Our Lady of the Asteroid Belt is a story that wrestles with doubt in a future where certainty is increasingly sold as the antidote to all problems--exactly the kind of story I had in mind when I first started incensepunk in the first place! Hope you all love it as much as I do!

Saying “I want that” in the exact same tone as the woman in Napoleon Dynamite who sees the model ship www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-canticl...

Jesus describing himself in John 6

Google Glass walked (crashed and burned) so that Meta smart glasses can run (crash and burn bigger and harder)

This sucks, actually

We had a great conversation with fellow presenter @jakeall.bsky.social and Ancient Faith Radio's Doxacast in preparation for our upcoming talk at Doxacon! Check it out here if you're interested www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/dox...

It's Cyberpunk Day so I'm going to give you a little taste of something I'm working on. Something outside of my norm. Chapter 1 is free for you so you get a taste in this thread. 1/4 #cyberpunk #cyberpunkday #prose #dystopia #chicago #incensepunk

Sale event! For the first time ever, The Hand of God is on sale in every country, on multiple platforms. Get it now for $0.99 or equivalent. Metaphysical, post-apocalyptic feel-it-in-your-teeth sci-fi with mechs and demons. books2read.com/darklegacies 🪐📚💙 🩸📚

the anti-fascist italian quotes go hard

And I'm in! Sisters of Mercy is a post-apocalyptic coming of age, with mechs and demons. H.P. Lovecraft meets The Road. www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7MGZZD8

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

#WeDidItReddit. #HonkPursuit is submitted to the #TheIndieDen jam. First jam and time I've uploaded or exported a game. It's got plenty of rough edges. But you can play it now in frantic or chillcore mode. behemothe-games.itch.io/honk-pursuit #gameDev #indieDev #godot #GameJam

Now live, both the print and audio versions of my story, “Through the Machine” (As featured by Gizmodo—link threaded). Again, If you only read one of my stories this year, let it be this one. And if you like it, please share. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...

I love when people talk about "the Church" and describe a chimera of Catholicism and Independent Fundamental Baptist sectarianism

Working on #HonkPursuit for the #TheIndieDen game jam with the theme "Duck, Duck, Goose". It's my first one, I've never made a quackformer or platformer for that matter or finished a game. So here's my first couple hours of progress on it. There's going to be a goose chasing you. #IndieDev #Godot

If the aliens are called "aliens" it's sci-fi, if the aliens are called "hierodules" you know exactly what you're reading.

As prophesied:

Super relevant for today, really.

turns out the neon is liturgically seasonal btw

Fantastic, quick read. Perspective can make all the difference.

In the land of Borja there lived a woman, blameless and upright; she feared God and shunned evil. Read The Disfiguration today in Incensepunk Magazine! www.incensepunk.com/p/the-disfig...

This is how I want AI to feel all the time before we pull the plug

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

The Cyberpunk genre is ripe for stories exploring Catholicism in a sci-fi setting. A shame more writers haven’t tried it.

well first off it’s okay to be mad about Catholics but maybe not while they’re having fun thinking about fictional genres. anyway it’s a cyberpunk narratives: you know those neon bishops and cardinals are evil because anyone in charge of anything is. it’s cyberpunk.

I love my wife and I love my kids and I love my friends and I love my neigbors and i love @trt.bsky.social for moving into seminary this week and I love @spaceyjdjames.bsky.social for pushing me to write more and I love @pylesofbooks.bsky.social for talking to me at like midnight after a long day

First Friday Saint Sketch this month is St Edmund the Martyr, because today is my nephew Edmund's birthday! St Edmund was born in Germany but lived in England. He was a minor king (VERY minor like a mayor), & offered himself in place of his village being destroyed by 1/2

Good morning✌️🍀

DO YOU READ BETTY ROCKSTEADY? @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social

The entire antebellum South is less valuable to me than a single bite of injera. A single prayer from an old lady at a Ge’ez Divine Liturgy down the street from my house is more spiritually powerful than the entire system of anti-abolitionist churches across the South.

Read our editor interview with Incensepunk Magazine @incensepunk.com: https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

You guys know I make artwork. You know I work on a lot of comic titles. Some of you know I'm writing a cyberpunk book. Now I have an article out from @incensepunk.com about St Macrina the Younger and the Robot Uprising www.incensepunk.com/p/st-macrina...

Taking orders for the 2025 print run

My wife has MS (relapsing/remitting). Without AC, her symptoms exacerbate quickly. As little as 2 weeks without AC caused her to temporarily lose the use of her dominant hand. Earlier she almost lost her vision to MS. It's not just about convenience or comfort, but maintaining current functions.

Ten authors by whom I've read five or more books: Nnedi Okorafor Seanan McGuire Andrew Gillsmith Terry Pratchett Isaac Asimov Robert Heinlein Anne McCaffrey Charles Stross KA Applegate JRR Tolkien

"Pope Leo XIV celebrates first ‘green Mass’ after calling out greed that fuels climate injustice" www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

i will burn your god on the altar to mine

If I sound religious in my opposition to AI, that is because my opposition to AI is rooted in my faith.

My latest novella is on sale for $0.99/£0.99, Jul 7-13. Sisters of Mercy is a story about life and death and finding purpose at the end of the world. Also mechs and demons. I think you’ll like it. www.amazon.com/Sisters-Merc... 🪐📚💙 🩸📚

Reminder that Incensepunk Magazine does not use AI in any part of our process, our contract stipulates that authors do not use AI, and we do not (so far as is in our power) allow works we publish to be used in AI training. Link to our sample contract is on here www.incensepunk.com/p/submissions

The price to get her back will be higher than her family can afford—if they had to afford it on their own. Robbing Olympus by Bowen Greenwood FREE to read at Incensepunk Magazine! www.incensepunk.com/p/robbing-ol... 🪐📚

What goes harder than this Canticle for Leibowitz cover?

An AI-enabled urinal? ... Hey y'all I think I know what triggers the Robot uprising.