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Missed this one back in 2018, but damn does it nail the raising-toddlers experience.

An excellent drabble by Stickle, certain to get you reflecting, either about the theme or into a dozen imperfect versions of yourself.

Really liked this 1-minute read

today's stress relief

For a while it was probably musical artist Ben Harper (same class as me; no we didn't hang out). Now it's probably Jay Bhattacharya (same debate team, but a couple years ahead of me).

Love Mac Cabe's writing, and have been waiting for a collection. And she's right: that's a gorgeous cover.

Honoured to have my weird wee flash appear in this great publication. Thx to Tobias and all the Minor Lits team. If you need a story containing shape-shifting couriers and paramedic cats, scroll no further, my friends. 🛋🚪🩺

A bunch of former WP news staff should start a new publication called Ex Post Facto.

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Loved the first installment. Just pre-ordered the next.

I have long admired Niamh's voice. Immersive, rich, dark, and poetic. And Peor is a great micro story. I can see why it was selected.

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I felt this one. Cool hook and premise with very tight worldbuilding. It also nails how I've been feeling lately, a feeling for which I cannot think of an appropriate label.

Love the braiding here and the build up to the final image.

I took a year off from submitting stories and only started up again around November. Just got my first acceptance since then, and it's from a mag I've been trying to get into for years. So that feels good.

Learn to tell the diff between Art tutorials/advice that actually improve your skills vs ones that declaratively say you're "doing this wrong" & kill your style Your weird quirk that's not "technically correct" may be what gives your art its unique style. How boring if everyone made "perfect" art

Fascinating review of recent scholarship on King James VI and I.

LOL. Okay then. <cracks knuckles> You know how people hang marketing materials, like laminated cardstock, from front door knobs? On rubber bands? After a long, bad day I got home to one and yanked on it to pull it off. Instead, I created a whip. It shot under my glasses and lacerated my eyeball.

F) For the love of all that is good and holy stop wondering if your idea is any good! That way lies madness. Your idea, whatever it is, will live or die by its execution. Commit to your idea. Eat and drink your idea. Play with it, have fun with it.

Excellent story -- and an excellent storyteller.

what if, indeed?!?! new from Jared Beloff https://www.havehashad.com/7k70m

Seeing a lot of hot takes about that open letter on AI that make it clear the person either is so worked up about the issue that they cannot read clearly, they didn't read it at all, or they used AI to badly summarize the argument. There are points worth debating in there, but if you don't read it

A message always worth reposting. Scam ops are endemic because con artists know would-be authors are an easy source of income. If you look at the folks who say what Ness says here, they're always experienced, published authors who make no money off of you by saying it. Listen to them.

DMs #1-#111 on YouTube: "I've been DMing for over 20 years, and--" Me, who started in 1978:

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Nearly anything involving grammar. Context: I'm a writing professor. People don't realize how destructive over-emphasis on grammar can be. We have meta-analytic studies on this. If you hold too many rules in your head consciously, you have almost no cognitive load left to process your ideas.

Ah. "Aura farming" is youngspeak for sprezzatura. Got it.

Saw the "violence" viewer-discretion tag at the start of yesterday's installment of PLURIBUS and wondered what the heck that could be about, given the show's whole premise. Now that I understand it, I'm not sure I was sufficiently warned. First "violence" in a long time that got me to flinch.

I saw "Terminator 2" during leave from Army training. We cadets comprised at least a third of the audience. We'd just finished nuclear, biological, chemical defense training, and we all started shouting instructions to Linda Hamilton during her nuclear dream sequence as civilians gaped.

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Hell yeah

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This may be at the top of my list, too. Just saw this in a film a couple of nights ago. Can easily deflate an otherwise enjoyable story.

The entire purpose of building research on a citational structure is that the inevitable flaws are traceable and stable enough in their location that the overall field structure can take those mistakes/debates into account as part of the field discourse.

I have a brand new limited chapbook out from Rapture Publishing called THE SERVITOR. The chapbook is only available as part of a BUNDLE with horror writer, Tyler Jones. What makes the bundle extra cool is I wrote a 2k-word "post credit scene" for Tyler's story and he did the same for mine.

My favorite reads of the last few years have all been from indies like Tenebrous and Shortwave. Heck, if you're into novellas (and you should be) that's where most of the action is.

I read THE EXTRA on Halloween and still mean to post my reader review in the usual places, but for now, in this space, here it is in a nutshell: It rocks. Absolutely gripping delivery on a five-star high concept. Quite eager to read its sequels when they drop.

Just donated. Electric Lit is wonderful.

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I had the pleasure of getting to know Cristina Hartmann through a One Story workshop some years ago. Her fantastic new short story in Witness, "Found in Translation," follows the heteroglossic landscape of a Brazilian-American Deaf character, an identity the author shares. Recommended.

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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

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