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.

Scratch A4 Winter ‘25 submissions open on 13th September! Write a brilliant <1k word story! More info here: www.scratch-books.co.uk/scratcha4com...

Man on TalkSPORT just now: ‘It’s like Peter Finch in Network, you know, ‘I’ve had enough of this’’

How do people not know they can reset themselves to the factory settings by pressing in both eyeballs for 15 seconds until they hear a beep?

I once gave a conference paper in which I gave a long reading of M. R. James’s ‘Mr Humphries and his Inheritance’ with this image behind me on PowerPoint. Nobody said anything.

Honestly no worse feeling than re-organize your bookshelf.

When did every “scary” supernatural being in horror movies have to be so crunchy? Every hand movement, every head turn is always accompanied by so many crunchy tendon/bone sounds. I’ve been present for several real life mummies coming to life and even they weren’t THAT crunchy.

Maintaining your dream in a late-stage capitalist hellscape is truly an uphill battle.

Another day in arguably the most infuriating, idiotic epoch of mankind's history. What freshly shat folly awaits us today?

Satyr cooling off his hooves in a pool. 2020. This one’s always made me laugh