Ellis Nye
@ellisnyeland.bsky.social
SFF short story writer. Any pronouns. I'm ellisnyeland on all social media accounts.
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NonBinary Review Issue #42: Erased From History — Zoetic Press
What we know of history is likely a very small, highly curated set of stories, many of which are only extrapolations from archeological information. It’s the visible tip of the historical iceberg. Joi...
www.zoeticpress.com
Stories:
Shelf-stable: solarpunkmagazine.com/shop/solarpu...
The Last Great Repair Tech...: reckoning.press/the-last-gre...
Invasibility: www.patreon.com/juliarios/sh...
Five Books Unreturned...: www.zoeticpress.com/branded-merc...
Tuesday: smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/
Shelf-stable: solarpunkmagazine.com/shop/solarpu...
The Last Great Repair Tech...: reckoning.press/the-last-gre...
Invasibility: www.patreon.com/juliarios/sh...
Five Books Unreturned...: www.zoeticpress.com/branded-merc...
Tuesday: smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/
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SEASON'S GREASONS
December 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
SEASON'S GREASONS
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there is a very particular charm to spec-fic about relatively obscure historical figures. someone walks onto the page, and I'm like, ah yes, here they are. the puppet master that cursed your library card
December 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
there is a very particular charm to spec-fic about relatively obscure historical figures. someone walks onto the page, and I'm like, ah yes, here they are. the puppet master that cursed your library card
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Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season! There’s only one week left in the year—which means we are ONE WEEK away from opening to fiction and poetry submissions on January 1st!
Get your original fiction and poetry ready ✨
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
Get your original fiction and poetry ready ✨
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
othersidespec.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season! There’s only one week left in the year—which means we are ONE WEEK away from opening to fiction and poetry submissions on January 1st!
Get your original fiction and poetry ready ✨
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
Get your original fiction and poetry ready ✨
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
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Just write what you know. If you just write "what you know", you've got three words, and no matter how many times you repeat it, it's still going to be a crappy story.
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just write what you know. If you just write "what you know", you've got three words, and no matter how many times you repeat it, it's still going to be a crappy story.
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Somehow, Tiny Tim returned.
December 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Somehow, Tiny Tim returned.
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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A generous Odyssey supporter has pledged to match donations made by 12/31 up to a total of $5,000! Please donate & help Odyssey continue to empower writers of fantasy, science fiction, & horror. Donate by 12/31, & your gift will be DOUBLED!
www.odysseyworkshop.org/support-us/
#amwri̇ti̇ng
www.odysseyworkshop.org/support-us/
#amwri̇ti̇ng
December 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A generous Odyssey supporter has pledged to match donations made by 12/31 up to a total of $5,000! Please donate & help Odyssey continue to empower writers of fantasy, science fiction, & horror. Donate by 12/31, & your gift will be DOUBLED!
www.odysseyworkshop.org/support-us/
#amwri̇ti̇ng
www.odysseyworkshop.org/support-us/
#amwri̇ti̇ng
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"This story doesn't need a sandworm"
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"This story doesn't need a sandworm"
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick).
Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.
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They say the best perfumes are a mix of something alluring with something disgusting. Guess this story proves the same rule for writing. So strange, so problematic, so good!
smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/
smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/
December 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
They say the best perfumes are a mix of something alluring with something disgusting. Guess this story proves the same rule for writing. So strange, so problematic, so good!
smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/
smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/
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Ooh ooh SONGS NEVER SUNG is live at @3lobedmag.com ! 🥰
It's... it's sort of about birds? (It sort of is not.)
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
It's... it's sort of about birds? (It sort of is not.)
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
3LBE Magazine - Songs Never Sung by Premee Mohamed
It only ever spoke to me once and that was to say Do not sleep too deeply. Said upon departure, an aside tossed over its shoulder like salt. I paid little attention; I was staring at the thing it had ...
www.3lobedmag.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ooh ooh SONGS NEVER SUNG is live at @3lobedmag.com ! 🥰
It's... it's sort of about birds? (It sort of is not.)
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
It's... it's sort of about birds? (It sort of is not.)
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
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we have a release date from @psychopomp.com and some book cover news for House, Body, Bird!
berniejeanschiebeling.kit.com/posts/ghosts...
if you like weird dolls inside weirder houses, sign up for the newsletter! i don't spam, but i do make memes from vintage book covers
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Ghosts of Bookish Future: Release Date Incoming!
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December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
we have a release date from @psychopomp.com and some book cover news for House, Body, Bird!
berniejeanschiebeling.kit.com/posts/ghosts...
if you like weird dolls inside weirder houses, sign up for the newsletter! i don't spam, but i do make memes from vintage book covers
berniejeanschiebeling.kit.com/posts/ghosts...
if you like weird dolls inside weirder houses, sign up for the newsletter! i don't spam, but i do make memes from vintage book covers
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🌿 NEW STORY DAY🩸
“Drosera regina” is about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant, attracting men whether she likes it or not.
Read here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros...
Listen here: tinyurl.com/drosera-regina
Art by the talented @headfullopuddin.bsky.social
“Drosera regina” is about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant, attracting men whether she likes it or not.
Read here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros...
