Kai Delmas
@kaidelmas.bsky.social
German-American | Codexian |
Stories in Martian, Wyldblood, Tree And Stone, Etherea, and several Shacklebound anthos.
https://linktr.ee/kaidelmas
Stories in Martian, Wyldblood, Tree And Stone, Etherea, and several Shacklebound anthos.
https://linktr.ee/kaidelmas
Vote for my drabble themes for the month of December. Two votes, and double the stories this month. 💯💯🙌🙌
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December Drabble Poll and Update | Kai Delmas
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December 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Vote for my drabble themes for the month of December. Two votes, and double the stories this month. 💯💯🙌🙌
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A great first issue, full of fantastic little micros. And most importantly in this hectic, busy world, it's a fast read.
I'm excited to see more Writing Against the Grain in the future. 😁🙌
I'm excited to see more Writing Against the Grain in the future. 😁🙌
"Writing Against the Grain" Issue #0 is here!
Download it free. And enter a place where you’re free to write, and free to be!
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Download it free. And enter a place where you’re free to write, and free to be!
open.substack.com/pub/watgpres...
WATG The Mag – Test Issue Now Available (Free Download)
The moment has finally arrived—the test issue of Writing Against The Grain, The Mag is officially out in the world, raw, strange, unapologetic, and buzzing with the voices that helped shape it.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A great first issue, full of fantastic little micros. And most importantly in this hectic, busy world, it's a fast read.
I'm excited to see more Writing Against the Grain in the future. 😁🙌
I'm excited to see more Writing Against the Grain in the future. 😁🙌
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RSL reviews Ivy Grimes' upcoming folk horror novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR:
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
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"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
RSL reviews Ivy Grimes' upcoming folk horror novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR:
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
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Many thanks to RSL and The Fantasy Hive for this beautiful and deep review of The Cellar Below the Cellar 💜🖤
RSL reviews Ivy Grimes' upcoming folk horror novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR:
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Many thanks to RSL and The Fantasy Hive for this beautiful and deep review of The Cellar Below the Cellar 💜🖤
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92%!!! So close y'all! Every little bit helps!
@lpkindred.bsky.social is halfway there, but help is still needed! Every little bit counts in helping be there for someone who's always there for everyone else 💕
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Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
www.gofundme.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
92%!!! So close y'all! Every little bit helps!
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Reposts are my lifeblood, so always appreciated. And feel free to pick this up as an inspiration to write something for it, rather than to fit something you already have. It doesn't matter to me whether the final edits are done today or in two years.
I'm designing some book covers to fill out my portfolio this morning, and could use a few extra bucks, so I'm making them available as pre-mades as well. I just finished this one. Clean, science fiction, all licensed art and fonts, customized to your liking. $50 for the package of e, print, audio.
November 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Reposts are my lifeblood, so always appreciated. And feel free to pick this up as an inspiration to write something for it, rather than to fit something you already have. It doesn't matter to me whether the final edits are done today or in two years.
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I'm designing some book covers to fill out my portfolio this morning, and could use a few extra bucks, so I'm making them available as pre-mades as well. I just finished this one. Clean, science fiction, all licensed art and fonts, customized to your liking. $50 for the package of e, print, audio.
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm designing some book covers to fill out my portfolio this morning, and could use a few extra bucks, so I'm making them available as pre-mades as well. I just finished this one. Clean, science fiction, all licensed art and fonts, customized to your liking. $50 for the package of e, print, audio.
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Dread Space is an anthology of dark military science fiction stories. Within these pages are soldiers doing their best to stay alive against otherworldly odds and unimaginable terrors. Twenty-three dark flash fiction stories for only .99!
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Dread Space
Dread Space is an anthology of dark military science fiction stories. Within these pages are soldiers doing their best to stay alive against otherworldly odds and unimaginable terrors. Twenty-three da...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Dread Space is an anthology of dark military science fiction stories. Within these pages are soldiers doing their best to stay alive against otherworldly odds and unimaginable terrors. Twenty-three dark flash fiction stories for only .99!
payhip.com/b/ms9v3
payhip.com/b/ms9v3
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Error Code got another good review! If you like flash about robots and AI, you might want to check this one out. We also have it in mass market paperback size!
