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Impossible Worlds Magazine: YEAR ONE FREE
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A Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology based in Nashville: Available NOW! 🚀
Editors, Stephen Wright and Chase Stowell🔮
☄️Issue 6 out now! impossibleworlds.net Also the home of Fan-Fixion! A nonsense podcast
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Art for Chapter six of the serialized story "Once Upon a Time in the West" by Michael Swaim
September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Did you know that Impossible Worlds has an ongoing serialized story available right now on Patreon? It's True! Not only that, but now we're putting chapters 1-5 all in one place! purchasw it for the merr pittance Of $4! Link below!
Cover art for Once Upon a Time in the West- by Michael Swaim. A skull with wide horns sticking out either side in a void of aged paper
May 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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As of Right Now, the first half of the published issues of Impossible Worlds are available in their entirety for free at ImpossibleWorlds.net why not take a gander and consider supporting future issues?
Impossible Worlds issue I cover. A tiny planet cracked open like an egg with a hand pulling its core out like the yolk Impossible Worlds issue 2 cover. A pizza woman summoned to the chamber of a dark wizard with a skull helmet who is looking for change. Impossible Worlds issue 3 cover: a t rex on smoke break behind a restaurant, a triceratops bringing trash to the alley
April 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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READ The Latest chapter of This thing we publish! Do it!
#fantasy #serializedfiction #western
Once upon a time in the West chapter 5 art. A hand holding a short whip with several tails and gold metal tips
March 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Monday the new chapter of @michaelswaim.bsky.social 's ongoing story from our publication drops! You can read the first 3 chapters in the full issue 6 of Impossible Worlds and get the 4th for a dollar by subscribing to our Patreon! #fantasy #western
Cover art for chapter 5 of Once Upon a Time in the West, by Michael Swaim. A hand holds a short whip with several tails and metal spikes in the tip.
March 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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New! From Impossible Worlds and @michaelswaim.bsky.social ! Chapter 4 of his story is now available for $1! Read 1-3 in issue 5 of our publication to catch up, or Head straight into the newest solo release! www.patreon.com/posts/once-u...
An overweight bearded man with an ill fitting red jacket sitting at a desk, there is a mounted skull with horns behind and above him. Swords and maces and other weapons sit attached to the ceiling, and a shelf flanks either side of the narrow room.
January 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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𝕌𝕡𝕠𝕟 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝔹𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔼𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕙 - By nickbadot.bsky.social
Art by @artbygarth.bsky.social
A snail the size of a building on a rock surrounded by lava, in the foreground stand three tiny human figures, and the sky is grey with ash as they marvel at its size
December 23, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Just in time to stuff your stocking! It's Impossible Worlds Issue 6! Only $5 in our shop, or free to our Impossible Dreamer and Unlikely voter patrons!
Six new fantastic tales!
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#scifi #fantasy #magazine #indiebooks #speculativefiction #sff #indiepub
Cover art for issue 6 of Impossible Worlds. A yeti is screaming at a fire pit which is being pelted with kerosene that a smaller child yeti is gleefully spraying. There are clearly human body parts on the grill of the fire pit, and the smoke spells out "Impossible Worlds 6"
December 23, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Awww- ain't he just darling?
Art for "The Curious Case of Starfall Valley" by ianfortey.bsky.social and with art by artbygarth.bsky.social
A semi-transcluscent space caterpillar type creature , pale green with pink spidery long limbs coming out of its abdomen while shorter green limbs with nubby fingers handle the walking. Through its skin you can see internal organs, and it's face has mandibles on a squishy face with black eyes. Adorable yet terrifying.
December 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Monday- ISSUE VI of Impossible Worlds! And within its pages, six new tales of the fantastical and strange! Pick it up on Dec 23 for just $5 and in the meantime check out our backlog on our site!
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Cover art for issue 6 of Impossible Worlds. A yeti is screaming at a fire pit which is being pelted with kerosene that a smaller child yeti is gleefully spraying. There are clearly human body parts on the grill of the fire pit, and the smoke spells out "Impossible Worlds 6"
December 20, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Hey remember this? Well our voting booth closed and now it's time to Congratulate our winner! @voicesofvalhoon.bsky.social came in with a great story; took the money, the poster, and will soon be featured in our winter issue with "Dust over the Dunes" based on our 5th issue cover!
December 11, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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700 Followers! Woooo !
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November 8, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Just got our first $10 subscriber! Remember you can also submit the $5 and $1 levels to help us make what we love! The more the better! www.patreon.com/c/Impossible...
