Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper
@neilwillcox.bsky.social
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Poet, Writer, Jack Of All Trades
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/
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It's sadly that time again; a post of other places I can be found on the internet if you're thinking of leaving the site. 1. My blog, Night Of The hats, which I update most days, is on blogspot because I have never moved it /1
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
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Night of the Hats
Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/
about 1 year ago
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sean guynes
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A bio of Charles R. Saunders, an important but sadly too often forgotten Black writer of sword and sorcery fantasy (which he called sword and soul), early critic of racism in fantasy, and journalist is coming out in January. The author, Jon Tattrie, will be on
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The Bio of a Fantasy Giant: To Leave a Warrior Behind: The Life and Stories of Charles R. Saunders, the Man Who Rewrote Fantasy, by Jon Tattrie – Black Gate
https://www.blackgate.com/2025/12/18/the-bio-of-a-fantasy-giant-to-leave-a-warrior-behind-the-life-and-stories-of-charles-r-saunders-the-man-who-rewrote-fantasy-by-jon-tattrie-author/
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Ivy Grimes
15 days ago
"I’m thrilled to read that AI may be able to translate whale song or read charred papyri scrolls. But write emails because that’s hard? Generate pictures of Yoda and Harry Potter sharing a milkshake with a heart-shaped crazy straw? Do your own dirty work." -interview with Nick Mamatas
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Interview with Nick Mamatas
Shakespeare, the tech set, the publishing biz
https://ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-with-nick-mamatas
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Space Opera Plots
about 7 hours ago
For Saturday our space opera serial continues as the team re-enter the dimensional gate to learn what happened to Spy Machine.
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Spy Machine | Neil Willcox
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Oh yeah the shadow mayor, maybe let's not talk about that
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about 11 hours ago
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caroline cash
about 23 hours ago
Second day of Nancy 🏈🏈🏈
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A.Z. Louise | T.O. Tate
about 21 hours ago
Imagine finding a bear that fuckin Eugene Toomsed his way into your crawlspace. You could never be 100% sure he wasn't sleeping off several human livers
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josh (auldfriend99)
about 21 hours ago
No. i want to see them fight
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Blacque Jacque Shellacque
1 day ago
mods are asleep post lutes
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A.D. Wills
1 day ago
Writer hack: If you stand completely still when someone asks "how's that book you're writing coming along?" they can still see you, but they'll be so put off, they'll leave you alone.
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TKarney
about 19 hours ago
Thus poem always astounds me. Sadly the alt text cannot do it justice, for it reads so many ways.
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José Pablo Iriarte
16 days ago
Oh! I didn't notice the date! Here's my new story--it's DEFINITELY NOT about AI! Go check it out--free to read in text and audio! It's about a ten minute read, so you have nothing to lose except, um, ten minutes!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hagi...
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HagioClass - Lightspeed Magazine
Hayley stands by the exit to the bookstore, eyeing the torrent coming down in sheets over the parking lot. Behind her, Matt hides the tiniest of fist pumps and says, “You don’t want to go out in that....
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hagioclass/
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TKarney
about 17 hours ago
Most of my life has been in costal, California, Ohio, Seattle, or New Jersey. There were some brief sojourns in Arizona, Missouri and Tennessee, but none were as long as a year a stretch. So yeah, lighthouses are an expected part of the landscape.
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I watched Wolf Man, a film about communicating with loved ones, and turning into a werewolf. Mostly the werewolf thing.
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I Watch Films: Wolf Man
Wolf Man (2025) Blake Lovell grows up in remote rural Oregon, brought up by his father who mostly communicates with his neighbours by...
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-watch-films-wolf-man.html
about 14 hours ago
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For the second day in a row in 2026, a one submission, one rejection day
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about 23 hours ago
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Can't believe you've forgotten goblin winter already
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I read Revenge Of The Slasher Film Archetypes by John A Tures in
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in which the cliched victims find themselves being killed again and again...
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I Read Stories: Revenge Of The Slasher Film Archetypes by John A Tures
Revenge Of The Slasher Film Archetypes by John A Tures in Roi Fainéant A girl in a wheelchair answers the call for slasher movie acto...
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-read-stories-revenge-of-slasher-film.html
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I have been to the post office to send story postcards to patrons at the physical postcard level of my Patreon. If you want to make me print something out and walk out in 2C weather, you too can subscribe.
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Neil Willcox | Patreon
creating Stories
https://patreon.com/neilwillcox
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Kevin Church
1 day ago
They'll make an energy drink out of anything today.
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Nothings Monstered
1 day ago
IT'S A GOD? That Doesn't Mean It Outranks You!
