Nothing in the Basement by Romie Stott is such a wonderful, scary, funny, sad, beautiful book. Get a copy as soon as you can.

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, and it's the Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue, featuring stories by James Morrow, @patricksamphire.bsky.social, RJ Taylor, and @willmcmahon36.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

Harnessing the power of empathy, Bisa Butler presents a tender, evocative suite of new works in her current exhibition, 'Hold Me Close' at Jeffrey Deitch. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/bisa...

Time for another installment of Hollow Earth Expeditions, where I discuss THE PRESTIGE, Clive Barker, the desire to scare yourself... and what all that has to do with NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, coming very soon from @wordhorde.bsky.social!

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed! "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

The sciatic flare that overwhelmed my weekend relented around noon today, so I got my self-care cleaning done, as well as some editing and author work. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get some actual writing done.

BREAKING: Our opposition and upset over Jimmy Kimmel being taken off air have led to Kimmel coming back. Let's organize that much noise for reporters like Mario Guevara detained (despite being here legally) for filming police & ICE:

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

It is really hard to un-learn that your worth is tied to your productivity, but it's really really important to do this. Both for yourself and for everyone else.

Being included in THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT means a lot to me for more reasons than I can type. (Happy to tell you in conversation.) On top of that, the experiences coming along with it are so different for me and SO MUCH FUN! Here’s an example! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Choosing my earrings today: Skulls go with anything. 💀

happy Friday read some poems today

For real. Seeing liberal figureheads like Obama who go get tons of money to go to events and scold leftists for protesting genocide suddenly wake up & demand action because a white late night host (among the personifications of the dying liberal dream) caught some damage is rattling my teeth.

It's almost my novel's 1st Birthday! To celebrate, I'm giving a short talk and a reading from A Valley to Harness on campus. It's free and open to all as part of our Sustainability Seminar. Wednesday, Sept. 24, at Noon (EST) DM me if you'd like a clickable zoom link.

It's #LatineHeritageMonth! We're showcasing a book a day, every day, through October 15, by female, nonbinary, and trans authors of Latin heritage who write #sci-fi, #fantasy, #magicalrealism, #fabulism, #horror and other speculative works. Come read with us!

I know this is a long shot, but if I could get some grocery money like nowish, that would be awesome PayPal.me/Ambelies or cash.app/$ambelies

I finished this puzzle when I returned from my women’s retreat. I’ve done it before but I loved it so much I kept it and came back to it years later. Artist info in alt text

if you're interested in pop culture that actually pushes back against the erosion of freedoms, you'll get more of it from one issue of an SFF zine than you will in a year of every streaming service combined

the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force  by Gwynne Garfinkle "our purple clouds of delight rise above your tear gas" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

Some abysmal bird jokes from 1908

Oh look, Publishers Weekly called SONG OF SPORES "wildly inventive"!! www.publishersweekly.com/9781940372754

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

“So,” he said casually, measuring kibble, “have you heard of this hazardous vegetation thing?” I simply adore this story by Max Wheeler in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. The emotion, the speculative elements, the grief, the plants gone wild! splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0925...

battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures in life: 1. Morning coffee in a screened-in porch in fall 2. A friend clues you in to a great book or movie 3. Greeting my cat in the morning 4. Libby lets you jump the line to borrow a book 5. Falling asleep to gentle critter night sounds

Hispanic Heritage month started today so I reminder that latino, latinx, latina are very general terms and you're not less latinx for being born in the US. People born in in Latam are Latinoamericans, the overlap a lot! Have a nice month!

Oh wow Fargo Tbakhi!!! SFF people also take notice that an author who writes SFF (published in places like @apexmag.bsky.social @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social) is on the longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry, this is not very common!

Sure would be nifty if 3LBE reached its first stretch goal! 22 hours left to make it happen.

SFWA members and Nebula attendees, save the date! September 27th at 11 am Pacific, @csecooney.bsky.social will be the guest poet at the SFWA Quarterly Poetry Open Mic! Read a poem or just listen! @sfwa.bsky.social

There are great rewards for pledging. I especially like the "Shantak Bird" woodcut print by Liv Rainey-Smith! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

Brown people’s time, dignity, and civil rights just aren’t worth being protected to these people. I take psychic damage every time some weirdo asks me if I speak English before I even open my mouth. Having to justify your personhood every time you step out of the house is a whole other level.

If you need intersex healthcare, the enormous talking spider might help. For certain values of "help".... This story was inspired by my healthcare experiences, which did NOT include an enormous talking spider, but I don't know if that was an improvement.

TEN MORE DAYS UNTIL NADIA BULKIN’S ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY RELEASES THROUGH GHOULISH BOOKS! ALL WEBSTORE PRE-ORDERS SHIP WITH A SIGNED AUTHOR STICKER. DO NOT WAIT A SECOND LONGER, GHOULS! PRE-ORDER NOW! ghoulish.rip/product/issu... @nadiabulkin.bsky.social

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 4 days. For the love of speculative fiction, horror stories, weird fiction, dark fantasy, magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, science fiction, alltopias, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Links from @amalelmohtar.com’s newsletter to help the people of Gaza. Gaza Soup Kitchen: www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-... *** The Butterfly Effect Project: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... *** And @mommunism.bsky.social’d whole timeline.

Not a great week for me, except for Exhuma and my rewatch of Kill List.

Remember to give yourself the grace of tiny steps❤️

Rabies is yet another ironic casualty of the wild success of vaccination which is to say people see and hear about it so rarely that they have no idea how bad it is and the prospect of contracting it seems entirely unreal

"The Trump administration is breaking the law by turning their backs on children who came here seeking protection." @theyoungcenter.bsky.social Executive Director Gladis Molina Alt These were our kiddos. YC staff worked around the clock this weekend. Grateful to all our partner orgs too. ❤️

Good riddance to that vile woman. Now let's get a decent human being in that office!

I should probably remind people that I had a novel called GIRL IN THE CREEK come out about a month and a half ago. It got a star in the Library Journal! And look at this awesome blurb from @keithrosson.bsky.social:

Cancer Eats the Heart is coming Oct 7th from @underlandpress.bsky.social The disabled and chronically ill turn to vampirism as a cure in a rural rustbelt town in Ohio firebirdcreative.myshopify.com/products/can...

I have a Patreon where I write about old monster movies, and for this month's installment, I went all out (September is, after all, Halloween-eve) with a hat trick about all three major adaptations of THE BAT (1926, 1930, and 1959).

Teacher-poet Carla Sofia Ferreira has raised the alarm about a medically fragile parent kidnapped by ICE. Please help if you can. gofund.me/3ca3240b

It feels weird not to have a book of poetry to read today, now that the Sealey Challenge is over. I still need to write up mini-reviews for the last two books. And I’m still mulling over what I learned from this challenge.

🇵🇸 ART AUCTION FOR GAZA 🇵🇸 Now open! For two weeks, bid on an incredible selection of art to raise funds for 8 displaced Palestinian families. More info at the link below. Please share widely! event.auctria.com/6c6bd411-6a4...

The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.

This campaign is inspired but also a sad comment on the state of our country, where we have private companies doing what our government won't.

It seems especially cruel to ban cell phones from schools but do nothing about guns

Help fund the Two-Spirit Symposium, Stomp Dance and Powwow! The 2025 Two-Spirit Celebration Symposium & Powwow in Tahlequah, Oklahoma is an event to celebrate the unique position that Two Spirit people hold in Cherokee society. www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-...