The Phantom Pulse – a speculative fiction magazine
Today is the last day! Don’t self-reject. Send us your story before midnight Pacific Time.
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14.02.2026 13:19
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The Phantom Pulse – a speculative fiction magazine
There are only 3 days left to send us your story!
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11.02.2026 19:39
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The Phantom Pulse – a speculative fiction magazine
5 days until submissions are closed!
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09.02.2026 20:50
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Shout out time!
This climbing horror makes looking down at where you’ve been the least of your concerns…
‘Ascension’ by @authorplm.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social’s Issue 152
06.02.2026 22:44
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The Phantom Pulse – a speculative fiction magazine
Our submission window is open for 10 more days!
Send us horror stories that seep through skin and settle in the bones.
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04.02.2026 18:07
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The Sauce Packet King of the West Hills - Small Wonders
“Heard I might find you here.” She pulled out an honest-to-goodness glass bottle of ketchup, swaddled in bubble wrap.
Shout out time! Katherine Quevedo's story "The Sauce Packet King of the West Hills" captures a fun moment at the end of civilization and reminds us its the simple pleasures we should cherish. Give it a read at smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-sa... where it has been reprinted. @smallwondersmag.com
23.01.2026 22:55
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The Stars You Can't See by Looking Directly by Samantha Murray
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
This week’s shout out is for @samanthamurray.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com! We loved her story “The Stars You Can’t See By Looking Directly” and the flawless cascading of imagery and thoughts that delivers you to stars at the end of the world. clarkesworldmagazine.com/murray_01_26/
17.01.2026 15:53
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A quick FYI. We are renaming our "story of the week" posts to "shout out of the week".
Our weekly shout out goes to Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social and her story "We Used to Wake to Song" from @apexmag.bsky.social. Harrowing family relationships wrapped in water's inevitable pull. We loved it!
11.01.2026 03:34
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Week one of submissions has been incredible! Looking forward to more.
In the meantime, our Patreon is officially live. If you are looking to support us in the lead up to our first issue, check it out.
www.patreon.com/14807269/join
08.01.2026 22:43
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I Think She Is Starting to Suspect Something — Baffling Magazine
by Yeonsoo Julian Kim “When I was born, I had nothing.”
Check it out: the story of the week! "I Think She is Starting to Suspect Something" by @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social issue #22 is a slinking tale of Yearning that'll leave you looking askance at the faces of those you know and love
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
03.01.2026 02:44
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We are open for submissions! Send us your original horror fiction up to 3000 words, reprints up to 5000 words, and chilling cover art until February 14th. thephantompulse.com
The haunt begins today.
01.01.2026 18:16
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The Phantom Pulse – a speculative fiction magazine
The Phantom Pulse opens for submissions tomorrow! Check our guidelines and instructions for sending stories and art at thephantompulse.com
31.12.2025 17:21
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Last Story of The Week before we open for subs: “Who Are You Wearing?” by @russellnichols.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. We enjoyed this balanced bite of a story that picks at and peels back the layers of human autonomy and family until all you see is the exoskeleton that moves you.
26.12.2025 19:25
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Love when ppl turn to goo and debris 😍
19.12.2025 20:18
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3LBE Magazine - Songs Never Sung by Premee Mohamed
It only ever spoke to me once and that was to say Do not sleep too deeply. Said upon departure, an aside tossed over its shoulder like salt. I paid little attention; I was staring at the thing it had ...
It's time for the story of the week! Give a read to "Songs Never Sung" by @premeemohamed.com in Issue 46 of @3lobedmag.com. So much broken world and endless years delivered in the few words of a decaying yet deathless protagonist. It's what your weekend needs 🖤
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
19.12.2025 20:01
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I have two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines, podcasts, and publishers. You can follow all or some from these lists.
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
11.12.2025 17:48
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Our story of the week: "Hope is the Thing with Circuits and Steel" by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska from FFO. The story is weird and ripe with warnings for humanity. Grannies. Consumption. A question probing the nature of emotion acquisition. Give it a read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
05.12.2025 23:18
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SOTW: “The Last Minute Before the Rooster Crows” by Malena Salazar Maciá in The Deadlands. This story of twisted mathematics, the dying breaths of a mother, and odd inheritance had us calculating our love for the inexplicable weird and the hope in horror.
@thedeadlands.com
28.11.2025 22:16
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Our story of the week is “Things I Don’t Tell My Sister” by MM Schreier in Factor Four Magazine.
This story teases you with one horror of sisterhood only to hit you with a different one altogether at the end. Short, sweet, and sublimely messed up.
@mmschreier.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
22.11.2025 00:30
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Very excited for this new issue of @factorfourmagazine.com. I've got a little #scifi #flashfiction in it called "Things I Don't Tell My Sister"
Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social
Check it out here:
10.11.2025 13:49
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We’ve been reading ancient tomes (recently published mags) in search of eldritch truths (Friday’s story of the week). What have you read this week?
18.11.2025 20:53
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🕯️ The Phantom Pulse is open Jan 1–Feb 14, 2026!
Seeking speculative fiction that lingers in the grey corners of humanity - dread that seeps under the skin, strange obsessions, and the beautifully bizarre.
💰 $0.03/word (unpublished)
📖 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
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18.11.2025 16:30
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The Ones at the Top Didn’t Fall There – Cosmic Horror Monthly
This is Phantom Pulse's first story of the week!
From Cosmic Horror Monthly comes "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" by Joule K. Zelman. The story is pleasantly weird, the pacing is seamless, and the characterization is delightful.
Shout out to Joule K. Zelman!
@joulekzelm.bsky.social
15.11.2025 01:19
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Starting tomorrow, we will be shouting out recent stories we enjoyed every week!
13.11.2025 18:27
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Link is updated! Thank you for pointing this out again
11.11.2025 19:49
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Thank you! We just edited the invite so it should be eternal now.
11.11.2025 04:54
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