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Lark Morgan Lu
@larkmorganlu.bsky.social
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Writing/Tea | Adult | They/She | 1st gen Han Chinese | Works in F&SF, Augur, Pyre, If There's Anyone Left, & more. | Assoc. Editor @flashfictiononline.bsky.social | pfp @unghostlyCasper

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@lpkindred.bsky.social is a stalwart and continued community advocate with great hugs and I'm disappointed but not surprised that his literary achivements go under-rewarded in academic spaces.
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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kristinaten.bsky.social
New story day! My twisted fairy tale, “Head of the Household,” is in the winter issue of F(r)iction.

Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸
Head of the Household - F(r)iction
Kristina Ten presents the story of a woman preparing for her high-stakes marriage to an evil immortal lord.
frictionlit.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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smallwondersmag.com
.@brandoncase101.bsky.social returns to our magazine with "Love, Falling From the Stars," a poem about Cannonball_Jellyfish_9c87.int,
a sea-cleaning robot who affectionately refers to himself as Ball, and his friend Cassiopeia the satellite.
smallwondersmag.com/...
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
larkmorganlu.bsky.social
BTW: Keep this bookmarked to show to newer authors just getting into short fiction about what they should be expecting and to negotiate accordingly otherwise.
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 1d
Transparency is a core value for us at OTHERSIDE... and with that in mind, we now have sample contracts available on our website! We believe in supporting and protecting authors: no AI, no rights grabs, quick payment. Let us know if you have questions!

othersidespec.com/sample-contr...
Sample Contracts - OTHERSIDE
Sample contracts for OTHERSIDE, including the language for nonfiction, reprints, original fiction and poetry.
othersidespec.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
Transparency is a core value for us at OTHERSIDE... and with that in mind, we now have sample contracts available on our website! We believe in supporting and protecting authors: no AI, no rights grabs, quick payment. Let us know if you have questions!

othersidespec.com/sample-contr...
Sample Contracts - OTHERSIDE
Sample contracts for OTHERSIDE, including the language for nonfiction, reprints, original fiction and poetry.
othersidespec.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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bogiperson.bsky.social
A friend is one of the editors of this project and they take previously published work too!
thecojsz.bsky.social anker @thecojsz.bsky.social · Oct 12
🌱 WE BUILD A HOME: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

We're looking for existing or new illustrations and short comics (max 3 pages) for a digital fundraiser zine to support East African LGBTQIA+ refugees build a home in South Sudan.

More about the project here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We Build a Home - call for submissions
We Build a Home - call for submissions Call for submissions for illustrations and short comics of max. 3 pages* about stories of what a home might mean to someone in the context of being queer. > SU...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
Folks, an explanation why everything in our Black Friday Collection shows out of stock. We want to empower choice abd with 300-400 items, giving people more time to browse behooves everyone.

Later today we'll be working on uploading Vavia's line for the release.
peculiarityshop.bsky.social The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social · 1d
A reminder. We preview our collection drops so people can make informed, timely purchases. There are 11 of us, our collections have over 300 items. You can preview the Black Friday collection AS WE BUILD IT here 1/2:

www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
Black Friday | Peculiarity Shop
The Peculiarity Shop Black Friday Collection, 11/28/2025, 12pm EST.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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weightlessbooks.bsky.social
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
Cover art for BCS Issue #446, featuring two tiny human figures standing on a fractured mountain glacier overlooked by a monolithic statue of a cloaked bearded man
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
Clarkesworld was one of the first online magazines I submitted to. They eventually published one of my favourite short stories that I've written (drafted over one night, not sure I can do that anymore), 'muo-ka's Child'. Help Neil keep the lights on at one of sff's best magazines:
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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drkarenlord.bsky.social
My story ‘Take Three’ is available for your reading pleasure in this free book about the future of the orchestra!

csi.asu.edu/books/sounds...
Sound Systems: The Future of the Orchestra - Center for Science and the Imagination
A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and art reimagining orchestras as vibrant spaces for connection, shared learning, and exploration.
csi.asu.edu
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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poopraven.bsky.social
LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS IS!!!
wtalabi.bsky.social Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 20d
Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance.
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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amalelmohtar.com
OH MY GOD DO THIS, THIS IS INDECENT AMOUNTS OF SALE
solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 2d
💀Celebrate the announcement of SAINT DEATH'S DOORWAY, the third book in @csecooney.bsky.social 's World Fantasy Award-winning SAINT DEATH series, by grabbing SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER & SAINT DEATH'S HERALD for just 0.99 alongside a wide variety of other Solaris titles! geni.us/Solarissale
Against a background of skulls, white text at the top "Saint Death's Daughter". Below, the book covers for SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER, SAINT DEATH'S HERALD and a mock up for SAINT DEATH'S DOORWAY coming Spring 2027. All by C. S. E. Cooney. The white Solaris logo is at the bottom in the middle.
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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ideofmarch.bsky.social
My long fiction release this year is “Sequoia Point” in Split Scream 7 edited by @alexebenstein.bsky.social at @tenebrouspress.bsky.social - find it here or DM me if you’re reading for awards:

Ebook: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/spl...

