Finally starting to write more regularly again, which is great! The reason: I have gotten stuck at Act 3 of Silksong.

Finishing up ‘Uncertain Sons’ by @thomasha.bsky.social — highly recommend! I’d already read a few of these stories over the years but enjoyed seeing how themes/imagery overlaps across the collection. Especially enjoyed ‘Window Boy’, ‘Balloon Season’ and ‘Sweetbaby’. Creepy, haunting and WEIRD. 🤌

ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below). also hey, this issue is stacked?? clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

Can't get enough of these AI gross-out stories, and this one is great! Isabel J. Kim in Clarkesworld: clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

Love this book, such a great cover design!

Really enjoyed listening to this! Was a great opportunity to revisit an old favourite.

Ars Technica is owned by Conde Nast, who last year announced a partnership with OpenAI. 🔗👇

nobody predicted that the internet would create imagined communities or public spheres for creeps, cranks, lunatics, and psychopaths

This! And encoded in that difference is the whole neoliberal capitalist mindset, because to the people who build these things, those objections are, respectively, (a) irrelevant to profits;(b) a forgettable externality; (c) a healthy marketing environment; and (d) the whole point in the first place

It's been a while, but I can finally make one of those vague 'good stuff in the works' posts. One short piece in rewrites, another held for consideration. Really excited about the home these two have found... :)

Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words. If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.

BCS opened for submissions 17 years ago this month, July 2008, and has been open continuously since. Writing all submission replies with personalized comments. And we're still going! Send us your great character-driven secondary-world setting stories.

one like, one writing opinion (void while prohibited, while supplies last).

Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned to know what the difference is between weird fiction and horror. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...

The V*mpire was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award: locusmag.com/2025/07/2025... Congratulations to all the other finalists!

The BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to keeping paying our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium. Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But <1% of our readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/2

Sent out a story I've been working on for the last few months today. Still get big nerves doing that when it's something I've poured a lot of effort into and I'm hoping for a certain outcome. Now I just have to wait and see...

The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me

I have a new story out @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. "Last Stop: Tomb City" is a weird fantasy story about a very nervous man guiding an Eternal Champion across a dead city to rescue a depressed savior from an undead life coach. Read it (for free!) here: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/last...

Baby has decided she enjoys trying to rip out my leg hairs, which has coincided with the arrival of shorts weather in an unfortunate way.

consequences of the death of the AI industry: - creates many more jobs - massively better for the arts, the sciences, education, news, the internet, mental health - critical acclaim from aliens watching us as reality TV, for moving away from a very embarrassing cringe comedy gimmick

Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.

In that baby phase where I’m completely exhausted by 9am AND I actually had a full night’s sleep. Was gonna try and write something today but let’s focus on staying awake for now…

Deeply upsetting that the em-dash has now become a hallmark of AI-generated writing — not really sure how to move past this.

So while there are certainly arguments for something like LibGen to exist (especially for academic works), I don't think there's a real case to be made for fiction when libraries also exist. As for using it to train AI, it's just gross. Yet can we do anything about it? Probably not.

Strange Horizons will have 3 FICTION SUBMISSION WINDOWS in 2025. General April 16th with a 1,000 story cap Novelette (10k to 18k words) June 4th with a 300 story cap Indigenous Authors November 3rd with a 500 story cap Submission windows will begin at 9am UTC and end when we reach the cap.

Rare bit of good news for my fellow Canadians

Waiting for spring is beginning to feel like a metaphor for something, just can't quite figure out what... 🤔

Sometimes I wonder whether all of this bullshit we are currently living through is simply the final death-spirals of late-stage capitalism. And if that's the case, I can only hope I live long enough to see whatever blooms on the other side...

Wanted to share in case this is helpful for anyone else. For me, the approach that worked for getting #shortfiction published was to ALWAYS have a story submitted somewhere once I was happy with it. Got a rejection? Don't overthink about revising, just immediately submit to a new place.

Hit 30K on my new WIP today, finishing up an initial draft of Act I. Feels good to still be making progressing even in the midst of new parent life.

NEW STORY DAY! My second-ever story is free to read today at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social—and, much like my first story, it’s about an old lady going for a walk! But it’s also about hope, connection, and the way love helps us survive impossible times. www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

hello again psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

This story is beautiful. So wistful and sad. Stories like this show execution and craft is far superior to plot and ideas - taking a simple concept and conveying it in such a lush and complex fashion. Will be keeping an eye out for more M.R. Robinson.

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

There's a reason magic was silenced. Who will bring it back? The sorceress who will tear down empires, the smuggler with split loyalties who doesn't believe it exists, or the warrior who would die to keep it secret? THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER x THE JASAD HEIR #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #F

SIX OF CROWS x DISHONORED Al dreams of becoming a scholar, despite being born to a family of whalers. And in a city where you can get anywhere if you're good enough, what could possibly hold him back? 🐳 Victorian whalepunk 🐳 Fantasy heist 🐳 Class rage 🐳 Found family #BluePit #YA #F #W 📖

ILL-MADE GODS Rivers are bursting their banks and washing away Morrow's hopes of becoming a druid. But underneath the surface, a parasitic god pulls his strings. To save his home, Morrow must decide what kind of monster he will become. #BluePit 📖 #W #Hs #D #F #H #A #Dis #LGBT

FALLOUT x NAUSICAÄ Kara dreams of leaving her family's isolated farmstead behind. Yet when her selfish invitation to a stranger destroys the family home, Kara will have to journey to a domed city where she'll discover trust is her only path to make amends. #BluePit #W #A #F #SF

Always nice when you re-read an early draft and you’re actually stoked on what you wrote. Sometimes getting the words to match the vision is hard. Sometimes it just… happens? #amwriting #writingcommunity

Wrote a short blog post looking back over 2024, both in writing and reading. Take a read here if you’re interested! wahamiltron.com/2024-year-in...

I am beyond excited to announce that I have a story in this month's issue of The Dark! A Little Bit of What Killed Auntie is a tale of sinister goings on in post-war London 👁 So psyched to see my name on this cover!

Wow that’s a pretty dirty move from Canada Post. Rather than negotiate with the workers, it’s violating the Canada Labour Code and laying people off during the strike. The strike going on longer is going to be at their feet. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Reading for 2024? Here's all eligible BCS stories, what category they're in (Short Story, Novelette, etc), links, and links to our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts, so you can read our authors' work in other zines. Thank you for reading! #BCS2024 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/11/20/2...

While I'm confident in the abject failure of this endeavour over the long-term, I'm sure this will not be the last time we see disgusting amounts of money invested to prioritize quick profits over the work of passionate humans. What an absolutely infuriating state of affairs...

It seems to be the time of year to do this, so better late than never! I only published one story this year, but I'm quite proud of it and its home and, more than anything, I hope this will get more people to go and read it. I've included the link below 👇

Hello #writingcommunity and #booksky friends! 👋 I write #fantasy and #historicalfiction! My #2026debut, THE REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA, is a Baru Cormorant x Locke Lamora political intrigue fantasy with an Inception-inspired magic system and neoclassical aesthetics! Check out the ✨reader's guide✨ below!

Write your fantasy stories of totalitarianism, demagoguery, xenophobia, obsequence, isolationism, oppression, and most of all, of all, HOPE, and send them. You need them, we will need them, we all will need them.