#shortstories — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #shortstories, aggregated by home.social.
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@nesce
I'd love to know how things go on with Sonya and Lillith. -
ICYMI
Joyrides For Shut-Ins
Experience the dark and twisted world of American absurdist literature in this collection of stories that will leave you both perplexed and entertained.
From micro-fiction to short stories, each piece delves into the encounters, desires, and violence that make up the fabric of American culture and psyche. Meet characters who are both familiar and bizarre, as they navigate a world that blurs the lines between imagination and reality.
Fans of Samuel Beckett, Lydia Davis, and Chuck Palahniuk will find themselves immersed in this kaleidoscope of dead-pan incidents, where nothing is quite as it seems.
But be warned, as you turn each page, you may find yourself questioning your own grasp on reality.
Don't miss out on this masterful chiaroscuro of a book.
Name your price now!
Buy the paperback at Bookshop.org!
https://absurdproject.gumroad.com/l/JoyridesForShutIns
#bookstodon #weird #absurd #literature #shortstories #microfiction #satire
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I was writing a wee serial on substack before I abandoned the platform, but I also abandoned the story.
Here, rising from the ashes... A pair of witches!“Succumb to my devil vagina magic!” Shouted the naked woman as she ran down the street, the wind and rain not bothering her at all.
The suited guy she was chasing ran like his life depended on it. It didn’t, but he didn’t know that."
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October can't come soon enough! Pamela M. Durgin and Karlo Yeager Rodríguez opened the door to autumn (among other times and places) with these spooky tales. You can still watch! #Bookstodon #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #ShortFiction #AuthorReading #Horror #HorrorFiction #PamelaMDurgin #KarloYeagerRodriguez #KarloYeagerRodríguez @kjy1066 https://youtu.be/dxJhsTbzsLA
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October can't come soon enough! Pamela M. Durgin and Karlo Yeager Rodríguez opened the door to autumn (among other times and places) with these spooky tales. You can still watch! #Bookstodon #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #ShortFiction #AuthorReading #Horror #HorrorFiction #PamelaMDurgin #KarloYeagerRodriguez #KarloYeagerRodríguez @kjy1066 https://youtu.be/dxJhsTbzsLA
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October can't come soon enough! Pamela M. Durgin and Karlo Yeager Rodríguez opened the door to autumn (among other times and places) with these spooky tales. You can still watch! #Bookstodon #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #ShortFiction #AuthorReading #Horror #HorrorFiction #PamelaMDurgin #KarloYeagerRodriguez #KarloYeagerRodríguez @kjy1066 https://youtu.be/dxJhsTbzsLA
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October can't come soon enough! Pamela M. Durgin and Karlo Yeager Rodríguez opened the door to autumn (among other times and places) with these spooky tales. You can still watch! #Bookstodon #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #ShortFiction #AuthorReading #Horror #HorrorFiction #PamelaMDurgin #KarloYeagerRodriguez #KarloYeagerRodríguez @kjy1066 https://youtu.be/dxJhsTbzsLA
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October can't come soon enough! Pamela M. Durgin and Karlo Yeager Rodríguez opened the door to autumn (among other times and places) with these spooky tales. You can still watch! #Bookstodon #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #ShortFiction #AuthorReading #Horror #HorrorFiction #PamelaMDurgin #KarloYeagerRodriguez #KarloYeagerRodríguez @kjy1066 https://youtu.be/dxJhsTbzsLA
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with bookCelebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naming-the-snakes-new-writing-scotland-44-tickets-1995684361648
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with bookCelebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naming-the-snakes-new-writing-scotland-44-tickets-1995684361648
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with bookCelebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naming-the-snakes-new-writing-scotland-44-tickets-1995684361648
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with bookCelebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naming-the-snakes-new-writing-scotland-44-tickets-1995684361648
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with bookCelebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naming-the-snakes-new-writing-scotland-44-tickets-1995684361648
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh
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Pues fantástico, esto 🖤🖤🖤
#books #libros #bookstodon #literatura #literature #relatos #shortstories
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Pues fantástico, esto 🖤🖤🖤
#books #libros #bookstodon #literatura #literature #relatos #shortstories
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Pues fantástico, esto 🖤🖤🖤
#books #libros #bookstodon #literatura #literature #relatos #shortstories
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Pues fantástico, esto 🖤🖤🖤
#books #libros #bookstodon #literatura #literature #relatos #shortstories
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Pues fantástico, esto 🖤🖤🖤
#books #libros #bookstodon #literatura #literature #relatos #shortstories
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Late to Where We Belong. Short Stories Across Three Continents. Book Trailer https://youtu.be/7-Wo-X_SvZA?si=2tuyZrOScwb3_KsI
#Bookstodon #ShortStories
#Literature
#Fiction #AmWriting
#WritingCommunity
#IndieAuthor
#AuthorsOfMastodon
#WritersOfMastodon -
Hello #Mastodon. 👋
I am a short story writer, sharing my love for fiction here.
