My story "The Devil's Blueprint" is on the longlist for @unchartedmag.bsky.social 2025 Horror Challenge! What a great way to wrap up the year in some good company! (Hopefully, it'll be up as a finalist and I can share the terrors)!

Bari Weiss screened the "INSIDE CECOT" story on Thursday night. The segment was finalized and publicized on Friday. Then Weiss circled back with concerns on Saturday morning... www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/m...

Breaks my heart that this story on CECOT won't be airing.

I support this project. It's important. Go take a look at the amazing writing pouring forth from a place no one expects.

My frontal lobe is a bucket of brie. My neurofilaments are string cheese. My cerebellum is a half-eaten Babybel wheel.

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

#horrorwriterschat: Hi! I'm A.M. Castro. I write horror + Spec. Fiction. Regret and Redemption are a huge part of my stories, even when that redemption is poorly executed, with sometimes horrific ends.

A few more reads from 2025 that hit deep: The Lovers by Marguerite Duras Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov A Dead Man's Memoir by Mikhail Bulgakov A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White

Heavy Metal + Jorge Luis Borges + Friendship = Caramel Staxxx. As a broken-hearted Spinal Tap fan, hopefully this makes people out there giggle just a little. Thanks to @theargylelitmag.bsky.social for publishing. www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-issu...

Issue #6 of The Argyle is LIVE!!! www.theargylelitmag.com

Rob Reiner, for a while there, was one of the most artistically and commercially successful directors in Hollywood. He had a run of films that knocked the roof off. With STAND BY ME, he gave voice to Stephen King’s work that we hadn’t seen since CARRIE and SALEM’S LOT and rarely since.

This entire weekend

These four films. Man, they’re imprinted into me. RIP Rob Reiner.

Jose Antonio Kast, hijo de un militante Nazi, proyectado a ganar la presidencia en Chile, ahora con 59% del voto. La ultra derecha no muere. Se muta, esconde, espera, y transforma.

Is meee

Due to an OVERWHELMING response of amazing poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art, subs for THEME 05: "GHOSTS" are now CLOSED. While the submission window has breathed its last breath, "Ghosts" will be coming back for you on 12/15. Might be our BIGGEST theme page yet!!!

Editing day.

Noem’s performance at CECOT was a triumphant show of ruthlessness as well as a warning: If you’re an immigrant unlawfully present in the United States, you too could end up shipped off to another country and held in one of the world’s worst prisons—perhaps indefinitely.

They’re not hiding the brutality anymore. They want you to see it. They want you to get used to it.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

In Guatemala City, deportees are in tears, disoriented, or greeted by sobbing relatives. People who, in the world of simplistic metaphors, had a dream that they called American. When they leave that place, that dream, if it was one, is over. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

Roy Thomas (1949-2004). Canadian indigenous artist Moose and Wolves, 1977 silkscreen

A very happy publication day to @hamrahrama.bsky.social! His ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT is out today from @nplusonemag.com. An incredible collection of film writing that makes sense of the dystopian present without ever giving in. Essential! shop.nplusonemag.com/products/alg...

A good, short read about an incredibly complex human and brilliant writer. Train Dreams and Jesus' Son (did I get that apostrophe right?) are two of my favorite books. Still haven't seen the film adaptations of either because I can't imagine how they'd do justice to the written word.

El Salvador. 2009. On the road to Ilamatepec.

Has this been posted yet

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

The fall of the Sandinista government in 1990 ushered in the dramatic end of an era. Central Americans were left asking why the armed struggle had been fought, what it had wrought, and whether it had been worth it. They’re still asking. beta.elfaro.net/en/the-tertu...

Bwa-ha-ha! #booksky #books #readers

"My friend’s dead father visits her as a bird, but my husband is the light in the kitchen that comes on all by himself" Not a Bird by Ellen Romano 😭 we are weeping, beloveds 🖤 read this beautiful poem here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

RIP Udo Kier youtu.be/td4qv7EDOIk

Grateful to have grown up watching Udo Kier being creepy as hell in movies.

Went on hike. Found a danger noodle. Copperhead baby? Left before I could find out.

Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

A police death squad in El Salvador murdered at least 97 people. One of them claims they killed many of their victims on behalf of a sitting mayor. Almost all remain free and have kept their badges. #efEditorial beta.elfaro.net/en/el-faro-w...

¿Cuál es tu frase favorita del cine?

Friends that carried me on the road (2025) Pt. I Teluria by Vladimir Sorokin Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles The Return by Roberto Bolaño Ficciones por Jorge Luis Borges The Inhuman Condition by Clive Barker Cadaver Exquisito por Agustina Bazterrica The Fisherman by John Langan

This reads like a horror story, by way of Bolaño. Unfortunately, it's reality.

Still can't believe I'm a finalist for @subitopress.bsky.social Stephen Graham Jones Novella Competition. But there it is. Just gonna keep banging away on those keys no matter what. #horrorwriter #fiction #prayforme

NGL. This was one of my favorite movies as a kid.

It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics. And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF. adamant.moksha.io/publication/...

Mood.

Human rights commission calls on El Salvador to protect 3 deported men it imprisoned The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling on El Salvador to protect the rights of three Salvadoran men deported by the United States abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Charlotte was thrown into chaos this past weekend as Border Patrol agents stormed neighborhoods and made 80+ arrests with zero explanation. Local leaders are demanding answers. So are we. ✍️ Add your name to demand accountability and transparency from DHS: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

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the apparition -- by rene magritte

Human Rights Watch found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador by the United States were beaten almost every day.

Mood, by noonsillustrations on IG.

How the US Intervened to Sabotage Angola’s Independence 50 years ago, Angola gained its independence after centuries of Portuguese rule. But Henry Kissinger was already working hard to orchestrate a devastating proxy war that snuffed out the hopes of national liberation jacobin.com/2025/11/ango...

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