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update: my mother has deemed the zucchini bread yummy, life goal achieved

Celebrating my fresh-baked story in the latest issue of @pinchjournal.bsky.social about a demonic suburban PTA bake sale by making some zucchini bread!

Hey Weirdos, LONGFORM SUBMISSIONS (20k+ & Weird Forms) ARE OPEN!

2 notes:
1.) We close again at the end of August TO ALL BUT BIPOC WRITERS for Sept & Oct. Please be respectful of this, thankya.
2.) This is for publication in 2027 or later.

Deets here: tenebrouspress.com/submissions

Hails🖤☠️

i've been chewing on this essay for a long time ~ deeply grateful to @ruadanbooks.bsky.social for giving it a home and to @mariahaskins.com for her careful editing 💚

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ahhh thank you so much!! still shook over it haha

Huge surprise to find that I made it onto the longlist with my trippy music video micro! ty to the editors @maudlinhouse.bsky.social for seeing something special in this piece :)

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thank you!

I’ve loved being part of Split Lip the past few years, and I’m stoked for the new role and to be part of the amazing team here!

EDITED ANTHOLOGY Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, edited by Sofia Ajram (Ghoulish Books) The Crawling Moon, edited by dave ring (Neon Hemlock) Monsters in the Mills, edited by Christa Carmen and L.E. Daniels (IP [Interactive Publications Pty Ltd]) The White Guy Dies First, edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Publishing Group) Why Didn’t You Just Leave, edited by Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin (Cursed Morsels Press)

Honored and hype as hell to have THE CRAWLING MOON as a finalist for the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social 🌕 (and what great company the book is in!)

www.shirleyjacksonawards.org

Book cover for The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread edited by Dave Ring‬ (Neon Hemlock‬), where the moon and trees are drawn within a frame so the whole suggests a skull. Contributors include Sage Agee‬, Bendi Barrett‬, Winifred Burton‬, Amelia Burton, Jess Cho, Lyndall Clipstone‬, Donyae Coles, Dare Segun Falowo, Caro Jansen, Yeonsoo Kim, Marianne Kirby‬, M.L. Krishnan‬, Jes Malitoris‬, Chris McCartney, KC Mead-Brewer‬, Suzan Palumbo‬, Hailey Piper‬, E. Saxey‬, Jordan Shiveley‬, Caitlin Starling‬, Natalia Theodoridou‬, v.f. Thompson, E. Catherine Tobler‬, Shaoni C. White, Cynthia Zhang‬, and Tina Zhu‬.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-crawling-moon

1/7 daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: The Crawling Moon edited by @davering.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social)
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚

the em dash has grown in popularity over the last 20 years or so and is thus over represented in the data sets they trained the fraud machine on and now we are supposed to tell people to stop using them because they were finding them useful, it's idiocy all the way down

Thank you! 💕💕

Undercover in the Apocalypse Covert dispatches from Sam J. Miller on craft, community, and surviving nightmare times.

OK let's do this.

I wanted to do a newsletter that felt fresh and fun to me, and "Undercover in the Apocalypse" is that creature - an epistolary science fiction story addressed to an army of shadow operatives.

I hope you'll join me on this covert mission.

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thank you!! 🎉🎉

Yes I am! Really excited to be sharing a TOC with you 💕💕(Also I can’t believe it’s only your first time?)

I knew as soon as I finished it that I wanted to send “Heads” to Cease, Cows, specifically, so thanks to the wonderful folks there for first publishing this piece!

The Best Small Fictions Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

Guess who’s on here this year 👀👀

altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

Congrats!!

"The day the women collectively lost their heads again, you could see them in the streets"

Love this from @tinazhu.bsky.social - using the surreal to reflect the real in such a clever way, all written in a brilliant breathless rush

www.ceasecows.com/2024/02/08/h...

!!! Thank you so much!

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

!!! so psyched to be an Astounding Award finalist this year!
Delighted to see such a great group of fellow nominees and it's awesome to be short fiction buddies on the ballot with @angelaliu.bsky.social :D

screenshot of the hugo awards finalist presentation, with text that says "best short story" on one section and "why dont we just kill the kid in the omelas hole by isabel j kim (clarkesworld feburary 2024)" on the other. the background is blue teal with stars

>:3 hugo finalist isabel j. kim.

please excuse me while im insane about this on account of it being a long held dream.

ahhh thank you!

ty @cypayseur.bsky.social for the rec!! 🦸‍♂️exciting to see my dystopian superhero story go places muahaha

Baffling, Flash Fiction Online and Zooscape: Reviews by Charles Payseur Baffling 12/24 Flash Fiction Online 12/24 Zooscape 12/24 Baffling closes out 2024 with plenty of steam in an issue that mixes queer themes, speculative elements, and a particular focus on intimacy …

“Xeno ISO Synth for One-Time Encounter” by @louisevanswrite from @BafflingMag, “Why I Quit Teaching at the Villain Academy” by @tinaszhu (@tinazhu.bsky.social) from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @ClowderofTwo here - locusmag.com/2025/04...

The cover of THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS, featuring a superhero and a man on the balcony of a South Asian-style palace, beneath a floating garden of purple-green vegetation.

My first book is officially out!

If you like gay archeologists, horny superheroes, giant, ancient, Indian robots, or tonnes of footnotes, check it out!

Get it from @neonhemlock.bsky.social!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...