Futuristic music and break moves from 40 years ago. youtu.be/QJ6IAouIyLA?...

Check out my story "Fool's Gold" (48:00) in the latest NSP, about hauntings, controlling relationships, and cryogenically frozen organs. Andrew Kozma's "You Must Cut it From You" is right after! @andrewkozma.net Thanks to Sarah Thomas and Jeff Clement for bringing it to life with their voices!!

My messed-up horror lovestory "Fool's Gold" out at the No Sleep Podcast--perfect for post Valentine's disillusionment. 🖤 A story of cryogenically frozen organs, a backyard of corpses, and the twisted links between control & moral compromise in love. Starts@48:00 @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social

The book of love is long and boring. No one can lift the damn thing. open.spotify.com/track/1xulVU...

Hey everyone, Samir Sirk Morato’s “Gore Poetics” this is gonna be one of the best collections of weird literature coming out this year, I’ll wager. Time to pre-order from Cursed Morsels!! @cursedmorsels.bsky.social @spicycloaca.bsky.social

Really interesting parallels here between the 2008 housing crisis and mortgage back securities and some of the financial mechanisms being created in the wake of data centers and the AI boom. Anyone taking bets on when the crash is coming? youtu.be/NFP_Dwddcag?...

I’m officially a Brave New Weird award winner! Very excited to join my fellow weird fiction authors on this list with my story “Avila Beach.” Thanks to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for choosing it, and @seizethepress.bsky.social for publishing it last year. Should be a great anthology!

Just bought the 2023 pack a week ago. 11 of you can thank me for this contribution.

My robots algorithm has said it’s going to be a six espresso kind of day. #cafelat #cafelatrobot

STP Issue #13 is out now! A bumper issue of weird fiction, wretched vibes, queer cyberpunk, vengeful aliens, an unhinged horsegirl, and loads more. The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.

The STP newsletter has returned! In which I elaborate on what I mean when I say we don't publish moralising stories. Expect copious reference to Walter Benjamin.

Checkmate.

Absolutely loved "We Didn't Used to Be Like This" by @jackklausner.bsky.social from Weird Horror #11. That creeping dread that one has lost touch with who they really are is everywhere, with strange photographs as an allegory for the loss. @undertow.bsky.social

Alex & I have 1 last cage match before we announce the final BRAVE NEW WEIRD ToC later this week. As usual the hard part’s the fun part: there’s SO MUCH AMAZING WEIRD to choose from. This scene’s amazing. Meantime: why don’t y’all check out our winners from years past? store.tenebrouspress.com

Why did I feel at 11:17 p.m. last night that I desperately needed to buy a copy of Iamblichus's "On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians" and had to understand theurgy? I have a problem, people. Too many books. #neoplatonism #toomanybooks

Everyone should read this amazing story of colonization, memory and the feeling of bloodlessness, written in magical prose.

I don’t play music, but I imagine this is what my set up would look like #doom #doommetal

Hey weirdos, there are very few places that would be better for you to put your money then into Seize the Press. Not only do you get dark, depressing horrifying stories, galore but there’s a wonderful discord community and exclusive stuff for subscribers!

We didn't publish regularly last year, which understandably led to a drop in subscriptions. We're returning to a full schedule for 2026, including a special themed issue edited by the wonderful Rebecca Summerling. But we have lost some income, so if you like our stuff do consider subscribing.

Much love to those in Minneapolis this Jan 23. Let the general strike bloom both bread and roses.

Currently trying to get through the brave new weird nominations from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Four down, 50? To go. tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/1/...

Just bought this. Support Cursed Morsels and families affected by ICE. #weirdhorror

Yay! I made the shortlist. For writers of weird fiction this is seriously like the Oscars. Thanks to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and most of all to @seizethepress.bsky.social for believing in "Avila Beach," my weird story of severed limbs, creepy government compounds, and teenagers with no future.

Just got a hold and a very nice rejections from two pro mags. Feels great when they're stories I really believe in. Does feel like I hit the groove at some point last year. Let's see how 2026 goes.

Today in radical history: Jan 8, 1811. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/lo...

Amazing experience at @whitneyplantation.org near New Orleans, which centers the experience of enslaved people. Moving artwork on the German Coast antislavery uprising of 1811—America’s largest ever—inspired by the revolution in Haiti.

I've only read 2 of the 3 stories in Nadia Bulkin's "Issues with Authority," but wow. Psychic/psychopathic Carly of "Cop Car" is beyond memorable. The rot of beauty pageants in "Your Next Best American Girl" heartbreaking. Collection of the Year? @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @ghoulish.bsky.social

This year, wrote 20+ short stories, 7 flash, had 3 great publications, 3 set for 2026, enjoying it more than ever. I've always struggled with writing. It's taken a willingness to sit with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings along the way to get to this point. The only answers are in the void.

Had one of my early stories published in Bone Parade last year. Check out the latest issue for weird and magical fiction.

I’ve got four!

Just picked up about three more books off this list. Merry Krampus Christmas to me.

Happy winter solstice. I feel like celebrating it with Heilung would be awesome. Check out their music if you’re not familiar with them! #wintersolstice #heilung

A little Novalis for your winter solstice “To the Light a season was set; but everlasting and boundless is the dominion of the Night.” #novalis

Just got a story acceptance for one of my weird/psychological horror stories about ghosts, controlling relationships, and some cryogenically frozen organs! Can't say where till the story comes out, but needless to say I'm pretty excited for this one sometime in 2026. #weirdhorror

Apologies to the ghosts who might be reading this. But for everyone else, great advice.

Praise Krampus!!! I’ve been waiting on a story that I’m hoping is a good match for StP.

The timbre of melancholy. Julee Cruise.

First draft done. 9000 word fantasy story about family, trauma, political violence, and the lies that bind a society together. Should this be called a long story or a short novelette?

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Contract signed!! Beyond excited to have my story "Istanai" coming out in March 26 in Trollbreath. @trollbreathmag.bsky.social A dark fantasy love story about mountain lions, static on old TVs, the jealousies that underpin friendship, and keeping revolutionary desire alive beyond death.

Just bought my wife ECO24 for the holidays. She's obsessed with native plants and California ecology (no, she doesn't use bsky-no secrets revealed). Hopefully this stokes her burgeoning desire to write speculative ecofiction! @apexmag.bsky.social @marissavu.bsky.social

TLDR: In recent months, tech giants including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have been making gargantuan investments in new data centers, tying together their fortunes through circular financing deals, and borrowing huge piles of debt from lightly regulated lenders. 2008 anyone?

Basically me every day. Why not both? #doommetal #MFDOOM

Check out this great, agonizing story by @kjy1066.bsky.social about childhood friendships and exploring the hidden spaces within the jungles of Puerto Rico. www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/12/05/b...

Great writing on the shadow that haunts LA. Mariana Enriquez “A Sunny Place for Shady People”. With visits from the mountain lion P-22 and Elisa Lam.

A few other pieces that I was hoping would publish this year - my Jeffrey Ford essay, in particular - but I guess I'll go ahead and call it and say this is my 2025 summary. Go to doomsdayer.wordpress.com and follow some links to some criticism of weird fiction. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.

Just in case anyone was (foolishly) feeling all caught up on their reading lists, here's 100 books by small publishers including stuff from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and @psychopomp.com

No surprises here!

Frida