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SF mag from Canada | 2007-2013, 2020- | Opening to submissions on November 1st.
Publisher of Saros SF
For all of your various FF needs: http://linktr.ee/fusionfragment

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@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:39 AM

Small glitch with the Saros Moksha portal (not Moksha's issue--but rather I had something set wrong) that was throwing up some messages about submissions no longer being accepted. Sorry about that--it's fixed now and we're still open through the 14th!

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:49 PM

Check out Sheldon's collection Where the Pavement Turns to Sand from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social here: malarkeybooks.com/store/pavement

Sheldon Birnie is a writer, dad, and beer league hockey player from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of the short story collections Where the Pavement Turns to Sand (2023) and More Strange Visions (forthcoming), both from Malarkey Books.
@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:49 PM

Saros SF #6 story preview! The issue kicks off with "Wristwatch" by @badguybirnie.bsky.social where, in between ginos and apples and filthy dangles, the boys happily sign their humanity away for the latest gadgets. Our hero feels differently.

sarossf.com/issue-6/

"Wristwatch" by Sheldon Birnie: beer league hockey / everything's computer / touching grass

Me, I don’t say anything. Not at first, anyhow. Just shake my head, raise my eyebrows to my buddy Neil sitting next to me, which gets a laugh. Ernie and Max, though, they don’t pay no mind. They’re geeking out over their biometric wristwatches like they’re the best things since sliced frickin bread. With the data they’re collecting, the behaviour they’re modifying as a result of the information the computer’s feeding back to them, they’ll live forever.
@bethgoder.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 4:53 PMReposted by @fusionfragment.bsky.social

My Kickstarter for my debut short story collection is live!

If you back in the first 48 hours, I'll send you a bonus sticker!

Thanks for your support!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bet...

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 8:18 PM

FFer Read of the Day: "Twelve Facts About the Dermestid Beetle" by @marisca.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/twel...

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 2:13 PM

I hope to see you there! Maybe I need to get myself a really obnoxiously obvious FF shirt or something so I'm easily identifiable.

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 2:12 PM

Hope to see you there! Are you going to be doing a table in the vendor room, or just in full attendee-only mode?

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 3:29 PM

I gotta put myself on a Vitamin C regimen or something this year. No getting sick again this time!

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 3:12 PM

OK people, it's coming up fast, so who do I know here on Bluesky who'll be at @canconsffh.bsky.social? I missed out last year, so excited to get back and meet some folks in person for the first time!

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 12:49 PM

If you see this, recommend a short book The Arrival of Missives by Aliya Whiteley

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 6:16 PM

Huge congrats to FFers @nkereuwxm.bsky.social and @angelaliu.bsky.social on their Ignyte wins!!

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 2:11 PM

One last preview for FF#28 and it's time to play Match the Quotes from @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social's reviews of @escapepod.org stories in this issue's From the Archives column. Which is which? Stories by @keffy.bsky.social Alex Dally MacFarlane @natania.bsky.social @kijjohnson.bsky.social!

Quote 1: “This story is as rip-roaring a good time of a genre mashup as a fundamentally tragic tale can be.”

Quote 2: “This is a deliciously and deliriously strange story, in which advertising and eroticism intertwine in ways I would never have dreamed.”

Quote 3: “The writing is lovely, clear and forthright and wholly sympathetic to the existence of someone who, by the accounting of everyone else in the story, should not have ever come to exist.”

Quote 4: “It feels phenomenally strange to list these various death-mat ing rites as potential works of art, and there is something so lingering about that way of framing these pictures.”
@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 12:52 PM

FFer Read of the Day: "The Memory Swap" by @eggandcressida.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

flashfictiononline.com/articles/the...

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 5:21 PM

September's over and it's also Bandcamp Friday today (where you can buy most of these) so some shoutouts to the albums I had playing the most last month while working on FF#29 and Saros #7.

Albums on repeat at FF HQ:

#1. Cinephile - Ten
#2. Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark
#3. Velvet Two Stripes - Sugar Honey Iced Tea
#4. Rose Windows - Rose Windows
#5. Greylag - Greylag
#6. All Them Witches - House of Mirrors
#7. Just Mustard - Heart Under
#8. Nico Vega - Make It Out Alive EP
#9. Hana Vu - Romanticism
#10. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 4:34 PM

36. A fantasy novel that I won't name because although it started off great, I thought it had a difficult final third and an absolute disaster of an ending.

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:07 AM

Two weeks left to get those stories in!

@authorizedmusings.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 11:43 PMReposted by @fusionfragment.bsky.social

this Throwback Thursday, I invite you to visit (or revisit!) my short story, "Sailing to Byzantium."

It appeared in issue 4 of @fusionfragment.bsky.social

www.fusionfragment.com/issue-4/

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 5:32 PM

Saros SF #7 is nearly here! Release date coming soon, so get ready for stories by @adamdelrey.bsky.social, Alexandra Nyx, Mir Rainbird, Mathew Lebowitz, Becks Simpson, and @kirkvanderbeek.bsky.social. Edited by @thompsinator.bsky.social, this issue features cover art by @chpearcewrites.bsky.social!

The cover of Saros #7 shows a woman on her phone, while faces peer at her. A small wormy caterpillar type insect emerges from her mouth.
@fusionfragment.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 5:59 PM

There's a sudden uptick in downloads of FF#26. No idea why, but I'm old, I don't have to understand trends anymore. What's most important is that you, too, jump on the bandwagon.

www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

@ecwpress.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 1:12 PMReposted by @fusionfragment.bsky.social

September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Today and every day we encourage you to reflect on the painful legacy of residential schools and colonization in Canada, support Indigenous businesses and creators, engage in community events, and listen to Indigenous voices.

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