"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

I didn't publish much this year, but what I did get through, I'm very proud of. First, this summer, I had a dark fantasy flash story, "We Few, We Happy Few" in the inaugural issue of @goblins-galaxies.bsky.social.

TWO: "Gifted and Talented" in Small Wonders. "In the space under space, where matter slips and we pull ships sharp-tug through the back veins of the universe faster than light—faster than we are supposed to—time is a deadly thing."

I published TWO (2) stories this year and I'm gonna share them and you should read them because they are good. Also they'd be great to think about for awards and whatnot. 🤷 ONE: "Chickenfoot Soup" in Lightspeed. Katarina's got a mean momma and a silly daughter but Baba Yaga is here to help.

All of the people who love to crow about “religious freedom” when it’s about refusing to bake cakes for gay couples, are going to be conspicuously silent about this one.

All contexts. It's all contexts.

As a special holiday treat, my poem "The World To Come" is out today at @strangehorizons.bsky.social ! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

I want to do more cover art in 2026, so I'm going to be insufferable about mentioning that from now on. Commissions OPEN.

This is a horror and also like twelve different story seeds.

No ❤️

Only 8 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter and we're $6,304 away from our initial funding goal. If you love and appreciate Apex. If you want more dark, weird stories. If you want a market to submit to. Then please consider helping us hit our goal. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Get out of here with orzo. If I wanted rice I would just eat rice.

Best SFF of the year, Elbows Up edition! Contains "The World in Our Hands" by Sophie Gazarian from FF#22, plus work by FF staffers @pbarmby.bsky.social and @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social, and lots of other incredible Canadian writers!

Proud to have a story in this. “Bright Horizons” is an SF cautionary tale about AI in education. It’s just one of many great stories by Canadians. You’ll definitely want to add this book to your collection.

I have a story in here!

RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY! #BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐

Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever. I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

OKAY PEOPLE YOU KNOW THE DRILL: HIT THAT FOLLOW BUTTON This is a Canadian small press, with a Canadian editor, so LET'S GET THOSE CANADIAN CLICKS (worldwide clicks also appreciated and loved equally, but I can't bully you in the same manner as I can Canadians) www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...

We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

It's a profound injustice that anyone who is subject to criminal responsibility under the law—e.g., children 12 or over—can't vote.

I have friends everywhere. #NoKings

I feel *very strongly* about Apex and I want to live in a literary ecosystem where it survives and thrives. So, help me be good algae here. This metaphor is really wanting to go off leash so I should probably stop, but please back Apex if you can.

My go-to bagel order has become a pumpernickel everything with jalapeno tuna, so, yeah. Jalapenos are an important part of a New Yorker's balanced breakfast.

Folks, Apex is one of the best magazines in the game these days. We need them. I've pitched in, let's get them fully funded.

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

I'm gonna be in Year's Best Canadian F&SF! One of my favorite stories, "Giant of the Stars," is going to be alongside stories from people I'd lose my mind at the chance to meet. Pretty pretty cool!

BRB writing the adventures of a Carthaginian paddle-steam trireme

At the Minnesota State Fair, a 12-day fête of starch and fat which marks the end of every summer, one vender rules them all: Sweet Martha’s Cookie Jar. It operates three stands at the fair and is more lucrative than any other food purveyor by a huge margin.

Sometimes I think about the Scots-Yiddish dialect.

I just realized that my current WIP is literally just "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, but make it grimdark sword and sorcery"

A small taste of our debut issue. Click here to read the full story and much more: https://bit.ly/4454Thk

Summer is the season of creepy crawlies. Just be grateful you aren't dealing with these... From issue #0 of Goblins and Galaxies, available now: https://bit.ly/4454Thk

Alex Langer is a Canadian Jewish writer and lawyer usually based in Brooklyn. He's also the author of the dark, surreal fantasy tale "We Few, We Happy Few," which opens issue #0 of Goblins and Galaxies. It can be found here: https://bit.ly/44Waubl @alexlanger1993.bsky.social‬

Somehow missed posting about this, but my flash horror "We Few, We Happy Few" leads this off. Super proud to be in Issue 0.

@alexlanger1993.bsky.social I just read “We Few, We Happy Few” in Goblins & Galaxies, #0. I took a risk on the publication. Your piece gives me high expectations for the publication. The consequences of then and now; the lessons never learned. Two fingers.

I had a story in here! "Giant of the Stars" is a subversive David and Goliath retelling.

On Spec #129 is currently available in both print and digital. Canada’s postal worker dispute means we can’t mail copies, but you can still buy it through @weightlessbooks.bsky.social . Stories from @julieczerneda.bsky.social , @drfionamoore.bsky.social , @alexlanger1993.bsky.social and others.

Moving here from Twitter.