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Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

July 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM

Rajeev

@rajeevwriter.bsky.social

Thrilled to be part of @psychopomp.com anthology edited by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social

Take a look at this incredible TOC!!!

psychopomp.com/announcing-t...

You've been waiting for it, and now it is here, delivered hot and fresh to your browser, a table of contents for Afterlives 2024: The Year's Best Death

Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

July 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM

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Wole Talabi

@wtalabi.bsky.social

The veil has been lifted and now it can be told! My story "Unquiet On The Eastern Front" will be reprinted in Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories. Check out the full ToC below.

Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · Jul 22

PRESS RELEASE

Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!

curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social

"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."

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You've been waiting for it, and now it is here, delivered hot and fresh to your browser, a table of contents for Afterlives 2024: The Year's Best Death

Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

July 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM

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Psychopomp

@psychopomp.com

PRESS RELEASE

Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!

curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social

"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."

thread/

psychopomp.com/announcing-t...

You've been waiting for it, and now it is here, delivered hot and fresh to your browser, a table of contents for Afterlives 2024: The Year's Best Death

July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM

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Psychopomp

@psychopomp.com

Kelly Link says @premeemohamed.com's ONE MESSAGE REMAINS is

"Highly Recommended"

(thx kelly!)

...we strongly agree.

grab a copy and:

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grab a copy @ your fave book place or from us directly 👇

June 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM

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Rajeev

@rajeevwriter.bsky.social

This year:
2 novelettes @clarkesworldmagazine.com
1 SS @clarkesworldmagazine.com
1 SS @ F&SF
Reprints- VOID Forever magazine,THE WILD SON @ tasavvur(from @fandsf)

Here's a SS and Novelette! PLS READ! PLS BOOST!!
clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_02_24/

clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_05_24/

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: The Blinding Light of Resurrection by Rajeev Prasad

December 8, 2024 at 6:16 PM

Rajeev

@rajeevwriter.bsky.social

This year:
2 novelettes @clarkesworldmagazine.com
1 SS @clarkesworldmagazine.com
1 SS @ F&SF
Reprints- VOID Forever magazine,THE WILD SON @ tasavvur(from @fandsf)

Here's a SS and Novelette! PLS READ! PLS BOOST!!
clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_02_24/

clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_05_24/

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: The Blinding Light of Resurrection by Rajeev Prasad

What Happens When a Planet Falls From the Sky? - Apex Magazine

December 8, 2024 at 6:16 PM

Rajeev

@rajeevwriter.bsky.social

I've got a finished draft (albeit Mid-draft) of this fantasy novel in my hands. What a great feeling!

November 22, 2024 at 5:22 PM

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Caroline M. Yoachim

@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social

Catching up on 2024 reading?

I wrote a story this year that I truly believe is something special. It is the most challenging thing I've ever attempted, and I'm proud of how it came out. I'd be honored if you consider it for your award ballots.

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

The left side shows cover of the May 2024 issue of lightspeed, with the silhouette of a human figure standing atop the pages of a giant open book, with a glowing starry background. The right side has the opening text of the story: "This is our story, simplified. Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration." The story then splits into columns such that the right column repeats the quote above. The left side has new verses:

"The first time you get our message, you only
find one thread. It mimics your language in
its simplest form, a single strand of words
laid end to end. You will have to work hard if
you want to understand us properly. You
must learn to hold more than one thread of
language simultaneously in your mind.

Don’t worry, we will help you develop the
skills you need. We will keep one simple
thread unchanged. At first you will glance
back and forth between these words and
those. Your attention is a strange, skittering
thing, but we believe you can learn with
repetition.

For you, we are relearning how to teach.
You can hear musical chords of multiple
notes, even two strands of differing lyrics for
short stretches of song. It helps to memorize
the words. Your mind has a strange divide
between learning and knowing. Read both
columns, please. Every time.

Can you commit our simplified
story to memory? See just the shape of the
words and know what is there? You have so
little bandwidth, there might not be any
other way. It is not ideal but we are
desperate.
We will repeat to help you understand."

