Nothing like learning your college roommate died last week to get you to start looking up your other college friends you haven’t talked to in years…

Today, at almost the same spot, the noise was the buzz of a drone stuck in a cedar tree, with the owner trying to dislodge it with his trekking poles

I hear @september29th.bsky.social may have something to do with this

Last week was busy. The latest issue of @sacurrent.bsky.social features my art on the cover. Check out 100-word horror stories by @comptonwrites.bsky.social @celsohurtado.bsky.social @hackett.bsky.social @sanfordallen.bsky.social @lphernandez.bsky.social @lorimichelle.bsky.social and more! ✊🏽

Sunday morning rituals are always better when there’s a new Field Notes in my inbox

Please share and repost: We are selling our apartment in Mexico City located in one of the most beautiful neighborhoods, Colonia del Valle, famous for its beautiful parks, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, utility room, covered parking, facing the beautiful jacarandas of Lopez Cotilla. DM me for more info.

There’s a party tonight. See you at the cemetery gates, everyone. #LeighBardugo and I will meet you there. 🕯️💀 #TheInvisibleParade #DayOfTheDead #DiaDeLosMuertos #DiaDeMuertos

Have some haunt. 🌚 🐈‍⬛ 😱 www.thedarkmagazine.com/for-successf...

If you want a short, too real scare for this Halloween, I have a 100-word story in this free online collection Im this week’s @sacurrent.bsky.social that has gotten some powerful feedback, thanks to @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social and @sanfordallen.bsky.social

Includes new work from @lphernandez.bsky.social Jess Hagemann, @miguelmyers.bsky.social Sanford Allen, @bloodandsmoke.bsky.social, @celsohurtado.bsky.social, Sloane Fitchett, Susan Snyder, @leswrite.bsky.social, @rzsantos.bsky.social Lori Booth, @hackett.bsky.social, & @comptonwrites.bsky.social

One of those is mine! Thrilled to be among such admirable company!

There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.

Who else is going? I’m not gonna miss it. Martha taught the first ever workshop I attended; was such a great experience.

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

It's all very upsetting.

Went for a trail run yesterday morning at the state natural area outside of town. First visitor in the park, on the trails before dawn. Didn’t see a soul for miles, very quiet, until I was about seven miles in, and all that silence was broken by the roar of a leaf blower in the distance.

When the trail running race commentator said “master class” I heard “bastard class,” and now I feel compelled to make this a real thing.

TRON: ARSE

Heh, fuck them Sooners.

Semper Bufo

@johnpicacio.bsky.social is the amazing artist who designed the Loteria cards that appear in our film and they are available for sale if you’re a fan!

[Jason Lee voice] FanBOY? I’m all fanMAN, lady

you used to be able to wildly burn the old you at midnight, now you have to sort the fragments so they can be cast into the correct bin at the municipal dump, somehow it's not the same vibe

CONGRATULATIONS to @mychal3ts.bsky.social, the new host of READING RAINBOW. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #ReadingRainbow #TheInvisibleParade #LeighBardugo #JohnPicacio #DayoftheDead #diademuertos #diadelosmuertos

Field Notes from September in the so-called "Homeland," with epic moons, coral vine, killer bees, Instagram propaganda, and new species appearing in the suburban edges of Texas: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/homelands-...

Recently discovered that using a red headlamp makes foxes’ eyes glow bright red even when they’re well outside the beam, which is one of the freakier things you can experience during a 5:00 a.m. run — demonic, disembodied eyes in the dark

buy a book for yourself or for a friend : new stock list for Temporary Culture with these titles published in 2025 : 1. ZINMAN, Michael. The Critical Mess. 2. WESSELLS, Henry. Another green world. 3. WESSELLS, Henry.  The Elfland Prepositions temporary-culture.com/wp-content/u...

Your move, South Park

Last year’s Postcard from Onion Creek / hope to return to Armadillocon next year : Austin at its best and weirdest ! endlessbookshelf.net/2024/09/07/p...

I was the closer at this year’s @armadillocon.bsky.social, and for the occasion, I presented #TheInvisibleParade ‘s original graphite drawing for the gatefold. Photo by @hackett.bsky.social, right before I lifted the vellum cover sheet. ✊🏽 #latinxheritagemonth #latineheritagemonth #díadelosmuertos

catch me in room 104 at 3pm at @armadillocon.bsky.social for an ass kicking (I’m doing a live reading of my story “The Corpse Box” from this mafia horror anthology)

A great morning at @armadillocon.bsky.social, attending readings by @thatdavidhopkins.com, Michelle Muenzler, @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, and @mightymur.bsky.social

MARK YOUR SCHEDULE, @armadillocon.bsky.social: I’m the finale this year. I’ll be bringing you my debut picture book THE INVISIBLE PARADE — talking about the making of it, and why I slept on a cot for two years to make this story happen. Signed limited-run promo card to all who attend! #armadillocon

Stoked to be a panelist at @armadillocon.bsky.social again this year! If you’re around, hope to see you there

Great turnout at @johnpicacio.bsky.social and Leigh Bardugo’s event for The Invisible Parade at TPR today

Big Weekend for my little book. If you’ve been waiting, please grab it today or tomorrow. :) Debut week sales figures matter. ✊🏽 @sacurrent.bsky.social has an interview w/ Leigh & me about THE INVISIBLE PARADE. One of the best interviews anyone has ever done w/ me. www.sacurrent.com/arts/san-ant...

I’m going to have to stop listening to the Lithium station on Sirius. They keep playing “Lump” and now It’s stuck It’s stuck It’s stuck It’s in my head

You should check out Chris’s books, but I also think this image may be far more useful than he thought

Wooooo!

Congrats! Looking forward to Saturday’s event here in S.A.!

How do we get a Werner Herzog episode of Hot Ones?

*Back when there was a Fourth Estate press, there was often something like "news." Nowadays, by contrast, there's highly-significant stuff that's Not Allowed to Be News, along with Vast Fake-Newsy Rumors which command public attention but are as insubstantial as meme-stocks. #TwentyTwenties

Summer in the House of the Departed comes out in just a few days. It’s a very personal book for me, and I think one of the best things I’ve written. I’m grateful for anyone who preorders or helps spread the word. 😀 psychopomp.com/product/summ...

This is the realistic aspect of THE YOUNG ONES: we all have a roommate we only glimpse from time to time—crouching low, face obscured—out of the corner of our eye.

*Not only is the mask ignorant of the shoggoth, the shoggoth is a bunch of mini-shoggoths that know nothing about each other arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/w...

Doctors call it The Nervous System, but let's be honest, we all know it is really The Anxiety System.

(TMBG voice) Florida man, Florida man, doin everything a

For the evening crowd, my new novella Summer in the House of the Departed is available for preorder now! Coming 8/26/25 If you like ghosts and occult magic and strange grandmothers you’ll want to check this one out! psychopomp.com/product/summ...