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We enjoy a dark fairly tale, especially for lunch. How about…

Bonesoup, by Eugenia Triantafyllou

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#NationalTellAFairyTaleDay

We have SO MANY fairytales ^^. I think THIS one’s our most recent publication of one: www.castofwonders.org/2025/10/cast...

We have SO MANY fairytales ^^. I think THIS one’s our most recent publication of one: www.castofwonders.org/2025/10/cast...

Gently Creaking Boards This story was first published at Flash Fiction Online in April 2023, and this post was updated to include the text of the story in December 2025. ~~§~~ She’s back. Well, I think it’s her. She’s ol…

It’s #NationalTellAFairyTaleDay. Here’s a favourite of mine: Gently Creaking Boards (first published at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social)

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Illustration of various egyptian gods but tiny. Featured are Anubis, Bastet Sekmet, Set, Hathor, Ra, Medjed, Sobek, and Heket

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Short thread. Essential reading.

YES BUT WHAT IF THEY WERE?

Bedford Borough Council vs The Moon

ROCK TROLL BABY TEETH! YAYAYAYAY! I've been looking for some of these for *ages*

The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pour over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway

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Cast of Wonders 680: Firecrackers on 28 Mott Street | Cast of Wonders The children wield firecrackers as they enter the old shop on Mott Street. Copper wind bells chime as the door closes behind them. Inside, velvet curtains block all natural light. Here the glow of…

Happy Lunar New Year!! www.castofwonders.org/2026/02/cast...

You can read part of my short fiction review column from Locus Magazine in Locus Online! Stories from @castofwonders.org @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and @kaleidotrope.bsky.social !

Cast of Wonders turns 15 - Submissions Call | Cast of Wonders It’s our 15th birthday this summer, and to help us celebrate it we’re opening the stage doors to birthday-themed stories! We’ll be open from the 15-21st March. What we’re looking for: We have a number...

It's our 15th birthday this summer, and to help us celebrate it we're opening the stage doors to birthday-themed stories!

We'll be open from the 15-21st March.

What we're looking for:
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“It Grows Back” featured on the Locus Recommended Reading List! | Cast of Wonders Our 2025 Halloween story, Grant Collier’s “It Grows Back”, is featured on the Locus Recommended Reading List for Best Short Story. Congratulations, Grant! It’s a fantastic achievement to get this…

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“As Brittle as Granite” nominated for an Aurealis Award! | Cast of Wonders We’re thrilled to share that Matt Tighe’s “As Brittle as Granite” has been nominated for an Aurealis Award for Best YA Short Story. The Aurealis Awards are Australia’s premier speculative fiction…

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Cover of a story collection 'Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories' showing rippling water under a large moon. Inset is a badge detailing this as a Aurealis Award Finalist work.

I'm a finalist for Australia's Aurealis Awards - x3! Best Fantasy Story for 'Jericho and the Cursed Forest', best collection for 'Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories' from @ifwgpublishing.bsky.social, and Best Young Adult Story - 'As Brittle As Granite' from @castofwonders.org

Ooh nice one! 🤞

But they look so cute and starving with those big kawaii eyes! Its hard to resist 🙃

Cast of Wonders 588: In a town like this | Cast of Wonders It’s the first weekend of summer holidays and we’re piling into the backseat of Annette’s dinky old Honda headed to some house party at the far edge of town, passing a bottle of rum and coke between…

"It’s the first weekend of summer holidays and we’re piling into the backseat of Annette’s dinky old Honda headed to some house party at the far edge of town..."

Check out "In a town like this" in @castofwonders.org!

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Cast of Wonders 241: Mr. Quacky in Space (Artemis Rising 3) | Cast of Wonders At least Mr. Quacky hadn’t maimed anyone. If Olivia went by her predecessor’s logs, it was only a matter of time. She pulled her rabbit-ear hat over her head–It helps you blend with the scenery…

Sighs happily in assistant editor that just did a deep clean if the storage rooms at CoW & evicted a whole horde of gremlins (we re homed them with @pseudopod.org ;) ). So NOW those pesky SEO issues should go away on back episodes XD www.castofwonders.org/2017/03/epis...

Cast of Wonders 241: Mr. Quacky in Space (Artemis Rising 3) | Cast of Wonders At least Mr. Quacky hadn’t maimed anyone. If Olivia went by her predecessor’s logs, it was only a matter of time. She pulled her rabbit-ear hat over her head–It helps you blend with the scenery…

Sighs happily in assistant editor that just did a deep clean if the storage rooms at CoW & evicted a whole horde of gremlins (we re homed them with @pseudopod.org ;) ). So NOW those pesky SEO issues should go away on back episodes XD www.castofwonders.org/2017/03/epis...

Yes! Come listen to us!!

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2025 staff picks - Witches Racing Cars by Nadav Schul-Kutas, selected by Adri Joy

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Slushpile update - 154 stories left in stage 1, 56 through to stage 2, and around 300 declined.

For the afternoon crowd :D

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It’s National Rubber Ducky Day! 🐤

What BETTER way to Celebrate than to give a listen go Mr Quacky in Space!! XD

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2025 staff picks - Chloe Chew and the Museum of Undead Art by OIivia B Chan - selected by Rebecca Ahn

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2025 staff picks - Feeding spirits by Emmi Khor - selected by Alicia Caporaso

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2025 staff picks - The Poets of Painswick by Kate Francia - selected by Amy Brennan

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