Thanks to Emmie for the spotlight!

New author thread! This week I'm featuring Grant Collier @grantcollier.bsky.social

1. Why You Should Read (WYSR) "The Best Version of Yourself" @clarkesworldmagazine.com

More and more people are deciding to ascend to Nirvana, even Maria’s mother.

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If we just look at raw impact, Timothée Chalamet may have done more to raise the esteem of ballet and opera in the public consciousness than anyone else this century. So technically he is a true patron of the arts, and a hero

This is fun

Thank you to @mariahaskins.com for mentioning "It Grows Back" in this review. I'm happy to have written "one of the most unsettling horror stories I read in 2025."

Thank you to @mariahaskins.com for the kind words about “It Grows Back” in this review!

My short horror story “It Grows Back” featured on the Locus Recommended Reading List, and I’m incredibly honored

This is why for all of the dozens of stories I’ve started but not finished, I make myself write one ending that I never lead up to. I never know who the characters are or what’s happening, but it’s made me good at endings. Still terrible at middles, though

Good morning. They're going to sell you the lie of provocateurs.

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I’m really honored to be included, thank you!

I put together a post about some of my favorite short fiction of 2025.

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I have a new story out!

Pre-order:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Stories by:
@ecastroianni.bsky.social
@grantcollier.bsky.social
@gregegansf.bsky.social
Rich Larson
@kyliu99.bsky.social
James Morrow
@trnapper.bsky.social
Amal Singh
Lavie Tidier
Jay Werkheiser
@librariangoblin.bsky.social

Contract's signed! I'm excited to share that I'll have a new story coming out soon in @castofwonders.org. It'll be my second-ever published story (at "third-ever" and onwards this probably stops being a significant distinction). It's also a spooky one, on account of the oncoming season

That’s some nice scum tbh

In My Country by Thomas Ha Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/
Just listened to this great story by @thomasha.bsky.social. I love a good stories-within-a-story story any day, and this one really uses that structure to great thematic effect. Would recommend (and am)

In the Jonas Brothers’ hit single “Year 3000,” which takes place in the year 3,000, we learn that Nick Jonas’s “great, great, great granddaughter is doing fine.” This means that she’s been alive for centuries longer than a normal human lifespan. I think she’s no longer fully human. Something’s wrong

I can’t help but notice that “white” and “male” are inexplicably missing from this list, even though their counterparts are included

Thanks to Ephiny for the recommendation! I also loved the descriptions/selling points of all the stories in this video, and now my to-read list is a bit longer:)

Thank you!

2024 Recommended Reading List Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! This list is compiled by the Locus editor…

Really happy that my debut novelette “The Best Version of Yourself” (@clarkesworldmagazine.com) made the Locus 2024 Recommended Reading List, alongside many other stories that I love:) locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...

Maybe I’ve been too absorbed lately in the weeds of think-pieces and comments dismissing out-of-hand the idea that computer systems could in principle have anything close to mental states, but this preprint feels like a breath of fresh air. I’d recommend it to anyone interested in this sort of thing

What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass, twist about in every possible…

This behavior (and those like it in animals) is actually the subject of one of my favorite essays of all time: thebaffler.com/salvos/whats...

Another reminder to consider “The Best Version of Yourself” for this poll :)

That’s a very cool cover

This rule is great for me, because I take about a year to write a short story. I hereby embrace this

If any one of my followers liked "The Best Version of Yourself" enough to nominate it for this poll, I would appreciate it a lot. Also there's many other good stories to vote for, but I'm keeping my ballot a secret so as to not influence anyone beyond that

Ten Short Stories I Read in 2024 That Stayed With Me Photo by Courtney Baucom on Unsplash     This year, I tried to shift my focus from novels to short stories and journal about them, wi...

This week on my blog, I explore ten of the short stories that I loved this year.

#amreading #shortfiction #shortstories #amwriting

www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2024/12/ten-...

Really happy and honored to make this list! Thanks:) I'll have to check out the other recs, too