My late friend Vonda N. McIntyre's final novel is out. GeekWire's @b0yle.bsky.social has the details. And "The Curve of the World" is important to the Clarion West Writers Workshop, too, which Vonda founded and benefits from its publication. www.geekwire.com/2026/after-d...

Really enjoying the new book on the philosophy of games by @add-hawk.bsky.social It's got me really thinking about which kinds of obstacles add meaning to my life and which...don't.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Congrsts @seraph76.bsky.social!

It's one of those fun bluesky days

The newest Pushcart Prize anthology drops next month and it features favorite works of the new century. Thrilled to see my story, which first appeared in @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, get reprinted once more

Voting for the Locus Awards closes soon. I would love it if you would consider voting for CALL AND RESPONSE by Chris Caldwell (@seraph76.bsky.social) for best collection. It's an incredible book by a one of a kind writer. poll.voting.locusmag.com @neonhemlock.bsky.social

this is what happens when you let this much wealth and power concentrate in the hands of so few people nobody wants any of this but them and they’re the only ones who get a vote

TSA has always been a nightmare but now we’re bringing in people whose main character trait is that they demand unquestioning respect from all people at all times. I’m sure there won’t be any miscommunications about whether you can leave your jacket on or not.

Author @piperjdrake.bsky.social is an amazing person who has embraced life to the fullest, but she's fighting Stage IV Endocervical Cancer, and it's not going great. She needs as much time on this planet as we can give her. Please support if you're able. 🙏 gofund.me/e676aa407

I guess people do care about opera and ballet www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/s...

Richard Brautigan #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

hell even the hot Shakespearian gargoyles were telling you to read:

The time change is hitting me hard and my poor tired brain read this as "Joan Baez" at first and I was thinking, wow, good for her. Anyway, it's not her, but John Baez is also awesome.

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

Heartwarming New Yorker cartoon

Is anybody else on letterboxd? This is me: letterboxd.com/DominicaPh/

Ominous bird valentines.

Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, photographed by David Parks for Life magazine in 1956.

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold and I am a mushroom. My gills expand, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough strands of a mycelium network. She must have transformed into spores and floated out the window with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Read this, it’s divine

devastating

"The urge to destroy is also a creative act." From Miriam Toews's A Truce That is Not Peace, one of my favorite books of the year.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Absolutely this. Currently re-reading The Maltese Falcon for the third time and still really enjoying it.

We can't do a lot as individuals to change an entire culture, but I promise there's one abused child out there that you know of whose entire life would be changed if you stood up for her. 🫶

I’m so happy and proud about this achievement! My illustration THE GHOSTS OF MARS, commissioned as a cover art for "The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories #8" edited by @infinivoxsf.bsky.social and inspired by a Dominica Phetteplace story, is the Winner of the 2025 Frank R. Paul Award!

One of my fundamental beliefs is that I should not have to talk to people who have been cruel to me. You might be surprised to learn how often -- and vociferously -- people disagree with me about that.

Home after a long stint away and diving into a pile of unread New Yorkers with glee. Maya C. Popa is taking no prisoners here: "I am my first and oldest system..."

Me, at the Portland Peculiarium.

clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit

"Just as I come to know a thing it's gone again." I can't stop thinking about this new poem by @dapowell.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is at least the fourth story I've seen of an author having to exchange multiple emails (over 20) with this publisher to get the contract language to not be rights grabby and it's one of three where the writer walked away. I appreciate the effort and transparency but I will also say-

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Thank you, Charlie Jane! This post inspired me to donate to the SF Marin Food Bank as well, where every $1 donated purchases two meals: www.sfmfoodbank.org

Though we live in a degraded world, beauty still exists. Case in point, the luminous debut collection from @seraph76.bsky.social

My friend @effies.bsky.social is back with another op-ed banger

Not for the first time, a dark chapter in history results in a pretty good Miami Vice episode

Did you catch the Fiction Science Podcast this weekend? @b0yle.bsky.social's Fiction Science Podcast featured Hole in the Sky by @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social this week and the two discuss the burning question, "What would we do if the aliens arrived?" Catch it here: cosmiclog.com/2025/10/13/n...

even a single well-chosen turn of phrase can rewire your brain if it hits you at the right moment

Writing novels is very hard, and everyone who finishes writing one deserves praise and accolades purely for that accomplishment.

What a tremendous loss.

Found this at the Little Free Library!

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

Hi, do you like gay whalers? Gay bank robbers? Muscular lesbian artisans? With a side of magic and weirdness? All of this and more is in Call and Response, my collection of short stories out from Neon Hemlock next week! Available to pre-order from the publisher: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...