David M. Barry
@davidmbarry.bsky.social
Human. Husband. Step-dad. Dog and cat lover, mental health therapist, speculative fiction writer. Lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Words in @DailyScienceFiction, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashpointsf.bsky.social Odyssey online grad. #Codex #SFWA
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Flights of Foundry is a phenomenal event and it could use our help to keep going. Please consider donating to an org that ties our writing community together so beautifully every September.
I love Flights of Foundry. I want it to keep flying for many, many years to come.
But if it's not an effective *fundraiser*, then the organization it's supporting truly won't be able to afford the time, effort, and cost of it.
If you want more? Put money in.
flights-of-foundry.org/donate/
But if it's not an effective *fundraiser*, then the organization it's supporting truly won't be able to afford the time, effort, and cost of it.
If you want more? Put money in.
flights-of-foundry.org/donate/
September 21, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Flights of Foundry is a phenomenal event and it could use our help to keep going. Please consider donating to an org that ties our writing community together so beautifully every September.
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Loved this! I've had the absolute honor of getting to read more of Hannya's work this year, and the skill behind every story is apparent from the first word. This story combines imagery in ways that will break your brain and reform it anew with wonder and grief and hope and tragedy.
You're free-floating in space. Running out of oxygen. So close to the end.
What do you do?
Reach for the giant painted duck, of course.
All Aboard by @hannyakay.bsky.social is fantastic flash fiction.
Quack quack, amigos. 🎠
www.adventitious.net/stories/all-...
What do you do?
Reach for the giant painted duck, of course.
All Aboard by @hannyakay.bsky.social is fantastic flash fiction.
Quack quack, amigos. 🎠
www.adventitious.net/stories/all-...
All Aboard by Hannya Kay
Ten minutes of oxygen. Four astronauts lost in space. Their hopes and dreams. Their unfinished business. Reaching for the giant...duck? Fantastic flash by Hannya Kay.
www.adventitious.net
September 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Loved this! I've had the absolute honor of getting to read more of Hannya's work this year, and the skill behind every story is apparent from the first word. This story combines imagery in ways that will break your brain and reform it anew with wonder and grief and hope and tragedy.
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If anyone puts my book on a list of anticipated releases for 2027 I will yelp with the kind of glee that can heard from Mars. It’s a very good book, if sad and angry sometimes. There’s a dog that doesn’t die and many humans that do. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-long-r...
The Long Red Tomorrow: A Sci-Fi Noir
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September 2, 2026 at 5:39 PM
If anyone puts my book on a list of anticipated releases for 2027 I will yelp with the kind of glee that can heard from Mars. It’s a very good book, if sad and angry sometimes. There’s a dog that doesn’t die and many humans that do. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-long-r...
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“The Last Astronaut” (originally published in Cosmic Horror Monthly) is releasing in episode 2 of Folded Space podcast!! So excited to listen 🎉
Season One, Episodes One and Two available Wednesday!
"Mother of All Bombs"
by Matt Hornsby
"The Last Astronaut"
by Sam W. Pisciotta
podcasts.apple.com/.../folded-s...
foldedspacepodcast.com
#sciencefiction #scifi @swpisciotta.bsky.social @nikolledoolin.bsky.social @krystalhammond.bsky.social
"Mother of All Bombs"
by Matt Hornsby
"The Last Astronaut"
by Sam W. Pisciotta
podcasts.apple.com/.../folded-s...
foldedspacepodcast.com
#sciencefiction #scifi @swpisciotta.bsky.social @nikolledoolin.bsky.social @krystalhammond.bsky.social
August 30, 2026 at 11:25 PM
“The Last Astronaut” (originally published in Cosmic Horror Monthly) is releasing in episode 2 of Folded Space podcast!! So excited to listen 🎉
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My book is out today, and the party starts this Saturday at 2! If you’re in the area, come hang out with me. Bring a friend! Heck, bring two! The more, the merrier.
