Really insightful read of my piece “Instructions for Self-Reflection” here. Thanks Radon!

🙂 Smile 🙂 through 🙂 the 🙂 pain!!! We're returning to author features and finishing up Issue #11! @parkeriswriting.bsky.social gives a multidimensional twist to capitalist envy in "Instructions for Self Reflection."

we were at a school assembly this morning. and hearing em laugh and cheer and be kids, all that brightness, you really can't help but feel deep in your gut that it takes unthinkable evil to intentionally hurt and kill children anywhere. the world leaders massacring kids are beyond lost to humankind.

IT’S HERE ‼️ And yes I cried when I hit send on the issue for subscribers. I hope you love this issue as much as we do.

Local bookstore is playing hollow knight music and reminding me that I never beat Silksong

And now, my capstone review for @elijah.mea.rs ! Elijah, it's been wonderful reading your work : ) www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...

A perfect storm for my three interests of writing, reading Apex, and living in Rochester

Calling all concept-driven science fiction short stories (and novelettes) published in 2025! I'm looking for bangers I might have missed that fit this brief: compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/call-f... If you can share this with your favorite SF author/publisher/editor, I'd be grateful!

Unfortunately small presses close all the time, and their baby bird books need to find a new nest. My fledgling sun-vampire queer cannibal novella, SUNBATHERS, now needs a new home, as does my sapphic pirate novella QUEEN O'NINE TAILS. If you know a toothy little home for either, please hit me up!

Stoked!

Contract signed! “The Three Mothers You Will Never Meet” will be out at @heartlines-spec.com in their next issue.

First sale of the year 😎

As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought The Wood began to move. (Macbeth, Act V scene 5)

LOOK AT THIS TABLE OF CONTENTS AAAAAAAAAA!!! Honestly, I kept tearing up while I was making these images. We started planning for @othersidespec.bsky.social in the summer of 2024, and… here we are. This is the best thing I’ve ever done. This is the best day. I can’t wait for March.

This is real. I was just there and everything was blurred yet vaguely melancholic

Need some more short fiction to round out your 2025 reading list? Give "To Dream of Birdsong" by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social a read We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/to-dream-of-...

I will not rest until I have claimed one of Joe’s gleaming silver coins

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - DECEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @rj-sterling.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @jamesbennett.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/149417...

Drop what you’re doing and read this. M.R. is rapidly approaching the Joe DiMaggio hit streak record

Last minute eligibility post! If you’re reading for awards, here’s a list of all my work that came out in 2025. Hit me up if you want a PDF of one of the ones that isn’t available online. Happy new year!

Pleased to announce that after reviewing it today, paddington 2 is still the best holiday vibes movie of all time

It’s live! “Wheel Dog” is up over at @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social with annotations by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social. I’m so stoked to end the year with a hopeful cli-fi piece in such a cool, optimistic mag. If you like dogs, sleds, or sled dogs, check it out! www.tractorbeam.earth/story/wheel-...

Big news: I’m in here! “Wheel Dog” goes live tomorrow.

No one’s talking about it but on the other side of the lake it’s raining giant yellow letters

Tractor Beam is excited to announce author Jeff Vandermeer (@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social) as the guest editor of our Winter 2025 issue, Thaw. ❄️🕯️🌗 Winter begins...Dec 21! Subscribe to our newsletter (link in bio) for a special Winter Solstice treat tomorrow. #climatefiction #soilpunk #thaw

I've been thinking about this story at least once a week since October. Easily my favorite sentence this year

This is so super exciting. You should deffo check it out!

Simultaneous Times featuring three Radon authors is now live! 🎧 www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa... We are proud to partner with @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social and have @slashnburnett.bsky.social, @parkeriswriting.bsky.social, and @davidleezweifler.bsky.social's stories come to new life

Simultaneous Times ep.94 is live and on your favorite podcast players. This ep features stories from the pages of @radonjournal.bsky.social with featured authors Parker M. O'Neill, Emma Burnett, & David Lee Zweifler www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...

The heart knows what the heart wants, and today: it's the alien. You'll fall in love too with "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing In The World" by @elijah.mea.rs:

I have a story in this! The ToC is wild, the stories are incredible. If you want a weird west anthology, that's the one you NEED. Buy a copy, and check out 'Five Lemons in a Net', my story of trauma, soul-eating shadows, and of course, the importance of shopping lists 🔥

every time I make a short story sale on a cold day I think about spending all the cash on a gigantic polo coat like this one and then I look up how much gigantic polo coats cost and then I get bummed out and think about how cool it would be to win the lottery

This story by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social ruined my whole morning, and I mean that as the highest of compliments. Perfect Halloween read.

Go read Ash’s newsletter! This is not a drill!

Happy Halloween! I can’t recommend you read this one while eating, but I can recommend you read it over and over for every other waking minute of your day today

I want to take a sec today to talk about how awesome @apexmag.bsky.social is. They've published me twice & both have been stories that are super weird and queer and violent and tender all at once. There are other excellent mags out there, but I would argue that *nobody* does it quite like Apex.

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is currently sitting at $6,717 of our $20K goal! That means we're a third of the way to funding four issues of Apex for next year! Can we hit 50% before the end of the week? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Huge news for fans of birds/songs/dreaming/science fiction/the obliteration of the universe: “To Dream of Birdsong” is free to read online!

Double pub day for me! Check out “Instructions for Self-Reflection”, now available in Radon’s Issue 11

Story release day! “This Is What Mouths Are For” is my answer to the question: what if everything was creepy and gross? Despite the fact that revising this story made me nauseous, I’m very, very proud of this one.

Apex is (in my completely unbiased opinion) one of the best mags out there. Throw them some support!

The @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter launches tomorrow! Will you help us fund 2026 and kickoff another 20 years of strange, surreal, shocking, and beautiful short fiction? I hope you will! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

In about an hour I'm doing a reading at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social !! I'll probably read a couple flash pieces, and if there's time, maybe a chapter from my WIP book? We'll see where the wind takes us It's free, and there's still time to register at flights-of-foundry.org/registration/

No one talk to me, I’m hibernating until October

You can’t tell, but as this photo was taken I was repeating the Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front manifesto in my head

putting delight in my author bio from now on

Irrealists: join us TONIGHT at Liquid State Brewing in downtown Ithaca for readings by @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Onward!

Granted, "the 22nd night of September" doesn't have the same ring to it as the Earth, Wind & Fire line, but I'm sure @parkeriswriting.bsky.social and I will make it one to remember! If you're around the 607, come by Liquid State at 7 pm!