Source: Pixabay From Under the Trellis We garden gnomes took a trip to Texas in May, then we got so busy we couldn't see straight. We've decided to facilitate our busy schedule, to publish the Parade mid-week

Just a quick note to say to our one big fan (and two little ones): starting this coming Saturday, the garden gnomes will be traveling. We'll be on and off for a couple of weeks, mostly off. Until the end

Source: Pixabay This Week From Under the TrellisCheck out this week's hot speculative fiction. This is a ton more like this compiling on Narrative.Murphy's Diaries by @manoldonchevZombies by @walesGenesis

While we're waiting for all the entries to come in for the Speculative Minds Flash Fiction Contest, we decided to blow your mind with an image prompt. It's real simple what you have to do. Look at the

For 1 STEEM, what do you see? The garden gnomes will give 1 STEEM to the best flash fiction story in the speculative fiction genre. Look at this image and tell a story no longer than 300 words: Image from

Source: Pixabay This Week From Under the Trellis Check out this week's hot speculative fiction. A Steem Monsters Story: Pirate Archer, Part 2 by @SteveR82 (Read Part 1 here) If You Will, You Can Become

Hello. Happy Thursday! In honor of today, we garden gnomes would like to start a new writing prompt series. Once a week we're going to drop an image we find on Pixabay based on a keyword suggested by one

Source: Pixabay This Week From Under the Trellis The speculative fiction in the Garden Gnome Publications' community Discord server seems to be drying up. But our Narrative channel is quite active. Check

As we wait for @blockurator to make his #exquisite-corpse contribution (you can see part 1 here), we're here to announce the winner of the flash fiction contest we announced a few days ago. The contest

Well folks, as it turns out, @fromage is in the horse spittle having his gallbladder extricated. So we're going to have to re-order the exquisite-corpse writing exercise. The line-up now is ... @felt.buzz

Source: Pixabay Last week, as we prepared to deliver the Spec-Fic Parade, we discovered that our site had been suspended by our web host due to malicious malware. We were hacked. Oh the pain! Fortunately,

After some hefty back and forth, a few passionate arguments, a couple of changes of mind, and some fisticuffs, the garden gnomes have finally decided on a winner of the Garden Gnome Meme Contest. Ready?

Before we kick it into high gear, let it be known that Narrative officially launches into beta tomorrow. Our fearless leader is the Speculative Fiction Niche owner over there. Join us! Join us at Narrative.

Only 5 days to enter the Garden Gnome Meme Contest and WIN 5 SBI! Seriously, only 5 days, and so far, no entries. You could fart and win this contest! 5 Steem Basic Income if you win. That's a hefty price

8 days ago we announced our Garden Gnome Publications Meme Contest. And the grand prize is 5 Steem Basic Income (SBI). We're just dropping in to make this quick and gentle reminder. Here's how it works:

We're not sure what it is, but you mention punk and people's minds go Yay, lesbian! Okay, well, in this case, lucky for you because the winner of this farmpunk fiction contest features lesbian farm workers.

Source: Pixabay This Week From Under the Trellis Sublimation by @walesTry a Game in the Hall by @stever82 Worth a read: Steem Monsters fantasy story - Pirate Archer by @stever82 Like role playing games?

Of course I am. If you're going to be different than all the rest, you've got to go out of your way to be out of the way. If you know what I mean. If you don't know what I mean, let me elaborate. Let's

Just two more days! We're itching to give away 3 Steem Basic Income (SBI) shares to the best farmpunk story based on the The Ides of March theme. The original announcement is here. The follow up is here.

Source: Pixabay This Week From Under the Trellis The Spark. IFC S2R5 by @jbrehenyFiction News - The Times Of War Gazette - Issue #2 by @manoldonchev Worth a read: Falling into the wind by @wales Into gaming?