Jessica Luke García

I'm so grateful to @wnwagner.bsky.social and the entire Nightmare editorial staff for all the work they did on this piece, and to Roxanne Hernandez for her beautiful podcast narration of it.

My flash fic "First Girls" is in the February issue of @nightmare-magazine.com, where we are pouring one out for our Casey Beckers, our Tina Grays, our Annie Bracketts, and all the intense, doomed, borderline homoerotic girlie friendships of bi adolescence

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/firs...

Sleep Alone a book by J. a. W. McCarthy For the past six years, Ronnie has worked selling merch for a perpetually touring band. Late nights, sweaty clubs, dingy motel rooms, endless roads-as rough as it's been, there is no other way of life...

After devouring it in a single day, emerged from @jawmccarthy.bsky.social's SLEEP ALONE with a wicked migraine, which is to say this book is SO GOOD SO JUICY SO IMMERSIVE I finished it without realizing i had a migraine. buy it now:

bookshop.org/p/books/slee...

So delighted to have this new story with @fracturedlit.bsky.social

The cover of FEVER HOUSE by Keith Rosson, depicting a hand making the metal sign, its fingers taped into claws that look like horns.

The cover of SLEEP ALONE by J.A.W. McCarthy, depicting two punk women leaning against a tour van, which is dripping with blood.

This week I'm reading SLEEP ALONE by @jawmccarthy.bsky.social & FEVER HOUSE by @keithrosson.bsky.social (a sort of rock n roll horror double feature)

WEBSITE IS LYING

coins can be shipped to ENTIRE WORLD

will have close personal chat with website soon, get things cleared up…

Watch here for updates

The back cover copy of my latest book. Pre-orders of the hardback will begin on Halloween, because I'm corny like that.

perfectly written, so damn good

The Sound of Children Screaming - Nightmare Magazine You know the one about the Gun. The Gun goes where it wants to. On Thursday morning just after recess, the Gun will walk through the front doors of Thurman Elementary, and it won’t sign in at the fr...

"The mouse has a gun: a copper blunderbuss with the end belled out like something out of Looney Tunes. His name is Sir Miles, and he has been hunting."

"The Sound of Children Screaming," out now in Nightmare: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...

From a not-so-well-off family trying to fool everyone to a teacher working in her dreams to a houseless person just looking for a place to sleep, class tensions bubble up in horrifying ways in these stories from @jawmccarthy.bsky.social, @christinogle.substack.com, and @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social.

Glitch: Writing about the dark side of technology Technology has brought us modern medicine, space flight, the ability to communicate with people all around the world. It's also brought us increasingly horrific weapons of war, devices that can consta...

Reminder I'll be co-running an online writing class on writing the dark side of tech..info here:
forms.gle/GqDz4dVeTVQp...

LOVE

Cynthia Gómez -- Hearts and Minds Rob surveyed his captive audience of coffee chain employees, gripping the lectern and the poster with his logo, an image of an employee and a boss shaking hands. He was proud of his record, displayed ...

Hi friends!

Sometimes, as you know, I like to take my stories out to wave hello at you. This is a very fast little flash piece about a "union avoidance" meeting that goes very wrong ... or not so wrong at all.
www.thecosmicbackground.com/stories/cynt...

My island was there before 1492.
My ancestors were alive before 1492.
Decolonize your mind.
Decolonize your syllabus.
Decolonize your fiction.
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

We are open for submissions through October 31!

We love:
- anything that would fit on the Twilight Zone
- stories between 3-6k (4.5k is our sweet spot)
- twist endings

Black writers, submit your story here: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

A New York Times quote: "Incredible... this is a world of dizzying tech, gorgeous illusions and twisty political thrills" , above the cover of A FIRE BORN OF EXILE by Aliette de Bodard

Cover of A FIRE BORN OF EXILE (A Xuya Universe romance) by Aliette de Bodard: two Vietnamese women back to back with a a space background.

A FIRE BORN OF EXILE releases this THURSDAY!!!!
Preorder your sapphic Count of Monte Cristo in space

geni.us/AFireBorn
books2read.com/u/b5WeP7

Screenshot of a "very unhealthy" air quality report for October 9. It reads, "Health effects will be immediately felt by sensitive groups and should avoid outdoor activity. Healthy individuals are likely to experience difficulty breathing and throat irritation; consider staying indoors and rescheduling outdoor activities."

Every morning I wake up and shake the Sahara from my sinuses like a prospector emptying rocks out of an old boot

A glitched television screen card reading PLEASE STAND BY.