Chelsea Davis
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Writer. Audio producer
@Pseudopod.org
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https://chelseamdavis.net/writing/
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Kristina Ten
26 days ago
Absolute dream speaking with
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for
@electricliterature.com
about the great Dorothy Allison, the agency in body horror, my perpetual motion sickness, where people-pleasing gets dangerous, being your own absent babysitter, and more.
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A Provocative Story Collection About Immigrants, Bodies Under Siege, and the Horror of Being Perceived - Electric Literature
Kristina Ten’s “Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine” gets spooky about girlhood
https://electricliterature.com/a-provocative-story-collection-about-immigrants-bodies-under-seige-and-the-horror-of-being-perceived/
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Mattilda B Sycamore
3 months ago
Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by
@haymarketbooks.org
! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call:
www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other
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Andrea Torti
about 1 month ago
Please help Mohammed in any way you can!! 💕💸🍉
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Support Mohammed Al Harazin's Survival in Gaza
Hello dear friends I hope you are well when you receive this message
https://chuffed.org/project/mohammedalharazin?section=updates
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Samuel M. Moss
about 2 months ago
Hey! I'm reading in SF this Thursday! Et al. Gallery at 6pm with
@milesklee.bsky.social
@spookymeatball.bsky.social
@chelsead.bsky.social
, Colin Winette and Lucy Corin
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Samuel M. Moss
2 months ago
Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'! Official Double--Negative announcement here:
www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg
Add it on Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Order it on Asterism:
asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
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Login • Instagram
Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg
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Bright Wall/Dark Room
3 months ago
Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.
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Subscribe - Bright Wall/Dark Room
Subscribe for $29 a year Subscribe now to receive immediate access to each new essay we publish, plus our entire 135+ issue archive. Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent, runs no ads, and strongl...
https://brightwalldarkroom.com/subscribe
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It was a total delight to interview
@annaleen.bsky.social
about their new queer sci-fi novella, Automatic Noodle. You can read the interview online now, or in print this Thursday ✨
tinyurl.com/yc53d83u
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Annalee Newitz’ ‘Automatic Noodle’ – Queer robots in futuristic California
“I love writing gay robots,” Annalee Newitz says. It’s clear the Lambda Literary Award-winning author and science journalist had a ball writing “Automatic Noodle” (Tor), their fourth queer sci-fi book...
https://www.ebar.com/story/156725/Arts%20%26%20Culture/Books/Annalee%20Newitz%E2%80%99%20%E2%80%98Automatic%20Noodle%E2%80%99%20%E2%80%93%20Queer%20robots%20in%20futuristic%20California
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PseudoPod
3 months ago
Well, we tried to stop the portal, but it looks like it’s opening anyway. Oh well. We open for submissions at midnight. Ish. Horror. Up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don’t agonise over your cover letter. Just send us a brilliant story.
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I reviewed Silvia Moreno-Garcia's newest novel for the
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
. The Bewitching is a reflection on misanthropy, cross-cultural witch lore, and the pleasures of research.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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The Heart Is a Lonely Haunter | Los Angeles Review of Books
Chelsea Davis hangs out with dead people in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “The Bewitching.”
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-heart-is-a-lonely-haunter/?fbclid=IwY2xjawL0fUNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHugJu8u4t_Hi3x9tmdRGeMs6BYvzqzKi1W1s5bV4zGFdQ_PwEr2tXe0GkR_S_aem_ZszFkakby1oy65PlK4pfng
3 months ago
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Los Angeles Review of Books
4 months ago
"But who needs sex when you’ve got books? Minerva’s emotional connection to the dead authors she studies is so hot-blooded it verges on the erotic." @chelsead.bsky.social reviews "The Bewitching."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-heart-is-a-lonely-haunter/
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PseudoPod
5 months ago
Woo! Delighted to have been nominated by the BFS for Best Audio! 🎉 Congratulations to The Tiny Bookcase, Breaking the Glass Slipper and, of course, our friends in the Castle!
@podcastle.org
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In the latest edition of my horror-comedy newsletter, Shrieks & Howls, I wrote about Bring Her Back and Bring It On. File under: mourning & melancholia, pirated copies, Nancy Kerrigan. Read here, & subscribe for free at the link in the comments to catch future installments.
tinyurl.com/5b8hs6r3
5 months ago
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For The Brooklyn Rail, I reviewed Naomi Falk’s mesmerizing memoir-in-art, The Surrender of Man.
brooklynrail.org/2025/06/art_...
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Naomi Falk’s The Surrender of Man | The Brooklyn Rail
An editor and art book designer who has worked in galleries and museums, Falk offers up her own existential and emotional bildung (education) as a case study in how artistic experience might help nonb...
