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jworrellwrites.bsky.social
Since we're on the subject, I have stories up for
#awardsconsideration too, thanks to the delightful folks at
@necksnapmag.bsky.social, @brokenantlermag.bsky.social, Channel Magazine, @witcraft.bsky.social, and SubTerrain Magazine.

Cat for tax
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December 18, 2024 at 11:04 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
This is great stuff. #awardsconsideration
peterbcounter.com Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · Mar 31
"...a heartfelt, humourous, and thoroughly stimulating set of essays that are not only fun to read, but feel like the author had fun writing."
Eternally grateful for this glowing, thoughtful , and clever review of HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE in subTerrain # 96!
subTerrain no. 96 Henry Osborne's review of How to Restore a Timeline
December 18, 2024 at 10:56 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
More stories up for #awardsconsideration!
brandoncase101.bsky.social Brandon Case @brandoncase101.bsky.social · Dec 20
Hello writing friends!

If you’re voting for the awards
(or simply want to read 🖤)
here are my eligible works from 2024!
January 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
I neglected to mention that this is up for #awardsconsideration, too.
December 12, 2024 at 9:18 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
Check out these three great microfictions by Wen Wen Yang! All are up for #awardsconsideration this year.
1/3 - To Kiss the Chrysanthemum Moon
magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/to-kiss-the-...
To Kiss the Chrysanthemum Moon
Flash Fiction by Wen Wen Yang
magazine.interstellarflightpress.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:12 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
"The Six Clues That Tipped Me Off That You Were An Assassin From The Future Coming To Kill Me" by Allan Dyen-Shapiro: now that's a title. And I love #1!!
#AwardsConsideration

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The Six Clues That Tipped Me Off That You Were An Assassin From The Future Coming To Kill Me - Small Wonders
You were a lousy assassin. I'd have been easy prey but for six tells that tipped your hand.
smallwondersmag.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
Two fantastic reads by Fiona Moore, in the ever-wonderful @clarkesworldmagazine.com. Both of these are up for #awardsconsideration, y'all.
1 - "The Children of Flame"...
clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_10_24/
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: The Children of Flame by Fiona Moore
clarkesworldmagazine.com
December 24, 2024 at 11:48 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
A sweet little story in a very nifty magazine by Ellis Nye. Up for #awardsconsideration!
reckoning.press/the-last-gre...
The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest | Reckoning
It is with sorrow that this paper announces the passing of one of our town’s greatest treasures, Wendy “Darling” Marszałek. She died on August 18th, 2081, in her early eighties. Contrary to her freque...
reckoning.press
November 19, 2024 at 7:24 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
It's hard to pick a favorite of these three stories by @chalicotherex.bsky.social, all of which are up for #awardsconsideration by the way ;)
There's “Diary of the Wolf”, set during and written in the style of 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys...
www.amazon.com/Old-Moon-Qua...
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November 21, 2024 at 3:02 AM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
This game is up for a Dragon award, y'all. Written by Stewart C. Baker and these other nifty folks: Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. #awardsconsideration
infomancy.net/adih/
A Death in Hyperspace
infomancy.net
November 19, 2024 at 7:34 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
Please consider Stephen Kotowych's WWI historical fantasy, “St. George and the World Serpent” and his alternate history Aztec horror story, “The Festival of Toxcatl” for #awardsconsideration. They're...
November 21, 2024 at 4:18 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
"Young trans boy undergoes a ritualistic transformative experience that shatters everything his father and peers have told him about who he is and what he can do."😍

"Bodies of Sand and Blood" by @plangdineple.bsky.social
#AwardsConsideration #transrep #audio
www.castofwonders.org/2024/04/cast...
Cast of Wonders 580: Bodies of Sand and Blood | Cast of Wonders
Sneaking into your father’s shrine is one of the most stupid things you have ever done, yet you feel entirely at home among the hanging masks and horsetails. Lanterns beside the doorway and at the…
www.castofwonders.org
December 18, 2024 at 10:30 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
Check out these three fantastic stories by
@ecastroianni.bsky.social, all up for #AwardsConsideration:

1/3 - "Zarghána" - An island where women wait and men go out to the sea, where Zarghána haunts their dreams:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/zarg...

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Zarghána - Uncanny Magazine
On this island, women wait. It’s what they were made to do. Each morning, the sun warms the white-and-blue houses and, soft-boiled eggs, the doors crack. One by one the women trot out, sit on cattail ...
www.uncannymagazine.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:41 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
Please add this otherworldly romance story to your #awardsconsideration list! I love this one more and more as it goes.
smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/
Tuesday - Small Wonders
After the compatibility testing to ensure I wouldn’t run, after the conditioning, after the acclimatizing dose of your venom, we lay together and made our pact.
smallwondersmag.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
Such a beautiful story, both within the earth and above it.
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/smal...

