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In today's Editor Pick - a grim, riveting tale of stitching, survival, and the monstrous cost of "improvement." It's Liam Hogan's Work in Progress. Read it for free at gavagai.com
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November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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In today's Editor Pick - a grim, riveting tale of stitching, survival, and the monstrous cost of "improvement." It's Liam Hogan's Work in Progress. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In today's Editor Pick - a grim, riveting tale of stitching, survival, and the monstrous cost of "improvement." It's Liam Hogan's Work in Progress. Read it for free at gavagai.com
Check out Pete's wonderfully dark & surreal piece available now on Gavagai! www.gavagai.com/posts/302
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Check out Pete's wonderfully dark & surreal piece available now on Gavagai! www.gavagai.com/posts/302
Today's Surreal Sunday Editor Pick is an unsettling and fantastical romp that brings us face-to-starch with Pete Ward's Macaroni Men. Read for free on gavagai.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Today's Surreal Sunday Editor Pick is an unsettling and fantastical romp that brings us face-to-starch with Pete Ward's Macaroni Men. Read for free on gavagai.com
Today's Editor Pick is Nothing by Douglas Smith:
A chilling story of fear, denial, and the moment when reality goes blank. Read it for free at gavagai.com
A chilling story of fear, denial, and the moment when reality goes blank. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Today's Editor Pick is Nothing by Douglas Smith:
A chilling story of fear, denial, and the moment when reality goes blank. Read it for free at gavagai.com
A chilling story of fear, denial, and the moment when reality goes blank. Read it for free at gavagai.com
Happy Friday! Please enjoy today's Editor Pick: Diana Olney's After Party. And this weekend, please use caution if you're heading out on the town. It'd be a shame to find yourself waking up on a train with only a vague idea of how you got there...
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Happy Friday! Please enjoy today's Editor Pick: Diana Olney's After Party. And this weekend, please use caution if you're heading out on the town. It'd be a shame to find yourself waking up on a train with only a vague idea of how you got there...
In today's Editor Pick we have Synchronization: Complete by Dei: a haunting exploration of identity, technology, and the terrifying comfort of belonging. Read it for free on gavagai.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In today's Editor Pick we have Synchronization: Complete by Dei: a haunting exploration of identity, technology, and the terrifying comfort of belonging. Read it for free on gavagai.com
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My story "Mother's Little Poppet" is free to read at Gavagai, a new horror writing and reading community. You may need to sign up to view it, but it doesn't cost anything to join. 🙂 www.gavagai.com/posts/467
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My story "Mother's Little Poppet" is free to read at Gavagai, a new horror writing and reading community. You may need to sign up to view it, but it doesn't cost anything to join. 🙂 www.gavagai.com/posts/467
Today's Editor Pick is JG Faherty's The H Train, where damnation rides the rails and every scream is another soul delivered. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Today's Editor Pick is JG Faherty's The H Train, where damnation rides the rails and every scream is another soul delivered. Read it for free at gavagai.com
For today's Editor Pick: Mother’s Little Poppet by KT Wagner—a chilling tale of family, memory and vengeance. We hope you enjoy it! Read it on gavagai.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
For today's Editor Pick: Mother’s Little Poppet by KT Wagner—a chilling tale of family, memory and vengeance. We hope you enjoy it! Read it on gavagai.com
Today's Editor Pick on Gavagai is The Courting of Lamia by the Foolhardy Charlatan in the West by Rikki Lee - a hypnotic, lush interpretation of the Lamia myth: a tale of elegance, and appetite somewhere between poetry and prose.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Today's Editor Pick on Gavagai is The Courting of Lamia by the Foolhardy Charlatan in the West by Rikki Lee - a hypnotic, lush interpretation of the Lamia myth: a tale of elegance, and appetite somewhere between poetry and prose.
Thanks so much for the shout out!
Quietly wonderful things are happening over at the green and growing @gavagai.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Thanks so much for the shout out!
In today’s Editor Pick: When Euan swears he’s seen an old woman riding a hyena across the Zimbabwean plains, everyone laughs—until the night laughs back. It’s “The Clever Girls” by Masimba Musodza. Read it for free on www.gavagai.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
In today’s Editor Pick: When Euan swears he’s seen an old woman riding a hyena across the Zimbabwean plains, everyone laughs—until the night laughs back. It’s “The Clever Girls” by Masimba Musodza. Read it for free on www.gavagai.com
In today’s Editor Pick, the Ouija board gets an upgrade—and a body count. From the dusty patents of 1891 to a modern neural-network séance, this story drags the talking board into the digital afterlife. Airvalve Semilunar Astern by Nick Mamatas: read it for free on gavagai.com!
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In today’s Editor Pick, the Ouija board gets an upgrade—and a body count. From the dusty patents of 1891 to a modern neural-network séance, this story drags the talking board into the digital afterlife. Airvalve Semilunar Astern by Nick Mamatas: read it for free on gavagai.com!