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/06/art_books/naomi-falks-the-surrender-of-man/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeayJFF7DZ5fyJzBXoRfk9af1PC5zIUwiJ4eB-lx9z83go3kTeyBbNBV-MxJw_aem_4NpbHidWrnY7Xv02dHV_SQ
5 months ago
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jael holzman
6 months ago
ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely please read on 🧵
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Dani Daly
6 months ago
So this story by
@chelsead.bsky.social
means a lot to me, and I am very proud of the narration for it. I hope you like it too!
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PseudoPod
6 months ago
They’d long since passed the point where road gave way to trail gave way to forest. The Fruits Of, by Chelsea Davis Narrator: Dani Daly Host: Kat Day Audio: Chelsea Davis
pseudopod.org/2025/05/20/p...
C/W for dementia, suicidal ideation, death of a family member
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PseudoPod 977: The Fruits Of
They’d long since passed the point where road gave way to trail gave way to forest. Bright green ferns now rose to their knees. Around them, old-growth redwoods loomed forth. It had been like this for...
https://pseudopod.org/2025/05/20/pseudopod-977-the-fruits-of
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ
7 months ago
I love this piece because the dude is clearly completely satisfied with his hairline
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PseudoPod
7 months ago
The PseudoPod portal is open, you say? Yes! But ONLY FOR stories that have been, or will be, published in anthologies or collections in this year of our lord* 2025. Hold on to your previously unpublished work for now: that door's opening in the summer. [*we'll leave you to decide who that is]
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PseudoPod
7 months ago
Happiest of birthdays to our audio producer,
@chelsead.bsky.social
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Gareth Southwell
8 months ago
The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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KQED Arts & Culture
9 months ago
In her new book ‘Sky Daddy,’ author Kate Folk explores uncharted territory: It's the gently empathetic fictional story of a Menlo Park tech worker who spends her free time at SFO — because she's sexually attracted to airplanes. The author chats with KQED:
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Airplanes! Sex! ‘Sky Daddy’ Takes Object Fetishization to New Heights | KQED
A visit at SFO with Kate Folk, author of this year’s No. 1 book for those sexually attracted to planes.
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972113/sky-daddy-book-kate-folk-airplane-sexual-fetish-sfo
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Dan Hartland
8 months ago
Another week, another
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
issue, another Monday review. Good one of an important book, too:
@chelsead.bsky.social
on Julia Armfield’s Private Rites. This novel has already rightly occasioned much comment, and right before its US publication Chelsea has new things to add.
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Private Rites by Julia Armfield
There’s a plodding pace to things in Private Rites, and by design.
http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/private-rites-by-julia-armfield/
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I reviewed
@katefolk.bsky.social
's forthcoming novel, Sky Daddy. For the piece, I also spoke with Folk about the inspiration behind the novel, the banal miracle of air travel, and blackpilled desire.
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9 months ago
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PseudoPod
over 1 year ago
“One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved.” Chickamauga, by Ambrose Bierce Narrator: Brian Lieberman Host and audio producer:
@chelsead.bsky.social
This story first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, 1889
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PseudoPod 921: Chickamauga
One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved. It was happy in a new sense of freedom from control, happy in the opportunity of…
https://pseudopod.org/2024/05/27/pseudopod-921-chickamauga/
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I wrote a plot for this play-to-die horror RPG & it's finally available in meatspace! Enter The Zone, where your body is changing & it's not going to be ok :) :)
thezonerpg.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
almost 2 years ago
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a.a. de levine
almost 2 years ago
LOVED this observation:
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I interviewed Anna Biller, one of my favorite living filmmakers (The Love Witch, Viva), about her debut novel. Bluebeard's Castle uses the ancient legend to comment on modern-day violence against women.
electricliterature.com/anna-biller-...
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Anna Biller on How the Gothic Gives Voice to Women’s Pleasure—and Pain - Electric Literature
Her novel "Bluebeard's Castle" is a feminist reinvention of the French fairytale in the modern day
https://electricliterature.com/anna-biller-bluebeards-castle-gothic-novel-book-interview/?fbclid=IwAR3yorbr-slXwoOxLIPzIgxxnAgRnroNDkmaSHkSHr74FufmQwvV6vBkjgk
almost 2 years ago
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PseudoPod
about 2 years ago
Every year we do everything we can to promote anthologies and collections at PseudoPod. Take a look at our blog post (link below) and be reminded of some of the pieces we’ve already published, and salivate over some of the things we’ve got coming up…
pseudopod.org/2023/11/09/a...
