Short fiction pick of the week is The Year the Sheep God Shattered by @marissalingen.bsky.social over on @diabolicalplots.com. I loved everything about this one: original, transient pantheon + themes of growing up/life stages www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1... - ThreadSky

kieralesley.bsky.social • 70 days ago

Short fiction pick of the week is The Year the Sheep God Shattered by @marissalingen.bsky.social over on @diabolicalplots.com.

I loved everything about this one: original, transient pantheon + themes of growing up/life stages

https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-119a-the-year-the-sheep-god-shattered-by-marissa-lingen/

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kieralesley.bsky.social•63 days ago

Fave short story this week is The Husband by @pcverrone.com in podcastle. A delightfully queer and modern update to the brides of Dracula.

https://podcastle.org/2025/01/14/podcastle-874-the-husband/

kieralesley.bsky.social•56 days ago

Fave short fic read this week is Crisis Actors by @thedescenters.bsky.social and @coreyjwhite.com. A bold, angry and unabashedly queer story dropping at a perfect time for it. Great near future sci-fi turned up to 11, too.

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/crisis-actors/

coreyjwhite.com•56 days ago

Thank you, so much. So glad it resonated.

kieralesley.bsky.social•49 days ago

The world is on fire but we still have time for edgy, innovative and sharply honest short fiction like this weeks’s fave from @mygeekblasphemy.bsky.social in The Dark:

https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/four-questions-with-something-like-god/#Haunt

kieralesley.bsky.social•42 days ago

I love selkie variations and this one by @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social in @castofwonders.org is wonderfully modern. I want to sit by a lake listening to viola and being convinced my desires are valid: https://www.castofwonders.org/2025/02/cast-of-wonders-629-the-otter-womans-daughter/

kieralesley.bsky.social•35 days ago

This week’s fave features fantastic structure, voice and themes of agency all cracking into the myth of mighty Hercules by @danaiwrites.bsky.social

https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/12-things-no-one-will-tell-you-about-being-a-demigod-by-danai-christopoulou/

kieralesley.bsky.social•28 days ago

Fave short fiction of the week is Peace by Piece by @erincairns.bsky.social in the latest @escapepod.org. Cozy workshops, bodily autonomy, trauma, and reconfiguring yourself for who you are now not who you used to be. Very timely.

https://escapepod.org/2025/02/13/escape-pod-980-peace-by-piece/