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If There's Anyone Left
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Magazine of speculative fiction from marginalized writers
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spooky makeup! spooky makeup 💄
October 21, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Check out the excellent "Grave Dirt, Corpse Paint" by @czwrites.bsky.social

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Grave Dirt, Corpse Paint — IfTheresAnyone
You entered our pact unknowingly, unwillingly; you entered our pact angrily, grudgingly, resenting every moment spent in front of a mirror rubbing cream over blackheads and oily skin, cursing puberty ...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Check out "Among the Beginnings Scattered Across the Kitchen Floor" from Jenna Hanchey

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Among the Beginnings Scattered Across the Kitchen Floor — IfTheresAnyone
I have nowhere to put my beginnings. Ends are easy; rinds of tragedy and misfortune stink up the cupboard, waiting to be sunk into soups. Crusty edges of heartbreak line the countertop, salty as drie...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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We got a bit behind on social media posts. Sorry!!! Here come some stories
October 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Check out this wonderful story from @ioannaonline.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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According to Wikipedia, there were 62 school shootings in the US in 2024, with 28 deaths. Doing the math, that means Isr**l has been doing an average of 61 school shootings (based on US death avg) EVERY DAY on Palestinian children for the last 2 years. Don't look away
October 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Sent out many, many responses over the last few days for Volume 6. Down to the last 10% or so with hard choices on the near horizon
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Free flash from @noirbettie.bsky.social "Every Taco Bell in America"

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Every Taco Bell in America — IfTheresAnyone
Every Taco Bell in America has a portal somewhere in it that takes you to the original Taco Bell. The original Taco Bell exists out of time and place, or at least that’s what people say. I don’t belie...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Feels more relevant every day
September 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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This week check out "Thread, Pull" by the excellent @avramargariti.bsky.social

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Thread, Pull — IfTheresAnyone
One day you woke up and you were a giant body in a lilliputian city.
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September 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took a 5th century Tamil epic poem, gutted it for pieces, and used it to build a sapphic retelling? Never?

Read A Song To Rival Gods today to find out
September 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Read the very poetic "A Song to Rival the Gods" by @rukman.bsky.social

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A Song to Rival the Gods — IfTheresAnyone
“Tell me how I die,” Mitra asks again as she looks up to the sky. Her calloused hands, worn from years of carrying a blade, are warm in mine, and I lean into it as we watch the stars. The city below i...
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September 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Check out "Four Soups for a Four Pests Plague" by @clairejiawen.bsky.social

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Four Soups for a Four Pests Plague — IfTheresAnyone
Sometimes, the seasons change wrong. Winter skips to summer. The fallow molts into the decadent: frost painted over in swathes of green, empty sacs suddenly straining with juices, so much that nectar ...
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September 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Happy labor day.
Want some stories about unions and solidarity?
Start with my latest, about a wildcat union wake in space from the latest volume of @iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social
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Two Songs Before the Airlock Cycles — IfTheresAnyone
We gave Dougherty two songs before we left him to the black, no time for more with sixteen packed into the union hall and sipping unauthorized O2 tapped from the transit bay.
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September 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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This story is built around 2 folksongs: The well known Whiskey in the Jar, and the less popular Parting Glass. I chose that one because it's personal to me. I have sung that song and wept at the passing of my closest friend's mother, and on the farewell evening of @viableparadise.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Unions in spaaaace!
August 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Check out the excellent "Two Songs Before the Airlock Cycles" by @rkduncan.bsky.social

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Two Songs Before the Airlock Cycles — IfTheresAnyone
We gave Dougherty two songs before we left him to the black, no time for more with sixteen packed into the union hall and sipping unauthorized O2 tapped from the transit bay.
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August 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Check out "The Peculiar Host" by @elizabethtwist.bsky.social

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The Peculiar Host — IfTheresAnyone
At last the pair settled by the fire, the guest well-fed, if strangely so. The lady of the house had ceased her anxious wandering between sooty kitchen and cobwebbed sitting room, and agreed, after so...
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August 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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This week: Gardening Manual for Soldiers from @abhisheksg.bsky.social

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Gardening Manual for Soldiers — IfTheresAnyone
The school has bloomed again. On the razed field, it stands in all its multi-storeyed glory. Out-of-place, yet exactly where it was a dozen times before. The sunrays intensify the crimson hue of its b...
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August 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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sasharavitch.bsky.social
incredible
August 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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It's a tale of alien visitation AND an educational tool!
August 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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This week from @drfionamoore.bsky.social, a bibliography that tells a story:

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"Ancient Remains of Extraterrestrial Origin in County Tyrone, Ireland: A Chronological Bibliography"
Ancient Remains of Extraterrestrial Origin in County Tyrone, Ireland: A Chronological Bibliography — IfTheresAnyone
Anonymous (1948) Incidence of Rare Cancers in Peat-Cutting Communities in County Tyrone . Report #24. Omagh: Department of Health.
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August 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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I hope this little story sticks to your ribs like oatmeal on a winter morning. So grateful to @iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social for publishing it!
July 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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This week's story: "A Banshee’s Field Guide to Keening" by @shellyjones.bsky.social

Great title, great story

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A Banshee’s Field Guide to Keening — IfTheresAnyone
Ignore the grimacing faces of those who aren’t dying. They shiver and stare, hands clutched in worry; they do not understand. Soon they will welcome the warmth of your cloak, the veil of your silver h...
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July 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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"Goat-God and Lime Slip" is excellent!! Coming soon to our website!
ajvanbelle.bsky.social AJ Van Belle/Alexandra Vivelo @ajvanbelle.bsky.social · Jul 18
Yay! The latest issue of If There's Anyone Left is available in print and ebook. My surrealist dystopian tale, "Goat-God and Lime Slip," is in it alongside many other brilliant tales.

@iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social is amazing to work with and I'm honored to be included!

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July 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM