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Spencer Nitkey
@spencerwriting.bsky.social
fun not cool.

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Yet another reminder that some of the very best flash fiction in the world is being published as anonymous comments on YouTube videos
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The phrase pseudo-science may very well disagree! As would this 2015 paper that makes this very analogy themselves! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25514435/

(Note: I am surprisingly conflict averse for someone whose primary love language is debate, so just saying out loud: enjoying this back and forth!)
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
September 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This study is absolutely wild!

xenoparous: giving birth to other species as part of their life cycle

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(Octavia Butler stays prescient, prophetic, and winning, always).
September 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Let’s GOOOO!!!!! Been looking forward to this for like a full calendar year.
August 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
No cheating, last photo of your pet
August 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
August 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
July's issue of @lightspeedmagazine.com is out in ebook form (and available for subscribers!) today. There's a bevy of incredible stories inside, including a piece from yours truly: A dead spell-making artist haunts the gallery that hosts his work. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/july-...
July 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Such an honor to be featured on @mynachang.bsky.social 's speculative flash fiction round up! If you want to "find a lot of heart under the mold" give my @hexliterary.bsky.social flash a read! hexliterary.com?p=2708
June 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@johnchrostek.com is doing really valuable work in pretty much all areas of lit. Opening a physical bookstore to get books into reader's hands! Editing @cold-signal.com and publishing great, weird stories with awesome art. Plus writing some killer work, himself. I'm really enjoy his collection!!
June 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
June 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
and I'm also obsessed with this series called "The Physarum Experiments" where British artist Heather Barnett makes all these gorgeous fascinating pieces of bioart with slime mold. (heatherbarnett.co.uk/work/the-phy...) this might be one of my favorites of hers:
June 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Naturally occurring? I'm obsessed with how many Myxogastria varieties look like adorable little (or sometimes quite large) balloons when they fruit! like.... they're so adorable haha.
June 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The two moods of Bodie. 1) must go crazy, preferable outside. 2) Must sleep as if he's the one paying the rent.
April 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The horrors persist, but so does weird fiction. Happy to be back in the wonderful pages of @undertow.bsky.social 's Weird Horror Magazine.

Buy a copy and have the top of your head taken off and filled with strange and eerie words. www.weirdhorrormagazine.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Get hyped for the new issue of Weird Horror (#10!) coming out soon! Featuring my story "In the Dream, He is Skinless and Beautiful" along with a bunch of other strange, eerie, and profound pieces of weird horror.

undertowpublications.com/shop/weird-h...
February 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
What a generous intro and description of my story in Phano Magazine. Being mentioned in the same breath as Ted Chiang is about the highest honor I can imagine. Thanks so much to @turnandwork.com for this kind review. Excited to dive into the other stories mentioned here, too.
February 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Once again (like always...) I must return to Delany....
December 19, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Can't say just how much it means to be included in a list like this with some of my favorite stories and writers this year. Plus this is such a wildly generous reading of my story, I can't stop smiling! 🐳
December 18, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Tis the season (to make a poorly but earnestly designed awards eligibility post)! I'm really proud of the work I've published this year, so here they are! Please consider reading them, adding them to any recommended reading lists, and then telling me how wonderful they are! Details and links below!
December 4, 2024 at 8:16 PM
New story out today! "Heliopause" in The Ekphrastic Review! Inspired by Arthur Dove’s Sunrise, III:
🎨 Katherine Dreier meditates on art & pain
🐾 Mountain lions surround a ranch
🎼 A musician seeks melody
🌌 Humanity watches the solar system's end

Read it here: www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
November 25, 2024 at 5:24 PM
My story in trampset explores Damien Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" a piece, it turns out, I have a lot of feelings about.

Check out this story about a teenage boy's communion with a formaldehyde-preserved shark today!

trampset.org/the-physical...
November 1, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Just came across this very nice review of my story in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social Within the Dead Whale. If you think a "perfectly, utterly, viscerally strange" story sounds like something you'd like to read. Check it out here: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/with...
October 31, 2024 at 8:01 PM
October 18, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Here is the passage from Nietzsche's "The Gay Science" which inspired the ending and many portions of this story.
July 1, 2024 at 5:15 PM