Issue 4 of Adventitious is out! In it is "Life Imitates," Kaitlin's and my coauthored sapphic horror story in which therapy speak is how they get ya, and self-gaslighting invites in more than mere self-doubt... Subscribe to read it now, or be patient and read it later—if they don't get ya first.
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Rio Lombana
Профиль Vively🏳️🌈 Queer SFFH author, they/all 📚 Fiction in Escape Pod, Small Wonders, Heartlines Spec, elsewhere 👀 Apex Magazine first reader 🪼 Viable Paradise 2025 alum 🥋 Jiujitsu purple belt ⛰️ Pacific Northwest transplant bio.site/riolombana
Beautiful and haunting covers. Look for my words behind two of them!
Weightless BooksAugust issues of @lightspeedmagazine.com, @nightmare-magazine.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, Dirty Magick, The Dark, @adventitiouswords.bsky.social, @locusmag.bsky.social, and @smallwondersmag.com are here! weightlessbooks.com/2026/08/
kayfabe swole queer theory emo declinist
Merriam-WebsterFind the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/
Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18?
Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
I love it all but I think the little frog is my favorite
Adventitious.Introducing...the astounding cover for Issue Four (out Aug 1) by artist Kevin McKie! I've never seen anything like it. 😍📸 It's part of a larger graphic novel project Kevin is creating, which you can see on Insta. www.instagram.com/mckie.illust... He also sells prints! www.etsy.com/listing/4522...
@kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social and I are about to be sharing a TOC with some incredible authors!!
Adventitious.Issue Four lands August 1. But who's in it?🧵 ...(so far)... P.A. Cornell @cornellwriter.bsky.social 🤖 Aimee Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com👹 Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social ❤️🩹 Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social 🍇 Stewart C. Baker 🌌 Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs🍽️ and...
Thrilled to share my very short story "Everyone Drinks at Sunrise" published by @pseudopod.org today, alongside some other creepy tales. I especially love the host's commentary. Liberal guilt, it turns out, *is* delicious.
Pleased to share my teeny tiny PNW-themed story, published by the ever-lovely Foofaraw Press and their microfic imprint.
Quotidian Bagatelle“🥖” The Ancest—ahhh! https://qb.foofaraw.press/the-ancest-ahhh/
And I was thrilled to receive one of them. Can't wait to see my words in Kaleidotrope!
KaleidotropeIt's much nicer sending acceptances.
I read a lot of stuff by trans people, sometimes because I seek them out, but often just because they do things like show up in Apex Magazine (where I'm a first reader) or win the World Fantasy Award "Unsettled Nature" by @jordankurella.com "The Yoke of Stars" by @rblemberg.bsky.social
Do me a favor. Respond or quote this with the most recent piece of media (book, short story, album, painting, statue, game, anything) by a *trans creator* that you loved. Drop a link. Boost their signal.
I'm pleased to announce that my story "His Goose Is Cooked" was a finalist for the Foofs Award!!
Here are your next batch of final nominees for Phantasm—best short story between 2,500 - 5,000 words! Officially halfway through the eight categories for our inaugural edition of The Foofs!
#VillainVoices #CRPFantasyFoxes Dear North Delta Academy's Ethics Committee, By all means, feel free to conduct your inspection tomorrow afternoon. I assure you that, at that time, you'll find nothing in my project that meets the Class A.1.12 definition of personhood. Sincerely, Professor Fontenot
Revise & ResubGood morning, #CampRevPit! 🏕️ Today, we give your villains a moment in the spotlight. What would they say your story is about? Pitch it from your villain's perspective. #VillainVoices
#CampRevPit #CRPFantasyFoxes #OneLineMC The beauty of all Creation could be found in any single grain of rice, without having to travel at all—just as Remi had been taught as a child.
Revise & ResubGood morning, #CampRevPit! 🏕️Let's start the day with your main character! Use #OneLineMC and share a line from your manuscript that tells us all we need to know about your MC’s personality.
#CRPFFantasyFoxes My WIP is for you if: You think the 7-foot-tall dark-haired jerk with a god complex is hot, sure, but you'll take the goofball instead, tyvm. You're sick of hearing romantasy is all dumbed-down or "reads like YA." Your queerness isn't so visible, but it's part of you regardless.
Jacqui Culler#CRPFantasyFoxes, you guys have been doing amazing with these prompts! For today's Discussion Den, tell us who your book is for, using unserious answers only! Draw on your niche settings, your target audience of one, or that thing in your story that you know someone, somewhere will also giggle at!