Originally published in OUR BEAUTIFUL REWARD, @reckoningmag.bsky.social's bodily autonomy issue, @mariness.bsky.social's "Green Leaves Against the Wind" considers the deep, personal cost of nurturing and the power of choice. I'm so pleased to include this piece in our #neurodivergent collection.

“Day captures a violent contradiction at the heart of how humans decide what to domesticate and what to eradicate.” —Charles Payseur, Locus, April 2024 So happy to include this poem! You can pre-order your print copy of A CHORUS, DIVERGENT here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div... (ships January 1st!)

Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiverity reprints issue, "That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by @oluwasigma.bsky.social, an SF poem in which giant metal mechs stand for the resistance of language to the forces of empire reckoning.press/that-time-my...

This is a super interesting video about the ICE raid that happened in Lakeview yesterday. The point of the home “being one of the most constitutionally protected zones that we have” & ICE blatantly trying to abduct people on private property. The owner also says the workers have permission to work

I am officially that house plant witch. When I brought the philodendrons (5) and monstera (2; very large) in for the fall/winter season, I bought growlights for the first time. Previous growlight experience was my bio-dad growing cannabis in a bedroom closet. I really should've won that Show & Tell.

Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social #neurodivergentanthology A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is "A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century" by @andtatcat.bsky.social, a haunting meditation on personal loss and climate grief, and how we carry on. reckoning.press/a-taxonomy-o...

I love this story so much. Morris Hinkle creates a terrible, vivid, and amazing world, painting an entire society in such a short space, and the horrors that society enacts for the "good" of all.

The title "P-T" refers to the Permian-Triassic extinction event, which you should read about if you've never heard of, and its use here amounts to a frigging brilliant literary device en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian...

Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Micah Nemerever's powerfully evocative poem "P-T." "they will bring the villagers/past the barbed wire to see what/was done in their name, and some will cry/some will even mean it." reckoning.press/p-t/

They’re ABSOLUTELY looking for people posting about No Kings. Block them.

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

@ellisnyeland.bsky.social's "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" is a lovely remembrance of a life well lived, but it also a fortune told. "Repair Tech" warns us against the generational loss of practical knowledge, especially in uncertain times.

I am woefully behind on Halloween cards & October blog posts. BUT if you want something cozy & gently spooky to read, one of my favorite stories I've ever written is available for free on my website. AuDHD, ASD characters, supportive families, acespec romance. CREATURES. cgaubrey.com/all-the-crea...

Perfect for the season.

I'm all for being mindful of consumption (especially performative over-consumption), but it sure seems like most "deinfluencers" are single/child-free/well-off white women who have the TIME and money to spend three hours staging the perfect video of them mending a twenty year old target throw.

@lauramcknight.bsky.social's wonderfully meditative story "Before Times Shells and Gifts" speaks of what it means to sift through ruins, our own and those we may never fully understand. It also provides gentle, commiserating humor for those of us who have been told "please do not lick the science!"

Despite the unimaginable death toll of deforestation and pollution, Kaye Boesme's powerful work still offers reconciliation in the end, not merely as grace extended but in inevitability. There is hope, however fragile, to be found in such certainty.

I am once again asking you to read this essay by Amber Fox, published in @reckoningmag.bsky.social in 2022. reckoning.press/ghost-of-a-c...

There's a lot of stupid shit happening in the world but we still decided to start a small press. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

SFWA Launches FAQ for Anthropic Settlement

It's my birthday! I would love if y'all could head over to @reckoningmag.bsky.social today, give them a follow, and maybe check out my recent editorial for A Chorus, Divergent (our special reprint collection of #neurodivergent contributors over the past ten years). reckoning.press/editorial/

Adam's timely-as-ever poem "The World Ended in Ice" offers warning while encapsulating the frustrations of watching patterns of environmental destruction repeat across millenia. You can read it online today @reckoningmag.bsky.social reckoning.press/the-world-en...