My process blends human imagination and technology: all core ideas come from my mind, and I use AI as a tool to help shape the stories.
#Introduction #Writer #ShortStories #WritingCommunity #CreativeAI #AuthorsOfMastodon #NewHere
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If you did not read There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury today - the most appropriate day to read it ever, never to be repeated again - then you'd better get on that right now.
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Anton & Glenn
What a pair of characters! Glenn was just a pretty weird guy in general, clever . He lived on the second floor of my building. Anton, in the wheelchair is a book all by himself. His leg. That is just one story and here is how it happened. Anton is an alcoholic, what he did before he lost the leg for a living I don’t know, but when first saw him, he was on the corner by the robots begging. He would make enough money and then off to the Bottle Store. He did have a room to sleep in. I got […] -
Rand Clinic 1986/7
The Rand Clinic 1986/7 Rolled a car, upside down and flipped over type of jol. Car totalled, boss unhappy, but it was not my fault that time! Anyway. My face had a few cuts as did my arms, and my left hand had a broken knuckle. I did not like doctors then already, as they were still trying to kill my mom with their drugs. They got it right about a years later…. Anyway, patched myself up, no problem. Or so I thought. My Pinkie knuckle healed wrong and the finger could not bend. Ok. […]https://waynebisset.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/rand-clinic-1986-7/
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Our Drugged up Society
How the hell did we get here? Working on two philosophies to see how we got here. First is not looking where you fell, but where you slipped. Funny enough this led straight to the second philosophy, find the source. For this particular slip we need look no further than: Psychiatry . These “doctors” are on the forefront of our legal drug dealer trade, i.e. The Medical Profession. While at the moment everyone seems to be on about Big Pharma, let’s take a look at this branch of the […]https://waynebisset.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/our-drugged-up-society/
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HOW TO TELL…..
HOW TO TELL IF YOU’RE SOUTH AFRICAN …. You call a bathing suit a “swimming costume” or a “cozzie”. You call a traffic light a “robot”. You call a sandwich a ‘sarmie’ You call an elevator a “lift” – but asking for a ‘lift’ doesn’t mean you want an elevator – you actually want a “ride” You call a car hood a “bonnet” You call a car trunk a “boot” You call a pickup truck a “bakkie” “Van” isn’t a vehicle – he’s the butt of some […]https://waynebisset.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-south-african/
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗔𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀" 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗟. 𝗠. 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗴𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘆 -
Everyone is excited to talk about Green Gables Montgomery's "darker side," and these are definitely more adult, but from a far simple, even quaint, age of gentle spooky tales.
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #shortstories #horrorstories #horror #lmmontgomery #amongtheshadows
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My Rhino Wars – The Flat Tire and the Lion
The Flat Tyre and Lion Because the APUs are the last people to get funds we had been patrolling with really wrecked tyres for weeks. Our spare was absolutely useless at this stage. In the early hours Johannes and I were glad to see a lion in the thick bush, for exactly 2 minutes. A few meters down the road we got another flat. The procedure we had by now perfected was to get the small battery charged air pump out and just keep on stopping every now and then to inflate the almost useless […]https://waynebisset.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/my-rhino-wars-the-flat-tire-and-the-lion/
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Why 'The Storyteller's Pace Cannot be Criticized?
#thedarkknaik #filmreview #bollywood #thestoryteller #anantmahadevan #satyajitray #pareshrawal #adilhussain #tarinikhuro #shortstory #shortstories #bengalishortstory #golpoboliyetarinikhuro
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Contributor copies have arrived! My science fiction western story "The Spiral Ranch" is included in this beautiful hardcover from Flame Tree Press.
#solarpunk #ShortStories #FlameTreePress #NewBooks #SciFiStories #SciFiBooks
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/solarpunk-francesco-verso/1145047133?ean=9781804179352#
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About 7 months ago, I approached Premee Mohamed to see if she would write a climate fiction story for Grist, which would be published outside of the #Imagine2200 contest.
She sent in this delightful piece about a young woman getting separated from her nomadic city during a storm. It was a joy for me to edit this story, and now everyone can read it!
