I feel the same way! It is as if I have never seen a book before! What is reading??
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I feel the same way! It is as if I have never seen a book before! What is reading??
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I'm up in @chmmagazine.bsky.social #69 (nice!) with a story that dares to ask: What if Curb Your Enthusiasm had space leeches? This is the best horror story I wrote last year, mostly but not entirely because of the masturbating.
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This is a blurred image of a collage with one clear image spotlight floating in it. In the spotlight, a woman's knees laced in leather pants and several white stars are visible.
collection collage 6/19—💘🚽🫦
"You prepare to groove."
Gore Poetics (@cursedmorsels.bsky.social) debuts April 14th
overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.
good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.
good night, sewers, everywhere.
We have only 61 stories submitted for WHAT ELEGANT STARS so far. I suppose a lot of folks will submit in the last month, but that still seems low. Though the theme is more specific than some previous ones, so folks are less likely to have anything ready to go.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
"Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
Give us gossip wicked and vital, dinner parties salacious and droll, debutantes vile and intrepid.
Give us unforgivable rudeness and oppressive etiquette, scathing asides and dire gaffes."
Under 6K words
is it Twilight meets Starship Troopers?
✍️ We're getting very close to 10c/word for our authors, flash fic by @jamesenge.bsky.social for all, and a short story critique from @matthewjohnauthor.bsky.social for the backer whose pledge gets us there...
"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"
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“One of the most insidious aspects of colonialism, reinforced by the paucity of positive diverse representation in literature, is that authors of color often have to undertake an entire personal journey to learn that it is okay to write characters (and stories) that aren’t white”
Essential reading:
Once again, fuck AI.
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg
Rivers are living beings.
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.
Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).
Photo credit Jeff VanderMeer. A black crow sits atop a wood post, ocean in background.
Samir Sirk Morató is back in STP with "Starspeaker", an apocalypse story that digs into a parental relationship encompassing pain, duty, resentment, love, and all the contradictions having all those feelings at the same time involves.
fun fact: i wrote this story about cosmic diplomacy & generational apocalypses after being obsessed with the Augsburg Book of Miracles for years ☄️💘 thrilled to be in Seize the Press again & thrilled that this is out!
Color illustration by Hardeep Ajula, showing a skull-faced sorcerer cradling the chin of a frightened young man, forcing him to stare in the same direction he is.
Black & White illustration by Hardeep Ajula showing Orhan Timur, deposed Mongol ruler, riding horseback while turning to fire a bow, looming skull in the background.
Black & White illustration by Hardeep Ajula showing a woman standing at the ready, staring to the right, sword in its scabbard but ready to be drawn, as a small crowd of villagers watch her from the distance, and a tall column in the background has what looks like the body of a giant snake coiling up along it.
Color illustration by Hardeep Ajula showing a mounted warrior woman swinging her scimitar back at a pursuing crowd of animated skeleton warriors, striking one asunder.
🖌️WELCOME BACK HARDEEP AJULA!🎨
Hardeep will have new illustrations in this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art and gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives before it's too late! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Unfinished drawing
Finished center piece
A before and after
Illustration of a red planet body in space. The planet is surrounded by asteroids.
Mars
ATTENTION FELLOW STORYGRAPH ENJOYERS 📢🌟
We're running a giveaway of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's folk horror THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR until March 18th! If you're interested in winning both a free copy and bookish bragging rights, link to enter is below ⬇️
BOOK GIVEAWAY!
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Free tickets for the virtual book launch of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR are LIVE 🌟🌌🎉 Join author @ivygrimes.bsky.social, guests @eerieyore.bsky.social, @christinogle.bsky.social, @sashabrown.bsky.social, and host @authorplm.bsky.social March 25 for a Q&A, live reading, and giveaways! See you there 💜
Illustration of a black creature pulls back its lip to reveal many small pink hearts being held in its mouth. The creature has three eyes around it’s mouth.
This crooked smile
poster for the sopranos in the style of disney's "that's so raven". pink velvet background with a scowling tony soprano covering most of it, arms crossed. in the bottom left there is the logo: disney that's SO PRANOS the "so / pranos" is in the sopranos font
this came to me in a dream
So what is weird fiction, anyway? It's when you read weird fiction.
A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP.
