An endless war. An endless invasion. She knows why she is there, but there is something she's forgetting. In a battle against time, what is the first to go? And what is the first to come back?
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@jack-hollings.bsky.socialAn endless war. An endless invasion. She knows why she is there, but there is something she's forgetting. In a battle against time, what is the first to go? And what is the first to come back?
@thewritersgrotto.bsky.socialSpend six weeks drafting and developing a new short story in a supportive creative community.
Thursdays, October 15th - November 19th; from 6:00-8:30pm PT. Via Zoom.
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@docuguy.bsky.socialThe seventh story in the Hollywood Extinction Event series HAS ARRIVED. It's a story series for the web (short, readable on a phone) about what brought down Hollywood. All the stories are at the link. #hollywood #shortfiction #stories #offprint
@coldopenstories.bsky.social🩻 😨 Desire. Repulsion. Annihilation.
Start the spooky season with one of our fantastic erotic horror tales: The Mavka’s Lament—link in bio.
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialIn Meg Elison’s free SF story “Small Wonder,” a woman searches for the 1980s sitcom she remembers about a robot girl who lived in a cabinet. A TV scholar can’t find it, and the online traces are thin. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://therumpus.net/2026/08/16/small-wonder/
@nickguthrie.co.ukGotta love the sound of contributor copies coming through the letterbox!
#mystery #CrimeFiction #MysteryFiction #ShortFiction
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialIn Adam-Troy Castro’s new story, an artist with five bodies is forcibly turned into a talking orange. It says it’s happier this way, unsettling the scholar studying it. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-raspberry-manifesto-of-professor-warana/
@alexdavis1981.bsky.socialI'll be kicking off January's event with a day-long look at the world of WRITING SHORT STORIES, just the thing to fire the creativity after the Christmas and New Year break! www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-sh... #shortstory #shortstories #NewYear #writing #writers #fiction #shortfiction
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialAlex T. Singer’s “We, the Fleet” won the 2026 Sturgeon Award for best SF short story. A starship AI builds a fleet to bring life to a barren world until a human ship crashes. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://file770.com/alex-t-singer-wins-2026-theodore-sturgeon-memorial-award/
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialJeff Soesbe's free SF story 'Modern Birdwatching' imagines smart birds reviewing backyard feeders online. A birder's 1.5-star rating leads to a balcony protest by pigeons, crows and hummingbirds. https://escapepod.org/2026/09/17/escape-pod-1063-modern-birdwatching/ #SciFi #ShortFiction
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialIn Adam-Troy Castro's 'The Sharing of Some Familiar Song,' aliens receive human art through a chain of species translating it. They send back their own story, hoping one feeling survives the trip. https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-sharing-of-some-familiar-song/ #SciFi #ShortFiction
@prlserials.bsky.socialBright Lives – One-Shot – The Corruption of Ogi
#cosmichorror #scifi #fantasy #shortfiction #fiction #comicbook
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialIn Melissa Olthoff’s free SF story “Wrong Target,” the Roman Empire spans star systems. After assassins strike the imperial palace, Rome’s special forces hunt the person who paid them. https://www.baen.com/wrong_target #SciFi #ShortFiction
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialMichael Swanwick's 2026 collection The Universe Box includes a new story about animatronic characters escaping a miserable life in an amusement park. https://tachyonpublications.com/product/the-universe-box/ #SciFi #ShortFiction
@jack-hollings.bsky.socialDo you need to pump up those reading numbers on storygraph before the year is over? Do you want to read a short story about a weird time loop on Mars?
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@faythompsonauthor.bsky.socialYou may write essays and nonfiction. These count too. What you are doing is growing your online presence in an active way.
Always post links to your available works online so fans can search them out and read them. Grow your base. Keep up with your links.
@faythompsonauthor.bsky.socialA finished short story becomes a life-long asset you can sell over and over into new markets. Never sell your rights. Always limit length of use particularly on websites. Keep good records and read all contracts carefully to protect your interests.
@faythompsonauthor.bsky.socialTry to write a new short fiction every two weeks. This is a numbers game. Short fiction sells. I mean every piece will eventually sell somewhere. There is no better marketing than work where readers can find and read it. Today, focus on a short story.
@faythompsonauthor.bsky.socialGood Morning Writers!!!
It's Wednesday and that means you are writing a short story today.
You need to provide writing for readers to read in between your novels. Your best option is short stories, poetry and nonfiction pieces showing up everywhere.