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Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below).

also hey, this issue is stacked??

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Can't get enough of these AI gross-out stories, and this one is great! Isabel J. Kim in Clarkesworld: clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

I always felt like the whole ‘abundance’ shit was just a desperate attempt to reanimate the corpse of neoliberalism

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

A pile of Uncertain Sons, just a lot of uncertainty and a lot of sons

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

Love this book, such a great cover design!

Ghost library is the perfect way to describe it haha

I religiously create a new document each time I start a major round of revisions and then never, ever look at the old drafts again 😂

Really enjoyed listening to this! Was a great opportunity to revisit an old favourite.

Link: www.condenast.com/news/conde-n...

Ars Technica is owned by Conde Nast, who last year announced a partnership with OpenAI. 🔗👇

It’s a sad reality that for every wholesome online community that exists to welcome marginalized folks of all stripes, there’s a parallel one for just the absolute worst kind of freaks on the planet.

It’s a mixed bag, the internet…

nobody predicted that the internet would create imagined communities or public spheres for creeps, cranks, lunatics, and psychopaths

This! And encoded in that difference is the whole neoliberal capitalist mindset, because to the people who build these things, those objections are, respectively, (a) irrelevant to profits;(b) a forgettable externality; (c) a healthy marketing environment; and (d) the whole point in the first place

It's been a while, but I can finally make one of those vague 'good stuff in the works' posts.

One short piece in rewrites, another held for consideration.

Really excited about the home these two have found... :)

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.

BCS opened for submissions 17 years ago this month, July 2008, and has been open continuously since. Writing all submission replies with personalized comments.

And we're still going! Send us your great character-driven secondary-world setting stories.

one like, one writing opinion (void while prohibited, while supplies last).

The H Word: The Profane Illumination of the Weird - Nightmare Magazine Weird fiction, it seems, is having a moment in the zeitgeist; horror, we’re told, is also having a moment in the zeitgeist. It isn’t surprising, given the state of the world, that these two modes are ...

Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned to know what the difference is between weird fiction and horror. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...

2025 World Fantasy Awards Finalists The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2024 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2025 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 30 – November 2, 2…

The V*mpire was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award:
locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...

Congratulations to all the other finalists!

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Aww thanks, you just made my day haha! When I write something else in that vein, I will be sure to send it your way. :)

Congrats!

Well deserved 👏

Sent out a story I've been working on for the last few months today. Still get big nerves doing that when it's something I've poured a lot of effort into and I'm hoping for a certain outcome. Now I just have to wait and see...

The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Last Stop: Tomb City by Justin Howe Now, breaking and entering may be a sport in some scapes, but in most it’s an act much frowned upon indeed. When the act is also accompanied by the removal of objects or persons, that frown brings wit...

I have a new story out @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. "Last Stop: Tomb City" is a weird fantasy story about a very nervous man guiding an Eternal Champion across a dead city to rescue a depressed savior from an undead life coach.

Read it (for free!) here: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/last...

Baby has decided she enjoys trying to rip out my leg hairs, which has coincided with the arrival of shorts weather in an unfortunate way.

consequences of the death of the AI industry:

- creates many more jobs
- massively better for the arts, the sciences, education, news, the internet, mental health
- critical acclaim from aliens watching us as reality TV, for moving away from a very embarrassing cringe comedy gimmick

Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.