You’re Gonna like the Way You Look—or Else www.pointsincase.com/articles/you... LOL. Always hated those ads.

Last day to catch our APRIL ISSUE before it hits the archive! All the ❤️ to our contributors! 🥰 WORDS: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen ART: Ainaz Alipour. PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social buff.ly/knF9Jgg

ICYMI: We were awed by @graythebruce.bsky.social's wildly creative and eerie take on predictive text. Be prepared for goosebumps. 👻 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Am I going to repost this joke because I snorted aloud? (a) yes (b) yes, but in yellow

Same year, and while I could go with the same pick, let's throw in Al Capone for variety. (Prompt: GIF from favorite film from year you turned 18.)

"...I wanted to play along so I asked it who’s there and the reply was you click are click speaking click to click the click congregation..." Check out @graythebruce.bsky.social's I CAN STILL HEAR YOU BREATHING before it hits the archives: buff.ly/VvnvdJj

Same sentiment exactly here. I've watched NOPE an absolutely bonkers number of times. One of my favorite films of the decade. Would like to see whatever is in store next.

Me to a duck on a neighbor's yard: "Who's a good duck? YOU are!" Duck enthusiasm level after this: unchanged. I remain undeterred. My experiments will continue.

damn RIP to Story Mag, officially on indefinite "hiatus." A real loss to the lit mag community

The title just is the clunkiest thing. “And Grogu” would ruin any title. Chinatown and Grogu. Fight Club and Grogu. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and Grogu.

Quinn Franzen reads from his poem GUAVA JELLY, found in our APRIL ISSUE. 💕 buff.ly/5CBMofF

I see your post about having too many books but buying more books, and I raise you: I feel like buying some more books from small presses because I'd love to have some more cool bookmarks.

Opening a residential security provider for detectives called Sure Lock Homes.

I love a lot of adaptations, from the faithful to the Hollywood reskins. But if I have to pick a favorite, it isn't even really an adaptation so much as it's about stagings of Shakespeare's plays: the far-too-overlooked Canadian comedy series, Slings & Arrows.

On the origins of that story.

This was tough. You'd think predictive text would be read without inflection, as though the voice doesn't quite know what it's going to say next or what it just said. But I hated that version. So I compromised and leaned a bit more into humanity.

Was in a meeting today with two backchannel chats going with other participants. My limited-track mind is not built for that kind of multitexting.

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Wow, another brilliant one by @graythebruce.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social A ghost story that's breathless, breath-taking, &... CAN STILL HEAR YOU BREATHING

Haven't done this in ages: Everyone go get a free PDF of anything I've ever published, magazine issue or book. Use code FREEPDF to zero out your bill @ checkout. Choose any PDF at StanchionZine.com/shop (scroll waaaay down to see all the PDFs. I'm so curious what you'll pick.

Excellent story. Timely and resonant.

"after all what is the difference between predictive text and a Ouija board" You're so gonna 💗I CAN STILL HEAR YOU BREATHING by @graythebruce.bsky.social in our APRIL ISSUE ✨ buff.ly/QRNp45B

Somehow I convinced the editors @ @splitlipthemag.bsky.social to publish a 1,300-word story that does not contain a single instance of sentence-level punctuation. Shhh. Don't tell them. (For this ghost story, you may want to move any weapons out of arm's reach.) splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0426...

April showers bring: our fresh APRIL ISSUE. 🌼 WORDS by: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen. ART by: Ainaz Alipour. PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social. buff.ly/cyFupU7

The Short Mystery Fiction Society periodically shares updates about what (and where) members are publishing. I love that they're including descriptive blurbs and covers. Short thrillers are awesome. shortmystery.blogspot.com/2026/04/spri...

don't care what you say about me, my LLM thinks every prompt I feed it is a work of genius, and I'm pretty sure it's objective

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Good thread. 100% agreement. Richard doesn't say it explicitly (though it's there), but those little clichés have been so heavily trained into LLMs that you'll look like one if you frequently use them.

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*jams knife into table 23 times* IDES!!!!!!!! <not an actual threat against tables>

A young adult I've met thinks the one weird trick for getting out of the draft is to say he'd frag an officer. Apparently, he and his gamer friends are all sure of this. Um, no, you're thinking like someone trying to get out of jury duty. With a draft, that's how you end up in prison.

Worth tracking. They're going to keep appropriating the face of human expertise and slapping it on AI impersonation-based services. The traditional, middle-road, mainstream position on this usage is to oppose it. *Before* AI, you'd have expected firms to pay you to use your likeness to sell stuff.

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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.

Copies of The Faery Handbag by @kellylink.bsky.social, with three full-color plates by one of our favorite artists, Rovina Cai, are en route from Conversation Tree Press to our warehouse. Our quantities are very limited. Preorder: subterraneanpress.com/newscopies-o...

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.