How neat! My story "Assistant in the House of Unexpected Arrivals" has been nominated for Best of the Net 2025!

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Also, shame on any democrat politician who thought for one moment this was a radicalized progressive. We don’t radicalize toward weaponry and murder. We generally radicalize toward justice, protest, mutual aid, and community action.

Lil Nas X deserves more shows of solidarity and support from the LGBTQ+ community. Lil Nas is a Gay man facing an unjust arrest and imprisonment over a mental health crisis. Gay men are unfairly targeting lately, and Black Gay men are targeted by racist policing and homophobia. Nas deserves support!

My story "Silence Starved and Swallowed" from Fantasy Magazine is now free to read online! If you've ever felt like a black hole, this one's for you 🖤 Reads & shares are appreciated 💖 Thanks again too to @mariahaskins.com for featuring the story in the SH quarterly short fiction roundup ✨

I’m celebrating an acceptance from @talestoterrify.bsky.social today! The contract is signed and I can’t wait to hear ‘Another Kind of Mother’ brought to life 🙌

The story that inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction—and caused some readers to cancel their subscriptions.

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New story! "The Best Way to Survive a Tiger Attack" by A. W. Prihandita! buff.ly/7211uCO

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:

IF YOU ARE PROTESTING, COVER YOURSELF IN THE AMERICAN FLAG. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 optics are everything!! The media and public will have no choice but to see the govt enacting violence against AMERICANS. Take our flag back from the fascists and flip the script on them!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Proof of life. (I look way more put-together here than I actually feel. More soon. Still trying to process. Don’t have words yet other than thank you and I was/am very shocked.)

see this is what he gets for soaking in dude culture — he doesn’t know how psychological warfare works. any woman could’ve told him you don’t pull out the big guns this early.

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That student visa thing is going to fuck every college in America. Every single one. It's madness, and also, these fucking people hate small town America. We already knew they hated big cities--but they also hate small towns. Colleges are anchor institutions. They die, towns die.

It is not blood libel to state accurately who is being killed and by whom. If the IDF and its supporters do not want its reputation linked to the slaughter of more than 16,000 babies and children, I would suggest they stop killing babies and children.

“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ

the official position of the US gov is that the deficit doesn't matter, we can just "grow our way out of debt" apart from being total nonsense, it's awfully convenient that the debt stopped mattering the second they took power and wanted to cut taxes for their rich buddies/take food from poor kids

Something a bit good at least.

How can one bill have so much dystopia packed in?

With three House Democrats passing away since January, it's looking like being a Democratic House Rep. is by far the most deadly job in America, with an annualized estimate of 3689 deaths per 100,000. Logging is a distant second at 100.7 per 100,000

This is *precisely* the kind of effort that has been totally absent among Republicans despite the misconduct and corruption and lawlessness and violent insurrection and on and on. When the chips were down, the Democratic party, flawed as it is! did the right thing.

“That reminds me of” is the killer of creativity in writers. Shut that voice off, if you have it.

I just cut 2,000 words out of a 6,000 word story. I've deleted far more than I've ever written, or so it often feels like. But how satisfying to burn, burn, burn blegh.

Hasan Piker, a popular Turkish American online streamer, said he was stopped and questioned for hours about his political beliefs by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after flying back to the United States from overseas on Sunday.

Publication Thread: "Assistant in the House of Unexpected Arrivals" Washington Writers' Publishing House, Issue 97, May 2025 www.washingtonwriters.org/2025/05/10/w...

You can read my flash story here! Were you ever a temp worker? Hate your job just a bit? This one's for you ✨ "Assistant in the House of Unexpected Arrivals."

We are so excited to announce our talented cohort of writers for the 2025 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Congratulations to these incredible writers! We cannot wait to meet you all in San Diego!