Morgan Welch
@morganmwelch.bsky.social
Writer of fantasy, mystery and SF. Writers of the Future and Baen Fantasy Adventure Award finalist. He/they
Latest story here: https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/hikari/
Latest story here: https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/hikari/
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Morgan Welch
@morganmwelch.bsky.social
· Jul 12
Best of Year One
Small Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Best of Year One includes forty-five stories and poems from Issue 0 through Issue 12.
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My story HIKARI has been reprinted in @smallwondersmag.com's BEST OF YEAR ONE anthology. Please consider picking up a copy. Small Wonders do great work and need your support!
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Is... Is Terri from Hellraiser III the inspiration for Faith from Buffy?
Shame the third film is so bad compared to the previous two.
Shame the third film is so bad compared to the previous two.
August 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Is... Is Terri from Hellraiser III the inspiration for Faith from Buffy?
Shame the third film is so bad compared to the previous two.
Shame the third film is so bad compared to the previous two.
My story HIKARI has been reprinted in @smallwondersmag.com's BEST OF YEAR ONE anthology. Please consider picking up a copy. Small Wonders do great work and need your support!
store.smallwondersmag.com/buy/d0205805...
store.smallwondersmag.com/buy/d0205805...
Best of Year One
Small Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Best of Year One includes forty-five stories and poems from Issue 0 through Issue 12.
store.smallwondersmag.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
My story HIKARI has been reprinted in @smallwondersmag.com's BEST OF YEAR ONE anthology. Please consider picking up a copy. Small Wonders do great work and need your support!
store.smallwondersmag.com/buy/d0205805...
store.smallwondersmag.com/buy/d0205805...
@factorfourmagazine.com Just thought you should know I tried to submit a story today and got a php error. I will swing back to you in time, but if you're light on submissions, that might be why!
July 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
@factorfourmagazine.com Just thought you should know I tried to submit a story today and got a php error. I will swing back to you in time, but if you're light on submissions, that might be why!
Anyone want to read Dracula with me via Dracula Daily? You get emailed the bits of the story that happen on that day of the year, starting on 3rd May.
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Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens. Click to read Dracula Daily, by DraculaDaily, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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March 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Anyone want to read Dracula with me via Dracula Daily? You get emailed the bits of the story that happen on that day of the year, starting on 3rd May.
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draculadaily.substack.com
Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only
February 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only
I wrote a thing about writing a thing, but it's possible it turned out to be a rant about Killing Floor by Lee Child.
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#WritingRules #WritingTips
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#WritingRules #WritingTips
When to Throw Away the Writing Rules | Tips for Brevity in Writing
Sometimes, writing short sentences and cutting unnecessary words is what you want to do. Sometimes, it isn't. Find out more here.
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January 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I wrote a thing about writing a thing, but it's possible it turned out to be a rant about Killing Floor by Lee Child.
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#WritingRules #WritingTips
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#WritingRules #WritingTips
Watched THE HOURGLASS SANITORIUM and only afterwards realised it's based on the work of Bruno Schulz. Really, really strange, but atmospheric as hell.
a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room with a laurel wreath that says atlanta foreign film festival
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room with a laurel wreath that says atlanta foreign film festival
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September 28, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Watched THE HOURGLASS SANITORIUM and only afterwards realised it's based on the work of Bruno Schulz. Really, really strange, but atmospheric as hell.
Hopefully now more people can see that transphobia harms all women. It results in women being judged on arbitrary standards of what 'female' looks like. It encourages the abuse of women who don't look 'female' enough.
August 14, 2024 at 6:41 AM
Hopefully now more people can see that transphobia harms all women. It results in women being judged on arbitrary standards of what 'female' looks like. It encourages the abuse of women who don't look 'female' enough.
Jesus fuck will authors I like and respect stop turning out to be shitty people please.
(This is about the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman, if you haven't heard.)
(This is about the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman, if you haven't heard.)
July 30, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Jesus fuck will authors I like and respect stop turning out to be shitty people please.
