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Lyndsie Manusos

@lmanusos.bsky.social

She/Her | Assoc. Flash Editor at JMWW Journal | Fiction in/forthcoming in Tor.com, F&SF, The Deadlands, Lightspeed, etc. | Senior Contrib for Book Riot | Rep: Eric Showers at Morhaim Literary | FROM THESE DARK ABODES forthcoming in 2024 from Psychopomp
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The LeGuin Award continues to have excellent taste in its shortlist! 2024 list just announced. www.ursulakleguin.com/prize24 Congratulations, @vajra.me, @emilytesh.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com and the others on the list! A mix of stuff I've read & liked & new to me stuff to add to the TBR.
Ursula K. Le Guin — 2024 Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)www.ursulakleguin.com
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Omg! So grateful to Kathy Fish for featuring my @passagesnorth.bsky.social story “Generations of Leaves” in the July newsletter. And huge thanks to @heatherbelladams.bsky.social for recommending this flash. This story has a special place in my heart, and I’m thrilled it’s found more readers! 🍃
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Woohoo!!! Super stoked to be coming back to FF with "Cages!" A cowardly husband races to free his wife from a cage trap in an unusual garden. Looking forward to this one!
We've acquired "Cages" by the Nebula, Locus, and Jackson Award-nominated @thomasha.bsky.social! Thomas is back for his 3rd appearance in FF, and has also had stories in Clarkesworld, khōréō, Lightspeed, and many others.
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Omg! So grateful to Kathy Fish for featuring my @passagesnorth.bsky.social story “Generations of Leaves” in the July newsletter. And huge thanks to @heatherbelladams.bsky.social for recommending this flash. This story has a special place in my heart, and I’m thrilled it’s found more readers! 🍃
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B&N is having their 25% off preorder sale for members. You can get the paperback of Countess for under $13 USD! It's goth, anticolonial and inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo. Preording tells B&N people want Queer Caribbean Space Operas and we need more!🖤 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/countess-s...
Countess|Paperbackwww.barnesandnoble.com A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella in which a betrayed captain seeks revenge on the interplanetary empire that subjugated her people for generationsVirika Sameroo lives in colonized spac...
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Book Riot's Best Books of 2024 (so far) is up! I chose Jennifer Thorne's DIAVOLA, from Tor Nightfire. It's such a delicious horror tale of toxic family relationships taken to the extreme in a haunted Italian villa. A perfect summer horror read. bookriot.com/best-books-o...
The Best Books of 2024 (So Far)bookriot.com We're at the midway point of the year, which means it's time to crown Book Riot's Best Books of 2024 (so far)!
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I'm slow these days for personal reasons, but I had to come here and give a shout-out for Apex Kickstarter. I had 3 stories published there (and 1 non-fic piece coming up) and it was always wonderful to work with this team. And always the place to find the best of short fiction.
AND WE'RE LIVE! Our 2025 Kickstarter has SO MUCH included! Here are some of our rewards: ☀️ Affirmation Critiques 🎨 Graphic Design Bundles and a Website mock-up 🖐️ Personal Snap Judgments ✍️ Critiques 📚 Book Bundles 👽 12 month subscriptions 🍸 Strange Anthology Bundle
Apex Magazine 2025www.kickstarter.com A bi-monthly digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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Apex Magazine is one of my most FAVORITE short fiction magazines out there, and they need your help. they need OUR help! if you can afford to back the Kickstarter, you can get some neat rewards! if not? please repost!!
AND WE'RE LIVE! Our 2025 Kickstarter has SO MUCH included! Here are some of our rewards: ☀️ Affirmation Critiques 🎨 Graphic Design Bundles and a Website mock-up 🖐️ Personal Snap Judgments ✍️ Critiques 📚 Book Bundles 👽 12 month subscriptions 🍸 Strange Anthology Bundle
Apex Magazine 2025www.kickstarter.com A bi-monthly digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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Some recent reads I’ve enjoyed 👀🔥 REST STOP by @natcassidy.bsky.social THE LOTUS SHOES by Jane Yang THE FOX WIFE by Yangsze Choo ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social FROM THESE DARK ABODES by @lmanusos.bsky.social
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"Joanna’s smile turns mean now. But not openly mean. The quiet kind of mean that nobody else notices but Eleni, because they know each other so well." Oh yes, @foxesandroses.bsky.social nailed this triumph pubbed in @psychopomp.bsky.social! Parasitic friendships! The Craft meets Jennifer's Body!
Friends! My second novelette for the year is out! "Joanna's Bodies" is free to read @psychopomp.bsky.social! Eleni can't stop bringing Joanna back from the dead. This is a story about toxic friendships, forgiving yourself, and my love for Jennifer's Body 🖤 psychopomp.com/joannas-bodi...
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“The woman quivered, a doe in her soul. All she wanted in the world was to be safe. To no longer see shadows gaining shape just out the corner of her eye.” Haunting. Soul-churning. A visceral feast. I was whispering “hell yes!” to it all. @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social is one of our very best.
"The black trees slashed through the sunlight, more bared fangs than a forest, and just deep enough within them to be lost..." New fiction: "Open Them If You Don't Believe Me" by K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/mead-brew...
Open Them If You Don’t Believe Me | matchbookwww.matchbooklitmag.com
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I think part of our work as horror writers in 2024 is to help people unlock the parts of themselves that can face terror and adversity without losing their humanity & goodness. We are entering an era of fear and horror like our species has never faced. We need heart.
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I love this and I feel this really hard as a writer of, specifically, cosmic horror. What do you DO when you're faced with a foe you can't defeat or understand? You still have choices left in your humanity -- not many, but a few -- and the horror is about exploring what those choices are.
I think part of our work as horror writers in 2024 is to help people unlock the parts of themselves that can face terror and adversity without losing their humanity & goodness. We are entering an era of fear and horror like our species has never faced. We need heart.
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“The woman quivered, a doe in her soul. All she wanted in the world was to be safe. To no longer see shadows gaining shape just out the corner of her eye.” Haunting. Soul-churning. A visceral feast. I was whispering “hell yes!” to it all. @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social is one of our very best.
"The black trees slashed through the sunlight, more bared fangs than a forest, and just deep enough within them to be lost..." New fiction: "Open Them If You Don't Believe Me" by K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/mead-brew...
Open Them If You Don’t Believe Me | matchbookwww.matchbooklitmag.com
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hey it’s me! I’ve got a tiny, fresh spooky story for you up with the marvelous @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 🦇🦇🦇🦇
"The black trees slashed through the sunlight, more bared fangs than a forest, and just deep enough within them to be lost..." New fiction: "Open Them If You Don't Believe Me" by K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/mead-brew...
Open Them If You Don’t Believe Me | matchbookwww.matchbooklitmag.com
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WHAT!? My @hexliterary.bsky.social flash “Unimagined Delicacy” is on the Wigleaf Top 50 2024 Longlist?! I’ve enjoyed and aspired to the talented writers on this list for years. To see my work on the Longlist, is just…whew 🥹. So grateful to @hexliterary.bsky.social for embracing my weirdness 🐙 .
New on our mainpage: the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2024, selected by Maurice Carlos Ruffin: wigleaf.com
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WHAT!? My @hexliterary.bsky.social flash “Unimagined Delicacy” is on the Wigleaf Top 50 2024 Longlist?! I’ve enjoyed and aspired to the talented writers on this list for years. To see my work on the Longlist, is just…whew 🥹. So grateful to @hexliterary.bsky.social for embracing my weirdness 🐙 .
New on our mainpage: the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2024, selected by Maurice Carlos Ruffin: wigleaf.com