Phew, sounds like we might be employed in the future after all! Someone's going to have to fix all the mistakes the computers make as they do the jobs we used to do, sign me up

Another Stanislaw Lem story predicts future tech -- someone has invented the exasperating "Automatthew's Friend"! (Check out Lem's Mortal Engines, my favorite of the books called Mortal Engines, though Philip Reeve's isn't bad either.)

A really cool combination of story and game. I have a copy, and you can have one too!

Going to need a bigger cornucopia to hold this bounteous harvest

Had this lovely visitor to our porch this morning.

my poetry chapbook From the Yew is now available for pre-order from @the-ethelzine.bsky.social

Painted this weirdly cute blob on Saturday. I think it's the reddish patch that almost makes it look like it's smiling... but is it really?

my new story is up at Graywolf Labs! "If Your Grave Is Unmarked, Assume Positive Intent" is about trans motherhood, desperation, and playing PUBG Mobile in a gas station parking lot. Please read and share! graywolflab.org/2025/08/22/i...

Ha ha, a bot that responds to mentions of "science fiction" with inane encouraging posts misattributes one of the most famous sf quotes of all time

Once again pointing to my gigantic sign that says “place descriptions are an element of viewpoint and should be used to reveal character” The lake view a 90-year-old widower whose husband died by drowning sees is not the one a 22-year-old freshly graduated geologist does

In response to the severe flooding in Texas, Illinois has deployed a team of urban search and rescue members to the state to assist in its ongoing recovery efforts. When folks are in need, our state will be there to help.

Want to play a game I created? I recommend Lime Ergot! I've heard it works as a nice first piece of interactive fiction to try because of its size and scope. astrobolism.itch.io/lime-ergot

mmm uncursed pancakes

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Leonora Carrington.

Want to read a weird book? I have some copies of Polymer to sell, one of which I will mail to you (in the US) for $15 --the question I asked myself as I began to write it: what if I combine the vibes of Castlevania and Purple Rain?

For the remainder of anti-Prime week, I'll send you a signed copy of my collection while supplies last for only $15, shipping included (US only). I've got a dozen or so available. DM me if interested.

My text games are in the Steam sale! If you're into queer, complicated, highly player-responsive dark academia or mob-boss blood magic, plus friendship/romance/backstabbing with messy characters, check them out! If you like my work and haven't played HONOR BOUND, now is a great time to pick it up:

I find myself buying less stuff overall (yay), but one thing I'm buying *more* of is small press and DIY fiction. Buying things directly from authors and publishers is the way to go! I recommend this zine bundle www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/zine...

If you’re interested in weird trans femme poetry in these trying times, I have a few ebooks for you. This is a long epic adeniro.itch.io/the-shanty-i...

This is getting reposted because the book has earned out its advance and is paying royalties to me and all the contributors!

A lot of things are bad. But some good things remain! Such as books. The mail brought me these in the last two days. I hadn't read anything by Kyle Winkler before, loving Enter the Peerless already (always fun to read a book where the narrator travels all around my locale). Black Brane soon!

[Charles W. Stewart illustration for Mervyn Peake. “On The Way to the Doctor.”]

If you want us to keep releasing cool things, please, please, please check out our current catalog and pick something up. We have everything from literary polite horrors to Nazi-killing splatterfests. Buy something today and I'll ship it this afternoon: www.cursedmorselspress.com

The trailer for Bugonia is really good: it doesn't give anything away beyond the basic premise but does impart the vibe of the movie, it doesn't have a melancholy pop song cover but does excellently use Greenday's Basket Case, and there is a weird and wonderful typeface.

If you see this, quote with your green art.

Went to type up a story I read out at the end of last year, which existed only in the scraps of paper I wrote it on, and discovered I had lost the last scrap, and had forgotten how it even ended! Nice try universe, I'm going to write a better ending now

Some nice shiny reddish purple hollyhocks in our garden. They are surrounded by a fence because we discovered this year that groundhogs will eat tiny hollyhock leaves as they sprout.

We have this neat patch of daylilies that blooms a few weeks after the others in the area, but they all have double (sometimes triple) petals.

If you see this, post some good adverbs. "The Loan Originator speaks confidently about complicated things competently." (Pest, by Michael Cisco, CLASH Books 2023)

I enjoy drinking coffee and reading (at the same time even)

Working at a bookstore in Nashville. Reese Witherspoon came to the counter to buy a book (or something; I don't remember what it was). Her credit card said "Ask for ID" so I did, and she showed me her ID. It was legit

Here it is! The official cover for SUICIDE MUSIC out next month from @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social pre-order here: www.thirdestatebooks.com/store/p/suic...

I have a lot of Michael Cisco books, but they're not enough! It's a good thing @clashbooks.bsky.social is putting out Black Brane soon.

New @michaelcisco.bsky.social novel coming from @clashbooks.bsky.social next month, "a story of physical and emotional pain, of social and quantum entanglement, that turns comic, speculative, and nightmarish." www.cbsd.com/978196098861...

[Happy 91st birthday to Spanish Surrealist Gervasio Gallardo, who painted 29 covers for Ballantine Adult Fantasy, including works by Lovecraft, Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, Peter S. Beagle, Hope Mirrlees, and George MacDonald.]

I KNEW if we kept doom scrolling things would improve eventually!

Happy Pride Month! As June kicks off with pride flags galore, we’re showing off some color in our collection.

This is probably the best road sign out there

Very happy to be on this cover!

We are working with @storybundle.bsky.social to raise money for @msf.ca with a bundle of animal-themed fantasies by Peter Beagle, R.M. Lemberg, Stephen Gregory, @aletheakontis.com, and many more from @tachyonpub.bsky.social and @valancourtbooks.bsky.social Please reskeet storybundle.com/animals

A minor source of enjoyment*: you're reading a book the previous owner has annotated, but they only wrote on the first chunk of pages, and then you come to the part they didn't get to! *(and there's no source too minor these days)

Can anybody identify this peculiar device? It's awesome - but the owner has no idea what it is.

KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST, my first novel in five years, has a cover and is conveniently up for pre-order! Please buy indie, @ebbooksellers.bsky.social or your local! (EBB orders will be signed!) www.ebbooksellers.com/item/Hq3ZF19...

Hubris is taking a while to resolve

We just got word that a new candidate has entered the Conclave. The pope made them a cardinal in secret because of the delicate political situation in Liurnia.

Ooh, great game! My favorite use of "victory points" in any board game, in how the define the characters.

An impossible question, just one favorite? But let's say Jeffrey Ford's Daddy Long Legs of the Evening.

Wilmer's box remained unseen above cheese.

I've been replaying Patrick's Parabox, really enjoy that beautiful music