*sigh*

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

Extra extra! Starting March 1st, Plott Hound Magazine will be accepting reprints! For reprints, we pay $20 USD for flash / $100 USD for shorts (up to 10,000 words). In your moksha cover letter, please include the name of publication that had originally published your piece.

backspace keys have seen some shit

let’s pretend that the only 2 people in this entire 29-person-strong coffee shop clientele who are talking (loudly) are sitting right next to me because I am putting out irresistibly charismatic vibes

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

“Wait, KJ—since when were you interested in getting a Creative Writing MFA?” Since I left my day job in September, considered my recent few years of feeling stuck in a rut, became interested in a possible career pivot to teaching, and thought seeking some new influences would do me good.

Fun facts: I finished “Sleeper Hit” in November 2025 and used its first 35 pages for my writing sample in an application to a Creative Writing MFA program. No idea (yet) if that program wants me, but I’m delighted that Fusion Fragment wants the story

Happy to announce our first acquisition for 2027: the novelette "Sleeper Hit" by @kjkabza.bsky.social! KJ's work has previously appeared in Reactor, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, F&SF, and many others.

(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

Calling all concept-driven science fiction short stories (and novelettes) published in 2025! I'm looking for bangers I might have missed that fit this brief: compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/call-f... If you can share this with your favorite SF author/publisher/editor, I'd be grateful!

Roses are red Vice is inherent

i think the simplest way to know a child loves you is that they remember your favourite colour and point it out in the wild

for all the lovers out there today 🖤

A day that celebrates Love doesn't have to be about Eros. Here's something for those other great loves in our lives.

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This morning, I was able to help identify a painting painted by WB Laughead, who was essential to spreading the Paul Bunyan myth, including providing a chain of provenance with date of sale and I don't think I'll ever have this kind of highly specific art history high again.

sorta miss being a kid and wondering why the moon follows me

As a professional writer, why does it take me an hour to write a single email

I knew Jeff via a local workshop he co-hosted with another writer in Boston in 2008. He was patient, generous, and incredibly kind, and I’m sorry I never got to tell him so directly.

I’ve participated as a mentor in the below a couple of times now and I loved having the opportunity to pay things forward. If you have the bandwidth, I recommend applying!

Applications are now open for YPO 2026! Choose your pace:, 6 wks, 12wks, or 18wks! Guest lecturers include @rfkuang.bsky.social, @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, @brandonsanderson.com, @fondalee.bsky.social, @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social & more! Early Action deadline Feb 20!

Powerful magic

3yo: The little orgy was making a noise. ME: the what now 3: Yes, the little orgy! ME: 3: Come on, I will show you the little orgy in my book! ME: yes, please show me which of your books has the little orgy 3yo takes out a book and turns to this page, at which point I am crying with laughter:

This is the tech that's going to replace us writers.

generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023 people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

I walk thru the mall a lot lately (don’t ask) and I just saw some bonafide mall goths. had to stop myself from clapping for them like troops in the airport

weeping internally

We're thrilled to announce the panel of authors who will select the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: Nicola Griffith Mat Johnson Fonda Lee Darcie Little Badger Peter Rock Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Saying “I don’t speak with an accent” is like writing “I don’t type with a font”

Hey folks! Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.

If you're out there writing poems—in a shadowy room, on the night shift, between your child's naps, hiding in your car, anywhere—you're keeping the human soul alive. You're doing the work we all need. And I absolutely love you.

I have a similar photo of a giant bee crossing the street

A classic of gender-examining SF by Cameron Reed, genius author of THE FORTUNATE FALL and the forthcoming WHAT WE ARE SEEKING. It won the Tiptree Award (now the Otherwise Award) following its original publication in 1998.

thank god this bag of sticks is on sale, because it’s not like you can go outside and literally pick up sticks off the ground for free

In a world brimming with destroyers, I'm thinking of the healers.

i wonder if there was any hairstyles that would've made Samson even stronger

Out Friday! 70 of my short science fiction stories in a huge omnibus collecting Flash Futures, Portals, and Cosmic Dreams with a brand new tale.

If the venue bathroom looks like this you’re going to die in the pit

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

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