Donald A. Sansom

Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling

Yep. Like lonelyhearts being pig-butchered...

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Got the (free) Kindle edition to supplement your retirement income.

Yes, but it also means having to clean up afterwards and lots of wet toilet paper.

Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War - Uncanny Magazine Kestrel House  There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement pa...

If you're still catching up on your 2025 reading, I'd love for you to consider my story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War":

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I remember them from the 1960s. I'm surprised to hear they survived until the 1980s. We thought it very cool to 'smoke' them. No doubt some big tobacco company was behind them. The chocolate was crap.

I must be insane because I like rewriting just as much.

What a beautiful sight.

Indiegogo currently have an offer on ‘most anticipated books’ including Children of Strife. www.indigo.ca/en-ca/sale/m... - lasts until 8th Feb and it’s 25% off.

Another picture from the Pench Tiger Reserve (India).
#wildlife #nature #photography #india #tiger

They are: Black Kite, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Asian Openbill + Black-crowned Night Heron, and a pair of Spotted Owlets.

Jeff VanderMeer

A small selection of birds seen on a trip to India. The Black kite was photographed in the hazy skies of Delhi. The rest were either in the Tadoba or Pench Tiger Reserves.

#bird #wildlife #nature #photography#india

Great piece. I presume you are now packing for the Himalayas to investigate the Yeti.

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300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library Are we truly in the midst of a human-caused sixth mass extinction, an era of “biological annihilation”?

www.openculture.com/2026/01/3000...

Some interesting books here that I will have to explore. Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky I thought was the best of an excellent series. Hope you enjoy it.

Yule 2025: "Winter Memories" by J. Edward Zuleger Take a winter trip down memory lane with this story from J. Edward Zuleger.

We circle back to the *very first* issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly for tonight's tale.

#Yule2025 #WeirdFiction #FlashFiction

Deep breath
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
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From Master's Song, an unpublished story.

From Master's Song, an unpublished story.

Well, there goes the weekend.

Great story.

They have evolved so that whenever a camera is raised is they instantly go the other side of the tree. They will not reappear until the you've given up.

Is there one for 'Rub my tummy'?

biter of his foe !!!!!!

I thought it was just me.

Among many other things, it's just rude.

YouTube video by Weird Fiction Quarterly Getting Odd by Robert J. Sodaro appearing in our last Fall edition of Weird Fiction Quarterly

@donaldasansom.bsky.social I've been contributing to Weird Fiction Quarterly for a couple of years now. Well we've started a YouTube channel where contributing writers to WFQ can read some of the stories we've written. Here is me reading one of mine.
youtu.be/dgy2IiMnbdM?...