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  1. Well, I now either have something on submission or something reserved for submission on October 1 when the market opens at all of the markets that I consider my top priorities to get into eventually. Except Lightspeed. They haven't been open since 2022. #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction #WritersOfMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #Bookstodon #ShortStory #Writer #Writing #WritersLlife #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

  2. Stop the race to replace! Sign the petition to save creative industry jobs! Writing helps US express and share human emotions and journeys. No AI can replace that, but the tech companies are trying. Ignoring this now will mean we will be too late to take back control!
    Readers, you are also part of this! Please support human-only works!
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  3. Stop the race to replace! Sign the petition to save creative industry jobs! Writing helps US express and share human emotions and journeys. No AI can replace that, but the tech companies are trying. Ignoring this now will mean we will be too late to take back control!
    Readers, you are also part of this! Please support human-only works!
    #AI #creativeindustries #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon #authors #bookstodon #humanmade
    stoptheracetoreplace.org/en

  4. Stop the race to replace! Sign the petition to save creative industry jobs! Writing helps US express and share human emotions and journeys. No AI can replace that, but the tech companies are trying. Ignoring this now will mean we will be too late to take back control!
    Readers, you are also part of this! Please support human-only works!
    #AI #creativeindustries #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon #authors #bookstodon #humanmade
    stoptheracetoreplace.org/en

  5. Stop the race to replace! Sign the petition to save creative industry jobs! Writing helps US express and share human emotions and journeys. No AI can replace that, but the tech companies are trying. Ignoring this now will mean we will be too late to take back control!
    Readers, you are also part of this! Please support human-only works!
    #AI #creativeindustries #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon #authors #bookstodon #humanmade
    stoptheracetoreplace.org/en

  6. Stop the race to replace! Sign the petition to save creative industry jobs! Writing helps US express and share human emotions and journeys. No AI can replace that, but the tech companies are trying. Ignoring this now will mean we will be too late to take back control!
    Readers, you are also part of this! Please support human-only works!
    #AI #creativeindustries #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon #authors #bookstodon #humanmade
    stoptheracetoreplace.org/en

  7. Okay, finally back to finishing up my 2025 short fiction reading before submitting a Nebula ballot. I really liked this one. A bittersweet cli-fi relationship story by Christopher Blake.

    #Eco-fiction #AuthorsOfMastodon #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #ShortStory #WritersOfMastodon #EcoFiction #AmReadingSciFi #ScienceFiction

    tractorbeam.earth/story/in-eve

  8. And I'm back to my catch-up on 2025 short fiction reading. This one, by Lawrence M. Schoen is fun. A human librarian who shares Earth's literature with the universe's other sentient races and a pirate. A not-very-concealed comment on digital piracy.

    Recommended.

    amazon.com/Librarian-Pirate-Ea

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  9. More 2025 short fiction: this one reimagines the life of Alan Turing if he crossed into the fairy world and had a life long affair there. Gorgeous prose. Structured only by the events of Turing's life. Strongly recommended.

    strangehorizons.com/wordpress/

    #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #AmReadingFantasy #ShortStory #ShortStories #AuthorsOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon

  10. Terrific story just out from friend and ex-Aurora Street critique group member @carolscheina.bsky.social. A bookstore visited by multiple versions of the protagonist who write notes to each other. A beautiful story flowed. Strongly recommended.

    translunartravelerslounge.com/

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  11. In Ída Hennessy's "A Slightly Different Sunrise from Mercury, Nevada," Annie works as a "Canary" at the Nevada nuclear test site, at a time portal bringing tourists back to 1952. Multiple unexpected gut punches. Strongly recommended.

    strangehorizons.com/fiction/a-

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  12. "Belladonna" by Cressida Blake Roe operates on two levels. On the surface, a time-traveling botanist finds a young protégé with unique abilities. Deeper, it's a story about grooming and psychological abuse of girls. Gritty horror. Strongly recommended.

    houseofgamut.com/gamut-magazin

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  13. More reading of Codexian 2024 output: Andrea Goyan's "All My Mother Is" is a touching portrait of a mother-daughter relationship in the face of dementia. The fantasy tropes worked well with the material. Strongly recommended.

    smallwondersmag.com/piece/all-

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  14. Fiona Moore's "What Happened at The Pony Club" has a cool premise--Y2K knocked out all computers worldwide and the world reverts to depending on smart people. Cool characters--girls at a private high school for these "computers." Cool format--an FBI case file.

    fusionfragment.com/issue-22/

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  15. More Codex 2024 reading, this one from my friend and critique partner Sam Pisciotta. In "House of the Hidden Moon," two worlds bump up against each other. In one, an alcoholic mother has died and left the house to her son. In a second, a ghost and fairies stand in for a family that might have been. It's sad and disturbing, yet beautiful. Strongly recommended.
    nightmare-magazine.com/fiction
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  16. In "When the Cattle Gun Touches Her Forehead" by Ben Serna-Grey, trillionaires get the Nobel while a father slaves on a tower to reduce atmospheric CO2 and his wife submits to in utero genetic engineering to make the baby eat plastic. Satiric treatment of eco-fascism. Strongly recommended

    amazon.com/dp/B0D1N6MGDV

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  17. Cécile Cristofari's braided narrative, "Down the Waterfall," uses a time travel conceit to allow her protagonist to examine her life, live out fantasies, and find what is important to her. Very interesting. Strongly recommended.

    clarkesworldmagazine.com/crist

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  18. Jennifer Hudak's "The Witch Trap" uses braided narrative to give the reader an academic history of witchcraft as well as narratives skipping through time and characters. It works well. I was completely swept up and captivated by it. Strongly recommended.

    smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2024/0

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  19. Andrew Sayre's "You Look a Lot Like Aton Fuller" is a perspective I haven't seen: an adult clone, grown for spare parts for a rich man, freed when that practice became untenable, musing about this man upon his death. Definitely thought-provoking. Highly recommended.

    aurealis.com.au/store/aurealis

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  20. Renan Bernardo's "A Theory of Missing Affections" has an Ursula Le Guin vibe. A home planet, a distant planet with the ruins of an ancient civilization, a gate that connects them, and sisters on either side: one a historian, one viewing the ancients as gods.

    clarkesworldmagazine.com/berna

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  21. Today I found out that my essay “The Anxious Writer” has been purchased by Open Minds Quarterly, my story “This is the Time Just before Spider Woman Meets Kiviuq” has been purchased by the Delta Literary Arts Society, and my story “Wolf Mother” has begun its editorial process at Augur Magazine. I also have two short stories coming out in an anthology called Mihko Kiskisiwin (Blood Memory) published by the Indigenous Poets Society, possibly as soon as this December. openmindsquarterly.com @indigenousauthors #WritingCommunity #Essayist #CNF #ShortStory #WritersOfMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #LivedExperience #Anxiety #MentalHealth