Electric Sheep

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

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

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

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."

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

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."

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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

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

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

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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!

Why not revisit this whole issue!

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ICYMI!

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

"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.

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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/

First up is "The Song, It’s Singers, and the End of the World" -- I fell in love with this story.

Originally published in @fusionfragment.bsky.social & included on the Locus rec list.
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This week's featured author is Spencer Nitkey! Spencer has an amazing range, from SF to fantasy to weird horror and literary fiction -- all featuring gorgeous, lyrical prose!

Read along with us!

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What a fabulous vision, and so timely :)

A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party.

I made the group and invited six people.

SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house.

... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)

Radon Pay Rate is now 2.5 cents a word

Radon Journal's fiction pay rate is increasing to 2.5¢/word!

We are also implementing a $15 minimum for fiction to ensure micro-fiction authors are taken care of.

Cheers to the authors who refuse to remain quiet or complicit.

Loved revisiting this story!

if the womens free skate yesterday also had you feeling like you could run through a brick wall, might i suggest: sapphic cyberpunk figure skaters?

"AITA for wanting a return on my investment?"

Great use of form, and extremely satisfying!

By Leon Tomova in @khoreo.bsky.social

I'm so so excited for the @electricsheepsf.bsky.social x @khoreo.bsky.social mashup! Read these extraordinary khōréō stories! 🧡🧡🧡🧡

So much fun to revisit these stories - and to read the ones I missed the first time around!

This story hits even harder now than it did when I first read it. @clairejiawen.bsky.social in @khoreo.bsky.social

The Tangle The musicians tune their instruments to call in the cows. The usual sounds of morning in the city. Voices of violins clear their throats in endlessly sustained strokes over by the bakehouse. The funky...

!! Love this one, too!

I always enjoy listening to the stories. Seems like the audio is lovingly done.

The Tangle The musicians tune their instruments to call in the cows. The usual sounds of morning in the city. Voices of violins clear their throats in endlessly sustained strokes over by the bakehouse. The funky...

!! Love this one, too!