Thank you very much, preorderers! You make our day

Thank you so much! 🦋

So proud of how this turned out, and so very honored to have been trusted with the beautiful works of these #neurodivergent creators. #neurodivergentanthology #neurodivergentwriters #neurodivergentauthor #neurodivergentartists #neurodivergence #neurodiversity

I told y'all had something exciting coming out today! In Reckoning's first decade, we have been lucky to publish beautiful poetry, prose, and art by neurodivergent creators. I hope they (and everyone else) understand how important they are. Our world would be dimmer without these unique voices.

So proud of how this turned out, and so very honored to have been trusted with the beautiful works of these #neurodivergent creators. #neurodivergentanthology #neurodivergentwriters #neurodivergentauthor #neurodivergentartists #neurodivergence #neurodiversity

and every time you use AI, you are justifying the existence of these data centers. you are implicitly agreeing that it's ok to charge these households for the additional power the centers are using.

"In a world where climate change wreaks havoc on the planet, history is salvaged by memory hunters." @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reviews Mia Tsai's dystopian science-fantasy The Memory Hunters: reactormag.com/book-review-...

If you'd like to support us, you can buy the ebook from @weightlessbooks.bsky.social weightlessbooks.com/reckoning-a-... or Evilmazod, preorder the print edition reckoning.press/product/a-ch... or join our Patreon www.patreon.com/reckoningpress

"We *have been doing, all along, the very things* we continue to be told we can’t." [email protected]'s editorial We'll be rereleasing all the work from this issue on a weekly basis through the end of 2025. Subscribe to our email list to get it all in your inbox: reckoning.press/subscribe/

I told y'all had something exciting coming out today! In Reckoning's first decade, we have been lucky to publish beautiful poetry, prose, and art by neurodivergent creators. I hope they (and everyone else) understand how important they are. Our world would be dimmer without these unique voices.

These winks and tiny lepidoptera refer to the fact that A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our special reprint issue featuring neurodiverse creators edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, comes out in ebook and begins online release TOMORROW with CG's editorial and cover art by @abistevensart.bsky.social!!!

Kicking off my birthday month with some exciting news the day after tomorrow. I have moths in my belly, also in my head. 🦋🦋🦋*Wink, wink, nudge, nudge* @reckoningmag.bsky.social. Also, I am annoyed to find that we do not have a moth emoji.

come get spooky with me! 🎃 this October, I'm teaching a one-day class at @storystudiochicago.bsky.social on haunted house stories. we're going to write, make maps, and scare each other silly www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

ok but get a heat pump, it’s not that deep

ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

Submissions for Reckoning X are closed as of 11:59PM Sept 22nd, 2025. Thank you to everyone who submitted! Look for an update in 2026, but for now, we remain open ONLY to reviews and critical essays for online publication. reckoning.press/submit/

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And when it comes, the racists who caused it will, once again, blame immigrants for the wreckage they themselves caused.

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

i don’t think it’s good that democrats keep getting so juiced on conspiratorial disinfo while also unironically boasting conservative positions against protest & in support of corrupt, failing leadership i don’t think it’s good how intensely those bizarre voices demand to dominate the narrative now

My take-home message is that mainstream white America doesn’t think white supremacy makes him an awful person

The only foolproof way to avoid having autistic kids is TO NOT HAVE KIDS. If you’re that scared of having a child who is different, who has something “wrong” with them, you absolutely should not have kids. Ever.

Blaming something for a person being Autistic and using terms like “risk of Autism” also intrinsically conveys that our whole being is deemed an undesirable outcome by society …

Eating pizza while your hands smell of cloves that you're grinding for gingerbread cookies is a whole weird thing.

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...

Free to read today at @reckoningmag.bsky.social : new short work by the inimitable @tkrex.bsky.social

Who records history after humans depart? Birds remember. Finch, Chickadee, Turkey, Crow... Here is our story, made theirs. Check out my avian mythos, "The Last Harvest," in Phano!

Let’s get ‘em. 💪🏽