Thomas Ha

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Writer || Nebula, Locus, & Shirley Jackson Nominee || Best American SFF. Brave New Weird. Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror || Codex, SFWA, & HWA || Korean/Irish hapa. Father o' three. He/him. thomashawrites.com

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oh my crumpets, i did not check the clarkesworld subscription drive for a while and it's under 200 now clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Favorite part of the morning. Number go down time. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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HERE WE GO! Release day for my debut collection, The World Outside, via @underlandpress.bsky.social !! I proudly wear the badge of "weird fiction." I like blending genres and always striving for some new angle on an established motif. Follow me to... firebirdcreative.myshopify.com/products/the...

The World Outsidefirebirdcreative.myshopify.com PREORDER: THIS TITLE RELEASES ON 7/16/24 A collection by Elad Haber. The cautionary tales we heard as children were only the beginning. In The World Outside, Elad Haber's debut collection, you will fi...

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I've been nominated for the Sturgeon Award for the second time! Two times! Me! What in the world... Thank you to everyone showing Tantie, Lincoln & Ignatius so much love. I've made 5 ballots this year & won twice & I could not be more grateful. You've made my year! locusmag.com/2024/07/2024...

2024 Sturgeon Award Finalistslocusmag.com The finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. “The Rainbow Ghosts”, Violet…

every once in a while i wake from my middle-aged parent stupor and remember, oh goddamn, that's right, i love videogames, goddamn i love videogames, they are extremely enjoyable, they are

Moody and mournful, about aspects of self that are sacrificed and then missed. Packs a lot in a relatively small space. Not directly linked (I think) to Vanessa's "How to Travel Safely in Faerieland" but has that mundane/magical somber feeling and a big dose of far future. Great quick read!

My short story, “The Red Queen’s Heart,” is now free to read at Lightspeed! A magical night market, a conquering Queen, and what we give up to survive www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

The Red Queen’s Heart - Lightspeed Magazinewww.lightspeedmagazine.com Anything can be bought or sold at the Night Market. A dozen hummingbird tongues curled like tiny snails, basted in honey and chili oil and served on a silver tray. A mermaid’s song, caught in an antiq...

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Bourbon Penn 33 is live with brand new stories by Alex Jennings, Steve Toase, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Françoise Harvey, Gretchen Tessmer, Zachariah Claypole White, Adriane Hanson, and J. Ashley-Smith.

Bourbon Penn 33www.bourbonpenn.com Stories by Alex Jennings, Steve Toase, J. Ashley-Smith, Gretchen Tessmer, Adriane Hanson, Françoise Harvey, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, and Zachariah Claypole White. Cover art by Jing Zhiyong.

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Some news! Could not possibly be more excited about this. Can’t wait to share this story with you when the time comes! 🤠

Happy to report that we've acquired "Lucinda Espinosa's Twenty-Seventh Death" by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social! M.R. has previously been published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

i know things are dark right now, but i just saw an evil whip monkey riding on a spiky turtle with ice breath

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This is a very nice thing to honor Eirik, so if you've been waiting to snag this one, now is a great time.

Mike of From Beyond Press let me know that fbp is donating all proceeds from sales of ESCALATORS TO HELL: SHOPPING MALL HORRORS for the rest of July to the Children's Organ Transplant Association in memory of Eirik Gumeny. Get it from thewebsite, or the zon, or wherever.

frame from a non-musical movie with a great soundtrack:

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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Ecstatic to announce that my story "An Infestation of Blue" has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Award! Like many of us, I've never felt like "real" science fiction writer, and this honor feels both surreal and fantastic. reactormag.com/congratulati...

Congratulations to the 2024 Sturgeon Award Finalists! - Reactorreactormag.com The J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction has announced the 2024 finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, given to the best short science fiction story from the...

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"And it turns out, control without control still feels very much like control." *bangs pots and pans* @thomasha.bsky.social scares the hell out of me AGAIN with the hauntingly perfect "Grottmata" from @nightmare-magazine.com. Everyone needs to read this. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/grot...