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Error Code got another good review! If you like flash about robots and AI, you might want to check this one out. We also have it in mass market paperback size!
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We’re looking for military sci-fi horror and dark fantasy reprints!!! shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/ #submissions
Submissions
OPEN CALLS Please read the guidelines very carefully. Stories submitted that do not conform to the guidelines will not be read. We are a small press. We hope to increase pay rates for all of our an…
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We’re looking for military sci-fi horror and dark fantasy reprints!!! shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/ #submissions
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20 Weird Western Horror, Fantasy, and Sci-fi flash fiction for only .99!
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Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books)
Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books) - Kindle edition by Fomley, Eric. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books).
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November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
20 Weird Western Horror, Fantasy, and Sci-fi flash fiction for only .99!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
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Pssst. We have a new sci-fi horror drabble call and two reprint short story calls open now for #submissions!
shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/
shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/
Submissions
OPEN CALLS Please read the guidelines very carefully. Stories submitted that do not conform to the guidelines will not be read. We are a small press. We hope to increase pay rates for all of our an…
shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Pssst. We have a new sci-fi horror drabble call and two reprint short story calls open now for #submissions!
shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/
shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/
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fyi this story whips immense ass as only my man here can do
MONSTROUS ANGELS is out!
Get a copy and feast your multitudinous seraphic eyes on this anthology of angelic horror! Mine’s called GIVE ME WINGS and it’s got music, madness, movies, and a mysterious monk.
🪽🪽
Get a copy and feast your multitudinous seraphic eyes on this anthology of angelic horror! Mine’s called GIVE ME WINGS and it’s got music, madness, movies, and a mysterious monk.
🪽🪽
Monstrous Angels: An Anthology of Religious Horror
An Anthology of Religious Horror
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November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
fyi this story whips immense ass as only my man here can do
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MONSTROUS ANGELS is out!
Get a copy and feast your multitudinous seraphic eyes on this anthology of angelic horror! Mine’s called GIVE ME WINGS and it’s got music, madness, movies, and a mysterious monk.
🪽🪽
Get a copy and feast your multitudinous seraphic eyes on this anthology of angelic horror! Mine’s called GIVE ME WINGS and it’s got music, madness, movies, and a mysterious monk.
🪽🪽
Monstrous Angels: An Anthology of Religious Horror
An Anthology of Religious Horror
bookshop.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
MONSTROUS ANGELS is out!
Get a copy and feast your multitudinous seraphic eyes on this anthology of angelic horror! Mine’s called GIVE ME WINGS and it’s got music, madness, movies, and a mysterious monk.
🪽🪽
Get a copy and feast your multitudinous seraphic eyes on this anthology of angelic horror! Mine’s called GIVE ME WINGS and it’s got music, madness, movies, and a mysterious monk.
🪽🪽
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Since opening submissions on Oct 1st, @apexmag.bsky.social has received 2,187 stories. We're working our way through them, but it's taking us some time.
We're closing to submissions in December and will reopen again on January 1st.
We're closing to submissions in December and will reopen again on January 1st.
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Since opening submissions on Oct 1st, @apexmag.bsky.social has received 2,187 stories. We're working our way through them, but it's taking us some time.
We're closing to submissions in December and will reopen again on January 1st.
We're closing to submissions in December and will reopen again on January 1st.
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to stick with it!
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
gofund.me
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
to stick with it!
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
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I did not intend to post a @gofundme.com on my birthday but life does life things.
Long story short [too late], I received a merit scholarship based on my precious high school and college performances, not on the merit of the career I've been in for the past 10 years.
I'm setting up
Long story short [too late], I received a merit scholarship based on my precious high school and college performances, not on the merit of the career I've been in for the past 10 years.
I'm setting up
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I did not intend to post a @gofundme.com on my birthday but life does life things.
Long story short [too late], I received a merit scholarship based on my precious high school and college performances, not on the merit of the career I've been in for the past 10 years.
I'm setting up
Long story short [too late], I received a merit scholarship based on my precious high school and college performances, not on the merit of the career I've been in for the past 10 years.