Listen here: tinyurl.com/drosera-regina
Art by the talented @headfullopuddin.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🌿 NEW STORY DAY🩸
“Drosera regina” is about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant, attracting men whether she likes it or not.
Read here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros...
Listen here: tinyurl.com/drosera-regina
Art by the talented @headfullopuddin.bsky.social
“Drosera regina” is about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant, attracting men whether she likes it or not.
Read here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros...
Listen here: tinyurl.com/drosera-regina
Art by the talented @headfullopuddin.bsky.social
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Do you like science? Found fiction? Sporror? How about laughing? We really think today's free story by @ashvalewrites.bsky.social will grow on you, if you know what we mean. Read it today on our website!
dielaughingmag.com/2...
dielaughingmag.com/2...
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Do you like science? Found fiction? Sporror? How about laughing? We really think today's free story by @ashvalewrites.bsky.social will grow on you, if you know what we mean. Read it today on our website!
dielaughingmag.com/2...
dielaughingmag.com/2...
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We cannot bring you the #DailyDoggo because there is NO DOG here.
December 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
We cannot bring you the #DailyDoggo because there is NO DOG here.
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Something @tkingfisher.com does incredibly well is portray abuse in a very realistic way. Sometimes it's not shouting or physical violence, it's just your partner endlessly nitpicking your choices. "Are you sure you didn't offend them?" And then acting like they're "just looking out for you"
December 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Something @tkingfisher.com does incredibly well is portray abuse in a very realistic way. Sometimes it's not shouting or physical violence, it's just your partner endlessly nitpicking your choices. "Are you sure you didn't offend them?" And then acting like they're "just looking out for you"
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This is the kind of cultural criticism I love and want to see more of. Let's go all-in on frogposting.
Picture This: You're a Frog | Hazlitt
It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.
hazlitt.net
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is the kind of cultural criticism I love and want to see more of. Let's go all-in on frogposting.
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Pink Ghost Pipe plant at my hometown, Logy Bay, #Newfoundland Canada. Ghost Pipes are most commonly white, but some have pink or even red colouration. Pic from a couple of years ago, in August.
#wildflower #flower #botany #plants #fungifriends
#wildflower #flower #botany #plants #fungifriends
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Pink Ghost Pipe plant at my hometown, Logy Bay, #Newfoundland Canada. Ghost Pipes are most commonly white, but some have pink or even red colouration. Pic from a couple of years ago, in August.
#wildflower #flower #botany #plants #fungifriends
#wildflower #flower #botany #plants #fungifriends
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'How would it affect [white people's] sense of self, to suddenly understand the unimaginable suffering they have justified and continued to celebrate under the aegis of their undead cannibal god and this beautiful stolen country they’re destroying in His name?' A classic Walter firebreather.
FFC review: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
ZERO STARS/****starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winsletscreenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silverdirected by James Cameron by Walter Chaw I think, for white ...
filmfreakcentral.net
December 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
'How would it affect [white people's] sense of self, to suddenly understand the unimaginable suffering they have justified and continued to celebrate under the aegis of their undead cannibal god and this beautiful stolen country they’re destroying in His name?' A classic Walter firebreather.
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I have done the thing that I should have done a month ago. Here all in one place is my award-eligible writing from the last year! I'll add a post for each story below, but here is the list in all its unvarnished glory in case you would like to go in blind.
Award Eligible Writing — Andrew Kozma
www.andrewkozma.net
December 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I have done the thing that I should have done a month ago. Here all in one place is my award-eligible writing from the last year! I'll add a post for each story below, but here is the list in all its unvarnished glory in case you would like to go in blind.
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We're open for early subs from Dec 24-31! If you're an equity-deserving writer, send us SFF short fiction (500-3,500 words) & poetry.
Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)
Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We're open for early subs from Dec 24-31! If you're an equity-deserving writer, send us SFF short fiction (500-3,500 words) & poetry.
Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)
Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)
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"Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book: Look at this, it’s just not that hard to do." lithub.com/the-most-sca...
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025
Pans, glorious pans. No end-of-year roundup would be complete without them. Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut no…
lithub.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book: Look at this, it’s just not that hard to do." lithub.com/the-most-sca...
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Speaking as someone who stopped breathing last night because the power went out, we are NOT equipped for the disablity impacts of our failing power infrastructure. Great read from @juliametraux.bsky.social
What a crumbling power grid means for disabled Americans
Angela Frederick’s new book calls to put disability at the center of disaster planning.
grist.org
December 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Speaking as someone who stopped breathing last night because the power went out, we are NOT equipped for the disablity impacts of our failing power infrastructure. Great read from @juliametraux.bsky.social
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Give us your reprints featuring resistance of all kinds, from the hugely impactful to the tiny sparks. Give us your hope and rebellion and courage. Show us we all got this, even when it's brutal.
Hi folks, I've updated FFO's Submittable page with details about our call for resistance-themed reprints, which is opening on Jan 1st. The editor for this anthology is Jeanna Cammarano ( @wordrat.bsky.social)
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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December 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Give us your reprints featuring resistance of all kinds, from the hugely impactful to the tiny sparks. Give us your hope and rebellion and courage. Show us we all got this, even when it's brutal.