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Cosmic Consequences: A Dark Sci-Fi Anthology

Created by The Whumpy Printing Press, LLC

Prepare for take off! This short story anthology will contain science fiction, dark content, and lots of whumperflies. Authors will be answering the question, "What if there was whump ... but in space?"

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Almost to Stretch Goal #1!
3 months ago – Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 07:34:52 PM

Hello space enthusiasts!

We're nearing the end of the crowdfunding campaign, and we're 77% of the way to Stretch Goal #1, downloadable wallpapers! There will be multiple wallpapers, all of them designed by Nicole Alessi, the lovely graphic designer who did the cover for Cosmic Consequences. 

I'm chugging along on proofreading and also trying to finish my own contribution to this anthology. Hopefully both will be done this weekend!

Keep rocking,
Kailey

We're Funded! Now Time For Stretch Goals!
3 months ago – Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 04:20:40 AM

Hello everybody!

A bit of a late update, but we've hit our funding goal! 

We have several exciting stretch goals coming up:

  • $1,200: Downloadable wallpapers!
  • $1,600: Stickers!
  • $2,000: Alternate whumpy cover for the paperback! We’ve had some readers express interest in explicitly whumpy covers for our anthologies, like what we did for Hurt and Comfort. If we hit this stretch goal, we’ll make that a reality and commission an artist to do a whumpy cover. You’ll get to choose which cover you want when we send out surveys (the regular “discreet” cover or the explicitly whumpy one).

I’ve been in the trenches of editing for Cosmic Consequences. This is our longest anthologies to date, being close to 130,000 words. I'm so excited for y’all to read it!

The BackerKit campaign is live until June 30, so we still have over two weeks to smash those stretch goals! Cosmic Consequences is part of the Book Bazaar Summer Bonanza, and there are ten other awesome projects crowdfunding as part of this event.

If you like dark fiction, I would recommend you check out Prometheus: A Queer Futuristic Horror Anthology. This is the first book from Snakeskin Press, which looks like it's gonna be a super cool publisher! The lineup of 16 stories includes a range of themes, from biomechanical to cosmic and eldritch to post-democratic dystopian horror. I can't wait to get my hands on it!

Keep rocking and rolling,
Kailey

P.S. Sorry about the radio silence on my end. It turns out that being put in charge of a massive archeological survey at the same time as a crowdfunding campaign is ... challenging.