I'm setting up
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Like @lpkindred.bsky.social, I went back to to school while working full time and it is NOT for the faint of heart, it is so hard. So donate if you can! Let's get this gofundme over the finish line 🙌
to stick with it!
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
gofund.me
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Like @lpkindred.bsky.social, I went back to to school while working full time and it is NOT for the faint of heart, it is so hard. So donate if you can! Let's get this gofundme over the finish line 🙌
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thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲
thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon
this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support
🙏🏻🖤💀
if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon
this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support
🙏🏻🖤💀
if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon
a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
psychopomp.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲
thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon
this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support
🙏🏻🖤💀
if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon
this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support
🙏🏻🖤💀
if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
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a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
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Hails new followers & voyagers into the Weird! May we interest you in a slice of:
🚀Queer Sci-Fi Horromance?
🧠Surrealist Cronenbergian medical mind-fuckery?
❄️Indigenous Arctic supernatural survival?
🪸Coral eco-body horror?
And that's only PART of 2025. Fill your plate:
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🚀Queer Sci-Fi Horromance?
🧠Surrealist Cronenbergian medical mind-fuckery?
❄️Indigenous Arctic supernatural survival?
🪸Coral eco-body horror?
And that's only PART of 2025. Fill your plate:
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Hails new followers & voyagers into the Weird! May we interest you in a slice of:
🚀Queer Sci-Fi Horromance?
🧠Surrealist Cronenbergian medical mind-fuckery?
❄️Indigenous Arctic supernatural survival?
🪸Coral eco-body horror?
And that's only PART of 2025. Fill your plate:
store.tenebrouspress.com
🚀Queer Sci-Fi Horromance?
🧠Surrealist Cronenbergian medical mind-fuckery?
❄️Indigenous Arctic supernatural survival?
🪸Coral eco-body horror?
And that's only PART of 2025. Fill your plate:
store.tenebrouspress.com
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I present Pushing Daisy—my debut novel—for your consideration in any literary awards for 2025!
If you're interested in reading the novel Publishers Weekly called "unforgettable" in their starred review, DM me and I'll make sure you get a copy. Digital and Audio available 🌻
If you're interested in reading the novel Publishers Weekly called "unforgettable" in their starred review, DM me and I'll make sure you get a copy. Digital and Audio available 🌻
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I present Pushing Daisy—my debut novel—for your consideration in any literary awards for 2025!
If you're interested in reading the novel Publishers Weekly called "unforgettable" in their starred review, DM me and I'll make sure you get a copy. Digital and Audio available 🌻
If you're interested in reading the novel Publishers Weekly called "unforgettable" in their starred review, DM me and I'll make sure you get a copy. Digital and Audio available 🌻
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Today's community drabble is, "The Silent Watchers" by Dakria. The theme was "spy."
Find Dakria on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/dakria.bsky.social
Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl
#authors #drabbles #writingprompts
Find Dakria on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/dakria.bsky.social
Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl
#authors #drabbles #writingprompts
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Today's community drabble is, "The Silent Watchers" by Dakria. The theme was "spy."
Find Dakria on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/dakria.bsky.social
Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl
#authors #drabbles #writingprompts
Find Dakria on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/dakria.bsky.social
Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl
#authors #drabbles #writingprompts
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For those nominating for the BSFA awards, Simultaneous Times podcast is eligible for best audio fiction. We produce 12 episodes a year and they can all be found at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...
Space Cowboy Books Presents: Simultaneous Times
A science/speculative fiction anthology podcast. Winner of the 2023 Laureate Award for Best Podcast. BSFA, Ignyte, and British Fantasy Award Finalist for Best Audio Fiction. https://spacecowboybooks.c...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
For those nominating for the BSFA awards, Simultaneous Times podcast is eligible for best audio fiction. We produce 12 episodes a year and they can all be found at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...
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In today's Editor Pick: a possession, an exorcism, and something far more complicated between them. It's Caias Ward's Gutter-Washed Favorites. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In today's Editor Pick: a possession, an exorcism, and something far more complicated between them. It's Caias Ward's Gutter-Washed Favorites. Read it for free at gavagai.com