Phantasmagoria

Good for you! Mad respect for the poets.

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

If you write a story
and it gets rejected…

You still wrote a story. Do you think just anyone can do that? Be proud of yourself.

Take a break, get some water, stretch, stare off into the distance imagining the world we could be living in...
Okay, now back to writing. 💙📚📝

New Volume www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

I’ve been so excited to share this one!

My flash story about two envoys each searching for a new home is out now in vol 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social

You can read the whole issue here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

Green Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

Ya know, a lot of amazing speculative fiction isn't trying to explain or predict our world. It's just trying to make it weirder.

If you write a story
and it gets rejected…

You still wrote a story. Do you think just anyone can do that? Be proud of yourself.

I’ve been waiting almost a year on one sub. The EIC posts frequently that no one’s been rejected yet. 😤

Haha. I did a lot of that too!

All I could manage today was some light editing 😴

So sad to see it go,
so grateful I got to be a tiny part of Inner Worlds. 😔

Spent the morning catching up on writing reviews for what I've read this winter. Now to focus on some of my own writing.

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

Five women in SFFH who inspire me (only five?):

@premeemohamed.com
@wnwagner.bsky.social
@yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social
@jordanrhirsch.bsky.social
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social

Happy International Women's Day!

💖

Halfway through the submission period for Agita 1: Bad Science. You still have a week to finish that story (or dig it out of the trunk) and send it in before March 14. And there's an extended period for marginalized authors, March 15-21. Details at agitamag.com/submissions

Yay! My dashboard clock is right again.

Apex Magazine Submissions ARE NOW OPEN! Fiction: https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/ Nonfiction: apexmagazinenonfiction@gmail.com

ICYMI 🌟 Apex Magazine submissions are now opening on alternating months in 2026! Submissions close March 31st and reopening May 1st. And we're especially on the hunt for nonfiction this month! 👽

Fiction: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

Nonfiction: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

The perfect rainy Saturday: 💙📚
✅ Blanket
✅ Tea
✅ The Only Good Indians by @sgj.bsky.social

seeing more disgusting genocidal racism talk coming from Israeli politicians now that more bombs are dropping.

There is no justification.

Every human being's life is equally precious and demands our dignity, care and consideration.

Full stop.

a cartoon character is standing in front of a door and says everything 's coming up milhouse . Alt: Milhouse “Everything’s coming up Milhouse!” From The Simpsons.

My tea is currently the perfect temperature with just the right mix of sugar and milk.

I'm trying!

Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

This attitude is what I love about being a writer.
Positivity > Competition

I will sign this version of the Millionaires' Tax.

A new proposal from Rep. Berg ensures significant money goes to Washington families and small businesses.

I’m pleased that a policy close to my heart is included: Free school lunch and breakfast for all Washington students.

We’re open to submissions of
MICRO FICTION, FLASH FICTION,
POETRY, TRANSLATIONS, and
REVIEWS!!!

www.orions-belt.net/submissions

Your reminder that Joss Whedon wasn’t allowed to be alone with 14 year old Michelle Trachtenberg.

Just if you’re getting excited about his career re-launch and don’t care about his revolting behaviour toward Charisma Carpenter.

He's the latest 'guy from the mines' that Boyd had to hire to replace the last one.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones