Chloe N. Clark

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

James Franco / Ballad of Buster Scruggs "First time?" meme

Gen Z complaining to Millennials about America starting an immoral, manufactured war in the Middle East while the country teeters on the edge of an economic meltdown because of overheated financial engineering

Just talked myself *right* into baking my bespoke San Marzano tomato growing soil in sheet trays in my oven. (Chemistry in the upthread, if you even CARE.)

Eee that's my award-shortlisted voice!!

Congratulations @taracampbell.bsky.social!

hey buds

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Looking at the world while still being out of work and trying to help my parents after the fire is a real "this is fine" meme of spiraling anxiety.

True story: you can go to the search function and type in the words "pay rent" and find dozens of people facing eviction posting each hour, for whom a small collection of strangers tossing $25 in the hat can mean the difference between a warm bed and the street, and reader, it feels so good to do.

Stephen Graham Jones’s Favorite Slasher Books

@sgj.bsky.social has been noted plenty in the @nytimes.com, but today SGJ writes for the Times about 13 favorite slasher books! Some familiar names here: @brianmcwriter.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @gradyhendrix.bsky.social [GIFT ARTICLE] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/b...

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XRAY Submissions XRAY Literary Magazine submissions are open for fiction and creative nonfiction up to 7500 words. Pitch interviews & essays.

we're gonna open 4 subs tomorrow at 12 noon, texas time

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Orrin Grey, Grey's Grotesqueries. Grey ttype on ochre background.

"Suspicious Manors: Old Dark Houses and the New Gilded Age," @orringrey.com's latest column, is now up at Weird Horror for your enjoyment.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/grey12

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

“If you build it, they... might not come, but at least you did something” (+ 2026 reading log, week 8) Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Camille Bordas, John Updike, Samantha Schweblin, Curtis Dawkins...

avoided lots of other work and wrote up my weekly short story reading log + a blog post thinking about @thelincoln.bsky.social's punk rock mindset & @summerbrennan.bsky.social's book review supplement & @miriamgershow.bsky.social's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 & just making/doing things

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Malarkey Book Club — Malarkey

Updating the book club spreadsheet, adding some new names and addresses, happy to add yours. Get a year of book mail for pretty reasonable moneys. malarkeybooks.com/malarkey-boo...

It's just too bad Congress isn't around to see this

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Reminder that this is all out of all of our hands

We can't change the minds of those in charge at this moment

(They wouldn't listen anyway)

So however you need to cope:
Black humor, logging off, distractions- all are better than doomscrolling & catastrophizing

Breathe. Live. You're here, now. 🖤

7 years ago I just put out the Taco Bell Quarterly in a word document! I made it for free and put it out and no one gave me any push or permission, and if I failed, OH WELL, it's not like it was even real!

As a vegetarian, I despised the trend to hide bacon in absolutely everything. Nothing was safe, everything was secret bacon and I hated it.

I’m heartbroken and enraged about this. Texas is angry and organizing across ideological lines. But we need as many folks as possible to be loud about it.

Texas' Big Bend braces for border wall in national park, worrying local Republicans and Democrats Locals say the rugged land is enough of a barrier and they're concerned about the impact on the environment and homeowners as the Department of Homeland Security forges ahead.

I want to do my part in raising awareness. Texas's Big Bend is set to receive new border security infrastructure, including >100 mi of border wall cutting through Big Bend National Park. Kristi Noem just waived 28 environmental protection laws and regulations to expedite this construction. 🧵 1/4

Thrilled to be back in the pages of @havehashad.com today with a short one, about two brothers who find one of the Voyager probe golden records in their grandfather's field. Hope you like it.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

For folks on the other side of the clock!

Sunday Stories: “We Buy Houses” We Buy Housesby Chloe N. Clark My parents had been planning to move for as long as I could remember. They were always talking about picking everything up and speeding across the state, across the c…

I published this story in January and am proud of it so im reposting it because I can do that

Imagine if, as you were nominating for awards, you considered possibly making just a little space for Kaleidotrope?

Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas

NEW: Elon Musk said he was “selling almost all physical possessions” when he moved to Texas. Nope. Instead, he has secretly amassed land and penthouses and planes and mansions. We just had to spend months digging through private company records to find it all. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...