November 21, 2024 at 5:26 PM

Rajeev

@rajeevwriter.bsky.social

Hi All! Quick Intro.

Published a lot of stories the last couple years mostly in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, The Magazine of F&SF, @havenspec.bsky.social, and others too.

Working on an epic fantasy novel with so. asian myth flavor

Links to stories here rajeevwriter.com
Have a great day!

rajeevwriter.com

November 21, 2024 at 5:37 PM

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)

@deecherrywriter.bsky.social

With spec-fic Awards Eligibility time here, I (thirstily) ask my peers to consider my flash fiction piece for contention.

Opening excerpt to follow in next posts! 😁🧵:

Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · Nov 19

PUB DAY!

"What Happens When a Planet Falls From the Sky?" is available to read!

It's about 2 scientists in 2 different dimensions assigned w/ figuring out how to stop an extinction level event, but instead, fall in love through poetry.

( @apexmag.bsky.social )

apex-magazine.com/short-fictio...

That’s the question Damon (Earth-X) and Marissa (Earth-Y) were tasked with answering, but they were busy eye-fucking each other.

apex-magazine.com

November 20, 2024 at 5:38 PM

Rajeev

@rajeevwriter.bsky.social

If you write the word squat more than once, the English language stops making sense.
(There are a few other words like this)

November 20, 2024 at 5:34 PM

Rajeev

@rajeevwriter.bsky.social

Reconnecting with a lot of fellow readers and writers here. Not so daunting. Hello again!

November 20, 2024 at 4:51 PM

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Clarkesworld

@clarkesworldmagazine.com

Looking for our authors and artists? Here's our starter pack collection:
Clarkesworld Authors #1 bsky.app/starter-pack...
Clarkesworld Authors #2 bsky.app/starter-pack...
Clarkesworld Artists bsky.app/starter-pack...

Happy to add anyone we've missed.

November 20, 2024 at 3:44 PM

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Katie McIvor

@mckatie.bsky.social

⭐️ Awards eligibility thread ⭐️ 👀 i'm extra proud of having managed to publish anything at all this year, as looking after the baby has obvs been my priority! As always, huge thanks to everyone who has read, shared, and published my stories 😊 ❤️

October 17, 2024 at 3:44 PM

Rajeev

@rajeevwriter.bsky.social

Okay, I'm done over there. I'm here.

November 16, 2024 at 3:46 AM

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Cliff Winnig

@cliffwinnig.bsky.social

A new issue of F&SF is out, and it starts with @rajeevwriter.bsky.social’s moving story “What It Means to Drift,” set in a future version of Hyderabad…

September 9, 2024 at 6:59 PM

Rajeev

@rajeevwriter.bsky.social

Hello all, I've got a new story out this month @clarkesworldmagazine.com

Explores some heavy themes and space travel. Enjoy!

clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_08_24/

Canyon Dance by Rajeev Prasad

August 17, 2024 at 5:46 AM

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Chris Willrich

@librariangoblin.bsky.social

Fantastic and thought provoking story of inner and outer space by @rajeevwriter.bsky.social in the latest @clarkesworldmagazine.com .
clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_08_24/

Canyon Dance by Rajeev Prasad

August 12, 2024 at 2:50 AM

Rajeev

@rajeevwriter.bsky.social

Hi! got a new story out this month. @clarkesworldmagazine.com !!

Honored for and reads!

clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_05_24/

The Blinding Light of Resurrection by Rajeev Prasad

May 14, 2024 at 2:44 AM

Rajeev

@rajeevwriter.bsky.social

I joined Bluesky but then forgot. Here's a first post.

Honored if you'd read my story "The Flowers We Intend to Share." Out this month @clarkesworldmagazine.com

Would love to hear your thoughts! (So far have gotten a mixed bag of impressions)

clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_02_24/

The Flowers That We Intend To Share by Rajeev Prasad