“Metaphor and Allegory” is a fantasy short story about a merchant, a mage, and a truth-telling orb that works perfectly — for people smart enough to understand poetry from a thousand years ago. substack.com/home/post/p-... #Fantasy #FlashFiction #SwordAndSorcery #WritingCommunity #amwriting

Writers! Current submissions close TODAY at @therazormag.bsky.social! 📓 Seeking flash fiction and CNF, 1500 words max 📓 They pay! $100 per piece 📓 Work is published in the magazine AND performed by professional voice actors 📓 Lush illustrations 📓 More: therazormag.com/about/ #writingcommunity

MINUSCULE MUSINGS OF MIRTH (18) A group of rugged adventurers attends an open mic night... The bartender asks why they're carrying their weapons inside. The group looks around before replying “mimics”. The group laughs. The bartender laughs. The microphone laughs. #FiftyWords #Writing

#Promosky • #polymath #writer • #SpeculativeFiction • #Scifi #horror #fantasy • #Quora #ScifiStack • #NarrativeDesign #videogames • #worldbuilding #loremaster • #editor @scifi.radio #AnswerMan • #climate #podcaster • 40 years #RPG #GM • #ttrpg designer • #systems #analyst • #Dad #Caregiver

Okay, let's try this. #promosky - Obscure #sf / #fantasy writer - Former #fanfiction writer - Former #gurps & #traveller writer and editor - #ttrpg designer - #worldbuilding expert - #tabletopgames & #videogames - Classical music - #hellenophile - Left-leaning liberal politics - #stoic philosopher

BRIGHT MEADOW Our first steps into the galaxy devastated the Fermi Paradox. With FTL, we found life everywhere, in environments beyond our imagination. The ‘Dark Forest’ made us afraid. Rather than predation, we found a ‘Bright Meadow,’ with diverse lifeforms oblivious to each other. #FiftyWords

THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS #PerspectiveMatters #WritingCommunity ✅ An optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds. ❌ A pessimist believes an optimist is right. 🙄 A realist looks at these two and wonders where their parents went wrong. Are you on the list? open.substack.com/chat/posts/3...

What Philip K Dick, Tim Leary, Coleridge, and Tim Powers have in common--and what they actually don't, to some people's surprise. Really fun very short piece I strongly recommend: #sff #PKD powersonfantasy.substack.com/p/me-and-col...

OMG these cats!!! Tonight has been — the battle over Dad's lap. It seems whenever I have a deadline, my cats find my lap irresistible. Tonight, the boys have been tagging out and I have to balance my keyboard on my cats back in order to keep working. I have to get a new cat tree...

MAGA influencer's viral Somali fraud claims shot down by CBS News fact check www.rawstory.com/cbs-fact-che...

SIDEGRADE (16) A disgruntled service caller demands to be redirected to another reality. Is there any way this call ends with a satisfied customer? #FiftyWords #Speculative #TimelineProblems #AltReality #WritingCommunity #sff #amwriting #MicroFiction OMNIVERSE: thaddeus.substack.com See Alt:

Flu is rising rapidly across the U.S., driven by a new variant of the virus.

One more post for 2025: Batman vs The Dee Dee Twins! This was a super fun commission by Paul Dini to sign at Twin Cities Con last month!

Cry harder about ruining an American institution we used to be proud of, you stupid quisling bitch.

Story Seed: #FiftyWords “I would like to unsubscribe from this current timeline.”

Cross: And I just find it laughable that the party of the self-proclaimed pro-life people are celebrating cutting off funding to children…

They really cut $1 Trillion from Medicaid then put $50 billion back and think we’re all too dumb to notice

NEW: Trump used his first veto to block a unanimously approved Colorado drinking water project. Lauren Boebert, whose district the pipeline project is in, slammed Trump, suggesting it was retaliation for her signing the discharge petition to release the Epstein files www.9news.com/article/news...

this remains the greatest synopsis of incel culture one could ever ask for

ATTN EDITORS & AUTHORS: If you published original short SF/F/H this year that engages with themes of nature, climate & animals (pets included!), send it our way for consideration in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction ✨ We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).

New publisher listing for: GossamerWight Literary Magazine (Fiction Poetry Art; non-paying). #WritingCommunity

#NovelIdeas #LiteraryArt #authorsky #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2... inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Writing matters. But only if you can do it. If you can't you don't value it and will soon find yourself victim to those who can still read effectively. By design. With malice and forethought. No this photo is not real. But it seems like it would be.

There is this... Just this year... DOGE’s mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone. fortune.com/article/doge...

