Nathan Long

Thank you! Yay!

We met (in the on-line sense) through the magazine! @valerievaldes.bsky.social edited my story that will be in Issue 9!

my brain just made a happy fizzing sound to discover that you two, whom i know from other places, know each other ✨

anyway, people should absolutely get this because these two are Good

Critique first, then flash fiction, in that order. Like broccoli and dessert.

I do. I do!

Want to read a flash fic from me? Let's gooo

NESS 1 has an Elric of Melniboné story in it with little woodland fairies and big scary giants and funky weird problems of scale. It's a gem!!

Illustration of a monster hunter sitting on a rock wall by a tree, behind her a fallen monster with a wound on its head

"After the hunt"

❕HEADS UP❕
A cancellation has made a single copy of NESS 1 available in softcover.

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Color illustration by Hardeep Ajula, showing a skull-faced sorcerer cradling the chin of a frightened young man, forcing him to stare in the same direction he is.

Black & White illustration by Hardeep Ajula showing Orhan Timur, deposed Mongol ruler, riding horseback while turning to fire a bow, looming skull in the background.

Black & White illustration by Hardeep Ajula showing a woman standing at the ready, staring to the right, sword in its scabbard but ready to be drawn, as a small crowd of villagers watch her from the distance, and a tall column in the background has what looks like the body of a giant snake coiling up along it.

Color illustration by Hardeep Ajula showing a mounted warrior woman swinging her scimitar back at a pursuing crowd of animated skeleton warriors, striking one asunder.

🖌️WELCOME BACK HARDEEP AJULA!🎨
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A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

My second favorite thing to draw 🌳

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

Screenshot from Twin Peaks, caption reads "Diane, 11:30 am, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."

It's a national holiday

laura doppelgänger from the black lodge

happy twin peaks day :)

She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid

I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this.

I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it.

I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

Your games deserve more cats 😺🐾

Clowder Token Collection - cat-shaped tokens for ANY tabletop game.

✨ Any game, now with cats ✨

Launching soon on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tat...

Excalibur.

The U.S. Press Loves To Pretend Widespread Corruption Doesn't Exist Despite widespread U.S. corruption being anything but subtle, its presence consistently remains absent from corporate media narratives surrounding most U.S. dysfunction.

The latest edition of my newsletter is about a subject I've been obsessed with since I was a snot-nosed 20-something telecom beat reporter:

The U.S. press simply refuses to acknowledge that widespread corruption at the hands of unchecked corporate power is THE reason for most U.S. dysfunction.

Catsitting Hunter

Chicago Just Named A Snowplow ‘Abolish ICE’— Here Are The Other Winners The city received a record number of entries and votes for its annual snowplow-naming contest. The Department of Streets and Sanitation announced the six winners Monday.

This year’s winners:

- Abolish ICE
- Stephen Coldbert
- Pope Frío XIV
- The Blizzard of Oz
- Svencoolie
- Caleb Chilliams

“Abolish ICE” & other anti-ICE names made up nearly 80% of all submissions

Moore is spec fiction royalty, but she isn't read to the same level as her male contemporaries. The omission of Moore (and many other women) from discussions on the weird leads to a false idea that women were not writing the weird (or spec in general) until very recently.

The New Edge 2026 crowdfund has skyrocketed so profoundly that they’ve needed a chart to track ongoing goals!

Five women by whom I've read at least five books:
-Dorothy Sayers
-Sarah Waters
-Colleen McCullough
-Emma Bull
-Agatha Christie

A HUGE chart laying out a raft of bonus rewards for NESS 2026 crowdfund backers that they get whenever an author or artist pay raise stretch goal is unlocked.

💪⚔️Your incredible support for this year's issues means we can dream big for the rest of the New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026 crowdfund, adding all kinds of wild backer rewards to go with our infinite contributor raises!✍️🎨

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James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members.

HI, I'm twelve.

Now what could I be cooking up for a flash fic? More Astartha? A Suplex & Sorcery tale? A Norse take on the Guyver? Who tf knows. Not even I do. But there's one way to find out: boost those numbers!

A HUGE chart laying out a raft of bonus rewards for NESS 2026 crowdfund backers that they get whenever an author or artist pay raise stretch goal is unlocked.

I'm a stretch goal!!!

If the @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social fundraising campaign reaches $70,900, I will critique a backer's short story! Get on board and put me to work!
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The source is lost to time, but this is one of the funniest photos ever taken

This guy gets it.