Get your vege-tales in for this! Plus, there's only *one day* left until the general unthemed submissions portal closes (on the 14th)...

Love this!

Is there any precedent for powerful people claiming that a nonsentient process has a personality behind it that only they and their fellow experts can understand and speak for and it knows everything and can do anything and wants to help and also it will destroy us if we dont give it what it wants

This was fun. And funny! I got right into the idea of strangling a horse.

Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair

Call your band Lovely Dovey, I bloody dare you

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

A stunning short story by Arden Baker now up in full over on @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social. Not just one of the best stories I've read for TDT, but one of the best I've read all year. Loved it!

My band launched a new album this weekend, which in 2025 involves laying your wares at the feet of the mighty uncaring algobots and hoping the clumsy fools accidentally kick something into orbit. This song got a decent kick, so maybe you'll like it too. Or would you have the algobots be wrong??

Appalled at how early I'm having to start complaining about Christmas starting too early

The band I'm in have a new album coming out on Friday. Friday! A bit of Scottish indie pop, what's not to like? Over on our bandcamp, you can have a listen to a couple of songs and maybe even buy a copy...? Could happen.

This. Always this.

New story day! Many thanks to Macabre Magazine for publishing Midnight Ferry With Vending Machines, which is about the dangers of bringing a wheel of cheese aboard a boat.

Delighted to be doing some reading for The Daily Tomorrow, and the quality really is as good as Jeffrey says - some outstanding stories in the pile, not least this week's, starting today. Read for free!

Here at The Daily Tomorrow, we have the most writer-friendly contracts in the business. And if you prove us wrong, by god we’ll just have to make our contracts even better. Consider submitting! Check out the terms here! www.thedailytomorrow.com/contract

Baffled that different writing apps can't agree on word counts. If our fancy adding machines can't even reliably add a few thousand words together, what's all this built on? You're telling me they *guess*? Truly we have built ourselves a house of cards. How many cards? There's no way to know!

This is just stunning.

New story day! Many thanks to Macabre Magazine for publishing Midnight Ferry With Vending Machines, which is about the dangers of bringing a wheel of cheese aboard a boat.

Read my short story, Gary's Massive Head Shouting Forever, for free over on The Daily Tomorrow...

workshopping a new emoji

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

The algo obviously HATES us talking about this. So would you do us a favour and share? UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews youtu.be/WmFD42E5_W4

Life is the thing that happens when you wish you could be writing

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

And, for @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social subscribers, a few words on what the hell I was thinking when I wrote GMHSF

The final part of Gary's Massive Head Shouting Forever...

you're gonna wanna see this

Skullhamster! Call your band that.

Part 2!

Brb going to get this intro printed on a t-shirt...

Read part one of Gary's Massive Head Shouting Forever on @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social now, and the following parts throughout the week. Woot!

Very happy to say I'll have a story serialised in the fantastic @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social soon. Contract signed! Confidence boosted! Money basically spent! Woot!

This is the good stuff

oh no

Read “Central Time” by Kieran McCaffrey now, among other pieces in our current issue. stateofmatter.in/issue/curren... #speculativefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror #WritingCommunity #IndianSFF

“Welcome,” he said, “to Glasgow Central… after hours.” - Kieran McCaffrey, “Central Time” stateofmatter.in/fiction/cent...

You should call your band Dance Horse

Thrilled to have made the Cymera/Shoreline of Infinity short story prize shortlist with Gary's Massive Head Shouting Forever. Had a lovely attending night at #Cymera2025 Event Horizon to hear the winner announced - a fab story by Caitriana NicNeacail. Well done, all!

Just a man admiring his buttock shearer.

Read Central Time, my time-travelling horror story set in a snow-bound Glasgow Central, in State of Matter... #shortfiction #horror #writersofbluesky stateofmatter.in/fiction/cent...

Nice wee vid about the Victorian platform under Glasgow Central, which I referred to extensively while writing Central Time.