Gio Clairval
@gioclair.bsky.social
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Writer from Paris and Lake Como
http://gioclairval.blogspot.com/p/stories.html?m=1
Y'all, I just got another short story acceptance (from The Literary Hatchet), but I'm MAD! Why oh why didn't the guys send their acceptance BEFORE the 31th of December, to gift me with my 20th sale of the year?
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The sky over [your city]
19 days ago
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Joyeux Noël!
20 days ago
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The moon was captured, too, entangled in the trees
23 days ago
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Two Santas were caught and trapped today. I wonder whether it's happening elsewhere
#Xmas
23 days ago
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I heard Finland’s president, Alexander Stubb, say they could mobilize a million people in an emergency. Out of ~6 million. And I got curious. So I looked up what other big European countries could realistically mobilize. Germany excluded, since it’s mid-rearm.
chatgpt.com/s/m_6945680a...
26 days ago
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Confused periwinkle
about 1 month ago
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Nathan W. Toronto
about 2 months ago
Bullet Points 11 @jamesaaron.net @slashnburnett.bsky.social @gioclair.bsky.social @henryherz.bsky.social @liamjhogan.bsky.social @gerrileen.bsky.social @grigorylukin.bsky.social @kurtnewton.bsky.social ‪@natashabennett.bsky.social @jeremyszal.bsky.social @ericfomley.bsky.social
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That plush, marshmallow look when snow lands on trees that still have their leaves
about 2 months ago
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Is it true that mornings hold gold? I keep squandering mine idly learning Mandarin and Norwegian — which, honestly, is far more fun than any other language I've studied. But maybe I should be *writing*
about 2 months ago
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Found out the Paris flat I sold a few years back went up in smoke last summer. Ex-tenant in cuffs, accused of lighting up the underground garage. 100+ apartments gutted, asbestos in the dust. Looks like I walked out just before the apocalypse moved in.
2 months ago
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Got a pneumococcum jab (anti-pneumonia) yesterday. I expected to be under the weather but all I have is a sore shoulder. I'd planned a lazy day, reading and doing nothing! Will chill out anyway
2 months ago
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Rainy Brighton sky the day before the World Fantasy Convention starts
#WFC
3 months ago
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I've got my 18th story acceptance of the year!!! Only two months left and I hope that I will get 20!
#amwriting
#publishing
#WritingCommunity
3 months ago
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I arrived yesterday at the hotel in Brighton for the World Fantasy Convention. My main credit card wasn't working and I'd forgotten the other card's PIN. For a long hour, I expected to sleep (comfortably!) on the pier.
#WFC
#Brighton
3 months ago
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They said, "No Kings!" So he had to steal the Empress's crown
#nokings
3 months ago
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reposted by
Gio Clairval
Nathan W. Toronto
3 months ago
Bullet Points 11: @jamesaaron.net @slashnburnett.bsky.social @gioclair.bsky.social @henryherz.bsky.social @liamjhogan.bsky.social @gerrileen.bsky.social @grigorylukin.bsky.social @kurtnewton.bsky.social ‪@natashabennett.bsky.social @jeremyszal.bsky.social #DarkMilSF
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Never again (sigh)
3 months ago
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Yes, yes, a great, great zine.
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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I wrote a military horror thing, and here it is, amon this garhering of excellent stories.
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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Lazy, who? Me? Not lazy—just a reluctant Stakhanovist. I avoid starting work because I know once I start, I won’t stop.
3 months ago
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Just hit my 16th story acceptance of 2025. Starting to wonder if I’ve crushed some kind of Guinness world record—or if I just need a Guinness
#amwriting
#writingcommunity
3 months ago
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A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended above a construction site during excavation works for the upcoming 50 Fenchurch Street skyscraper in London, designed by architecture studio Eric Parry Architects. (Dezeen)
4 months ago
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I’m thrilled to have a solarpunk story in the latest issue of Zoetic Press
www.zoeticpress.com/branded-merc...
