If they are in the house trace them back to their entrance and divert with an exterior supply of sugar water and borax. I keep supplies outside all the time.

You are getting rage baited.

Miah's work can be found here
www.phano.com/contributors...
and at her site at
miahomalley.com

ECO25 Shortlist Announcement and Cover Reveal! We are excited to reveal the cover and announce the shortlist for ECO25: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction!  The cover art is by Marcela Bolívar, with cover design by Mikio Murakami at SilentQDesign. Our panel of judges read hundreds of ecofiction stories published in 2025 across more than 170 magazines, journals,

Excited that 🍃 "Affinity Gradient" by the brilliant Miah O'Malley 🍃 has been shortlisted for ECO25: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction (published by @apexmag.bsky.social). Formidable selection, and that cover art... dang! Looking forward to reading this.

www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

UPDATE: Gov. @nedlamont.com released the following statement to me on ICE arresting the son of an Afghan interpreter here in Connecticut.

Notably, Lamont said ICE detained the 19-year-old "outside of his home." That's new.

Read my full story here: www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

*looking wistfully into my Terro drawer

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🔥 Phano 16 up at www.phano.com 🔥

Bask in a stationary sunset, leap across the genre branches, man a cosmic outpost. Free to read:

- “Dark, Where the Sun Never Sets” by Yasmeen Amro
- “Gravity’s Rainbow, Star Wars and SF’s Identity Crisis” by James Machell
- “Inferno’s Rings” by Barry Charman

The Sphinx Gate in The Neverending Story symbolizes the judgments of those who listen to stories, who awaken to destroy falsehoods that break a story’s spell.

If you tell stories, tell them with confidence.

“Sorry folks, turns out the metaverse was stupid. Find another schooll

It’s a pleasure to watch a vision-driven author look at strong writing and say “I know how I can make this better.”

Firestarter A mentor teaches her assistant the ins and outs of boosting out of graveyard orbit.

Shout out to
@danpeacock.bsky.social, whose short story "Firestarter" is long listed for the 2025 BSFA Awards. Fingers crossed!

www.phano.com/articles/fir...

If you are a writer or an editor who can afford it, I recommend 3d printing as a hobby. Even if you are stuck looking at the same spot on the screen, there is something in the room making progress. Looking forward to that refrigerator can dispenser!

Congrats to
@renanbernardo.com and @jordankurella.com
for being nominated for the Nebula award! Best wishes and good luck to all the nominees!

My story "Send Down a Hogshead of Whiskey" is up at Phano, and you should read it if you enjoy being inexplicably emotionally involved with a house.

www.phano.com/en/

#shortstories #writing #writingwithoutrules

Transferable Skills Ready to match with a future of professions?

FFer Read of the Day: "Transferable Skills" by @joellekillian.bsky.social in Phano

www.phano.com/articles/tra...

Phano Phano delivers wondrous, thought-provoking content about the future to the questioning masses—beautiful stories, essays, interviews, reviews and art to make sense of our world in constant change. We w...

🔥 Phano 15 up at www.phano.com 🔥

A dying futuristic home, hidden traditions and questionable friends await your discovery in three free new stories.

- “Send Down a Hogshead of Whiskey” by Jeff Somers
- “The Secret Procession” by B. Morris Allen
- “The Real Claudius Maxwell” by Joshua Mannix

My fiancé and I joke about characters saying "hey" to each other when trying to catch each other from some emotional free-fall. "Don't you dare beat yourself up for that burned batch of cookies," etc. But this and other such tropey shortcuts add up to real erosions to quality writing.

Just a friendly reminder that Phano follows a strict policy of not accepting or publishing AI-generated content. It all comes from human hands and human decisions.

I seem to remember one that stands out as iconic...

Look for the Helpers Her friends had done their part and of course she would too.

🌌 Nebula Awards Countdown 🏆

If you’re reading eligible short stories, check out “Look for the Helpers” by Dave Walsh, a fan favorite and a story with heart that's free to read at Phano.
www.phano.com/articles/loo...

A City in her Heart Precise psycho-surgery in a story spanning four dimensions and the topology of heart.

🌌 Nebula Awards Countdown 🏆

If you’re reading eligible short stories, check out “A City in her Heart” by Yasmeen Amro, Pushcart-nominated, recommended at Fusion Fragment and free to read at Phano.
www.phano.com/articles/a-c...

The Only Good Billionaire Not dead? Get fed by Ted.

🌌 Nebula Awards Countdown 🏆

If you’re reading eligible short stories, check out “The Only Good Billionaire” by Andrew Kozma, shortlisted for Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. 4 and free to read at Phano.
www.phano.com/articles/the...

Affinity Gradient Control first. Curiosity second. That was the rule. Sample before sentiment.

🌌 Nebula Awards Countdown 🏆

If you’re reading eligible short stories, check out “Affinity Gradient” by Miah O’Malley, recommended on Reactor’s list for must read speculative short fiction for 2025 and free to read at Phano.
www.phano.com/articles/aff...

This is a stupid comparison of two different scales of “a lot”.

Endling A journey to peer into the singularity of an existential heart of darkness.

Phano is proud to submit Blaize M. Kaye's "Endling" for consideration to the 2026 Cain Prize.

Fingers crossed! As always on Phano, his far-striding story is free to read here:

www.phano.com/articles/end...

Phano Phano delivers wondrous, thought-provoking content about the future to the questioning masses—beautiful stories, essays, interviews, reviews and art to make sense of our world in constant change. We w...

I'm really proud/happy/excited to say that my story "Endling" is now live at Phano.
www.phano.com/articles/end...

It's a story about the Fermi Paradox, Philosophy, being from the global south, and making a VERY questionable moral decision (over and over again).

Phano Phano delivers wondrous, thought-provoking content about the future to the questioning masses—beautiful stories, essays, interviews, reviews and art to make sense of our world in constant change. We w...

🔥 Phano 14 up at www.phano.com 🔥

Come chase darkness across worlds, peer into the radio spectrum for life, and win more than you know what to do with in three new free-to-read stories...

- “Endling” by Blaize M. Kaye
- “The Water's Country” by Miah O'Malley
- “Winning” by E. M Dasche

🤞🏼

Fingers crossed for a swift recovery.