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Morris Wayts
@morriswayts.bsky.social
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Burned dirt person (coffee drinker), Xennial, he/him, proud kitchenwitch.
Writing SFF/Horror mostly on Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/morris_wayts, links to everything in my linktree! https://linktr.ee/morris.wayts

Read: https://www.morriswayts.com/publications
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Morris Wayts @morriswayts.bsky.social · Apr 1
You need a not so short #shortstory (turned out at about 6800 words) for a 20 min #fantasy #read just before bed? No worries, I got u covered!
My latest #authoravengers prompt story is up, #free2read.
IYou like it? Share! 💜
You love it? All tips go towards human art.

ko-fi.com/post/Those-W...
Those Who Fight Monsters - fantasy short story
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islanderscaper.bsky.social
Another @desertbus.org is over, and another craftalong success for me.

Time to spend the next few months trying to brainstorm what to make next!

#desertbus #desertbuscraftalong #dbcraftalong
A 30 year old woman with red hair wearing a knitted black hood with Grey nobody symbol on the side. It is pulled close around her face with an attached scarf wrapped around her neck. A 30 year old woman with red hair wearing a knitted black hood with Grey nobody symbol on the side. It is loose around her face with an attached scarf hanging down. A knitted black hood with Grey nobody symbol from kingdom hearts on the side. A 30 year old woman with red hair wearing a knitted black hood with Grey nobody symbol on the side. It is pulled close around her face with an attached scarf wrapped around her neck.
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
morriswayts.bsky.social
Wordle 1.616 4/6

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@fersus.bsky.social
I swear that was not intended, but I take it!
November 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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jaws-stone.bsky.social
Pissy sister
WIP
Cropped headshot sketch of a woman
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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araopenpages.bsky.social
sending a friend disjointed scenes of a probable oneshot for my favourite character. getting yelled at for it. worth it. #wipwednesday
>>> "You'll never be alone," she whispered to the baby in her arms, her cheeks wet with tears of pain, relief and loneliness. The ache of knowing the spirits of her family surrounded her but not feeling their embrace was everpresent. She ignored it to focus on the newborn slumbering in her arms. "We'll have each other, and you'll never be taken for granted. I'll make sure of it."
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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araopenpages.bsky.social
also blogged about writing streams and OHHOW, hoping to start consistent streams again! araopenpages.com?p=4478
araopenpages.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”
When You Asked Me If I Still Think Of You Here is the herringbone of loss. The exoskeleton of a love fossilised by grief. I still say your name even if it crumbles in my mouth like the wreckage of a ship left alone to the elements. What do I do with this sea of language you have left within me. Who can I tell about it when all the vowels are you. In the panic of this forgetting is a memory fading into shadow and light. How do I forget the shape of your heart now that I know its vocabulary. The truth then: we turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us. - Nikita Gill
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 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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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
Folks I am short a bill by about $300. If you were perchance looking for holiday gifts or a treat, may I point you at my handmade goodies? Thanks.

www.peculiarityshop.com/hillary-s-co...
Hillary's Corner | The Peculiarity Shop
The Peculiarity Shop, handmade jewelry by diverse people for diverse people, offers items by Hillary.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Text reads: Fed up with your world? Visit ours. Clarkesworldmagazine.com The Clarkesworld robot (center) looks to the right at the cover of Clarkesworld #230, which is in yellow, orange, and brown and features a futuristic cityscape with a small craft approaching. Cover art is "Neo Mars" by Guy Warley.
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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alepresser.com
𝗛𝗲𝘆!
Side Quested is up and dinner is served: a giant chicken and BEEFCAKE.

🔗 tapas.io/episode/3702...

🔷 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿?
🔹 Start here: tapas.io/series/SideQuested
🔹 Or here: sidequested.com/page/1/
🔷 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: patreon.com/alepresser
🔹 #webcomics
Read Side Quested :: Chapter 3: 57 | Tapas Community
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November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
morriswayts.bsky.social
Wordle 1.613 6/6

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@fersus.bsky.social

Look at this! I say this is art!
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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tadethompson.bsky.social
Newbie writers, when you make that all-important first sale, and you have the contract in your hands, please copy and paste the following for your response letter:

"No, you cannot have subsidiary rights."

You can thank me later.
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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jendiagammon.bsky.social
Late Autumn has been filled with book news for me, so I've rounded up both the latest news, and all my 2025 books for awards consideration, in these two images. Find all these books at jendiagammon.com/books!

