BCS of 2025! "The Feather Tree" @kjkabza.bsky.social BCS #435 "It was not the same as giving up hope because hope was not a single, stone-fired thing but a thing like a marshland, made of uncountable pieces of intertwined yet separate life" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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New #WriterBeware blog post: per a report by @publisherslunch.bsky.social, Amazon's new gen AI-powered "Ask This Book" feature for Kindle is, in effect, an "in-book chatbot" writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k...

if you're upset about Amazon's use of AI, done in the dark of night without publisher or author input, on Kindle books, you can buy ebooks from someplace else. Easily. This isn't an out of the frying pan into the fire type thing or an expensive thing. Plenty of good Kobo readers; Kobo has an app.

You never see guys named Hieronymus anymore

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

you cannot capture the beauty of the moon with your phone camera, so just post in your local discord about it so your friends know to look outside

Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family

I'm at the combination

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Hey all, we're getting ready to open again for submissions. We're looking for your flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essay pitches starting December 1st! Check out our guidelines here: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/

a “Space Force”, if you will

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Wanted: reviewers! I'm assembling a team of readers who will commit to reviewing my BDSM-themed paranormal / urban fantasy in January 2026 on Amazon, GR, social media, and other platforms! Sign up here: forms.gle/4WEARDmHRf...

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

writing in a coffee shop and just overheard the woman sitting next to me to claim to her companion, “Real skeletons don’t have eye sockets”

In my opinion, scapegoats are at the root of many of society's problems

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

It’s a rare rainy day in Tucson. I went for a run without a shirt, hoping to feel sprinkled upon and refreshed, but I just felt humid and slippery

I choose to believe that, rather than giving up, the barista made me a giant squid

My favorite part of baseball is when the manager goes to the mound to tell the pitcher he loves him

next week has been so tiring

Boxes also work on bobcats

A burst of color for your Monday: dahlia #bloomscrolling

Oh this is the first time I've seen a timeline. The notification window is not terribly long, which means the more we can blast this information out the better. I will be screaming about it A LOT once the submission link is live!

Well don't I feel stupid

i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age

finally, a thanksgiving dessert that reflects america in 2025

Sorry I’m late. There was a lot of stuff to look at outside.

If you listen to birdsong with a completely open heart you can just open your mouth and replicate it at will at the next staff meeting

Little Ghosts Books is open for Submissions! From now until Nov. 1st, submit your horror novellas for consideration to our small press and kick off spooky season! More details about the call and our publishing house are available on the website: www.littleghostsbooks.com/novellasubmi... 🖤👻📚

rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

I've been sitting on a story about the absurdity of author income for around two years. I think it's time to tell it.

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

I have to say we don’t get as many spin kicks in action media as we used to and I think we’re all lesser for it.

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...

I don't know how it got to be the end of summer but... Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!

SON: dad what’s the difference between present tense and past tense? ME:

worse homes and gardens

(raising my lantern in the gas station bathroom) who goes there?

i'm just saying no one i like has ever turned down an offer for a cool rock

Mournful and lush, @kjkabza.bsky.social ‘s “The Feather Tree” in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social treats us to a literary landscape as vibrant and storied as our own - as enchanted, as cursed. A fantastical successor to Powers’s The Overstory, its pensive descriptions belie a contemporary urgency. A gem.

Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go! Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.” Ahem. *takes a sip of water*

reverse skylight. what those worms doin

Note to self: If I ever want to distract from a Discourse Du Jour, bring up whether cursive is necessary.

greetings i have made another zine, this is about how i got my hands on a knife at age ~9 (individual pages in the replies) #internationalzinemonth #minizinejuly2025

Hummingbird moth sipping from the catmint in my garden. It’s always a highlight of summer when I see these little creatures