Are you in or near Toronto? Join me at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on Aug 22 at 2pm for the launch of my collection (Book info threaded). There’ll be snacks and SWAG for all who attend. RSVP and reserve your book using the link. @starsandsabers.bsky.social
www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/events/58652...
www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/events/58652...
August 18, 2026 at 10:21 PM
My book is out today, and the party starts this Saturday at 2! If you’re in the area, come hang out with me. Bring a friend! Heck, bring two! The more, the merrier.
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If anybody was excited that Science Fiction Weekly is aiming to "revive" Daily Science Fiction, you should know they are straight-up lying about having gotten permission from writers to republish DSF stories on their website. (Yes, I have sent a DCMA takedown notice.)
July 30, 2026 at 7:46 PM
If anybody was excited that Science Fiction Weekly is aiming to "revive" Daily Science Fiction, you should know they are straight-up lying about having gotten permission from writers to republish DSF stories on their website. (Yes, I have sent a DCMA takedown notice.)
Here's the latest Flash Point Science Fiction issue headlined by the amazing Marie Brennan.
@swantower.bsky.social
. Hope you enjoy the rest as well including my sad robot story "Please Join Me on the Fourth Shift". Tissues may be required.
flashpointsf.com/2026/06/30/i...
@swantower.bsky.social
. Hope you enjoy the rest as well including my sad robot story "Please Join Me on the Fourth Shift". Tissues may be required.
flashpointsf.com/2026/06/30/i...
Issue #3 2026
Featuring “How to Get a Head” by Marie Brennan
flashpointsf.com
July 2, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Here's the latest Flash Point Science Fiction issue headlined by the amazing Marie Brennan.
@swantower.bsky.social
. Hope you enjoy the rest as well including my sad robot story "Please Join Me on the Fourth Shift". Tissues may be required.
flashpointsf.com/2026/06/30/i...
@swantower.bsky.social
. Hope you enjoy the rest as well including my sad robot story "Please Join Me on the Fourth Shift". Tissues may be required.
flashpointsf.com/2026/06/30/i...
Yay, Jennifer!!
And the winner of the first-ever Nebula Award for Poem is... 👀
“The World To Come”, by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25) 🎉
ALL our finalists have expanded possibility this year at SFWA. We are so thankful to be able to launch this new award with your potent works.
Congrats, Jennifer!!!
“The World To Come”, by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25) 🎉
ALL our finalists have expanded possibility this year at SFWA. We are so thankful to be able to launch this new award with your potent works.
Congrats, Jennifer!!!
June 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Yay, Jennifer!!
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I had an excellent time at #Swancon last weekend! It was amazing to be an invited guest at this super special 50th edition. I had many fascinating conversations, met so many cool people, was on so many engaging panels, presented a Ditmar award, ran a flash fiction workshop & so much more!
June 4, 2026 at 11:20 PM
I had an excellent time at #Swancon last weekend! It was amazing to be an invited guest at this super special 50th edition. I had many fascinating conversations, met so many cool people, was on so many engaging panels, presented a Ditmar award, ran a flash fiction workshop & so much more!
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Something BIG is happening, and I’m involved! Check out the virtual #BookFair featuring #Canadian authors from all across the country at FictionFest.ca! 🍁🦫📚
May 23, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Something BIG is happening, and I’m involved! Check out the virtual #BookFair featuring #Canadian authors from all across the country at FictionFest.ca! 🍁🦫📚
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Update: Our Short Fiction submission period will be closing on May 4th at 11:00pm EST. The quality of the submissions has been incredible and we look forward to making some meaningful (but difficult!) decisions.
April 24, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Update: Our Short Fiction submission period will be closing on May 4th at 11:00pm EST. The quality of the submissions has been incredible and we look forward to making some meaningful (but difficult!) decisions.
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If you were at a geographical disadvantage and couldn’t make it to Toronto, you can still get yourself a copy of SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
Great turnout at my book launch today. 🚀 (Those chairs didn’t stay empty for long). Thanks to everyone who braved polar weather to be there. And thanks to @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social for hosting.
