Did you publish a speculative short/novelette this year? (Or several?) Post it on this thread! I want to read it, help me find it!! 📚📚📚 - ThreadSky

ecastroianni.bsky.social • 171 days ago

Did you publish a speculative short/novelette this year? (Or several?) Post it on this thread! I want to read it, help me find it!!

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ashvalewrites.bsky.social•171 days ago

I got my first short story publication this year with Heartlines Spec! It features an unreliable narrator, sapphic yearning, and creepy fae 🧚‍♂️

https://www.heartlines-spec.com/i-met-my-wife-in-the-woods/

ecastroianni.bsky.social•171 days ago

Congratulations on your first pub! 🎉🎉🎉

morriswayts.bsky.social•171 days ago

How short and how published are we talking here? I've got 60k words spread on about 40 stories over on my Ko-fi free2read.

mimulus.bsky.social•171 days ago

It’s been a slow publishing year for me. But my dark fantasy mall story “Layaway” was in the Escalators to Hell anthology from @frombeyondpress.bsky.social

https://frombeyondpress.com/product/escalators-to-hell-shopping-mall-horrors/

jlgeorge.bsky.social•171 days ago

I had a story in @heartlines-spec.com which became free-to-read this week -- it's a quiet, slightly melancholy thing about fleeing a destroyed world and making a new home: https://www.heartlines-spec.com/between-worlds-a-between-worlds-by-jl-george/

gunnardewinter.bsky.social•171 days ago

One tiny brain twister (https://www.patreon.com/posts/february-13-de-94490521) and one larger YA SF story (and my first ever fiction commission: https://www.frivolouscomma.com/solaris-and-riptide/)
Thanks for doing this! Stories often feel like blips before they fade, so any excuse to mention them is heartwarming.

claramadrigano.bsky.social•171 days ago

Yup! Had a novelette, "How to care for your domestic god," published by F&SF earlier this year! https://fandsf.com/current.htm

ephiny.bsky.social•171 days ago

I have a few new speculative short stories that have just come out in my new collection, Pick Your Potion!

https://ephinygale.com/books/

verabrook.bsky.social•171 days ago

Also, “Consumed” (6480 words), first published in HyphenPunk, Issue 11, March 2024. https://hyphenpunk.com/issues/issue-11/consumed/

verabrook.bsky.social•171 days ago

I did! Thanks for asking.

“How To Keep Your Cool If You’re A Mech First Day On The Job” is a #solarpunk/ #hopepunk novelette (8800 words) first pubbed in The Colored Lens. 🏜️👷🏻‍♀️🛖🍻

Reprinted in Escape Pod 943 here:

https://escapepod.org/2024/05/30/escape-pod-943-how-to-keep-your-cool-if-youre-a-mech-first-day-on-the-job-part-1-of-2/

udepeep.bsky.social•171 days ago

📌

aimeecozza.com•171 days ago

Urgh novellas don't count right? too long?

remotecore.bsky.social•171 days ago

My short story - Occupy Midnight - is in the Gallus anthology. Which was published by the Glasgow SF Writer's Circle for the Worldcon being in Glasgow. Mine is set in same venue as the con, witches occupy the venue, talk climate, despair and hope. 📚💙
https://www.amazon.co.uk/GALLUS-Glasgow-Writers-Circle-anthology-ebook/dp/B0D6K763YD

azlouise.bsky.social•171 days ago

Mine is coming October 1st! Post-apocalyptic sapphic Othello retelling https://a.co/d/dJj2Ofb

lhardingwrites.bsky.social•171 days ago

I published a dark fantasy monastic heist novelette last month - Old Habits Die Hard

https://bsky.app/profile/lhardingwrites.bsky.social/post/3l3ktdqbsco2x

ecastroianni.bsky.social•171 days ago

Monastic heist???? Sign me up 👀👀👀

lifeisamazing.bsky.social•171 days ago

I published Weird Tales From The Island City - 9 Strange Tales ranging from comedy to bizarre fantasy. I just attended a reading group who loved it - so interesting hearing why different people like or disliked different stories! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weird-Tales-Island-City-Portsmouth/dp/1913001075

ecastroianni.bsky.social•171 days ago

Thank you for sharing this! I love the weird, sounds like something I shall enjoy 🙏

lifeisamazing.bsky.social•171 days ago

Thank you for asking. If you're up for something a little longer, then there is also The Snow Witch: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Witch-paperback-Matt-Wingett/dp/0995639450

