Horror month at @ceteramagazine.bsky.social continues with a bonus short story just for our members! "The Ghost Census" follows a nonbinary necromancer named Kye who is tasked with counting the votes for if humanity gets to continue another century. And the ones placing the votes are the dead...

artwork for Thursday's story and it's an emotional one

Housekeeping for the Dead #inktober #procreate #art

Today a judge said what has been clear from the beginning: the evidence shows the Trump Admin is vindictively punishing Mr. Abrego Garcia for having the audacity to pursue his due process rights. Those rights MUST be upheld. This is not about one man — it’s about ALL our rights.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

love how airplane seats are designed to make sure that if you try to fall asleep in them, you will never be able to move your neck properly again

Natalia's short story "The Morrow Twins" is horrifically good! Please check it out and enjoy her demented poppet

this is how you do it. the democrats NEED to be shouting this exactly on every news show today.

The NYT headline is bad enough but here is WaPo finding some way to top them

I have been tasked with a short story challenge. "write a short story that is James Bond with Dragons." CHALLENGE. FUCKING. ACCEPTED.

me personally I would impeach a president for doing literally any of this

finding it a little bit difficult to concentrate on anything right after hearing the president declare war on where I live

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Poem I’m working on

I absolutely love the audacity of Five Guys. You walk in and they’re like “hey look at all these nice things journalists said about us 20 years ago with not a word of praise since!”

Here’s a thought. Resign.

Kaleb Horton was a great writer because he wrote like someone who genuinely talks to ghosts. His words were alive, raw with wonder and weariness. You could feel the road under his sentences down to the pavement.

lock him up

From our archives, and absolute honesty this short story might be my personal favorite we’ve ever published. Kicks the teeth of the entertainment industry and how America makes a commodity out of death. By @jonnegroni.bsky.social

Our definition of love *stinks.* We’ve been taught to chase a very specific picture: two people, a house, a promise that this is what completion looks like. The couple at the top, everything else orbiting below. But that story is small. It leaves so many kinds of love starving in the margins.

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Portland is truly one of my favorite cities in the country and one of the very few places I would ever consider moving to, full stop. Beautiful people there, incredible food, tons of fun and cool war shit too

Over at @ceteramagazine.bsky.social we'll soon be kicking off our "October of Horror" with a gothic horror debut from our managing editor Natalia Emmons. Here's a sneak peak at the artwork she did for her piece, "The Morrow Twins!"

Help! I’m a modern fast food brand past its prime so I made all my restaurants look like banks and raised the prices without making anything taste better and now I’m bankrupt! Help!

“Tyranny requires constant effort.”

they're screaming about "leftist violence" while demonstrating state-mandated violence against us on a daily basis

I am so so so excited to share this story!! Really proud of how it turned out and how Natalia's edits made it actually releasable

I bet it really annoys these people to know that without a single doubt, he'll be looked back on as an unpopular buffoon fascist who either destroyed America, almost destroyed America, or set the stage for America's destruction

They never give a real argument that attempts to explain how they’re NOT nazis

not surprised these weirdos wake up thinking about us

over at @inbetweendrafts.bsky.social, we put together this wonderful list of the BEST fictional bands across movies, shows, and anime! Very proud of this list and everyone who contributed

oh damn. well I guess that settles that.

Our story for Thursday is shaping up nicely...

guy in the salad line called it balsamic vin-regret and I just want to give him a big old hug

you'd think there'd be idk a news cycle focusing on the fact that the sitting American president declared that he hates over half the country and doesn't want what's best for them oh and during a funeral for a white supremacist no less

I have to say, the art on this piece perfectly captures the moment … bravo to Slate’s art desk slate.com/news-and-pol...

introducing Barb the Barbarian.

oh and here's me in video form talking about fantasy writing 🥰

I love this art style so much???

"Men used to ask for our siren songs. Now they ask if we’re real. Real enough to kill them."

FINALLY finished producing the audio narration for "Songs of the Dead and Drowning," one of our most popular short fantasy releases this year! In the story, a nameless siren enacts bloody revenge on the sailor who murdered her songsister. www.ceteramagazine.com/songs-for-th...

What if one day your regrets became tangible objects and started crowding your apartment so badly you couldn't even move? For Cetera Magazine, I wrote a short story about an Oakland DJ dealing with that exact problem. Special thanks to Natalia Emmons for editing this piece! Artwork by me ☺️

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

he wants to be the successor

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

ah, well

whoa he better be careful, this kind of hate speech could get him fired