Beth Goder

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Flash Fiction Online March 2026 Flash Fiction Online is releasing our 150th issue! To celebrate our growth and change over the years, we’ve assembled a selection of stories depicting visceral transformations. Stories this m…

Our March 2026 "Transformations" issue is a milestone for us! This is our 150th issue!! 😃 To celebrate all the growth and changes we've made over the years, we've assembled stories that feature visceral transformations.
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Background of a blue-filtered street at night. Written on it: Laura Blackwell / 2025 Roundup & Awards Eligibility - "Breathing Night" at Simultaneous Times podcast, narr. Jean-Paul Garnier (Space Cowboy Books, 10/15/2025) Fantasy, 1100 words. - The Deadlands, ed. E. Catherine Tobler (Psychopomp). Speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction. Semipro, quarterly. - Story Hour, cohosted with Daniel Marcus. Speculative short stories read by their authors. Fancast, weekly. @pronouncedlahra

I didn't write a whole lot last year, but I did work on some awesome projects! Behold!

Arachnomorphosis The city is no place for a spider.

In case you're doing some last minute reading for the Nebula awards, I'll gently place my weird spider story here.

This made it on the Locus Recommended Reading List and it will be reprinted in Podcastle soon. It's a story that's close to my heart.

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Thank you!

Miles To Go Before I Sleep - PSYCHOPOMP.COM The third time Zoey meets Death, she is unarmed except for a bag of twenty-seven kazoos.

FFer Read of the Day: "Miles To Go Before I Sleep" by @bethgoder.bsky.social in @thedeadlands.com

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I love this ask & I added some folks I think don't get enough love, so I think this is worth a THREAD of my fave stories from the folks I posted. 1/11

Thank you!! 💕✨💕

Thank you for sharing my story! : )

FFer Read of the Day: "Please Properly Cage Your Words" by @bethgoder.bsky.social in @diabolicalplots.com

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Thank you!! 💕

Story recs: Six SFF stories that Broke my Brain (and Heart)…in the Best Way Six of my favorite SFF short stories from 2025 that are doing something really fascinating with form and point of view! These are stories…

More SFF short story recommendations! Amazing stories by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @nadiaradovich.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @sharangbiswas.bsky.social @bethgoder.bsky.social @cjtavares.bsky.social
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Just note that I'm sadly no longer submitting to Analog because of the many documented issues with the publisher. (This novella came out before the new publisher took over.)

2025 Recommended Reading List Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…

Oh my goodness, there I was making notes about stuff I want to read from the Locus Recommended Reading List when I came across two of my stories!

"Arachnomorphosis," my spider story in Strange Horizons.
"Murder on the Eris Express," my novella in Analog.

Mind blown! 🤯

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'Miles To Go Before I Sleep' by @bethgoder.bsky.social was such a powerful, surreal story with very real emotions, that I've chosen it along with two other stories for the category Most Emotional Short Story, 2025.
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This is so kind. Thank you so much! ❤️

I'm so thrilled to have one of my stories make this list!

An image of a list of stories: Arachnomorphosis by Beth Goder (Strange Horizons) Half Drowned by S. L. Harris (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) A Clockwork Gun by Josh Pearce (Bourbon Penn) Yarn Theory by Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld) The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead by E. M. Linden (PodCastle) Laser Eyes Ain't Everything by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots) Ten Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days by Samantha Mills (Uncanny)

Not finished with awards reading, but here is a batch of stories I really loved by @bethgoder.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, @reasie.bsky.social, @emlinden.bsky.social, @effies.bsky.social, and @samtasticbooks.com.

Thank you for creating these great stories.

Thank you!!

Arachnomorphosis The city is no place for a spider.

Anyway, I read @bethgoder.bsky.social "Arachnomorphosis" in Strange Horizons yesterday and it was a lovely story about loneliness and finding your way through it.

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Thank you for your kind words! ❤️

I find writing stories is one of the things helping me get through These Times. Reading, too.

Fusion Fragment | Patreon creating a home for great speculative fiction

Overall revenue was $1,738 in 2025 vs. $1,602 in 2024.

So, big shoutout to Team Patreon. FF's Patreon subscriber base is just 35 people, but they make up the majority of our revenue and help keep the lights on.

And of course, if you want to join: www.patreon.com/fusionfragment

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Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories, 2024 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Afterlives The Year’s Best Death Fiction 2024 Curated by Sheree Renée Thomas While Psychopomp aims to publish all the death fiction, we cannot possibly, so we decided to round up the best death storie...

Here's a gorgeous book, Afterlives : The Year's Best Death Stories.

It includes my story, "Labyrinth."

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Eating the Sun - Small Wonders The rest of her broodmates had already left for ascension. She needed fuel for the journey. She needed to eat the sun.

Our reprint today is an unexpected connection between a sun and a hungry space creature. Check out "Eating the Sun" by @bethgoder.bsky.social here:

House Heartbeat - 100-Foot Crow By: Beth Goder. The house had a heartbeat. The walls pulsed like lungs breathing. Once inside, Clara could hear the booming rhythm. It wasn’t the biggest house on the block, or the most recently renov...

NEW STORY: "House Heartbeat" by @bethgoder.bsky.social.
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Wow, that's very cool! Hooray for the FF reading team. I'm excited to be sharing an issue with my slushing teammates! : )

Issue 30 - Small Wonders

Oh hey look, is that the latest issue of @smallwondersmag.com with not one, not two, but THREE members of the mighty FF reading team sharing the TOC?!?! Grab a copy to read shorts by @elijah.mea.rs @speculativekane.bsky.social @bethgoder.bsky.social and more!

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Day 4 of TTL's look back, and @bethgoder.bsky.social takes us to look at a space sunflower, following which she takes us to look at a space sunflower, following which she takes us to look at a space sunflower, following which she takes us to look at a space sunflower, following which she takes us to

Photograph of an e-reader with the cover of 101 Things to Do before You're Downloaded upright and leaning back against the trade paperback edition. Both covers are in pastel pinks, purples, blues, and yellows. They're both against a 1950s-style striped background with tiny atomic bursts and rocket ships. The UPC is for the signed limited edition, not the trade paperback. The bottom of the front cover shows the skyline of a futuristic city from which a rocket zooms and goes into orbit parallel with the subtitle. Vertical along the right side of the cover is a digitized human form rising up from the city and wrapped in an atomic nucleus.

And on a cheerier note after my recent downer updates — for those who prefer to ingest your science fiction via pixels rather than paper, an electronic edition of my science fiction short story collection 101 Things to Do Before You're Downloaded is also available. pspublishing.co.uk/101-things-t...

That's so kind of you to say. I hope the same for your story!