#awardsconsideration
Small Prayers for the God of Sow Thistle Hill
Linnea’s done it all properly: incense and banners, a white bull done up with ribbons. Mostly white, I should say. It had a brown spot behind one ear. I watched her paint the spot white, in the pre…
www.flashfictiononline.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:28 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
"Jing scrunches her lips to one side. There’s a market for bad memories, but it’s crawling with unsavory characters chasing sick and degenerate experiences. But Michiko’s eyes are unwavering."

Nifty premise w/an ending I didn't see coming!

#awardsconsideration
smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-me...
The Memory Technician - Small Wonders
“Are you the Memory Technician?” The woman points to the neon sign. “Could you extract three memories for me?”
smallwondersmag.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
Hard not to keep reading when the opening line is "First of all, nobody gets eaten by a bear in this story."

Check out "Bears Discover Time Travel" by Mark S Bailen, up for #awardsconsideration
ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/bear...
Bears Discover Time Travel - Ecotone
First of all, nobody gets eaten by a bear in this story. Nor does a tree fall on anybody. That’s not what this story is about. And I apologize for
ecotonemagazine.org
February 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
I love a story that takes a different approach. Take a look at Embers Burning in the Night by Marie Brennan:
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/embers-bur...
#AwardsConsideration
Embers Burning in the Night
This month’s stories — by authors Nibedita Sen, Yoon Ha Lee, Marie Brennan, and Benjamin C. Kinney — are free to read, but it’s our paying subscribers who allow us to keep publishing great stories wee...
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:28 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
I am such a sucker for library stories 💝
And this one is up for #awardsconsideration. There's also an audio component if you dig.
escapepod.org/2024/02/22/e...
Escape Pod 929: The Library
Every morning at ten to ten, Dot powered on. Its hands lay flat against the thick glass of the reading room window, which let the photoreceptors on its palms feast on the sun. The window overlooked a…
escapepod.org
December 24, 2024 at 11:20 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
Catching up with more stories eligible for #awardsconsideration. Check out "Mirage in Double Vision" by Tia Tashiro, about a stunt double who falls for her actress (in more ways than one).
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/mira...
Mirage in Double Vision - Uncanny Magazine
Hollywood’s highest-paid actress for the last two years breaks up with me thirty seconds before I jump out a window. Secrets have never been Adelle Tremaine’s style. She lives for drama even off the s...
www.uncannymagazine.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
Just the idea of "a very practical Wisconsin teen find[ing]
herself in a portal fantasy" delights me to no end. Check out "Flannelfeet" by Ursula Whitcher.

Please also consider for #awardsconsideration!
www.frivolouscomma.com/flannelfeet/
Flannelfeet
I’m supposed to write about an experience that made me who I am. Something that ties back to why I want to go to college and be an engineer. And I had an experience exactly like that. Problem is, the ...
www.frivolouscomma.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:20 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
GAH, forgot to mention this story is up for #awardsconsideration.
January 28, 2026 at 9:46 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
Golly I f'n love this story.
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/ursu...

#awardsconsideration
Ursula
Naturally, my first thought is that the bear has eaten my child. My second is to blame myself. I put my daughter to bed early, went to read my book. I should have been hovering in the dark beside h…
www.flashfictiononline.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:46 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
"A harp made of bones, they say, will only ever play a single song."

You can't beat an opening line like that. Check out the rest of this quietly disturbing tale, up for #awardsconsideration, here:

factorfourmag.com/a-single-son...
A Single Song by Nico Martinez Nocito
A harp made of bones, they say, will only ever play a single song. Haunting, my listeners called my melody, and beautiful. My fingers glided over the sinuous strings and my voice, the harp’s voice,…
factorfourmag.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
jworrellwrites.bsky.social
I love how this story weaves in and out of reality and creates an entirely new one, depending on what the reader brings to it. I can see a couple of different perspectives on this one.

#awardsconsideration

factorfourmag.com/we-sang-wate...
We Sang Water into Lemonade, on the Eve of Summer, In the Wasteland by Robert Luke Wilkins
We passed the last dandelion by late morning, and by noon, the grass had faded. Nothing grew in the gray, aether-swept deadlands beyond the city’s eastern wall. “I should bring Martha,” said Ma, he…
factorfourmag.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM