Chey Rivera
@criverawrites
🇵🇷 SpecFic writer. Words in Flame Tree Press’ Achilles, Heartlines Spec #8, Trollbreath #8, The Skull & Laurel #4, Hexagon MYRIAD Lawless, The Scythian Wolf’s This World of Vile Wonder, and elsewhere. Find all my work here:
Happy to share that Folklore Horror is 25% off in the Waterstones Books Coming Soon Promotion! In this book you’ll find my reprinted story, “Again! Atabey Commands,” inspired by Taíno mythology. 🪶✨ Use the code SUMMER26 on their website or app, now until 23:59 July 24. #WPreorder
I was recently gifted my first fountain pen and I am in love with it. Fell into a rabbit hole last night learning about all the different kinds of ink — sheen, shimmer, high/low maintenance — but the best thing about is that now I have another reason to get excited about writing!
Contract signed. Thrilled to announce my story “Two Paths, One Death” has pleased the dark hearts at @talestoterrify.bsky.social! 🖤 This story previously appeared in the anthology This World of Vile Wonder, edited by @coyhall.bsky.social. And now it will be my first story in audio format!
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” Tolkien, The Hobbit
My short story “Ten Rules to Survive as a Pirate” is written in list form and in second person. It’s in Elegant Literature’s 35th issue, which can be downloaded for free here: www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/ ☺️🏴☠️
“Craftsmanship isn’t like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it’s empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains. The heart renews itself, Wanderer, and skill grows all the better for it.”
“The Death of the Angel Prince” reprinted in @conquestpublishing.bsky.social’s anthology, Monstrous Angels. “Although my body and powers remained, the very nature of my being was altered, my mind, my heart. I had new fears, thoughts—longings.” a.co/d/fEgTf59
“Two Paths, One Death” published in @coyhall.bsky.social’s anthology, This World of Vile Wonder. “She was no one. It did not matter that she was leaving this world just when it had begun to unfold its secrets. And yet, tears still ran stubbornly down her cheeks.” a.co/d/3Z4J1S0
“For the Pursuit of the Better” published in @heartlines-spec.com “Karaya was eleven-years-old when Baba fused a small metal cage into her skull. He said this would give her the mind of a god, because the cage contained an imprisoned god inside it.” www.heartlines-spec.com/for-the-purs...
“‘Again!’ Atabey Commands” published in @tenebrouspress.bsky.social’s The Skull and Laurel. “Atabey is pleased by the areíto. More than pleased, enthralled. The gold adornments in her headdress and neck clink as she follows her subjects’ movements.” store.tenebrouspress.com/products/the...
“The Eyes of the Pentekonter” published in Flame Tree Press’ Achilles anthology. “As the waves took him away from the place that had made and unmade him, Odysseus found himself tortured by the memory of a single man—Achilles.” www.flametreepublishing.com/achilles-isb...
✨My 2025 Publications ✨ “The Saint in the Stone” published in @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social Myriad Lawless “You never pray to the Saint in the Stone. That’s the only thing all outlaw clans in Caona Cay can agree on.” www.patreon.com/posts/122118...
First book I finished reading in 2026: The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social A lady knight and a historian trapped in a time loop. This book is so beautifully written! It will stay with me for a long time. I loved it just like I loved her excellent short story, The Six Deaths of the Saint. 🗡️
“It is what I was born for— to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world—“ #MaryOliver
Contract signed! I am so happy my pirate story, “The Way to Treasure,” will appear in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social’s 8th issue, out June 2026! (The illustration below was done by my talented little sister last year, after she read the very first draft of this story. 🏴☠️✨)
Now Listening 🎧 “Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization” by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Now Reading 📖 “Arthur, The Always King” by Kevin Crossley-Holland. Illustrated by Chris Riddell.
Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. This is FOR THE PURSUIT OF THE BETTER: www.heartlines-spec.com/for-the-purs...
My 2025 Publications! 🫶🏻✨ I am so grateful to all the editors who believed in my stories and gave them a home. 🙏🏼 @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social Flame Tree Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social @heartlines-spec.com @coyhall.bsky.social @conquestpublishing.bsky.social
Excited to announce that my story, “The Death of the Angel Prince,” will be reprinted in @conquestpublishing.bsky.social’s anthology, Monstrous Angels. Edited by @arwyns.bsky.social 🪽
Today is my birthday, and in addition to spending some quality time with my loved ones, I’m also polishing a 7,500-word story for a sub call I’m very excited about (aka doing what I love). Pictured below are some of the amazing books/magazines where I’ve been lucky to have my work published. 🧡💜🩵
Last week I received my contributor copies of Achilles! Can’t get over how beautiful this book is 🥲❤️⚔️🛡️🩵
just updated my website — finally starting to get the hang of carrd 😅 cheyrivera.carrd.co ✨
Currently reading 📖 ✨ Giordano Bruno is the main character in this historical thriller / murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.
First book I’ve finished this year: COUNTESS by @sillysyntax.bsky.social An excellent novella! Can’t recommend it enough!