Try 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.

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Good 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.

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Tobias S. Buckell’s “Down in the Dim Kingdoms” follows a tourist airship into a hollow Earth. Giant ant-like people serve its passengers and build an elevator to the surface. https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/down-in-the-dim-kingdoms/ #SciFi #ShortFiction

In Max Gladstone’s SF story “The Assumption of Maria,” a detective searches for a missing accountant in a future where digital records can change behind his back. https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-assumption-of-maria/ #SciFi #ShortFiction

Johnny Caputo’s “The Rewilding of Lot 4987”: golf-course robots plant a garden where their corporate owner wanted more grass. A driverless dozer comes to destroy it. https://escapepod.org/2026/09/24/escape-pod-1064-the-rewilding-of-lot-4987/ #SciFi #ShortFiction

V.M. Ayala’s “If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I”: a mechanic in a metal body finds the serpent spaceship she helped build for fleeing elites crashed on her ruined planet. https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/if-a-discarded-god-can-change-so-can-i/ #SciFi #ShortFiction

Brie Atienza’s “People Shoot People” follows a grieving woman whose dead activist partner returns as a talking smart gun. He wants her to bring him to a protest. https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/people-shoot-people/ #SciFi #ShortFiction

In Jenny M. Liu’s “my fingers formed into guns,” mammals are vanishing. A war robot sees apparitions of the missing while searching for survivors from its scattered unit. https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/my-fingers-formed-into-guns/ #SciFi #ShortFiction

In Benjamin Rosenbaum's “Memeostasis,” a hidden colony at the edge of the solar system seeds asteroids with lichen that can grow in a vacuum. They expect a fruit every 1,000 to 10,000 Earth years. https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/memeostasis/ #SciFi #ShortFiction

In Fawaz Al-Matrouk's Alien Boy, a boy who fled war in Kuwait hears a helicopter outside his Canadian apartment. He fills the bathtub and tapes the windows, fearing another invasion. The helicopter is chasing a UFO. https://reactormag.com/alien-boy-fawaz-al-matrouk/ #SciFi #ShortFiction

In Isabel Yap’s Into Your Sun-Blessed Life, a teen wins a scholarship for translating sacred texts into the language of aliens occupying her home. Her brother calls it giving scripture to the enemy. https://reactormag.com/into-your-sun-blessed-life-isabel-yap/ #SciFi #ShortFiction

Rich Larson’s “In the Hours Preceding the Fall of Tau-Sants” follows two agents buying a gun to end an empire. It fires once, and the gunsmith must know which agent will pull the trigger. https://reactormag.com/in-the-hours-preceding-the-fall-of-tau-sants-rich-larson/ #SciFi #ShortFiction

In James Patrick Kelly’s “No Agency Without Identity! Stay In Character Always!”, a digital assistant wakes decades after shutdown. Its owner is dead, and orphaned AIs face erasure. https://reactormag.com/no-agency-without-identity-james-patrick-kelly/ #SciFi #ShortFiction

Once again posing as a narrator for @pseudopod.org short horror fiction.

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Episode 4 of M. Pax Tales is live! A science fiction short story about the aftermath of a successful rebellion & the difficult choices waiting on the other side of victory. buff.ly/HDiCmGx
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In Ken Liu’s new Uncanny story, camera headbands record workers’ clicks and gestures to train the AIs meant to replace them. The workers quietly feed the models bad data.

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-sigilary-for-the-median-human-in-the-gearwrack/

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In Vajra Chandrasekera's The Age of Cancer, the giant crabs from H.G. Wells's The Time Machine watch the traveler barely move for generations. They try to build a sign in orbit to show him the future he skipped. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-age-of-cancer/

I submitted a short story to the Dark Helix Press' anthology 'Once Upon Our Time' calling for fairy tale retellings. Fingers crossed!

Has anyone worked with them before?

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In A.M. Maris’s free story “Legs,” a lab-grown creature thinks she is her keeper’s beloved pet. He trains her to catch balls, then enters her in brutal fights against other engineered animals. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/legs/

Dale Bailey’s free novelette After the Tripods revisits H.G. Wells’s Martian invasion 27 years later. The aliens died, but red blight spreads from their fallen machines across London and World War I battlefields. https://reactormag.com/after-the-tripods-dale-bailey/ #SciFi #ShortFiction