A unsettling tale for Halloween Week. heck out "By The Spine" by Anya F. Bloom!

www.thecosmicbackground.com/stories/anya...

This story is the first of our stories sought specifically from writers of Palestinian descent. Elise Stephens is smart, and articulate, and brave. She is talented, witty, and a spectacular writer.

Check out "Suspension" by Elise Stephens @elisestephens.bsky.social

STORYTIME! Yes, we are a little behind on uplifting the latest stories we've published but that just means we can REMIND YOU THEY ARE AWESOME!

Check out "Burn it Down" by Beth Dawkins @bethwrites.bsky.social :
www.thecosmicbackground.com/stories/beth...

We did it! We still have 11 hours to go, so grab those fortune teller cards and books and swag while you can!

Only 3 days to go and we are $100 from our goal!
If I had to predict the future…I’d say we’re going to make it!
If you’re not so sure, maybe you’d be interested in The Cosmic Background Fortune Teller Cards!

If we get just 10 folks to pledge $10 for these cards, year two is officially underway!

Hey all! We had some delays in energy pushing our kickstarter since one of our team is out in Los Angeles (sending love to our LA fam!) BUT reality is we got 5 MORE DAYS TO GO WITH OUR KICKSTARTER and only $1200 away from our goal.

So a highlight for you...Signed, Really, Shockingly Bad Things!

Reward highlight!
For $500 you get a Yearlong Mentorship with Editor-in-Chief Sam Asher🔥Clarion Graduate, published in a whole bunch of magazines you really, really love, AND a new collection, Sam Asher knows the business of short fiction as well as anyone in the world.

We have 10 days to go for our kickstarter and we are 60% there! Let’s do this!🐙🚀💀🔮👻

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www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

We have 11 days to go for our kickstarter!
Here’s another reward for you…

At $20 you get a signed personalized copy of ONLY ANIMALS by @crsutton.bsky.social - a speculative flash fiction chapbook from @wrongpublishing.bsky.social

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Story time!
Check out “The Stolen Sabbath” by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social

Illustration by @nivtales.bsky.social

Read here 🕯️
www.thecosmicbackground.com/stories/jenn...

#newfiction #flashfiction #fiction

Kickstarter reward highlight! 🔥Adopt a Creature of the Background🔥👉🏼 $50💀
Back at this level and you’ll receive one of the eldritch horrors of the Cosmic Background in the mail.

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Story time! Gather round for a great one by Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social

Check out "MY SQUEALING FAN IS SOMEONE ELSE'S TERRIBLE WEEK
www.thecosmicbackground.com/stories/emmi...

Kickstarter highlight time! For the low low price of $50 toward our future in the great Static, you get a signed copy of @olivasthewriter.bsky.social debut novel, Sundown in San Ojuela. It is KILLER.

Hey yo - last year we made these Cosmic Background fortune teller cards for the kickstarter. If we added them as a reward this year - what would you like the Cosmic Background to give you advice or predictions on?

We have added a starter pack of our published writers as we find them on this app. Follow them! They are amazing and have pleased the creatures living in the cosmic background!

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For those of you who don’t know us, hello! We are a new flash fiction and poetry magazine publishing all that is weird and slipstream. Always free to read ans we pay our writers pro-rates. Start the year off with some reading: www.thecosmicbackground.com

Happy 2025 to all those who celebrate the passage of time. We are fresh from the bowels of the other place and happy to be here. Also our second year Kickstarter is up and running! 15 more days to get to $5K!

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