Rae Foster

A good reminder as I get back to my YA novel draft.

A handful of rejections with plans to submit today and tomorrow. 19 rejections so far, one more for an even 20 🤞🏻

Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

Submissions - Seize The Press Submissions Guidelines Seize The Press Magazine is an anticapitalist publication looking to publish dark speculative fiction. Bleak sci-fi, dark fantasy, horror and all kinds of weird, messy, genre-de...

Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words.

If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.

Drafting flash fiction at the car dealership

I am mildly obsessed with nailing a good first line, and IMO to do so one must convey at least three or four details/pieces of information. As a reader, I want to know several things immediately: what's the MC doing? What time period/era is this? What's just happened to stir up conflict in the MC's

The Attic by Aaron Burch Some kind of a noise. Or a nudge, a push. Probably both. A “Babe, babe,” together with or followed by, enough of a jostle to wake me up while trying not to startle me. “Sorry,” Michelle said. “I...

"Some kind of a noise. Or a nudge, a push."

We are BEYOND thrilled to have @aaronburch.bsky.social back in hex this week with "The Attic!" This story is the best kind of surprise, linguistically wonderful, a foray into the unsettling, all without losing Aaron's great sense of heart. Don't miss it!

ergot. innovative + experimental horror

"She must have nodded off after all. All night through the early hours unsleeping, then Gwen found herself awake. There was a wrongness: something was wrong."

Today on ergot: 'Buttons' by Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social

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3LBE Magazine - Her Shadow, Nailed to the Floor by A.C. Wise We stand outside the schoolhouse, a huddle of uncertain birds, a collective knot of shoulders bowed low by grief. We, the parents of the children who are gone. It is bright daylight; we don't dare com...

In case you missed it yesterday, I have a new story in issue 45 of @3lobedmag.com about a haunted schoolhouse.

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Four magazine covers all together. Each says "The Skull and Laurel" in a color that matches the art and each displays the tenebrous logo.

Today is the official release of The S&L #4— and the completion of the set of four we'd originally funded!
With it, we celebrate how much we've learned and all the excellent artists and readers who made it possible.
Congratulations, team. They're perfect.🖤💀

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Where to Find Free, Non-AI Images

Where to Find Free, Non-AI Images
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Writers: looking to do the ethical thing and avoid AI in illustrating, promoting, and selling your work? Here are 9 places to find public domain and free to use images.

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Graphic showing these 8 books: No One Will Come Back for Us, by Premee Mohamed; Northern Nights (Michael Kelly, ed.); The Ghost Sequences, by A.C. Wise; Helpmeet, by Naben Ruthnum; The Talosite, by Rebecca Campbell; grotesquerie, by Richard Gavin; Nothing is Everything, by Simon Strantzas; All the Things We Never See, by Michael Kelly.

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8 books! Grab them all or just the ones you don't have. The sale is for 3 days only—starting July 1 and ending at midnight July 4.

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These are for the same story, by the way. It's kind of fun keeping track like this.

A rejection. A submission.

An illustration depicting three witches burning at the stake. Text around it reads: Complex female friendships, Revenge, Misfit characters, Modern day witch-hunt, “Good for her” vibes, Coming-of-rage

Untitled YA Horror - WIP

I’m in the midst of my second-act slump, so I made a trope graphic to drum up some excitement for myself.
I have nearly half of it drafted, the rest is still in my head. This is a story I’ve picked up and put down since college, and I finally feel like it’s taking shape.

Proud of my former city

I'll be back on one of my favourite topics of folk horror with this one-off online workshop on the 14th August! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo... #folkhorror #horror #writing #workshop #workshops #writers

Los Angeles. Just wow.

I had a joke about Orpheus and Eurydice I thought was funny, but looking back wasn't great.

I just submitted my final portfolio in my creative writing certificate program ✍️

Rejections rejections. Submit submit. Submit.

Real writing, involves 1 human brain communicating &connecting w/other human brains, across time&space. If the human is removed, all that's left is words we already made, stolen&reworked by a machine w/o intent. The intent matters. It's what makes meaning&deepens it. Words w/o meaning are worthless.

the feminine urge to crouch outside in the middle of a thunderstorm and eat fistful after fistful of dirt

New story! Today we are venturing out of the bog and heading to the seaside 🪼 🏖 🫏 Thank you so much @pseudopod.org it's an honour ❤️

(Adding a content warning for CREEPY PUPPETS 😨 🤡 )

I just started Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch by @spiritbored.bsky.social and I can already tell I’m going to be obsessed with this.

Congratulations!!!

Somehow I've only seen Vertigo and Rebecca once!

These were mostly the ones I've seen multiple times. Looking through his filmography made me realize I need to watch certain ones again!