Ryan Shea

Ryan Shea

@rshea.bsky.social

Stories in Sonora Review, ergot., hex, Rejection Letters, and others. More at ryanshea.info. Edits fiction for cover.pub.

196 Followers 227 Following 204 Posts Joined Jul 2023
1 month ago
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A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose. "Who on earth gives that advice?"

Move fast and break people www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

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2 months ago

The killing machine never sleeps, only pretends to need your pamphlets, spectacles, and esotericism, and exists to kill and kill again.

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2 months ago

We have some new fiction for you up at cover.pub

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2 months ago

Anyone who uses information technology terminology or schemas to describe the mind has joined the lamest death cult in history.

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2 months ago
What was 2025? Thoughts about the year 2025.

A post reflecting on 2025 ryanshea.info/2025/12/31/w...

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3 months ago

Very excited about a story I accepted yesterday. Apologies that we've been a bit behind the past couple months. You know, like, work and toddler and the usual general chaos.

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4 months ago

<3

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4 months ago

Compression in writing is not lossless.

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4 months ago

Twice, yesterday, my dentist got my name wrong, and instead addressed me by the first name of the protagonist in the novel I’m revising.

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5 months ago
First and second drafts of novel in progress Haze

Ready for draft 3

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5 months ago

Excited to share this one with you

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6 months ago

Excited to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor tonight. One of the bands I’ve listened to most consistently over time.

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6 months ago

Same, though the desire to see it for that reason came and went and still haven’t seen it 🧪

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6 months ago

Ordered and you should too

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6 months ago

we're live baby! send em if you got em 🙏

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6 months ago
Favorite Web Stories: August 2025 A monthly series covering my favorite web reads.

Some writing I read on the web and liked in August. There's a poem in this one. ryanshea.info/2025/09/02/f...

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6 months ago
Favorite Web Stories: August 2025 A monthly series covering my favorite web reads.

Some writing I read on the web and liked in August. There's a poem in this one. ryanshea.info/2025/09/02/f...

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6 months ago
Future Guidelines hex publishes flash literary fiction and prose poetry with speculative elements. We welcome the surreal, the weird, and the uncanny. Scare us, surprise us, take us to space. Show us how ...

psst: if you’d like email notice about our next submission period (very soon), please join our NEW mailing list! sign-up link is under the “Future” tab on our website!

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6 months ago

It’s only a nightmare if it wakes you up. Otherwise it’s a “bad dream.”

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6 months ago

For you tonight I pulled Cannabis Use Disorder Induced Attenuated Psychosis.

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6 months ago

It’s exactly like tarot

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6 months ago

The index of the DSM is a lot of fun

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7 months ago
YouTube
Author Tutorial: Finding a Link to a Story that is No Longer Available YouTube video by Sam Moss

Have you ever published a story, poem or essay online, only to have the venue fold and your work disappear?

It's not fun, but there is a good technique that can help you out.

I put together a quick video that shows how to find a saved copy of your work: youtu.be/v_Pym4yd528

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7 months ago

One of the fucked up things abt the spam texts I receive on my work phone every day is that 70% of them are addressed to “Patricia” the name of my grandmother who died at 59 and who was an influence on naming my son Patrick.

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7 months ago

Loved this!

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7 months ago

I know I married the right human bc we hang out in the backyard dissecting Sebald’s writing tips vs his prose after our kid is asleep.

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8 months ago

Drove past someone standing in their front yard during heavy downpour, watering the flowers.

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8 months ago

Congrats!

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8 months ago

Congrats!!

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8 months ago

Fucking thrilled for Joe Koch - his STP story "These Are His Memories" will be part of Undertow's Best Weird Fiction of the Year!

Get your grubby mitts on this one, it looks sick af.

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