Reckoning

A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century | Reckoning (Selected from the field guide left on your nightstand) Common Raven: Your favorite bird. There was a big one that lived in the hospital courtyard and, on your good days, I’d take you out to see it.

Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social #neurodivergentanthology A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is "A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century" by @andtatcat.bsky.social, a haunting meditation on personal loss and climate grief, and how we carry on.
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I love this story so much. Morris Hinkle creates a terrible, vivid, and amazing world, painting an entire society in such a short space, and the horrors that society enacts for the "good" of all.

Podcast Episode 46: What It Means to Love a City | Reckoning Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning. And today we have ...

New podcast episode for spooky season! Read by @andrewkozma.net and produced by audio editor Aaron Kling, “What It Means to Love a City” by Morris Hinkle is among the most horrific pieces of fiction we’ve published. It’s about not looking away. You’ve been warned reckoning.press/podcast-epis...

Just read the article and saw the photos and all I have to say is that there has to be a reckoning for this.

P-T | Reckoning there will never be so many sea lilies. they will never roll like meadows and lace their brittle eyelash hands, nod their heads and kiss. their endless fields will smother on ash. they will bow their ...

one day you
will

until then, the asphalt
buckles with dandelions. until that day
you will walk the dog, and brush your teeth

and a fungus that eats radiation will grow in
Chernobyl.

-- @nemerevermore.bsky.social

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P-T | Reckoning there will never be so many sea lilies. they will never roll like meadows and lace their brittle eyelash hands, nod their heads and kiss. their endless fields will smother on ash. they will bow their ...

Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Micah Nemerever's powerfully evocative poem "P-T."

"they will bring the villagers/past the barbed wire to see what/was done in their name, and some will cry/some will even mean it."
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@ellisnyeland.bsky.social's "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" is a lovely remembrance of a life well lived, but it also a fortune told. "Repair Tech" warns us against the generational loss of practical knowledge, especially in uncertain times.

A new and improved version! (CG let me add a few words I accidentally left out in the original.)

Trump’s EPA canceled a $20m grant to fortify the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk against flooding.
Now 121 houses in Kipnuk have been destroyed by flooding, & a total 1,800 people have been evacuated in one of the biggest airlifts in Alaska history. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest | Reckoning It is with sorrow that this paper announces the passing of one of our town’s greatest treasures, Wendy “Darling” Marszałek. She died on August 18th, 2081, in her early eighties. Contrary to her freque...

Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue, "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social is a fictional obituary celebrating a life well spent enacting restorative justice through the right to repair: reckoning.press/the-last-gre...

OK LISTEN. Every story in this book is a banger. This book has had me in tears multiple times. Highly likely this is going to be my favorite collection of the year. Get it now, thank me later!

I got a star.

But the conclusion some people draw from this — that individual actions don’t matter at all — is deeply flawed.

There is no plausible pathway to meeting global climate goals without changing what we eat, how we travel and how we live, especially in high-income countries and among wealthier people.

ooooh this is a great debunking of that "fossil fuel companies are bad so why should I even lift a finger" nonsense

say hi to me this weekend at can*con please

CanCon Stelliform Press Schedule: Oct 17: Publisher Party Oct 18: Pitch Sessions Oct 18: Publisher Red Flags panel Plus check out panels featuring stelliform authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Mahaila Smith, and Lynn Hutchinson Lee

At CanCon this weekend? Find us in the vendor room throughout the con, as well as at the Friday night publisher party, pitch sessions, and the "Publisher Red Flags" panel on Saturday.

Don't miss Stelliform authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Mahaila Smith, and Lynn Hutchinson Lee on panels all weekend.

@lauramcknight.bsky.social's wonderfully meditative story "Before Times Shells and Gifts" speaks of what it means to sift through ruins, our own and those we may never fully understand. It also provides gentle, commiserating humor for those of us who have been told "please do not lick the science!"

even a single well-chosen turn of phrase can rewire your brain if it hits you at the right moment

Before Times Shells & Gifts | Reckoning Dustin picks up the sand dollar and rubs it between his fingers, feels the strange chalkiness of it. He studies the delicate etchings, the five-pointed flower, before putting it in his mouth and closi...

Today from our neurodiversity reprints issue, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, "Before Times Shells and Gifts" by @lauramcknight.bsky.social originally appeared in Reckoning 9. It's a story about loss, nostalgia, beach scavenging, and trying to move on: reckoning.press/before-times...

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The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

"The whole world is a feast of runaway craving" is the opening line of this poem and IMO a very strong argument for why you need to read it today

Despite the unimaginable death toll of deforestation and pollution, Kaye Boesme's powerful work still offers reconciliation in the end, not merely as grace extended but in inevitability. There is hope, however fragile, to be found in such certainty.

"I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne: 'Let my armies be the frogs in the suits, and the nudes on the bikes.'"

After Erysichthon | Reckoning The whole world is a feast of runaway craving, of a curse that has outrun its uses. Early on, our ancestors twisted up, moved root through rock, spread fragile first leaves wide. All land was new, mou...

Today in A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Kaye Boesme's long, beautiful, classically erudite poem about cutting down trees, "After Erysichthon", which originally appeared in Reckoning 4: reckoning.press/after-erysic...

A new clause for our contract (thx to @bcsmagazine.bsky.social): "[author warrants] (iii) that the WORK contains no instance and its creation no usage whatsoever of “artificial intelligence” (AI), large language model (LLM), algorithmic, machine-learning, or computer-generated content of any sort"

I am once again asking you to read this essay by Amber Fox, published in @reckoningmag.bsky.social in 2022. reckoning.press/ghost-of-a-c...

‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Remember the claim that we couldn't force a rush to renewables too soon, because it just wouldn't be fair to "developing nations" (i.e. the global majority world)? Welp, turns out they're willing and eager to get in on renewables, and are doing really, really well with them. So.