Rachael K. Jones
@rachaelkjones.bsky.social
Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, Locus, & World Fantasy nominated SFF author. Eugie Foster Award winner. SECRET LEVEL author. Podcaster, editor, SFWA & Codex. She/her
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Wrote this masterpiece on a writer’s group chat awhile back. Really feeling these vibes today re: @diabolicalplots.com 🤣
November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Wrote this masterpiece on a writer’s group chat awhile back. Really feeling these vibes today re: @diabolicalplots.com 🤣
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More lovely words about SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL this time from my nemesis, @rachaelkjones.bsky.social. Thanks so much Rachael! 🥹
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
More lovely words about SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL this time from my nemesis, @rachaelkjones.bsky.social. Thanks so much Rachael! 🥹
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Author Rachael K. Jones is known for writing stories that are so knife-sharp that you cut yourself when you pick them up. Her story "Five Functions of Your Binosaur," from Issue 4, is a gentler story, though still bittersweet.
Five Functions of Your Bionosaur - Small Wonders
The bionosaur was a baby shower gift from your mom's favorite aunt. They were nervous about its size, the stainless steel maw, the retractable razorclaws inside its stubby little arms, but the aunt had insisted.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Author Rachael K. Jones is known for writing stories that are so knife-sharp that you cut yourself when you pick them up. Her story "Five Functions of Your Binosaur," from Issue 4, is a gentler story, though still bittersweet.
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Awww @rachaelkjones.bsky.social ! Where can I get a bionosaur to bring home?? 🥹💖
Author Rachael K. Jones is known for writing stories that are so knife-sharp that you cut yourself when you pick them up. Her story "Five Functions of Your Binosaur," from Issue 4, is a gentler story, though still bittersweet.
Five Functions of Your Bionosaur - Small Wonders
The bionosaur was a baby shower gift from your mom's favorite aunt. They were nervous about its size, the stainless steel maw, the retractable razorclaws inside its stubby little arms, but the aunt had insisted.
smallwondersmag.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Awww @rachaelkjones.bsky.social ! Where can I get a bionosaur to bring home?? 🥹💖
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24 hours remain on late pledges. Help us hit our stretch goal and unlock another issue of 3LBE in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1
September 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
24 hours remain on late pledges. Help us hit our stretch goal and unlock another issue of 3LBE in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1
IT'S OUT! IT'S OUT!! Grab your copy while they're hot. Gonna predict this now: this one will be remembered and read as an sff classic decades from now.
Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.
September 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
IT'S OUT! IT'S OUT!! Grab your copy while they're hot. Gonna predict this now: this one will be remembered and read as an sff classic decades from now.
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We need your support in the next 3 days, before the fall of eternal night. Help us breathe new stories that keep us alive, each word and phrase building the monster’s body, the one who rends and tears and protects us from darkness. kck.st/4mIkEm1
September 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We need your support in the next 3 days, before the fall of eternal night. Help us breathe new stories that keep us alive, each word and phrase building the monster’s body, the one who rends and tears and protects us from darkness. kck.st/4mIkEm1
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Preach!
Looks like another "a genre I don't read sucks lol" discourse is happening, so I'll just say this: Every single genre has its unique enjoyments and wisdom to impart, whether or not it's a genre that you personally enjoy or gravitate toward. Once you realize this, the world becomes a lot more fun!
September 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Preach!
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Well said. I agree 💯
Looks like another "a genre I don't read sucks lol" discourse is happening, so I'll just say this: Every single genre has its unique enjoyments and wisdom to impart, whether or not it's a genre that you personally enjoy or gravitate toward. Once you realize this, the world becomes a lot more fun!
September 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Well said. I agree 💯
Looks like another "a genre I don't read sucks lol" discourse is happening, so I'll just say this: Every single genre has its unique enjoyments and wisdom to impart, whether or not it's a genre that you personally enjoy or gravitate toward. Once you realize this, the world becomes a lot more fun!
September 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Looks like another "a genre I don't read sucks lol" discourse is happening, so I'll just say this: Every single genre has its unique enjoyments and wisdom to impart, whether or not it's a genre that you personally enjoy or gravitate toward. Once you realize this, the world becomes a lot more fun!
Three days left! Please repost and donate if you're able. Also check out the Kickstarter for amazing backer rewards!
We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 4 days. For the love of speculative fiction, horror stories, weird fiction, dark fantasy, magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, science fiction, alltopias, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1
September 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Three days left! Please repost and donate if you're able. Also check out the Kickstarter for amazing backer rewards!
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25 years of fiction: 3LBE and I came on the scene in the same year. Our community would be lesser without them. so let's get them across this finish line. We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there. Contribute $25 or more, share your receipt with me, I'll send you a signed book. 🔥👁️🔥
Lots of discussion lately about increased interest in short fiction, and we love that. We have 25 years of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction stories for you to read. And we would love to do 25 more, if you can help. kck.st/4mIkEm1
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026
A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.
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September 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
25 years of fiction: 3LBE and I came on the scene in the same year. Our community would be lesser without them. so let's get them across this finish line. We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there. Contribute $25 or more, share your receipt with me, I'll send you a signed book. 🔥👁️🔥
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There is also the radical alternative of listening to your Hugo team when they try to help you avoid making stupid decisions.
September 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
There is also the radical alternative of listening to your Hugo team when they try to help you avoid making stupid decisions.
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Yesssss - I've been hearing about this story for a while, and I am so excited to read it!
