the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing

"I'm up, I'm up"

Step 4: Painting!

More Hugo-nominated stories on Story Hour? Yes! Samantha Mills and Thomas Ha read their 2026 nominees! Beautiful, intense, and moving. You can still watch! @samtasticbooks.com @thomasha.bsky.social #Booksky youtu.be/UKQZbg3u_B8

Hey hey, look who's in this year's Best Small Fictions!!! My story, Roofing in Warm Weather, is hanging out with some amazing stories! This might be the first years best antho my work has landed in and I'm so pumped. Snag a copy for some wonderful Flash Fiction reads :)

no bluesky's where bubbles become men because of zoongie

"Now I am become Death" 11" x 17" ink and pen on Bristol paper commission for @natom.bsky.social

ICYMI we're currently a bit past halfway in my dark fantasy novella. Parts 1 (linked below) through 4 available in the archives - now's a perfect time to catch up! 1/2 buttondown.com/crosshatches...

Latest story, "Middle Song," now out in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social. Soldiers on a search for fugitives wander into a strange roadhouse. Standalone but loosely tied to a group of stories that started in 2022 right here in BP. Always glad to be back and in a ToC w/great fellow authors.

I always thought the people making book videos were silly but I picked Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by @thomasha.bsky.social as a good point to try to get back to reading regularly (seenms hard to do). I frickin loved this collection. It got the engine running and I'm on to my next. Good job!

ok last one

back to work, union man

If you're an artist following me, please make sure to block @curation-lab.bsky.social to protect your work. Don't let this AI bot critique your human-made art.

RESTOCKED! 🚨 If you are in NELA, stop on by.

we saw Paul Downs from Hacks driving though our neighborhood in a dirty car and in retrospect and with a little mental review it was just some other guy driving through our neighborhood in a dirty car

We’ve been talking so much about When The Internet Was Good and it’s great but I haven’t yet seen anyone mention Winamp skins, or the glorious time-waster nostalgia feast that is the Winamp Skin Museum website: skins.webamp.org

Monarch in Mustard

they did not tell me my sleep paralysis demon would be in today's puppet show* *NB this is not the cemetery puppet show from yesterday

Racing The Forest Of Giant Steel

This is true, I'm a witness

goth daughter's 1st grade field trip was to a cemetery puppet show for reasons i do not understand but she fuckin loved it apparently

Court transcripts are in from today's closed-door hearing in front of Judge April Perry on the Broadview Six case. Perry discusses the case's grand jury transcripts. She doesn't sound happy. "I have never seen the types of prosecutorial behavior before a grand jury that I saw in those transcripts."

The recording of last night's reading is up! Thomas Ha has a mesmerizing reading voice, seriously

Enjoy these Hugo-nominated stories, as read by their authors! There's a moment after the second of these two truly phenomenal stories when my co-host looked to me for a comment, but I was too busy putting my heart back in my chest. Go ahead and watch!

From last night. Very happy to be back on Story Hour and share this time with Sam and hear her read her wonderful Hugo-nominated story. Also, fun fact. I read my story, "In My Country" in one giant 45-minute breath. I know you think it's impossible, but that's what happened. There's video proof.

We'll host another session of our virtual reading series for the #LocusAwards with the wonderful #FranWilde & #ThomasHa on WEDS May 27 at 6PM! Ticketholders will recieve a special Zoom link on the day-of. Tickets at locusmag.com/awards26#LocusAwards#FranWilde#ThomasHa in bio!

Hey there. Latest story, now out, "Scion." Strangeness. Estrangement. And the history that gets lost in between. A son and father in a moving house. Deranged relatives at cross-purposes. A community fleeing a murderous intruder. A crumbling lunar colony in revolt. Hope folks enjoy. Twisty one.

oh fuck I thought I was sitting on a bench but turns out it was men

“Weird fiction prepares us for the process of seeing society’s dominant ideology not only as Wrong—an unsettled, disturbing way of interpreting and interacting with the world—but also as irreal, as fictional.” ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...

Ulxia, the Immaculate Despair

just got to the love shack, you wouldnt believe the size of the chrysler in the parking lot

My first time getting a Locus review! and for a story that I love a lot💗

So hey, got another thing up, and there's an interesting one in the pipe! Don't know what the hidden theme was here. Put your guesses in the comments!

Feel free to keep buying them 😅🙏🏽 also tell publishing to buy my lesbian vampire novella.

While I'm momentarily here. It was book statement season for me while I was away. I'd like to thank everyone who has bought copies of Skin Thief or Countess. I'm not a big name author. It's difficult trying to maintain a writing career and you helped. I appreciate all of you. 💜

Just finished reading THE ASTERIST. Such a great time! I love SF & find it incredibly difficult to write. When someone does it well, I'm blown away. Cool parallel themes in @atsayre.bsky.social's book with @mariadongwrites.bsky.social's Psychopomp, @marthawells.com's Murderbot, & Project Hail Mary.

i know a big number year high school reunion is coming up because everyone is starting to follow everyone on IG, and i am getting jump scared by repressed memories left and right

Hey, would you like to hear two of this year’s Hugo-nominated stories—read by their authors? Samantha Mills and Thomas Ha are bringing us just that! Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! @samtasticbooks.com @thomasha.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

“Where are you traveling?” “That way.” “That way? Over that way?” “That way.” No more than three words at a time. Each of my sounds short and crisp, repeating often and in as uninteresting a manner as possible. “The Mub.” Clarkesworld, Issue 206. Nov. 1, 2023. (3600 words, Horror/SF/Fantasy.)

my instagram keeps telling me about some kind of instant gram and i'm not having it. it's too much.

When a character states their beliefs, it's always true. If a story's events contradict their beliefs, there's no meaning, it's a mistake or prank, or what writers call a whoopsy. I know because I am my characters. All of them. The main one. Def the cool ones. And always the unsympathetic dingdongs.

Little pencil sketch of Shirley Jackson

I broke it. I am sorry. Forgive me.

available in e-versions so you can read comfortably like a curled up shrimp cat this very evening books2read.com/uncertain

ICYMI: the 3rd part of my novella's out, a dark fantasy where folk hero Kelwas helps a half-feral girl lift a curse that turned her brothers into ravens and reunite with her family while the shadow of Old Gaunt looms over them all Y'all like stories within stories? buttondown.com/crosshatches...