"Tuesday", my most recent short story, is available for free, and I'd be eternally grateful if you read it and considered it for any awards you're able to nominate stories for: smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/

Do you like hard SF and mommy issues? Were you forced to memorize 靜夜思 in Chinese school? I have the novellete for you!

I love doing my yearly recap where I look back over the year! Here’s to ushering out 2025 well and turning my face to 2026.

ah yes, the game most famously known as the prequel to Riven

new wise men dropped for epiphany

it’s-happening-dot-gif

Chat, help me bully @misty.granades.com into naming her hand-me-down Mac laptop “Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way”.

and I'm so proud of my one published piece this year. trying not to feel like I'm failing for not having the most published short stories in a year. writing is a marathon, not a sprint, etc etc 💜 🌆 read "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter": www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a...

For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...

My youngest kid got me Animal Well for Christmas and since it’s digital only, they made a card to go with it, and I think the card is lowkey possessed by a kangaroo.

Merry Christmas, everyone, we've reached peak AI.

There’s still time for three ghosts to visit our billionaires and totally wreck them.

Sometimes the dads (and families) are alright.

Update.

Locus Magazine is available as an ePub or PDF for all of you bookish eReader people! That way, you can fit it in your pocket and read it anywhere. Check out digital subscriptions here at subscribers.locusmag...

Chat, should I buy this 1991 fantasy novel by Piers Anthony for $1 y/n

*me, having been swamped with work all day and about to open Bluesky*: gosh, I wonder how the SFF community’s doing, I bet it’s been a calm Friday

For "Entries From My Grandmother's Diary Pertaining to My Father's Early Inflammation," our final December story, @marcc.bsky.social collaborated with his grandmother, Hazel Criley, for this striking story about a child's pyrokinesis in the 1930s.

It's been a hard year for a lot of us. @jyzh.bsky.social's poem, "From Dust", reminds us that we can carry on; we can make it whole again. smallwondersmag.com/...

Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.

Listen, I know we sometimes publish stories that go hard, but this one really goes hard. One for all the monsterfuckers out there.

Listen, I know we sometimes publish stories that go hard, but this one really goes hard. One for all the monsterfuckers out there.

This cover has lived in my head since I got the book as a kid.

Waiting for the Vox explainer for stucky; a hand-wringing article in The Atlantic about how stucky squeezes out wholesome gay stories; The Cut snarking about the previous two.

*me, watching Heated Rivalry on a prison security monitor* stucky has breached containment, i repeat, stucky has breached containment

Night two and I’m watching Dredd, which is Alex Garland being absolutely unhinged and yet delivering a tightly constructed story that rewards close watching.

“No Laughter in a Vacuum” by @annaclark.bsky.social and “Dislocated” by @granades.com from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social

In this slop-drenched age I take great delight in folks being really fuckin’ extra in pursuit of an artistic vision.

Knives Out is such an exquisitely crafted movie.

🎉🎉🎉 Lots of big news around here today: -My oldest young adult just got a job offer before she’s graduated. -My youngest young adult just finished all of their college applications. -And I myself have finished my end of the year blog post which means I’m done with my blog for the year. 🎉🎉🎉

Our Corgi can look remarkably like a stuffed animal. #corgisky

Join us for a moment of wonder and hurt and magic, when Itze meets "A Country of Feathers and Scars" under a bridge in Central Park, brought to us by @notsantiago.bsky.social:

Super excited to see @cypayseur.bsky.social recommend my teleportation story “Dislocated”! Read that and Charles’s other reviews at locusmag.com/review/flash... and my story at www.flashfictiononline.com/article/disl...

Super excited to see @cypayseur.bsky.social recommend my teleportation story “Dislocated”! Read that and Charles’s other reviews at locusmag.com/review/flash... and my story at www.flashfictiononline.com/article/disl...

From her book the sales theoretical failed to launch the sales possible.

Co-signed. This is an excellent, creepy, touching collection of ghost stories.

please hire me, I am in need of hiring

Today's poem is a moment of curiosity and a wish for the future, in a bleak time and apparently bleak place. Read "In the Sloth Tunnels At A Time of War" by @danielausema.bsky.social:

A lot of my writerly personality is explained by 10-year-old me deciding to read all the Newberry winners in order starting from 1922.

Here's an update of all of the yarn, paper, and other projects I'm working on in December. Also, a link to an online exhibit my work is in!

Are raccoons on the fast track (or very, very slow track) to domestication? I don't think so. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/raccoons-d... Except that drunk one passed out in the Virginia liquor store. She gets a pass.

Our Corgi likes to sleep with her head under our furniture and also to bark with her whole chest and the combination is amazing. #corgisky

Our Corgi likes to sleep with her head under our furniture and also to bark with her whole chest and the combination is amazing. #corgisky

Steep a cup of tea and sit for a while with "You Cannot Help but Bloom" by @speculativekane.bsky.social. Consider, what (and who) makes you feel lighter, greener, freer? Reach out with the tendrils of your heart and let it blossom.

enshittification

Buncha slop-brained people who think building company towns in Sim City makes them ready when it just invites bear attacks. newrepublic.com/article/1596...

me watching the new Matlock: what a wild law case, I’m sure it won’t thematically tie into the interpersonal conflicts of the main characters

From the editor's mouth the contract theoretical launched the ended contract possible

Our reprint today is an unexpected connection between a sun and a hungry space creature. Check out "Eating the Sun" by @bethgoder.bsky.social here:

My nibling is composing music for a video I’m putting together & dang!! Turns out when you get a professional to do a job for you it turns out amazing. I CANNOT wait to share it!! #DrownedBookProject #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #ArtBook #Collage #AbstractWatercolor