re: the push notification I just received from the New York Times that read, verbatim: "Could War Hurt U.S. Consumers?"
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re: the push notification I just received from the New York Times that read, verbatim: "Could War Hurt U.S. Consumers?"
64 minutes until I wander into Costco for “hamburger meat” and leave with a kayak
one of the neat things about submitting to the fancier lit mags is that by the time they send you a rejection all the cells in your body have been replaced with newer cells, they're not rejecting you but as past version of yourself, how quaint
With all y’all in this fateful hour,
I call on all heaven with its power
You keep furries out of this, you miserable spoon! rutherford.house.gov/media/press-...
I have heard anecdotally from many people that around the age of 40 to 45 is when you stop feeling compelled to finish reading books you realize you don’t like. Eagerly awaiting this wisdom to blossom within my own subconscious. Any day now. Aaaaany day now
The "this is fine" dog meme comic, but he's saying "so I have a book coming out".
*sigh*
In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel
Extra extra! Starting March 1st, Plott Hound Magazine will be accepting reprints!
For reprints, we pay $20 USD for flash / $100 USD for shorts (up to 10,000 words).
In your moksha cover letter, please include the name of publication that had originally published your piece.
backspace keys have seen some shit
scruffy man in polo shirt is talking ceaselessly to younger woman about how “interesting” and “cool” his manufacturing business consortium is
let’s pretend that the only 2 people in this entire 29-person-strong coffee shop clientele who are talking (loudly) are sitting right next to me because I am putting out irresistibly charismatic vibes
I mean, I am now
Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
I don’t need an MFA to write and sell stories (obviously). But I do if I want to try teaching at the college level. And I’ve never been in formal, accredited, graduate-level workshops before, and I want to see what I can learn there.
“Wait, KJ—since when were you interested in getting a Creative Writing MFA?” Since I left my day job in September, considered my recent few years of feeling stuck in a rut, became interested in a possible career pivot to teaching, and thought seeking some new influences would do me good.
Fun facts: I finished “Sleeper Hit” in November 2025 and used its first 35 pages for my writing sample in an application to a Creative Writing MFA program. No idea (yet) if that program wants me, but I’m delighted that Fusion Fragment wants the story
Thanks for the further recommendations—noted!
"Sleeper Hit" by KJ Kabza: dreaming in a world of non-sleepers / being beaten down by the grind / indie video game design
Happy to announce our first acquisition for 2027: the novelette "Sleeper Hit" by @kjkabza.bsky.social!
KJ's work has previously appeared in Reactor, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, F&SF, and many others.
I hadn’t read this author before. Thanks for featuring!
(sea monster bio)
You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic
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!
The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent (Popular Science)
Roses are red
Vice is inherent
i think the simplest way to know a child loves you is that they remember your favourite colour and point it out in the wild
for all the lovers out there today 🖤
Love Poems for Our Friends Where are the poems for those who know us? Not for star-crossed loves, for agonies of desire, but words for those who go with us the whole road. How would they start, I wonder? You let me crash when I was new to ruin. You came to me though visiting hours were over. You held me when my loves were done, were flames. Yes, we will lose a few in the changes. But these are the ones who save us: not the charmers, not the comets of wild passion, not the ups-and-downs of love's unlucky hungers, but the ones who stand by our shoulder at the funeral and lead us back to the city of the living and put our favorite record on the player and go away, and come back, always come back, with bread and wine and one word, one word: stay. —Joseph Fasano
A day that celebrates Love doesn't have to be about Eros. Here's something for those other great loves in our lives.
Science fiction book cover featuring a tired looking woman with a tweaked out alien standing way too close to her face. Text reads: "Hello Girl." Did YOU Like THOSE MEMES THAT I SENT YOU Volume 17 in a series of new messages React to every one of them. Enjoy the memes and laugh. Smile when the meme is done. What I like is funny and i am funny by proxy. by P. Lease Approve
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This morning, I was able to help identify a painting painted by WB Laughead, who was essential to spreading the Paul Bunyan myth, including providing a chain of provenance with date of sale and I don't think I'll ever have this kind of highly specific art history high again.
honestly “The Shadowy Mongolian” is a moniker that goes pretty hard