I'll facilitate a four-week workshop for the wonderful @literarycleveland.bsky.social in November—yr writing, and short readings in T. Berrigan, S. R. Delany, G. Eliot, C.S. Giscombe, J.-K. Huysmans, B. Mayer, H. Oyeyemi, M. N. Philip, E. A. Poe, & Sei Shonagōn www.litcleveland.org/classes-work...

oh, right, now also—

Horrorshow today (Wednesday) at 1700EST on wobc-fm.org.

Stopping before the locker rooms. “Up there,” I point. “There’s something wrong with the heart.” Ricardo doesn’t have time for this. “We don’t have time for this. That isn’t the heart, that’s the sun." Today on ergot.: 'Inside It Now' by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Chri...

Horrorshow today (Wednesday) at 1700EST on wobc-fm.org.

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A new story 'Private Notary' is available to all today on Seize the Press!

“The mascot’s head” is out today in @minorliteratures.bsky.social / but also, the mascot’s head is still on today—I went by twice. minorliteratures.com/2025/05/20/t...

The Mascot’s Head — Zebulon Horse (@zebulonhourse.bsky.social) minorliteratures.com/2025/05/20/t...

and coming up this week ... — new fiction from @zebulonhourse.bsky.social — @carolinehardaker.bsky.social reviews Zdravka Evtimova — Benjamin Robinson on Pádraig Ó Raghallaigh

It's been out for two weeks! Just a little reminder in case you'd like to get in on this.

I've only been posting positive reviews, but some people truly hate my novel! It's exciting to inspire a bit of genuine revulsion.

lots to look forward to in May too ...

I hope we're all doing well in the meat grinder. I'm in the slaughterhouse, and this abattoir is a college is finally out. Find me in the knocking box: asterismbooks.com/product/this...

My short novel, The psychic surgeon assists, has been out for a year today, sharing a birthday with me, and with new Calamari titles from @orchidtierney.bsky.social and Sasha Hawkins: calamaripress.com

Glad to have "Dead Men's Fingernails" up on The Fabulist today: fabulistmagazine.com/dead-mens-fi...

I cut a cover for Centaur 8, out this week *•*

“the Gawain Poet, Shirley Jackson, and now, Ivy Grimes!”

I used to hate people and wish a plague would kill them all. Once I started studying the matter, I felt better. They aren’t much smarter than animals, the trouble comes with expecting too much from them. Today on ergot. 'Green' by Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Ivy_...

Available for free on Amazon for the next couple of days: my novella Star Shapes, an absurd and slightly disturbing Southern Gothic tale! www.amazon.com/Star-Shapes-...

Horrorshow at 1700EST in and around Oberlin, Ohio at 91,500,000 Hz, or streaming online at wobc-fm.org “Halloween” and “Halloween”, that’s the stinger—also P. Donaggio’s electronic stingers, Wario in the Forest of Fear, and “800 Pristine Corpses”—and, as they say, Turn on, tune in, drop dead.

went up Gifford this morning, and the snow’s unsanded, but not so high that you couldn’t spot the Horse’s hand, if it arose www.propagule.co/fiction/the-...

oh, looks like “The Horse’s hand” is up in Propagule No. 6! www.propagule.co/fiction/the-...

Hell yes!

No radio today—

Horrorshow airs at 1700 EST—that’s now—on WOBC FM 91.5, or at wobc-fm.org.

"An egg that swells and ripens with pus as yellow-green as primroses in an untended garden. An egg for the one foreseen to come waltzing over milky swales." Today on ergot.: 'The Dancer's Dozen' by R.L. Summerling @rlsummerling.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/R.L....

Courtesy of Mr. Steve Gergley and the young but indispensable scaffold lit, a painstakingly faithful relation of the life of American poet Edgar Lee Masters in under 400 words—please honor his sacred memory with a visit www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

if nautical nonsense be something ye wish,

belatedly, also quietly screaming

Every story *must* have the character go through an arc. Arc de Triomphe and the St. Louis Arch are common choices. This is why most stories take place in France or Missouri. The character can walk, run, bike or drive through the arc. They may fly, though this is not recommended for new writers.

"Things happened. It doesn’t matter how. Sometimes there is no how." increasingly my entire approach to narrative

last broadcast of the year, 10 o’clock perimort. and online at wobc-fm.org, or—within an inconsistenet circle circumscribing Oberlin, Ohio—on WOBC-FM 91.5. Splatterhouse, The Sentinel, irregular-heartbeat, werewolf-howels-1 and brian-pounding.mp3–but who is he?

Work up at @havehashad.com today, hope you folks enjoy — www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ric...

you have to read this, just delightful a childhood rerun as a lysergic nightmare porous is he.

Good news! And I know everybody could really use some of that: there is another new LCRW issue coming out, mere months after the last one, it is open for preorders, and it has this awesome owly plant guy on it: weightlessbooks.com/lady-churchi...

all water today—

“A Sponge for Philip Guston’s Tears” is published today at @ergot.bsky.social— conflation of Tintagel and Astalot, on Ohio roads and rivers, at the bottom of the ocean, in a Spongebobskin suit, “hafvilla, and halfsick of shadows”— www.ergot.press/authors/Zebu...

speaking of jaws, shattered, hideous, and otherwise—

"Sweetflag, and by the way—among marram and bluegrass—the whitetail doe with the shattered jaw: premolars and a palepink panting tonguecolor allover the asphalt." Today on ergot.: 'A Sponge For Philip Guston's Tears' by Zebulon Horse ( @zebulonhourse.bsky.social ) www.ergot.press/authors/Zebu...

Read my little story "Glass Art" here! donotsubmit.net/glass-art-by... And thanks to Don't Submit! for publishing this story, which is from my collection Glass Stories...

Tomorrow on ergot.: a new trip under the sea by Zebulon Horse @zebulonhourse.bsky.social .

Horrorshow tonight at ten o’clock on wobc-fm.org; maybe the last broadcast of the year? “Ask the Community”. broadcast archives at zebulon-hourse.xyz/radio.php

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"I want to be mean and say that the new Sienna doesn’t have the old Sienna’s long, dark eyelashes or wry, evil little mouth, but she does." Today on ergot.: 'She's So Lucky, She's a Star' by Francis Van Ganson (fire-motif.itch.io) www.ergot.press/authors/Fran...

Horrorshow tonight at 2200est, i.e., ten o’clock perimortem on WOBC-FM 91.5, Oberlin, Ohio, after an absence last week— due on my part to a death in the family, and on the part of my cohost, to a miserable apparition’s persistent failure to appear. [ zebulon-hourse.xyz/radio.php ; wobc-fm.org ]