Spencer Nitkey

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How can you help lessen suffering today [for yourself or others]? Take action around that.

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Til July 17 B&N is offering 25% off preorders, including Northern Nights. Use the code PREORDER25 upon checkout to get the anthology for just $15. A great deal. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/northern-n... New stories from Moreno-Garcia, Mohamed, Strantzas, Wise, Ruthnum, Demchuk, and more!

Northern Nights|Paperbackwww.barnesandnoble.com Something stirs in the boundless dark of the Canadian north. Listen. Can you hear it?Northern Nights is an anthology of strange stories, featuring the dark dreams and feverish imaginations of Canada's...

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Just read your story and it was INCREDIBLE

I've been kind of rattling on about this story lots but.... I just had a story published in @diabolicalplots.com specifically about how utterly empty these kind of solutions to grief are. "The deepfake is nothing like you. . ." www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

“Ghostbots mine personal data, some of which is sensitive, but which creators are encouraged to upload to get the most realistic recreation of their loved one. In life, we often want to control what we do with our data, at least to an extent. Should we grant the dead similar rights?”

Waking the deadwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk Deep fakes and AI can digitally resurrect our late loved ones. What can we gain from these technologies, and what might we lose?

DP FICTION #113A: “Eternal Recurrence” by Spencer Nitkey – Diabolical Plotswww.diabolicalplots.com

Preordered this today! I am ridiculously excited about this anthology. The authors! The subject matter! I can't wait.

Barnes & Noble is having a flash pre-order sale from July 7-17 for Premium and Rewards members. I'm told you can pre-order DEEP DREAM via B&N and get 25% off using the checkout code PREORDER25:

Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art|Paperbackwww.barnesandnoble.com Ten acclaimed writers imagine the future of art across space and time.In this volume from the Twelve Tomorrows series, Deep Dream, ten writers imagine the different ways in which art forms might evolv...

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Composition No. 1: Lozenge with Four Lines by Piet Mondrian, 1930 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137542

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One of my fav things about this KS: rather than solicit big-name authors, we are doing something different. If we reach our funding goal + 400 backers, there will be a special issue of Apex dedicated solely to UNPUBLISHED AUTHORS! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Friends, this is a huge one for us! I absolutely adore this magazine & working with this team, and we need your support more than ever. Can you help keep Apex Mag in the form we know and love? Whether through funding or spreading the word to brand new readers, every bit helps!❤️‍🔥

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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I love Apex so much, and I would love them even if I hadn't been published by them three times now! (Magazine twice, one anthology)

Apex Magazine 2025www.kickstarter.com A bi-monthly digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Apex Magazine 2025www.kickstarter.com A bi-monthly digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Make sure to watch our Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Kickstarter Video! It was made by the fabulous @freyburg.bsky.social!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

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✨NEW SHORT STORY ALERT✨ “The Last Lucid Day” is about a lot of things, but it’s mostly about closure. Available to read online in @lightspeedmagazine.com (🔗👇🏾)

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Here is the passage from Nietzsche's "The Gay Science" which inspired the ending and many portions of this story.

One of my favorite and most emotional and personal stories I've written is out in the world today @diabolicalplots.com. "Eternal Recurrence" is a story about all the ways technology might try and fail to help ease our grief. I'd love it if you gave it a read. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

DP FICTION #113A: “Eternal Recurrence” by Spencer Nitkey – Diabolical Plotswww.diabolicalplots.com

This story is absolutely haunting and feels very (sadly...) relevant to our world today. Another must-read by Thomas Ha! I really loved this one.

Latest story, "Grottmata," is now online at @nightmare-magazine.com. A space colony is plagued by a series of inexplicable deaths; an Inspector and a factory girl know more than they let on. Thanks again to Wendy and the Nightmare team for taking this and for their care with this one.

Grottmata - Nightmare Magazinewww.nightmare-magazine.com The soldiers start rounding up us factory girls just before sunrise. We smoke cigarettes and stand in a line against the remnants of a brick wall that used to be a bakery, facing the sheer black of th...

