haven't posted on here much but I recently reconnected with someone I haven't seen in thirty years and I didn't know I could feel emotions like these!

a story about finding acceptance in the dark so happy it has a home here in the excellent Plott Hound Magazine

Quite humbled to see my story "The Eating Doll" featured on @datlow.bsky.social 's Best Horror of the Year 17 Recommendations List!! ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f... You can read it for free on the @fabulistmag.bsky.social fabulistmagazine.com/the-eating-d...

Quite humbled to see my story "The Eating Doll" featured on @datlow.bsky.social 's Best Horror of the Year 17 Recommendations List!! ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f... You can read it for free on the @fabulistmag.bsky.social fabulistmagazine.com/the-eating-d...

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

I don't make a lot of noise, but I do publish stories. Please consider the following for all your awards season voting needs! Links for the free-to-read stories follow below ⬇️

You can read (or listen to me read) my weird Christmas horror story, "The Sadly Beautiful Life Cycle of the Mrs. Claus," for free!

lost my dog last Wednesday. 14 and a half years old. I don't know who I am without her, but I have support and am celebrating her life in the ways I can. I wrote a little memoir of her life and got to read it to her. her last weeks were very comfortable and peaceful and she went without pain.

Her health has improved a bit so I called it off. Taking it day by day right now. Writing a little memoir of her life to serve as a diary of my feelings. I wish everyone could know her as I do.

likely going to say goodbye to my dog this week. she was an enormous part of my life. not sure how I can go on without her but I'll figure it out.

check it out!!! bsky.app/profile/midn...

I don't make a lot of noise, but I do publish stories. Please consider the following for all your awards season voting needs! Links for the free-to-read stories follow below ⬇️

Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick. @lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

My contributor copies of @bourbonpenn.bsky.social have arrived! Can't wait to devour the stories inside!

Halloween thing at work so of course I'm the only one currently dressed up in the office 😭

If you wanna read my favorite published story ever, find it here!

Today is the day! My Gothic & sapphic historical fantasy novel is available everywhere ebooks are sold! #Fantasy #Booksky

Bourbon Penn 37 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!

I have a story that has just gone free to read! A repentant cannibal's doomed journey through the desert: plotthoundmag.com/he-came-star...

one of my ESL students who I've been encouraging to read and write stories brought her first fictional short story to me today and I'm so excited!

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

I have a story that has just gone free to read! A repentant cannibal's doomed journey through the desert: plotthoundmag.com/he-came-star...

I may or may not have a new story coming out soon~ 💀💋

there are two constants death and form rejections

Catching up on some Takashi Miike films I missed and why is Gozu like that

Your favorite goblin just got a starred review in Publisher's Weekly because my book is good, yo!!! 😉 www.publishersweekly.com/9780316581936

Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit. www.ft.com/content/7f0f...

Plott Hound Issue 1 is out in the wild! You need to register as a member, pay $5/issue or $20/year to access the entire inaugural menagerie at once. Pieces will be made available to read online by weekly release. Stay tuned! plotthoundmag.com/issues/

Happy pride!! I was a lesbian until my boyfriend came out as trans, now I'm pansexual 💖

A magazine telling me "this one was pretty close" is useless information Thanks, I'll write another one just like it but better

More than merely writing about sexy unicorns, I played one on stage last weekend Live your truth

I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...

This feels like seeing my name on a neon marquee. What an INCREDIBLE cover!

as an educator, can confirm

The funding goal was already hit after the first day! This is something special!

Seeing more and more pubs doing spicy monster romance anthos while I'm sitting here querying a spicy monster romantasy... this is the moment!

I have a very special short story in this upcoming anthology, check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sci...

brb making a radish clone of myself

28k today even after taking the weekend off. What!!! How is this coming out of me so fast

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Contract signed: my horror story about jackals in love, bones, and honoring your forefathers is coming to Plott Hound Magazine's inaugural issue. I can't wait!

heyyy its award season! you should vote for ME for awards because i want them and it would make me happy to have an award, which i could put on the plinth i keep which i where i would put my award IF I HAD ONE

Awards Eligibility Post 2024! Vote Princess! 👑 These stories are ALL free to read/listen to online Links below ⬇️

I haven't been writing as much lately but my WIP for my 4th novel manuscript has jumped to 25k. Things are getting REAL. My favorite aspect of post-apocalyptic fantasy is how many unexpected things you can bury in the desert...

My latest story in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social has giant bug gods: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/a-c... and if you want MORE giant bug gods, perhaps you'd also enjoy my story in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, "Imago Dei"! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/imag...

20k into my fourth novel manuscript and I'm really enjoying the world and characters. This is the best part, when it all clicks!

Meta's AI theft extends even to small new writers like me, and apparently every scientific paper my uncle and grandfather ever wrote, all in the name of machine learning that was never worth the time or effort