#Slipstream fiction

[flameswallower]

HEY I HAVE A SHORT STORY COLLECTION COMING OUT IN JANUARY!!!

This will be my first full-length collection of short fiction! It includes a brand new story, several stories that have been previously published but are difficult to find/that I don't think many people have read, and a few stories that you might already know and love from anthologies like The Book Of Queer Saints.

Right now, the publisher is on the lookout for reviewers who might like to receive an ARC! If you're interested, please fill out this form.

[jessicatheearthling]

if you hate the digital world but also love it

if you are fascinated by AI, alternate dimensions, consciousness, simulation theory...

and you like sometimes surreal, magical-realism type slipstream fiction

And live in your deep thoughts

Then you might enjoy the book collection I'm creating?? There will be seven, and they intertwine and overlap, but they can be read in any order 🪽����🚲

ISBN: 978-1803814520

available at any online bookseller but it's cool if you support a local bookstore by requesting that they order it for you 💕

[nochilleftb3hine]

^^ books I've been browsing in Barnes and Noble over the past month that I'm trying desperately to avoid buying in order to remain financially responsible ^^

[weird-iyan]

Work in progress

This is a work in progress entitled One More Thing. Likely to change of course. Heads up, things seem unconnected and nonsequitors NOW but I promise everything is connected. The look of it all is as important as to the things he's saying.

[thenosyjournal]

It's HERE!

I am staggered. It's a real pleasure to have this on my shelves. The amount of work and care put into this story and this book shine through. I am indeed chuffed to bits. Thank you so much, Khorazir!

[emma-d-klutz]

when I was 14 I read a lot of Kafka for fun and adults were like “that’s good. tell colleges that,” but what they didn’t get was I wasn’t reading it in an intellectual way I was reading in a 14yo way. no one else understood my angst quite like Franz

[voidzlitmag]

I am literally begging writers to submit to this lit mag, I am a real person trying to start up a passion project but I am failing, pls send me your writing so voidz doesn't die like my dreams.

[scifipinups]

Kitty Aldridge Slipstream (1989)

[ystlumbelfry]

Are You Bored?

Hi there, lovely to meet you. I'm writing something that's a bit out there. I like to think it's entertaining but I have found myself extremely biased in my favor.

SO

If you are sitting there, scrolling through lurking and looking for something silly or satisfying, have I got the proposition for you?

Read this, tell me what you think, and kill 25 minutes or so doing something I hope will be fun.

"What do I get out of it?" well I'm glad you asked.

Here is a really good song and some Walasse Ting Flamingoes.

Now if you'd like, here is my story

Thank you for your time, I hope you enjoy :^)

[paranatellonta]

Summer Salad

I made the mistake of leaving the window open while I was tossing the pasta salad. The scent of fresh herbs engulfed me, and before I knew it, a tall creature had crept into my home, body and face both hidden in large flaps of loose clothing in every possible shade of brown. Ignoring—or perhaps not hearing—my protests, the figure stalked towards the kitchen counter and dug its long claws into the pot. It lifted its hands and let the slick goodness of fusilli and salad leaves run between its fingers, allowed it to fall down its arms and to the floor tiles with a wet splat. Outside, a storm was brewing, sending cherry tomatoes and mozzarella balls into a juggling act as wild as the whirling thoughts in my head. Somehow, olives crunched between the creature’s teeth like crisp bug shells. Soundtracking itself with Dionysian groans, it emptied the pot of pasta salad, and then continued to lick every last drop of oil off its wrists, its elbows, its shoulders.

It was still hot. A moist 25°C stuck my shirt to my back. But everywhere, autumn was creeping in on the green of nature—even in my pot of pasta salad.

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[Image description: Close-up of a colourful pasta salad in a metal pot. The salad includes lettuce, basil, olives, tomato pieces, and mozzarella.]

[innocentlymacabre]

30 Days, 30 Lines Challenge: Day 7 post your favourite line that you wrote or edited that day

Trance gulped and readjusted his grip on the sword. He nervously side-eyed Eda, wondering what the play was. He’d accepted that the ship itself wasn’t somehow going to hurt him, but he couldn’t ignore the growing feeling in his gut that was warning him to turn tail and run as far away from the rooftop ledge as possible. He’d lived in Thredfrost for a long, long time, so he was no stranger to trouble. He knew how to stare it down, and, most importantly, when not to. He’d developed a sort of warning system. This ship had grabbed the system by the throat and burnt it with a vengeance. And then everything cut off. It was all still there, of course, but Trance couldn’t feel anything any longer. There was no hatred or hunger from the flames, there was no heat fanning his face, there was just nothing. A heavy sort of nothing, one that hung in the air and made you aware of its presence, but wasn’t really there all the time. The kind of feeling you get when you know you’re meant to be doing something, but can’t, for the life of you, figure out what. It was like the wool had been pulled over his eyes so unmovingly that he'd been forced to come up with a world of his own for fear of going insane in the nothingness.

~~ Now They Call Me the Plague [x]

If you're enjoying these excerpts, I would absolutely love you forever if you could buy me a coffee to support its development!

[flameswallower]

HEY!!!!

You can pre-order a paperback copy of my chapbook Traveler's Tales right now! Four stories! Fables, ennui, monsters, body-hopping spirits, an alien abductee support group.

[dynamobooks]

Anna Kavan: Ice (1967)

[patrickwmarsh]

Rose

“Nobody wanted to tell you this would happen, but everybody knew it would. And yes, it is terrible. Still, a bunch of people would have spared you this patch of undead and memory, but if there is one thing I know about human beings it is that they like to let other human beings learn the hard way. They believe suffering builds character, no matter how severe it is,” Aricia said. He was a short,…

[upendingblog]

The Refugees, #5 ‘Discordant’ (Campfire Stories Volume 2 Issue 5)

The roommates prepare to leave, revealing to Taro that he's alone in a crowded room.

The Refugees Campfire Stories: Volume 2, Issue 5 Chosen prompt: ‘Discordant’ from the English language dictionary screensaver After spending the better part of the morning nervously trying to decide what supplies to pack for moving out of their safehouse prematurely, the group heard a convoy of tracked armored personnel carriers rumbling up the street. A column of pure black vehicles. Not…