as a new zealander, i’m also eligible for the sir julius vogel awards! 🥝🥹
anyone can nominate, so i’d be honoured if you’d consider “looking glass” (pubbed in saros sf #1 by
@fusionfragment.bsky.social and edited by @meganjkerr.bsky.social)
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sarossf.com/issue-1/
Excited to see @timjmajor.bsky.social's "Four Fabrications of Francine Descartes" from Saros #1 make the TOC of Best British SF! You can read the story for free here: sarossf.com/issue-1/
And congrats to FFers @drfionamoore.bsky.social @davidcleden.bsky.social and @lindzmcleod.bsky.social as well!
It's release day for Saros #4, edited by me! It contains five beautiful, character-driven post-apocalyptic stories by fantastic authors. I really enjoyed putting this issue together, and I hope you'll enjoy reading it just as much!
sarossf.com/issue-4/
The three covers for Saros #1, #2, and #3, on a dark blue/black background.
Have you checked out Saros SF yet? FF's sister mag sees 1st time guest editors completely design their own issue, from sub call to layout. See what @meganjkerr.bsky.social, @speculativekane.bsky.social, and @erratawrites.bsky.social have put together in their issues!
sarossf.com/issues-2025/
Congratulations!! 🎉🎉🎉
Saros Issue Two Table of Contents graphic, with the following text: edited by c.a. kane l. chan: Caddisfly lover House Trichoptera / crystal chrysalis cocktail / memory ian li: poured from the stars bartending audition / celestial ingredients / unresolved feelings bree wernicke: journal of ron bacewicz (recovered) camping journal / thirsty mosquitos / nice weather spencer nitkey: traceback error gender_identity_matrix / cosmopolitans / punching jim best: risen faith / the mysteries of the blood / miracles? and drabbles by: Lesley Hart Gunn / Mari Ness / Caroline Hung / Lex Chamberlin / Rien Gray
Saros #2 arrives on March 31st! Edited by @speculativekane.bsky.social, this cocktail-themed issue has work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @ianli.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social and @jmbest.bsky.social!
Wow! Congrats to FFers @thesuiway.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social, @angelaliu.bsky.social, @awprihandita.bsky.social, @jenniferhudak.bsky.social, and @kurellian.bsky.social on being Nebula finalists, and to @cjlavigne.com for the Service Award!
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Cover for Saros Speculative Fiction #2: Cocktail Edition In the background, there's a bunch of ethereal blue and pink wisps, like maybe paint strokes or impressionistic clouds? From off cover, a hand in a suitsleeve, holds a halved citrus, from which a tentacle emerges. The tentacle is dripping into a wine glass, which contains an open mouth. Text on the bottom says: Edited by C.A. Kane Featuring original fiction by Jim Best, Lex Chamberlin, L. Chan, Lesley Hart Gunn, Rien Gray, Caroline Hung, Ian Li, Mari Ness, Spencer Nitkey, Bree Wernicke. March 2025.
The table of contents for Saros #2 is here! Editor @speculativekane.bsky.social presents flash fiction by @lchanwrites.bsky.social, @ianli.bsky.social, @breewernicke.bsky.social, @spencerwriting.bsky.social, and @jmbest.bsky.social.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
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The always fantastic monthly short fiction rec list from Alex Brown contains "Rent-A-Joe" by @thesuiway.bsky.social from Saros #1, along with tons of other great stories!
YOU THERE!
YES, YOU! Have you read the debut issue of Saros SF yet? It could be yours for the low, low price of free in mere moments! sarossf.com/issue-1/
Congratulations!! 🎉
Did you know that Saros has a recommendations section just like FF? Find out why @thelialao.bsky.social loves work by @emilytesh.net (spoiler alert: teeth), why @thesuiway.bsky.social loves work by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social (spoiler alert: blood), and lots more great recs for your TBR pile!
"Rent-a-Joe" by A.D. Sui Mornings are a pain in the ass and this one blows them all out of the water. Two guys in suits, what’s left of their suits, lay in various degrees of disassembly in the bathtub. Joe doesn’t know how they got there, but he usually doesn’t know how he gets to his apartment every night. That’s the perk of being a Rentable with Rent-A-Body™. Joe never has to remember any of his night work, never does any of it conscious. He goes to sleep at the terminal and wakes up with his bank account a thousand units fatter. Easy.
Story #4 in the debut issue of Saros SF is "Rent-A-Joe" by @thesuiway.bsky.social. Read the whole story (for free!) at sarossf.com/issue-1/
A little late, but print copies of Saros #1 are now available for $8.99 CAD + shipping!
sarossf.com/issue-1/
I almost missed the hag story! I've been waiting for this. Stunning prose, absolutely beautiful story!
NEW STORY DAY! My second-ever story is free to read today at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social—and, much like my first story, it’s about an old lady going for a walk! But it’s also about hope, connection, and the way love helps us survive impossible times.
