C.C. Finlay

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Co-sign.

Read John Langan! You will never regret it.

It's the place for big dorks.

Do you know what's also cool? Hummingbird tongues have bones in them! It's one of the smallest, most flexible bones in existence! A blep with a bone!

(Woodpeckers also have bones in their tongues! I'm sorry to go off about this fact but it never stops being amazing to me.)

So just to clarify: the government, seeking to restrict kids’ access to “harmful content” imposed an ID rule and now there’s been a mahoosive spike in VPN use.

So now they’re thinking of banning VPNs…

I SAID I WAS SORRY

A better version of scicks and litches!

I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Joanne Anderton, Jason Baltazar, Seán Padraic Birnie, Chris Campbell, F.E. Choe, Kay Chronister, Dominique Dickey, Diana Dima, Hiron Ennes, Richard Gavin, Elliott Gish, Thomas Ha, Rachael K. Jones, Joe Koch, Uchechukwu Nwaka, Kelly Robson, Nicholas Royle, Kristina Ten, Natalia Theodoridou, Charlotte Tierney, Shaoni C. White, Kaaron Warren, Zachariah Claypole White, Greg van Eekhout, Mia Xuan.

I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9 is making a splash!

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Grab your copy today:
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Nor should you. Trademark that phrase quick!

Somewhere in the past 16 years I've forgotten what I learned at Clarion:

That it is literally impossible for any group of people (unless self-selected for agreement) to agree on whether a story is good.

"Rome wasn't burned in a day" graffiti on a bridge

Graffiti along Minnehaha Creek.

I mean, some of those are practically as big as Pooka!

@gregvaneekhout.bsky.social @whatnext.bsky.social

Just wanted to make sure the two of you saw this, if you hadn't already seen it. I don't know why it fills me with such joy, but I thought you might share it.

It is legitimately not a gotcha: our safety as Americans is intimately related. American Muslims and American Jews are natural allies in the fight against fascism and Dominionist Christianity -- which is why they've done everything they can think of to pit us against each other.

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Diabolical Plots is opening for submissions in 8 days!
Ask any questions you want to ask before the window is here!

It's a family drama wearing a space opera murder mystery as a hat and here's a direct link to order signed copies:

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I skipped school lunches and saved my lunch money to buy Trixie Belden books on the way home on Fridays. Loved TB.

Thanks, man. I really appreciate it. I love both those stories and I'm really happy that they ended up in places where so many people get to read them.

Also a big tip of the hat to “The Matador and the Labyrinth” over at @diabolicalplots.com! @ccfinlay.bsky.social - you are on fire.

Tremendously happy that my friend @rcwordsmith.bsky.social gifted me a subscription to @morningtransport.bsky.social since it immediately served up "Why We Sing" by @ccfinlay.bsky.social. Ye gods, what a fabulous story.

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Flyer for the Braille Institute creator discussion on Short Stories, featuring photographs of Elizabeth Bear (a white woman with glasses and long straight auburn hair wearing a black cowlneck), Jendayi Brooks-Flemister (A person of color with a pouf of dark hair, black-framed glasses and an engaging smile, wearing a blue chambray shirt open over a t-shirt showing a red flower on a yellow background), and Tananarive Due (a woman of color with black, short hair and red lipstick, wearing a black short-sleeved top and fabulous black-and-white bullseye earrings). The text of the flyer reads: Braille Institute Creator Discussion Short Stories Thursday, June 26 10 AM to 11 AM PT Online via Microsoft Teams “I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.” -Andre Dubus Join us for a discussion with three incredible authors on the power and pleasure of short stories! Elizabeth Bear Jendayi Brooks-Flemister Tananarive Due Register to Attend bit.ly/44ppXks Contact Us 800-808-2555 And there is a scan code at the bottom.

TOMORROW!

1 pm EDT/10 am PDT I will be appearing on a virtual panel on short stories hosted by the Braille Institute, with wonderful writers @tananarivedue.bsky.social and Jendayi Brooks-Flemister!

Register to attend here: bit.ly/44ppXks

And a Happy Blepday to you as well.

Some will say, "but 'regime change' isn't euphemism for 'conquer' because nobody's advocating for U.S. to absorb Iran." Hmm. Were China to somehow overthrow U.S. government & install a government dependent on & acquiescent to China, we wouldn't call that "regime change." 2/

News organizations shouldn't be using the term "regime change" except to quote an official using the term. It's euphemism for "conquer." The debate isn't about whether the U.S. will "pursue regime change in Iran"; it's whether the U.S. will attempt to conquer Iran. 1/

Why We Sing Come close and listen: This week, author C.C. Finlay returns to the Transport to share a new legend.

New today at The Sunday Morning Transport!

"Why We Sing"

One morning on the island of Wherthy, the priestess Elliemmi rose in the muted gray hour before dawn to throw two of her daughters into the sea.

Swim closer, if you want to hear the story.

www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/why-we-sing

‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire – the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on … and on

‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President It’s a world exploding with crises waiting to happen. Donald Trump has made us less prepared for every one of them.

If you live in the US, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. gov't created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/1968...