Been a while since I dropped one of my favorites.
It is still available and shippable. 🫀
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Been a while since I dropped one of my favorites.
It is still available and shippable. 🫀
My latest story is very angry and timely and I'd like it to stop being timely.
Cover for Wen Wen Yang's Big Fire: Angry.
Good morning! In today's Editor Pick: A hungry crow answers a scream in the woods and finds himself bound to a fox spirit whose magic is written in ink, bone and revenge. It's Big Fire: Angry by Wen Wen Yang. Read it for free at gavagai.com
Cover for Wen Wen Yang's Big Fire: Angry.
Good morning! In today's Editor Pick: A hungry crow answers a scream in the woods and finds himself bound to a fox spirit whose magic is written in ink, bone and revenge. It's Big Fire: Angry by Wen Wen Yang. Read it for free at gavagai.com
Jonathan Roth interviewed me about my upcoming picture book, I AM LIGHT (Tilbury House Publishers, illustrated by Merce Lopez), at jonathan-roth.com/2026/03/03/g...
Tomorrow is the last day to nominate works for the Nebula Awards!
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New collection: A Working Definition of Us: February 2026 — by Gavagai @gavagai
For today's Editor Pick and the last installment of the "A Working Definition of Us" triptych: One girl’s doubt at a mate’s funeral ignites a dangerous question: what if survival runs on something else? It's Two Chord Salute by E J Delaney. Read it for free at gavagai.com
The month is almost over, and a new issue of The Dark will be up soon. But you can, of course, still read my tale "Hunger," along with excellent stories from @sillysyntax.bsky.social @anovelescape.bsky.social and Wailana Kalama.
www.thedarkmagazine.com/hunger-2/
A flyer of Rachel's stories available for award reading in 2025.
My flash story 'Hold Your Horses Close' (860 words) is on the Nebula Reading list and can be considered for the Hugo. I would love if you could give it read! plotthoundmag.com/hold-your-ho...
Check out Myna’s round-up! She’s one of my go-tos when I’m looking for flash recommendation.
Contract signed! I am delighted to share that my AO3-inspired horror flash will be published with @gavagai.com soon!
My story “Hold Your Horses Close” published @plotthoundmag.bsky.social is on the Nebula reading list. I’d love if you’d consider it while reading for awards!
plotthoundmag.com/issues/
Very grateful to Gavagai for featuring “Station-Keeping”. This is a story for my fellow nerds, and anyone who has ever felt that the orbit of their life has gone off course.
Screenshot of a story on gavagai.com
Good morning! In today's Editor Pick: A traumatized musician returns to the friend tied to his collapse and, under a telescope’s cold eye, confronts the gravity of what he’s been carrying. It's Station-Keeping from Cecil Fenn. Read it for free at gavagai.com
The story I wrote for @gavagai.com's 1000-character prompt last week has made first place, voted for by my fellow readers and writers there. So pleased! The prompt word was <hate>
Check it out for free here:
gavagai.com/g1000/week/13
#vss #winner #writingprompts #hate #Gavagai1000
Nebula noms close in a few days!! Here’s a reminder of all my eligible stories. I’d be honored if you considered one of them this year. 🫶Links on my website: AbigailKemske.com
Eeee!!!! I am absolutely thrilled and delighted to see that Wolf Moon, Antler Moon made the final Stoker Award Ballot in the long fiction category. Huge congratulations to all my fellow finalists! I don't think it's online yet, but it's in an HWA email so it's really real! 🐺🌕🦌🌕
Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction Barb, Patrick — “Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monster” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press) Due, Tananarive — “My Long Road to Horror” (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Saga Press) Jones, Stephen Graham — “Why Horror” (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Saga Press) Moshaty, Mo — “Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism” (Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre) (1428 Publishing Ltd) Pelayo, Cynthia — “My Mother Was Margaret White” (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Saga Press)
So, uh, guess who’s a Stoker Award finalist…
And to be nominated alongside some of my favorite authors/horror people…
Y’all!
Today's Editor Pick is the second installment in our "A Working Definition of Us" triptych: A solitary prototype searches for the only other voice that might make its existence something more than survival. It's Diana Olney's Everything Ends in Harmony. Read it for free at gavagai.com
Thanks so much to @howsweetthewords.bsky.social for the shout-out for my story, 'Hedge Witch'! You can read it at @gavagai.com
gavagai.com/posts/436
A few days late, but I did shout about some stories on Tuesday! This last week was a little witchy, and definitely wonderful.
We had stories from @jelliclejay.bsky.social and @tjohnstone.bsky.social Please come over and take a look at some lovely stories.
howsweetthewords.com/two-fic-tues...
Our second installment in this series goes live tomorrow morning! We’re still accepting subs for the final one to be published next Saturday. Check out the details here! gavagai.com/posts/2963
"A Woman Is Screaming" is now free to read in The Deadlands.
Besides posing an existential threat to our favorite nonprofit bookmobile, Antelope Lending Library (which is probably at the top of the list of reasons library haters are attacking bookmobiles)....
The library haters squatting in the Iowa Statehouse are at it again.
action.everylibrary.org/hf2324
📣SPECIAL UNEXPECTED SUBMISSION CALL ANNOUNCEMENT📣
If you hate ICE and love horror and Weird fiction, please take a look at our current, very specific and necessary sub call.
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...
Very happy to share with you my story "Spiders Eat Their Own" published in MetaStellar today! Whoop! Whoop! 😀
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
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