(@rachaelkjones.bsky.social: But does it beat being on an actual murder train?)
(@rachaelkjones.bsky.social: But does it beat being on an actual murder train?)
NEW STORY DAY! Check out "Train Hoppers of Paradox," a timey-wimey murder mystery set at a train station where timelines converge.
In 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘅 @rachaelkjones.bsky.social gives us a tightly built world with a clever plot for us to sink our teeth into... read it at: www.frivolouscomma.com/train-hopper...
#speculativefiction #speculativefictionwriter #scifi #scififantasy #litjournal #writingcommunity #litmag
#speculativefiction #speculativefictionwriter #scifi #scififantasy #litjournal #writingcommunity #litmag
September 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Yesssss - I've been hearing about this story for a while, and I am so excited to read it!
(@rachaelkjones.bsky.social: But does it beat being on an actual murder train?)
(@rachaelkjones.bsky.social: But does it beat being on an actual murder train?)
NEW STORY DAY! Check out "Train Hoppers of Paradox," a timey-wimey murder mystery set at a train station where timelines converge.
In 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘅 @rachaelkjones.bsky.social gives us a tightly built world with a clever plot for us to sink our teeth into... read it at: www.frivolouscomma.com/train-hopper...
#speculativefiction #speculativefictionwriter #scifi #scififantasy #litjournal #writingcommunity #litmag
#speculativefiction #speculativefictionwriter #scifi #scififantasy #litjournal #writingcommunity #litmag
September 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NEW STORY DAY! Check out "Train Hoppers of Paradox," a timey-wimey murder mystery set at a train station where timelines converge.
Hey Bluesky pals, check out this Kickstarter and help us keep short fiction weird! <3
Today we are halfway done with the campaign, but only one-quarter of the way to our goal. It’s all or nothing. Please share, and any amount you can help is very appreciated. Horror and weird fiction are good for us. kck.st/4mIkEm1
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026
A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.
kck.st
August 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Hey Bluesky pals, check out this Kickstarter and help us keep short fiction weird! <3
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We’ve added more authors to 2026! Pledge to support us so we can all read new fiction by: Clay McLeod Chapman, Kristi DeMeester, AI Jiang, Rachael K. Jones, Gwendolyn Kiste, John Langan, Premee Mohamed, Hailey Piper, Keith Rosson, Nisi Shawl, Molly Tanzer, and Wendy N. Wagner. kck.st/4mIkEm1
August 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We’ve added more authors to 2026! Pledge to support us so we can all read new fiction by: Clay McLeod Chapman, Kristi DeMeester, AI Jiang, Rachael K. Jones, Gwendolyn Kiste, John Langan, Premee Mohamed, Hailey Piper, Keith Rosson, Nisi Shawl, Molly Tanzer, and Wendy N. Wagner. kck.st/4mIkEm1
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Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"
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#Worldcon
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#Worldcon
August 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
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fantastic lede from sam, and the rest of it ain’t too shabby either
August 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
fantastic lede from sam, and the rest of it ain’t too shabby either
This was genuinely bizarre at the ceremony, and really not okay. Read the whole thread--M.L. is exactly right about the fix. Just be consistent in reading off zine mastheads! Either read ALL the names for everyone, or just read the magazine titles
There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.
Had a great time at Worldcon meeting new and old faces! Thank you @emelkrishnan.bsky.social for letting me be your plus one! Glad we could trauma bond over our masthead being skipped again. I look forward to next year!
August 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This was genuinely bizarre at the ceremony, and really not okay. Read the whole thread--M.L. is exactly right about the fix. Just be consistent in reading off zine mastheads! Either read ALL the names for everyone, or just read the magazine titles
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There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.
Had a great time at Worldcon meeting new and old faces! Thank you @emelkrishnan.bsky.social for letting me be your plus one! Glad we could trauma bond over our masthead being skipped again. I look forward to next year!
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.
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Excited that my story MEDIAN is included in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, vol. 1 from @undertow.bsky.social,
with @domsdickey.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @rachaelkjones.bsky.social +++
Order here: undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
with @domsdickey.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @rachaelkjones.bsky.social +++
Order here: undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1 (Pre-Order - Print & eBook bundle) — Undertow Publications
PRINT AND EBOOK (Pre-Order Ships November) A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year pays homage to, and builds ...
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July 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Excited that my story MEDIAN is included in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, vol. 1 from @undertow.bsky.social,
with @domsdickey.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @rachaelkjones.bsky.social +++
Order here: undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
with @domsdickey.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @rachaelkjones.bsky.social +++
Order here: undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
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Anunciados los relatos incluidos en la nueva entrega de Best New Weird (los mejores relatos weird de 2024) editada por @undertow.bsky.social, con un montón de autores del blog y, en concreto, Rachael K Jones con "Cinco estampas del planeta Tártaro". cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/c...
July 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Anunciados los relatos incluidos en la nueva entrega de Best New Weird (los mejores relatos weird de 2024) editada por @undertow.bsky.social, con un montón de autores del blog y, en concreto, Rachael K Jones con "Cinco estampas del planeta Tártaro". cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/c...
SCREAM!!! "Five Views of the Planet Tartarus" made the Best New Weird!! And just look at that TOC -- happy to see so many friends including @jasonbaltazar.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social
I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
July 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
SCREAM!!! "Five Views of the Planet Tartarus" made the Best New Weird!! And just look at that TOC -- happy to see so many friends including @jasonbaltazar.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social