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My most difficult-to-spell story "Chrysalis in Chrysanthemum," a short pregnancy cosmic body horror story, is an Editor's Pick at Gavagai, a new site for horror writers and readers. I have invites if anyone wants any, but here's the link to the story:
www.gavagai.com/posts/386
www.gavagai.com/posts/386
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November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My most difficult-to-spell story "Chrysalis in Chrysanthemum," a short pregnancy cosmic body horror story, is an Editor's Pick at Gavagai, a new site for horror writers and readers. I have invites if anyone wants any, but here's the link to the story:
www.gavagai.com/posts/386
www.gavagai.com/posts/386
For today’s Editor Pick, we jump from the darkly culinary to the deep sea with Fishing by Chris Wilcox: a creeping maritime horror about infection, obsession, and the pull of the sea. Read for free on gavagai.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
For today’s Editor Pick, we jump from the darkly culinary to the deep sea with Fishing by Chris Wilcox: a creeping maritime horror about infection, obsession, and the pull of the sea. Read for free on gavagai.com
For Halloween, treat yourself to Colleen Anderson’s disturbingly toothsome tale of hunger and obsession. Let yourself be consumed by Love Bites. Read it for free at gavagai.com!
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
For Halloween, treat yourself to Colleen Anderson’s disturbingly toothsome tale of hunger and obsession. Let yourself be consumed by Love Bites. Read it for free at gavagai.com!
With today’s Editor Pick we move from the swamp to seamstress with Revenge Dress, a poignant quiet horror tale by Susan J. Lin where existential threads spiral downward to an inevitable end. Read it here for free: www.gavagai.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
With today’s Editor Pick we move from the swamp to seamstress with Revenge Dress, a poignant quiet horror tale by Susan J. Lin where existential threads spiral downward to an inevitable end. Read it here for free: www.gavagai.com
Cassondra Windwalker’s Saved by the Water is our first Editor Pick! A heist gone wrong, a euphoric romance and a doting mother, all carried by Cassondra’s authentic voice. What more could you ask for? Read it for free at gavagai.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Cassondra Windwalker’s Saved by the Water is our first Editor Pick! A heist gone wrong, a euphoric romance and a doting mother, all carried by Cassondra’s authentic voice. What more could you ask for? Read it for free at gavagai.com
An update on story acceptances: we're good to start sending these out today or tomorrow. The only obstacle to moving stories forward in the queue was verifying the time it takes for Stripe payments to push through to authors. We've been doing some test payments in a "live" mode and are still 🧵 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
An update on story acceptances: we're good to start sending these out today or tomorrow. The only obstacle to moving stories forward in the queue was verifying the time it takes for Stripe payments to push through to authors. We've been doing some test payments in a "live" mode and are still 🧵 1/2
A Question of Images — by Gavagai
For everyone on Gavagai right now, the site you're using is in private beta. That means there are some rough edges that we're hoping to smooth before opening to a wider audience. It also means experimenting with various tools to keep the community safer when it ope…
For everyone on Gavagai right now, the site you're using is in private beta. That means there are some rough edges that we're hoping to smooth before opening to a wider audience. It also means experimenting with various tools to keep the community safer when it ope…
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A Question of Images — by Gavagai
For everyone on Gavagai right now, the site you're using is in private beta. That means there are some rough edges that we're hoping to smooth before opening to a wider audience. It also means experimenting with various tools to keep the community safer when it ope…
For everyone on Gavagai right now, the site you're using is in private beta. That means there are some rough edges that we're hoping to smooth before opening to a wider audience. It also means experimenting with various tools to keep the community safer when it ope…
Story Acceptances: What to Expect — by Gavagai
Though yesterday's AWS outage set us back a bit in both reading and tech, we're still hoping to get some story acceptances out this week!
Having placed some paid stories in both horror and non-horror markets, I wanted to make sure the process was secu…
Though yesterday's AWS outage set us back a bit in both reading and tech, we're still hoping to get some story acceptances out this week!
Having placed some paid stories in both horror and non-horror markets, I wanted to make sure the process was secu…
October 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Story Acceptances: What to Expect — by Gavagai
Though yesterday's AWS outage set us back a bit in both reading and tech, we're still hoping to get some story acceptances out this week!
Having placed some paid stories in both horror and non-horror markets, I wanted to make sure the process was secu…
Though yesterday's AWS outage set us back a bit in both reading and tech, we're still hoping to get some story acceptances out this week!
Having placed some paid stories in both horror and non-horror markets, I wanted to make sure the process was secu…
We're still seeing some fallout from this morning's AWS outage on the site. For the nerds out there, we are smack dab in us-east-1; even though we don't use the specific technologies affected, the blast radius is probably significantly larger. Thanks for your patience.
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We're still seeing some fallout from this morning's AWS outage on the site. For the nerds out there, we are smack dab in us-east-1; even though we don't use the specific technologies affected, the blast radius is probably significantly larger. Thanks for your patience.
FYI, on Gavagai we allow 1000-character posts. When you opt to cross post to Bluesky, we automatically break up long posts and thread them, as you see here
October 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
FYI, on Gavagai we allow 1000-character posts. When you opt to cross post to Bluesky, we automatically break up long posts and thread them, as you see here
Just to give a rough idea of schedule, we're hoping to select the first group of stories and publish them by October 31. I think we're all pretty stunned at the number of submissions and we'll have a long reading time after that as well. It might be too aspirational to think we'll have some 🧵 1/2
October 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Just to give a rough idea of schedule, we're hoping to select the first group of stories and publish them by October 31. I think we're all pretty stunned at the number of submissions and we'll have a long reading time after that as well. It might be too aspirational to think we'll have some 🧵 1/2