Chloe Smith

Space Unicorn!

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

So many little guys!

Coming soon: OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

SURPRISE! We couldn't wait until next week—our Kickstarter pre-launch page is live right now!!! Sign up to be the first to know when it launches in October, and please spread the word and tell a friend! Every sign-up makes a huge difference. We are officially one step closer to OTHERSIDE!

This is the best version of this trend

I have a new story coming soon! It will be out in an anthology from @metaphorosis.com, HOPE: The Thing With Feathers and will feature sad sibling relationships and a giant bird mom.

a crab is walking on a sandy surface with its arm up Alt: a crab is walking on a sandy surface with its arm up

This article is talking about an ideal beach body so I think it's time to grow a carapace and six extra legs.

Any tips on scuttling.

You weren’t the only one fishslapped by that unwelcome knowledge

👀

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and a pen-and-ink illustration of a woman sweeping dirt under a rug.

Whelve [welv]
(v.)
-To conceal, hide or bury something beneath something else.
-To turn over and hide something underneath; to bury something.

Used in a sentence:
“Housekeeping around here is basically a frantic scurryfunge where I whelve everything under the coats in the hall closet.”

ok here's my dung beetle love poem

I have a story in this! I'm excited that it's in such fine-feathered company.

Such a good reminder

A meme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In the top panel, one man labeled "literally every company" hands a plate labeled "AI" to a man labeled "me." In the bottom panel, the man labeled "me" nonchalantly tosses the plate down the hallway, discarding it with casual disdain while the first man watches.

Time to post it again.

Foolproof

Jane Eyre
Jane Watir
Jane Erthe
Jane Fyre

Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye...

Until the Fyre Janes attackid.

A detail from the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. It features a giant owl with huge black eyes staring into the middle distance while a naked man hugs and shows off the owl with the expression of a man showing off his cool new car or something. There is some sort of spiky flower thing in the foreground.

it’s #SuperbOwl Sunday and this guy is very proud of his owl

"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution."

Ursula K. Le Guin / The Dispossessed

I embrace my fate

I have so many comments that say “fix this”…

Dearest writers,

Updated submissions info!

We plan to open Jan 22-29

22-25 to works by BIPOC authors

26-29 open to all

Short fic!
Flash fic!
Poetry!

Please check guidelines; apologies for any confusion.

We are eager to see your words!

psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

- A

Paul Newman shown saucing his scrod, with the caption "Delicate moment: Newman saucing his scrod."

sorry if i didn't respond to your text. i was saucing my scrod

Hooray!!

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

tired: fearing that robots will become so smart they take your job

wired: fearing that robots will still be dumb but take your job anyway

🌐🗣️📚 VIRTUAL Comfort Reads Panel! January 19th at 1pm ET.

🤓 Definitely tuning in to hear Dr Malka Older @older.bsky.social + Martha Wells @marthawells.com & looking forward to learning more about KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com & T. Kingfisher @tkingfisher.com

🧪🚀🤖❤️📚

#booksky #scifi

I would watch the Freakonomics episode about this

We're doing an *emergency* Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl on Saturday Jan. 11.

We'll visit Medicine For Nightmares and Adobe, which suffered massive flood damage recently.

Then we'll hit East Bay Booksellers, recovering from a fire. Plus Pegasus!

Details/RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/emergency-...

No doubt!

Build yourself a world