I’ve entered some kind of major writing dormancy period 🥲 But this weekend we went foraging & found 7lbs+ (!) of chanterelles and shrimp and lobster mushrooms. Auspicious 🍁

Really happy to have my first reprint sale with Fusion Fragment!! It also feels appropriate that it’s the first story I ever sold, I’m glad it’s gonna have another home in the world ♪( ´////｀

Meg was one of the first to read this story, so it's only appropriate that she share this news

Been waiting for this book from @anandalima.bsky.social since Stokercon!! 💗🔥🥃

My most recent ice cream, made out of a lightly cocoa-y tea I’m obsessed with rn (tongmu jin jun mei). It was good but it was my first black tea aisu & I don’t think I got the milk hot enough to properly steep it this time 💧

Needed this story this morning which made me think more abt how in a world corrupted down to the guts by greed, it’s community that’s the safety net 😭✨

Today is truly special: it's the release of Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories! I've worked with Cynthia ever since Antifa Splatterpunk (the very first Cursed Morsels release), so today feels like a full circle moment. Grab a copy and celebrate with us!

My queer YA folk horror novel is coming out in November! It’s got witches, cryptids, creepy woods, and several pissed off dead girls us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

also check out "Obsolesce" by @suchnadine.bsky.social because it is really, really good. it's been over a year since I read it whereabouts and I still think about it from time to time: strangehorizons.com/fiction/obso...

I think part of our work as horror writers in 2024 is to help people unlock the parts of themselves that can face terror and adversity without losing their humanity & goodness. We are entering an era of fear and horror like our species has never faced. We need heart.

It was a bit back now but check out my very first reading, which I enjoyed a lot! (& spot my early Stokercon copy of The Nightmare Box 🧃💛) Ty @storyhour.bsky.social 💓💓

Health Update: the heart tests showed I have an issue. To nail down the diagnosis I have to do several blood tests & a sleep study. If I can get $4000 by the end of the month to go to $45,000 total, that covers these tests. I hate to keep asking, but please donate & boost if you can. Every $1 helps.

If you want to understand why this is a very, very bad sign. Read this piece from just 2 years ago about all the work Lisa Lucas and other black women in publishing have done to eke out a space for writers of color. Gift link

Newest experiment: vanilla wasabi ice cream 🌱 Confession: I kept tasting & immediately adding more & more wasabi powder, distraught there was no wasabi taste AT ALL 😭 I used up almost my whole 40g bag so I went to order more and there. On the product page. “Mix powder with water—and wait 10 minutes”

Writing this week: I’m ~10 days out from a deadline for revising space haranista story, which I’ve been working on for almost two years but which is so old & tightly Tightly knotted I feel afraid to unravel it even to try & straighten it out @__@ wml 😭💪🍀

Doggy gouaches: Buchi the minipoo, Haku the puppy silken windhound, Winnie the retriever 🌸 I love doing whiskers in silver so they’re not too apparent but still shine out ✨

My partner’s been into katsudon recently ♪( ´////｀ ツイてるねー

I read The World Ended There by Alberto Chimal (transl. by Julia Rios) from Why Didn’t You Just Leave, heartbreaking & haunting 😭 “The truth is that no, you can’t keep living like this, but you can’t do anything else either. The anguish of not knowing cannot be endured and cannot be left behind.”

A late #MeowMay fluffball for Day 1: Ultramarine 🫧🫧 prompts via @charlenedraws.bsky.social !

If you're looking for hopeful SF, Susan Kaye Quinn has a list with fiction, nonfiction, movies, poetry, and more, including works by @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social, @anovelescape.bsky.social, @tkrex.bsky.social, and more! It's really a good source. brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-cl...

@suchnadine.bsky.social thank you for this incredible story everyone should read it reckoning.press/the-bright-i...

A long-lost treasure for my friend 🍂

Pulitzer Prize Board acknowledges the "extraordinary real-time reporting" of student journalists covering campus protests. www.pulitzer.org/news/stateme...

Broke into Why Didn’t You Just Leave this morning with No Joy Exists Anywhere Beyond Your Front Door by Corey Farrenkopf—and REALLY loved it, such great eerie imagery, & choose-your-own-adventure is The format for this theme 😩👌 #TeamSkinHouse @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social

An Inherited Taste, my story about women eating sorrows, will be @talestoterrify.bsky.social this Friday! It first appeared in No Trouble At All from @cursedmorsels.bsky.social & is a Stoker finalist this year. This is the first time a story of mine will be in podcast forme & I’m v excited :’>

📣 💐📚Happy book day to me! DISABILITY INTIMACY has been a labor of love that I worked on for the last 2 years. I hope you enjoy it. bookshop.org/p/books/disa...

