"What a Big Heart You Have," Marissa Lingen. Short story. Everyone who enjoys Tumblr fairy tales should read this as it's going to be 100% your jam. A grandma keeps getting herself into trouble; a granddaughter needs to learn that grandma can make her own decisions. kaleidotrope.net/archives/aut...

“Bruce, nuance is wonderful, but sometimes you have to kick them in the teeth.”--Tom Morello, and all of us, on "Streets of Minneapolis" (source: slate.com/culture/2026... )

I’m being reminded talk up my Patreon! - Weekly write-ins for all subscribers (inc. free) - Monthly inspiration & news you won’t get elsewhere - Monthly tier-level prompts, craft essays, & mini-workshops. - whimsy - Mentoring, limited to 5 students, to level up. www.patreon.com/cw/franwilde

American commentators, you HAVE to learn the difference between a Czech and a Chechen if you are going to be paid money to announce international sporting events. Correct nationality name is far, far below the mandatory threshold.

TWIN CITIES Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action. No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group. Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest." acatusa.com

RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.

Love this fairy tale aftermath poem in @smallwondersmag.com from @mariness.bsky.social : smallwondersmag.com/piece/straw-...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The stories we get from @jordankurella.com are always some of the weirdest out there (praise), and this new one in @apexmag.bsky.social is no exception: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

New essay from me up at Interstellar Flight Press, about dragons and structured poetry and CT machines: magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/the-dragon-c...

So lovely to see my story "The Year the Sheep God Shattered"(www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...) on the Locus Recommended List with so many other things I like--and many more I now want to read! Thanks, @locusmag.bsky.social !

HEY I AM DOING A FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS AND GIVING AWAY A SIGNED ARC (advance review copy) OF OBSTETRIX THAT'S RIGHT YOU CAN HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES AND MAYBE GET A FREE EARLY SIGNED COPY OF MY BOOK

Flooding can be devastating, but there's beauty as well as devastation in this flood story by Rem Wigmore in @reckoningmag.bsky.social : reckoning.press/antediluvian/

Do one of the things that makes you feel better, because if you aren't doing any of that, you will run down. Today I did some writing. I'm a writer, & if I don't write, I run down. It's very easy for me to forget this, despite decades of knowing it. And so I am here to remind you to do your things.

A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, out from @hornedlarkpress.com this fall, is about an ex-harpy, her harpy ex-girlfriend, her nonbinary fashion icon pal, an opera singer, and an opinionated sword fighting back against the authoritarian baddies. Afterwards (and at several points throughout) there's cake.

hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚 ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!) tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download

THIS, ALL DAY. We call it Cedar Riverside. Everyone just calls it Cedar Riverside. And we go there, regularly, for all sorts of reasons: there are theaters in that same neighborhood, there's a college, there's a music venue, and there are some excellent restaurants.

I actually got my copy of ENCHANTING THE FAE QUEEN yesterday, very rare for ordering through @bookshop.org , and it made me feel very smug. Frankly I could use a light and upbeat fantasy right now.

It's always so nice to sell my first story of the year. Late last year was eventful! It's not like I have not been selling things! But I make a new submissions log for each year, and there's always an interval when nothing is highlighted in blue (for "sold") and...this is better.

Minnesotans who have been looking for ways to help: are you bilingual or multilingual? Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid is looking for volunteer assistance with intake interviews: mylegalaid.org/take-action/...

You hear amateurs complaining about how cell phones ruined a lot of their thriller plots, but truthfully THIS is what makes my job as a grimly hopeful science fiction author harder. "We got the information out to the public! Now everything will be okay!" is no longer in the optimistic ending toolbox

And hey, it really does matter to me that some of you are checking in with your Minnesota friends personally/individually. Knowing that there is support is part of fueling the resistance. Thank you. Love you. Stay strong. Fuck ICE.

