a golden retriever on a pastel field of grass
Tony the dog doodle ^_^
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a golden retriever on a pastel field of grass
Tony the dog doodle ^_^
Fusion Fragment #27 Table of Contents “A Prescription for Suicide” by Anya Leigh Josephs: controversial pills / ethical debates / at what cost, freedom? “Digital Love Spell – 78% Effective!” by Katharine Tyndall: amoral dating apps / the ends justify the means / be careful what you wish for “Extinction” by Ross Showalter: the last Deaf person on Earth / inventory / the end remains a question “One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods (Or, Asan and the Lion)” by Ewen Ma: invisible (?) lion cub demons / authoritarianism / escaping the exorcists “Overgrowth” by Cate W. Tam: the plant apocalypse / stagnancy vs. potential / writhing towards the light “The Animal Years” by Jaye Case: language augments / the liquid ones / you are not the center “The Sum of Her Parts” by J.Y. Zhang: migrant workers / abuses of power in the doll factory / therapy
It's official: We got ourselves a release date for FF#27!
Mark those calendars for
March 23rd
and get ready for stories by Anya Leigh Josephs, @katharinetyndall.bsky.social, Ross Showalter, @ewenmaer.bsky.social, @catenotkate.bsky.social, @julialicia.bsky.social, and @jyzh.bsky.social!
2026 Fusion Fragment Lineup Natasha Ali: “Parthenogenesis” in FF#29 Sophie Casarico: “Diet Tips for the Apocalpyse” in FF#28 Jaye Case: “The Animal Years” in FF#27 Chloe N. Clark: “The Rocket Equation” in FF#29 Corey Farrenkopf: “Grave Bells” in FF#28 Elliott Gish: “The Stone Garden” in FF#29 Louis Inglis Hall: “The Children of Cadmus” in FF#29 Claire Jia-Wen: “In the Wake of Whales” in FF#28 Anya Leigh Josephs: “A Prescription for Suicide” in FF#27 Ewen Ma: “One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods” in FF#27 Escher McDonnell-Maulsby: “Giant” in FF#29 Tuesday Pil: “u last saw hana in the mageverse” in FF#28 Sarah M. Saif: “Graftage” in FF#29 Ross Showalter: “Extinction” in FF#27 Erin Strubbe: “Birdguts” in FF#28 Cate W. Tam: “Overgrowth” in FF#27 Katharine Tyndall: “Digital Love Spell - 78% Effective!” in FF#27 Francis Van Ganson: “Iso E Super” in FF#28 Allison Wall: “Chutes, Slides, and Ladders” in FF#28 Bree Wernicke: “May It Please the Profit” in FF#29 J.Y. Zhang: “The Sum of Her Parts” in FF#27 Audrey Zhou: “(Non)Deterministic Finite Automata” in FF#28
The full FF 2026 lineup is officially set and I can't tell you how excited I am for what we've got in store for you!
We've got:
-writers making their second appearances in FF!
-writers you'll likely recognize from their work in other mags!
-writers making their debuts in SFFH short fiction land!
My copy of Emptiness: A One-shot Anthology arrived >:3
Contrary to popular belief quagsires are literate entities 🤔
Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.
The world is not ready ⛸️
This was so fun to be apart of :3
Happy v-day, grab a copy, embrace the existential dread 🥰🥰🥰
For this Valentine’s weekend, EMPTINESS: A ONE-SHOT ANTHOLOGY OF SPECULATIVE FICTION is available as a free ebook on Amazon!
CAN: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GL42LJJZ
US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GL42LJJZ
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GL42LJJZ
#fantasybooks #sciencefiction #Canadianwriters #freebooks #shortstories
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best thing ive yet to see in 2026
I painted these #Quagsire 🪆nesting dolls like… 3 years ago? Then proceeded to never post about them again haha. Well I found them after moving so… why not?! Nuotaro is proud of my work for me 😝
#ヌオー #pokemonfanart #maraiste #morlord
what in the prisonner's dilemma 💀
1/n things i tell myself the weekend before major cs assignment is due
tysm for reading + reviewing!! 🐛
omg its so pretty!! 🫣
Since we opened to submissions, we've reached over 260 patrons! As a thank you, we're doing a Patreon subscription giveaway! This includes access to our community Discord, behind-the-scenes newsletters, and more!
To enter, like and repost this post. We'll draw a winner on Monday, January 12th!
OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all!
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
anywayz happy 2026, i have a super srs website now, i made it instead of writing 👹: jyzhang.ca
sidequest: find employment (difficulty impossible)
✨ 2025 writing roundup ✨
wrote a solid 2.5 stories between 2 internships, deleted 5k words from my novel
✨ 2026 writing goals ✨
obtain cs degree (optional), make non-negative progress on my novel (optional), live laugh love (mandatory)
ok im sold, adding it to my tbr 🤩
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1 Like = 1 Tip for getting published in FF (2025 stories edition)
I've got the day off work, so time to bring back an old favourite, this time using lessons learned from all the great stuff we published in 2025. Let's do this.
real
our wishlist for the submission period. MORE: unabashedly fantasy or scifi settings; queerplatonic relationships, rural/pastoral settings; symbiotic relationships (toxic or beneficial). LESS: dead spouses; retellings; stories that don't show the monster; meet cutes (we're here for established relationships)
We're open for early subs from Dec 24-31! If you're an equity-deserving writer, send us SFF short fiction (500-3,500 words) & poetry.
Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)
“At dawn, we breach the perimeter to tag each one, disperse them, and make way for the next day’s batch.”
a true chiller, new this week, from @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/the-wound-i-...
T_T 🖤🖤🖤
"We do not know if Lepidoptera have episodic memories, or if it, too, would endure.
Ma has always believed that it would—that the caterpillar remembered itself. She had to, if she found metamorphosis beautiful at all."
Read 'Puparium' by @jyzh.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-pupa...
