lowry (they/them)

@ferretly.bsky.social

black author, artist, veterinarian, and aspiring renaissance man 🌿 clarion west '23 🌿 words in strange horizons, khōréō, fiyah, and lightspeed

THE WOLF MAID FROM THE SEA (neon hemlock) - Nov 24th

https://lowrypoletti.wordpress.com/

@lightspeedmagazine.comReposted by @ferretly.bsky.social

According to Kickstarter tracking service, Kicktraq, the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE campaign is trending toward only reaching 94% of our goal. So WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP. If you love SF, fantasy, and horror short fiction, please consider backing today and sharing this post. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

@zzclaybourne.bsky.socialReposted by @ferretly.bsky.social

BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION MONTH Approaching the 2nd weekend of the annual October celebration of the Black Fantastic, gotta ask if you've read anything by Charles Saunders, L.A. Banks, or -contemporarily- Veronica Henry, Malon Edwards, Tana Jenkins, Leslye Penelope, Rob Cameron, Linda Addison...

@partyinthefront.bsky.socialReposted by @ferretly.bsky.social

Hey everyone! So, I've had my commissions closed for a long time, and life has been bumpy, but I think I may have some time to open 1-2 cover slots, depending on volume and deadline, starting soon. Wouldn't mind some fantasy/ttrpg work. Some samples:

@3lobedmag.comReposted by @ferretly.bsky.social

Our magazine has a long title, but we love short fiction, it’s all we publish. Stories that stir fear and joy into a coupe glass. Stories that build a skyscraper of bones and blood. Stories that dig a hole in a star to reach its tender heart. Help us keep doing this!

Back us here!
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@lightspeedmagazine.comReposted by @ferretly.bsky.social

The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.đź’–
bit.ly/LS-NM-26

LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE Kickstarter graphic. Left side: Bright light blue background with rays (as of light) bursting out from the center. Central image is an open book with a rocket blasting up out of it. Below the book is the LIGHTSPEED magazine wordmark; the word lightspeed is rendered in a orange-to-yellow gradient, with a white outline around it and dropshadow underneath it. Right side: Bright light yellow background with rays (as of light) bursting out from the center. Central image is an open book with a haunted house emerging from it. Below the book is the NIGHTMARE magazine wordmark; the word nightmare is rendered in a dark red to lighter red gradient, with a white outline around it and dropshadow underneath it. Top: the words "LIVE on Kickstarter"
@tinylesbianrobot.itch.ioReposted by @ferretly.bsky.social

no offense to those of us still struggling with a little brain poison but it really weirds me out when I see people discussing fiction in a way that frames any sexual content as a value negative by default that must 'earn' or otherwise justify its presence

@tiffmorris.bsky.socialReposted by @ferretly.bsky.social

I was also thinking recently about how my writing is sometimes charged with being pretentious. I don’t think it is - it’s poetic but my work is still about working people and common experiences of grief, economic precarity, toxic relationships. To me, pretentious lit is boring rich people problems.

@ferretly.bsky.social

still submitting this one but rest assured it is Very Gross. keep an eye out for fucked up weird western horror, featuring a possessed horse, fae magic, and psychic witches with snake parasites

The pale lump of flesh has the face of a fawn, so sweet and blue-eyed that I can tell just by looking at it that it had no chance of breathing. A tawny snout grabs it by the glass-skin of its neck and in a moment that face is a leaking pulp; it crushed clay-like between the canines by the sounds of it, and I’m thinking that that shouldn’t taste very good, all that clay and rubber baby bone, all that salted heartsblood and ruby lungs and—I’m thinking look at the saliva dripping from that long, long tongue and the moment those fangs pop through the skin and then look: it drinks so slowly, the bitch.
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