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It's time for another free story! Up next is "For the Rectitude of Our Intentions" by @ourmankoto.bsky.social. What if the U.S. was founded on black magic? What if its success and protection was linked to some profane spell? Read and find out, and be sure to run the numbers at the end 🙂.

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after extensive wind tunnel testing and analysis, I've concluded that airplane mode is a complete scam. it doesn't change the phone's aerodynamics in the slightest.

Are you doing a neat Ursula-related project? Talking about her work on a podcast, or reviewing the prize shortlist, or anything else? We'd love to hear about it, if so! You can always tag us here, and every email that comes through the contact form is read by an actual person.

I backed these novellas for 2 reasons Unselfish reason: These are great writers supported by great art and a great publisher, I can't wait to read their new stories, and I want them to thrive! Selfish reason: I want Brackenbury Books to be around to one day publish me! Back this book bonanza now!

Hear why the “license behavior system” is the secret sauce for making better loot in Borderlands 4: https://gamedevelope...

This is an emergency🚨 We’re living through very difficult days here in Gaza! I just want to save my daughter and family from hunger & death😩 We’ve no real food, only canned food that harms our bodies and prices are very high, beyond our means💔 Pls help🙏 gofund.me/f360b56e3 @mommunism.bsky.social

Really loved this story that won this year's Hugo for best short story. Unique magic powers, family, revenge, a helluva fight.

Agony is when you have a Man u supporter controlling your loadshading schedule, and end up rooting for your enemies.

We're one month away from FUTILITY by @nuzo.bsky.social hitting shelves! 👁️ This is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly funny tale of murder, body-swapping and bloody vengeance from the ‘Queen of African Horror’. 🥣 Have you pre-ordered? https://tinyurl.com/2re64uh6

The downside of always giving your tabletop players agency and multiple options of where to go and how to approach things is that they will discuss those options. At length. Exhaustively. While you sit there and quietly listen. 🫠

98 backers! Can we get to 100 today? CLICK HERE for labour demons, brackish-water ghosts, boys made out of ice cream, & girls who shapeshift into equine corpses when they sneeze www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

The Nigeria leather industry is estimated to generate at least $600-million a year, but most of it goes to people in the middle. The shoes, bags, and belts assembled from this leather will bear labels like “Made in Italy” but give no credit to the Nigerian workers who did the dirty first steps.

Weekend reading

Grit and determination in a cold gaze. Looking over the ills that birthed it. Dead. At the feet of a human hidden in metal.

Please help Sally keep her son Anas alive through Israel's genocidal starvation & invasion of Gaza. Bluesky makes her suffer the additional indignity of having to continually make new accounts because she's restricted & deleted for being subject to imperialist violence:

Palestinian families like Doaa's are being displaced, sickened & starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can to cover the costs of healthcare, food and evacuation, they're in urgent need:

Sorry umpian EPA, your science was spot on in 2009 and has just been resolutely upheld in 2025: "EPA’s 2009 finding that the human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence"

I passed my Master's thesis defence yesterday! 🙌🏾 It's the hardest journey I've ever had to take academically so far because my mental health broke down severally due to unrelated issues, but I made it! 😭🤟🏾

Tlotlo Tsamaase's bookshelves and picks. @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social

Spooky season is around the corner. Can I interest you in some ghosts and demons and assorted paranormal urban delights in oh-so-tiny novella form?

One again here to remind people that quantum physics is bizarrre. Even our guy Schrodinger came up with his cat metaphor as a reducio ad absurdum, not an explanation.

With holo-Stan Lee set to “speak with” L.A. Comic Con fans, just a reminder that I’m utterly disgusted by the way AI is being used at the expense of actual human artists. So disgusted, in fact, that I wrote this story about it. Check it out if you haven’t yet.

I love this man, his music, his spirit, and he understood the reasons behind Ulla's story ... perfectly.

White people do this ALL THE TIME on our continent. Leave them alone🤣 www.bbc.com/news/article...

