Doing some deep thinking about goals and purpose. It feels intensely weird to do so while news is the way it is.

Been on a nostalgia trip all morning listening to The Piano had been drinking (The band). Koelsch words to Tom Waits melodies. I saw them in concert once.

@lindzmcleod.bsky.social I just read the Introduction, the Foreword, and the first story (both parts) of your craft book 'An Honor and A Privilege'. What a joy of an approach! I will let this story sink in and read the next one tomorrow.

I started the year by writing over 600 words. So, yay!

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Well that sucks

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

An enthusiastic YES! to this:

I have a flash piece in this. Go check it out!

I have a new story out!

A poem by a good friend of mine.

Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout. With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

You absolutely love to see it. Indies keep my heart beating.

My local newspaper had an epic typo today: 'Steady rain could delay fights at airports and travel, while bringing snow to desperate Sierra ski resorts.'

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. This is strangely hopeful.

Issue Twelve: Candlelit Curses comes to you next Tuesday 23rd December at midday, just in time for your winter reading! We've got a stunning piece of cover art from Ting Loh-Trerise this time round that we're honoured to display! See you in five days ghosts and ghouls 🕯

We've got flash fiction from William Draycott, Hannah Simpson, Ute Orgassa, Tetiana Yatsechko-Blazhenko, Cece Daise, and Jaydell. We've got short stories from TMD, Will Alexander, Danielle Robertson, and Lottie Keen.

Behold! The whispers of the void have shared the contents for Issue Twelve: Candlelit Curses!

18 and a half. I never had an AOL account, because my first ever email ended in .edu and I once tried to lie down on a water bed, couldn't handle the sloshing sounds and got up within a few seconds.

AI is like high fructose corn syrup. Nobody likes it, yet it is in everything.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

This entire weekend

I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories. If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word? Thank you!

It's always nice to wake up to a story acceptance. Details to follow.

This is coming out next year!

“I had a trans friend once she said; the medicine she took to become a woman ate her bones.” My Mother Told Me She Saw Spirits All Around Her by @angelvleal.bsky.social - powerful #poetry from issue 7: #integrity. If you’re not in the habit of listening to the pieces, I suggest you try this one

Twisted Tongue Press, HAD, The Deadlands, and We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2024. You can find them on Bluesky @angelvleal.bsky.social or watching The X-files in the dark at angel-leal.com

Our Modern Mummies anthology has more than just stories about mummy-inspired mayhem. These stories are also filled with love, attempts at redemption, revenge, rebirth, and renewal. Learn more at: www.cateyepress.com/modern-mummies

I absolutely adored this one!

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If you want to read the full story, you can order our anthology 'Rough Seas & Strange Yarns here: www.amazon.com/Rough-Seas-S...

I’m happy to have a photo selected as the cover of @epistemiclit.bsky.social's 7th anthology. The sense of age captured my attention in this scene, in which a mature fir tree had grown over a moss-covered stone wall. Shot in northern Italy with an iPhone 17 Pro. epistemiclit.com/issue-seven/

Issue 7: Integrity — another #photography / #fiction pairing for you: “Solomon and Vera” by Adam Jon Miller, with “About Alice” by @uteorgassa.bsky.social “All I see is a freight train of disaster speeding at her in the dark, horns a-blaring and search light cutting ahead. He is bad news.”

My story 'About Alice' is in this issue. And as always, so much care went into the whole magazine, it is a joy to read!

Muppet on a budget, most definitely!

It's quite a feeling to hold the first book that also lists you as an editor in your hands.

Bringing this back up again in case any Black Friday shoppers are interested in some reading. You get a story by me in there, and many other stories that I co-edited.

Great new author right here:

What a lovely thanksgiving.

UPDATE: FBI says two National Guardsmen shot in DC are in critical condition after what appears to be a targeted attack. Suspect in custody is not cooperating.

If you want to read the full story, you can order our anthology 'Rough Seas & Strange Yarns' here: www.amazon.com/Rough-Seas-S...

Look, I co-edited a book! And you can read it!

I have another story coming out tomorrow! It's part of the 'Rough Seas & Strange Yarns' anthology. Have a nice little teaser here.

If you want to read 'About Alice' go here:

OMG, @angelvleal.bsky.social , we're going to be TOC buddies! Great to see you in the poets section!

Omg! I recognize that byline 🥰

This is a short story of mine that is in an anthology now available for preorder!

That felt like a minor shake in San Jose.

I didn't expect to see Herbert Groenemeyer in an English publication this morning, but this is good news!

Heads up, writer friends. For the second time I received a cute email from an 11 year old asking if I'd read their short story and give feedback. Story Not an attachment but a link. Be safe. Delete. Do not respond. Emails virtually identical but for boy/girl name.