I have worn a mask in public for over 5 years. My husband has had profound, life-changing long Covid for over 4 years, and now our kid does as well. I can’t imagine I will stop masking unless their circumstances change. And for what it’s worth I haven’t had even a cold for the last four+ years.

"Tuesday" is my I-wouldn't-call-it-LOVE letter to Military SciFi. It's my "Octavia E. Butler is my favorite author" story. It asks daring questions like, "What if your bosses made you think an enormous house centipede was kind of sexy?"

thank you to the lovely folks at hex for the nomination, this is so exciting!

this story is so goddamn intricate and heartbreaking and beautiful and painful and monsterfucky. it’ll stick with you for a long time.

"Tuesday" by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social is a heartwarming tale of love between alien and human. Sort of. smallwondersmag.com/...

The heart knows what the heart wants, and today: it's the alien. You'll fall in love too with "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing In The World" by @elijah.mea.rs:

In fact, let’s do this. Comment with what you’re looking for and I’ll try to recommend a read from a Palestinian author for you from my reading list. I’ll do my best to find you a match.

the closest match i find: two pebbles, carved into miniature, near-identical foxes. differences only appear in defects inflected by unskilled hands. two carvers on opposite sides of the world, centuries apart, foxes tucked away in stony caves. i oft dream of attempting to carve them a third sibling.

My award eligibility post this year is very short and bitter. The Dragon, my second horror story, combines the folklore of my family’s village and the Nakba story of what happened to my family. It is available in Palestine -1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba. commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

i kinda wanna start revising this story but i'm kinda scared to once again deal with the world's most caustic protagonist

GoFundMe has deleted my friend Sama'a's account and refunded its donors. She is struggling with depression and despair and needs our support now more than ever. They have created a new fundraiser to help them survive in the war-torn wreckage of Gaza City. chuffed.org/project/1575...

so in my spreadsheet i use to track submissions i color code all my stories, but i'm running into a problem, which is how many of them are different shades of grey. i think i might be a bit addicted to melancholy

finished my reread of the haunting of hill house and it continues to be the best book of all time. the final chapter is this beautiful horrible thing and i wish so badly i could use words like that

i have a horrible addiction to writing tropes i dislike. the coming out story from the pov of the cisgender parents, the war story from the pov of the imperialist soldier. viewpoints that decenter the marginalized. i like trying to manipulate those povs to show who gets excluded from their own story

i heart writing unpublishable stories

i wish, so desperately, i know how to write a character introduction as astounding as shirley jackson’s

Allison Mulder's "If We Live to Be Giants" wrestles with what it's like to live in a household where who you are is not to be spoken of. We suspect some of you might have had a similar experience.

can you believe this foxgirl just wrote a melancholy quiet flash piece? who could have seen this coming...

writing maybe the messiest short story i've ever written

finally working again on my story about a haunted house, the isolation of trans women, and the world's least healthy crush. i missed this damn story.

oh this is the kind of story i'm obsessed with. concise and sharp and heartbreaking, unwilling to step off the emotional gas pedal, so thoroughly engrossed in the voice of this dedicated devoted despairing limerence. ouagh

“It’s Charli’s Body, You’re Just Living In It” is my ode to fraught queer friendships, portal fantasies, and trying to mend what you can in a wounded world. Now free to read in @heartlines-spec.com: www.heartlines-spec.com/its-charlis-...

Hi! I have a story out in Small Wonders today! This is a little horny gremlin of a tale and I hope you take a chance on it, if you're into words and whatnot.

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st! We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th. Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

I think this is the best thing I have ever written: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/sile...

finally got around to making my collage for wine-dark eyes! this one's for those who like fish and mist and calm horror and missed connections.

first piece i've written for this writing group and it might be the strangest hungriest 200 words ive ever written

my evil evil plan to make a writing group is working

new story day! i'm very proud of this story and its strange tidal tone. check it out!!

Friends, new story day at Weird Horror! It's @junewhitewrites.bsky.social 's divine "Wine-Dark Eyes." The ocean calls. Will you answer? www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/winedark-eyes

it's magical realism month at the hospital and the success rate of surgery has gone WAY down

finding out i have an ai overview for let her collect stamps is the funniest thing to happen to me today

New issue of Weird Horror is here from @undertow.bsky.social! Featuring work from @acwise.bsky.social, Andrew Humphrey, Cyan Katz, David Demchuk, David Peak, Jack Klausner, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Juniper White, Mary Kuryla, Michael Kelly, and Rory Say: weightlessbooks.com/weird-horror...

It's release day for Weird Horror 11. Another disquieting and disturbing foray into the Weird. Subscriber copies have begun to mail. Artwork by @strangegodsart.bsky.social What a ToC! Grab your copy now: www.weirdhorrormagazine.com

took me a while to get to it, but finally wrote my blog post abt my piece published in @tinymolecules.bsky.social. have some thoughts on invasion of the body snatchers and our cultural fear of codependence! juniperwrites.neocities.org/journal/myco...

finishing a story and realizing its 1200 words is a strange divine punishment

got a typewriter and immediately wrote a new piece for the first time in months. we may be so back

As a child, editor Elou once fell in a pond. We're not certain the person who emerged was the same one who fell. They're strange things, ponds. Unpredictable. "XVIII. The Moon" by @junewhitewrites.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/05/17/x...

DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc

you can read Sturgeon Award Finalist ✨💀🖤 @esther-alter.bsky.social's Rachel Is at a Protest here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

the moon, in tarot, represents reflections, illusions, the subconscious. my new flash is about ponds and doubles and the moon :3 this story has a tw for implied csa. keep yourself safe <3

the moon, in tarot, represents reflections, illusions, the subconscious. my new flash is about ponds and doubles and the moon :3 this story has a tw for implied csa. keep yourself safe <3

some of the collages ive been making for my stories :3 its been really fun getting to experiment in a new medium

new blog post up! my reflection on my story in @hexliterary.bsky.social - have some thoughts on subjectivity and neurodivergence and flash fiction! juniperwrites.neocities.org/journal/umwelt

oh btw. turned in my thesis. i wrote a whole novella huh. thats kinda insane <3

“When she finds the cat at the supermarket doors, Lucia will look to the skies and say, “Oh, now this is cruelty.” The sky will be silent silver.” This beautifully eerie story by @junewhitewrites.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

i have a weird future tense flash piece in this! shepherd in spring with my story about a beautiful flowering Apocalypse :3

so delighted to be included on this list! as for metaphor and meaning, i was thinking a lot about subjectivity and the human experience while writing umwelt, but this is also my twilight zone "wouldn't this be fucked up" story :p