February 7, 2026 at 9:19 PM
If you were at a geographical disadvantage and couldn’t make it to Toronto, you can still get yourself a copy of SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
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hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚
ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!)
tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download
ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!)
tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download
January 28, 2026 at 3:26 AM
hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚
ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!)
tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download
ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!)
tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download
You're welcome
🦌 🦏 Tiny 13kg deer takes on 1.7-tonne rhino at Wroclaw Zoo
A case of David vs Goliath at Wroclaw Zoo, as a tiny 13kg deer takes on a nearly two-tonne rhinoceros and appears to come out of the clash on top.
A case of David vs Goliath at Wroclaw Zoo, as a tiny 13kg deer takes on a nearly two-tonne rhinoceros and appears to come out of the clash on top.
January 10, 2026 at 11:04 PM
You're welcome
Please consider helping out this amazing writer (and good human) during a rough patch.
blergh, I HATE having to ask coz I know it’s super hard for everyone especially around this time of year… but I’m also about to hit negative balances and I don’t get paid til next Friday :/
been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful
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been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful
ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor
Support Merc Wolfmoor
I appreciate you! (And the kitties do, too!)
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December 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Please consider helping out this amazing writer (and good human) during a rough patch.
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Plott Hound Magazine is open for three more days, and then we batten down the hatches and sniff through the final submissions of 2025.
December 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Plott Hound Magazine is open for three more days, and then we batten down the hatches and sniff through the final submissions of 2025.
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Also if you want to see all the stories (and poetry!) I published this year with links, here's a thread: bsky.app/profile/jenn...
Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Also if you want to see all the stories (and poetry!) I published this year with links, here's a thread: bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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I'm finishing a #solarpunk story using Kishōtenketsu structure and I learned so much about storytelling! Structure is such a powerful tool to open up your stories and do more with them.
If you're curious about this 4 act structure @henrylienauthor.bsky.social's book was an invaluable guide!
If you're curious about this 4 act structure @henrylienauthor.bsky.social's book was an invaluable guide!
Highly recommend @henrylienauthor.bsky.social's book about Kishōtenketsu (the Japanese name for the classic 4 Act Eastern story structure).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5...
Henry's slim book is concise & entertaining.
Should be in every writer's toolkit!
#writing
bookshop.org/a/102876/978...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5...
Henry's slim book is concise & entertaining.
Should be in every writer's toolkit!
#writing
bookshop.org/a/102876/978...
September 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I'm finishing a #solarpunk story using Kishōtenketsu structure and I learned so much about storytelling! Structure is such a powerful tool to open up your stories and do more with them.
If you're curious about this 4 act structure @henrylienauthor.bsky.social's book was an invaluable guide!
If you're curious about this 4 act structure @henrylienauthor.bsky.social's book was an invaluable guide!
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Filipino horror. Memory-fueled magic. Mythical monsters. All good all good. Let’s lean in!
New Substack is LIVE ➡️ guianocon.substack.com / link in bio
New Substack is LIVE ➡️ guianocon.substack.com / link in bio
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Filipino horror. Memory-fueled magic. Mythical monsters. All good all good. Let’s lean in!
New Substack is LIVE ➡️ guianocon.substack.com / link in bio
New Substack is LIVE ➡️ guianocon.substack.com / link in bio
Check out this brilliant throat-grabbing horror piece by @deannajvaldez.com. And keep an eye out for more from this author! She's amazing!!
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/my-f...
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/my-f...
My flesh, my beating heart, a willing meal that refuses to remember the danger of being eaten
The monster is back, but if it knows I know, it will do worse than eat me. Claws close around my throat as I pay for my soda and Tylenol at the shitty, sticky convenience store down the street.“Kee…
www.flashfictiononline.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Check out this brilliant throat-grabbing horror piece by @deannajvaldez.com. And keep an eye out for more from this author! She's amazing!!
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/my-f...
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/my-f...
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Love this so much!
May 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Love this so much!
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Repost this poster everyone
April 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Repost this poster everyone
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Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.
April 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.