✨ 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

I spent the last week crying but at least all that lead to a mediocre result instead of no result

Which seems a very sad thing to say, but it’s really not

Sometimes it’s ok to just do the thing

Me watching gundam zeta: