Bone Parade is a literary journal publishing quality works of magical realism, fabulism, speculative, weird, and genre-bending fiction.
We're interested in writing that captures what it is to be human, but we love non-human characters with human emotions. We’re partial to character driven stories that sift through the mucky waters of ethics and existentialism.
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Hi friends! It's been a while. Bone Parade is open for submissions through April 30, 2026. Please send us your magical realism, fabulist, uncanny, marvelous, and new weird fiction under 3,000 words. We can’t wait to read your stories!
www.boneparade.com/submit/
Go read Issue 18 of Bone Parade! You'll find five fabulous short stories about surgically removing interior junk, crushing ladders to the moon, a mother creating a daughter on a farm of enterprising sons, a world where time is put in a blender, and bodies and bullying. Enjoy! www.boneparade.com
Issue 17 is live! This issue features five fabulous stories. They explore the morality of a shop that sells human remains to the rich, a deteriorating relationship with a faceless partner, a man with a rock growing from his forehead, mysterious eclipse mice, and a boy trying to save his brother from La Llorona.
Enjoy! And happy New Year! We love you.
Issue #16 is up! Read about a bailador who can't stop dancing; a woman watches her grandson chase love and the last chicken on earth; a man whose flatmate is a deceased Civil War soldier; a narrator from a world with four-winged tropical birds reflects on growing up with bright orange hair; and a man is mysteriously pulled into the Scrublands where he's forced to dig for groobs.
These stories are so good!
Hi friends! We're delighted to share the 15th issue of Bone Parade with you: https://www.boneparade.com/
This issue features five fabulous stories: a woman with bougainvillea in her arms, a parent sneaking moonlight, the struggles of living with MS, coping with pregnancy and loss, and a curmudgeonly curator and a piece of art people flock to see.
If you like an author's story, please let them know!
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Issue 14 features five fabulous stories: sound killing forests, the magic of new life, partnerships of stone and water, a charming Nordic fairy tale, and a banished human who dreams of becoming an AI. This issue is SO SO GOOD. Give it a read!
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Hi! The 13th issue of Bone Parade is ready to read: https://www.boneparade.com
This issue features five fabulous stories about fishing for zyps in the universe, miraculous cemetery encounters, ghosts made of memories, deadly chemical spills, and carcinization!
Please let authors know if you like a story!
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Hi there! Bone Parade is open for submissions through October 15th! We only need one more story for the next issue. Please send us your weird and wonderful genre-bending stories! We're also kind of in the mood for a cozy existential crisis, if that exists?
https://www.boneparade.com/submit/
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