25/06/2025
Folks, we owe you an apology.
You see, we forgot to send out our last announcement, so this time you get double the goodness. Here's the list:
- The future doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes in Andrew Nadolny's "Those Punk Kids and Their Damn Music." https://www.spacesquid.com/funny-stories/those-punk-kids-and-their-damn-music/
- And in the latest installment, which we call CROSSING THE LINES, we have:
o Nissa Harlow's "The Noodle War" gets really deep into slippery nutrition.
o "Just a Dollop" from Michael Stonebow explores the rapidly congealing world of a distraught narrator.
o And we've got Julia Laurel's prize-winning flash fiction piece from our annual Armadillocon live flash fiction contest.
You can find the three CROSSING THE LINES features by clicking the featured link on the Space Squid homepage https://www.spacesquid.com .
Read them before they're gone! Here's a brief taste of Stonebow's tale:
"So, I spilled some honey yesterday.
"I like to suffocate my biscuits in honey, when they’re warm and you split them in half, fill them up with honey and smoosh them back together, a perfect sweet buttery sandwich, truly divine. But I spilled this honey (my mom keeps bees, gives me a new jar every now and then, it’s so much better when it’s fresh), I was spooning it out, and I got a phone call, my mom calling about the weekend because I’m supposed to go up and see her, she always does this, it’s not enough for her to come do my laundry every week and see me most weekends, she needs to talk to me every day, or she gets anxious, and when I got her call, I forgot about the spoon and let it droop until a quarter-sized dollop of honey fell on my hardwood floor in front of my cabinets. I looked right at it, whoops, I should wipe that up, but then I got distracted with this and that, you know how it goes, and I left it there, I didn’t notice it again until now.
"It has moved."
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We've never had such a variety of swag available. We've got both adult and toddler shirts at $15 and $13 respectively. We also have a new Squid hat, mug, blanket, shoes, and of course fish oil (!!!). And yes, we are now open for submissions.
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