Heartbroken, furious, not okay. And if you don't know why a Minnesotan is posting that, well. Lucky you, I guess.

Today, I joined thousands of Minnesotans for a peaceful protest. We’re standing together to tell the Trump administration that everyone is welcome here. Together we're brave, you can’t silence us. ICE OUT OF MN.

It’s been wonderful today working on a Minnesotan’s antifascist novella while all of Minnesota is showing us how to be antifascist today. Solidarity! We will win. (We’re working on A DUBIOUS CLAMOR by @marissalingen.bsky.social)

Minneapolis if you are cold or hungry from the march or just want to sit for a bit, some friends just dropped off chicken biryani and several liters of chai at @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social.

Join me in Toronto for the launch of my new book SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social. An IngramSpark bestseller & one of the most-requested titles on NetGalley, this retro-futuristic noir love story‘s sure to put a smile on your face. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/events/42502...

I don't know how to explain to you how emotionally moving I am finding the list of places participating in the general strike tomorrow. Hey, look, there's a place I've had lunch with my brother...I've been there on a date...we go there all the time...that's the last place I went before Covid....

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

From my past experience, I can say traumatic experiences will come out in the writing eventually. But it doesn’t have to be while Current Events are still ongoing. Even if you are a writer, writing does not have to be your contribution to The Thing. 🧵6/ #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Minneapolis

In the midst of all this, still so nice to find a story of mine on the BSFA long list, along with a bunch of other cool stuff: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Two things that get in the way of me reading jacket copy like a normal person: "unbeknownst to them": "BUT KNOWNST TO US," my brain crows "little did they know": my brain fills in "that lurking under the diva's bed was the very WORST of the French patent thieves: PHILIPPE DE BRASSIERE"

Well, I needed this to bolster me while dealing with a bit of mildly malign bureaucracy, and here it was: @amtuomala.bsky.social 's poem in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social : www.uncannymagazine.com/article/no-k...

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

Ope, sorry. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

People are so blown away that widespread racial profiling is also being used against off duty cops that they aren't noticing a local police chief is frustrated that these abuses are being carried out by a completely unaccountable, anonymous, masked secret police.

Happy National Cheese Lover’s Day to all who celebrate. 👀

My contribution (a little late) to the #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMPLS comic posts. My experience with ICE in my city so far, keeping the language as vague as possible to protect the groups on the ground helping people here.

TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...

More than enough volunteers willing to do outdoor shifts in MN when it's -10 (that's -23 Celsius).

I also would recommend @jrdawson.bsky.social 's much darker @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-me... but be forewarned that it may hit some of us close to home

Started reading January magazines and really liked the very first thing I read: @atgreenblatt.bsky.social 's grimly hopeful @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Fiction submissions are open now! The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

A bunch of Minneapolis authors are coming together to offer incentives for donating. If you DM me proof of donation, I’ll send you a bookplate and a piece of microfiction that is set in the word of The First Bright Thing.

Bleeding Hart Studio is back with a store-wide sale/fundraiser for Minneapolis mutual aid! Everything including 5 all-new necklaces in www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... is 25% off until 1/24. I'll donate that 25% off to at least one of the organizations at www.standwithminnesota.com --

Tolkien is a great writer for dark times, not least because he understood that fighting even when you are certain you will lose is infinitely more moral than giving in to despair and doomerism.

Here it is, my friends and followers... These are completely blind submissions, but there are a few of you I'd really like to sub something... @wtalabi.bsky.social @wnwagner.bsky.social @marissalingen.bsky.social @mariebilodeau.bsky.social (Okay, more than a few...)

We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.

Today I get to unveil the UK cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! The art is by the legendary Stephen Player, who has done art for Barker and Pratchett. I adore how he shows off the different personalities of Garrodigh's heads! It comes out in the UK from @arcadiabooks.bsky.social this July!

If you read the blurbs, you'll find that people are saying very positive things about this novella. Some people right around here, in fact.