Submissions deadline is June 2 at midnight! That's about 57 hours left.

Last chance to get your short story, science essay, or cover art submitted for our summer issue! Submissions close today! Guidelines at the 🔗⏬️. #sff #fantasy #scifi #horror #weirdfiction

Opening tomorrow! Get those subs polished. We can't wait to read your work 🥰

bonne nuit & good riddance to the wretched heatwave here in #Paris #France #weather #photography

Bravo, Paris St. Germain! I heard the victory outside my window before I saw this story 👇 www.france24.com/en/sport/202...

move fast & blow up things 🧐 www.reuters.com/business/aer...

hark! i spy a birb in yon window 🙀 #Paris #cats #Caturday #photography #chamedi

is this one of those early warning signals of the apocalypse like that guy whose tracking all the private jets 😜

Time is running out! Guidelines ⏬️ #sff #scifi #horror #weirdfiction #fantasy

Why I’m grateful to the Pope for his encyclical on AI | Francine Prose

they are all just so damn desperate for data in the last year gotta wonder what the hurry is 🧐

Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or [email protected]

@aniking.bsky.social 🙏 for the repost(s)!!!

could there be a better moment for righteous rage? i think not! humbly admit that my story is in this gorgeous ish by the amazing @epistemiclit.bsky.social! pls enjoy this stunning collection of artist responses to the world in which we live & live to prevail in spite of everything 🙏👏🙌

start ups + nuclear energy = 😳

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check my math but according to @oldfarmersalmanac.bsky.social calculator i just used, looks like we hit 102.2 F outside my window in #Paris today (39 C) 😱🥵 #FranceMeteo #canicule #Climate

Ex Partum is officially out next week. Here's what @mynachang.bsky.social thought of it (and we all know she has SUPERB taste in stories). Sound like it's up your alley? I hope so! Pre-order here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #booksky 🪐📚

Hey writers your weird pals are opening for submissions on June 1!

#whiskers + #Wednesday = me #cats #Paris #photography

ok blame the heatwave that i didn’t catch this sooner, but has anyone else noticed this AI guy’s name? like if i had used it in a screenplay they’d be like, no, too on the nose 👇 Christopher Olah Christ-opher Olah spelled backwards is 😇 coincidence but 😜 www.fastcompany.com/91548080/who...

Ray-Ban used to be cool. 😔

one last thing today that got less attention than the AI bit but deserves so much more 👇

i subbed, u should, too!!! #flash #SpecFic #writing

🙏 to Kira for this evergreen advice, #writer skeeps 👇

most of this #AI event is in English, btw it’s all worthy but esp. check out the Pope’s speech at the end & also interesting to hear the Anthropic co-founder contribute his take love that Leo calls us to have dialogue even when we disagree—*that’s* the spirit! 🙏🙏🙏 www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

thx @richraho.bsky.social for sharing this link to Pope Leo’s super important letter shared today 👇

if anyone’s interested, here’s the link to the AI-related encyclical from Pope Leo included live video that starts at 11:30 AM today (on YouTube via Vatican website 👇 www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

We open tonight at midnight, world!

so many jokes i could make here gizmodo.com/spacex-taps-...

orcas: on it 😜 futurism.com/science-ener...

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my fellow humans, srsly i haven’t laughed this hard in months, nay, years it’s not just Colbert at his most defiant stripped down best but a 70s late night comedy vibe à la Fernwood 2 Night yet still of the moment, for the moment & by the moment bravo 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTX...

it was me i ate the dinosaurs after the asteroid killed them i was hungry okay? 😜 www.vice.com/en/article/s...

intricate, heartbreaking & beautiful #flash #fiction from the incomparable @kplumhoff.bsky.social 👇

yay!!!!! i was already in Colbert withdrawal! 🙏 for this @scalzi.com

heard that Google just revamped their search to prioritize AI & decided to look up myself wait, i live in France, write poetry, have been involved with politics—which person *am* i 🧐

this is a #cat checkpoint 🛑! relinquish your most recent cat #photo on your phone 🐈

such a beautiful, true reworking of a classic tale set in one of my fave places in the world & written by a fave writer friend 👏🙏💙 @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

encountered this art experience-in-progress over the Seine a couple of days ago 👀 #JR #PublicArt #Paris #photography more info here: parisjetaime.com/eng/article/...

go Philly writer! ordering your Delaware Valley-infused spec flash rn! here’s the link if others are similarly spookily inclined 👇

Philly pound cake—fancy enough for me 😋

meanwhile, in the *real* world 👇

could AI glasses psychosis become a thing 🧐

is this a promise or a threat 😳

ah but the real success is all the failures we made along the way 😜

prompt: write a #flash #fiction that takes place in this hotel in #Paris under *that* sky #France #photography #writing

In July, a submissions call for Flash Fiction Online will open for the special "Aftermath" issue. I wanted to give first the greatest of thanks to @flashfictiononline.bsky.social for the opportunity to guest edit. One may see the submission guideline below: www.patreon.com/posts/themed...

this def a level up 😱

It's time for another microfiction contest! 💻⭕🔥 To celebrate the release of @jasonsanford.bsky.social's PLAGUE BIRDS: THE RED DAY EDITION, we're placing AI back in the hands of its true creators: YOU. AI submissions NOT accepted. The deadline is May 25th. We look forward to reading your work 🖤👽