"I was slow to notice an odd phenomenon. The rats in the hold were dying. All ships have rats, but not all ships have dying rats."
from "The Alliance" by T.M. Conway
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A beam of sun had broken though the buckeyes and spruces and was caught on her hair, wiry and white in that light.
from "In the Orchard" by Erin K. Wagner
A Plate of Chocolate Chip Cookies F#cked My Wife Like a P*rnstar!
(AKA who I learned to love being my hotwife's sissy)
https://medium.com/take-my-wife-please/a-plate-of-chocolate-chip-cookies-f-cked-my-hotwife-like-a-pornstar-62392681397e?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Medium
#ShortStories #Hotwife #Sissy #LGBTQ
Take My Wife — Please! · A Plate of Chocolate Chip Cookies F#cked My Hotwife Like a Pornstar
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All of the other links where these books are available should remain valid, it's just the World Weaver Press website that had to change.
While I'm still testing out the new shop, the first 10 people to use the code WWP2025 can get the ebook of GLASS AND GARDENS: SOLARPUNK SUMMERS or SPECULATIVE STORY BITES for free. Just those two titles.
“I like to sing for visitors, but the men who come here always want something more...It is fun to watch them drown, of course. But you...You are different. May I sing for you?”
from "Zvezdochka" by Reyzl Grace
Premee Mohamed is popular here because her stories are awesome and she’s awesome at reading them. Also awesome: Gothic horror writer Victoria Nations makes her Story Hour debut this week. And Sam Rebelein is guest host! That’s more awesomeness than the average human can handle. Can YOU? Join us Wednesday at 7:00 PDT! https://www.storyhour2020.com/ #Bookstodon #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #ShortFiction #AuthorReading #Horror #HorrorFiction #PremeeMohamed #VictoriaNations @premeesaurus @VictoriaNations
It’s not a bad life, really, out here where they’re learning to let things live again.
from "Sun Flowers" by Samantha Rich
The wind, the whisperers are taught at the Conservatory, is a capricious thing. It plays, it explores, it has tantrums and preferences.
from "Wind Whisperers" by Anna O'Brien
As a child, Maggie heard her grandfather say that when he was a boy, the Darkness rarely came. It appeared frequently by the time she held her first son.
from "A Flame at the Edge of Darkness" by Rebecca Washburn
Robert clutches the book to his chest a little too tightly, as if 383 pages of Fantasy Fiction could shield him from this conversation.
from "The Secret Ingredient" by B. Zelkovich
If anyone ever wondered why I never got into the YouTube career: I honestly tried. Then I was sent a €5K Ubuntu-based application server "for the keeps".
That was the end of it. Before that machine was able to boot Ubuntu, I already slapped OpenBSD on it 
Bottomline, my YT career was over before it began. And today, I would be a far worse choice as I don't publish on whatever Big Tech silo.
Pues me dio por traducir lo mejor que supe uno de mis relatos al inglés y lo mandé a #shortstories y me olvidé del asunto y lo han publicado en su web! Me acaban de mandar un email, me voy a la cama más contento 
https://short-stories.co/@imigueldiaz/empty-room-wojz872pklp4
Short StoriesEmpty Room by Ignacio de Miguel DiazA detective analyzes a crime scene, visualizing details to solve a murder.
So a story I sold in 2024 (a day before my birthday!) got published today in Cast of Wonders!
Please please please read it! I was practically foaming at the mouth waiting until I could share this news with y'all
https://www.castofwonders.org/2025/05/cast-of-wonders-638-a-spell-of-grief/
Cast of Wonders · Cast of Wonders 638: A Spell of Grief | Cast of WondersThe library was closing in ten minutes. Lucas stared at the picture books, paralyzed by both indecision and nostalgia. Hurry up! he screamed at himself. If he was late, if he screwed up the ceremony…
A #ShortStory about healthcare, desperation, and the cruelty of the US, currently on display like never before. It's #fiction, but also more and more likely to happen. 
"Radicalized" by @pluralistic. https://prospect.org/culture/books/2024-12-09-radicalized-cory-doctorow-story-health-care/
#CoryDoctorow #ShortStories #CurrentEvents #authoritarianism
The American Prospect · RadicalizedA short story about health care, and desperation.
I am sitting here wondering about my wandering about the internet and if my pursuit of international fame is reasonable. May I ask that you buy the two eBooks in The Story or Two to Tell Collection and let me know? (a third is in the pipeline)
"A Story or Two to Tell" https://books2read.com/u/4APpek
"More Stories to Tell" https://books2read.com/u/4A0jyp
#ShortStories #WritingCommunity #Authors #DarkTales #StrangeStories #eBook #Promotion #Fiction #Nonsense
Can the word really encompass the world? Joanna Kavenna investigates in her short story Notes on the Future:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/notes-on-the-future-joanna-kavenna/
Image: Spitzer Space Telescope
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New post! "Short Fiction Review: January/February 2025" on @skiffyandfanty
https://skiffyandfanty.com/blog/short-fiction-review-january-february-2025/
The Skiffy and Fanty Show · The Skiffy and Fanty Show: Short Fiction Review: January/February 2025“My favorite stories from January and February look at conformity, assimilation, diversity, and connection from various angles.”
Submissions are now open for our June issue!
https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/luna-station-quarterly-ehWK6
Hello Fediverse! I am Jonah, a #queer #erotica #author from #Berlin. Looking forward meeting y'all and share my work with you!
I started writing erotica back in the golden Tumblr and LiveJournal days. I already published other #books and #shortstories but this is my penname for (queer) erotica&romance .
Browse the @fictionable #archive with more than 50 exclusive #ShortStories from writers including Samantha Harvey, Jenny Erpenbeck, @mjohnharrison and more…
https://www.fictionable.world/issues_front.html
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