#scifi #fantasy #horror #thriller #books
Jendia Gammon Late Autumn Updates 1 New Book Release (her 4th total in 2025, following To Wonder and Starshine, Atacama, and Doomflower) - THE SECRET OF THE SAPPHIRE SENTINEL, writing as J. Dianne Dotson via Android Press 1 New Short Story - "On the Birthday of a Princess" in TALES OF SLEY HOUSE 2025 anthology via Sley House Publishing 2 Cover Reveals - THE VALE OF SEVEN DRAGONS (April 2026) and GODFESTATION (August 2026), both coming soon from Sley House Publishing For Awards Consideration JENDIA GAMMON I J. DIANNE DOTSON 2025 BOOKS DOOMFLOWER - NOVEL YA NOVEL HORROR COMEDY QUEER LIT ATACAMA - NOVEL (WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY) HORROR THRILLER SCI-FI SOUTHERN FICTION TO WONDER AND STARSHINE - COLLECTION FANTASY SCI-FI The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel (writing as J. Dianne Dotson) - NOVEL YA NOVEL SCI-FI FANTASY CLI-FI
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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whatevermaranda.com
Love this so much. 💜
Meme: a quirky hand-drawn cat beneath the script "AHEM - please don't give billionaires more of your money this holiday season - buy something cool and handmade from some fun weirdo instead & help them eat. Shop small, y'all." Image credit: "Small businesses need your support more than ever 💗 By Sugarhouse Ceramic Co."
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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anotherindiewriter.com
Dear world:

Instead of, you know, sucking, could you please give my friends enough sales that they can quit their jobs and write or make art full time if they want to? Please.

Love,
Morgan
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
morriswayts.bsky.social
"You're one ugly motherfucker."
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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islieb.bsky.social
Comic. Figur 1 ruft fröhlich: "Guten Morgen! Was machen wir heute?" Figur 2 steht übermüdet mit einer Tasse Kaffee da und denkt: "Am besten noch mal hinlegen."
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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sharkiatwrites.bsky.social
There's only 20 hours left to stick it to the man! Get this bundle to support indie authors and delve into a collection of stories that oppose authoritarianism in all its flavors.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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laikalgagarin.bsky.social
At this point, using your own brain, thinking for yourself, doing things even though you KNOW you'll FAIL at them, that it wont be perfect, it'll even be bad, is an act of absolute resistance against Fascism. Against tech billionaire's desire to strip us of our thinking. Against Capitalism.
November 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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alwayscoffee.bsky.social
Do you know I've got a poetry collection coming out next year? & you can preorder it? (Some links below, but you can preorder worldwide.)

Like tarot cards, witchy things, feminist rage (think Taylor's "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" & Fleetwood's "Silver Springs."), & mythology? You're in luck.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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aliettedebodard.com
On hey would you like sapphic longing/enemies to lovers ?
This way
uncannymagazine.bsky.social Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 7d
Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers" by Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com!

You can read it here!

buff.ly/HznhrfP
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 64, “Barbershops of the Floating City" by Grace P. Fong: A woman stands facing the viewer, her qipao is a light blue color with flower designs in a darker shade of blue. Her long, black hair trails elegantly behind her while she holds a pair of scissors close to her chest. Behind there is a shadow that looks in the opposite direction, as if she is looking down at the city depicted below. At the top is a sun that crowns the two figures and bathes the entire picture in light. The quote reads: "And she can’t breathe and she can’t talk, and she’s clinging onto the locations of the Five she hid as the war between the celestials and the demons engulfed province after province—hid them because the wholesale destruction they brought when wielded scared her to her bones."
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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araopenpages.bsky.social
my "books" page on my website officially has two things on it. one of them is available now, the other will be available at the end of next month. this feels so - amazing, really.
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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alwayscoffee.bsky.social
Newsletter goes out later today! It's free.

You can sign up here: buttondown.com/alwayscoffee

Also, any comments or replies get to me, so you have thoughts or suggestions, they're always welcome.
Between the Lines
A writer's life: a bit of this and that, but always coffee.
buttondown.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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nrlines.bsky.social
Jumped in because o have a social media problem and can't go a whole day apparently. And because you are magic
nrlines.bsky.social N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her) @nrlines.bsky.social · 8d
You sit and feel the weight of the darkness but the darkness isn't there to smother you. It is the gentle touch of the elements as they seek to give you rest. You are made of magic so fierce and wild it gives the horrors pause. And this is such a gift. You are precious and I'm so thankful you exist
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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alepresser.com
𝗛𝗲𝘆!
Side Quested is up and Leopold is doing his best, but still NO.

🔗 tapas.io/episode/3702...

🔷 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿?
🔹 Start here: tapas.io/series/SideQuested
🔹 Or here: sidequested.com/page/1/
🔷 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: patreon.com/alepresser
🔹 #webcomics
Read Side Quested :: Chapter 3: 55 | Tapas Community
Read Side Quested and more premium Comedy Community series now on Tapas!
tapas.io
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM