Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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Also, ICYMI, our 2 main 2025 titles on sale as a bundle. Both on the Locus Recommended Reading List. And @thomasha.bsky.social 's UNCERTAIN SONS is a Philip K. Dick Award Nominee, and NYPL 'Best Of' 2025. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

Thousands of peaceful protestors including families, kids, and elders were tear gassed in Portland today. Abolish ICE isn’t enough, ICE must be prosecuted.

I write fiction about contagions, but there's nothing fictional about the reemergence of dangerous, near-eradicated diseases in the US. Protection from childhood vaccines can wane. I had my titers run last year and found out I'd lost my antibodies against measles. Go get tested and boosted!

This is a huge crisis that we must do our part on by rejecting generative AI. The more it infiltrates our systems, the more fucked we are over time.

Fabulous essay from @megapolisomancy.bsky.social in @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org on weird fiction as a metaphor and tool for confronting received ideologies and envisioning a better world.

The world is on fire but I got a rare piece of good news last week. Found out that I placed first in my group of ~40 entries in the first round of the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story flash contest! I had a great time this weekend writing another piece for round 2. Hoping to share these later!

Fatal viruses that lie dormant for years. Arachnids living on your eyelids. Dead twins buried deep inside your body. Learn about these and other true medical horrors in "A Brief Lexicon of Maladies", an illustrated supplement to my piece "The Night Clinic". marrowmagazine.com/a-brief-lexi...

Lift up your voices and sing so even the stones join in. "Songbook for the Jovian Resistance" by @prioryruins.bsky.social is a shout into the darkness for dark times

Question for writers: what hosting service/site builder are you using for your personal website? My experience with Wordpress was terrible so I'm looking to make a switch.

Thrilled to share that my debut publication is out today in Marrow Magazine. "The Night Clinic" is a weird tale of medical horror about contagion, hypochondria, and the search for a diagnosis. Check it out here marrowmagazine.com/the-night-cl... with stunning art by @thomasriesner.bsky.social

Just submitted my first round entry to the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story contest! Who else is participating? What was your group's prompt? #nycmidnight

New Hybrid Pub Scout episode is out! I spoke with Rex at @ellipsus.com about what makes their writing program unique and about their principled stance on generative AI. hybridpubscout.com/episode-81-e...

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Hello world. I go by Atara and I'm a visual artist, scientist, and writer of horror/weird fiction from the Pacific Northwest. I'm seeking the strange and wondrous in this troubled world. Looking to connect with fellow creatives and fans of the weird and uncanny. #art #weirdfiction #horror