ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Showing up to work on time is *hard* -- no, scratch that, showing up to work *at all* is difficult.

Thanks!

Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights? - Nightmare Magazine The Idiot looms like a tumorous moon in the morning sky as Morris County Animal Control Officer Bailey Butler passes Stantonsville’s last operating gas station and turns off onto Franklin Road. For a ...

"Hector Gomez is a former Marine and has set up a permanent base camp at the big toe of Mount Pissed Off, but he’s never not answered."

one of those sentences that reminds you why we're doing all this in the first place

by @gordonbwhite.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com:

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists - Locus Online Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced Ma...

The Locus Awards finalists are posted, with Story Hour guests in several categories! Congratulations to @casskhaw.bsky.social, @somtoihezue.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social, @wiswell.bsky.social, @acwise.bsky.social, @isabellamweber.bsky.social, and... (1/?) locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...

I'm still very fond of "The Sad Snail," my epistolary story about a social simulation game haunted by a digital snail 🐌

Partially inspired by Patricia Highsmith's classic tale of gastropod terror, "The Quest for Blank Claveringi" 🐌

Published in Tales from Between 3 🐌

Years ago @mikeduncan.bsky.social told me "you can rewrite shit but you can't rewrite nothing" and it's made every draft easier since.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

PseudoPod 1025: Impostor Syndrome Looking back, the first red flag was during the job interview, when Chad said their target demographic was males, ages thirteen to seventeen. “That’s pretty specific,” I said. He shrugged.

“Looking back, the first red flag was during the job interview”

Impostor Syndrome,
by Gregory Marlow

Narrator: Brian Lieberman
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio production: Graeme Dunlop

pseudopod.org/2026/04/17/p...

This story is a PseudoPod original.

One day I will have a book in need of a cover, but this is not that time. Instead, you might commission Marisa for yours!

From college, one of my favorite random insults was: “He thought he was five blades, but no.”

Picture of an angry dog in a birthday hat. Text beside it says: BIRTHDAY CRITIQUE GIVEAWAY! - RT to enter -one short story <7500 words -horror/weird/dark fiction preferred -could take a couple of weeks, so no rush jobs

It’s my birthday today and so I’m giving a gift to one of you — a free short story critique! All you have to do is repost this and I’ll pick a random winner.

And hey, if you like horror, check out some free links to some stories on my website www.gordonbwhite.com/stories

Thanks!

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

Fever House ebook is $1.99 eeeeverywhere today! It’s my birthday, so hey, help me help you or something.

Any recommendations for good contemporary horror/fantasy writers writing in Chinese? #reading #Chinese

Don’t forget the ones absorbed through your mucous membranes - the nose, the eyes, pleura, etc. You’re definitely undershooting your total consumption if you only think about “eating.”

In case you missed it yesterday, I have a new story out in the April issue of Nightmare Magazine! The Final Girl Trap is now available to read online.

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...

Daddy Long Legs of the Evening - Lightspeed Magazine It was said that when he was a small child, asleep in his bed one end-of-summer night, a spider crawled into his ear, traversed a maze of canals, eating slowly through membrane and organ, to discover ...

Can I offer you this lovely story? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dadd...

Three panel comic. Panel 1: the babadook is standing, leaning against the booth at a restaurant table. He’s chatting with a family sitting at the table, “So I took the paycheck from the movie, and I bought this place.” Panel 2: the father of the family asks, “you still get royalties for that?” Panel 3: the babadook replies, “eh. Like 40 bucks.” The father says, “no kidding.” There is signage on the wall behind them that reads “Baba’s Greek Bistro”.

Year of the Mer A dark, bloody epic fantasy reimagining of The Little Mermaid that goes far beyond the fairy tale to explore family legacy, war, and what we will s...

Year of the Mer shares a release date today with 76+ other SFF titles! Congrats to all the authors celebrating a book day, and to all the readers who almost certainly have something new in the world that fits you just right.

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Year-o...

titanbooks.com/72438-year-o...

Thomas Ha > Middle Song > Bourbon Penn People usually pass through the gray silence of the desert. Beyond charred sumps and refinery towers, oil fields and dust walls, they drive without an intent to tarry. Most know this for a middle plac...

icymi, latest story dropped in Bourbon Penn last month. highway roadhouse where things are not what they seem. this story brought to you by promo.

www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/38/mid...

Yes! I’ve been mentoring through them for 5 years or so and love it.

(And if you’re a newer writer, being a mentee can be an awesome opportunity!)

Over the last few years, I‘ve discovered that I really like teaching and mentoring newer fiction writers (not just horror and spec-fic). I love the mutual energy it generates!

Where else could I look for more opportunities to do that? I’d love to help people and build my instructional portfolio.

SHIVERS - I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

@keithrosson.bsky.social - Is this a sequel to Road Seven?

I taught a workshop on “Generating Unique Ideas for Weird Horror Fiction” today at Norwescon. And yeah, man, the kids are alright … and weird.

If you didn't make it to the livestream, here's your chance!

SURPRISE RELEASE! THE CORPSE PRIEST is out today!

This is a strange beast of a novella, a bloody cocktail of sword & sorcery, Ligottian pessimism, and cosmic horror. I’m going to talk a little about how this release came to be, inspirations, and more—SO PREPARE FOR A THREAD!!!