“🥖” Brewing Rebellion https://qb.foofaraw.press/brewing-rebellion/

I’ve been getting a series of phishing emails from /totally/ real publishing agents. The first one was pretending to be from THE Robin Wall Kimmerer (first clue it was fake) saying she loved my novel (second clue - I have not written a novel).

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THIS MONTH... CONTRIBUTIONS FROM... APRIL CRUMBS WINNERS Joan Sosin, K.A. Vargas, Kelsey Flaherty, Lorraine Schein, Nicholas De Marino AND... Andrew E. Love, Jr., Beth Sherman, E.J. LeRoy, Gabrielle Bleu, Gail Brown, H. Marin, Isabel Night, Jason Ryberg, Karama Neal, Karl El-Koura, Katie […]

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

One of the greatest small joys in life is seeing people wave at my cat when she's sitting in her window perch

In February, my drabble “Liqueur Literacy” was a co-winner for @flashpointsf.bsky.social’s 2025 drabble contest! A liquor aficionado must face off against an alien that has taken over their wine cellar. Check out my story, and the co-winner today! flashpointsf.com/2026/02/27/i...

What I read this week: Unstamatic's Fat Bear Flash from 2022. "If a Bear" by Kelli Lage has some great word-play; fun and biting and melancholic. "Saudade" by Jody Pasdigselv is a lovely wistful piece about alienation from and connection with the natural world. unstamatic.com/portfolio/fa...

Keep calling, keep protesting, keep organizing. Trump threatened to kill an entire civilization w/ nuclear weapons just last week. We can't sit around and ignore this for 2 weeks. It's our duty to stop him. Get loud. 5calls.org/issue/stop-ira

#Writesky Have you been wanting to improve your writing by reading poetry? Here's your chance: a FREE reading series during April. Get curated poems daily in your inbox along with exercises to build poetic muscles. Learn more: subscribepage.io/YF4FYE #writersofbluesky #writingcommunity

Join me for a Launch Party on April 4th 2026! I'd love it if you joined me for a free event on Zoom, happening on April 4th 2026 at 2pm EDT. Sign up here! www.christianeknight.com/join-me-for-... #booksky #🪐📚💙

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM is available to preorder now: store.tenebrouspress.com cover art by @mxmorgan.com #transdayofvisibility #tdov

Very excited to be part of this!

My flash fiction "Apotropaic PPE" is now available to read at Quotidian Bagatelle by @foofarawpress.bsky.social! A wildlife vaccinator saddled with a trainee does her grumpy best to keep him safe. Read the story here: qb.foofaraw.press/apotropaic-p...

New podcast episode today, produced and edited by Aaron Kling, has @annapele.eu reading @wordskatter.bsky.social's "Fixing the System in Tilt Town" from Reckoning 8, a story about a neurodivergent engineer who discovers the solution for dystopia is community: reckoning.press/podcast-epis...

we should all read gormenghast. we should all be reading more gormenghast by mervyn peake. everybody get more gormenghast now

Tomorrow! Still time to register! shorturl.at/qe1Rj

I had the absolute pleasure of reading an early draft of this story and the final version is incredible! Everyone go read Pamela Jean Herber’s “Seen”!

From the Point of View of a Cat ~ Karel Capek (translated by Dora Round - originally published in Intimate Things, 1935)

And reminder, this is why Hick is withdrawing. These are the preliminary results for senate delegates in the counties that have finished the assembly process, and he is getting ROMPED.

You heard it from John Hickenlooper himself: Julie Gonzales can win this state as an abolish ICE, Medicare for all, no compromise with fascists, Democrat. Let's get her elected.

I had two stories published this week! "Mayfly Sun" in @ratbaglit.bsky.social A once-in-a-lifetime emergence of a rare and wondrous species leaves a gathered crowd aboard a dozen spaceships waiting with baiting breath. ratbaglit.substack.com/p/mayfly-sun

My newest science fiction story is out! Insects! Stellar phenomena! Melancholy! ☀️🕶️🪰 Check it out over @ratbaglit.bsky.social !