(This is about the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman, if you haven't heard.)
(This is about the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman, if you haven't heard.)
Watched PARIS IS BURNING. Educational and entertaining, but also deeply sad when you realise the lack of opportunity and safety they suffered, and the fact very few of those featured are still alive.
Paris Is Burning Makeup GIF
Alt: Willi Ninja, an African American dancer and choreographer, performing some vogue movements based on applying makeup. He's outside leaning against a tree. From the 1990 film PARIS IS BURNING.
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July 28, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Watched PARIS IS BURNING. Educational and entertaining, but also deeply sad when you realise the lack of opportunity and safety they suffered, and the fact very few of those featured are still alive.
Watched the 1993 stage version of CABARET. Amazing. And poignant. As relevant as ever.
Cabaret GIF
Alt: Alan Cumming as Emcee from Cabaret, saying "Willkomen, bienvenue, welcome"
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July 7, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Watched the 1993 stage version of CABARET. Amazing. And poignant. As relevant as ever.
I wrote some personal stuff down, both to help me process, and who knows... maybe it will help someone else?
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Being Non Binary | Growing up in the '80s and '90s
I've always been non binary - I just didn't know it. Read about my experiences here, and know you're not alone!
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July 2, 2024 at 8:24 PM
I wrote some personal stuff down, both to help me process, and who knows... maybe it will help someone else?
www.morganwelch.com/home/blog/be...
www.morganwelch.com/home/blog/be...
New story! In issue 2 of Hearth Stories magazine, you'll find MARGINALIA.
Loosely based on illustrations from the margins of medieval manuscripts. Come for the harvest festival, stay for the pet swan and uh... 'unusual' fruit trees 🌳
Free to read!
hearthstories.org/issues/2.html
Loosely based on illustrations from the margins of medieval manuscripts. Come for the harvest festival, stay for the pet swan and uh... 'unusual' fruit trees 🌳
Free to read!
hearthstories.org/issues/2.html
Hearth Stories: Issue Two, Summer Solstice 2024
A twice yearly speculative fiction magazine exploring connection, family, relationships, comfort, and the natural world.
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June 21, 2024 at 2:51 PM
New story! In issue 2 of Hearth Stories magazine, you'll find MARGINALIA.
Loosely based on illustrations from the margins of medieval manuscripts. Come for the harvest festival, stay for the pet swan and uh... 'unusual' fruit trees 🌳
Free to read!
hearthstories.org/issues/2.html
Loosely based on illustrations from the margins of medieval manuscripts. Come for the harvest festival, stay for the pet swan and uh... 'unusual' fruit trees 🌳
Free to read!
hearthstories.org/issues/2.html
Reposted by Morgan Welch
Hot take: your right to speech doesn't nullify the right of speech for others. Right to speech has inherent right of response to it.
But this is all a dodge, trying to launder awat the truth that fascists and bigots get their feelings hurt when people point out their opinions suck.
But this is all a dodge, trying to launder awat the truth that fascists and bigots get their feelings hurt when people point out their opinions suck.
This is the nyt's view of speech
May 12, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Hot take: your right to speech doesn't nullify the right of speech for others. Right to speech has inherent right of response to it.
But this is all a dodge, trying to launder awat the truth that fascists and bigots get their feelings hurt when people point out their opinions suck.
But this is all a dodge, trying to launder awat the truth that fascists and bigots get their feelings hurt when people point out their opinions suck.
Reposted by Morgan Welch
anyway this convo turned from silly to anxious accidentally but I really do feel so strongly that marginalized creators deserve to do stuff that isn't the best thing ever made, and like, we can have more than one great, mediocre, or even disappointing story about [insert whatever marginalization]
May 12, 2024 at 12:37 AM
anyway this convo turned from silly to anxious accidentally but I really do feel so strongly that marginalized creators deserve to do stuff that isn't the best thing ever made, and like, we can have more than one great, mediocre, or even disappointing story about [insert whatever marginalization]
What a bittersweet evening. Let's focus on Nemo and the messages of peace and love. Seeing a non-binary person have so much support is heartening, although our thoughts are still with those suffering in Palestine and elsewhere.
