By the way, have you read my The Hermitage on @neonandsmoke.bsky.social ? I would love to know your opinion. www.neonandsmoke.com/issue-2/the-...

🚨 Això és el dissabte vinent... 🎁 Atenció que hi haurà regals! 🎲 Rifarem entre els assistents: - 📚 1 exemplar del joc de rol LA CRIDA DE CTHULHU (1996) ! - 🎨 10 cartells A3 de l'esdeveniment I per a tothom, fins esgotar existències: - 📜 1 Certificat exclusiu de pèrdua de seny 🤪

The Inevitable Encounter Ausiastsel.substack.com

The I Ching calls it Zhōng Fú — Inner Truth. The kind that only surfaces when every exit is sealed. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/the-inevit...

Tomorrow. Only on ausiastsel.substack.com

You brake. You leave a gap. You nod. Someone thanks you with a raised hand. Three hundred meters later a question corrodes you. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/right-of-way

Pròximament a Males Herbes⏳

"El Mediterrani no discuteix. Enguixa. Les dictadures es van acabar, les democràcies van arribar, i els ossos van quedar sota terra. Cap comissió de la veritat. Cap retre comptes públicament. Només construcció nova sobre fonaments vells, i l’acord tàcit que cavar és de mal gust." Llegiu:

New story on Medium: "The Relief." A woman puts her head into a hole in her boyfriend's flat. What she finds there is the first thing that has ever made sense to her. She spends the rest of the relationship pretending it didn't.

Porto temps escrivint sobre persianes tancades i cuines on se sopa en silenci. Sabia que allò que m'espantava no tenia res a vore amb la boira ni amb els castells del nord. Però no tenia les paraules. Açò és un intent de trobar-les. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/que-es-el-...

For those who love horror! Thanks for sharing your words @ausiastsel.com

Proud to be in this issue. My story “The Hermitage”; a crumbling ermita in the Valencian hinterland, a stolen rosary, and saints that no longer answer to anyone. Free to read. www.neonandsmoke.com/issue-2/the-...

“The Hermitage” is out in Issue 2 of @neonandsmoke.bsky.social. Valencian hinterland. A saint with patient eyes. What happens when obedience ends but power doesn’t. www.neonandsmoke.com/issue-2/the-...

A torturer's shift in Roman Valentia made it into Top in Fiction's weekly picks. Grateful to the TiF team for the read. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/penal-art

Clubs de lectura amb presència dels traductors, molt bon idea! A la llibreria @documentabcn.bsky.social // @acasassas.bsky.social @jmartinlloret.bsky.social @martanin.bsky.social

Avui no he pogut escriure. Migranya. Urgències. Punxada. A casa. He rellegit "Excés retòric" —dos sicaris discutint ofici davant d'un arròs tres delícies— i m'ha fet somriure. El més fosc d'aquest conte no és la violència. És que els dos tenen raó. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/exces-retoric

Presentem els finalistes del Premi PEN Català Montserrat Franquesa de Traducció 2026. Quatre traductors opten al guardó que reconeix la millor traducció literària publicada en català durant el 2025. 👇

I grew up in a house where the shutters were always closed. Not because of the cold. Because of the neighbors. I finally wrote down what that means. #HorrorWritersChat​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ open.substack.com/pub/ausiasts...

I grew up in a house where the shutters were always closed. Not because of the cold. Because of the neighbors. The horror I know has never had fog in it.

This is 10 minutes well-spent. Dark, honest fiction 👇

Desat, que per poc bé que funcioni fa cara de ser molt útil. (Quan tradueixo assaig, acabo tirant sobretot pel catàleg de les biblioteques universitàries, però no hi ha manera de saber si ho tenen tot…)

“We can’t refuse. Inevitable, remember?” — Part Two of The Inevitable Encounter is now live. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/the-inevit...

Que existeix Wuthering Heights en euskera i fa anys que el buscava i internet em deia que "fuck you" 😱 Això del zenodot.app em canviarà la vida 💜

Tomorrow. Only on ausiastsel.substack.com

No et censuren. No et prohibeixen. La teua llengua simplement no registra. El sistema no es va dissenyar contra tu;simplement no es va dissenyar pensant en tu. L'efecte és el mateix: no saps si X llibre està en la teua llengua. He construït una ferramenta per canviar això: zenodot.app Ho explico ací

The global book infrastructure was built for five languages. Mine isn't one of them. I built Zenòdot to answer one question: does this book exist in my language? Free. No sign-up. 100+ languages. 🔗 zenodot.app ausiastsel.substack.com/p/the-button...