I am so stoked for this.

My newest science fiction story is out! Insects! Stellar phenomena! Melancholy! ☀️🕶️🪰 Check it out over @ratbaglit.bsky.social !

Excited for this! 6 authors & their fantasy/sci-fi/horror. Lasts 1 hour. 7 PM central. Free but you'll need to sign up for the link! #SWSWQR @swsworlds.bsky.social @authorterribruce.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social @linseymiller.bsky.social @gabriellebleu.bsky.social @engagereaders.bsky.social

Follow the authors here: @linseymiller.bsky.social @gabriellebleu.bsky.social @angeliquejamail.bsky.social @engagereaders.bsky.social And Strong Women - Strange Worlds at @swsworlds.bsky.social and me for updates about our QuickRead events! #SWSWQR

Check out this upcoming LIVE, Virtual (via Zoom) event featuring #womenauthors and #nonbinaryauthors of #sciencefictionbook #fantasybooks and #horrorbooks. It's fast, it's fun, and it's always amazing. You're sure to find at least one new author to love 💗 #SWSWQR tinyurl.com/m5n37k5n

19 MARCH 📖6 AUTHORS📖8 MINUTE READINGS hosted by @swsworlds.bsky.social Join us in ten days and find your next favorite SFFH book! I'll be reading my favorite passage from THAT DEVIL, AMBITION. There will also be some giveaways for the books being read.

Happening TOMORROW! It's not too late to register and join my favorite twice-monthly live author reading event!

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Part two of favorite stories from anthologies I've been in and have print copies! "A Mathematician's Guide to Being Normal" by Sam E. Sutin "mirrorcat" by Robert Dawson "five rivers you must lay your eyes upon: a travel guide by gervaise the grizzled" by Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social

I'm doing my first ever public reading! Join me as I read an excerpt from my short story “Five Rivers You Must Lay Your Eyes Upon: A Travel Guide by Gervaise the Grizzled” from the anthology “This Exquisite Topology: a collection of happy abstractions.” Free to attend on Zoom on March 19th! #SWSWQR

YOU are capable of utterly unique breathtaking art. every single person reading this is a miracle of existence, and you have infinite masterpieces of creation just spilling off of you all the time. there is no reason to compare yourself to the infinite masterpieces of anyone else. theres enough room

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

I’m watching the original Amityville Horror from 1979 and the house is only $80,000???? I’d put up with the anything for that price

look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.

Doing important linguistic research on my bilingual cat: Does she prefer I call the meal she gets when I return from work "faspa" or "goûter" in the context of the little meal song I sing her? Results remain inconclusive

Watching "Les Affamés" before walking to the gym in the dark was perhaps....a mistake

My 100-word drabble "Beyond the Vents" was one of the stories chosen for Manawaker Studios 100 x 100 January prompt "Bubbles." You can read my tale of the most intrepid sea creature to ever venture into open air here: www.patreon.com/posts/100-wo...

First page teaser to Gabrielle’s story.

I see some copies of Gargantua 👀 It has my short story "The End of Night on Second-Day" in it! Hester Cross, the last of a dead family line, resolves to liberate the sun from the thieves who stole it and to live one moment in the sunlight. If you're in Pittsburgh stop by and pick up a copy!

Probably my biggest pet peeve about listening to audiobooks is how some men do awful falsettos for the women characters. She simply does not sound breathy and mincing like that. Do a normal voice!

ICYMI, our general submission window is open this entire month! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! Guidelines & schedule: www.havenspec.com/submit/

Books I read in January! Frankenstein - Mary Shelley -1818 The Willows - Algernon Blackwood - 1907 Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology - edited by S. D. Vassallo and Steven M. Long - 2021 Creatures of Another Age: Classic Visions of Prehistoric Monsters - edited by Richard Fallon - 2021

thinking about the observation (quoted by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...) that "italics are a form of apology" "I find myself asking: do we really need to explain everything to the imagined Western reader?"

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...