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70% UNLOCKED! Lesley and Rebecca will be reading CreepyPasta stories selected by our followers and doing a small affirmation critique of the story. This live event is sure to be hysterical!

There's only ONE WEEK LEFT to fund Apex Magazine in 2026, and we JUST unlocked our 70% reward!!

The Apex editors will host a live affirmation critique of the Internet's most beloved amateur horror stories! 📸🌲🥩

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Ink and watercolor cartoon showing an octopus peeking out of a coconut shell underwater. The octopus says: "I've been working on a novel, but I'm afraid to show anyone. Maybe I'll put one page out there." A fish swims up to look at the page and says, "That stinks!" The octopus disappears inside the shell and says, "Everyone's a critic."

Here's a little cartoon for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙

...and contains my body-horror story "Like An Arm Outstretched, Reaching"! Check out the whole fantastic issue, or just click for a bit of squick: www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/lik...

Scifi body horror and October, name a more iconic duo

SO excited to reveal that my short body horror story "Like An Arm Outstretched, Reaching" will be in issue 11 of @radonjournal.bsky.social! Let the countdown begin!

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Weird fiction is always needed but it's more crucial in these strange and horrible times than ever. Back 3LBE if you can!

‘Orchard’ a Twisty Mystery in Small-Town Appalachia Annie is a delight of a modern-day PI, with all the crustiness and baggage of any private dick in the genre, though Sullivan manages to make her feel more human than trope.

This week's #BookReview is a twisty, witchy mystery! ringreads.com/2025/08/12/o...

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

As an ardent lover of em dashes and not a computer, I really appreciate that my favorite punctuation mark has finally broken its silence. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

‘Alchemy’ Is As Sweet As Its Flowers Resau’s descriptions are lush, making the scent of jasmine or lavender, the feel of a refreshing stream, or the taste of a character’s cooking almost come off the page (or the phone scr…

If ever there was a book that said, "Come, weary traveler, and rest," it's The Alchemy of Flowers by @lauraresau.bsky.social. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/07/29/a...

A pile of clear glass is gathered on a white-painted wood background. Superimposed on the picture is the title of the story, "From This Beating Heart, From This Fractured Mind."

Happy weekend! I'm excited to announce that my flash story "From This Beating Heart, From This Fractured Mind," originally published in @apexmag.bsky.social, has gotten the audio treatment from @cbdroege.bsky.social. Check it out here: podcastaddict.com/episode/http...

‘Fortune’ Pits Truth Against Reputation in Murder Mystery Rather than being simply a vehicle for plot, Chern’s writing sings with artful composition and delightful turns of phrase that not only make reading easy but pleasant, too.

Sequels can be hit or miss, but Tricks of Fortune by @linachern.bsky.social is even funner than its predecessor. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/07/01/f...

YouTube video by Dropout You Don't Actually Need a Menu

"So what, you order the same thing every time?"
"I order the BEST meal every time."

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‘Nightmare Box’ Tinged With Real-Life Horror and Fictional Justice There are few happy endings in The Nightmare Box, though it does seem that Gómez intentionally left off on one of the more optimistic stories—an unexpected choice but one that ultimately informs th…

It feels weird to use the word "delightful" and The Nightmare Box by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social in the same sentence, but it was a pretty darn delightful collection of horrifying tales. Full #bookreview here: ringreads.com/2025/06/03/n...

22 hours later, it's been revealed by the Chicago-Sun times that the books are indeed Fake

Caterpillar Inc is also voting on this! The meeting isn't until June but the board recommends shareholders vote against an anti-DEI measure.

We stand together or we all fall.

- NO AI audiobooks
- NO AI covers
- NO AI book trailers
- NO AI character drawings
- NO AI marketing copy
- NO AI “research”
- NO AI editors
- NO AI translation
- NO AI at all

I have this and there is one on my laptop RIGHT NOW and also on my partner's (allegedly against his will). I love them so much. 10/10, every pose nails void essence. If anyone is on the fence, get off the fence and get void stickers!

I am in no way paid by or representing @thriftbooks.bsky.social but here's a PSA: they're having a massive sale on kids and YA books. I just filled in a ton of the holes in my personal library and I am positively GIDDY about this. www.thriftbooks.com/b/kids-summe...

‘Bat Eater’ Brings New Fears to Pandemic Lockdown Bat Eater is a marvelous friendship bracelet of plot threads that sometimes take turns and sometimes work in tandem but are always engrossing, and all feel like facets of a terrifying and claustrop…

Not to gush but Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker is already one of my favorite reads of 2025. Terrifying? Check. Entertaining? Check. Set in the pandemic but doesn't use lockdown as a gimmick? Somehow also check. Full #BookReview here: ringreads.com/2025/04/29/b...

Bat Eater might be my top book from 2025 so far!

Will I fail without using AI if everyone else is using it? Depends on your definition I guess. But failures can be building blocks for many other things. Being unwilling to fail is being unwilling to grow.
And I will fail differently than the people who cede their thinking to the mimic machine.

And say it with me now and forever: high needs people of all stripes are just as valuable and loved as low needs folks

Any differences physically, mentally, developmentally and so on must be protected. When one is attacked, all are attacked eventually

...but there was less than zero sexual tension? Are they aware there are other kinds of relationships in fiction that aren't romantic or sexual? Nothing about this book was remotely sexy (positive connotation). This is so baffling to me.

As I've revisited @kaaauthor.bsky.social's Animorphs through the years, I both wonder who thought they were appropriate for children and feel grateful for whatever lapse in publisher judgement allowed me to think about war and sacrifice and morality from such a young age.

Just a few more hours to back Utopia! They do phenomenal work and we need them more than ever in These Continuously Unprecedented Times. Throw some bucks their way if you can!

I keep thinking of this

Cast of Wonders 610: What Cannot Be Cured, Must Be Endured | Cast of Wonders They say if you take the old scarecrow out back, jam some old leaves in there to make up for some of the straw that’s fallen out, and put a jack-o-lantern on the shoulders where the head used to be…

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When No One Has to Say Goodbye From the other side of the bed, I heard Caleb take in a breath like he was going to say something, but then he kept quiet. A second...

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