My story "His Soul Lives in the Air" is live on MetaStellar! I originally wrote this for a Writing Battle competition back in January.
read it: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
& my blog post: www.scmills-books.com/blog/open-vein
Thank you @metastellar.bsky.social & @writingbattle.bsky.social!
Soothsayer for the 21st Century by Aggie Novak You come to me— (fabric draped, costume jewelled, incense clouded). You ask me real questions, but you don’t seek real answers. You want— Comfort. Platitudes. It’s not your fault, there was nothing you could do. Tell me, you ask— What the future holds. Where I will be in 20 years. How successful. How loved. How normal. I draw the cards— The Star, reversed. All hope gutters out. The Tower. Cities, fire in their bones. The World, reversed. The circle breaks. Well? Your eyes wide, full of— Hope, I say. New constellations. Collapse clears the way. The world resets. @augursociety #augurmicros2025
Excited to share my piece for Augur's micro fiction contest!
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Super excited to have a story out in this anthology!
Do you need a rundown of the SFF books out this week? Because I have TEN new books to ft! Incl
🏳️🌈 📚 queer witches and book nerdery by @charliejane.bsky.social!
☠️ 🐍 poison via the scientific method with @tkingfisher.com!
📖 🚀 librarians in starships, coming from @tychebooks.bsky.social!
Check out this awesome fantasy mystery story by S.C!
Beware of harvesting your fields on a hot day. Lady Midday will emerge from whirling dust clouds in the form of an old hag, a lovely woman, or a young girl, carrying a scythe. If you can't answer her riddles, she'll kill you by beheading or heat stroke. #FolkyFriday
🚀 TWO of my stories made it into the Afrofuturism Short Stories anthology 🥹 co-edited by Isis Asare! With foreword by @nisishawl.bsky.social. Out October 2025✨
#Blacksky #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #ShortStory
#Blacksky #Afrofuturism #Anthology
A black cover with a small part revealed where you can make out the word "librarian". Text to the side says: Cover reveal coming soon. Tychebooks.com.
So excited to have a story in this upcoming anthology from @tychebooks.bsky.social !!
Ready to test my writing skills in the Twisted Teams challenge "Twisted Teams 1"! Looking forward to the creative prompts and team collaboration. Any other writers joining me? twistedtournament.com/homepageteams #TwistInTaleContest #writingcontest
Howl: A Shapeshifting Anthology. Shows a werewolf hunched over on a log by a pond.
Slightly belated, but so happy to have a story out in the lovely Howl Anthology from Graveside press. Available from a range of places: graveside-press.com/product/howl/
I have a story out in this one! All proceeds go to Scares that Care.
An image saying congratulations for having the winning story, including a picture of my three prompts: time travel romance, rebel, doll
Just won Writing Battle!!! So excited and touched by all the lovely feedback 💜
A beautiful story!
NEW STORY⚡️🐸
“In the Slipstream” by @sarlynh.bsky.social is now up!
Art by @keelyhoneywell.bsky.social
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Congrats @cuylermeade.bsky.social !!
A second little story out at Hawthorn & Ash ironfaeriepublishing.com/2025/01/27/h...
Little flash piece out with Hawthorn & Ash ironfaeriepublishing.com/2025/01/16/h...
My short story “Svalka” is out in the beautiful Other Anthology from Bannister Press bannisterpress.com/other-anthol...
A Spotify playlist titled ‘Songs giving energy of an Aggie Novak story about a woman unhappy with her lot in life’ including songs by Paris Paloma, Kiki Rockwell, and Florence + The Machine.
My friend made this I feel so seen
The excerpt from William and the Werewolf showing singular they spelled with a Thorn
The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th”
When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn
Could tonight be the night?
Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
An example of Acción Ortográfica Quito doing the Lord's work (graffiti on a wall corrected with red spray paint)
Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.
Today, I translated four poems by Sophia Parnok, an out, horny Russian lesbian poet who lived and loved through a revolution, a civil war, and the rise of a repressive dictator. In style.
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The arms of an octopus used by a reader/owner of this manuscript to mark parts they thought were important or of interest
- 2nd half of the 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085
An illustration of Tomie dePaola’s beloved children’s book heroine, Strega Nona. She is an old Italian lady depicted here in bust, her gaze bearing to the left of the image. Strega Nona has a large nose, kind eyes, a prominent chin, and wrinkles all over. She’s wearing a white head scarf adorned with little yellow stars, a green dress with a magenta sleeve. Her magic pasta pot is superimposed in front of the portrait, a round, green thing with three legs and a handle like a pail’s.
I don’t believe there is enough fanart of Strega Nona actually
Gum trees against a cloudy sky with a tiny koala.
I promise there’s a koala in this picture
Forest of thin trees in algae covered water
No koalas spotted yet but there are some excellent trees
Tiny tan mushrooms with thin stems growing on a tree trunk
Cute shrooms I saw today
