Rana temporaria: a poem.

[manages content clean over a cliff]

My review of @lyndseycroal.bsky.social’s wonderful collection LIMELIGHT AND OTHER STORIES is up! Incredibly fun reading: motivated characters, great pace, plenty of doomsday tech and voyaging through space… Read it on the @shoreinf.bsky.social website: tinyurl.com/3spfzkwp

i know many authors are experiencing this but it is so unsettling to create something complex, personal, inextricably interwoven into your own truth, and then see the thing only you could have made being fed into the playdough spaghetti factory of gray meaningless slop

An explorer 🛸 Another of the illustrations I did for @devindecibel.bsky.social's new TTRPG, Pale Dot.

Takeoff! Here's one of the illustrations I did for @devindecibel.bsky.social new TTRPG, Pale Dot.

The Saros #5 reading period has arrived and the submission gates have been opened! Send us your 500-2500 words speculative fiction stories focused on sound/silence! We'll stay open until we've reached 111 stories submitted. sarossf.com/submissions/

magazines are a soulslike experience for the algorithm

[washing up on the beach after 227 days floating on a splint of wood] and now to check on my pending story submission ah yes I see no news as yet

just found an old flash fiction draft of mine from circa 2022 and [miming an epic 3-point shot] i must say it was galactic cringe

it’s quite a lot of GIRLS IN SCIENCE! which is nice but I’m looking for a counterweight of BOYS IN POETRY! and it’s just not there

I just love “to catch hoarseness that claims your voice low” – fantastic piece of flash here

these are worth the click!

me my first day teaching music: [grabbing some kid’s clarinet and using it to point at a giant page of sheet music i’ve had specially printed] ok i say we hit em right here

"The Confessor" my story exploring the ways and means humanity might confront and constrain ASI is now available in Andromeda Spaceways #97. Bonus 7 Rules designed to guarantee Alignment. Sample in the reply...

Maybe if I lie face down all my work will do itself.

!!! don’t forget to put a typo into those last tweaks and edits you make before submitting !!!

It’s out! My new story “Body Music” is in issue 97 of Andromeda Spaceways 🪐🎺 …where you record music with your own flesh ••• where you build living, breathing beasts from synthetic meat ••• where the trees are dying out and disease is coming… andromedaspaceways.com/product/asm-...

These are the top 48 stories and 35 poems I read (and, coincidentally, published) in 2024! kaleidotrope.net/archives/kal...

sure i love technology, the technology by which i use electricity to cook noodles

We didn't realize how deep the city went. #SpecLit #FlashFiction

why is it so hard [squeezes pimple until it bursts] to write a story that reads like it was meant to mean something

I don't care what you think, the Glasgow subway is perfection. (Also before any 'well, actually' people arrive. I am well aware that Glasgow is a much smaller city than the others.)

[sitting on Salasphyx 8X watching boiling crystals shoot from a geyser and explode in eye-splitting wreaths of light] i should edit chapter one of my novel draft again

The reason capitalism is bad is because any time I’m “earning money” is time I’m not making paintings of black bryony, which is the true and only reason for my existence on this earth

TUESDAY RELEASE: our cli-fi reprint of the month is our today 🎉 Come check out “Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3]” by Emma Burnett Sometimes humans think they know how to fix things… 😳😬 READ HERE: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/plas... #clifi #sciencefiction #flashfiction

Just swing by the simulated office to fill out some routine paperwork in @freypalm.bsky.social's new story "Residual Suspension; or, Life After Debt." kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2024/...

Pleased beyond pleased to share a little link to my first-ever published story, courtesy of the wonderful @kaleidotrope.bsky.social 🪐🛸 It’s: corporeal debt, malignant legalese, corporate citizenry, and (above all) music and music and music kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2024/...

Kaleidotrope's new Autumn issue also features stories by Joe Panic, @freypalm.bsky.social, @hlfullerton.bsky.social, @marissalingen.bsky.social, @elizabethcobbe.bsky.social, and @mythicdelirium.bsky.social!

in my latest reviews column (which is couch themed) I take great pleasure in overthinking three new sf movies/shows: White Plastic Sky, Bodies, and 65

found a jam session with the precise energy I crave:

why, with all the efficiency i gain thanks to artificial intelligence i finally have the time to dig a large hole and sit in it for 19 hours a day

[falling down a very long flight of stairs] what would my protagonist be thinking about right now

You can read twelve new stories and seven new poems at www.kaleidotrope.net for free!

Oh, hey, there’s my name! Wonderful to see it there albeit *only* as a book reviewer 😁 Can’t wait to get into this issue 🤯