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Nothing like reading “we’re happy you…” and feeling hope/excitement for 1 ms before the “however, we will not.”

My story "For Love and Country" is out in Luna Station Quarterly: www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/063/ "Survivors carried invisible burdens—the guilt of their survival, what they did to keep it—in their minds and the rest in their lungs. "

Usually I am a stickler for rhyme and meter but I have a short free-verse poem "Meat in the Machine" in this anthology: graveside-press.com/product/gath...

Story Discussion Time: Link to your favorite spec 100-~2,000-word short story by someone else from the past 10ish years. Let's go!

“I miss you more than I remember you.” ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

happy ✨cover✨ day (and some reading material for ya!)

The struggle to write is timeless:

"We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky Incredibly resonant. And o, there are so very many wars.

Note to self: include more Shakespeare in my academic publications:. "Nothing will come from nothing" is baller to use in critiquing the theory of de novo development of ovarian cancer in this oldie but goodie review: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Postmodern Jukebox changes the genre but keeps the lyrics. Is there a band (besides Weird Al) that does the opposite, keeps the genre/beat but changes the words?

Besides the themes and concepts that draw and expand on so many of the great dystopian classics, I really enjoy how @thomasha.bsky.social writes parent-child relationships. Give these two a read. clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_08_24/ clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/

The poem Grass by Carl Sandburg pairs well with my flash "Eyes on History" media.nature.com/original/mag... Maybe sometimes we ought to let the grass rest.

Check out "Eight Legs of the Mother Hunted" by @brandoncase101.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/eigh... exemplifying the sacrifices of mother/parenthood throughout the animal kingdom

#Sinners is outstanding. The music alone makes it worthwhile but it also has important things to say about culture, creativity, assimilation, appropriation, erasure, racism. The choices made in this film should be studied for years to come. Can't wait to read the script.

I am so super excited to be guest editing a FamPunk FFO! Take a break from the big-picture. Casually incorporate science & technology. Embrace quotidian else-when life. Give us alternative families in alternative spaces. Read more (& feel free to ask questions below): ffo.submittable.com/submit

I also have "Feeling Sick" web.archive.org/web/20230203... pubbed a while back, which touches on similar concept as the Black Mirror "Common People" episode. Black mirror, I am available if you're looking for writers ;) #blackmirror

My story "Subscriber's Only" in Monstrous Futures imagined a subscription-based world before Black Mirror's Common People, but what Black Mirror does with it is beyond haunting. A horrifying and painful episode to watch, that feels too close to our future.

Amazing stories here, including "Museum of Monstrous Curiosities" by me! So honored to be part of this episode and to hear my characters brought to life. Thank you to The NoSleep Podcast and the narrators for their amazing work.

At least I can feel less guilty about not having the capacity to write this week.

This is what is happening: So many important cancer research programs just gone.

Defiance for (ethical) Science

Unlearn helplessness and do something. Anything. Chaotic Good lets go.

With eggs like these who needs chicken

Severance is the most horrifying SF I have ever seen and I've seen some shit.

May no ones taste grow so insensitive despite the hells we live through

Mavka by A.D. Sui is about what it takes to survive and what survival takes from us. Set during Holodomor, a genocide that killed millions of Ukrainians, it's a must read now more than ever. I am incredibly honored to have narrated this and hope I did it justice. pseudopod.org/2025/02/21/p...

To spin Ukraine as the aggressor is the start of a very short plan to make the American people "know" 2+2 =5 слава Українi

The Internet Archive is like the modern-day library of Alexandria. Let keep the firewalls on this one safe and prevent history from repeating itself.

“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher” - Les Misérables by Victor Hugo How did a human writing in the 1840s complete a work so profound and relevant to this day. Will I ever read anything else as good?

Scared as I am to live these stories (because look around) I can't wait to read them.

"They were savages, yes; but the savages of civilization[...] For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians" -Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

A beautiful retelling of Red Riding Hood that explores the trauma of surviving such a horrific event and the shame of having been so fooled to begin with. Give it a read: www.unnervingbooks.com/single-post/...

"Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought."- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”

There are two kinds of people. Those who stick with the puzzle from the beginning and those who join too enthusiastically near the end when it is easy.

My faith in humanity gets restored a little every time I see strangers offer to take photos of couples/families trying to get a selfie.

My black mirror horror novel coming to life before my eyes.

People: How nerdy are you making your kids? Me: Yes www.fellowshipthemusical.com

"But though her thoughts were rich and complicated, her words were poor..." - Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Why I always feel like I am disappointing people when they compare my published works to how I speak

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"We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” — Anaïs Nin Currently I am having a hard time seeing

Thrilled to announce the RURAL FANTASY 🏞️🧚🏻‍♂️🦸‍♂️🧙🏕️ issue at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social It was a pleasure to serve as guest editor! Don’t miss out on these amazing stories—each one found in the slush pile!

Got noms? Here are my eligible works for 2024 awards. The short stories aren't free so hit me up and I gotchu. "Eyes on History" a short flash about the gulag and the future of misery tourism. Published in Nature Futures Free to read: media.nature.com/original/mag...

We funded a mag. Then a PRESS. NOW... 🎙️🎧 Let's fund a WORLDBUILDING PODCAST ! Murmurstations launched in '24 on a $0 budget Recorded, mixed, published & marketed with grit alone ! We fund its budget @ $17.5k CAD 😍 + what's AFTER $17.5k? We'll fund 2 more books + open to BOOK submissions!

So much of it is also false hope. The agony of knowing a submitted story will likely be rejected but hoping beyond hope for an acceptance because as Faulkner wrote "who knows why a man, though suffering, clings, above all the other well members, to the arm or leg which he knows must come off?"

"The Tub" is almost too realistic a glimpse into how a break from the kids, a calm, fleeting moment to yourself, becomes more, becomes a horrifying depth unspoken, unspooling the very thread of what you are and will never be again.

I'm undecided between a california turkey club and southwestern eggrolls: mcsweeneys.net/articles/chi... What are you having? Tempting to make menus in the voices of other author favorites.

Needing to scratch that horror itch for October? @flashfictiononline.bsky.social's weird horror issue gotchu.

With immense gratitude to @aijiang.bsky.social I invite you all to immerse yourself once more into the haunting world of #Linghun and check out our conversation about it here: yelenacrane.com/blog/ The unasked question: How does Ai find the time for this?