Who agrees? ✋

THE SUNFLOWER GUARDIANS The Dragon Magus of the Western Seas, intent on discovering the origins of a plague which has corrupted magic for centuries, realizes this may not be the first time this has happened... ebonstorm.livejournal.com/774.html #amwriting #writingcommunity #sff #fantasy

Thank you so much for sharing your experience and supporting with me! It's so important and most don't think about it! Lets keep cheering, everyone! We got this!

I also have no affiliation with this site. I just strongly believe so many artists teach how to draw, yet barely many explain how to take care of our gifts. So we grind and grind and suddenly we have medical issues. Let's prevent that.

MILITARY HAS A $900,000,000,000 BUDGET ($900 BILLION — nearly ONE TRILLION dollars) But somehow this nation still dares to tell you: “We can’t afford to keep you alive.” “Healthcare is too expensive.” “Coverage must be cut.” “Your survival is a luxury item.”

INVISIBLE SPECTACLE A writer asks new writers on Substack who might not be popular to share their work with him. I reveal popularity isn't the only issue with writers not being highly visible on the Substack. substack.com/@cognitivedi...

THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS An optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds. A pessimist believes an optimist is right. A realist looks at these two and wonders where their parents went wrong. Other perspectives are even stranger... open.substack.com/chat/posts/3...

Your local police department may be preparing to have the most expensive skeet range in your city. No one needs more enforcement that does not actually improve anything and is another drain on people's wallets. You want to improve traffic? How about we build some meaningful mass transit systems?

Fun fact, before Hesiod, Pandora 's amphora contained virtues ment for mankind. When she opened the lid, they flew back to Olympus. Hesiod was an emo boy.

#author #writer #writing #bookediting #bookproofreading

Murderbot author confirms my statement there are no AIs on Earth. Whew. I thought it was just me. Now, two authors have told you this. Stop listening to venture capitalist's lies propping up the economy. AI isn't keeping you from getting a job. Cheap-ass CEOs are keeping you from getting a job.

Someone made a Jeffrey Epstein connection database with 500+ different nodes. The website allows you to search for official documents that connect affiliates and co-conspirators. epsteinsecrets.com/network?node...

LAST CALL! 16 writing contests have deadlines TODAY and TOMORROW. (No entry fees!) #writingtips #amwriting #publishing #writing #pubtip #WritingCommunity publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2025/11/42-w...

Most people think Hope was the gift at the bottom of Pandora’s Box. They’re wrong. #FracturedFairyTales explores why a "hopeful monster" is the most dangerous thing in existence. cognitivedissident.substack.com/p/fractured-... #Mythology #Philosophy #WritingCommunity

ALWAYS NOW Photons exist in an unusual state: ageless and unchanging, because their speed puts them beyond the personal conception of time. Born in stars, they may exist there for millions of years before escaping into space! open.substack.com/chat/posts/e... #science #poetry #TimeDilation

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FIGHTIN' WORDS... I hate that there are so many experts out there who feel it necessary to offer their opinions in empty forums. When I look for their words to hear them discussing ideas, I find nothing but their hollow advertising from boilerplates. Present your arguments, not just your ads.

I just found out that a friend and great Science Fiction author and futurist has had his account axed on FB He has an account here. Please folks, if you want some great science fiction commentary, stories and thoughts on the future, please give him a follow Thaddeus Howze @ebonstorm.bsky.social

Transatlantic Slave Trade: 12,000 ships, 12.5 million Africans When I tell you America is built in cruelty, this is where I start. It does not take into account the atrocities caused to the Native Americans, which were their own nightmare. www.instagram.com/reel/DQBxTTU... #Africa #History

Witness to the Interregnum (15) Utopia is sold as the ideal state for a civilization and Solarpunk stories focus on their processes but that's not the whole story... #FiftyWords #Solarpunk #Utopian #SystemicCollapse #GenerationalWisdom #WritingCommunity #sff #microfiction #amwriting See Alt:

In 2015, Apple paid China $55 billion dollars per year, on their business concerns, training, machines, manufacturing jobs. Apple is investing a quadruple of what anyone is investing in the US, in China. “Book Review: Apple in China by Patrick McGee mondoro.com/book-review-.... ‌#China #Apple

Now that's what is all about. Community. Common ground. Fellowship. ❤️. 😆

I wish the legacy media would talk about the fact that almost no one under 40 can buy a house, insurance premiums are set to skyrocket, and most Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck instead of *checks notes* the finer feelings of billionaires.

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