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Anthologies and Collections from 2023: Bloodline
Novels are all very well, but is there anything more satisfying than a well-crafted short story? We don’t think so, here at PseudoPod towers. A gripping introduction, a compelling narrative and a ha...
https://pseudopod.org/2023/11/09/anthologies-and-collections-from-2023-bloodline/
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I wrote about the best horror film of the past year, & a film that some would certainly call a comedy! Check out the latest edition of Shrieks & Howls, my newsletter about horror & comedy. And subscribe at the link in the comments so you never miss a bonkers pairing.
tinyletter.com/chelseamdavi...
about 2 years ago
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shazleen
about 2 years ago
Anyway i havent posted resources here irt to palestine and no one on this dash is posting anything so heres smn I stole off twitter
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The Nucky Thompson of Going on My Phone
about 2 years ago
Old-timey tough kid beholding a Lovecraftian horror: He ain’t so squamous
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I interviewed Mona Awad about her latest novel, Rouge, which is about skincare and the death drive.
electricliterature.com/mona-awad-in...
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On The Edge Of The Abyss, Putting Our Skincare Creams On - Electric Literature
Mona Awad, author of "Rouge," on the insidious cult of skincare and the transformative power of fairytales
https://electricliterature.com/mona-awad-interview-book-novel-rouge/
about 2 years ago
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As guest host for
@pseudopod.bsky.social
this week, I got to think & talk about
@joshrountree.bsky.social
's short story "See that My Grave Is Kept Clean," a desolating meditation on guilt and siblinghood. Listen (or read the text) at the link below.
pseudopod.org/2023/09/08/p...
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PseudoPod 882: See That My Grave is Kept Clean
Dig a hole, climb in, cover yourself in grave dirt. Not your face. You aren’t ready to join the dead, not yet. The bone men tend the graveyard, unaware they’re being watched. You’re crying becau...
https://pseudopod.org/2023/09/08/pseudopod-882-see-that-my-grave-is-kept-clean/
about 2 years ago
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PseudoPod
about 2 years ago
“Dig a hole, climb in, cover yourself in grave dirt. Not your face. You aren’t ready to join the dead, not yet.” See That My Grave is Kept Clean, by Josh Rountree Narrator: Kyle Akers Host and audio production: Chelsea Davis This story is a PseudoPod original
pseudopod.org/2023/09/08/p...
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The Ghost of Halloween Past
about 2 years ago
Looks like someone(s) with the right mix of ability, interest, time and either funding or willingness to figure that part out, is needed to keep this going. Sharing in case perhaps that's you or someone you know.
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I interviewed
@lydiakiesling.bsky.social
about her new novel, Mobility, which is both a closely observed bildungsroman and a lucid history of a dizzyingly vast industry: oil.
theracketsf.com/home/chelsea...
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INTERVIEW: Lydia Kiesling by Chelsea Davis — THE RACKET
INTERVIEW Lydia Kiesling (Mobility) by Chelsea Davis
https://theracketsf.com/home/chelseadavis/lydiakiesling?fbclid=IwAR1YXzF1GOMIaT2Ke_q0bfBwwQugzJBZBuFvC3Geh6dfMvWtQfebqvUCxPE
about 2 years ago
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Clarkesworld
about 2 years ago
I've been helping some friends and colleagues block some of the site scraping bots that are feeding "AI" models. Decided to take some of my notes and make something others could use too. It's a work-in-progress. Happy to add to or correct things.
neil-clarke.com/block-the-bo...
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I hosted
@pseudopod.bsky.social
's reissue of
@christinogle.bsky.social
's exquisite story, "Resilience." Listen here to her portrait of hideous survival & the slimy darkness we all keep inside. Stick around to the end for my commentary on the story.
https://t.co/73N8W6X8tc
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PseudoPod 879: Resilience
Jason gets home while I’m at the sink. He comes up behind me, holds me around the waist, and tickles the side of my face with his soft new beard. We watch the young squirrels shake a tree branch…
https://pseudopod.org/2023/08/18/pseudopod-879-resilience/
about 2 years ago
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Josh
over 2 years ago
The person who invites you to Bluesky is the closest thing we have to vampire sires.
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William Shakespeare
over 2 years ago
The boys
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ok. ok. acrostics are fun. One with books, now: Cipher(, The) Her Body and Other Parties Exquisite Corpse Lunar Park Sydney Bridge Upside Down Eileen Aura
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about 2 years ago
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this is such good clean fun Carnival of Souls House that Jack Built(, The) Exorcism of Emily Rose Les Diaboliques Scare Me Event Horizon As Above, So Below
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about 2 years ago
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Trann¡e Lennox✨[Mental Health Break]
over 2 years ago
FOR SALE: Baby Shoes shoes for baby toddler infant never worn brand new new moms clothing footwear newborn unused small child cute precious 100% cotton organic gum shoes baby
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