I can't believe the Crips for eSims for Gaza project, which started the end of last December, raised over 500k CAD! This week an IDF airstrike killed 2 children & several others in a refugee camp in Rafah. Don't look away or forget Donate chuffed.org/project/crip...

@stephallen.bsky.social hey!!! 😄✨✨

I did an interview!

Also been getting into gouache recently 🎨

My recent totally silly & random comfort read about a guy who gets transmigrated into the body of a fish, becomes the pet of a mute prince, & needs to stop said prince from becoming a tyrant. (Picked up bc it’s also…somehow…a romance) So cute….so cute o)-(

Really displaying my Gemini energy here with both Why Didn’t You Just Leave (horrifying) and Worlds of Possibility (uplifting) releasing today. 😅 Be horrified here: mybook.to/WDYJLebook Be uplifted here: www.juliarios.com/introducing-...

I have a cyberpunk flash in this issue, about a family and its inheritance of body parts, including an eye that can (?) see ghosts 👁️ Really happy that it appears alongside the work of so many other amazing writers 💖

gathered 4 girl generations of doggy the other day 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️ and found out that 2 hours is about ichi’s limit for photo shoots, but she can be encouraged to go up to 6 before she starts getting furious enough that she snarls when other dogs Uhh, eat tissue

Right now al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the Gaza strip, is being attacked by IDF causing patients and displaced people to flee. Don't look away. You can help by donating money to buy eSims. Donate: chuffed.org/project/crip... For more: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/c...

when ur reading a craft book & it suddenly reaches out & smacks you 💀

“one thing the forest remembers is european colonialism” ‼️

UM, YOU ARE ALL AWESOME! WE'RE ALMOST THERE AT $1000 BUCKS AWAY FROM OUR GOAL, LET'S GOOOOO www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

I’m so thrilled and honored to find SLEEP ALONE is an official 2023 Bram Stoker Award finalist for superior achievement in long fiction! My unending gratitude to everyone who shaped, encouraged and supported this story 🖤 Huge congrats to all the nominees! Y’all are incredible! 🤩

Apparition Lit is open to short story and poetry submissions for our Mercurial issue! And we're over the moon to have Jordan Kurella @kurellian.bsky.social as our guest editor. More info at apparitionlit.com/submissions

Delighted to see @breathinghead.bsky.social 's No Trouble at All story on the shortlist! Pumped to read all these other new weird tales, too.

If you: 1) Are mad about Hugos 2) Have five dollars you could spare - seriously, five (many don't, but if you do) 3) Please put it here ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

This award-nominated short film is based on a short story by Anwar Hamed. It's a Palestinian spec thriller that inverts the home invasion trope, and highlights the right of return for Palestinian refugees. You can read the story, The Key, in Palestine +100, a collection of spec fic by Comma Press.

My flash "DIY 5-Step Homemade Polycephalic Hound Chow—EASY!" is out in 99 Fleeting Fantasies w/lots of other great lil magic tales. Here's a sketch I did of my story's featured creature; get this book & see my rec for what to do with all those mouths to feed 🐕🐕🐕 books2read.com/99FleetingFa...

Our micro fiction submission window is now open through midnight at the end of February 21. Send us your super short (250 words or less) solarpunk stories! solarpunkmagazine.com/micro-fiction/

All I gotta say is the perennial reminder that the West doesn't have "free speech" either. Nobody does. The difference is in what speech is excluded, and (in a much more successfully propagandized environment like the US) what is even legible *as* censorship to the censors.

My latest short fiction roundup features stories from @clarkesworldmagazine.com Analog, Grist, @catscast.org @strangehorizons.bsky.social @escapepod.org Many Worlds & more.

Announcing THE SKULL & LAUREL, a Quarterly New Weird Fiction Magazine! 💀100% open subs; no invites 💀100% paid 💀Horror/Fantasy/SF/Speculative...just make it Weird. Editor: @chpenforhire.bsky.social EIC: @alexwoodroe.bsky.social Crowdfunding begins March 12th All the info here: tinyurl.com/3cyzwyhk

i love when an animal is resting and you can just tell they are absolutely committed to doing that and nothing else (despite the fact that 9.5 of the past 10 hours have also been spent “at rest”)