It shouldn't just be the loss of a job, that's the same punishment as being late 3x in a month. Trial, prison, abolish.

An absolutely brutal read: open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

Two white people have been killed on camera by ICE in 2026. 6 other people (5 Latin Americans + 1 Cambodian) have died in ICE custody since the turn of the year. The on-camera killings can - at the very least - make us very suspicious about the circumstances of all the off-camera ones.

Coming off a busy work day to find my collection, three short stories & the peer-reviewed paper I co-wrote with @susankayequinn.bsky.social has made the #BSFA Awards Long List! Congratulations to all fabulous long-listees! Honoured to be among you. Many thanks to everyone who nominated my work 💕✨

The content warning that is nearly went in Nightmare, yea, yup. Fucking hell.

"A writing career is one of those wilderness survival challenges where they dump you in the woods without a map or a compass or food and whoever finds their way out wins. Except the only thing you “win” is that you don’t have to go to law school."

👀January 2026 Fiction👀 "Magical Girl: Corporate Failure" is a short story by @thelialao.bsky.social about what happens *after* the battle is done and the world gets saved. Read this one for its Magical Girls, queer love, and the travails and regrets of adulting. Subscribers get it Monday!

halfway through The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones based on @akirak.bsky.social 's recommendation and oh, I do write horror.

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

I'm enjoying Bookish on PBS is anyone wants a postwar murder mystery distraction.

Brave New Weird nominated author! What!

"I remember you as you were: strong, beautiful, screaming that you didn’t want to eat Grandma." The opening line of "As You Were" by Adrian Ward grabs you hard and doesn't let go. Find out what happened next here:

From the editor: “Celebration of Life for Your Dead Fictional Wives” by Wen Wen Yang is another story about stories, but so sharp and cheeky and viciously funny that I thought you could learn to love it (unlike, perhaps, those eponymous wives). dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/celebratio...

I want to do a thread on "Small Press Red Flags" brought to you by years in the trenches combined with some issues I’m seeing pop up again in writer circles. Note: an isolated incident might not be a red flag, but cumulative flags are always worth examination. First off: Let’s talk about money.

magazine.trollbreath.com/saltwater-mo... people smarter than me tell me it's their favorite from last year.

Inkfoundry for your short story search needs!

Damn, this did not go where I thought it would.

The conclusion to "Celebration of Life for Your Dead Fictional Wives". There's an afterward for subscribers. I would be thrilled if you considered it for your award ballots. dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/celebratio...

Thrilled to be in this issue with something that made early beta readers misty-eyed.

"You couldn’t win a game you weren’t playing." Pt 5, we learn more about the writer's life beyond the page. dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/celebratio...

Content warning for infertility. "Your next ink-bled wife lived briefly in a science fiction flash."

It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...

Heads up, the annual year-end free trial period for Publishers Marketplace is live. Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...

Part 3 is now up! Shout out to beta readers. Also, yes that's a Sita from the Ramayana reference, justice for Sita. dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/celebratio...

Part Two is up! Why yes, this is an attack on people who call neglect ‘staying out of the way.’ dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/celebratio...

The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.

Happy New Story Sunday, Daily Tomorrow Readers! I hope you’re all warm and cozy and forgetting what day of the week it is (it’s Sunday, apparently). This week, we have the last story of the Autumn issue and of the year, by @muteddragon.bsky.social. Now sit back, relax, and let's a moment of silence

Sometimes, you have to ask the small gods instead of the big ones. This is touching and timely in a timeless way? www.flashfictiononline.com/article/smal... by @katefrancia.bsky.social

My latest original story is this week's story from @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social . Friends tell me it's their favorite original of this year. Do you like meta fiction? Do you backup your writing? Do you slush read? dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/celebratio...

My dog is aggressively snoring between me and spouse. Good day off everyone!

I sold "Celebration of Life for Your Dead Fictional Wives". It'll be my 9th original work to be published this year.

People out here acting like turnnsignal is pay per use.

None of my work uses LLM. I am not a thief, and am trying my bus-riding best to not kill the planet. JFC.

Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power by Jennifer Wright is so fun, funny and gossipy, like the woman.

Me: I started at $6/hr so I got real good at dividing by 6 to see how many hours of work it'll take to buy something. X: $6?? Me: I was 13. X: 13?? This story keeps getting worse.

Me, writing with a fountain pen for the first time: I don'tnotice the difference? Two months later, grabbing a ballpoint pen to jot down a phone number: oh no, no. I now have preferences.

The last quarter of the year has been so busy that I haven't done a Xueting Sunday #popculture post for a while. Here's a treat. Today, I'm talking about the trend of making your own Christmas trees in China. And people are being very creative. This one is made of good wishes in calligraphy. 1/

My evocative title that will have terrible SEO but I love it too much to change it.

Listening to an audiobook and it has the narrators' breathing?

Planning to nominate and vote on the Hugo Awards? Better move fast! The deadline to have a WSFS membership so that you have the right to nominate for the 2026 Hugo Awards is coming up on January 31. Your WSFS membership is available here: www.lacon.org/register

Just a reminder that when Nightmare Magazine opens to subs again in January, we are VERY EAGER to read your dark creative nonfiction! We're the place to send that creepy list or micro research project about something awful. adamant.moksha.io/publication/...

Do you want the anthology that Reimagines Asian Women's Magical Histories? Coven of the East is 4.99 during @Smashwords End of Year Sale 2025! #EoYSale25 smashwords.com/sale #witch #xmas #tbr

Had my wellness visit yesterday and my doc told me that the shingles vaccine (shinglex) appears to have added benefits related to dementia med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

scheduling an email to send on 01 Jan 2026 00:00 AM is oddly satisfying.

Made japchae for the first time. The recipe cook times were way off but I've learned what done looks like so yay dinner!

the latest vibe check episode has @theferocity.bsky.social cursing out people using AI driving up the cost of electricity, accelerating climate change, and yeah, co-signed. do not tell me you didn't use your brain AND continue to fuck up our planet.

Hey, who's that on Jeopardy! tomorrow?