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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "Wow," said Gandalf, "But other times are okay? So long as it's not your problem? I can't believe you said that. Jfc. I can't even look at you."

Pub day! The opening line of this one floated into my head without explanation— therefore none of this is my fault. Thank you @crowkeys.bsky.social :)

Thrilled to see myself on a list like this— thanks Myna! Check out these stories, too, they rock

Readers of Still Alive will not be surprised to hear that I am fond of a story that includes body parts in the grass.

Absolutely fabulous bit of writing

"There is a finger, a human finger in the schoolyard grass, and it has no body." I love this new @schorn.bsky.social story, which features an incredible cast of characters, sharp, hilarious writing, and a reversal of the body falling apart trope. So stoked to share "Acephalous," up now on hex!

I’m so glad this weird and weirdly moving piece is out in the world—I got to read an early draft and, like the Anatomy itself, it’s only grown more powerful 👁️🧠👁️

New piece in hex ! Amongst other things, this is the result of the cumulative frick-ton of Scooby-Doo I watched on DVD growing up in my dad’s basement <3 thanks Dad

A novel is a long dream. I get it now. Took me a while, but I get it now. And perhaps most importantly, I used to think a novel needs a novel-sized story idea. I think what works better for me is that it needs a novel-sized series of QUESTIONS.

I'll be reading my egg story for this if you want to come watch! Teaser-- "The way I see it, you find a giant egg in the forest, you have two options; you break it open or you don't." 🥚🥚🥚

"The design of the exit survey, however, had failed to capture how the crabs felt about manipulating very large objects, like the fate of nations." * clicks pincers joyously * This story is great, go read it!!!

Anyone who says they want to see the “complete and total eradication of grief” vastly overrates what bots will be able to do but also speaks to how tech solutionists misunderstand what it means to exist in the world. A hollow amalgam of a loved one’s utterances can never replace what is lost.

i hope more people watch SAINT MAUD. might still be a top 5 A24 release for me, it's really good.

Remember that big news @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social has been mumbling about? It happened: Reckoning has received a substantial grant from ARLA, allowing us to significantly raise payrates AND produce a new special issue! Some details here, more forthcoming: reckoning.press/big-news-arl...

I had stories rejected 800+ times before I won the Nebula Award. The day I sold my novel? I got a short story rejection. As I moderated my first panel? A rejection email popped up and covered my notes. I once got a rejection six minutes after midnight on New Years. There is no do. Only try.

I'm a single issue voter and the single issue is this

Literally trembling with delight at the kiss, both because I KNEW IT and because it was incandescently hot.

When the Uncanny Magazine Year 11: This One Goes to ELEVEN! Kickstarter reaches 625 Backers, we'll post an exclusive mini-interview with solicited poet Brandon O'Brien! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

Zoom in on any part of existence and you’ll find the most fantastical strangeness and unexplainable order amidst chaos. There is something seriously weird and wondrous going on here and we’re all part of it. I really think the rational response to the world we find ourselves in is reverence.

This looks awesome

FF #21 is out! Work by Joelle Killian, Uchechukwu Nwaka, Bree Wernicke, Aster Loxley, Endria Isa Richardson, @sydneyficant137.bsky.social, Lore Lopez, Yasmeen Amro, @avramargariti.bsky.social, and @jlgeorge.bsky.social! And so much more! All here for free: www.fusionfragment.com/issue-21/

From reading the article, there’s a ton of “yay for police!” to get through before the information that the city deployed social workers who referred troubled kids and their families to Social Services instead of putting them in the system.

Fun fact: There are 2781 billionaires in the world. This year they're worth $2 trillion more than they were last year - over $14 trillion total, according to Forbes. According to the UN World Food Programme, we could end world hunger with just $40 billion/year.

I think real people are far more eccentric than anybody portrayed in novels. Real people are terribly odd, but of course they keep this secret. —Iris Murdoch, interview, 1976

ultimately, life is all about finding the subtle balance between quiet reflections on the infinite and hours long sweaty sessions of cranking your dirty hog

The new issue of Clarkesworld contains "Hello! Hello! Hello!" by Fiona Jones, one of our students last year at Clarion. We loved this story back in week 5 then and we love it now. A great debut. Brilliant, fun, and big-hearted. Highly recommended. clarkesworldmagazine.com/jones_03_24/

I wrote about the protests. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you’re in San Diego today, consider dropping by @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social for their 31sr birthday bash! Among other events, I’m going to be on a panel there in the afternoon 😁 www.mystgalaxy.com/event/myster...

I have a new story out today and I am so excited to share it with you!!!! I wrote this story with the deliberate goal of making your brain do a thing that human brains really do not do. Give it a try and let me teach you a whole new way to read? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

Posted here and in the bird place, the text of a letter I sent to Tulane's president after he had cops on horseback violently break up the student protest encampment there, with many students arrested and suspended. "Dear President Fitts: Greetings again.  I'm writing to you after seeing the +

body image comics

In researching the next book a trauma expert told me offhandedly she believed most political issues and controversies came down to an argument over whether kids and young people should suffer the same abuse as the previous generation and boy oh boy is that on my mind a lot recently.

I will die on this dune: All beaches should be free and public access.

This is an upsetting development.

There's a universal truth found in the statement that tech will "never understand [x] is beautiful not for its infinite possibilities, but its infinite limitations."

From Judith Butler's new book

Appliance mishaps need to be resolved while I'm still in-between payments, so any assistance would be appreciated! ko-fi.com/therisingtit...

Congrats @osahon4545.bsky.social !!!

Inside me there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me, which is degrading the river ecology inside me. I’m attempting to release more wolves inside me to address this, but the ranchers inside me object, and

What must appeal about AI to the murder apparatuses of our various police states is precisely *that* it's fake and of use in precisely this way to create environments of clouded agency, under cover of which they can act with impunity.

Every year, Mercury Stardust and Jory do a massive livestream-a-thon to raise money for trans healthcare. This year, transphobes have harassed and reported them so much that the livestream was taken down!! Consider donating here to make up for lost revenue: secure.givelively.org/donate/point...

This Story Hour brings us two debuts! Brace yourself for stories from Ben Francisco and Maya Beck! Wednesday! 7:00 p.m. PDT! Join us! #StoryHour2020 #AuthorReading #ShortStories @benfrancisco.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Knocking at the door of $18k; just about 2 weeks left to subscribe to THE SKULL & LAUREL and help us plan for a long-term home for short New Weird Fiction in its infinite guises🖤☠️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...

Like my mother used to tell me, if you can't be a good example, be a terrible warning.

A brief summary of the Ted Chiang talk yesterday: His title "Thoughts on Being a Cyborg" touches on the idea that the invention of writing, which happened independently 4 times in history, changed the way humans think, so therefore we've been cyborgs ever since we became overwhelmingly literate. 1/?