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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My short story, “The Red Queen’s Heart,” is now free to read at Lightspeed! A magical night market, a conquering Queen, and what we give up to survive www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

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Finally got to read this @cbarzak.bsky.social novella from @psychopomp.bsky.social and it’s killer. Weird and captivating and wonderfully written. You gotta check it out!

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son made a dinosaur (demon), I am impressed and alarmed

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Sad news. I was delighted when Metaphorosis published and podcasted my story "Heart Moon" in April 2023. Here's a thread of some outstanding Metaphorosis stories.

Metaphorosis' next issue will be our 100th - and last. Metaphorosis magazine closes at the end of 2024 after a nine year run. magazine.metaphorosis.com/editorial/20...

Metaphorosis’ next issue will be our 100th – and lastmagazine.metaphorosis.com The end of the story – Metaphorosis closes after issue #100.

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Very sad to hear that @metaphorosis.bsky.social magazine is to close. Morris was a very patient and kind editor when I worked with him on 'The Astronaut Tier' and he made the story immeasurably better with his thoughtful notes. magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2018/t...

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"Dylan hadn’t been expecting to see shades of her own past, her own trauma, in an other-dimensional hyena-monster." A good story by Eirik Gumeny, a writer and editor I only recently became acquainted with, and who, more recently, died. I'm sad he's gone.

Eirik Gumeny's "A Balanced Breakfast" in full — tenebrous presstenebrouspress.com

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something they don't tell you, shell out for a good vacuum if you can, a good, solid vacuum that will last a long time, because the ones that are not good are god awful

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I was also given the chance to read my own story for the audio version, which was a really fun experience. magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2022/s...

Shades of the Sea – J.A. Prenticemagazine.metaphorosis.com The village children found Larnia lying in the crashing surf.

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Metaphorosis is a great magazine and I’m glad I was fortunate enough to have had a story with them. I highly recommend browsing through their archives and checking out some of the great stories they’ve published over the years.

Metaphorosis' next issue will be our 100th - and last. Metaphorosis magazine closes at the end of 2024 after a nine year run. magazine.metaphorosis.com/editorial/20...

Metaphorosis’ next issue will be our 100th – and lastmagazine.metaphorosis.com The end of the story – Metaphorosis closes after issue #100.

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Working with Morris has been a highlight of my career so far; he’s a sterling editor, and the magazine will be missed! Sending all good wishes for the future.

Metaphorosis' next issue will be our 100th - and last. Metaphorosis magazine closes at the end of 2024 after a nine year run. magazine.metaphorosis.com/editorial/20...

Metaphorosis’ next issue will be our 100th – and lastmagazine.metaphorosis.com The end of the story – Metaphorosis closes after issue #100.

The news is out. The current special set of monthly stories in Metaphorosis is going to close out their 100-issue run. It's a bittersweet thing: the end of an era, but also a well-earned (and hopefully restful) chapter for Morris et al. after almost a decade of bringing stories to publication./1

Metaphorosis' next issue will be our 100th - and last. Metaphorosis magazine closes at the end of 2024 after a nine year run. magazine.metaphorosis.com/editorial/20...

Metaphorosis’ next issue will be our 100th – and lastmagazine.metaphorosis.com The end of the story – Metaphorosis closes after issue #100.

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At #readercon?? Stop by the Psychopomp table (We have Halloween candy) (And free @thedeadlands.com pins!!) And ALL of our books 👀👀💀

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Hello, writers & editors. Today I'd like to hear some opinions on the adage "kill your darlings" as I puzzle through a dilemma in my current project. Kill or nurture? Also, for context, I'm not a helpless little thing. I'm confident about writing and it's rare that I'm of two minds on anything.

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A signal boost would be a colossal help! Right now my novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long the sale will last. a.co/d/0i53afDu