Be sure to include the occasional obvious typo in your story, to make your copyeditor feel useful.

I've said it before, but one of the great joys of putting together a new issue of Kaleidotrope is re-reading the stories and poems and being reminded exactly why I accepted each one in the first place.

Every story, every journey, every act of rebellion starts with a single seed.

“The Princess Seed” by @MaroftheBooks

https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/the-princess-seed-by-mar-vincent/

Mystery solved! It appears to have been a line from a different story, in another magazine, by the same author. A weird but by all appearances honest mistake!

People comment infrequently enough on Kaleidotrope's stories that they don't need to start making up stories that don't exist to comment on.

It's not a line from a different Kaleidotrope story, but also, near as I can tell just from googling it, not a line from *any* story. The comment doesn't otherwise look like spam, so it's a little weird.

A reader recently commented on a story in Kaleidotrope... praising a line that isn't in the story... said by characters who aren't in it either... about a plot point that doesn't happen... 🤔

Hot take: read Kaleidotrope.

What would you walk away from to become what you really are? How much of your humanity would you give up to find the animal inside?

Read “Rosette Spots” by Ephraim N. Orji and find out.

https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/rosette-spots-by-ephraim-n-orji/

I have two overriding goals in any copyedit: clarity, then consistency.

Oh right. There's gotta be a new issue again next month.

There’s an a and an i in Kaleidotrope, but there’s no AI in Kaleidotrope.

Recent #scifi #poetry:

TOUCH THIS CANCER, IT PROBABLY WON'T BITE in Nightmare
https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/touch-this-cancer-it-probably-wont-bite/

LACUS ODII (LAKE OF HATE) and BUTTONS AND SOAP in @radonjournal
https://www.radonjournal.com/issue-9

TIME AND HEAT in @sfpoetry Star*Line
https://sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starline48.1.html

WHERE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOUR SCREAM in @kaleidotrope
https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/winter-2025/where-no-one-can-hear-your-scream-by-josh-pearce/

Forthcoming poems:

OUR LADY OF THE ATOM in Analog

LACUS SOLITUDINIS in @kaleidotrope

FRIENDSHIP 1 in New Myths

Recent #scifi:

MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY in @kaleidotrope
https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/microcosmus-of-mystery-by-josh-pearce/

A CLOCKWORK GUN in Bourbon Penn
https://www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/a-clockwork-gun-by-josh-pearce

WITCHES IN COLD MOUNTAIN HALLS in Skull & Laurel
https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/the-skull-laurel-issue-003-print

Forthcoming stories:

CARINA SAGGITARIUS in @kaleidotrope

ATOMIC CHESS in Bourbon Penn

SOMEDAY SOMEONE'S GONNA STEAL YOUR CARBON in Mythaxis

Set off from your home on a strange journey in Bruce McAllister’s new story “Emilio’s Tale.”

https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/emilios-tale-by-bruce-mcallister/

Happy Pride Month! Kaleidotrope is proud to stand as an ally to the LGBTQIA+ community and to have featured writing from so many fantastic diverse voices!

Happy Recommended Kaleidotrope to Somebody Day to all who celebrate! 🎉

They come in…peace? Meet the visitors in David C. Kopaska-Merkel’s new poem “The Saucer Men.”

https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/the-saucer-men-by-david-c-kopaska-merkel/

Find your bones—if you dare—in Karen Osborne’s new story “Osteogenesis.”

https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/osteogenesis-by-karen-osborne/

You should read the stories in Kaleidotrope. I did—and look where it’s gotten me! 😀