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ICYMI, a kid and a little moonbirdblobboy travel an odd mountain looking for a not-quite-alive, not-quite-awake mad king. Also features moss, things with long necks, and more than one disembodied head.

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Voice is the magic ingredient in storytelling! #writing

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In BCS #430: "Cry, the Carob King" @thomasha.bsky.social "I took those apparitions to be a young family, or their shades at least. The glob’s eyes fixed on them, and I detected a forlorn trace of something I knew well: this still and quiet loneliness." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/cry-...

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BCS does not want "AI"-edited/AI grammar-checked/flow-edited submissions because we want your own voice. Especially if you are English as a second language; your experience is unique. AI homogenizes narrative to fit patterns averaged from other writers. We want your voice; the voice of your story.

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if you want to support @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and get an early look at my story about a house that eats people? you can pick it up here!!!

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New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here and on its way to subscribers! Featuring stories by Jordan Kurella @kurellian.bsky.social and Eleanor Elizabeth Fog: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

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(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing all replies personalized. Thank you!)

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BCS #431 ebook out early today at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of children and parents by Jordan @kurellian.bsky.social and Eleanor Elizabeth Fog, new cover art by Erin Costello: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

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A real pleasure to settle into the rich, weird, and poignant @thomasha.bsky.social story, "Cry, the Carob King," in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social #430.

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Hoping to start drafting my latest Locus column tomorrow. This will cover just over 70 recent works from Kaleidotrope, Fiyah, Small Wonders, Baffling, Flash Fiction Online, GigaNotoSaurus, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons. Whew.

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Read this short story by @jelenawrites.bsky.social and enjoyed it! Loved the folkloric vibe to it too!

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New Issue: BCS #430 out today, featuring stories of questing in strange other realms by @thomasha.bsky.social and Charlie Valenti, a From the BCS Archives story by @amandaghelms.bsky.social, cover art by Tyler Edlin: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

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Inordinately fond of the glob in @thomasha.bsky.social's "Cry, the Carob King" in this month's @bcsmagazine.bsky.social Just everything I love in a sweet adventure story. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/cry-...

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“Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh” by @mariecroke.bsky.social from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, “Chickenfoot Soup” by Marika Bailey from @lightspeedmagazine.com, and more short fic recs from @ClowderofTwo here - locusmag.com/2025/04...

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From the Archives w BCS #429: "Their Eyes the Shape of Orchids" @ecastroianni.bsky.social BCS #362 "I’ve seen those eyes on the faces of Surna girls who come to me to do the dampening and I know they’re carrying unwanted Innachor children inside them." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/thei...

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Bimonthly short story report! I had a great time with these anthologies as well as the online magazines Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Three-Lobed Burning Eye. I especially had a great time reading some older stories, while continuing to celebrate some of my favorite contemporary writers!

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Thank you!! Any episodes that were favs? I've heard listeners loving "Nine Tenths of the Law" by KJ Parker read by @veryheathmiller.bsky.social; I loved "Black Wine From the Slopes of Dawn" by @rajivmote.bsky.social read by @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/2024/

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BCS #429: "The City of Tears" @mollytanzer.bsky.social (a tale of Thevin Galois). "Most of her companions on the ramparts lay insensate on the ground, crying as if their hearts were breaking. The cacophony did not unsettle Thevin. She was used to it." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

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Voting for the Locus Awards is OPEN! As a nonprofit, Locus Magazine champions authors of all kinds, from big names to indies and small press. Subscriber votes count double! Voting ends April 15—make your voice heard! Vote here: poll.voting.locusmag... #LocusAwards

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(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing all replies personalized. Thank you!)

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BCS #430 ebook out early at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of questing through strange alternate realms by @thomasha.bsky.social and Charlie Valenti, cover art by Tyler Edlin: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

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New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @thomasha.bsky.social and Charlie Valenti: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

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Live BCS #429 & podcast BCS 345: "The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King" @jelenawrites.bsky.social. "death was coming for Vlasta. The baby hadn’t set into the birth position; Katarina could see it moving under the paper-thin skin of her belly." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

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It's not just THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN... I have ☠️two new books☠️ coming from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! For now, #booksky, check out the stories that inspired this one @ @bcsmagazine.bsky.social: - www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... - www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

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The Midwife In the Palace of the Forest King, by Jelena Dunato in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A fairytale about a midwife called to help a birth in the middle of the night. Gorgeous prose and evocative imagery - excellent. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

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Oooo midwife story in BCS with my own midwife story from the archives! 👀

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Congratulations to all the Hugo Award finalists for Best Semiprozine! @thedeadlands.com @escapepod.org @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @khoreo.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social A vibrant area of our field with dedicated staffs publishing bright voices and bold stories.

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🧵Congrats to all the finalists, especially to podcast friends and folks we admire from afar Ray Nayler, @thomasha.bsky.social, @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, @jordanscarroll.bsky.social, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com

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BCS Authors Elsewhere: work elsewhere voted 2025 Hugo Award finalist! @sarahpinsker.bsky.social @jasonsanford.bsky.social @foxesandroses.bsky.social @nghivo.bsky.social @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social 2/2 Congrats, all! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/04/07/b...

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BCS Authors Elsewhere: work elsewhere voted 2025 Hugo Award finalist! @aliettedebodard.com @swantower.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @rachaelkjones.bsky.social @isabel.kim @annleckie.com @deuceofgears.bsky.social @mariness.bsky.social ... 1/2 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/04/07/b...

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Glad you enjoyed @mollytanzer.bsky.social's story! All fiction at BCS is free. :) Over 900 stories in 17 years. We're a 501c3 nonprofit; our mission is to promote F/SF. You can support us publishing great stories by buying our ebooks or through the BCS Patreon: www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas...

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The City of Tears by @mollytanzer.bsky.social was lovely. Heartfelt, crisp in its prose, and delighting in invention, its secrets revealed like peeling back the petals of a rose one at a time. And amazingly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies are sharing it for free! Read it now before they change their minds!

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Congratulations to all of this year's Hugo finalists! Let's set off some celebratory klaxons, wait, no, NOT THOSE--

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ICYMI! Uncanny Magazine (Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Managing Editor Monte Lin, Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki, and Podcast Producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky) is a finalist for Best Semiprozine! www.uncannymagazine.com/five-uncanny...

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We're so thrilled that @khoreo.bsky.social has been nominated for Best Semiprozine! Thank you so much for nominating us, it is an incredibly huge honor! 🧡🧡🧡

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Congratulations @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social and @bcsmagazine.bsky.social!

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If you are translating or reprinting short stories, please remember to credit the original publication in your anthology, collection, magazine, or podcast. Extra points for including the year of publication.

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Also, if monetarily hurting the author is not enough to dissuade you (and it should be) this is also copyright infringement. A DMCA takedown request from the author would be merited and you could be sued.

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New Issue: BCS #429 out today, featuring stories by @mollytanzer.bsky.social and @jelenawrites.bsky.social Dunato, podcast of the Dunato read by @saltpdx.bsky.social, From the BCS Archives story by @ecastroianni.bsky.social, cover art by Tyler Edlin: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

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If anyone wants to take a break from the constant horrors, my sapphic S&S psycho-epic “The City of Tears” is free to read over at @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. This is my first appearance in this venerable magazine and I couldn’t be prouder. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

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My new story is out today in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social "The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King" is a dark folklore fantasy. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

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