The French also sensibly imposed a similar requirement

The Stars that Rise at Dawn #audiobook part 7 (chapters 12 & 13) is here! ch 12 (21 mins): vocaroo.com/1jhhXYa8JVek ch 13: (26 mins): vocaroo.com/1avkmBTX6mRz

I have listened to Diablo Swing Orchestra's album "Swagger and Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole" an absolutely criminal amount of times while working on this book. While outlining, though, the album of choice was Opeth's "Blackwater Park." No idea what this combination means.

THE STARVING SAINTS by Caitlin Starling

Šehhinah #audiobook part 6 (chapters 9, 10, and 11) 9: vocaroo.com/146MOzCL4a49 10: vocaroo.com/1e6mcNbvzgFs 11: vocaroo.com/1eg9kVLLDJKf

Šehhinah #audiobook part 5 (chapters 7 and 8) 7: vocaroo.com/1kQKFygsuT4w 8: vocaroo.com/1mGZe0bbhhLr

Šehhinah audiobook part 4 (chapters 5 and 6) 5: vocaroo.com/15mvoKOMZrUN 6: vocaroo.com/1b2Nyi7WnSJA

Šehhinah #audiobook chapters 3 (20 mins) and 4 (7 mins)! remarkable how much variation in not just pagecount but speed different chapters are. vocaroo.com/15A2wMKdxV7L vocaroo.com/1bnF5rf9RiKc

Drawing from years of reporting, "We Survived the Night" paints a portrait of contemporary Indigenous life alongside a reckoning between a father & son. Join us next week when Julian Brave Noisecat will be here to celebrate this new book from @aaknopf.bsky.social! Tix: NoiseCatBBS.eventbrite.com

I love.... emergent properties.....

excited to be a part of this sturgeon release tomorrow. our water quality team will be represented at Merwin’s Wharf 1-4pm and we’d love to see you there.

Definitely gonna give it a listen! Here's a non-Audible link for those of us who've hated Amazon since they first came for our local bookshops. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Merriam-Webster just added 5,000 words to their collegiate dictionary, including “petrichor,” “teraflop,” “dumbphone” and “ghost kitchen.”

Šehhinah #audiobook chapters 3 (20 mins) and 4 (7 mins)! remarkable how much variation in not just pagecount but speed different chapters are. vocaroo.com/15A2wMKdxV7L vocaroo.com/1bnF5rf9RiKc

I like the Terraforming Mars board game but it always seems that I go for a corporation that does X, and then get cards that exclusively cater to every other letter of the alphabet. I'm like "I need solutions to generate power" and my entire science team are "Hey I just invented a tardigrade."

Toni Morrison wrote that “all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was”. Morrison was talking about writing and the Mississippi, but she could easily have been talking about the creeks that flow through 'Honeyeater'. satpa.pe/Zo0OpGR

Shanah Tovah and Gut Yontif, everyone! h/t @shvlman.bsky.social for posting the Leviathan Rosh Hashanah postcard.

Just rewatched The Crow(1994) and wanted to draw Eric with his animal buddies. Very Disney Princess of him.

Late pledges are open for 3 more days. Help us hit our first Stretch Goal to fund an extra issue of 3LBE in 2026. More stories, more nightmares! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Get to know the artists rewriting the rules of South Asian Sufi devotional music.

Another! I truly don’t know the best way to do these sorts of things on bsky, but here’s chapter 1 vocaroo.com/1dVVGD4oqsxP and chapter 2 vocaroo.com/1bdcIqZhcqwy

What are some trad pub SFF/H books that have been out at least a year that you think didn't get enough attention? Adult or YA. Marginalized authors preferred, and small press titles encouraged. Not looking for big bestsellers or award-sweepers.

And here’s my #audiobook version of the prologue of Šehhinah book 1, The Stars That Rise At Dawn! About 12 minutes. i’ll get through the series at an unspecified rate voca.ro/1mODI7pOTJyJ

Breakcore is mutating. Meet the new monsters.

We’ve reached our goal! A colossal thanks to everyone who’s backed us and shared. Your support makes this all possible. Thank you! Late pledges are up for one week with new rewards, and we hope to hit stretch goals so we can add even more issues and stories next year.

We have a cover for next year's Children of Strife!

one of my best #flashfiction i've done this month! www.deviantart.com/atheshya/art... "stepping now among hollow echoes, a structure she could hear her way through if she clicked her tongue just right, somewhere in here would be the thing, the radiating thing that would take out anyone with eyes,"

We just met our funding goal! Thank you times infinity to the backers of the last 30 minutes, and everyone in the last 28 days. There will be 3LBE 2026! 🖤🐙 📖 There’s still time for stretch goals, which will add more issues and more stories.

Hey, who turned out the lights?? 🕯️🕯️🕯️ The theme for September's flash fiction contest is CANDLELIGHT! You have until the end of this month to submit. Full submission details linked below ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/septem...

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become unsummarizable

honestly while i didn’t set out to do so, basically all my writing projects wound up focusing on the existential horror of being made into the moby-dick in this scenario.

We need a word for fiction which is dystopian, but not MORE dystopian than the historical moment it's being written in. Like, I wanna warn critiquers that the story is dystopian SF, but the dystopian parts aren't the SF parts, the dystopian parts are already here. idiodystopian? mimetic dystopia?

As with comedy, harvesting milkweed seed is all about timing! 🦋🌸🦋 In this blog, we’ll explore some methods of harvesting milkweed seed, separating the truth from the fluff.

#nowspinning God Is An Astronaut; Ghost Tapes #10 #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcommunity #33rom #GIAA @giaaband.bsky.social

Today is one of my favorite days in North Amherst, when someone has to slowly walk around my friends’ yard, carefully collecting all the baby snapping turtles so the crows don’t eat them.

It is still Bandcamp Friday.

In her suburban Gothic fantasy / dark #fantasy novel "Honeyeater" author Kathleen Jennings is trying to capture the beauty of her native Brisbane. Though as she says in this interview, "If I am fond of something, I like to try making it dreadful in fiction." paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🐦‍⬛🍯

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clearly do not have anything close to professional level narration skills or recording equipment, and i myself am dreadful at processing audio and therefore don't know what a good audiobook should sound like. but i hope something is better than nothing.

Hi! As a self-published author I can't afford to pay someone to make an #audiobook, but I *can* just...choose to narrate my books myself. poorly. here's parts 1&2 of the šehhinah prequel short story Stalking and the Glory of God, about 40 mins total vocaroo.com/1h1EgpqyKHp7 vocaroo.com/11qt8d9uSUX3

This is a fascinating read! Looking forward to getting the time to read the original monograph.

A gila cowgirl for funsies (I'm painstakingly trying to figure out how to use Clip Studio again, I always forget after going for a long time without practicing)

Our magazine has a long title, but we love short fiction, it’s all we publish. Stories that stir zeal and doom in a cauldron. Stories that build skeletons of flying vampiric cities. Stories that travel in time through echoes of secret songs. Help us keep doing this! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Hellllooooo from the static! It is fundraising season for many spec mags out there. We are doing things a little differently with a small gofundme to help us into 2026. We are already at $2 and just need a little boost to help us to our goal of $2400 👻 www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

Blue-faced Honeyeater mobbing an unimpressed Powerful Owlet.

The house does, indeed, brood.

At #TactiCon in Colorado this past weekend I had the pleasure of playing "If I Were A Lich, Man" and its sequels by lucian kahn of @hitpointpress.bsky.social, a ttrpg which is also a drinking game. the experience can be summed up by this discord text I sent to my girlfriend while playing: