Ani King (they/them)

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

DID YOU KNOW

Podcastle reprinted my short story "Auguries" and it sounds so good, you have to go listen!!

(Content warnings for gore and traumatic birth)

podcastle.org/2025/12/02/p...

Do NOT miss this exquisite flash fiction by @sarprvz.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. This is in the top three pieces I've read this year. It begins, "In the midst of war, she thinks about her plants..."

fracturedlit.com/true-story-1...

Media description: An ad for an online class. A person with glasses standing with their arms crossed smiling into the camera. Text reads: 2025 Tin House Craft Intensives, Sunday, December 14, 12pm - 3pm PST, Dialogue: Tension & Movement with Jinwoo Chong

THIS WEEKEND! This course will examine the effect that dialogue in all forms and methods—narratively, temporally, syntactically—manipulates both tension and movement within a scene. Generative exercises included!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 66, “Listen To Me And I'll Tell You A Story" by Ejiwa "Edge" Ebenebe: In the depths of the sea a little girl sits on what looks to be a giant pink/green octopus tentacle. Several other tentacles extend in the background, curling in the depths. Towards the front and surrounding the little girl is a school of pink fish, some of them stop to listen as she holds one finger up. She looks like she is about to start telling a story. On the lower right corner, another school of fish is making its way over the tentacles, towards the edge of the cover. The quote reads: "We waited and longed for the caravan with constant, sickening hope for one reason: It protected us from the killing. The killing could never touch us under the overpass, and it did not strike anywhere when the caravan was near, so the caravan was our salvation."

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "The Caravan" by AnaMaria Curtis @anamariacurtis.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

buff.ly/PJBwUYj

don't want paperbacks?

also available on itch!

itch.io/c/5930931/le...

Holding space, friend 🫶

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.

Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...

Anti-A.I. stamps!

For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!

You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

She's — Ghost Parachute Scrubbing the dog’s vomit; subtracting his runny stool from the white carpet. Scooping coffee “crystals” from the jar in the cupboard and dissolving them into microwaved tap water. Taking a steadying ...

"Leading the blind dog out the bedroom slider to his plasti-grass runway, then peeling off clothes, stiff with dried sweat. Reaching for a box marked “scarves.” Regarding instead a revolver" Stunning micro @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @brettpribble.bsky.social
ghostparachute.com/issue/decemb...

What a poetically beautiful, grief-stricken story! The repetition, the lovely strange words here and there, the sense data, all gorgeous. 🌟

This story by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social was nominated for a pushcart, and you will know why once you take a read. Absolutely brilliant.

I can’t wait!!

Omgomgomg look at this wonderful review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for Bitter Over Sweet!! I am so grateful ❤️❤️❤️

@sfwp.bsky.social

Jeff Annihilation

“Mike tells Antarctica a lot of things that he’d never tell anyone else. For a start, he tells Antarctica that his mum has two jobs and she’s very smart because she knows all the answers to the questions on Wheel of Fortune.”

This is so damn keenly edged, Belinda, wow!

Unlock and upgrade in the Return to Metroidvania rebundle, read up on exciting Sci-Fi with Matha Wells’ Murderbot & more, and add character to your game environments with the Best of Synty 4 Game Dev Assets rebundles! https://bit.ly/4oxXmjd

The past couple weeks as a professional romance critic begging someone to let me, a professional romance critic who wrote the sports romance list for the NYT and a Letterkenny fan for years, write about the gay hockey romance adaptation.

Put me in, coach, I’ve trained my whole life for this!

Thank you so much!!!

Thanks so much, Matt!!

Thank you so much, Myna!

Thank you, I’m so fricking thrilled!! 😁

Thank you so much, Eileen!!

eternalgirlscout miss piggy puts up with so much as a woman in show business and her response to misogyny is never to turn the other cheek or take the high road. it's to physically attack people. and she's right.

Abolish ICE

PREACH.

A vase of flowers sits on top of copies of Chelsea Sutton‘s novella, KRACKLE’S Last Movie. The flowers are in colors that match the monster faces on the cover and its blue background; an additional copy is turned out to face front and rests atop a video cassette.

Two months until publication day for KRACKLE’S LAST MOVIE by @crsutton.bsky.social and we’re stocked up with copies in the office right before the holiday season swings into high gear—we’ll begin shipping preorders in just a couple of weeks! Order your copy at splitlippress.com !

The book “Bitter Over Sweet” by Melissa Llanes Brownlee sits on a wooden tabletop surrounded by shells, coral, and other pale sea paraphernalia.

✨Today’s Bookmail! 📚📬✨

@lumchanmfa.bsky.social is a writer I greatly admire and this collection of flash fiction digs deep into the people and stories beyond the Hawaiian beaches and tourists. Very thrilled to add it to my shelves!

Flash Fiction: Little Inferno by Mathieu Parsy The crowd names you “Little Inferno.” You like the name. No one asks if it hurts.

Flash Fiction: Little Inferno by Mathieu Parsy

The crowd names you “Little Inferno.” You like the name. No one asks if it hurts.