#eurovision24 #EurovisionSongContest
#eurovision24 #EurovisionSongContest
May 11, 2024 at 11:15 PM
What a bittersweet evening. Let's focus on Nemo and the messages of peace and love. Seeing a non-binary person have so much support is heartening, although our thoughts are still with those suffering in Palestine and elsewhere.
#eurovision24 #EurovisionSongContest
#eurovision24 #EurovisionSongContest
'Banshee' from Flesh of Gods. I might do a tiny bit more definition on the hollow of the cheek and lips, and some gloss varnish on the lantern glass and blood... but for one 2.5 hour session, I'm really pleased how she turned out.
April 29, 2024 at 8:54 PM
'Banshee' from Flesh of Gods. I might do a tiny bit more definition on the hollow of the cheek and lips, and some gloss varnish on the lantern glass and blood... but for one 2.5 hour session, I'm really pleased how she turned out.
Another sale! My story 'Marginalia' will be appearing in the lovely Hearth Stories in June. It's a quiet, slice-of-life fantasy based on illustrations from medieval manuscripts.
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hearthstories.org
Hearth Stories: Home
A twice yearly speculative fiction magazine exploring connection, family, relationships, comfort, and the natural world.
hearthstories.org
April 27, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Another sale! My story 'Marginalia' will be appearing in the lovely Hearth Stories in June. It's a quiet, slice-of-life fantasy based on illustrations from medieval manuscripts.
hearthstories.org
hearthstories.org
I'd never heard of Queen Anne pistols before today, but they're a decorative and concealable type of flintlock with a barrel that screws off to load it.
I have a feeling one will end up in a story pretty soon...
youtu.be/cx2in3FeWv4?...
I have a feeling one will end up in a story pretty soon...
youtu.be/cx2in3FeWv4?...
Silver Clad Queen Anne Pistols
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April 19, 2024 at 7:55 PM
I'd never heard of Queen Anne pistols before today, but they're a decorative and concealable type of flintlock with a barrel that screws off to load it.
I have a feeling one will end up in a story pretty soon...
youtu.be/cx2in3FeWv4?...
I have a feeling one will end up in a story pretty soon...
youtu.be/cx2in3FeWv4?...
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So... if you had to pick favorites - or perhaps "best of" - from what we've published so far, what would you choose? Just askin'. For reasons.
March 26, 2024 at 5:53 PM
So... if you had to pick favorites - or perhaps "best of" - from what we've published so far, what would you choose? Just askin'. For reasons.
A little visit to an interesting churchyard
March 10, 2024 at 8:27 PM
A little visit to an interesting churchyard
A short but sweet review of my story, HIKARI. Thank you, @saraluckelman.bsky.social ❤️
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February 15, 2024 at 7:40 AM
A short but sweet review of my story, HIKARI. Thank you, @saraluckelman.bsky.social ❤️
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This is remarkably cool.
Fascinated by the sheer matter-of-factness of this story buried on page 8 of The Liverpool Daily Post, 29 March 1937 – “Ellen the barmaid is now Alan the barman.” Please update your address books. Now, what’ll you have?
February 11, 2024 at 6:24 PM
This is remarkably cool.
I haven't read a story that resonated with me this much for a while. The part about her being a 'colourful character'. The swearing. The bones. Absolutely glorious 🪶🦴
My lovely deathly little flash about searching for a home and knowing when to let go is LIVE at Crow & Cross Keys!
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Hollow bones leave sharp marks—Rebecca Bennett
A crack curves along the blue jay’s skull, wiry and thin until it splays out like dandelion fluff at the top. The fracture wide enough I could slide my nails between the plates and pull it open until ...
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February 11, 2024 at 4:56 PM
I haven't read a story that resonated with me this much for a while. The part about her being a 'colourful character'. The swearing. The bones. Absolutely glorious 🪶🦴