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ADVERT: The Time Traveler's Passport, curated by John Joseph Adams, published by Amazon Original Stories. Six short stories. Infinite possibilities. Stories by John Scalzi, R.F. Kuang, Olivie Blake, Kaliane Bradley, P. Djèlí Clark, and Peng Shepherd. Illustration of A multicolored mobius strip with folds and angles to it, with the silhouette of a person walking on one side of it.

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L.M. Harris

L.M. Harris is a poet and fiction writer. She grew up in the South but now resides in the Midwest with her cat. She graduated with an M.A. in Latin Literature. She drinks too much coffee, reads, and goes dancing. She is an avid enjoyer of the odd, taboo, and quiet things many overlook. She […]

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Champ Wongsatayanont

Champ is a writer from southern Thailand, who was once ordained as a Theravada Buddhist monk and now (unrelatedly) practices Shaolin Kungfu and Muay Thai. He is accepted for Tin House Workshop 2025, Clarion West Workshop 2024 and Faber Academy 2023. Somewhere along there, he had an epiphany that he would punch for the trees. […]

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Dan Chaon

Dan Chaon is the author of eight works of fiction. His most recent book, One of Us (2025,) just happens to take place in a travelling carnival sideshow, so he’s been watching a lot of Tod Browning. He’s on Instagram at dchaon.

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Rebecca Stone Gordon

Rebecca Stone Gordon is an American biocultural archaeologist, horror scholar, fiction writer, and artist. She informed her kindergarten teacher she was going to be an archaeologist and was inconsolable after Scrappy-Doo made his television debut by unrolling a perfectly good mummy. She works on a range of scholarly topics, including nuclear culture and the Cold […]

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Anne Mai Yee Jansen

Anne Mai Yee Jansen is a lifelong lover of weird and wonderful tales. She’s been making up stories inside her head for as long as she can remember and is happy that some of them actually make it out into the real world. When she’s not teaching literature and ethnic studies, she exists on a […]

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Delia Cullity

Delia Cullity is a dark fantasy and speculative fiction writer and a freelance editor. She graduated from Salem State University with a degree in creative writing and her areas of interest are folklore, dreamscapes, RPGs, and psychology. You can find her wandering in the dusky woods of Cape Cod or procrastinating by watching video essays […]

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David Agranoff

David Agranoff is a novelist, screenwriter, and a Horror and Science Fiction critic. He is the Splatterpunk and Wonderland book award-nominated author of 13 books including  the WW II Vampire novel The Last Night to Kill Nazis, the science fiction novel Goddamn Killing Machines from CLASH BOOKS, the cli-fi novel Ring of Fire, Punk Rock Ghost Story and People’s […]

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Kevin Varghese

Kevin Varghese is a writer fascinated by the blurred line between horror and absurdity. With a foundation in poetry, his work is rooted in rhythm while he explores aspects of the human condition, such as vulnerability, mental illness, and morbid curiosity. As a lifelong student of wordplay, he is captivated by the mechanics of language, […]

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Matthew Rozsa

Matthew Rozsa has been a professional writer since 2012 and currently writes a column, “Back Seat Socialism,” for the 501(c)(3) Democracy at Work. He is also working on a memoir called “Neurosocialism.”

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V.H. Chen

V.H. Chen lives close enough to a graveyard to have heard drunken singing coming from it once. She is a graduate of Viable Paradise Class of 2022. This is her first professional sale.

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