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Kaleidotrope
1 day ago
The cover artwork from the new Winter issue of Kaleidotrope—as well as my new header and avatar—is by the talented Cita A F, whose art has previously appeared in the zine!
www.behance.net/citafarani
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LRP: Fine 2026 will be the year I watch Metropolis
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Oscar Goff
1 day ago
At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
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"Steal Jo's car," has mysteriously appeared on my 2026 idea list
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Kaleidotrope
1 day ago
By the way, Kaleidotrope is open again to cover art submissions. As with everything, nothing AI-generated or assisted, but reprints are more than acceptable. You'll find the full guidelines, along with where to email me links to your portfolios or galleries, here:
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Guidelines
https://kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/
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Jac Mac
1 day ago
never talk to me or my son ever again
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the emiliest! 🌻
2 days ago
new years thoughts
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tara 🏳️⚧️
1 day ago
"I asked chatgpt" well I asked this lady. not sure I'm ahead on this one actually
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Space Opera Plots
1 day ago
An anonymous source aboard a deep space resurrection vessel, operating outside of local jurisdiction, has sent a covert message. It seems that someone is making unauthorised clones of the rich and powerful who are being brought back to life and ask you to investigate.
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C. Robert Cargill
2 days ago
There are 242 working days in 2026. If you write just one page a day - just 250-300wds, roughly 5 Bsky posts - you will have two full scripts or a novel by New Years Eve. If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel. Just. Keep. Writing.
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I have been to the post office to send story postcards to patrons at the physical postcard level of my Patreon. If you want to make me print something out and walk out in 2C weather, you too can subscribe.
patreon.com/neilwillcox
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Neil Willcox | Patreon
creating Stories
https://patreon.com/neilwillcox
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Rett
2 days ago
My sword and sorcery tale, Black Fruit, is out today in Savage Realms Monthly #41. There's been some heavy weight stories in the last 41 issues, and I'm proud to count mine among them. V.K. Boone's story alone is worth the price of admission and was a really tough yarn to follow.
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Amazon.com: Savage Realms Monthly: December 2025: A collection of dark fantasy sword and sorcery short adventure stories (Savage Realms Monthly Dark Fantasy Sword and Sorcery Adventure Magazine Book 4...
Savage Realms Monthly: December 2025: A collection of dark fantasy sword and sorcery short adventure stories (Savage Realms Monthly Dark Fantasy Sword and Sorcery Adventure Magazine Book 41) - Kindle ...
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Dr Pop Culture USA
2 days ago
January 1, 1960: Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars at San Quentin Prison, California; Merle Haggard is among the inmate audience.
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I read Revenge Of The Slasher Film Archetypes by John A Tures in
@rfpress.bsky.social
in which the cliched victims find themselves being killed again and again...
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I Read Stories: Revenge Of The Slasher Film Archetypes by John A Tures
Revenge Of The Slasher Film Archetypes by John A Tures in Roi Fainéant A girl in a wheelchair answers the call for slasher movie acto...
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-read-stories-revenge-of-slasher-film.html
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Cosy-mic horror is that anything?
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Cosy-mic horror is that anything?
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ABCtales
16 days ago
Something that’s bothered me for years. Terrence Oblong solves a long running mystery ‘Taking a Dalek up the stairs’ is today’s hilarious pick of the day.
www.abctales.com/story/terren...
Please share if you can.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦
2 days ago
Correct Star Wars viewing order: 1 - Andor 2 - Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure 3 - The Star Wars Holiday Special 4 - The Muppet Show season 4, episode 14 “The Stars of Star Wars” 5 - A New Hope 6 - The Empire Strikes Back
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Can't believe you've forgotten goblin winter already
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Starting out the new year with a tiny, oblique story A Grave Situation
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A Grave Situation | Neil Willcox
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3 days ago
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Narrowly beat my first story submission of the New Year.
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Paul Fairie
2 days ago
Breakfast will be summonable by the press of a button
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Zach Kocanda
2 days ago
King Ludd’s Rag submissions are open for the next two weeks! Short stories 4,000 words and up.
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
https://oleada.io/publication/malarkey-books/king-ludds-ragprint-submissions-2026
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Narrowly beat my first story submission of the New Year.
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First story rejection of the New Year! Start as you mean to go on as I always say.
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John Nephew
2 days ago
As we observe Public Domain Day I want to call attention to Ars Magica. It's now been more than a year since we declared the text of Ars Magica 5th Edition, plus a lot of supplements going all the way back to 3rd Edition, under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
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Ars Magica Open License
https://atlas-games.com/arsmagica/openars
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Leaf~
2 days ago
2026: YEAR OF THE GOBLIN BAYBEEE WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN
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Traveling Swords Dealer
3 days ago
new year, same wizard in my yard, casting spells on my family
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Seize The Press Magazine
2 days ago
We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.
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Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...
https://www.seizethepress.com/submissions/
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Small Robots
2 days ago
Happy Birthday, racehorses.
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Kate Ravenna
16 days ago
Y'all should read this brilliant mashup of Beowulf and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. "Every Scylding in Heorot liked mead a lot, But Grendel the beast, roaring outside did not. Grendel hated Scyldings, the whole Danish clan. Can I say why? I don’t think I can."
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