Another poem from a few years ago...

"We're going to destroy access to useful, factual information and use a water-destroying electricity hog that screws up all the time." people: that sounds bad. why? "It'll make a ton of money for my underground bunker once I've drained all you rubes dry" people: oh. can I write a novel with it?

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Sick of thinking about shite people, so I'm thinking about other things, like how Fiver the rabbit was one of my first favorite characters, (I read Watership Down at 9); years later, Firefly's River Tam & Orphan Black's Helena. I love the cracked ones, with possibility & chaos bleeding through them.

Here is 28 seconds of sleeping cat with little sleep noises for your calming down needs.

A poem from some years ago.

At the withered end of the year, where summer is reduced to a dried memory, grass whispers on behalf of the ghost soil. The land's nameless spirits roam old paths across the heath. This is the season of dead alchemy. – #DAKilroy

Behold: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

In the '80s and '90s, CJ Cherryh questioned and critiqued our assumptions about how gender is expressed and understood, creating science fiction narratives that reflect trans identity and experience. It's time for a retrospective. reactormag.com/exploring-ge...

This fall brings not just one but two exhibitions about Ursula and her work. In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary. In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.

I know people are pretending it’s not or like it makes you weak or something, but kindness is punk as fuck.

In the garden, after rain.

My essay "REWRITING THE OLD DISABILITY SCRIPT" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, out from @sagapressbooks on December 2nd. You can preorder (just in time for holiday gift giving!) now at www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

....okay I already watch his stuff but I might need to start rewatching regularly in a prophylactic manner.

God, I love her.

Anyway, I’m really quite done with living in interesting times, thank you.

Today's the day... 🌺🌼🌸🏵️ Happy BOOK BIRTHDAY to SILK AND FOXGLOVE: A BIPOC EROTIC ECO-HORROR ANTHOLOGY, unleashed and waiting for your outstretched hands and straining eyeballs NOW 👀 Thrilled to have my own erotic tale (my first...published), All Her Darling Little Ones, included in this killer TOC

Need to laugh, joyfully? I sure did. Go join @dropout.tv and watch their new show Crowd Control. @crowdcontrol.live www.dropout.tv/crowd-control

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

Most excellent thread on making ICE melt.

BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants. People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” This is authoritarian control in real time.

Catch me and Martha chopping in up next month! 🤓🥰❤️

Catsunday.

My cartoon for the @theguardian.com books autumn reads special.

Queen Demon, the sequel to Witch King, is coming out on October 7 in ebook, hardcover, and audiobook narrated by Eric Mok. Here's a great review from Library Journal: www.libraryjournal.com/review/queen...

Ultimately, Brennan is a poet 😌 #CloudwardHo

Please share this far and wide! We need your support this week to continue publishing a pro paying magazine of horror fantasy dark science weird speculative fiction. With six days left, join our parade of 96 backers so far! kck.st/4mIkEm1

For #SapphicSeptember I offer up my upcoming story, All Her Darling Little Ones in SILK AND FOXGLOVE: A BIPOC EROTIC ECO-HORROR ANTHOLOGY, especially if you like: - star-crossed lovers who refuse to be crossed😈 - alternative childbirth🐣 - white rich guys, but dead💀 - gourds, gourds so many gourds🎃

We have such sights to show you! Very excited for 2026, but we must reach our funding goal in one week to do so. Incredible authors already writing new stories of relentless monsters, uncanny places, terrifying discoveries. Thank you, 90 backers so far! kck.st/4mIkEm1

She didn't even mean to tell the future ... she was just calculating the most plausible outcomes of racism in America

I've just been reminded of the time the wonderful @tkingfisher.com said lovely things about Peter S. Beagle and The Last Unicorn so this is a day when I have to remind you that that book is ice and fairy wings and lilacs and the death of everything and if you have not read it you absolutely should.

One deep breath. Hold. Let it out. Another. Each inhale a prayer, every exhale an intention. Today is the start of something new. As you fall into tune with your breath, you feel strength build within. What do you carry with you to face the world this morning? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

IT'S BOOOK DAYYYYYYY (and the crowd goes wild) A long-awaited return to Rapid City and the world of Karen Memory! www.patreon.com/posts/137115...

Aww man, I was just reading about him recently after seeing him pop up a few times in Northern Exposure. Also, I love his books.

This anthology from @hedonebooks.bsky.social releases September 9th. It includes a stacked TOC, and “All Her Darling Little Ones,” my story of sexy, gourdly revenge 🎃

Defund Billionaires.

✨ Press Update ✨ Novella & novelette submissions will remain open until September 15 !! Get polishing, Augurians 👏👏

It should never be easier to access a gun than a vaccine.

We like stories that plant swaying forests in your dream, crawl over the table with breath of cinnamon and longing, swing a moon into a nasty god’s eye, ignite your voice as chaos rages down the avenue of love, change a body with their slow sorcery of one word at a time. Let’s do more kck.st/4mIkEm1

Yesterday, HSI and MPD set up a checkpoint on Rhode Island Ave in DC. Neighbors stood on either end, holding signs saying “LA MIGRA ADELATE.” As HSI and MPD started to pack it up, residents told them, “we don’t think you’re good Americans” and “fuck you guys, go home.”

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

EXTREMISM NEVER TRIUMPHS ON ITS OWN. At every turn, we must fight instead of enabling. Do not compromise. Protect each other and our humanity.

Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:

Literally me in the doctor's office last week

Today we are halfway done with the campaign, but only one-quarter of the way to our goal. It’s all or nothing. Please share, and any amount you can help is very appreciated. Horror and weird fiction are good for us. kck.st/4mIkEm1

It’s publication day!! Summer in the House of the Departed is my West Texas gothic novella. For fans of haunted houses, grandmothers, occult studies, and holes in the sky that swallow whole towns. You can order now from your favorite bookstore! psychopomp.com/product/summ...