Had a piece of popcorn stuck between my back teeth, and after 5 minutes of trying to dislodge it post movie, I passed a discarded flosser in the parking lot, and upon seriously considering picking it up and using it, said teeth decided to yeet it on their own 🤣

Anyway, allow me to suggest that the response to "Golden Age" authors regarding the current iteration of "AI" would be, at best, "nice tech, where's my fucking money?" I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be upset at any of us for our current set of positions. Rather the opposite. And now, here's a cat.

Have gotten 2 of these so far and they're both gorgeous, packed with fantastic reads, and hold a special place on one of my bookshelves ❤️

If going to see The Sheep Detectives today wasn't enough of a reason to spring out of bed this morning, seeing another acceptance email sure was ☺️ Today is going to be a great day!

I hit my goal of reading 50 books this year and I will not apologize for like almost 40 of them being light novels

It's important to distinguish between a perennial killer and a perineal killer

There's nothing like spending a day exploring a new bookstore 😊

I tell everyone, especially with rising grocery prices, if you have a Grocery Outlet in your area it's a lifesaver. Some weeks are hit or miss, and it helps if you're flexible with what foods you eat but when I tell you I save almost $200 every week. Like this week, 18oz blackberries for $1.50

Hearing about the proliferation of AI in judging legal cases, I had a sudden flash of Kafka's "The Trial" which is also a hell of an Anthony Perkins showcase as a film, if you've never seen it.

Went it to fill out some forms and unexpectedly started the new job, so yay? Also, I'm glad just relentlessly calling and showing up at the place with my resume actually worked in 2026 because the internet thing was going nowhere 😵‍💫

You know you've encountered a good pun when you're still mad about it the next day.

In hindsight, reasoning that "oh we have enough fried cabbage and sausage leftover from lunch that we can have it again for dinner" is an error I vow to never repeat

This may be the most rage I've felt today, and given the current news cycle, that's saying something

I have finally thrown this 2 year monkey known as First Draft off my back, only to find it's been replaced with a 400lb gorilla known as Edits #writing

I have no idea why like 50% of my skyline is queer gym folk working out and/or posing, but I am here for it

I was so happy to read David R. Hoffman's "Boys of the Fellwood" on the @apexmag.bsky.social Patreon this morning. If you're a member, I highly encourage checking it out. I was spellbound by the story, the dark beauty, and the sad mysterious air. So so much love ❤️ #storyrec

For a good 10 minutes now, I've had "What do you do with a Sharps container" running through my head to the tune of "What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor"

Due to the current lack of AC on the 3rd floor (self imposed because I refuse to lose window access until June), I am making the bold and dangerous choice to write in the living room where I'm only a dining room away from the salty snacks 😬 #writing

This was me today as well, only it was about 2k words of a novella I hadn't remembered I'd written 🙂 And now I added another 2k to it!

While it's true that I read very fast and don't retain shit, I have also read books very slowly, stayed engaged, took detailed notes on paper on every chapter, and also didn't remember shit about the book. Checkmate 😤 Also, why are you like this, brain 😫

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

I'm sure I'm late to the party on this one, but I saw someone else poat it on FB: "how many Zombies would Rob Zombie rob if Rob Zombie could rob zombies" Beautiful 😂

So excited my newest story "She is Our Warmth, She is Our Shelter" is up at Horrific Scribblings as part of their latest exhibit, Naughty Nature! If you've ever hit a critter in the road while driving in the city at night, this one's for you. Check out the other ones too! horrificscribblings.com

And speaking of @horrificscribs.bsky.social There are so many incredible little touches put into it like the scene breaks in stories being a severed hand holding a broken pencil, to the art, to the exhaustive author database, you can really tell how much of a labor of love it is! Highly recommend 💝

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Even though it's technically more correct, people get weird if you say "I'm gonna go receive a shower"

We have to separate work from the author: books go in the paper bin and author in the organic waste bin.

The writing life.

I don't care what anyone says, this Paris Hilton raspberry champagne coffee creamer fucking slaps and it definitely did not deserve to end up at Grocery Outlet 😤 (Although I'm glad it did because this is hands down the best $1 I've ever spent on a coffee creamer)

and yet one of these does not appear on the guardians 100 best novels of all time list. INTERESTING

Wrote a story this afternoon, intending it be for a certain upcoming anthology, went for scary in the first paragraph then the brain went dark humor millennial parent trauma so guess I'll be shopping it around instead 😂 #writing

Eating Hint of Lime tortilla chips until the corners of my mouth dissolve

I got this a few months ago in the mail, and it is the coolest thing ever to see one of my stories/poems in a sweet little book like this 😊 Space Squid does some awesome things.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

There was such delicious tension in this-beautiful language, painful perfect human emotion in what some would call a monster, but I loved it ❤️ #storyrec

Spotted on Tumblr…

I swear, if I had the extra money to waste, I'd be buying certain friends and acquaintances some hella stupid shit 😂

The sun and all electronic devices are united in their hatred of humanity.

This gave me chills like woah, and so glad I came across it. Great piece with some gore called "Squatters" by Devin James Leonard that's totally worth reading. You feel for the guy just enough, but not too much for his character not to feel genuine. #storyrec horrificscribblings.com/squatters/

*Marked safe from choking on tangerine juice squirting unexpectedly down the throat*

Okay, Chaka Khan's new song Chakzilla is such a danceable earworm ❤️❤️‍🔥

Finally popped my convention cherry at Mo*Con this past weekend and I'm still sort of reeling from the creative energy, inspiring people, and uplifting atmosphere. I had no idea the transformative experience it would be and now I think I'm hooked 😅

Woke up with George Michaels' "One More Try" in my head and holy cow that song hits so hard and also feeling renewed sadness that he's gone 😔

Dear Google, I do not want to try your AI features for Gmail, Google Drive, or anything else. Please kindly go fuck yourself. Thanks, A Very Annoyed Writer

Well, the mosquitos have officially returned from hell 😐

me: let's read a book my brain: no, let's keep scrolling me: but we like reading brain: scroll me: and we find it more rewarding and restorative than-- brain: SCROLL!!!

Horror Tree just launched a brand-new site layout, making it easier than ever to find your next submission opportunity or story to read. It's a go-to resource for speculative fiction writers and readers, featuring paying market listings, original fiction, and writing advice: horrortree.com

They need to let you sort phone/tablet games by "will I ever be forced to interact with another human being?"

Was telling my husband how I never got into the Prince Valiant comics as a kid. Cause by the 90s I feel like they were out of ideas. Or, as I said to him, "How many times can you read about the guys riding on the horsies to save the whatchamacallit from the thingamabob"?