else-when life. Give us alternative families in alternative spaces.
Read more (& feel free to ask questions below): ffo.submittable.com/submit
April 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I am so super excited to be guest editing a FamPunk FFO!
Take a break from the big-picture. Casually incorporate science & technology. Embrace quotidian else-when life. Give us alternative families in alternative spaces.
Read more (& feel free to ask questions below): ffo.submittable.com/submit
Take a break from the big-picture. Casually incorporate science & technology. Embrace quotidian else-when life. Give us alternative families in alternative spaces.
Read more (& feel free to ask questions below): ffo.submittable.com/submit
Check out my story, The Pat Test, and all the other great writing in this issue of The Hooghly Review! I wrote this story a couple of years ago based on some of my own experiences living in mountain towns.
Issue 4 is live! 🥁
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/issue-4/
And it's beautiful and free. 💯
Thank you all for being lovely. Please do spread the word. 🙏
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/issue-4/
And it's beautiful and free. 💯
Thank you all for being lovely. Please do spread the word. 🙏
April 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Check out my story, The Pat Test, and all the other great writing in this issue of The Hooghly Review! I wrote this story a couple of years ago based on some of my own experiences living in mountain towns.
I have a soft spot for metafiction and this one is fantastic. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
Take a journey into the cosmic black hole of meaninglessness in my latest fiction at @weirdlitmag.bsky.social
www.weirdlitmag.com/fiction/dead...
www.weirdlitmag.com/fiction/dead...
“Dead Thought Space” by Ben Lockwood | Weird Lit
www.weirdlitmag.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I have a soft spot for metafiction and this one is fantastic. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
Really enjoyed this short story from a Apex. A little old but still fantastic.
www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Keep Talking
Gerald’s stomach clenched as he approached his daughter, Sarah. She sat at her computer, her back to the world, as intent as a...
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March 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Really enjoyed this short story from a Apex. A little old but still fantastic.
www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
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Good news everyone: my least-publishable story has been published. It's only a thousand words and I promise that, while reading it, you will mutter "what the fuck, Sasha" under your breath. CW: butt plugs and body horror.
Butt plugs and body horror.
www.twinpiesliterary.com/fuck-us-up/m...
Butt plugs and body horror.
www.twinpiesliterary.com/fuck-us-up/m...
My Stalagmite - Sasha Brown — Twin Pies Literary
www.twinpiesliterary.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Good news everyone: my least-publishable story has been published. It's only a thousand words and I promise that, while reading it, you will mutter "what the fuck, Sasha" under your breath. CW: butt plugs and body horror.
Butt plugs and body horror.
www.twinpiesliterary.com/fuck-us-up/m...
Butt plugs and body horror.
www.twinpiesliterary.com/fuck-us-up/m...
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Glad to have "Dead Men's Fingernails" up on The Fabulist today: fabulistmagazine.com/dead-mens-fi...
Dead Men’s Fingernails > The Fabulist Words & Art
A series of strange phone calls sets a child on a path full of ambiguity, doubt, and fleeting dread.
fabulistmagazine.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Glad to have "Dead Men's Fingernails" up on The Fabulist today: fabulistmagazine.com/dead-mens-fi...
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Her touch was so hot it stung. Drops of sweat gathered along my back and slid down my spine. “Oh,” I said.
“My mother used to say: cold hands, warm heart.” She laughed.
I did too, the way you laugh at such things.
Today on ergot.: "Scorpion Eggs" by Heidi Marjamäki
www.ergot.press/authors/Heid...
“My mother used to say: cold hands, warm heart.” She laughed.
I did too, the way you laugh at such things.
Today on ergot.: "Scorpion Eggs" by Heidi Marjamäki
www.ergot.press/authors/Heid...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
March 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Her touch was so hot it stung. Drops of sweat gathered along my back and slid down my spine. “Oh,” I said.
“My mother used to say: cold hands, warm heart.” She laughed.
I did too, the way you laugh at such things.
Today on ergot.: "Scorpion Eggs" by Heidi Marjamäki
www.ergot.press/authors/Heid...
“My mother used to say: cold hands, warm heart.” She laughed.
I did too, the way you laugh at such things.
Today on ergot.: "Scorpion Eggs" by Heidi Marjamäki
www.ergot.press/authors/Heid...
Great read, this. Weird, funny sci-fi with a great lead character and depth.
My weird science-fiction story about sex with aliens is now live on Phano. Read "The Human Solution" on your local interwebs device now!
The Human Solution
Who says big issues can’t be solved with a bit of pillow talk?
www.phano.co
March 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Great read, this. Weird, funny sci-fi with a great lead character and depth.
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Thrilled to reveal the cover for @thomasha.bsky.social's astonishingly original debut UNCERTAIN SONS. Cover art by Ove Tøpfer. Design by Vince Haig. Foreword by @megapolisomancy.bsky.social. Praise from Kelly Link. Importantly, pre-orders open now. Get in!
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undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
February 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Thrilled to reveal the cover for @thomasha.bsky.social's astonishingly original debut UNCERTAIN SONS. Cover art by Ove Tøpfer. Design by Vince Haig. Foreword by @megapolisomancy.bsky.social. Praise from Kelly Link. Importantly, pre-orders open now. Get in!
undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
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My debut novel THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION is set for release April 21 with Cemetery Gates!
Get in touch for a review copy!
Quote from opening chapter:
"I don’t like being made of toe. I’d rather be a swan feather or something, even though I guess that would be less human."
Get in touch for a review copy!
Quote from opening chapter:
"I don’t like being made of toe. I’d rather be a swan feather or something, even though I guess that would be less human."
Cover reveal for Ivy Grimes' debut novel THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION! A young woman agrees to marry a strange man, taking up residence at his haunted estate in the forest. To be released April 21st. Reviewers are welcome to email cemeterygatesmedia@gmail.com for ARCs.
February 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My debut novel THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION is set for release April 21 with Cemetery Gates!
Get in touch for a review copy!
Quote from opening chapter:
"I don’t like being made of toe. I’d rather be a swan feather or something, even though I guess that would be less human."
Get in touch for a review copy!
Quote from opening chapter:
"I don’t like being made of toe. I’d rather be a swan feather or something, even though I guess that would be less human."
Really enjoyed this one: booth.butler.edu/2024/02/02/p...
Phantasmal Ric Flair – Booth
booth.butler.edu
February 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Really enjoyed this one: booth.butler.edu/2024/02/02/p...
My very little flash fiction, "Concede", is free to read over at Grey Sparrow Journal as of today. Would love to know what you think of it.
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[2025:45] Concede, Stuart Docherty
When the game ended, the processor began to sizzle. Charlie pulled off the rear panel and managed to save most of the motherboard and its components. The room smelled of smoke and burnt plastic. “I…
grey-sparrow-press.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My very little flash fiction, "Concede", is free to read over at Grey Sparrow Journal as of today. Would love to know what you think of it.
grey-sparrow-press.com/202545-conce...
grey-sparrow-press.com/202545-conce...
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Caught between the expectations of society and the needs of her child, Panya must decide: can she force her daughter to conform and only eat nutribulbs? Or does she need to look outside her community for help? Because people are starting to ask questions...
#2025Pit #A #SPF #WF #novella
#2025Pit #A #SPF #WF #novella
January 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM