Heartlines Spec

Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine bringing you sff stories and poetry focused on long-term friendships and relationships. $0.08CAD/word 🇨🇦🌎

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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

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

[jennifer lesh fleck @jen_lesh_fleck]

I can't wait to unleash my latest creepy-crawlies on the world...

Coming soon @HeartlinesSpec

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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!

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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!

[more wht/wht violence NOW @signedBBB]

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 ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[jennifer lesh fleck @jen_lesh_fleck]

Happy to announce my (literally) creepy sci-fi story "Legs, Scopulae, Pedipalps, Fangs" will be in this issue.

Thanks for having me aboard, @HeartlinesSpec!

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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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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

[Eugenia Triantafyllou @FoxesandRoses]

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

https://t.co/OFaKODc7vy

[Rebecca Hirsch Garcia @rhirschgarcia]

New bookmark for my collection. Handmade with ❤️ by @HeartlinesSpec.

[Sarah Ram @sararam]

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*

https://t.co/S59WviagPd

[LittleGhosts @LittleGhostsBoo]

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! 🖤👻📚