Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep

@electricsheepsf.bsky.social

Spec fic discussion group & reading series. Flash & shorts. Celebrating SFFH authors & magazines. Read along with us! https://mynachang.com/electric-sheep/

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New this week! IMAGINE A FRIEND by Emmy Award winner @quantick.bsky.social!

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The Cirrus Circus - The Offing Fiction - The Offing Magazine

"...Globe has asked her thousands of piblings and the roadrunners and the mule deer and the jays in the hills to wait until the seventh day of the seventh week, when the first light of starrise touches the glass above our heads, to sigh warmly into the sky."

@joelhans.com @theoffingmag.bsky.social

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"We work together to build a garden resilient enough to survive the light from a star that keeps getting hotter."

Another beautiful & heartfelt story from @joelhans.com!
@theoffingmag.bsky.social

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

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Fuck 'em!

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The Cirrus Circus - The Offing Fiction - The Offing Magazine

"...Globe has asked her thousands of piblings and the roadrunners and the mule deer and the jays in the hills to wait until the seventh day of the seventh week, when the first light of starrise touches the glass above our heads, to sigh warmly into the sky."

@joelhans.com @theoffingmag.bsky.social

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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

This is a protest not just against gen AI training generally, but against the UK government's proposal to allow AI companies to train on copyright-protected work unless the author/artist opts out
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by Joel Hans At bedtime, our daughter asks for two handfuls of Crayons and a ream of computer paper. She asks for the tiny blanket we crocheted for her when she was six months old. For the doll with fidget-knot…

"And like with lightning during the monsoons, we count the seconds until we hear her voice in return, the brief but enduring tremor she imparts on the bedtime emptying of our world."

This is just so heartbreakingly beautiful. 💙

@joelhans.com in @flashfrog.bsky.social

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So excited for this! And deeply grateful for all the work @mynachang.bsky.social does for writers and writing communities.

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The Bedtime Emptying of Our World Short Stories Joel Hans 978-0-913785-69-0 Paper February 2026

@mooncitypress.bsky.social

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Collection: The Bedtime Emptying of Our World The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, winner of the The 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award, is the debut short story collection from Joel Hans.

This week's guest is Joel Hans! We'll look at a few of Joel's stories, his new collection, and stories from his magazine, Astrolabe!

@joelhans.com @astrolabe.ooo @mooncitypress.bsky.social

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Yes! One of the most compelling mags out there, imo! 💜

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Thank you @spencerwriting.bsky.social for spending time with @electricsheepsf.bsky.social yesterday!

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💯

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this is, still, one of my favorite stories I've ever written.

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Yeah, I think rending is the right word. ❤️💔

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Cannot wait to discuss these amazing, wildly imaginative, lyrical stories!!

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Nine Theories of Time 1 Time is absolute. My son is born and there is blood, screaming sweet as rain, tears, and joy. I hold him. Things precede. Time...

"There is nothing that changes time, not speed, not love, not distance. It slips, moment by moment, by. I try to hold it."

💔
@spencerwriting.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social

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Within the Dead Whale Content Warning The dead whale washed ashore with a hole in its stomach so wide you could drive a truck through it. Clarence came with other parents to stare at its size and smell its briny rot and…

"He’d heard once that the risk of beached whale corpses was their exploding. The pressure of death built and built inside them."

@spencerwriting.bsky.social @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

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"...so these kind of molds, they love rot. Big picture? It’s gone and fallen in love with your reflection while you were too busy hating yourself."

Loved this the first time I read it. Fun to revisit!

@spencerwriting.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social

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A Visit From the Sentient Slime Mold Specialist by Spencer Nitkey “So, ok boss, yes, you probably should have attended to the mold beneath your shower head before it got to this point. Shoulda being the operant word here. But shoulds only count in wouldas and coulda...

"The second problem being you have not learned to love the soft animal of your heart, and like any soft animal without love, it’s rotted in your chest..."

This is so fun. @spencerwriting.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social

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"This spell is all I have left that cannot be claimed by them."

@spencerwriting.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com

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Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective - Lightspeed Magazine Tyler Moore’s spells strive to exist in and of themselves. They make no excuse or justification for their existence: no promise to speak to the dead, predict next year’s grain or gold prices, or read ...

"In a world of industrialized spells, tinged by burnt coal and blood money, make magic that sings for its own sake."

Check out this story from @spencerwriting.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com - great use of form & a peek into the mind of a tortured magic artist!

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Why not revisit this whole issue!

@fusionfragment.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social

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ICYMI!

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Between this one and "Winter's Song" in FF#5, if @spencerwriting.bsky.social writes a story with song somewhere in the title, I think I'm legally required to buy it.

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💯

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had a lot of fun answering some questions about TIGS and writing!

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"I did not ever think I would find people who knew me this well, and now that I have, the world is ending."

Heartbreakingly beautiful.

@spencerwriting.bsky.social

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Issue #16 “Duplicate Variation Space Psychosis” by Mary G. Thompson: clones / legal hearings / seeing stars “In the Company of Nighthawks” by Mar Vincent: diners / deep-space travel /…

And here's the link to Fusion Fragment!
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-16/

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