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"The iron-red night rain was kind to nothing, least of all my long-distance surveillance drones. I was burning favors by the second piggybacking on other people's surveillance feeds." #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia

In this #ShortStory Sunday, watch a girl uncover a photograph after society's collapse.

Read this story now at https://theotherworldsblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-photograph.html

#AuthorSky #BookSky #ShortFiction #ShortStories #WriterSky

Another new #story dropped from my #anthology “ExWorlds 1” serialized before the #Halloween release. flashfictionperrymarkstratychuk.substack.com/p/the-grim-t... #shortfiction #weirdtales #sci-fi

3. Well... Is it important if it keeps happening? With infinite choices and infinite chances, everything that could happen does.
But when the time comes, they will know it's the lucky one.

#timetravelauthors #writing #shortfiction

Super excited to have won the @foofarawpress.bsky.social “ordinary” short story contest with a story that might not be quite that ordinary. 😂

#amwriting #shortfiction #SpecFic

🏚️ For sale: one haunted mansion. Comes with the echoes of family trauma included. Reduced for a quick sale.

Read ‘The Magistrate’ by Matthew Tucker: linktr.ee/coldopenstor... (or click link in bio for more great stories).

#ShortFiction #ShortStories #Horror

Episode 4 of M. Pax Tales on Substack! The First Council, an original science fiction story. Human written and read. What happens after the rebellion?
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#audiobook #sciencefiction #writing #writingcommunity #videobook #shortfiction #scifi

"They came into this war expecting to lose. They did, again and again. But with failure no longer
being the end, it became simply one more advantage to exploit. Who knew—maybe that was exactly the
kind of thing that'd get them to the Tower."

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#timetravelauthors #shortfiction

Short fiction for the weekend
The Long Road from the Black Death
...an unpopular professor retires.
#ShortStory #ShortFiction #History

Demonstrating my slick video skills - a sneak preview of the Nick's Briefs series of ultra-short crime stories.
#mystery #CrimeFiction #MysteryFiction #ShortFiction #bloopers
www.tiktok.com/@nickguthrie...

New episode of The Stellar: Origins is out to our paid supporters on Patreon & by purchasing access to the entire collection of short stories here: www.patreon.com/collection/2...

#TheStellarOrigins #solarpunk #sffh #sciencefiction
#solarpunkPresents #podcast #shortfiction #ownvoices #blacksffh

Steamy Couple Treats: 10 character-driven stories. including: “The Aid Station, 1916”; “The Magnificent Threesome” trilogy; “Vanilla”; “Crimean Fairy Tale”; and “8:00 PM: Appointment Tee Vee.” 💙📚 #romancelandia #shortfiction #quickreads #eroticromance 🌶️📚 ⏳📚

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👻 To celebrate our favourite month of the year, we’re dropping new audiobooks of #Warhammer40k fast fiction AND full-length #shortfiction Originals every FRIDAY in October.

Check out the first release here:
youtu.be/Tqio1LBN6g8?...

In P.A. Cornell’s “The Astronaut Among the Flowers,” a girl on a colony world finds a dead astronaut in a field of violet flowers. The suit is older and more advanced than any human-made one. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://www.horrorreview.com/book-review-the-astronaut-among-the-flowers/

#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction posted during September.

"He's standing in front of his favorite Rothko. He's not seeing a red stripe on a black background: everything is cracking and the blood-red fire behind is rising in hunger and hate."

Discover the world's worst short story involving a trucker. It's free and complete at worlds-worst-website.com/worst-trucke... ( #shortStory, #fiction, #trucker, #trucking, #truckDriver, #18wheeler, #pickleball, #motorhome, #classA, #dieselPusher, #shortFiction)