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The Divisive Second Person POV - How, When, And Why To Use It (And When NOT To) with Sage Tyrtle "Second person... implicates the reader, and this is part of why it's divisive." Award-winning storyteller and published author, Sage Tyrtle, talks about how, when and why to use second person…

Why is second person point-of-view so divisive? Award-winning storyteller and published author, Sage Tyrtle, talks about how, when and why to use second person point-of-view (and when not to) in this workshop excerpt.

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Time to polish your stories - or write one if you don't have something ready!

Vile Lady Villains Lady Macbeth turns to the three witches for advice. She’s given a brew that transports her to a strange realm. Desperately lost, she opens a door to a woman drenched in blood. Klytemnestra is exactin...

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Listen, I don't often shout out for a book (mostly because I don't do social media much). But if there's one you shouldn't miss, it is Vile Lady Villains by @danaiwrites.bsky.social
PRE-ORDER, ORDER, LOVE. It's out of this world and will blow your mind off.
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Submissions Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

Submissions for the next issue of Translunar Travelers Lounge open soon. From March 15-21 is reserved for writers of color; from March 22 until April 15 is general submissions for everybody. We are looking for speculative fiction up to 5,000 words. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

No rest, get ready!
(polish, polish, polish until it shines 🌟)

Update: I revised today, managed to save 1h for it.
Forgot how incredible I feel when working on a story. Nothing left but the story: no time, no space, no life being a pain. Deep focus, chiseling the piece word by word, working on a vision of what it could be.
Pure joy.

Writer Spotlight: Elijah J. Mears — Emmie Christie Welcome to the eighth installment of Writer Spotlight. This week’s focus is Elijah J. Mears . I’ve reviewed six of Mears’s short pieces, five of them on Inkfoundry’s “Get WYSR” feed. (In case you...

And now, my capstone review for @elijah.mea.rs ! Elijah, it's been wonderful reading your work : )

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Last Temptation drabble of the month. New poll for next month's drabble theme will be up soon.
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As a reminder, in 2025 we published Issue 12 and Issue 13 with these stories.

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A truly beautiful story

The community drabble for today is, "The Shackles of Determinism" by Magdalena Nitchi. The theme was "betrayal."

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#authors #drabbles #writingprompts

The community drabble for today is, "Decayed Beauty" by Dakria. The theme was "betrayal."

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#authors #drabbles #writingprompts

The community drabble for today is, "A Single Mermaid’s Tear" by M.A. Dosser. The theme was "betrayal."

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Oh my gosh, that one! Grinding my teeth all along LOL. Great example of how you can love a story when the only thing you want to do is throwing shoes at the character (murderous shoes preferably). Masterclass in how to have a despicable chsracter and still hook your readers!

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We'll see lol

Translunar Travelers Lounge a speculative fiction magazine

Fortunately that's usually easier in this dimension - so we'd really like it if you let us know what you think about this issue. translunartravelerslounge.com

a black cat is holding a knife in its paws . ALT: a black cat is holding a knife in its paws .

I'll need to catch up, sorry everyone. I was off for the last month and a half writing flash fiction (6 of them, yay) and as from next weekend I'll go to poetry for another month! So I missed all the drama (whatever) but also I didn't cheer you up as I should 🫂
I'm writing lol

Temptations of the Selkie | Kai Delmas Get more from Kai Delmas on Patreon

New Temptation drabble is up. Sorry for not having it up last week, but I had a lot going on. The last February drabble will be up in a few days, as well as the poll for March's theme.
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Cover of Issue 14, February 14 of Translunar Travelers Lounge in which skeletons surround a man playing an accordion, created by Rae Johnson. The authors names listed are David Anaxagoras, Bella Chacha, Morgana Clark, Arvee Fantilagan, Ikechukwu Henry, Adan Jerreat-Poole, Michael M Jones, Maria Clara Klein, R Lochlann, Monica Louzon & Ramiro Snachez, Tunvey Mou, Uchechukuw Nwaka, Dan Peacock and Catherine Tavares. The Editors are Bennett North, Priya Sridhar and Hannya Kay

And take a look at this brilliant cover by Rae Johnson.

They are 😍

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The new issue is out! The best spec fiction in this corner of the galaxy, and it's free to read!
I'm telling you, if you're missing this one, you're really missing out 🎉🎉🚀
(and I'm not joking)

Cover of Die Laughing Issue 6. The cover art features a variety of colorful clown-like creatures, shaped as hearts and also some kind of bug. Tongues are also involved.

Finally! It's Here! Happy Valentine's Day from the clowns at Die Laughing Mag. We're hoping to win your hearts with six hilarifying tales the likes of which you've never seen before (because love is blind, and all that). Get the full issue for $5 here! ko-fi.com/s/222d278cc8

Sam Altman was right - this unironically is PhD-level intelligence

@bsfa.bsky.social Fission is now open! Please send us your words, we are excited to see them! :)

Any questions, please ask me.

www.bsfa.co.uk/fission

Out today and just 99 cents. Includes my micro fiction "The Perfect Man" and many more stories by fantastic authors.

Table of contents for the February 2026 issue of Penumbric, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/ToC.html

Thank you to all the contributors in February's #Penumbric! Kathryn Ptacek, Vekhan Sametyaza, @nershwood.bsky.social, Carl Scharwath, @kaidelmas.bsky.social, Viviana De Cecco, @ianli.bsky.social ...

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