✂️The Only Innocent Man✂️
by Julian K. Jarboe

🏳️‍🌈 rep: black MC, transmasc MC, nb author

For me, it tried to do too many things at once but, as it always happens with slate, the food for thought was delicious

https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/the-only-innocent-man-julian-k-jarboe.html

🍳can i offer you a nice egg in this trying time🍳
by Iori Kusano

This is by the skin of my teeth, but I Made it in time.

Strange, a bit sad, a bit unfullfilling

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/can-i-offer-you-a-nice-egg-in-this-trying-time/

✨ SyncALife ✨
by Ruben Reyes Jr.

~6,600 words

CW: grief, domestic abuse, homophobia
🏳️‍🌈rep: bi MC, positive sex work representation

https://www.lightspeed magazine.com/fiction/syncalife/

🐉THE DRAGON PROJECT🐉
by Naomi Kritzer

Kritzer’s work is always a delight

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_03_22/

Good for her

🕰️ A Glossary of Psychological Terms Useful for People Trying to Change their Past 🕰️
by M. J. Pettit

Did you know a story could come
in the form of a glossary?
Sadly it was about time travel, which I loathe, so yeah, sometimes it’d be like dat

https://kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2022/a-glossary-of-psychological-terms-useful-for-people-trying-to-change-their-past-by-m-j-pettit/

🪺 Only When You Laugh 🪺
by Amanda Song

I know Nightmare is a horror magazine, but holy cow this was dark

https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/only-when-you-laugh/

👧🏼AITA for throwing away my wife’s haunted dolls? 👧🏻
by Annika Barranti Klein

Short & very fun

http://futurefire.net/2022.63/fiction/aita.html

⚡️ TO: CITY OF FRESNO PERMITS OFFICE ⚡️
by Josh Franklin

Not sure i understood this.

I miss reading longer stories, but I have so little time

https://flashpointsf.com/2022/10/07/to-city-of-fresno-permits-office/

🌧️Becoming Miss Pennyworth -
A novel way to escape.🌧️
by Jenny Rae Rappaport

Sweet, almost too sweet.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03141-5

Everybody told me not to be peer pressured to do drugs, which happened 0 times, but nobody prepared me for the peer pressure to go to a weightlifting meet

I fear it’s too late to run away now and never touch a barbell again

My goal was to have a valid snatch and a valid C&J. The amount I lift is ridiculous. I can’t stress how much i Am Not Any Good at this, how little i lift compared to how much i weigh. So like, my goal was to go there and show myself that i may not be any good, but at least i know what i’m doing

Two valid lifts both for snatch and C&J was good