Good. Good. Good. Bury it dumped in an unmarked field, like so many tens of thousands of the dogs.

Down the river and then back with the tides.

As opposed to what other kinds of settlements, please?

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

#SouthernWater don't even realise it's their fault for ten days, (or so they say - does anyone trust them?), deny all liability to an MP, then finally admit to the catastrophic release of *millions* of carcinogenic bio-beads now washing up on beaches in the south-east.

We’ve updated our submissions pages with news of our winter call, and info on the new ghost story call:

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Those opening moments of first draft when the elegant, lapidary story in your head becomes the stunted, lumbering mutant on the page.

Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.

Further thoughts on social media stopping being like the pub, and the hollow weirdness of it all. open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

So we were right to be worried about quicksand!

Top trolling, no notes

Overheard on a train last weekend: "that phallus was twenty-eight thousand pounds."

Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.

Favourite short stories that I’ve read in the last couple of weeks. 🧵

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm. Real life:

Any day now.

Hard to watch Strictly knowing if any of them fall during their dances they get taken out and shot 😞

musical fame is fleeting

This is the kind of news I am here for.

And - along with a bunch of other people - I just had to find another seat on the @lner.co.uk I had to switch to because of the cancellation of my earlier train - as none of the reservation signs are working. Because of course they're not. Nothing does.

“Elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes" crashes in as my number one phrase of 2025.

Sorry you can’t come to school today, we don’t have any teachers. What an embarrassment public transport is in the UK. Always an adventure though - maybe you’ll get to where you’re going, maybe you won’t. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m not sure life is a dream. But if your attempts to map it don’t feel like one, you may be making a serious error about what being awake actually is M. John Harrison

A couple of hours. A couple of people. One beach. #sunderland

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

ChatGPT is currently answering all of my verbal queries in Welsh (a known bug, apparently). I must say, I find the prospect of a Skynet-style hostile superintelligence a little less daunting when it comes in the form of an accidental housewife from Rhyl.

Got home with loads of photos, let's sync them, iCloud Photos app. OK, syncing your photos. But now you're not looking, PAUSED SYNCING. Why are you not syncing? OPTIMISING. Well, sync instead. OK! (5 seconds later) PAUSED SYNCING Why not? UHH...VIBES, MAN. Sync! NOT FEELING IT, TBH.

The fire in this house is so up itself

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Next up on my reading pile is a new supernatural story from @michellepaver.bsky.social I had the pleasure of interviewing Michelle for the U.K. Ghost Story Festival, and she definitely knows how to write a creepy tale. This one is out in October. I’ll hope to feature it on the podcast soon

The best short stories I read last month. 🧵 Claire Keegan — Antarctica (Antarctica) Cold, precise, terrifying. A writer wholly in control. ⁣ @mjohnharrison.bsky.social — Egnaro (The Ice Monkey) An obsession that plays out across novels in a nutshell. A yearning for what is always out of sight.⁣

Back in print with a *beautiful* cover. A novel that made me look at the world in a different way. Not necessarily in a good/happy way - I remain...unsettled...but if you read the novel you may understand how that in itself is a reflection of what a brilliant piece of work it is that can do that.

45 minutes inside an MRI scanner feels like you’re being buried alive, only the coffin next to you is playing really bad industrial techno very loudly. Giving it one star on TripAdvisor, would not plan to visit again

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

Lovely to see this out - an ebook release of all the short stories shortlisted for the Dinesh Allirajah Short Fiction Prize. Check it out and read my short story 'Stranger' which came second and all the other great fiction that's in there. Is up for only 99p right now.

Lovely to see this out - an ebook release of all the short stories shortlisted for the Dinesh Allirajah Short Fiction Prize. Check it out and read my short story 'Stranger' which came second and all the other great fiction that's in there. Is up for only 99p right now.

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There's a bit of football (or soccer) slang in Brazil, stating that a ball might hit "where the owl sleeps" (either top corner on a goal frame).

The public has spoken, for years, and we've been ignored. It’s time to end this cruelty for good. Fox hunting belongs in the history books, not the countryside. Let’s strengthen the law and the loopholes, once and for all.

I think you're maybe doing a little linguistic stereotyping there at the bottom, Bluesky.

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Ah, "Babies" is just such a good song. National treasures.

Ladies and gentlemen… PATCHWORK!