New threat just dropped

Did you know? Owls are considered wise because of all the human brains they devour. #TheMoreYouKnow

We simply want to read & write about mossy forest horrors and tentacled cosmic horrors, but that seems silly when dealing with the real horror unfolding in our towns. How are y'all handling this?

We're having a sale at thebraag.co/shop, with up to 50% off a whole BUNCH of our titles, including work by @timothyfox.bsky.social, @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨ 💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚

Don't we all

I can now also show you the cover for 'polblar tmolkop' by @andrewblair.co.uk 👾💚 Described by professional recluse and part-time mystic Fahad Al-Amoudi as 'Possibly the most important book of our lifetime...'

We can now show off the cover for @gitaralleigh.bsky.social's new pamphlet, empirical! Which will be published by us in March of this year 🎉

Quick reminder that I run a micro-press called The Braag @thebraag.bsky.social / thebraag.co We have 🐸 poetry in the language of a pond 🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale 🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction 💀 Queer Texan hauntings 🪐 Plannet-hopping poems 🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction All for sale!

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

A periodic reminder that Ian Nairn made 30 films for the BBC, all of which are extant, but none have been released on DVD/Blu-ray, etc. This is an Outrage. #architecture #subtopia #nairn

Cats, amiright?

Thanks to @mynachang.bsky.social for mentioning my short, sharp and shocking story about a spider!

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

A huge thank you to @horrortree.com for mentioning my @molotovlitzine.bsky.social prize winning flash story 'We Were Never Afraid of the Spider' in their This Week in Speculative Fiction newsletter! Available to read here: themolotovcocktail.com/vol-16/flash...

A huge thank you to @horrortree.com for mentioning my @molotovlitzine.bsky.social prize winning flash story 'We Were Never Afraid of the Spider' in their This Week in Speculative Fiction newsletter! Available to read here: themolotovcocktail.com/vol-16/flash...

ICYM my ICYMI.

Heard you're not Scottish, sorry about it. Good luck with everything anyway

In Scottish Gaelic folklore, the cat-sìth was a faery being in the form of a black cat with a white patch on its chest. The cat-sìth would attempt to steal the soul of a laid-out corpse, but on Samhain would bless a house if given a saucer of milk. #WyrdWednesday 🎨Aedsu

'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870) Kawanabe Kyōsai

ICYM my ICYMI.

Writers, Ivy is the best. Drop her a line!

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

ICYMI, my horror story ‘We Were Never Afraid of the Spider’ won 1st place in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social Flash Monster contest and you can read it here: themolotovcocktail.com/vol-16/flash...

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

I have been confronted with an ad for Advent calendars and so it is time for the annual PSA: THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN ON CHRISTMAS THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS THAT IS ADVENT WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

Honestly I’m really goddamn proud of this nasty, little story.

Honestly I’m really goddamn proud of this nasty, little story.

My story 'We Were Never Afraid of the Spider' won 1st place in the @molotovlitzine.bsky.social Flash Monsters Contest. Read it here! themolotovcocktail.com/2025/10/31/f...

I WON FIRST PLACE!!!

Imagine you get unalived and a youtuber is telling the story about it and in the middle they do an ad for Hello Fresh

'Hurray!' I think as I click Trust This Browser. 'I'll never have to go through this process again now!'

Ah, go on then: “Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.” Ahem, who burgled the Louvre? Correct answers only.

I feel like writers don't talk enough about how much we stub our toes on chairs and desks. (I've just stubbed my toe.)

Editor: “We loved it but…”

If you are looking for an unusual, tense, and oddly beautiful horror movie this Halloween, I highly recommend A Dark Song, should it have escaped your notice before.

I keep thinking about this beautiful poem and can't imagine how any author could ever write another word ever again.

"First day I met her, she said 'I'm a radical feminist lesbian.' I thought, what would the Queen mum do? So I just smiled and said 'We shall have fog by teatime.'"

rolling into october...

Very exciting things in store at @thebraag.bsky.social!

I published Anthony Cartwright's novella in micro-fiction via @thebraag.bsky.social yesterday! It's incredible, deeply weird, searching, moving through alternate histories, leviatha as industrial process, capitalism as death cult, all deepy moored in the landscape of the black country.

Look what we have here then.

Good morning.

Maybe the most bizarre rejection email I've ever received.

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

A #poem for #NationalFoxDay! 🦊 #fox #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

Titled this ‘Beware the Friendly Stranger’ after the Boards of Canada song of the same name. This can be seen on my instagram account with the song in accompaniment. The music conveyed a sense of the outre that I hoped to achieve visually.

one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

Asking for very specific and very important reasons.