A British national is accused of murdering and dumping the body of 21-year-old in a septic tank back in 2012.

See the (exceedingly diplomatic) note highlighting the continued absence of the Must Read digests. Their contracts are still bad.

just a small portion of what people spend on giant corporations like Disney would change the average indie author/artist/musician/etc.'s life this is why I ask you all to spend money supporting those of us who create outside the system and work to give voice to the things corporate America won't

When I was a kid I didn’t even dream of seeing my stories in books like these. It’s an honor and privilege to share a TOC with the other authors included here (many of whom I’m fortunate to call friends). Grateful to the editors who thought my work worthy, both on original publication and here.

Palestinian families like Hammam's are being bombed & starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & invasion. Please help by sharing & donating if you can, Hammam's family is still trapped in the north & urgently needs funds for shelter, food, & travel to escape the IDF, they're in great danger:

Palestinian families like Tahani's are being violently displaced & starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you can to cover the costs of evacuation, food, healthcare, shelter:

Please help the Nashwan family afford the steep costs of healthcare, shelter, & food as they're bombed & hounded by the IDF and starved to death in Israel's genocide, they're in urgent need:

Palestinian families like Mohammed's are being displaced, sickened & starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can to cover the costs of healthcare, food and evacuation:

Palestinian families like Mohammed's are being displaced, sickened & starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can to cover the costs of healthcare, food and evacuation, they're in urgent need (no donations for 14 days):

São Salvador (M'banza-Kongo), Capital of the kingdom of Kongo, Angola. detail of a 1683 engraving by Alain Manesson Mallet #historyxt

“Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth” by Peter Nena is set in Nairobi, where recurring nightmares bleed into reality with terrifying consequences. The story reveals how children’s warnings are too often dismissed until it’s too late. Full story appears in Issue V: www.lulu.com/shop/somto-i...

Willow Smith, Anna Sawai, John Cho, John Boyega, and Teyana Taylor to get slimed in an anime-inspired, non-Nickelodeon fashion: reactormag.com/slime-animat...

BREAKING: At least 36 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the besieged enclave since dawn, including 19 people in Gaza City, medical sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/qv3q3f

And if you’ve never seen my very dark Nebula Award-nominated novelette about the commoditization of art and the artists themselves (with a cyberpunk anime-taste), you can check it out on @clarkesworldmagazine.com here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_06_23/

I’ve made an update to this situation. open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

Leah Andelsmith's Reckoning 8 story "Within the Seed Lives the Fruit", a heartwrenching story about living with the land, is up for a WSFA Small Press Award this weekend, so I'll be at @capclave.bsky.social in DC, representing @reckoningmag.bsky.social: capclave.org/capclave25/

Palestinian families like Waseem's have been violently displaced once again by the IDF as they're starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating so they can cover the costs of shelter, food, healthcare (1 donation in 3 days):

Ugh, so true ❤️ Thrilled to see Mary Wanjiru's 'The Shift Room' from our latest issue featured here among these other brilliant stories. What a selection! 🌟

"But artists have always modeled other ways of living in time. We change mediums, circle back, recommit. We emerge at 25, at 40, at 70. We resist straight lines. " As someone who came back to writing in her early 40s and didn't get an MFA (a privilege) until her late 40s, a big YES to allll of this

Please help if you can. Children in Gaza are being starved to death:

Congrats to Ivava Akotowaa Ofori, whose novella, The Year of Return, is a finalist for this year's Nommo Award!

I know we all enjoyed his video about male friendships, but I think this one about reading might be even better.

Palestinian families like Louay's are being violently displaced & starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you can so they can afford food & shelter (no donations for 6 days):

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!! 📢📢📢 We're hosting an AMA here with Apex Magazine Editor and EIC of Crepuscular @retreasure.bsky.social TOMORROW!! 📚✨ Got any writing, editing, or publishing questions burning a hole in your pocket? Reply to this post with your question, and Becky may select yours to answer!