Dig this, friends

This story’s been rattling around my head ever since I finished reading it. So well done. Also can’t recommend enough Sheldon’s “Where the Pavement Turns to Sand,” one of my favorite short story collections this year: malarkeybooks.com/store/pavement

I'm really glad I waited till I was home before I read this one. It's better to read about a whiteout after you've safely navigated one, I think.

Goth LP exchange this Christmas

Watching Christmas Vacation with the family.

found a nice spot to settle in and read the new Sheldon Birnie story

Love new Birnie! "Anyone who’s ever driven the highway this far north knows that things can get squirrely at night when the snow is blowing. Your eyes play tricks on you, the swirling snow making faces that disappear just as quick..."

A Boxing Day special for you to “enjoy” farewelltransmission.net/2025/12/whit...

Watching Muppet Christmas Carol with the family. God bless us, everyone!

five albums, five stories. happy holidays, kids! feat. stories by @mallorysmart.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, Daniel O. Bailey, @parkeryoung.bsky.social, @badguybirnie.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

A Boxing Day special for you to “enjoy” farewelltransmission.net/2025/12/whit...

Wife scored all this old X-Files stuff for me for Xmas from her old retired dance pal Jim who’s in the process of downsizing. Unbelievable good fortune.

Watching A Christmas Story with the family.

Generative AI is for losers. It’s so embarrassing to watch people debase real artists, the environment, and themselves for a sloppy, rip-off of a party trick.

AI sucks.

So money to crank your tunes real loud when the family’s out.

Burnt tongue instant coffee blues

The weather outside? Fuckin frightful, bud!

Mornings that make you question your sanity

A Winnipeg Street, Snowbound W.J. Phillips 1927

Our books don’t fit neatly into any category, genre, or scene, but they fit just fine into your mailbox! malarkeybooks.com/store

email should get you high

Righteous little free library find

Road to Ruin ALL In on the Kill Taker

Gonna be hitting the post office midweek so hit me up if you’re looking for a surefire hit Christmas gift for that weirdo on your list 👽 🎅🏻 🤙

This is more than twice the amount of money paid to every writer in Canada in royalties who has had their book taken out of a library in the past year.

“While the volume is slim enough to ingest in one sitting, microdosing Maloney is also rather enjoyable.” Wrote up @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social Horse Girl Fever for best of 2025

“While the volume is slim enough to ingest in one sitting, microdosing Maloney is also rather enjoyable.” Wrote up @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social Horse Girl Fever for best of 2025

Sun dogs over the rail yard.

Wrong to think computer was a friend

Finished up 2nd draft on this cottage country occult long weekend crime novel, feel like it’s coming together nicely. But I gotta set it aside a while, dig deep into my paranoia and mine it for this prairie sci-fi idea that is consuming my mind. PKD by way of Fargo, just a lil farther up I-29.

Kill the fascist in your head and read a goddamn book.

💯… but, still…

Taking notes from Canadian cops “starlight tours”

Next Wednesday of wild & wonderful words coming at you Jan 21, loaded with local talent. And hey, it’s free!

Oh man! Okay! So! Buddy comedy? Love story? Prayer? You got it. Don’t let the crude title fool you - this sweet story has the biggest chunk of my heart, and it’s yours now. I’m so, so proud of this one. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it 😊 open.substack.com/pub/ashortst...

"In that moment now all commotion ceased, all accusation and apology. The day braced itself." // "Pivot" & "Jinx," 2 short fictions from Seán Padraic Birnie‬ (@seanbirnie.bsky.social) // Now at AC

There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for

Get yourself a copy or two of Where the Pavement Turns to Sand for someone on your list this holiday season, bud. You won’t regret it. DM or ask your local indie bookstore for a copy. bookshop.org/p/books/wher...

After months of not much doing, received 3 story acceptances in the past 3 business days! Lookout, bud: new stories start popping off Boxing Day.

Did I borrow out all my PKD books and just never get them back? Or is that what They want me to believe?

Did I borrow out all my PKD books and just never get them back? Or is that what They want me to believe?

Does your microwave oven ever fuck with your wifi?

Watching Christmas Chronicles with the kids. Snake as Santa is pretty fun.

Nuts & Bolts, baby!

Watching Elf with the family.

A righteous Live God to all who observe.

every day I wake up and kill a computer because I can

One more time, with feeling…