frankie hagg

Watched "In the Mouth of Madness" last night, which is a movie all about how Southern Ontario is the most terrifying place on earth.

I had the great honour to edit Chlorophilia in this issue - a flippy little take on Ovid for the modern era. If you, like me, love an epistolary story (or any story about natural desire), take a little look at Augur 8.3 out now 👀 🌱

An illustration with a purple overlay of decaying purple and yellow tree branches that lead down to an opening. There are white birds flying around and on one of the yellow-purple branches are three people walking. In the top and bottom corners are purple branches and yellow leaves. At the top of the image reads: "contents." There is a black rectangle and inside lists the table of contents: "Observer Effect by Morgan Cross. Leave Your Skins by the Shore by Natasha King. Flame Weeding by Colleen Coco Collins. Rocky Mountain Gothic by Ev Datsyk. Bonds of the Forest by Ally R Colthoff . Blueberry by Jade Riordan. On Fields of Purple Grass by Ian Li. Tapetum Lucidum by U.M. Agoawike. The Great Divide by Meryem Yildiz. Chlorophilia by Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer.” At the bottom of the image is the augur logo and a link to the website: www.augursociety.org

🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Inside you'll find...
🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest
🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens
🫐 a berry world of grief and awe
& so much more!

🔗 Link in bio!

More details below 👀⬇️

at the end of the day you have to love the dishes. that's what separates the greats--they see the next stack of dishes as an opportunity to run the track one more time. And they take it personally. Dishes? in MY sink? you should've called ahead. you'd know better

ELPHABA
and
GLINDA
will return
SUMMER 2027
in SINNERS 2

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It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

this is great advice at a time where i am daily looking at my little notebook of short story ideas followed immediately by hyperventilating into a paper bag

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Arsenal Pulp Press is proud to be a #CertifiedCanadianPublisher. 🇨🇦

The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.

It's my first time leading editing. The process was so eye-opening and amazing. I won't restate the editor's note but yall. Yall...I am so proud of each and every one of these stories and the authors who wrote them.

Come meet some new reads.

I do use it! Have for more than a decade. There is a fairly sharp learning curve for its complex features. But if you just open a blank document, it's just a word processor. I think using it for a while *as* a simple word processor is the best way to explore the bells and whistles organically.

far be it from me to discourage anyone from buying a typewriter, BUT afaik scrivener doesn't even directly access the internet so is probably still the best option here. people dislike it for being too complex but it is also perfectly functional as a simple word processor if that is your jam!

as @ridethekick.bsky.social said of baseball yesterday: anything can happen, until it doesn't, and if not, you do it again

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA:
Seundruls
2022

I picked up a copy of The Artist's Way last weekend and am finding it instrumental to constructing my own habits and identifying my needs as a creative person. not all of it is applicable to me and i'm not being shy about amending my approach to these tips, but undoubtedly it is a helpful tool

my intention is to push myself and build habits. I don't expect to actually do all of these daily, but I do expect to TRY to do them daily, and that feels important. if writing is important to me, I have to prioritize it! the word count doesn't matter. the intention does.

I'm doing a bastardized version of nanowrimo (bastardwrimo, as my friend hyemi put it). here are my november goals:

1. sit down to my writing daily, for any amount of time
2. read at least 10 pages daily, of anything
3. walk daily
4. journal daily (based on julia cameron's morning pages)

An illustration of a field on a sunny day and here’s a clothing line with yellow and red sheets flowing in the wind, and behind them are two people, one with purple wings touching hands. with a blue overlay. At the top of the image reads: “Read it Now” in a yellow banner and underneath reads: “Augur Issue 8.2.” Bellow is the link to the website: http://www.augursociety.org. In the middle of the image is a book with the cover art of Issue 8.1. There are 6 arrows around the book pointing to blurbs from some of the pieces that read: elemental aftermath of an affair, toxic love festers through shed skin & wet sheets, young love, rusted metal, & shattered sunlight, monstrous hymn of awe & destruction, old age drama between two languages, and devastation dripped in honey and rain .

Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!

🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

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i am on the outs with daily wordcount goals lately so my goal for november is to at least look at my document as close to every day as i can reasonably manage. is this because i translated a document about how writer's block is so often a lack of structure this week? who could say

very exciting month ahead! halloween... jays in the world series... [flipping very quickly past the page in my planner that has a daily wordcount tracker for november] concert coming up with a friend...

13 Must-Read Indigenous Horror Books That Will Haunt You Long After the Last Page Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their righ...

Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their rightful space in the contemporary horror landscape.

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ANNOUCEMENT: Rotting Leaf Magazine A new literary magazine for eco-fiction

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this man is an immortal being. he has been playing baseball since 1880. this is the only way it could have happened

thank you

how do you feel about "preventive" over "preventative"

my narrative-focused games scholars talk about meaning and choice. well i meaningfully choose to put the ostriches in with the wildebeest to improve their enrichment

you know what happens when diseased monkeys escape in planet zoo? you click on them and a vet collects them. it's a simpler world. animal research takes one calendar year. you exponentially improve their lives. one might even call it a utopia

i'm friends with several phd students in video games (it's montreal), and when they ask me why i love management sims, i don't know what to tell them. right now it's planet zoo. i can't explain why i finish doing tasks at work just to boot up the device to finish doing tasks at simulated work