No et censuren. No et prohibeixen. La teua llengua simplement no registra. El sistema no es va dissenyar contra tu;simplement no es va dissenyar pensant en tu. L'efecte és el mateix: no saps si X llibre està en la teua llengua. He construït una ferramenta per canviar això: zenodot.app Ho explico ací

The hagiography of St. Vincent of Saragossa has 576 lines of poetry. Not one mentions the man who prepared the cell floor. I gave him a shift.

Avanç de SPIDER-NOIR (2026) Disponible el 27 de maig a Prime Vide, tant en blanc i negre com en color. #SpiderNoir

Public beta officially launched. Thanks to everyone who wrote to me about the search bugs — I think we can call it a useful tool now, honestly. Give it a try! I’m sure there’s room for improvement. Zenodot.app

Bé, llançament oficial de la beta pública. Gràcies per tots els que m’heu escrit amb els bugs de cerca, crec que ja podem parlar de ferramenta útil, la veritat. Proveu-la! Segur que es pot milorar. zenodot.app

Mediterranean Gothic. Work in Flash Fiction Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Flash Phantoms. Stories forthcoming in Black Sheep (Hobb’s End Press, 2026). More at ausiastsel.substack.com #HorrorWritersChat

She hadn’t opened the chapel since her mother’s funeral. Seventeen years of dust. She expected rot, collapse. Instead: fresh lilies on the altar, still wet. A candle with a flame that didn’t move. Something had been waiting. And patience was the worst thing a thing could have. #HorrorWritersChat

There’s a scene in my novel where a character enters a church during a flood and finds the saints floating face-down. I’ve rewritten it five times. I think the problem is I keep trying to make it symbolic when the image itself is already enough. I don’t trust the silence yet. #HorrorWritersChat

Inherited grief. The things your family carries that never get named but shape every room they enter. I keep circling back to it. It’s not supernatural, but it behaves like a haunting. I’d rather write about ancient gods, honestly. This is closer to the bone. #HorrorWritersChat

Mediterranean Gothic, mostly. Coastal villages with too much silence. Saints carved from wood that seem to watch you leave the church. The kind of horror that doesn’t need the dark; it festers under a white sky. I write from the Valencian Country, and the material was always there #HorrorWritersChat

Last night I watched Louis CK tell a thousand people that understanding life is useless, and a thousand people laughed because the alternative was worse. I got bad news right before the show. I laughed anyway. Zapffe and Ligotti would have understood why. New essay: “The Laughter That Doesn’t Save”

101. No fireworks, no giveaways. Just more stories from the dark side of the sea. Thank you for taking a seat.

Today I’ve seen this live in Barcelona. I can’t write it right now ‘cause -not related- I’ve recived some bad news just before entering the theatre. But I’m gonna write something about it.

"The Relief" has been my most read piece so far. I think I know why: it has almost no horror in it. No monsters, no gore, no twist. Just a woman who finds a void and recognizes it. The scariest thing I've written is existence itself, knowing that you only can play make-belive. Or choose the relief.

It's live. Part One. The chair. The chains. The man who's been waiting.

It’s late in the Valencian Country and everything is dark and quiet. The first part of The Inevitable Encounter is programmed to publish while I sleep. I won’t be clicking the button tonight — it felt right to let the text leave on its own terms. ausiastsel.substack.com

Tomorrow

Part I. Sunday.

The decision is made. This Sunday I begin publishing my first serialized story on Substack. Six parts. Six Sundays. Dark fiction. Someone is waiting for you. And you have no option. This is… Inevitable.

Me: talking into de Void about posting a short novellette serialized on Substack. A bunch of strangers that had never read me:

Write horror? Join #HorrorWritersChat a weekly meet-up on BSky to chat about horror and answer four questions/prompts. Participants can promote their work or other opportunities in the outro. Next meet up: Wednesday 4 February at 2 pm ET (USA) 7 pm GMT (UK) See you there! #amwriting #horror

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. p.s. my new book of science cartoons, ‘Physics for Cats’ is out now. Links at www.tomgauld.com

Looking forward to sharing this story. Many thanks to @ausiastsel.com for bringing some well-crafter horror to our pages. February Smoke coming soon.

“The Hermitage” forthcoming in @neonandsmoke.bsky.social , Issue 2, mid-February. Heat, a stolen rosary, and a saint whose eyes look somewhere you can’t follow.