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NonBinary Review Issue #41: Solarpunk — Zoetic Press
Solarpunk is the antidote to depressing dystopian lit. They start from the same place: environmental collapse, societal breakdown, resource scarcity. But solarpunk leans into the ingenuity and optimis...
https://www.zoeticpress.com/branded-merch/p/nonbinary-review-issue-41-solarpunk
4 months ago
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Gio Clairval
dogyard
4 months ago
Woah! Time flies when you're having fun. Only 26 days?? We can't wait to share these dogs with you, submit to find yourself in our little yard! We're open and
#reading
all work now! Submit
#poetry
,
#fiction
,
#essay
,
#art
,
#nonfiction
, and more today!
#dogyard
#litmag
#openforsubmissions
#writer
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I Like Free Speech So Much That I’ve Decided It’s Just Mine Now
open.substack.com/pub/mcsweene...
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I Like Free Speech So Much That I’ve Decided It’s Just Mine Now
by Eli Grober
https://open.substack.com/pub/mcsweeneysinternettendency/p/i-like-free-speech-so-much-that-ive?r=2rs5e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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Down with the flu. Also trapped with a feral mosquito that can live 6 weeks. Send help.
4 months ago
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I wrote a military horror-sf for Bullet Points, and it's on now!
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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London: The latest Bansky
4 months ago
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I've sold 15 stories this year (so far).
#WritingCommunity
#AmWriting
4 months ago
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reposted by
Gio Clairval
A little story of mine (I have 15 out in 2025)
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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I want to write a Gothic novel in which the victim is a young, beautiful man mistreated by some cruel young Alpha
#amwriting
#WritingCommunity
4 months ago
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A little story of mine (I have 15 out in 2025)
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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The Anatomy of “Othering”:
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
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The Anatomy of “Othering”:
How Authoritarians Build Permission for Violence
https://open.substack.com/pub/thecycle/p/the-anatomy-of-othering?r=2rs5e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
5 months ago
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ttps://relevantmagazine.com/current/oped19/the-mixed-reactions-to-superman-reveal-a-lot-about-america/
6 months ago
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I’ve written a novella in 12 days.
#writing
#WritingCommunity
6 months ago
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A tiny brass band is blasting Christmas carols in 100-degree heat from the neighbor’s backyard. If only their notes came with icicles and popsicles.
7 months ago
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Is this what momentum feels like? Ten short story acceptances in five months. Bragging? Moi? Never.
#WritingCommunity
#Writing
#Publishing
7 months ago
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This hottie is Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Hero of Two Worlds, born in Nice, 1807, he was not an American nor ever became one, but he lived a life that celebrated and fought for the principles that are the heart of the United States. He embraced (small r) republican nationalism and a unified Italy. 1/2
7 months ago
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It's not Barbie's car. Designer Gustaf Westman has created an all-pink Mercedes-Benz that integrates a picknick table and a tent. OMG! (Seen on Dezeen)
8 months ago
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Human beings are not the only species that can be total assholes. An astonishing observation: Young male monkeys abduct infants of a different monkey species and carry them around. As the babies need milk, and the abductors are young males, after a few days, the babies die.
8 months ago
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Do not warm up the egg!
#DragonDay
#TuesdayDragon
8 months ago
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Bergamo Alta, one of the gates to the city
8 months ago
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reposted by
Gio Clairval
Fusion Fragment
8 months ago
Issue #3 of Saros arrives soon! Edited by
@erratawrites.bsky.social
, this issue has flash fiction by
@gioclair.bsky.social
, CailĂn Frankland, and
@sylvie-althoff.bsky.social
, an interview with
@garykwolfe.bsky.social
, and that's not all! 1/2
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Cornell researchers have developed a robot that can be controlled by mushrooms (Dezeen)
9 months ago
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Three-legged heartthrob on his favorite sofa
9 months ago
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It'll never get old
9 months ago
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Who needs nap-inducing pajamas? "Japanese creative studio Konel has developed a sleepwear concept that uses embedded sound and lighting to promote sleep based on the wearer's biometric data." (Seen at Dezeen)
9 months ago
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Easter bunnies!
9 months ago
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“When a woman tries to behave like a human being, she is told she is trying to behave like a man.” --Simone de Beauvoir (« Quand une femme essaie de se comporter comme un être humain, on dit qu’elle essaie de se comporter comme un homme. »)
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