Thanks to everybody at the Figments conference for letting me talk at you about Inner Worlds!
A copy of the paper will be up in the website later this week
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"Zaferree Making Weather Forecasts with Voices" by @reggiekwok.bsky.social is a quietly wonderful fable about finding your place in the world.
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#SFF #Fantasy #MagicRealism #SpeculativeFiction
"Subsume" by @chasejxyz.bsky.social is an enigmatic exploration of a many layered self and the different relationships we may hold within us.
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#Horror #DarkFiction #FlashFiction #SpeculativeFiction
'The Replay Weaver' by @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social is a short, shimmering story which will likely strike a chord with anyone who has tried to shift the pattern of their thoughts
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#SFF #Fantasy
'Death of a Thousand Paper Cuts' by @avramargariti.bsky.social is a wince-inducing medical horror story which captures the nightmare of a health system stripped of care and run for profit, access to treatment determined by productivity.
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#horror #SFF
'Recollections of the Abyssopelagic Dredge' by @asterolsen.bsky.social is both a devastating allegory and a superb scifi horror story, layers which finally merge in an act of shocking violence
(please note the CWs)
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#ScienceFiction #SciFi #SFF #Horror
Author @thedescenters.bsky.social describes her Robot Wars-inspired story "Love Blooms on the Battlefield" as "a poetic exploration of love between two traumatised trans people". I love the way it balances humour, sadness, violence, beauty & liberatory joy 💖
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In "Without A Tether" by @jonolfert.bsky.social Dainy Merced is facing a desperate situation on the refinery spaceship Sigurd. Luckily, as a 'counter' she has internal resources she can draw on 🚀
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#SFF #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #ShortStories
"Tour" by @elliottgish.bsky.social is a sad and sinister story in the form of a guided tour around the house where a shocking crime has taken place. (Please note the content warnings.)
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#Horror #HorrorFiction #HorrorCommunity #ShortStories
In "First Genuine Contact" by Laura DeHaan a supernatural inconvenience becomes an opportunity.
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#Horror #HorrorCommunity #HorrorFam
