Sword lesbians, chivalry, and mech suit jousting (oh my)
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Sword lesbians, chivalry, and mech suit jousting (oh my)
Check out my flash fiction in Small Wonders today!
Excited to share I have a new short forthcoming in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social! Keep your eyes open if you enjoy:
🏡Cottagecore vibes
🧙🏻♀️Stout witches (who are more than they seem)
🔮Magic with a cost
❄️Nordic-inspired worlds
Coming in late March!
#fantasy #shortfiction #shortstory
Hey there. Latest story, now out, "Scion." Strangeness. Estrangement. And the history that gets lost in between. A son and father in a moving house. Deranged relatives at cross-purposes. A community fleeing a murderous intruder. A crumbling lunar colony in revolt. Hope folks enjoy. Twisty one.
For those who have been waiting for the paperback 👀‼️
Finally starting to write more regularly again, which is great!
The reason: I have gotten stuck at Act 3 of Silksong.
Picture of book ‘Uncertain Sons and Other Stories’ sitting on someone’s lap
Finishing up ‘Uncertain Sons’ by @thomasha.bsky.social — highly recommend!
I’d already read a few of these stories over the years but enjoyed seeing how themes/imagery overlaps across the collection.
Especially enjoyed ‘Window Boy’, ‘Balloon Season’ and ‘Sweetbaby’. Creepy, haunting and WEIRD. 🤌
ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below).
also hey, this issue is stacked??
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
Can't get enough of these AI gross-out stories, and this one is great! Isabel J. Kim in Clarkesworld: clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
I always felt like the whole ‘abundance’ shit was just a desperate attempt to reanimate the corpse of neoliberalism
a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.
A pile of Uncertain Sons, just a lot of uncertainty and a lot of sons
Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.
Love this book, such a great cover design!
Ghost library is the perfect way to describe it haha
I religiously create a new document each time I start a major round of revisions and then never, ever look at the old drafts again 😂
Really enjoyed listening to this! Was a great opportunity to revisit an old favourite.
Ars Technica is owned by Conde Nast, who last year announced a partnership with OpenAI. 🔗👇
It’s a sad reality that for every wholesome online community that exists to welcome marginalized folks of all stripes, there’s a parallel one for just the absolute worst kind of freaks on the planet.
It’s a mixed bag, the internet…
nobody predicted that the internet would create imagined communities or public spheres for creeps, cranks, lunatics, and psychopaths
This! And encoded in that difference is the whole neoliberal capitalist mindset, because to the people who build these things, those objections are, respectively, (a) irrelevant to profits;(b) a forgettable externality; (c) a healthy marketing environment; and (d) the whole point in the first place
It's been a while, but I can finally make one of those vague 'good stuff in the works' posts.
One short piece in rewrites, another held for consideration.
Really excited about the home these two have found... :)
Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words.
If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.
BCS opened for submissions 17 years ago this month, July 2008, and has been open continuously since. Writing all submission replies with personalized comments.
And we're still going! Send us your great character-driven secondary-world setting stories.
one like, one writing opinion (void while prohibited, while supplies last).
Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned to know what the difference is between weird fiction and horror. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...
The V*mpire was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award:
locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...
Congratulations to all the other finalists!
The BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to keeping paying our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium. Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But <1% of our readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/2
Aww thanks, you just made my day haha! When I write something else in that vein, I will be sure to send it your way. :)
Congrats!
Well deserved 👏