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Short fiction: Homecoming
A sort of love story
#ShortStory #ShortFiction #IAmWriting

Spend 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.

www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...

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P. H. Low’s “Home/Body” is free to read: an exhausted architecture student enters a house that reshapes them room by room. Upstairs, a door opens onto different worlds, waiting for one that calls to them. https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/home-body/ #SFF #ShortFiction

“Stories about Iranian life and culture have never been told with such grace and complexity.”
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, author of there’s more
https://bit.ly/4lPKxkK

#Reading #ShortFiction #Books #CanLit #OwnVoice #Newcomer #Immigration
@uumez.bsky.social

SUE is now available to read.
She gave him everything he wanted—except the illusion that he had earned it.
A contemporary fantasy short story inspired by the White Snake legend.
Read free:
maria-yao.cc/fiction/sue

#Fantasy #ShortFiction #Folklore

3.75 Stars and start of Spooky Season Reads 🎃🍂 #booksky #bookreview #exiles #masoncoile #shortfiction #novella

In Seanan McGuire’s new free story “Children of Calliope,” a future school system bans poetry. A student finds a withdrawn Poe volume in her half-empty library and brings its verses to the school board. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/children-of-calliope/

New in Uncanny: Emily Y. Teng’s ‘Dragon Pearl’ follows a military recruit whose brain implant slowly remakes them to merge with a dragon-shaped starship. Their family may never see them again. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/dragon-pearl/

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Purrfect Tails will officially be released on Halloween-Eve, October 30th!

To celebrate this news, we’d like to give you all a big thank you for your hard work and creativity in the form of cat photos!

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Five artists sharing one mind are forced into a sentient orange—and love it. In Adam-Troy Castro’s Lightspeed story, the scientist studying it has engineered joy out of his own life. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-raspberry-manifesto-of-professor-warana/

In Shi Heiyao's new Clarkesworld story (translated by Andy Dudak), a mountain-sized alien in Malawi eats waste and excretes refined metal. The research base displaced a worker's family; now he plans to kill the creature. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/shi_10_26/

@bethgoder.bsky.social 's An Expression of Silence: A Short Fiction Collection Kickstarter is launching very, very soon! I had the pleasure of creating the book cover.

#shortfiction #SFF #flashfiction #crownfund #kickstarter #indieauthor #booksky #speculative

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New in Strange Horizons: Caleb Astey’s “138 Express Inbound” follows a clerk at a time-travel rail hub, where refugees arrive with tickets that could split a family into different years. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/138-express-inbound/

An amazing #interview today with #veganauthor Rissa Miller on her #poetry, #shortfiction, and #kidlit — the perfect read to get you in the #spooky #Halloween spirit!
#booksky #animalrights #folklore

In TOAST FOR TWO TONGUES, Gisèle Villeneuve reveals the richness, but also the challenges, of a life lived in two cultures and languages, not alternately, but at the same time.
https://bit.ly/4h3DST2

#books #literature #FarOuest #ShortFiction #ShortStories #FrancoAlbertan