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
"Four Fabrications on Francine Descartes" by Tim Major After closing the door I pause, absorbing all that I have been told. I am an intelligent man, with wits perhaps beyond my station, and the information provided by Descartes has set something moving in my mind. There is a world beyond the practical, a world of thought and ideas. It is seductive. But it would be wrong to barrage a passenger with questions. The model that dictates the successful operation of this ship would not allow for it. I begin to move away from the door—but then I stop again at the sound of voices. One belongs to Descartes. The other is the voice of a young girl.
Story #3 in the debut issue of Saros SF is "Four Fabrications of Francine Descartes" by @timjmajor.bsky.social. Read the whole story (for free!) at sarossf.com/issue-1/
"Looking Glass" by Lia Lao It’s almost laughable that she couldn’t make the trip in person. Still, you know why. It’s because she can’t stand to see you. You, her daughter. You, her fallen masterpiece. The one who’s torn herself apart with her own hands. She used to brag about how carefully she created you. How she consulted the best doctors—grew ten mirror images in a laboratory—and decided you were the one who deserved to live. You weren’t the smartest. You weren’t the strongest. But you were the prettiest and the most amenable and that was what mattered to her.
Story #2 in the debut issue of Saros SF is "Looking Glass" by @thelialao.bsky.social. Read the whole thing (for free!) at sarossf.com/issue-1/
"Exhibition" by Lu Xu In her dreams, Gael has been fantasizing about stepping barefoot onto the Earth’s grass again. Here on this foreign planet, the land her feet touch is navy blue, so much so that if you flew the space shuttle across a field you would think it an ocean. There is no ocean here, just storms and rain, but when she sleeps she can still taste the saltiness of the endless sea. That is home—where the flora is verdant and the soil is crumbly and brown, not azure. When it thunders here, calamitously, she dreams about the peach trees and the love and the cars. The crows and the elephants and the rats and the sharks.
The first story in Saros #1 is "Exhibition" by @lxuwrites.bsky.social. Check out the first paragraph and read the rest (for free!) here: sarossf.com/issue-1/
For the weekend crowd! Catch the debut issue of Saros SF--a new magazine designed to give the "magazine editing experience" to aspiring editors. Our first issue is edited by longtime FF reader @meganjkerr.bsky.social, who's been published previously in Clarkesworld.
Thank you!!
gay Severance is here 🥳🥳🥳
So excited to be featured in this issue! If you’re interested in reading about alien taxidermy, definitely check out my short story in there 👽
Saros #1 is here! Go read these fantastic stories!!
Tomorrow!!
The submission gates are opened--send us your stories!
sarossf.com/submissions/
Saros #1 is almost here! I am so excited to share these great stories with everyone on January 17th!
Saros #1 Table of Contents graphic. On the left is cover art, a blue background with the silhouette of mountains and lights (fireflies?) in the foreground. A figure holds a sceptre topped with light. Text reads: Edited by Megan J. Kerr “Exhibition” by Lu Xu: taxidermy on alien worlds / the hunt / the need to conquer “Looking Glass” by Lia Lao: heiresses / becoming what others want / resistance “Four Fabrications of Francine Descartes” by Tim Major: experiments / stormy time-loops / what is Francine? “Rent-A-Joe” by A.D. Sui: body rentals / fixing the world you broke / making ends meet
Saros SF #1 arrives on January 17th! Edited by @meganjkerr.bsky.social, the debut issue of FF's sister magazine includes stories by @lxuwrites.bsky.social, @thelialao.bsky.social, @timjmajor.bsky.social, and @thesuiway.bsky.social with cover art by Barbara Candiotti.
And although I encourage you to download a copy for free if you don't have the cash, there's an extra incentive for buying an issue. Through 11/24, all proceeds from sales of FF#23 will be donated to Islamic Relief Canada, to aid in their ongoing work in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, and other areas.
Fusion Fragment Table of Contents. On the left, a veiled woman in a gothic black dress and white gloves stands in front of a steampunk-style machine, full of brass pipes and cranks, and a tuba type thingamajig that seems to be sprouting fronds. All is enshrouded in mist. On the right, the stories in the issue, with the following text: “All the Songs” by Caitlin Sweet: isolated survivor communities / abandoned bus stations / a post-human future “Cages” by Thomas Ha: in the garden of the Tall Ones / the unstitched man / belief and action “Stone Test” by Catherine Forrest: relationship dynamics / keeping secrets / waiting for the test to come “The 1st Interspecies Solidarity Fair and Parade” by Bogi Takács: alien attack aftermath / bringing communities together / job recruiters “The Little Black Wand for Every Occasion” by Emry Jordal: fixing past mistakes, again and again / impossible debates / the multiverse “The Very Long Death of Katherine Ainsley” by Marlan K. Smith: painting lessons / eventful seances / the contraption in the basement
FF#23 has arrived! Stories by Caitlin Sweet, @thomasha.bsky.social, @reallifecatherine.bsky.social, @bogiperson.bsky.social, @ejordal.bsky.social, and Marlan K. Smith! In From the Archives, @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social reviews If There's Anyone Left!
Get yours at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-23