This one, too, is weird fiction...

vf12.bsky.social•165 days ago

It's been a busy year, with four short stories out:

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/vermilion/

https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/like-blood-on-the-mouths-of-death/

https://www.seizethepress.com/2024/05/08/where-is-your-light-yvette-jones-stp10/

https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/a-tapestry-of-dreams/

And they are all so close to my heart!

millieabecassis.com•171 days ago

I have a short story in this year's edition of Fall Into Fantasy by Cloaked Press: https://www.cloakedpress.com/fif2024/

impossibleworlds.bsky.social•171 days ago

We recently published our fifth edition of Impossible Worlds, an anthology, with four New writers and one old one! We also have free issues!
https://Impossibleworlds.net

vajra.me•171 days ago

My first novelette was this year! Not online, though, it's in this antho https://bsky.app/profile/vajra.me/post/3l4ig4clqjf2r

ecastroianni.bsky.social•171 days ago

Thank you for sharing! I will have to add this antho on my wishlist, looks very nice 👀

cjsubko.bsky.social•171 days ago

I think you said short OR novelette? If not I'll delete but I published most of the stories on this page this year:

https://cjsubko.com/short-fiction

It's actually kind of cool to look at them like that

edwinbeatnik.bsky.social•171 days ago

Here you go!

https://edwinblack.itch.io/sing-the-silent-vesper

ecastroianni.bsky.social•171 days ago

Excellent, thank you!

amulderwrites.bsky.social•171 days ago

My horror short, "The Alibi House," recently came out in the Triangulation: Hospitium anthology from Parsec Ink!

esraye.bsky.social•171 days ago

My horror short, "SSID" is about the dangers of unbridled curiosity, and can be read for free here:

https://alexparkerpublishing.com/pages/ssid

lrb.bsky.social•171 days ago

https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2024/02/15/lost-in-the-central-stacks-by-laurence-raphael-brothers/

"Lost in the Central Stacks" at Translunar Traveler's Lounge is a mildly spooky story set in the NYPL main branch. Featuring the book train....

aimeeogdenwrites.com•171 days ago

I wrote this one for Psychopomp - I hope you enjoy it! :)

https://psychopomp.com/what-any-dead-thing-wants/

ecastroianni.bsky.social•171 days ago

Always great to see something from you!!

aimeeogdenwrites.com•171 days ago

And hopefully everyone has seen this one from Eugenia already but just in case!! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/loneliness-universe/

yarntheory.bsky.social•171 days ago

I published a collection with a new novelette!

https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/north-continent-ribbon

ebook links:

https://www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/north-continent-ribbon-ebook

https://books2read.com/ribbon

mimulus.bsky.social•171 days ago

This has been on my to-get list. Such a stunning cover!

jolantru.bsky.social•171 days ago

Star Pattern Traveller. https://blackwolfsings.itch.io/star-pattern-traveller

quantick.bsky.social•171 days ago

https://davidquantick.com/

revenger210.bsky.social•171 days ago

does self-publishing on our own blogs count? I've done a challenge for the first third of the year where i wrote a short 2k story each Friday, and it turned out pretty well! Got 10 of these down so far :D
https://electrospherevaults.tumblr.com/post/739328501342158848/2024-friday-writing-challenge-masterpost

(no i do not know why that thumbnail is chosen)

ecastroianni.bsky.social•171 days ago

Thank you for sharing this, love the idea of a fiction challenge & then posting the results!

revenger210.bsky.social•171 days ago

thank ya kindly! it was a fun challenge, tho also tough coming up each week w a new 2k story - great practice tho and a very fun way to experiment w stuff I had little experience in! enjoy ^_^

flameswallower.bsky.social•171 days ago

I had a weird fairy tale novelette come out this summer!

ebook: https://tinyurl.com/bdfmfden

print: https://tinyurl.com/2vdyckee

authorizedmusings.bsky.social•171 days ago

My novelette "The Ensanguined Shore" was in The Future Fire this year!

https://futurefire.net/2024.68/fiction/ensanguined.html

mariness.bsky.social•170 days ago

Here!

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/further-examination-and-capture-of-candle-skulls-associated-with-the-baba-yaga/

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