I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

I think often of Snowmaggedon 2015 where my roommates and I looked out the window and saw the outline of a perfect limbs-spread person shape in the snow on our street. There were no signs of anyone climbing out of there. Perhaps they’re there still

Hahahaha

We lost Rhode Island

I do have to admit that I bought this and I have absolutely no regrets

3 days post-op update: the will to write has returned but the mechanism to write (stringing complex thoughts together) has not

Surgery complete ✌️

I learned today that I have to do a clear liquid diet the day before my surgery, and then immediately afterwards I learned just how food-motivated I am

To all doctors!!! Stop stealing my blood!!! Unauthorized theft of blood will not be subject to any consequences but WILL make me cranky and a bit queasy, so best to avoid it altogether!

Trying to gather all the essentials before my uterus eviction (the ute boot, if you will) in a week and a half. The problem is that my heart keeps confusing 'essentials' with 'a $60 multi-pack of Bjorn Qorn'

Delroy Lindo’s Oscar nomination for Sinners is one of the most objectively correct noms I’ve ever seen

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:

Just heard Al Gore is heckling people at Davos, which is one of those things that feels scripted but apparently just happens now

I'm so excited to share that THRALL is a Publishers Marketplace Buzz Book for the Spring/Summer 2026 season! You can read an excerpt in this gorgeous FREE SAMPLER of upcoming titles: www.buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/download-edi...

Planning out all of my medical stuff in the next 8 weeks while looking at my one stickable vein like... oh girl... we're in it now

I have to believe that most people do not want to live a country where they have to watch their neighbors get shot in the face by Nazi thugs

“ICE just needs to be traine–“ ICE needs to be abolished. Hope this helps.

I got the end of Terminator 2 and the end of ET mixed up last night and said “Be good” in an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Going under anesthesia twice this winter (endometriosis reasons, nothing serious) and every time they tell me not to make any big decisions for like two days afterwards it activates my contrarian streak

Just ordered some breakfast tacos at the airport and they came without tortillas, which is actually one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen

Saw someone say that Kip taking 8 years to get down to the ice in Heated Rivalry was bad representation because as a gay person, he’d walk faster than that. So tonight I feel I must put my foot down and come out as a gay slow walker. WE EXIST

Mom: What kind of Christmas music do you want Me: Hmmm. I want to feel like I’m at a house party in the 60’s Mom: What exactly am I supposed to do with that

Had a dream last night that I ended up at the women’s basketball Team USA training camp. Obviously I was not of much use, but I did keep a few of those girls from clicking on phishing scams

My filter at work is rapidly breaking down. Colleague at the all-division meeting was telling a casual story about not being able to find a cubicle and I responded “I think hotdesking is evil”

I’m in absolute hysterics over that Jimmy Stewart biopic trailer. Why is it shot like a sequence from Drunk History

Here’s the thing. I’m literally always right

Alright, I’ve got THRALL ARCs burning a hole in my living room floor. Who’s ready for a giveaway? 🩸RT to enter 🩸USA only (I’m so sorry! Tariffs ruin everything) 🩸I’ll pull 3 winners next Monday: one from Twitter, one from Bluesky, and one from Threads

We, The Fleet is eligible! Here I am, actually talking about a story I did that is actually eligible! There! I've done it! Also give it a read or a listen I am very proud of it: clarkesworldmagazine.com/singer_05_25/

We’re officially in the thick of the holiday season, which means I am, as always, desperately in need of a haircut and also 80 years behind on gift shopping

Today at Booker T's Farm I'm sharing an upcoming book I can't wait for from @cafecliche.bsky.social I'm always in the mood for another vampire book! bookertsfarm.blogspot.com/2025/12/feed...

Alright, I’ve got THRALL ARCs burning a hole in my living room floor. Who’s ready for a giveaway? 🩸RT to enter 🩸USA only (I’m so sorry! Tariffs ruin everything) 🩸I’ll pull 3 winners next Monday: one from Twitter, one from Bluesky, and one from Threads

Fascinated by how the military’s strategy in Welcome to Derry is “put the clown in a bomb”

Flight got delayed two hours and now we are the last ones out of the Jacksonville airport. Kids are playing soccer on the people movers. This is airnarchy (airport anarchy)

Save me La Nopalera queso dip. La Nopalera queso dip save me

Happy Logan Airport at 6am to all who celebrate (no one)

Boston-area eaters of good food, when are we rioting about this Sarma snub www.boston.com/food/food-ne...

On one hand, after a five-year taste of grim adulthood, it was a novelty to be treated like a rebelling teen.

“Do we really have to sit in here?” Alicia said tightly. “That creepy LARPer is up front.”

The scene couldn’t have been further from the dark neon crush of Natalie’s party.

“But here’s the thing. Maybe I’m underestimating your will. Maybe he is, too.”

“She’s not a friend,” L. Roman said. “She’s the little prince’s next meal.”

“I just need some sleep and a good cry. But not too loud of a good cry, because I don’t want tonight’s callers to ask who that wailing woman behind Pallas is.”

The sights and sounds of an exam room should have been intimately familiar to her by now: she’d fallen asleep so many nights with the smell of antiseptic still in her nose.

She was an appetizer. She wasn’t the prize.

“You’re on the air.”

1. Nice 2. “Welcome to the show, caller number 32.”

THRALL galleys are HERE!! I’ve got a proper giveaway planned for the upcoming week, but in the meantime, reply with a number between 1-386 and I’ll give you a line from that page! (There are also two prologue pages without numbers…)