Print: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/spl...
On background of a starry sky with two octopuses in the corners… íde Hennessy 2025 Awards Eligibility long fiction: • "Sequoia Point" 17.000 word NOVELETTE overcoming grief on the mysterious Lost Coast of Northern California, with a little help from a doppelgänger in Split Scream 7 (Tenebrous Press) Weird/Horror/SF •idehennessy.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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hannahyangwrites.bsky.social
2025 roundup! I published three new stories this year. Whether or not you’re nominating for awards, it would make my day if you gave them a read 🥹💛

Thread below: ⬇️ 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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probablyharmless.bsky.social
Is it an awards eligibility post? Is it a retrospective? I dunno, but here it is. I published some words this year. Check it out. (If there is anything you'd like to read and can't find, let me know and I'll get it to ya!) 🫀
A graphic with a gray, sort of cement-looking background with splatters of black ink. Text transcript: Theodore Hill, 2025 Releases. “I Think I Have Lost Someone” The Skull & Laurel, Horror (Flash), January. “Rise” Translunar Travelers Lounge, Sci Fi, February. “Pirouette in Periwinkle” The Ghastling, Horror (Flash), April. “Other Duties As Required” Cosmic Horror Monthly, Horror/Sci Fi, July. “Hammerhead” God’s Cruel Joke, Horrorotica, September. “A Taste” Whisper House Press, Horror (Flash), November. Upcoming: “More Famished Than My Means” (Poem, God’s Cruel Joke, December).
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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jordankurella.com
i can 100% endorse this one as a terrific example of LGBTQIA & STEM, as i narrated it! absolutely love this story. it's another terrific piece by Ember Randall 🖤🖤🖤
castofwonders.org Cast of Wonders @castofwonders.org · 2d
On the back of this, you should really check out this one from our back catalog as a great example of LGBTQIA & STEM ^^ www.castofwonders.org/2023/02/cast...
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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wnwagner.bsky.social
It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics.
And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF.
adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
Moksha
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November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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larkmorganlu.bsky.social
Check my notes app remembering I typed something half-awake:

"Every world a dream
every god a dreamer
every apocalypse a battle"

Thanks half-asleep me this is really what I wanted on a Monday
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
As promised, here is the cover for Muñeca, out June of 2026!

Described thusly: A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Screenshot of a book cover. A woman, visible only from the neck down, is holding a bouquet of flowers, the petals falling off -- are they rotting? -- and blood dripping down from the book title -- Muñeca -- onto the author's name (Cynthia Gómez.)
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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ada-hoffmann.bsky.social
BEEP BEEP BEEP WE HAVE A COVER
Cover of the book IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS by Ada Hoffmann. The title is written in bright, colorful block letters and the author's name is below it in a handwriting-like font. A tiny robot peeks out from the "S" at the end of "Instructions." Below the title and author there is a cartoon depiction of the planet Jupiter, against a starry background, with a cartoon spaceship flying up from it. There is a small Jolly Roger flag on the spaceship.
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Need a little eco-horror in your life?

Haunted Ecologies is on sale over at Bookshop :)

bookshop.org/p/books/haun...
A photo of haunted ecologies on top of a bunch of other books. Cover depicts a woman with a skeleton bird on her shoulder with a mountain of bones in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
larkmorganlu.bsky.social
Check my notes app remembering I typed something half-awake:

"Every world a dream
every god a dreamer
every apocalypse a battle"

Thanks half-asleep me this is really what I wanted on a Monday
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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thedeadlands.com
“This is a story: there’s a marketplace
at midnight. Your voice
calls the dead to awaken.”

today’s new poetry, beloveds! 🖤💀

Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal by @rblemberg.bsky.social

read it here:

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is a story: there’s a marketplace at midnight. Your voice calls the dead to awaken.
psychopomp.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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horrorsong.blog
In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...
18.168.63.88
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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larkmorganlu.bsky.social Lark Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 6d
My funeral home IN SPACE romcom will be forthcoming in Kaleidocast! Will contain:
💪big & smol
🦴the logistics of body disposal in space
🍵tea (obviously)
👉👈 they are both so shy for each other
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM