Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine bringing you sff stories and poetry focused on long-term friendships and relationships. $0.08CAD/word 🇨🇦🌎
Canada
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We're only posting updates on this site going forward!
Connect with us on Bluesky and Instagram 💜
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We're open for submissions until Jan 31!
Send us your SFF stories/poems that feature long-term relationships: platonic, romantic, or familial
Short fiction: 500-3,500 words, $0.08/word
Poetry: send up to 5, $60 flat
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Issue 6 is out for subscribers! It's got ancient spaceships, witchery, godly shenanigans, mysterious birds, alien-spiders, and cuddly pets. Literally everything you need/want.
Watch this space as we release free-to-read stories/poems each week
heartlines-spec.com/issue-6/
Missing our shiny promo vids? They're not gone! Just relocated to Instagram and Bluesky!
We're curbing our presence on this site and have decided to limit it to basic info.
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How do you want to change the world? 'Visiting Birds' by @jentombs asks how far you'll go and how many bird friends you'll make/lose along the way.
Coming to subscribers November 30!
It's hard to say goodbye to a friend, harder when they were supposed to outlast you. Grief's Apogee by @Mytherea drives you to the limit even when you're looking in the rearview.
Coming to subscribers November 30!
Part rivalry, part comfort, 'Beth' by @KathrynRwReese promises to lure in some corvids and comb through a bird's nest with you.
Coming to subscribers November 30!
Godhood comes in many forms, in 'Do You Know How the Lotus Flower Blooms?' by @idrinkthy it takes shape by knowing yourself and loving your community.
Coming to subscribers November 30!
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I can't wait to unleash my latest creepy-crawlies on the world...
Coming soon @HeartlinesSpec
Hold our hand when we walk through the spooky spidery forest please 😨🕸️🌳
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jen_lesh_fleck is part horror, part cozy family, part teenage disdain
Coming to subscribers November 30!
Not everyone shines, but the steady darkness can be a comfort just as much as the person within it.
Astrometric Love by Ian Li has all the sweetness in the stars 🌟
Coming to subscribers November 30!
Hold our hand when we walk through the spooky spidery forest please 😨🕸️🌳
Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs by @jen_lesh_fleck is part horror, part cozy family, part teenage disdain
Coming to subscribers November 30!
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Thank you @HeartlinesSpec for giving my piece a place!
If you want to read my first ever media essay (with juicy opinions on the shortfalls of Muslim feminist media) then you’ll find it in Issue 6 of Heartlines Spec ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Friends! Gather round and let us tell you about Issue 6! It's got dimensions, witchery, spiders, spaceships and resistance. Basically everything you need.
Mummer cover at by Alice M @itsbabypears
ALT Cover art for Issue 6: jellybean row in Halifax with a group of mummers; list of contributors (see tags); on a light purple background
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Happy to announce my (literally) creepy sci-fi story "Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs" will be in this issue.
Thanks for having me aboard, @HeartlinesSpec!
Friends! Gather round and let us tell you about Issue 6! It's got dimensions, witchery, spiders, spaceships and resistance. Basically everything you need.
Mummer cover at by Alice M @itsbabypears
ALT Cover art for Issue 6: jellybean row in Halifax with a group of mummers; list of contributors (see tags); on a light purple background
Friends! Gather round and let us tell you about Issue 6! It's got dimensions, witchery, spiders, spaceships and resistance. Basically everything you need.
Mummer cover at by Alice M @itsbabypears
ALT Cover art for Issue 6: jellybean row in Halifax with a group of mummers; list of contributors (see tags); on a light purple background
Short fiction by
@jentombs
@Mytherea
@jen_lesh_fleck
@evolveon
@crossing_winter
Katherine Heath Shaeffer
@idrinkthy
Poetry by
Allison Burris
@TaborSkreslet
@vedavilliers
@KathrynRwReese
Ian Li
Non-Fiction by
@signed_BibiB
@godalyshutup
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Wow, this story is so short yet it hit me right in the feels. I love how it starts so lighthearted yet underneath there is something deeper and darker but hopeful at the same time. Great stuff!
by @AshValeWrites in @HeartlinesSpec
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Still thinking about this post. Like I didn't write a story about a JANITOR perpetually stuck at work in liminal space, never seeing his family, watching the jet set hurry elsewhere, and only a sliver of love keeps him tethered to time...for a reason*
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Next weekend!
We’re hosting @HWAOntario for a signing and reading with @sillysyntax @AiJiang_ @Writer_ReganMcD @sj_shank @TopdjianC @elainethebrain
Come by and get spooky with these amazing horror writers! 🖤👻📚
