@trailofleaves
Time Traveller. Social Historian. Reader and Writer of Speculative Fiction. North East England. Stories in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Small Wonders, Interzone (print & digital), and more. https://linktr.ee/louisehugheswrites
Does anyone have a book recommendation for eco-rebellion? I’m looking for something similar to @madihaab.com’s “Heat Devils” from our Issue 17. Fast-paced and action-packed with a focus on taking down corporations that have ruined the planet. Any ideas? 🌱🧡
I do not submit my work to magazines that appear to use AI, be it text or art. It would be a bit hypocritical to oppose AI because of its affect on writers while throwing artists under the bus.
THE NINE CRASHES OF FLIGHT LIEUTENANT HILLA QUINN by @trailofleaves.bsky.social in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
SILVER AND SHADOW, SPRUCE AND PINE by @mariahaskins.com in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Imaginative worlds, vulnerable characters, and beautiful prose!
Four short stories I read and loved in FEBRUARY ✨
MAGICAL GIRL: CORPORATE FAILURE by @thelialao.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social
THE SALT AND THE CURE by @rukman.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
Thank you for reading! 💜
A brick country house of three floors which looks across a grass lawn that is filled with crocuses in bloom. They are all purple - apart from one white one in the middle!
Please enjoy this view of the crocuses at Ham House, Richmond.
📷Hannah Mawdsley
Orion’s Belt is now open for submissions until May 15! 🚀
We are accepting speculative fiction, micro fiction, poetry, translations, and reviews!
For more information on submitting, including the link to our Duosuma submission manager👇We can't wait to read your work!
www.orions-belt.net/submissions
Now OPEN for submissions! 🐜🦀🐞
Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Volume 3 is looking for the best tales of bug or barnacle or beastie published in 2025!
Submit here: hexagonmagazine.ca/ybasf
Especially since a paywall ensures I can only see the headline.
Hmm. Feels like temperature of 8°C. Will I need a coat??
Good morning, on this day with actual, real life blue sky! I'm reading Remains of the Day (audio), and Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (ebook).
Is that the new Catriona Ward?? Looking forward to getting to it!
Match-box makers photographed working from home in c.1906. The photo shows a woman and girl assembling matchboxes with cut pieces of card and assembled boxes on a table in front of them. They are sitting in front of a fireplace and next to a bed which has piles of flatpack boxes, a basket and rugs on it. The bedroom includes patterned wallpaper, pictures on the wall and a large decoration in a glass dome on top of the mantlepiece.
Match-box makers, c.1906
In 1906 'sweated' (poorly paid) homeworkers were put on public display as part of a 6 week exhibition organised by the Daily News
The exhibition handbook included photos of workers (mostly women) in their usual domestic working conditions
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“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by @trailofleaves.bsky.social (Autumn ‘25) carefully unfolds Hilla’s feelings of numbness and depression, exploring how impossibly hard it can seem to find purpose when we have lost our sense of self, and must rebuild our lives from scratch.” 🚀
So, since Hugo Award noms are now open, and BSFA shortlist nominations will close next week, a reminder:
Fairly wuthering, but not actually very high.
The more snow falls, the less snow there is.
Sooooo not long left to vote for the BSFA, and that means not long left to read this excellent essay for free!
You should also check out Val Nolan’s and Abby Roberts’ essays at www.speculativeinsight.com/essays
And, like, all the other essays, while you’re at it.
So, since Hugo Award noms are now open, and BSFA shortlist nominations will close next week, a reminder:
The Hugo nomination period is officially open, which seems like a good time to remind folks about my links post gathering eligibility and recommendations from others. I'll continue to update through the nomination period so keep sending links my way!
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It's the bit where they're like "also it might snow" that I'm less excited about! But that sunshine...the horizon...I haven't seen the horizon in over a month!
In our case, the rain will turn to sleet, and then to snow, and then to rain again.
Hugo Award nominations now open.
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards!
Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
Fed up with your world? Visit ours. Picture of the Clarkesworld robot looking over at the cover of our February issue. That cover features a robot looking out at the sea while standing on the beach with their hands clasped behind their back. The water comes gently towards their feet. Peaceful ocean and sky. A contemplative moment of peace. Cover art by Matt Dixon.
It's time for your periodic reminder that we count on subscriptions to keep the lights on.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Thank you.
Responses to all submissions for our final issue have gone out now.
Thank you to everyone who has shared their work with me over the last few years, it has been a real honour to read your words and see your artworks ❤️
I don't think the original writer of this is British. Parts of the internet say he might even be from Wisconsin (other parts reckon he's not real). So the heading is at best misleading.
A shell and sand encrusted bit of something red.
Wooden structure, destroyed by sea.
On the beach.
View of a foggy beach at low tide. Footsteps in wet sand. A cliff in the distance.
View taken from the end of the only surviving pier in Yorkshire. The town of Saltburn gathers on the cliffs above the beach.
Took a trip to the seaside yesterday. It started off pretty dreary on the walk from Redcar, but Saltburn was visible from the end of pier. Which was an improvement on a previous visit!
I've gone with several muted words and phrases today, so thank you for your patience.
A shell and sand encrusted bit of something red.
Wooden structure, destroyed by sea.
On the beach.
