I am overjoyed to share that my story “Hot Teeth” has been included on the Locus 2025 Recommended Reading list! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

I would really rather not have to flee my home state, please.

i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET

Is anyone else unable to load any market's moksha portal? I've tried different browsers and devices, but I can't submit anything or check status of previous subs. Really hoping to get something in to @nightmare-magazine.com during this window, too!

Snow shoveling fit check

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Buy this collection right now if you don’t already own it. Hell, even if you do, buy it again. Meg is a fucking fantastic writer.

From the afterword to my story “Sin Crouches at the Entrance”: No matter what we are made to suffer, and no matter how alienated we become from the best parts of ourselves, as human beings we carry within ourselves the seed of something spectacular.

Gettin’ on them performance enhancing drugs (beta blockers so I can continue doomscrolling without having a panic attack)

Good night, everyone. It feels like our so-called "leaders" have all but abandoned us, but we still have each other. I didn't know what else to do, so I made a little painting. Stay safe out there 💛

We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.

The Kaw! Also known as the Kansas, but it’s the Kaw around here.

Fully two weeks late with this, but the final rejection count for 2025 was 195. Much rejection, wow

New story day! The first piece of "Sin Crouches at the Entrance" is available through The Daily Tomorrow! If you're interested in a dark sci-fi tale about motherhood, Jewish arcana, and the resilience of human survival and culture, subscribe to get this story delivered to your inbox all week long!

Just sold another story, and I am absolutely over the moon about it. This is one I’ve been shopping around for years, a weird sci-fi short story about, among other things, jazz-playing alien bug monsters. More details soon, just a tease for now. youtu.be/fpJSsb1rr-E?...

Lots of powerful work here, but Come F**k Yourself in particular hit a chord with me, about dubious consent and selfhood.

Holy shit, that was certainly a game I’d never played before. paradisekiller.com

for real

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

There is not limit to the war on AI they are poisoning entire towns of non-white people to create an engine to steal the world's knowledge and turn it into a scam and sexual exploitation machine we must fight until our last breaths Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

And that’s my seven 2025 publications, front to back. Again, if you enjoyed reading any of them, I’d be incredibly grateful to hear about it. Sometimes it still feels like I’m just shouting into the void, even with appreciable evidence to the contrary.

Important update: Nomi Malone has learned to purr when she’s content. Picked up from the cranky-ass cat, apparently.

My last story of 2025 was “Sore Winner,” published in The /tƐmz/ Review #33. I glibly sum this one up as a look at the games we play when we’re bored, though that probably says more about me than I realize. www.thetemzreview.com/althoff-33.h...

My SF short story “Root and Branch” came out in Baubles from Bones #6 in August. It’s a weird, quiet story about humanity and slavery and revenge and gender and love, and I’m extremely happy it found a home. www.baublesfrombones.com/root-and-bra...

“Last of the Cigarette Gremlins” appeared in manywor(l)ds #9 in August. I’m told the genre of urban fantasy gets a bad rap, but I can’t think of a better descriptor for this flash story. Horror? Dark fantasy? It’s a damn cryptid sighting in a dive bar, iunno, you tell me.

“Hot Teeth” appeared in June 2025’s anthology “Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before” by Space Wizard. It’s a zany heist story, and it might be my favorite thing I’ve ever written. www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/lesbian...

“The New Sound,” my third story of 2025, is a relatively traditional sci-fi short story published in Saros #3. It follows Kath, a trans woman who’s built her life around making music with a cutting-edge aural implant that’s now falling into obsolescence. sarossf.com/issue-3/

THREE stories sold in the last three days. More details soon. Saved up the good karma for the end of the year, I guess!

“Come F*** Yourself,” published in Inner Worlds #7 in May 2025, was my second story of the year. It’s a very dark answer to a very silly question, and I’m extremely proud of it. It’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the publisher. inner-worlds.ghost.io/come-f-yours...

"Tonight we dine with squirrels, but I’ll take them over the wolves." @megelison.bsky.social, you eloquent bastard, you.

"Bubbe Hates You" was published in the Punch A Nazi anthology, a benefit for the Trevor Project to support LGBTQ+ youth. We raised over $800 before the benefit ended, but you can still read the story and see the collection of fiction and comics on my website.

Hot damn

I get really uncomfortable when talking about my achievements; anything that feels close to boasting makes my skin crawl. But 2025 has been a hard year, I'm proud I made it to the end of it, and I want to give myself credit for not just surviving but accomplishing some pretty massive things.

Absolutely laughing myself sick over this. Something about a low-effort holiday rebrand of a one-hit wonder is just incredible.

Read @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social's wonderful and timely story "Sore Winner" in Issue 33! ... The terrible thing begins with the overhead lights flickering ... www.thetemzreview.com/althoff-33.h...

Good morning to everyone except the person who broke my car window at the dog park and stole my purse. I hope that person has a really rotten day.

New story day! My sci-fi (?) short story “Sore Winner” is live now in The /tƐmz/ Review #33. Come stew in the weird, dark games we play when we’re bored. Maybe you’ll feel better about winning this time.

New blog post about looking rejection in the face every day. With doodles!

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

Cover reveal and pre-order link TOMORROW!

when a river runs into a bunch of dumb-ass garbage blocking her way, she gets wider

Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.

Want to tell your family how famished you are as you show up for Thanksgiving? A few handy phrases you can use: "So hungry I could eat a: • farmer's ass through a park bench • bowl of lard with a hair in it • wet napkin out of a gravedigger's pocket • sack of door knobs Feel free to add your own!

Props to me, and perhaps to you too.

My first awards season eligibility post! All stories linked in the blog post, so you can check out any you've missed. If you like queer speculative fiction, I think there's definitely something here for you.

This is a really, really good story, and Courtney is a fantastic writer. If you like any of my writing, check this one out. www.castofwonders.org/2025/11/cast...

Happy 6-7th day of school to absolutely nobody and nothing and I hate it goodbye

Guess who won Greek Mythology trivia night? All it took was some inventive spelling and the (stolen) team name “Euripides Shorts.”