Looking for recommendations of your favorite SFF/H poem, please.

Looking for recommendations of your favorite SFF/H poem, please.

Who are you reading today?

I try not to be superstitious, but this just showed up and I LOVE Lucille Clifton. I have such a tenuous trust of hope right now and it feels like hope speaking directly to me.

We have entered the lost time days. How do you keep track?

If your story was written by AI, you didn’t actually write it, and that’s why I don’t want it or think it should be eligible for awards. If your story was assisted by AI, you used tools that are built on plagiarism, and that’s why I don’t want it or think it should be eligible for awards.

Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2. www.sfwa.org/complete-neb... This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI

Current Theme: What, where, when—what?

Current theme: Ennui

Has anyone read Alakazam by Mia Dalia? Thoughts? Thinking of adding it to my to read pile. Needing some weird fun fantasy to carry me through the holidays. #booksky

If you want to know something true about me, ask me, not AI. I too have found weird untruths about myself. *Not amused*

Friends, I just want to gather you up and give you a warm comforting hug. Keep trying— I’m here to celebrate with you even the littlest of wins, like persevering.

Some days, well they really are the worst. And not in a big enough way that complaining helps but in that sort of way where you’re required to update something and it breaks it all. It’s not death by paper-cuts but by kilobytes.

I have just found myself uttering the phrase, “putting Darby O’Gill on Mars doesn’t make it science fiction.” 🤣

I have watched the 1922 Nosferatu Next up the 1979 version which I have never seen

This post says it all.

Nice work here Salt Lake City Tribune with your lead!

I was able to make a donation to my local Food Bank and if you can at all spare a few bucks I encourage you to do the same.

What’s the purpose of the movie shot from inside the fridge looking at the protagonist? Seriously, is there something I’m missing?

Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews Kaleidotrope Autumn 2025 (12 originals, plus 7 poems) @kaleidotrope.bsky.social A big issues as usual, covering a lot of thematic ground. A nice mix of fantasy and science fiction with plenty of horror elements thrown in for good measure.

Just read “Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective” by Spencer Nitkey in Lightspeed- It lingers like flash should

And then I think about horse sweat and how there are two different kinds; lather and watery but both nominally horse sweat. My mind is a chaotic place.

I often wonder how many great and beautiful works of art have been lost due to the artists lack of privilege and the need to survive extraordinary circumstances.

Short fiction and flash are great ways to find new favorite writers. Someone who has been around and you should have read before but in reading short you can sample their work and fall in love quickly over and over again.

@hschofieldfic.bsky.social Congratulations on your story in Year’s Best!

Got something good to share? Please do. Cool or cute or beautiful or strange and wondrous? Please share.

We have forgotten all the ways people used to get toxins out of their food before federal regulation. It's not that food and water used to be cleaner -- it's that domestic work used to include detoxing everything we put in our mouths!

For my followers in Missouri:

If you haven’t had a chance to check out the @kaleidotrope.bsky.social newsletter you really should. In a generally bleak world it is quick and whimsically fun.

I loved the shared titles list in this week’s Kaleidonotes newsletter! Fun and inspirational @kaleidotrope.bsky.social

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I just finished reading “You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb” by Paul Crenshaw in the July issue of Lightspeed, and wow! I felt such a deep sense of deep empathic, palpable rage. There are lines I will not soon forget.

Alan reviews the latest edition of the excellent @shoreinf.bsky.social‬ - Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.

Okay, question— when you are reading a work that references a particular song or album do you put it on while you read that work?

Just read “How to Win Against the Robots” by Katherine Crighton in Lightspeed and it was lovely.

Okay, question— when you are reading a work that references a particular song or album do you put it on while you read that work?

Just read Five Views of the Planet Tartarus by Rachel K Jones in @lightspeedmagazine.com (January 2024) Wow! This flash piece does so much. And that ending—blew me away!

These dozen stories appear in the new Summer Kaleidotrope. Where will you start your adventure?

I’m currently reading The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. I’m in awe of the absolute depth of all of her characters. Not finished yet so please no spoilers! #booksky

Shoreline of Infinity 39 is out now! www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/shor... In paperback, PDF and ebook formats.

Today is the day!

Good morning

Here's what I sent them. Not my greatest writing, but it doesn't have to be perfect. Please submit your own comment today before 11:59 pm ET. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Hey all, a little cheep of a crow— the RebellionLit anthology Three x The Fun is releasing on 5/30 with my story, “Self-Taxidermy: Dressed to Kill” Note: Content warnings abound with this one.

Since today’s my birthday I’m wishing all of us a much improved year, with health, peace, love, and joy. I really hope I get my wish.

Watched The Orphanage today. It always feels weird to admit to watching something no your peers have seen quite a while ago.

Looking for suggestions. What is your favorite easy groovy song but with dark undertones?