Can’t wait! My piece is called “Parachutes,” and it’s about never knowing when you might need one.

Was thinking about sending work to a prestigious place that has never accepted my work and tends to favor those who pay to attend their workshops, but I came to my senses. Best $5.00 I never spent.

I think working on a short story is like making an oil painting. What I think is a micro that I need to get published right away is often just the sketch underneath, and each time I revise what I'm doing is adding layers and letting them dry.

Great story!

I'm in the latest, most fabulous issue of 10 by 10, along with nine other great writers! My story's called "Wolf Clothes," it's eight stories into the pdf, and it's about how far you can get when you show someone your teeth. tinyurl.com/97u6du7t

Are you in Ireland this month? Come out to hear these Canadian authors in Dublin! rob mclennan (ON BEAUTY) and Christine McNair (Toxemia) read at Books Upstairs on July 13 at 2 pm with Irish poets Christodoulos Makris and Éireann Lorsung. booksupstairs.ie/events/ #poetry #literature #events

Thrilled to wake up to a story acceptance by MoonPark Review! It's called "Like Every Good Idea I Have Before I Open My Eyes." People drink tea in it. @moonparkreview.bsky.social

New Speculative Flash Roundup! Featuring stories in: Small Wonders MoonPark Review Radon Journal Hex Literary Flash Flood Molotov Cocktail Lightspeed Strange Horizons X-Ray Penumbric Gaia Lit Beaver Magazine

I love a flash story that operates on three or four levels.

I have a piece in this year's Flash Flood! It's about hope.

My story "Wings" goes live at 15:20 (BST) on 14 June 2025. It's about hope.

With my most recent story out in the world, I’m noticing how askew is my sense of characterization. I care about and depict what my characters think and feel and say and do, but I only rarely describe them, or give their backgrounds, ages, or even genders. Fellow writers, how do you approach this?

Here's my latest! This one's rooted in something I once saw myself. I love how horror can comment on watching and imaging as acts we'd like to separate but not really.

Hopefully folks will find my next story to be stimulating.

Welcome to my 2025 novella recommendation thread! For the rest of the year, I am going to recommend novellas in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres for the consideration of Hugo nominators. And, crucially, these are all going to be novellas NOT published by Tor.

Really honored to see this story in #heavyfeatherreview. I was trying to write science fiction and wound up creating something that I think really speaks to our current time and situation. heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/05/19/s...

Repeating myself on bsky: the best people to help you find new books to read are SFF critics. Some of them are also authors, plenty are not. Most are unpaid. All are serious, passionate, enthusiastic readers, representing a wide range of tastes and interests. I appreciate the work they do so much.

"hah hah hah! FOOLS!!" is something that supervillains say way more than normal people, so, as a Normal Person, every chance you get to say it is a real special treat, and you should reach for it every time www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

I have a new story up in Waffle Fried! It's called "Working on It," and it's about snakes. And love. All my stories are about love. wafflefried.com/working-on-it/

We would love to create a starter pack of bookstores in Europe people can visit on their travels. Please recommend your favourites and we will get it going.

A heartwarming story about wanting to rub out your older brother. Complications ensue. #Brothers #flashfiction

In this awful time, I have a new story up at @yourimpossiblevoice.com. It's called "Hotdogs." It's not about hotdogs. www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/hotdogs/ #flashfiction #author #literaryfiction #[email protected]

I made the list!!!!!

One of those is mine! All the terrible things you have to do to make a really good slice of pie.

First acceptance of the new year! My story "Hotdogs" will be published in @yourimpossiblevoice.com It's not really about hotdogs.

Still sick with norovirus but getting back to revising stories and sending them out to various places. Feverish edits. Let me know if you'd like one.

It feels weird taking my address off my subs, as I no longer live there anymore. Instead of a place, artifacts of that place.

Pie, served seethingly. “The least you can do is try some.”

So excited to have five cinquains--about dancing & laying on the ground & traffic & marigolds & monkeys--in the latest issue of David Dodd Lee & John Ulysses Leonard's THE GLACIER alongside so many other excellent writers! theglacierjournal.com/issue-three/...

I'm super happy to have a new story out in issue 3 of The Glacier! It's called "The Amazing," and it's about magicians (and maybe also teaching). theglacierjournal.com/issue-three/...

I'm super happy to have a new story out in issue 3 of The Glacier! It's called "The Amazing," and it's about magicians (and maybe also teaching). theglacierjournal.com/issue-three/...

Yesterday the movers cleared out our house. After sweeping up the dust and debris I put my house keys in the lockbox. And thus after 22 years I've left Berkeley. But next step is Barcelona, starting tomorrow!

RIP Barry Malzberg, who wrote one of the best of the po-mo New Wave science-fiction mindfucks I devoured as an impressionable kid.

It’s hard to get rid of things! When I complained to my folks they just laughed, having had to handle their parents possessions and their own downsizing. You think your stuff’s the best, but nobody wants that pressure cooker you’ve only used a dozen times.

Revising/revisiting a short story I wrote that uses a lot of science fictional elements but doesn't really fit in science fictionland. Any ideas what publications I might try sending this piece to?

I guess it's time to make a post. Big changes coming in my life I don't want to talk about yet on social media, but I will be having three stories published next month in Bull, The Glacier and @hexliterary.bsky.social.