Milo Mel

I need every self-described leftist to write "All people deserve basic human rights even if you hate them. If there is any class of person who can be denied their rights, the oppressor can decide you are a part of that class" 1000 times

When I die, I don't want to be slowly lowered into the ground. I want to be placed in a giant toaster and at the end of the eulogy, I pop out and drop directly into the grave.

it's been a rough week so i thought i'd rotate a gyro for everyone. as a treat

Could the arc of the moral universe be a little shorter please

One of Ursula K. Le Guin's "Seasonal Quatrains" is called "December 20," and it reads: That great hinge of light up there is just about to catch the red leap of the year and pivot it right round into the long evenings and open doors of summer.

Ursula's "Seasonal Quatrains" appear in Finding My Elegy (published in 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

easy-peasy

PseudoPod 954: Be Not Afraid “Take out all the yellow ones,” Mamaw says. “Put these in.” She takes a box of Christmas bulbs out of the plastic grocery sack from the Dollar General and sets it on the kitchen table beside the…

“Take out all the yellow ones,” Mamaw says. “Put these in.”

Be Not Afraid, by Michael Ford
Narrator: Dave Liloia
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis

This story first appeared in the anthology We Mostly Come Out at Night, ed. by Rob Costello

pseudopod.org/2024/12/20/p...

Little dumbass goes uppatree

america isn’t even a country, it’s just three military contractors in a trench coat

TIL: calling it “mi depressioni” is not a replacement for therapy

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a kitchen scene with a woman in a chair slumped over a table in exhaustion. Two small goblins approach her curiously.

burned out.

A depiction of a dark-skinned murderbot drawn by alex-van-gore relaxing in an AAA shirt and looking entirely unimpressed with everything

[We are up to 70 attempts. I will fight whoever this is.]

Amazon what are u doin

I have maintained for years cyberpunk is when you find a screen and it is broken or there's something weird about it

My middle sister's nickname was Snookamore, my youngest sister's name was Curlington, my brother's was Baby Boo. Mine was Scarlett O'Horror and that's all you need to know about my childhood.

Definitely not the third poem about airplanes we've posted in three months. Don't think too hard about it. Just focus on the incredibly strong voice and sweet imagery in our piece for this week: "Passage" by Arushee Bhoja

Read it on our website: dishsoap-quarterly.com/12-10-24/pas...

Shai-Hulud

A robot may not make a casserole, nor through inaction, allow a casserole to be made

More like smelliest

Crimmis tree time 😼

The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo; Wake The Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne; The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher; John the Balladeer by Manly Wade Wellman; Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White; The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

Category is: Appalachian horror recs 🙂🌹🪦

Read @janeciab.bsky.social's fabulous interview of @anitafelicelli.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social, discussing her new collection HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS, available now where great books are sold. lithub.com/anita-felice...

#authorinterview #newindiebook #storycollection

What Resembles The Grave But Isn't by Anne Boyer

Good Mothers - Small Wonders When the wind smells like wood lilies and sounds like silver bells, good mothers shut their doors tight.

Are your doors locked tight? Learn the risks, with "Good Mothers" by Kate Francia in our issue 12, and hold on tight, tight, tight...

https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/good-mothers/

Remember, kids, if Santa asks you whether you’ve been naughty or nice this year, you should always say, “Am I being detained?”

December by Brendan Kennelly