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Large Blue Anthropometry (ANT 105) by Yves Klein, 1955 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137887

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Untitled by Harry Bertoia, 1938 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137858

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ko-fi.com/izd Do you love stories and art like Joyce Ch'ng’s ‘The Barricade’ and Emma Howitt’s illustration? If you’re able, consider becoming the 174th person to support the zine at Ko-fi – every euro gets IZ Digital closer to paying pro rates to brilliant *human* artists and authors Thank you ✨🙏🏼

‘It has taken years. Years of education, years of failure, and years of tiny successes. The people are listening. The people have been listening. They feel the heat on their skin.’ New fiction by Joyce Ch'ng with art by Emma Howitt 👇 interzone.digital/the-barricade/

THE BARRICADE // IZ Digitalinterzone.digital ‘The sea is our home.’ // ‘The Barricade’, a story by Joyce Ch'ng with art by Emma Howitt

This recent @clarkesworldmagazine.com story "Stellar Evolutions in Pop Idol Artistry" by Em. X. Liu is fascinating and gripping. A deep and complex exploration of the logics of celebrity through science fiction technologies and it ROCKS. clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_07_24/

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasyclarkesworldmagazine.com Stellar Evolutions in Pop Idol Artistry by Em X. Liu

This article by Yahia Lababidi on the intersection btw Oscar Wilde and Nietzsche is briefly referenced in my recent story "Eternal Recurrence" out now in Diabolical Plots. It's a great, quick read on two writers I devoured in high school but never connected! philosophynow.org/issues/94/Th...

New fiction day! "Eternal Recurrence" by Spencer Nitkey @spencerwriting.bsky.social , about what we try to do to fill the void when we lose a loved one. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

The Twin Souls of Oscar Wilde and Friedrich Nietzsche | Issue 94 | Philosophy Nowphilosophynow.org Yahia Lababidi meditates on the aesthetics and ethics of two great contrarians.

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Another story out this (rare double release) month, "Grottmata," in Nightmare Magazine. That, too, will be up in the future, and I may have more to post about it. But if you'd like to get a jump on it and support short spec fic, you can grab an e-copy now. Ok back to silent spiraling.

July 2024 (Issue 142) - Nightmare Magazinewww.nightmare-magazine.com

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My story, "The Fairgrounds," is in this special run of Metaphorosis. One of my favorites. I may have more to say about it in the coming weeks before it goes online in September. If you'd like to read it sooner, you can grab an electronic copy for a couple bucks today!

The Summer issue of Metaphorosis, with stories from @mickyg.bsky.social, @lisashortauthor.com, @thomasha.bsky.social, and art from Philip McCulloch-Downs. Available as an e-book and convenient pocket-sized paperback. books.metaphorosis.com/magazine/202...

Jul-Sep 2024books.metaphorosis.com All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins.

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"The deepfake is nothing like you. Its smile is all wrong. It’s recorded your dimple as an artifact and smoothed it over. Your smile is too symmetrical. It’s shortened your beaky nose. It winks at me from the computer screen with the wrong eye." - Spencer Nitkey

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New fiction day! "Eternal Recurrence" by Spencer Nitkey @spencerwriting.bsky.social , about what we try to do to fill the void when we lose a loved one. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

"Rain doesn't always mean what we think it means, remember that." I really enjoyed this weird, unsettling story by @benlockwood.bsky.social in the always weird and wonderful ergot. Definitely recommend this one! www.ergot.press/authors/Ben_...

ergot.www.ergot.press innovative + experimental horror

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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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it's here! JOANNA'S BODIES, by @foxesandroses.bsky.social a new, amazing novelette free to read. CELEBRATE! 💀🪙💀

Joanna’s Bodies - PSYCHOPOMP.COMpsychopomp.com Publisher’s note: this is the second of four novelettes we will be publishing this year. You can read this for free on our site (via this very page you're on)

Here is the passage from Nietzsche's "The Gay Science" which inspired the ending and many portions of this story.

DP FICTION #113A: “Eternal Recurrence” by Spencer Nitkey – Diabolical Plotswww.diabolicalplots.com

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We're celebrating Pride weekend with this tender story featuring the miracle of love, ripe bowls of fruit, and watercolor stained glass art. 🍒🍊🍋🍐🫐🍇 Read "Olga, the Saint of Longing" by @spencerwriting.bsky.social online & in print 💌 paranoidtree.com/read/vol-42

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The Red Tower by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137318