New story in Fraidy Cat Quarterly issue 7! ☀️🐕🚀

who do I know who's gonna be in NYC on November 18th???

ICYMI 🌟 Lofty Pigeon Books is hosting a ✨FREE✨ ECO24 launch party with @louisevans.bsky.social and @kayv.bsky.social on Nov. 18th @ 6:30! Enjoy a night of readings, book signings, a Q&A and reception! Seats are limited! Reserve your spot at the event link below ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

New story in Fraidy Cat Quarterly issue 7! ☀️🐕🚀

FCQ7 is our rage-themed volume and features excellent writing by: @kayv.bsky.social @nicholeon.bsky.social C.O. Davidson @abigailkemske.bsky.social @alexhoeft.bsky.social C. Lenz @corriehaldane.bsky.social @jdlskie.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social Myra Stephenson Rachel Desiree Felix

surprise! i'm in this issue of The Dark with a reprint of my coastal new weird story "Twilight Tide," which features undead marine creatures, love letters, neurodivergency, and estranged hornysad monsterfucking 🐠💍🦷 i am delighted this was the story they liked

In the midst of a government shutdown, as masked ICE agents roam America’s cities with impunity, with lines at food banks across the country growing, and farmers at risk as America bails out Argentina instead… Donald Trump threw a Roaring 20s/Great Gatsby themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago.

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218. Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

World’s largest sailing cargo ship headed to Baltimore on inaugural voyage

Perhaps the most ominous satellite presentation we've seen. Cat 5 Melissa within 2 hours of landfall in Jamaica. Winds at 185 mph (tied for 2nd highest on record). Pressure at 892 mb (tied for 3rd lowest). Will be one of strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall ever recorded.

A wonderful review of ECO24! "The diversity of stories reflects the diversity of the authors and also showcases the indefinable quality of eco-fiction." Ben highlights stories by K-Ming Chang, Guillermo G. Mendoza, @hironennes.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @kayv.bsky.social & Mathew Freeman 💚

Scenes from my run ☀️

Would you like to pry open my skull and root around for the pretty fungus? 3 spots are left for an Affirmation critique from me to fund @apexmag.bsky.social 2026! Your pledge for an affirmation critique includes a subscription to the mag and access to the Discord! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Steven Millhauser

Who’s in NY??!

approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...

Who’s in NY??!

If we make it illegal to steal paintings from the Louvre then the entire industry will be unsustainable

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇 Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it. Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

"If women in yoga pants are confronting ICE you've lost" "Even wine moms are going to the rally!" "This is real protesting, not like those women with pussyhats!" Hey, real quick, why is it that some of y'all can't tweet about women organising without dripping contempt?

When’s swift gonna write an album about the era where you sit on an industrial pier and/or dredge and eat wasabi peas until your nose bleeds

Flight attendant comes thru to ask me what I want to drink and I unstick my face from the window, eyes rimmed with red, verklempt at the beauty of the Chesapeake, to sniffle and say, “Diet Coke”

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

"Implicit in the 'let people enjoy things' mindset is the argument that people need mindless pleasure and distraction during terrible times. But what if those terrible times were a product of our dumbed-down, money-fixated culture in the first place?"

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

My shadow on a Sunday morning 🥲

Nothing pleases me more like a kudzu-covered telephone pole on a foggy day

Nothing pleases me more like a kudzu-covered telephone pole on a foggy day

omg, ECO24 got a starred Publisher's Weekly review! "23 stellar tales" 🌿✨🥲✨🌿 High-five to all the authors who make this collection so wonderful! And an extra high-five to @jenniferhudak.bsky.social and @louisevans.bsky.social, whose stories are highlighted in this review as standouts 👀🫶

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

As well as accepting submissions, don't forget that Translunar Travelers Lounge published Issue 13 in August - have you read it yet? translunartravelerslounge.com

Drill baby drill.

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

whoa somehow a whole-ass fortnight has gone by and i still havent shared the August newsletter here where i talk about stuff from @kayv.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social and more buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Judith Butler responds to Berkeley's sending names: "When Universities Become Informants: A Practice from the McCarthy Era Makes an Ugly Return" www.chronicle.com/article/when...

I was inspired to begin my first painting in like 4 years

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Oh noo

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Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy

Blood Sun ?

for those who haven’t been following: the people who bought Asimov’s, F&SF, et al. have a new contract that’s basically a rights grab and have treated authors who pushed back on it like shit, stringing them along, gaslighting them, etc. I don’t recommend submitting to any of their mags at this time

Watermen by @kayv.bsky.social in which a young waterman, growing up by the bay, finds human life encroaching despite the harsh rule of King Malcolm. translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...

psyched to have a shoutout in @nmwhitley.bsky.social's August 2025 Short Story Rex, and - more importantly - to be alongside @kayv.bsky.social in it (whose ergot. story discussed here absolutely rules)