OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE

My shirt tomorrow . . .

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Writing this morning to @greenday.bsky.social's American Idiot. Man, I haven't listened to this album in years, and it kicks. Love it.

Assuming we make it there, October is looking good. Ordered! @stephenking.bsky.social @joe-hill.bsky.social @stephenkingcatalog.bsky.social

This.

Selling lots of castration-revenge and onanistic-cult books @grindhousepress.bsky.social today at My Bloody Valentine in Port Jervis, NY.

When you’re busy killing fascists…. @toddkeisling.com

I’ve been rewatching THE WEST WING incessantly, hoping I just fall into the world where Bartlet is president.

“Wolf died of a disease called America.”

Excellent interview @annarosereads.bsky.social @rebecca-rowland.bsky.social I loved EMINENCE FRONT. Character development was top-notch. I liked them all because they each felt truthful and real. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

I’m now on planet Opopanax in the galaxy of Aballah.

Opopanax, he thinks. I'm falling apart. Right here and now. Forget I said that. The savage opopanax has gripped me in its claws, shaken me with the fearful opopanax of its opopanax arms, and intends to throw me into the turbulent Opopanax River, where I shall meet my opopanax.

For the evening crowd! The latest @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social!!!

Read “Why I Write” to my creative writing students today, and one student said, “This guy’s got serious OCD and gets hurt a lot.” @sgj.bsky.social

A new kickass book from a kickass writer. Check it out!

@talkscaredpod.bsky.social is right about this Gardener chapter. Brilliant characterization. And also, politics don’t ever change. So, yeah, read a book, people!

If suffering has no value, survival has no value.

Happy reading to me! Let’s get reading @cgolden.bsky.social

Happy Groundhog Day! Get some writing done today!

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

open.substack.com/pub/austinkl... Prepping myself for tomorrow. Love this @austinkleon.bsky.social

Hey @igreggreene.bsky.social, I want a “Good Stab is my Vampire” merch…

“The depravity of man’s heart knows no floor, and everyone in this hard country has a sordid chapter in the story of their life, that they are trying either to atone for, or stay ahead of. It’s what binds us to one another” (21).

Reading THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER for the third? fourth? time, and damn it is so good. @sgj.bsky.social When you read it @scribeofhades.bsky.social I highly recommend the audio. It is absolute perfection.

We've received more than 2,500 submissions at Nightmare this submissions period (and we don't close until midnight). I don't know exactly how I'll get through all these subs, but I do know that if every submitter bought just one issue of the magazine, it would pay for a year of content.

Jumping into these teeth right now.

Loved this conversation between @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social and @scribeofhades.bsky.social They're both great people and amazing writers. Highly recommend everyone gives this a watch! www.youtube.com/live/1liNxVo...

Started the audio the other day, and I think I know exactly the scene that’s waiting for me . . .

“Stories are a rebalancin of injustice, whether enacted within their narrative or purposed to enact certain reactions by the listeners. Stories are the lexical fashionins of vengeance. At least the good ones.” TOM’S CROSSING

poetrysociety.org/poems/a-brie... “We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”

A friend and colleague is going through a very difficult time, and the outpouring of help from immediate friends, coworkers, and the larger community has been quite heartwarming. There really is good in the world.

Let’s go to The Territories.

Damn right.

You let the tyrants stay in power, and eventually they’ll keep it by any means. youtu.be/3mQhyLR44Do?...

COVER REVEAL & PRE-ORDER INFO FOR INTO THE DARKENING DUST IS COMING! TUESDAY FEB. 3RD, 10 AM EST BE READY.

Funny how the villains in movies are quite monstrous, but the real ones are just fumbling cowards, incompetent and afraid (yet that does make them quite dangerous).

Love the movie (and used to teach it with Julius Caesar), and really enjoyed what they did with this play. youtu.be/TEOlguQs3dA

Domestic terrorist. (Alas, many who throw around that term, would’ve been loyalists to the King of England.)

18 inches of snow and I’m 45, but I shoveled it myself because rage, man, it powers you through.

Reading now!

Really fun episode @finalgirlspodcast.bsky.social Amusingly, one of my favorite former students gave me a copy of it last June (along with three other solid films), and I finally watched it last week. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Damn right.

If you want to know how bad it’s going to get, read some history or ask some writers.

Most of my teaching colleagues have more self-control and better de-escalation skills than these “trained” ICE agents.

As apropos as ever. youtu.be/Mc-3v_bEOzI

Finally laughed for the first time today. youtu.be/X5J5AbdaprU

When it comes to it, if ever I’m in this situation, I hope I am as brave as Pretti. “Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.” @stephenking.bsky.social

Here’s an excerpt from my story “La Lechuza,” in which a bad guy gets what’s coming to him. This is what horror can do for us: bring on the monster to dole out the justice.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.