My only excuse for missing @locusmag.bsky.social's review featuring @slharris.bsky.social "The Pelican in its Piety," Jacqueline Roberti's "New Niches," & E.L. Mellor's "Blue Speck" is I've spent the summer on a very cool @reckoningmag.bsky.social project (more to come) locusmag.com/2025/05/flas...

Slightly diminish a book… The Moderately-Sized Nap

Slightly diminish a book… The Noise and the Irritation

Desperados Under the Eaves in a crowded field. Mohammed‘s Radio, Studebaker, and Empty-Hearted Town all up there too.

Listen: Fall is in the air, and with that comes all the delicious apple desserts. Curious City listener Theresa Flanagan looks back fondly on one such autumnal pastry: apple slices. trib.al/ZMMI1ou

In Our Time is one of the great institutions of…our time, and Melvyn has obviously been the beating heart of it. I hope the show goes on!

Some time ago, I came to feel that my work here on Earth ought to be building topsoil of one kind and another, and it enheartened me to no end to read Fred Rogers talking about his work as "tending soil."

Some time ago, I came to feel that my work here on Earth ought to be building topsoil of one kind and another, and it enheartened me to no end to read Fred Rogers talking about his work as "tending soil."

"The last wish: the only wish, in fact. That things could be, not as they are, but some different way instead.... That I could know it to have once been remade and so able to be remade again, all new, all other. Then perhaps this grief would at last be lifted from my heart." - John Crowley, Ægypt

Find the River (among many, many other favorites)

I just read this post on Opicinus de Canistri, and it’s phenomenal!

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“Not now, dog! Can’t you see that @thomasha.bsky.social’s Uncertain Sons has arrived?”

A week or so left to read my story about the ghost horses of the Hermitage in Intergalactic Rejects! Also check out the delightfully twisty “Upsized Savior” by David Boop. Both available at: calendaroffools.com/stories/

Just in case you’re looking for a good early-season apple, I’ve really enjoyed Pristine this year.

I don't think AI will either become a totally revolutionary tech or be a nothing tulip/NFT bubble. I think it will be like social media: something that everyone knows is mostly bad and stupid but gets addicted to as it degrades our quality of life, politics, and culture in a million small ways.

I'm just finishing Ægypt/The Solitudes, by John Crowley, and it's a feast.

When the Wikipedia article name is as good as a Raymond Carver title: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this humorous illustration of a cat herding geese on a flake of limestone. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology

Lovely piece.

Great set of resources!

I’ll stop beating this dead horse soon, but just in case you missed it, my story of ghost horses, family, and finding legs strong enough to stand on is free to read for a limited time. calendaroffools.com/stories/the-...

I’ll stop beating this dead horse soon, but just in case you missed it, my story of ghost horses, family, and finding legs strong enough to stand on is free to read for a limited time. calendaroffools.com/stories/the-...

"[O]ne question leads to another, and that one to another, and that one to others, and so on, unfinishably, a life's work." - John Crowley, Ægypt

"At Midnight" is a Lord Dunsany story that I feel deeply. A woman encounters the ghost of the author of a dull, out-of-date book and promises to be its reader. The narrator tries to convince her to give it up. No one reads the old thing anymore. She responds: "Then he's only got me, Sir."

Joos van Craesbeeck really capturing the feel of being connected to the Internet these days.

Joos van Craesbeeck really capturing the feel of being connected to the Internet these days.

"At Midnight" is a Lord Dunsany story that I feel deeply. A woman encounters the ghost of the author of a dull, out-of-date book and promises to be its reader. The narrator tries to convince her to give it up. No one reads the old thing anymore. She responds: "Then he's only got me, Sir."

Few would recognize the name Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, but many more know him by his title, Lord Dunsany. Dunsany created an impressive literary body of work, penning dozens of novels and plays and hundreds of short stories. Read more: goodman-games.com/adventures-i...

Show me your getaway vehicle.

Towering Egyptian Novelist Sonallah Ibrahim Dies at 88 Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim -- one of the great literary innovators of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- died today, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture announced. He was eighty-eight.

Temptation of St Anthony

Happy Birthday to the great Buck Owens, born Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. 96 years ago today

My short story, "The Horses of Pazyryk," from the @calendaroffools.bsky.social Intergalactic Rejects anthology, is now available to read free online for a limited time! Ghost horses, bullying, family, and the Pazyryk burials.

My short story, "The Horses of Pazyryk," from the @calendaroffools.bsky.social Intergalactic Rejects anthology, is now available to read free online for a limited time! Ghost horses, bullying, family, and the Pazyryk burials.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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What a weird little bit of ambergris spewed up in the ocean of LLM content.

Furthest I've been... N: Húsavik, Iceland S: Buenos Aires, Argentina E: Tehran, Iran W: Arcata, US

Go read this haunting tale by @nassos.bsky.social at @reactorsff.bsky.social.

Libra - from the Book of Wonders, Kitab al Bulhan, composite manuscript in Arabic, late 14th century C.E., Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani

There is no death for an otter, only life to the end.

The interdiction against wishing for such things as artistic abilities–sit down at the piano, the Appassionata flows suddenly from your fingertips–applied in a way to wisdom too, to enlightenment, to heart-knowledge, useless unless earned, the earning of it being no doubt all it consisted of. –Ægypt

If there is to be another American Civil War, I gotta say, the contemporary architectural landscape is severely lacking in cupolas from which to observe the field.

F725.9 World at bottom of well.

The interdiction against wishing for such things as artistic abilities–sit down at the piano, the Appassionata flows suddenly from your fingertips–applied in a way to wisdom too, to enlightenment, to heart-knowledge, useless unless earned, the earning of it being no doubt all it consisted of. –Ægypt

If you have, or know someone with, a 3d printer the British Museum has a model online. sketchfab.com/3d-models/cl...

This is made for me.