I'm 41 and I just learned that in California kids in juvenile detention aren't allowed to hug their visitors I hate this place what are we doing
04.03.2026 03:37 β π 131 π 14 π¬ 1 π 1@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social www.chloenclark.com Cover image: raspberry danishes Profile photo: a river heron
I'm 41 and I just learned that in California kids in juvenile detention aren't allowed to hug their visitors I hate this place what are we doing
04.03.2026 03:37 β π 131 π 14 π¬ 1 π 1
Six years ago a client came to me. His landlord was trying to evict him over the last payment of a rent to own contract. The client had remodeled the entire house himself with his own hands, a room at a time.
Today, client won the house.
Some days are good days.
Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!
03.03.2026 18:16 β π 438 π 291 π¬ 93 π 4Explore @Gabino_Iglesiasβ review of DARKER DAYS by Thomas Olde Heuvelt: βshowcases Heuveltβs knack for juggling multiple characters while also interweaving a handful of subplots without stumbling.β
04.03.2026 02:00 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
I can finally SCREAAAM about this! New bingo square unlocked for me as an editor at @ruadanbooks.bsky.social !
This novella is so wild and so cool. Imagine an vampire story with the vibe of a European 90s action movie. If that makes sense. (It will.)
I'm still doing a GoFundMe to help my parents rebuild after a devastating house fire. The costs of doing so, with an uninsured house, are extremely high. My parents are elderly and low-income and my disabled brother lives with them. I deeply appreciate shares of this link!
gofund.me/ac93c03d5
A) No, and more importantly, B) βcuringβ grief isnβt a goal if youβre interested in what it means to be human.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQt...
Tired: Reading national news about a local story
Wired: Reading the local independent press to get local stories before they're national
Hailey Piper holding up the new edition of her book No Gods for Drowning, cover art by Anna Chiara Stagi
My baby is back in print today π₯°
A woman trying to save her city has to slit a few throats to do it in this noir-inspired dark fantasy world, a story I wanted to tell that was the reason I became a writer.
NO GODS FOR DROWNING, out now from Bad Hand Books πͺπ
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-gods-fo...
because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!
03.03.2026 16:54 β π 75 π 61 π¬ 0 π 1they really might have ridden the anti-woke train all the way to bankruptcy court, an all time brand fuckup that should be taught as a cautionary tale in business school for decades
03.03.2026 16:55 β π 4266 π 701 π¬ 70 π 40Fungi in SFF Special Issues call for non-fiction submissions
Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF!
More information about our submission guidelines and how to submit β¬οΈ
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I'm a writer and editor. I have a new collection out now with lots of creepy stories!
03.03.2026 16:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I wrote about my dad and grief and Vince Gill for @marchxness.bsky.social
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I'm still doing a GoFundMe to help my parents rebuild after a devastating house fire. The costs of doing so, with an uninsured house, are extremely high. My parents are elderly and low-income and my disabled brother lives with them. I deeply appreciate shares of this link!
gofund.me/ac93c03d5
β¨ #AWP26 BOOTH #1039 SIGNINGS ~ MARCH 6 β¨ All books for sale at our booth.
1:00pm ET - Katrine Γgaard Jensen & Paul Cunningham
2:00pm ET - Alina Stefanescu (@alinaetc.bsky.social) & Brian Leung
3:00pm ET - Stine An (@stine.bsky.social) & Lauren Haldeman (@haldini.bsky.social)
Thrilled to have a new CNF in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social , a magazine Iβve long admired. Grateful to the awesome @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for letting me dip my toes in the illustrious waters of this new issue. π³ πΊοΈ π
02.03.2026 23:01 β π 71 π 18 π¬ 14 π 16It's Kirk Penney for me.
03.03.2026 14:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The creator of ChatGPT is named "Altman," as in "alternative to human" and he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed. His main opponent is the company Anthropic, meaning "human-centered" is led by "Amodei," as in "loves gods". Then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a cmpany that says it will do no evil. Brilliant work as always Kojima! [picture of kojima, watermark of @mediocre_mason on tiktok]
02.03.2026 23:41 β π 2726 π 938 π¬ 9 π 7I'm delighted that this story is apparently working for friends who didn't get all the references, but also I wasn't trying to keep secrets, so I'll tell you: this is the Camilla that my Camilla named herself after.
03.03.2026 14:05 β π 31 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0Screenshot of Strange Horizons review of THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS AND OTHER STORIES by Vanessa Fogg
Thanks to @strangehorizons for this lovely review of THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS by Vanessa Fogg! strangehorizons.com/...
03.03.2026 14:09 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Well I donβt love that
03.03.2026 13:43 β π 239 π 22 π¬ 15 π 1A little appreciation for lit mags, small presses and everyone who keeps them running, from my bookβs acknowledgments page.
03.03.2026 13:31 β π 13 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
28.02.2026 16:09 β π 12893 π 5224 π¬ 83 π 177This is obscene, ghastly, unacceptable.
03.03.2026 12:35 β π 124 π 51 π¬ 3 π 1wouldnβt blame the cicadas for emerging and being like not this and going back underground for 17 yrs
03.03.2026 02:57 β π 22 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
for just one moment tonight i knew what glory felt like. ππππππ
itβs so hard to give him up now that iβve held him.
Just a reminder that if you're doing interviews or reviews for Women in Horror month, I am something of a woman in horror myself.
02.03.2026 20:07 β π 21 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
βItβs a message to me. Saying without saying. I could tell you how I refuse to respond.β
@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/03/02/m...
Down to just 7 first edition copies of Boxcutters here at the home office. Get a copy of @johnchrostek.comβs glorious story collection, on sale for $15.
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...