S.L. Harris

A map of Robinson Crusoe’s island

6. Robinson Crusoe’s Island, from the delightful literarymaps.com.
#MapMonday

Flash Fiction Online, Reckoning, and Fiyah: Reviews by Charles Payseur Flash Fiction Online 1/25 Reckoning 1/25 Fiyah Winter ’25 The January Flash Fiction Online is thematically appropriate for those in the Northern Hemisphere with a focus on winter and the cold (it h…

My only excuse for missing @locusmag.bsky.social's review featuring @slharris.bsky.social "The Pelican in its Piety," Jacqueline Roberti's "New Niches," & E.L. Mellor's "Blue Speck" is I've spent the summer on a very cool @reckoningmag.bsky.social project (more to come)
locusmag.com/2025/05/flas...

Slightly diminish a book…

The Moderately-Sized Nap

Slightly diminish a book…

The Noise and the Irritation

Wait - French Inhaler! Lawyers, Guns, and Money! Don’t Let Us Get Sick! My Ride’s Here! gah!

Desperados Under the Eaves in a crowded field. Mohammed‘s Radio, Studebaker, and Empty-Hearted Town all up there too.

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Thank you for reading!

Apple slices: What happened to the once-popular Midwest pastry? Bakery apple slices were pretty popular in Chicago back in the 1950s. Not a lot of bakeries still sell them today, but there are still avid fans of the pastry.

Listen: Fall is in the air, and with that comes all the delicious apple desserts. Curious City listener Theresa Flanagan looks back fondly on one such autumnal pastry: apple slices. trib.al/ZMMI1ou

In Our Time is one of the great institutions of…our time, and Melvyn has obviously been the beating heart of it. I hope the show goes on!

@adamroberts.bsky.social’s History of Science Fiction draws some fascinating connections between the Reformation and the emergence of the genre, and might generally be a good source for this kind of history of ideas…

I haven't read them, but I've heard good things about "The Real Lives of Roman Britain" (and other books) by Guy de la Bédoyère and "The Roman Invasion of Britain : Archaeology Versus History" by Birgitta Hoffman

The Mister Rogers No One Saw (Published 2019)

Some time ago, I came to feel that my work here on Earth ought to be building topsoil of one kind and another, and it enheartened me to no end to read Fred Rogers talking about his work as "tending soil."

The Mister Rogers No One Saw (Published 2019)

Some time ago, I came to feel that my work here on Earth ought to be building topsoil of one kind and another, and it enheartened me to no end to read Fred Rogers talking about his work as "tending soil."

"The last wish: the only wish, in fact. That things could be, not as they are, but some different way instead.... That I could know it to have once been remade and so able to be remade again, all new, all other. Then perhaps this grief would at last be lifted from my heart." - John Crowley, Ægypt

The deluxe reissue has some amazing outtakes and demos on it. Well worth a listen!

Find the River (among many, many other favorites)

The worst!

I just read this post on Opicinus de Canistri, and it’s phenomenal!

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In the end he got his walk and I got to reread “Window Boy” so it worked out for everyone

A good dog tries to distract from the newly arrived short story collection, Uncertain Sons by Thomas Ha.

“Not now, dog! Can’t you see that @thomasha.bsky.social’s Uncertain Sons has arrived?”

A week or so left to read my story about the ghost horses of the Hermitage in Intergalactic Rejects! Also check out the delightfully twisty “Upsized Savior” by David Boop. Both available at: calendaroffools.com/stories/

A framed map of Babel from the R.F. Kuang novel.

5. Map of Babel, from the R.F. Kuang novel. #MapMonday

Just in case you’re looking for a good early-season apple, I’ve really enjoyed Pristine this year.

I don't think AI will either become a totally revolutionary tech or be a nothing tulip/NFT bubble. I think it will be like social media: something that everyone knows is mostly bad and stupid but gets addicted to as it degrades our quality of life, politics, and culture in a million small ways.

The Journal for the Preservation of Historical Print News Media probably has confusing calls.

I'm just finishing Ægypt/The Solitudes, by John Crowley, and it's a feast.

List of names for the biblical nameless - Wikipedia

When the Wikipedia article name is as good as a Raymond Carver title: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...