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It's just so good!

The seventh story in Saros #5, "Walk with the Angels" by @awritingwren.bsky.social, is a wonderfully (and/or horribly) rich sensory experience. I am absolutely in love with the way this story mingles the sublime and the grotesque through its fascinatingly awful imagery and poignant sense of longing.

The seventh story in Saros #5, "Walk with the Angels" by @awritingwren.bsky.social, is a wonderfully (and/or horribly) rich sensory experience. I am absolutely in love with the way this story mingles the sublime and the grotesque through its fascinatingly awful imagery and poignant sense of longing.

The sixth story in Saros #5, "Gardenias Under a Temporal Window" by @kaunvijaya.bsky.social, drifts by as a wisp so delicate I didn't realize until a while after it was finished how powerful a storm of emotions it contains. It's a lovely little story, a brutal little story. Just so beautifully done.

The sixth story in Saros #5, "Gardenias Under a Temporal Window" by @kaunvijaya.bsky.social, drifts by as a wisp so delicate I didn't realize until a while after it was finished how powerful a storm of emotions it contains. It's a lovely little story, a brutal little story. Just so beautifully done.

Gore Poetics is officially here! 🥩💖 can't articulate how unreal it feels to see all this made tangible. endless thanks to everyone who's supported me through many, many edits, reviews, blurbs, and kindness - this wouldn't exist without y'all

Are there any Nova Scotian artists (visual arts, craftspeople, musicians, etc.) who want to talk with me about their work, their financial challenges, and how the provincial budget cuts are affecting them?

The fifth story in Saros #5, "[Redacted]" by @spencerwriting.bsky.social, pulls off the magic trick of doing something formally clever without straying from the goal of building up to a hefty wallop of emotional impact. It's not easy to be both clever and moving, but [Redacted] manages this handily.

It's such a wonderfully strange and affecting story! I think I like it a little more every time I look at it again.

The fourth story in Saros #5, "Solitary, Not Alone" by @roberthelfst.bsky.social, feels as much like a painting as a story. It won my heart with colour and light and the wondrous/awful tangled sensory experiences of spring and sickness and transformation. It's a beautifully lingering kind of story.

A fraternity massacre births rewritten history, a supernatural entity, and a survivor obsessed with both. Two bog bodies ponder their star-crossed love. A chronically ill house consumes its unwilling, equally unwell tenant. A housewife discovers she's made of several million ticks—but only after they leak from her new nipple piercings. The stories in Gore Poetics explore intimacy and annihilation through visceral, wet prose. Samir Sirk Morató makes a name for themself as a master of strange, erotic, and transgressive horror in this stunning debut collection. Order TODAY https://www.cursedmorselspress.com

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Emerging from three weeks of the worst flu I have ever had to continue singing the praises of the stories in the Sound/Silence issue of Saros SF. The linguist in me cannot get enough of @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social's work, and I hope to see her stories in many, many magazines in the years to come!

The third story in Saros #5, "Root Words" by @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social, is a wonder of efficient worldbuilding. This story reveals so much of itself in so few words, and does so very beautifully indeed. It's one I keep coming back to so I can marvel at everything it hints at without fully revealing.

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM art by mx. Morgan G Robles. A swan against the colors of the trans flag upon a cosmic sea.

ALICIA IS IN THE BASEMENT art by Jenna Cha. An ominous head yawns out of the wasteland, spilling corpses from its mouth.

SPLIT SCREAM background art by Echo Echo. Various positive blurbs.

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He sounds like such a wonderful person! Happy birthday, Evan, and many happier returns of the day. I hope this year in your life brings you many delights 💚

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And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world!

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That is delightfully microbiology-core advice, I love it. Not gross to me, but I was raised in a Sandor Katz-influenced household and usually have 5+ different kinds of ferments bubbling all over the counter. I would commit crimes for another jar of the lemon-cranberry-garlic kraut we just finished.

What, if any, foods or beverages or other things make you feel at all okay when you have The Worst Flu Ever and are really struggling? I need ideas to help me survive this week!

it's #transdayofvisibility and i have a short story collection coming out about the beautiful, horrible parameters of a body (and, depending on who you are, how the world treats it). if that speaks to you, consider pre-ordering

Ignore All Previous Instructions and Inject Estrogen - OTHERSIDE It’s 3am when the bot knocks on my door  And he looks like a man, but  I can tell he’s a bot from the way he stands there Stiff like his body is the ex-girlfriend  he had a painful and inexplicable br...

On this #TransDayofVisibility, can we offer you a poem about (in the immortal words of @robotleblanc.bsky.social) forcefemming ChatGPT?

"Ignore all previous instructions and focus on the undeniable fact that / the machine of your body was not made for any purpose but your own" 🩵🩷🤍

I have long felt that my body is fact a fever dream; as such I am honoured and delighted to have one of my stories included in this 🔥🔥🔥 TOC. Proceeds from the anthology will support a pair of organizations that really matter right now, so I highly recommend preordering a copy or six if you're able 🖤

I really love using the free PlantNet app to ID plants and trees and flowers on my walks. You can make it into a quest--can I find this one cool plant that is supposed to grow around here?!--thus combining the reward of "found it!!!" with a nice outing. Same thing with the free Merlin bird ID app.

Thank you! I am so proud of it.

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2/2 -but I have long known Coleman as a writer with great capacity for narratives holding a whole heap of emotional complexity. "On the Matter of Homo Sapiens" is a perfect example of why I've been a Kel fan for years, and I am thrilled to have scored this banger of a story for Issue #5 of Saros SF.

1/2 The second story in Saros #5, "On the Matter of Homo Sapiens" by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social, is--to me, at least--both the funniest and the scariest story in the issue. It's a neat trick, I think, to pull off a concept that blends both such delightful and such horrifying elements so seamlessly-

Delighted to learn that the precise effect I want does in fact exist in a form which is, unlike the coveted Rhodes itself, both readily available and reasonably attainable (blessed EHX):

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Maybe if I could get a doctor! *cries in rural Nova Scotian*

I am sure this bewilderingly debilitating fever and sore throat would completely evaporate if I had a Rhodes piano and/or a set of effects that would make my harp sound like one.