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November 6, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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Want to listen to something about spoopy stuff? How about #Supernatual ? The End of Supernatural? Give Fan-Fixion a try! Available for free on our Patreon for all! Special guest @thelogantrent.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/115047...
Logo for the Fan-Fixion Podcast. The sad and happy theatre masks being worn by two people drawing on a sheet of film with the words fan-fiction down below, the word fix superimposed over fic-
October 31, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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People should absolutely read the short story "Mrs Merlin Defeats the Mad Scientist" by Lydia Sheppard in our fifth issue . Impossibleworlds.net , it is Exactly what it says on the tin and is merely the inaugural adventure of its protagonist who has more to come!
Cover for "Mrs Merlin Defeats the Mad Scientist" a woman shrouded in black with suitcases and a hat box in her arms standing in front of a brownstone apartment from which through the covered windows, blue light Is emanating while the sky is overcast.
October 30, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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There is nothing we love more than being able to help writers and artists put their art out where people can see it, read it, enjoy it. And you can help them too by buying the work we publish from them. So please if you can, lend a hand! Impossibleworlds.net
Every cover from year one of Impossible Worlds. All of them
October 17, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Cover for the story "The Trial of Eternity" by Ian Fortey with art by Garth von Ahnen. A hand is holding up a cell phone looking up at a skyscraper with a giant crustacean like Kaiju bearing down on the city with tentacles and claws.
October 14, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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It's Here! Go buy it! Or read if you're subscribed! From Writer @ianfortey.bsky.social it's "The Trial of Eternity" available on our store for just $3 or free to patrons on our Impossible Dreamer tier!
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Courtroom sketch of a sloppy alien in a suit with Devito proportions sitting next to his human lawyer before the judge.
October 14, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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So we're just gonna drop a brand new story on Monday from @ianfortey.bsky.social with cover art by @artbygarth.bsky.social in case anyone was interested in the legal rights of Kaiju from a hell dimension.
Cover for the upcoming story "The Trial of Eternity" by Ian Fortey with art by Garth von Ahnen. A hand is holding up a cell phone looking up at a skyscraper with a giant crustacean like Kaiju bearing down on the city with tentacles and claws.
October 10, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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"The Day My Mum Chucked a Bloke From the Government at the Wormhole in Our Garden" by Michelle Ann King, available with the rest of Issue IV for just $5!

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Cover Art for "The Day My Mum Chucked a Bloke From the Government at the Wormhole in Our Garden" by Michelle Ann King, available in Issue 4 of Impossible Worlds. A man with a mustache and suit, having been flung, in a backyard over a small pond, with pink and blue swirls as he is falling into the titular wormhole.
October 9, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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Just in time for the skelly month! Of last year! Don't worry we got something coming soon but in the meantime, why don't you go buy Issue III of Impossible Worlds and read "How Does Your Garden Grow" by C.L. Siddel www.patreon.com/ImpossibleWo...
Cover art for "How Does your garden Grow" art by Garth von Ahnen A skeletal hand holding up a jar of flowers to the blue skyline
October 4, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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From our first issue, when death is eliminated by science the last man to cross the river Styx finds himself in the strange position of helping the last ferryman to find proper compensation for their centuries of service. Available for free!
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Cover art for "The Last Senator to Die" by Garth von Ahnen A senator's portrait distorted by two white vertical lines blocking his eyes from view
September 30, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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Adventure! Science! Familial disagreements! Inter-dimensional Implications! Find all these and more in Issue V of Impossible Worlds! www.patreon.com/ImpossibleWo...
Cover for "Mrs Merlin Defeats the Mad Scientist" by Lydia Sheppard A woman in shadow, dresses in Edwardian mourning garb with a large hat carrying two suitcases in front of a three story brownstone in New York City with strange blue light coming from behind the windows while the sky is cloudy overhead in stormy portent.
September 27, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Sometimes you have to pitch an idea, and sometimes the title does it on its own. Read Impossible Worlds IV: Dessert at
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Cover for "The cat who Loved David Duchovny" by James Blakey, available in Impossible Worlds Issue IV: Dessert
September 27, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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Cover for "Run | Time"
One of the first stories we published and so far still one of the more experimental in presentation. Michael Swaim really outdid himself with this as did our artist @artbygarth.bsky.social
Read it for free here!
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Cover for "Run | Time" by Michael Swaim. On the left the word Run with a boy running towards the viewer wearing shorts, t shirt and a baseball cap. On the right, the word Time, a girl in a bubble in a simple dress while scientists look on her in the dark.
September 25, 2024 at 4:57 PM