Post a cartoon you remember that nobody else remembers:

Do you pronounce it ‘prymer’ or ‘primmer’? I just learned people say it a different way today and it’s blowing my mind.

Next phase of revisions: tackle the big stuff first, or the small stuff? Or (shudder) tackle all of it page by page??

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

LAUNCH DAY! There's no fee to enter, and on top of the winning publication, EIGHT authors will receive $100 each. THAT'S $2,300 of community-raised funds! See inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark/ for more details!

Tacocat backwards is Tacocat.

If you'd pay a plumber, fucking pay a poet.

I’ve only been reading and writing in the English language most of my life, and yet every now and then I’ll still run across a word I don’t know and just go 🤷‍♀️.

It's Pride! Follow trans writers before we're all banned go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

Helppp, tell me about queer science fiction / fantasy / horror anthologies that came out or are coming out THIS YEAR. I only have Common Bonds 2 so far and nothing else?! Feel free to promote yourself. Spread the word! #QueerLit #TransLit #Pride #QueerBooks

What are we reading this weekend, friendos?

My story about loss and community and connection and tigers, “The Memory of Tigers” is available on Trollbreath for FREE today. Free is a pretty great price, I’m just saying. 😉 magazine.trollbreath.com/the-memory-o...

The great thing about book club is being assigned homework I want to do. 🤓

Every single human being who truly cares for our planet and democracy in general needs to ask themselves this question with everything they are buying! Same as with authors, they should be asking themselves this question when choosing where to sell their (e-)books! #ConsciousConsumers

No, your recipe does not take 30 minutes if it requires 2 hours of resting the dough. 🫤

Finished reading my novel manuscript to pinpoint needed edits and wow, it feels like a weight off my shoulders! I could write a short story! Look at a different novel! Draft something entirely new! Or I could get started on making the edits … no, no, let’s not let reason get in the way.

And Mar's story will be featured in our first Free Fiction Friday of June, this June 5th. We'll release it from behind the Paywall for the public to enjoy sometime Friday morning (once we peel our eyes open and get some coffee in our systems). Trolls run on coffee. This is known.

Excited to share my newest story, “The Memory of Tigers,” out today from @trollbreathmag.bsky.social! 🐅 🐅🐅 Even more excited to read all the other amazing stories in this issue!! magazine.trollbreath.com

Made a teeny friend the other day. About half an inch long (still a baby) but fearsome nonetheless!

Spent a couple productive hours yesterday weeding the gravel, aka, working through a tricksy novel plotting issue. Highly recommend. May have to do some more weeding this weekend. 🌱

You all should check out @libreture.com's huge list of DRM-free ebooksites: libreture.com/bookshops/

Best online place to buy books that is not Amazon?

My cat supports this advice.

Hey writers, artists, creative and crafty types, what are you working on these days? (Bonus points for sharing pics if yours is a visual medium!) Me: Revisions on the novel. Ah, the novel. Aah, the revisions!!

A veritable splat of a cat.

Now dividing my TBR into various piles that I can pick from depending on mood: -Classics to be read -New stuff to be read -Story collections to be read -Odd but intriguing stuff to be read -Misc.

Best low tech device? Probably my French press. It’s nice to know that if misfortune befalls the electric coffee maker, there’s a reliable backup. Totally coincidental, I have a story titled “French Press” that came out years ago. 😂 What’s your favorite low tech device?

I need some sort of punctuation like a ! that is expressly for conveying shock/anger/other negative forms of exclamation. Maybe if we do something between a ! and a } ?

Ah, the alfalfa is in bloom … and so are my allergies! 🤧

I don’t get many chances to be fancy, but matcha tiramisu is gonna be my vote.

When you add the salt like you’re supposed to, the focaccia turns out as tasty as it is pretty.

New fiction! "Afterimage" by Anna Zumbro Domenico can't shake the feeling that there might still be a way to connect with his lost loved one. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

LOOK AT HIM 🥹

According to my records I have read 74 short stories already this year. Quick, someone suggest me #75!!

Made focaccia last night. Super easy! Looked gorgeous! I forgot the salt!! 💀💀

How I feel about the editing process (which I am currently in):

Can I count my own novel on my yearly reading list since I need to reread it for revisions? 🫣

Considering learning how to sew pockets into my jeans so that I can actually carry my phone around. Or, you know, stick my hands in ’em.

Proved to myself the other day that, once you’re an adult, a children’s playground transforms into a death trap of infinite possibility.

If I really focused I think I could read 3-4 books in a week. But also I don’t like to rush a good read.

I firmly believe that I should take a week off work just to catch up on my TBR list. Not like I’d make much of a dent in it…

Some short SFF recs for your Sunday, including a "favourite" for some recent work by FFer @marofthebooks.bsky.social!

Oh cool, my latest story, Ananconfabulation, is on this list! 🤩 podcastle.org/2026/03/24/p...

Just wrote a weird story about clowns. Add this one to the list of things I never thought I’d write about until the story decided to be written, I guess. 🤷

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

I’m Mar and I write about the stuff that you need to make. Well, sometimes I do on social media. In my real writing I do SFF, both long and short, in places that you might have heard of (or might have not).

Please MS Word, don’t tell me an 8.5x11 document is at 100％ size when it is smaller on screen than the 8.5x11 piece of paper I’m holding over it.

You know what’s a fun piece of apocalyptic flash fiction??? This one…this one right here :) “Everything We Lost in the Apocalypse” by @marofthebooks.bsky.social :) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Either Nectarine Tension or Mango Headache. Tough call.

Pretty cool that I can dream up complete and coherent scenes for stories. Somewhat inconvenient that they won’t go into any stories I already have plans to write.