Short Works: Algo by Kirstin Innes
Available on BBC Sounds

One woman faces a reckoning when asylum hotel protests dredge up unwelcome memories. Once the house goes quiet and she has a moment to herself, a woman is gradually being reawakened to the world around her – but can the algorithm give her what she’s really looking for?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w8cd

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🕯️ The 15th used to be just a date. Now it’s the day your inbox gets interesting.

Dark Descent delivers short horror fiction every month—brief stories with an aftertaste that lingers far longer than they should.

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Do you love...
* Short stories?
* Poetry?
* Diverse voices united in their dedication to absurdity, art, and utter badassery?

Of course you do!

And here's your next fix: "No Wave Lesbians" from Loathsome No More!

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I added a sorted words puzzle and a shuffled pages #puzzle to my Book Blender collection of #WordGames. They are two stories by P. G. #Wodehouse - "The Alarming Spread of Poetry" is a dire warning of slightly lower stakes than your typical dire warning (940 words). Is "Jeeves and Wooster" a romcom? The other puzzle is based on "The Man Upstairs", a more standard romcom from the same author (29 pages).

https://donkirkby.github.io/book-blender/the-man-upstairs.pdf
https://donkirkby.github.io/book-blender/the-alarming-spread-of-poetry.pdf
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🌙 Read it on your lunch break. Still thinking about it three days later.

Short horror fiction in your inbox every month on the 15th. The stories are under 500 words. The feeling they leave behind is not.

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👁 The stories are live and some of them are genuinely unsettling.

Same image. Everyone went somewhere different with it. Read them and vote for the one that sticks with you longest. Top three go into the Dark Descent Monthly Magazine — chosen by you, not us.

👉 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/dark-descent-microhorror-comp

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