'Mem' by @bethanycmorrow.com In the first quarter of the 1900s, a Montreal scientist can extract memories, as versions of their subjects frozen in a single moment in time. But, meet Dorothy Extract #1, the 1st memory extraction that can create its own memories #BlackBookSky #BlackSky #SciFiBook

y'all i just turned the final page on THE BODY by @bethanycmorrow.com and i am breathless, speechless, floored by how good it is. the horror of churchianity may be the pitch, but it's so much more i'm. please. preorder this book bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

We love a collage. And a preorder! The Body drops February 10, 2026. Thou who stayest ready hath no need of gettingth ready: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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SHORT STORY ALERT: My latest, Moonrise, is in Issue 34 of FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. It’s about a day when only Black women wake up, and I am not done with this story. You’ve been warned.

She’s on Netgalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Apparently Bluesky is where Ashley comes to PREACH so I guess I should come around more becuz WHEW.

But the parents are so lost they don’t even realize that it’s not the classes that changed your kid, it was separation from YOU. No gender studies, sociology, or history class could ever accomplish what three months of not having to live with your bullies will do.

Lots of new follows this week. Guess I better put on a show. Give 'em the ol razzle dazzle...

You kids wanna see a dead body? When increasingly vicious and bizarre assaults begin to terrorize her marriage, Mavis realizes that Hell isn’t reserved for the afterlife. And sinner or not, no one's coming to save her. Churchianity horrors abound, 02/10/26! torpublishinggroup.com/the-body/?is...

As ever, the cost of the book purchases…the book! The transaction ends at the register. Celebrity culture eats brains so I’m just gently reminding people that authors do not OWE anything more. We did our job before you bought the book!

Apropos of everything, the buy link for my 2026 release, The Body, my churchianity horror, is up. Hear me when I say churchianity. It’s about the horror that happens when it’s not about faith, it’s about control. So. Just leaving this here. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

YUUSSS! So flipping excited about my story and this issue!

Are you watching every new horror and asking WHY ISN'T ANYONE DOING ANYTHING? Turn on the State of the People 24hr Livestream, beloved. The organization, the knowledge, the energy. Get informed! Get educated! Get engaged! #stateofthepeople www.youtube.com/live/wW1Y4hp...

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—and anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize! We hope you'll nominate books you love that meet this year's criteria:

Sometimes you make art and it is successful, and people treat that success like a mandate for more of your art. But life is your art's mandate. The success is not only subjective, but another matter entirely. Life is art's mandate. You don't need anyone else's permission. #writingcommunity

SHOW ALL THE PROTESTS AROUND THE UNITED STATES! SHOW THEM FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE! Stop bending the knee and show the real news! @apnews.com @msnbc.com @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com

This might be the first time I’m seeing someone use this quote, and it’s extremely relatable. bookshop.org/p/books/so-m...

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

Just to give you some insight into the particular brand of nerd* I am: This past weekend at an antique/game shop (this isn't the nerd part), I saw a Deanna Troi action figure. In last night's dream, I was talking at someone about the creative decisions on TNG re her and Tasha Yar. *didactic

Happy Sunday, all.

Don’t comply. Don’t just react to the framework presented. Corps/institutions must actually challenge claims of discrimination of white males with statistical evidence. Initiatives respond to observable disparities, not hypothetical theories. We’ve been here before. Take. Them. To. Court.

Civil rights were won through protests and lawsuits and literally fighting back. We are not in unprecedented times. We are in a horrible reboot of Reconstruction. Fight in every way possible. Flood those anti DEI tiplines with misinformation, spend 10 minutes every day telling your reps to stop this

Reparations matters, for one thing, because it requires a nation to publicly take accountability for its wrongdoing. It requires acknowledgement of the record. The self-sown curse of the US is its refusal to make reparations to Black Americans, without which it will always revert back to its sin.

I just had the same experience. Got an email alerting me to the price gouge, had to follow the cancellation prompt to be offered my original plan (without "AI").

Today is a good day for a post from @bcmorrow.bsky.social that I’ve been thinking about for years.

I don't know what people think it means when your husband has ADD, but what it actually means is that if you pause the movie and go to the bathroom when you get back, he's making a wand out of aluminum foil, an aluminum ball, and a piece of a straw..

Whatchu wanna do is g'head and open an app? Okay, now close it? Okay, now open that same app. You got it.

He hath left again. My fainting chaise.

MARYLAND IS MAD

This is the other reason it's important to acknowledge/understand that we are not dealing with "artificial intelligence." Because humans are being exploited. (Eg, Amazon Go and the hidden workers calculating your purchases.)

Get in, loser, it's 2025 and I'm back on my stream of social consciousness bullshit. bethanycmorrow.substack.com/p/come-away-...

They really extracted that mortgage payment on New Year’s morning without HESITATION, honey. What is a holiday! (I don’t know why this actually made me cackle!) 🤣🤣

The Void (mid-December through January 5th) is an absolutely awesome time to get more excited than you've ever been about a new idea, trust me. This is baller.

absolutely WILD that I am hungry and tired and critical of myself just because I’m on my period and it’s 1pm and I haven’t eaten. remarkable.

I’m not ready to talk about it but. I saw Wicked.

Trying to narrow down my favorite messages from my 20yo son for 2024, and I really don’t think I laughed at any message harder. He said y’all make me SICK!

Donate here to help: www.gofundme.com/f/ashantis-f...

In case no one's told you, being a writer feels like being an addict. I finished a short story less than a week ago and I CANNOT overstate the physicality of the URGE I have been feeling for like three days now. My brain is itching. It's...delicious.

OneDrive and Dropbox both tryna scare me into upgrading like Google Drive doesn't still have 12% available space.

I have to find the flash fiction I wrote about this…I don’t even remember how long ago. Seriously hope I can find it. Also yes, miserable.

I wanna share something with folks. Decolonization would also mean divesting from the attitudes about race inherited from folks who invented it specifically to hate. It would mean believing people identified as white are capable of doing this too. Don't just talk woke, be woke.

I don't so much love when the subtitles give away a reveal by putting the character's name with the off-screen dialogue. Like.

At its core, social media is the portal through which strangers get into my house. Like, it's connectivity on one hand, to a certain degree, but it's also super deluding and misleading. Just spontaneously remembering the opinions of these folks do not actually change my material life, praise God.

Sometimes when your agent says gently, "I'm not sure this is finished," it's because you sent the wrong document. And it was not in fact finished.

Because it’s nonsensical and primitive, I forget people really think who you love can be discourse, can be dissected, justifies or validates your own identity. How many of my beloved are still with me when they realize I’m talking about “interracial” relationships. Right? How very disappointing.

Reagan recognized free education as a threat to white supremacy and I'm still paying student debt accrued at a University of California. Sesame Street was conceived to offer education to marginalized children. HBO canceling new episodes is very on-brand in a country that despises its people.

On one hand, "wherever you pitch the tent is where we'll have the circus" is a pithy warning/indictment. On the other, every other political party has followed the far right's lead (incl adopting their glossary of terms) dictating what we talk about, how we talk about it, and what's acceptable.