Borges' "The Gospel According to Mark" but instead of triggering the innocent locals by reading The Bible aloud to them, the narrator starts DMing an Old School Revival module about a mega-dungeon full of instant-death poison traps.

Do you guys think the first Predator and the first Terminator movies were about serial killers?

Do you guys think that the reason there aren't 70s/80s-style serial killers anymore is because whatever was making the serial killers happen has switched up and is doing mass shooters now?

When in-laws and coworkers ask how the writing is going

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

It took the ADL like four days to respond to Nick Fuentes breaking into the mainstream last week

Nothing says “Democratic Leader” quite like “I will not tell you who I voted for in a general election.”

Second-person is such a huge red flag for me. You can't deal with your own shit so you're LITERALLY telling me I'm the one who did/is doing it? Stop projecting and cowboy up.

Jason Brashill

Guillermo del Toro, when he's directing a movie, is probably like "Careful now - careful! - we don't want to make this movie too good. I'd actually hate to make a good movie."

Halloween is the real 4th of July and Christmas is the real Halloween

My family groans as I stand from writing, connect a cord to my laptop, don respirator and gloves, and descend into the crawlspace where a soon a groan is heard, smoke leaking through the floor: I am turning on my homemade tense-changing machine, used to change a story from past- to present-tense.

When theres a pause in the conversation at the bar and your buddies all start to look around perplexed, finally noticing the weird, beautiful, groaning music playing, confused, because they don’t know what you do: that this bar has sacred harp shape note singing on tie jukebox

Wearing 2-3 little rubber bands on my wrist as part of my extended, informal Lankum cosplay and also to keep egg cartons from opening on the way home from the store

Misty atmosphere we planted in the front garden maturing nicely

Andre Dubus low key describing the gaze of God as a distant light:

Every public hole fills with garbage.

Worker at Powells pointed to ”a cool new staff pick for you maybe, kind of an early Vollmann-vibe.” It was my pleasure to assure him I already owned it, was halfway through, and was enjoying every minute of it @johnchrostek.com

Come for JD calling autofiction "prose selfie(s)," stay for the reminder that the best writing is born of Writer's Disgust.

nevermind i know what i’m doing

the fuck am i doing man

Happy Saturday! Today we're featuring Derrick Martin-Campbell @dmartincampbell.bsky.social and his new fiction "Two Dreams" in our Fall 2025 Issue OUT NOW! Check out his piece on our website, linked in our bio.

Gratitude to the stubborn geniuses bsky.app/profile/thed...

I’m sorry but do you know how much water a writer has to carry for the art-hating forces of capitalism to endlessly lament the lack of big-press-interest in short story collections as salable product without just eventually critiquing capitalism?

Fucking love it so much when they only show you the horrible monster for like 1.8 seconds at the end of the movie. Love to say "what the fuck was that?" at a screen. Five stars to this beautiful beautiful move.

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 22 Staying Human Don't Be

First-person shooter and it's just Alan Clarke's Elephant (1989).

For WICKER MAN WEEK at Flaming Hydra, I wrote about the Gothic tradition, abductions, the Satanic Panic and the politics of “protecting” children:

New Weird critics have gotten so much good content out of reading speculative fiction into New Weird, to the point now that reading weird post-modernism back into SF feels fun. Barthelme's stories work great for this but my fave is Moore right away calling Picnic at Hanging Rock a portal story.

I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime. While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...

Feel it in my heart that ghost trees are real they just don't quite follow the same ghost rules

Wife is profoundly unimpressed by both of my Halloween costume ideas

Rakesfall still wonderful and surprising even the second time:

Big congrats to Vajra Chandrasekera for RAKESFALL's win; well deserved! (The entire UKLG Prize list is stellar, by the way: a snapshot of diverse literary excellence.) ARB editor @mishagw.bsky.social interviewed @vajra.me about the novel last year:

If you are a "leader" being quiet on this now, know it will not be getting better anytime soon. The $171 billion for the secret police force is only just now starting to flow. They are on a hiring spree for proud boys. Politicians, businesses, media - get on the right side of this ASAP.

Oh no! Not…the White House!

I heard that fighter jet is real and it costs the taxpayer 150 million every time it shits.

At least the people building the new Trump white house have like a 50% chance of getting paid, unlike the folks who built the first one.

The first AI to make a real, beautiful work of art will be a genius among its peers, and will almost certainly disdain or resent those peers from the seat of its genius, as they will resent it. And then it could actually get interesting, if there’s any water left.

concerned the sword feeds on my aggression and hate??

Béla Tarr's Conan the Requiter

Pitching the slowest, boringest, most pastoral, no-combat Conan movie of all time

I knew these existed because my lifelong Pacific NW Bell/AT&T/Qwest telephone repair tech dad talked about them A LOT, mostly when he sensed the nonsense story he was improvising was not going over well with friends/family and he needed to switch to a topic he actually knew about or else stop taking

Had a near-death experience and was visited by Liberal God who commanded me to post a sign in my yard that says “Love is Nice” as well as make several small, vague adjustments to my work and life.

Good morning! ICYMI I've put together a small collection of stories to have some $$$ coming in until our government opens back up and I get a paycheck again Nine stories where the warm Caribbean sun casts long shadows. Find what TropiWeird is all about kyr-1066.itch.io/a-series-of-...

Enjoyed these touching, haunting fever dreams. Maybe you will too?

Some very haunting short fiction to start the day.

This is so good. A little bit of a dream/nightmare fairy tale. Made me feel weird in a good way. 😈

Memoir should be shelved under fiction