So, apparently, when you’re learning your third language, the first two give up on you 🤔 #writerslife #randomobservations

In the #eventuality of her death, however unlikely, she asked to be buried at sea. The ice-cold blue, fading to black, seemed like a perfect antithesis to the smoldering agony of her immortal, phoenix blood. She dreamed of it sometimes, when the burn of her fire had her struggling for breath #vss365

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 24-SEP-25 is: Attach & Excuse #Prompt

if I continue scrolling for just a few more minutes I will reach the end + enlightenment & be free

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 23-SEP-25 is: Truth & Wall #Prompt

Daily bunny no.3086 unearths a tome

FREE SCI-FI & FANTASY SEPTEMBER 2025 books.bookfunnel.com/scififantasy... #ScienceFiction #mustread #readers #bookworms #TBR #fantasy #ian1 #IARTG #Booksky

Today is the last day to enter our 2025 Fiction Competitions! ⏰ Ready to enter? We're rooting for you! 👏 mslexia.co.uk/competitions... P.S. If you've already entered, give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 20-SEP-25 is: Priest & Found #Prompt

He has not a care In one hundred galaxies Orange cat sleeping #scifaikusaturday #care #haiku

The 20 September 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #CARE ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

I have a new story in Craft Literary, “Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk Into the Woods”, about the people & places that haunt us. would be so thrilled for you to read this one 👻 🌲 🤍 www.craftliterary.com/2025/09/19/t...

Shout out to @chuckwendig.bsky.social, who wrote an excellent book on how to write compelling narrative, which I reference every year in my Science Communication course.

Celebrate New Books Today! @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @jonathanjanz.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social @quillandcrow.com @rebelsam94.bsky.social List in the alt text!

"During the intermission, I text my wife: The age of visionary outerwear is ending. She texts me back 'okay.'"

New Short Story, Long Day! New Amber Sparks Day! It's @ambersparks.bsky.social on SSL day! (w/ some new fave story art from @philmcandrew.bsky.social!)

Birds #conspire against him. Puffed up balls of feathers, long-beaked liars, their ceaseless chirping drives him crazy. The woman he married rolls her eyes, turns to her phone, but he knows the truth. He stretches foil across the windows, obscuring the light. “That’ll show them,” he mutters #vss365

Join SmokeLong for Promptember! This series of write-ins and open mics is free! Let's write! Donations will go to @sundresspub.bsky.social and their fellowships/residencies for trans, black and/or indigenous writers. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

send us your walking blood bags, about to burst

Trees fail to #rein in the wind. Off the straining branches, leaves scatter and fly and fall. Airborne no longer, they drag across the gray parking lots scratching like claws against the asphalt. #vss365

Brussels book catch 😊 Came back home from @saloneurope.bsky.social with some cool books to read 📚📚📚 #booksky

A beautiful review from @libraryjournal.bsky.social for Caskey Russell's debut THE DOOR ON THE SEA, first in a new epic fantasy trilogy inspired by the folklore and culture of the Tlingit tribe "Astounding...a highly nuanced and complex novel." Out October '25. Preorder geni.us/doorsea

Chained Knight by @lilithsaintcrow.com A woman on the run. A summer storm. Lightning…and landslide. #DarkFantasy #Romancelandia #BookSky Buy: Kindle: www.amazon.com/Chained-Knig...

A fabulous review with R. T. Ester/ @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social in @publisherswkly.bsky.social discussing his forthcoming SciFi debut - The Ganymedan! V-Dot flees across space after murdering the most powerful man in the galaxy... Preorder now, Out Nov '25. geni.us/ganym

In the town of #Flinching denizens lurk in the shadows. They slide along the walls, whisper insults at the cooing pigeons. We didn’t stay there long, the loud noises of our breathing an affront to the trembling beauty of streets and squares. #vss365

In case you missed it this morning...

Little poems to start the day at the @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels 😊 This was such a fun, nourishing session. Thank you @dilyswt.bsky.social 🙏

Are you looking for a little eco-horror read for your weekend? Something appropriate for the dawn of spooky season? Might I suggest Haunted Ecologies? Might I let @benloory.bsky.social suggest haunted ecologies???

Here’s to a week of writing inspiration ☕️☕️☕️ I’m in Brussels and the @saloneurope.bsky.social begins in less than an hour 😊

On my way to Brussels for a weekend of writing, reading, and meeting new people at @saloneurope.bsky.social 🚂🚂🚂

To say I've been creating under adversity these last few yrs is a GIGANTIC understatement. I am therefore unreasonably satisfied Miss Kaiyah Regrets, She's Unable to Text, Today (deeply weird mashup of body horror, grief, and breath play), available as of midnight, exists. Trigger warnings aplenty.

BOO! They Fear Not Men in the Woods by Gretchen McNeil has crept out of its hiding places to let you know that it's released TOMORROW! This book for those who enjoy horror and love the creeping dread of Catriona Ward and Sarah Gailey 🪾🫣 buff.ly/iXdPi1x

If you dig deep enough, you find things. That’s what my grandma always said before cancer took half her brain and her words with it. I told the crew to stop the excavation but got voted down. Now they stand around the #doorway in the pit and the smiles on their vacant faces bloom crimson. #vss365

Have a read of this with your morning ☕️ 🇫🇷 We're going to Paris! 🖋 Fantastic courses in poetry, prose, and memoir 📖 Another European Book Club 🖥 Online Salon Don't miss out! @grahammort.bsky.social @susannacrossman.bsky.social

The 06 September 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #FEAR ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

An early spooky-season celebration! Plenty of novels and omnibuses (omnibii?) are 20% off in ebook through my Payhip store, until 9/15. payhip.com/lilithsaintcrow

oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

It's that time again so: B&N members can pre-order my debut novel YEAR OF THE MER and get a 25% discount using code PREORDER25 thru 9/5. Adult, sapphic, mermaid-y, I go on a rant about Ariel (The Little Mermaid Who Lived) and Ursla gets the attn she deserves! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/year-of-th...

Pledged and got a Brian Evenson thingy. Worth taking a look. Story critiques. Signed stuff. I can count the number of long-running weird horror short story venues on my hand. Worth backing one that's been around for 25 years. Still some time but not a lot.

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Bright white nova blast Over the frozen tundra Night ripped in pieces #scifaikusaturday #nova #haiku #scifi

The 30 August 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #NOVA ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs

Red planet Malformed by quake Not living #scifaikusaturday #quake #vss365 #malformed

Quake tears up asphalt An unbecoming chaos After the tremors #scifaikusaturday #quake

The 23 August 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #QUAKE ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

🚨Giveaway Alert!🚨Summerween is still not over, and in honor of this spooky and sweltering fun, enter on Storygraph for a chance to win an advanced copy of Slayers of Old by Jim C. Hines! Open US only. Ends 9/18. buff.ly/ZqPgS32

Because I have entirely too much going on right now, this is also your occasional reminder that THE FOLDED SKY is on deeeeeep discount in the UK and Europe in ebook-- 99p or equivalent at your favorite ebook retailer!