#solarpunk #ClimateFiction #EcoLit #EcoFiction #ShortStories #ScienceFiction #SciFiStories
https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-who-walks-with-you/
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Ha! Je to doma! Tohle byl poslední kousek, který mi chyběl do sbírky. Konečně mám doma kompletní dílo Stephena Kinga (včetně povídek) a touto knihou jsem zároveň zkompletoval i Dana Simmonse. Tedy, alespoň vše, co vyšlo u nás.
#stephenking #dansimmons #grrmartin #kniha #povidky #book #knihy #books #shortstories #sbírka #collection #temnevize
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I have a new short story out today! "Wandering Star" is a fantasy in which a refugee from a destroyed culture hears the song of a comet that might be getting too close to the planet.
It's in the first issue of Baubles From Bones, and the beautiful cover art is based on my story!
Stories are online for free, and also available physically or digitally via Etsy.
#FantasyStories #ShortStories #QueerFantasy #SapphicFantasy #Etsy
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I'm bummed to hear that @ApparitionLit is closing (though I 1000% resonate with their reasons!).
Here's a story of mine that they published a few years back. I'm forever grateful that they gave this snarky little epic fantasy a home!
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This week's Story Hour got us thinking about big questions. Thoughtful approaches and beautiful writing marked these stories from Wole Talabi and Izzy Wasserstein. You can still watch! It's free! #ShortStories #AuthorReading #fantasy #ScienceFiction #WoleTalabi #IzzyWasserstein https://www.facebook.com/100039975042631/videos/7400962126593772
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This Story Hour, favorites Izzy Wasserstein and Wole Talabi return! Don't miss this one! Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PST! #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #AuthorReading #IzzyWasserstein #WoleTalabi https://www.storyhour2020.com/
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"A Tale of Two Cats" SOLARPUNK CREATURES author @gibbondemon talks about the process behind writing his story "The Business of Bees"
#solarpunk #ClimateFiction #ShortStories #Anthology #SciFiStories #SolarpunkCreatures
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I think this is the first review of Rosalind's Siblings I see! From Clara Ward.
"Suffice it to say this anthology offers twenty more unique points of view, each brimming with literary and societal insights, a surprising number sharing both tea and comfort." 5*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5806507237
#Bookstodon #RosalindsSiblings #Anthology #Reviews @bookstodon @sffshorts @shortstory #Science #SciComm #ShortStories #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity
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I find myself doing
what I don't want
to do, just to please you.
We're tied in an
unnatural,
destructive dance.
We love the
thrill, it's the
#penultimate
checkmate, a lethal,
noxious game.
We tease&pray 4more.
Is it love or hate we feel
as we stare into oblivion?#poetry #poetrycommunityofmastodon
#writersofmastodon
#art #digitalart #mixedmediaart
#penart #poetrycommunityofmastodon
#vss365prompt #vss365 #shortstories #smallpoems -
Check out the ToC for Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders! Super happy to see this anthology coming soon!
Featuring @stefanicox @celianeri @premeesaurus @phoebebarton @JenLRossman @ljswansonwrites @osahon4545 @vajra & more!!
https://www.atthisarts.com/product/rosalinds-siblings/
#Anthologies #ToC #RosalindsSiblings #RosalindFranklin #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #Bookstodon @bookstodon @shortsff #ShortStories #Poetry #PoetryCommunity
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Today is Rosalind Franklin's birthday, and our memorial anthology Rosalind's Siblings with @atthisarts is coming soon! This project was a delight to edit & I am so glad one of the Franklins reached out to me.
Preorders available here:
https://www.atthisarts.com/product/rosalinds-siblings/#SFF #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #RosalindFranklin #RosalindsSiblings #Anthologies #ShortStories #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Bookstodon @bookstodon @sffshorts @shortstory #SciComm
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Worked on Rosalind's Siblings stuff a good chunk of the day!
Getting closer to publication....
Preorders this way, from @atthisarts -
https://www.atthisarts.com/product/rosalinds-siblings/
#RosalindsSiblings #ScienceFiction #Science #SciComm #Poetry #ShortStories #PoetryCommunity #Bookstodon @bookstodon @shortsff #Anthology #AtthisArts
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If you haven't been looking forward to Wednesday, you must not have known that Isabel J. Kim and Jennifer Hudak will be reading for Story Hour! 7:00 p.m. PDT. Prepare yourself! #StoryHour2020 #StoryHour #ShortStories #AuthorReading #IsabelJKim #Jennifer Hudak https://www.storyhour2020.com/
