Nihilism, Gun Violence, and The Long Walk — M E N A C E

My essay, “Nihilism, Gun Violence, and The Long Walk,” is live on M E N A C E magazine’s issue 3! Check it out!

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The Results: 2026 Lefty Blondie Press Editors' Choice Broadside Series Congratulations to Emma Johnson-Rivard whose poem, "Cicada," will be made into a limited-edition handset broadside by letterpress designer, Ryan Kaune!

More on “Cicada”

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this is one of the educational hills I will die on, and not a day passes that I'm not mad about the disservice done to young people by the coining of the term "digital native"

The systematic destruction of feminist spaces online is what inspired us to start  The Flytrap. Since last year, part of this work is archiving key Bitch Magazine articles that have disappeared from the internet. Here's some pieces we reprinted this year!

Stolen shamelessly from Instagram but I have news! My poem “Cicada” was the 2026 Lefty Blondie Press Editor’s Choice Broadside winner. I’m incredibly excited to have my work out in broadside form!

NEWS. Tales From Between Presents is officially returning later this year. Mini short story collections (or a novelette), plus author notes and author interview. I have no authors lined up yet so feel free to message/reply/email your interest!

In case anyone is wondering: yes I am obviously in the middle of making cupcakes for the horses at @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social because of this @theonion.com op-ed.

Both hymn and howl, Arah Ko's ANIMAL LOGIC speaks in the language of survival. Coming in May, preorder now: buff.ly/3SDX8vo

Free Horror eBooks Written By Trans Authors (Trans Rights Readathon 2026) I know I'm a bit late with getting this organized and posted, but in my defense, I forgot. Anyway! Better late than never, right? So, starting right now and...

Hey horror fans, do you need some extra reading material for this year's #TransRightsReadathon? We got you covered! Here are some free eBooks written & edited by trans authors & published by Ghoulish Books. Please share!

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A photo of two bars of handmade soap with black and white stripes, inspired by the baguette outfits from the videogame expediton 33.

baguette // 🥖🥖 BAGUETTE - Bread fresh out of the oven from a bakery in Lumiere: crackling crust and yeasty goodness, served with a pat of salted butter.

Mia Culpa: On Shy Girl and Artistic Optimism | Read Jump Scares Get more from Read Jump Scares on Patreon

Essential reading from @emilyhughes.bsky.social, who breaks down not just the disappointments and hazards of the current literary landscape, but also how the way we position ourselves in relation to art shapes our character as human beings.

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Night Shades Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.

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Damn those are cool!

Crawdad Update Sophia Tone I’d been trying for months to write a poem about Crawdad, a boy my father knew in high school Crawdad had no friends he came to school with mud in his hair smelling like his nickname and the blood of the deer he’d hunted in their redwood-dappled dawn it just seemed to me this guy embodied something the lost art of living wildly plain otherness these ideas got boring one day I looked up “Crawdad” + the name of my father’s town where it turns out the guy’s been contributing articles about his life to the local newspaper eg. his stint as a professional mushroom-picker which put him in contact with itinerant degenerates, fungal in nature and capitalistic to a fault in another post he considers the flaw of narrative, in presuming a story begins or ends he writes only the mud seems permanent, just kind of sitting out there I was like whoa I was like can this be the same....? it was momentarily upsetting

"people are never who I decided they were they are like piles of snow brief, mutable yes, I thought I felt sorrow it was not sorrow"

piece of 🔥 and wonder today from Sophia Tone

https://www.havehashad.com/yp3dt

I know there are multiple factors, but I do feel the death of mass market paperbacks did its share of damage to literacy.

Publishing decided ebooks had replaced MMPBs, but though ebooks are easily accessed, they aren't as affordable, and they aren't showing face in supermarkets, drug stores, etc.

Happy Friday The 13th! Here’s Your First Look At A24’s CRYSTAL LAKE A24 and Peacock are celebrating FRIDAY THE 13TH by finally revealing a first look at prequel series CRYSTAL LAKE. Check out the new images right here.

A24 and Peacock are celebrating FRIDAY THE 13TH by finally revealing a first look at prequel series CRYSTAL LAKE. Check out the new images right here.

Emma Johnson-Rivard today, i’ve started to roam our homes understood the clock and subsequent circumstance. we filled our walls with books and damaged animals, an echo to our own scars. this is mine, i explained once. this is safe. but remember, said the poet, that art cannot save the whole world. i know this, too. many surrendered. half didn’t have enough to survive anyway. it didn’t have to be this way but we are still here. beyond gravestones, today is a badge of honor. Like all poetry about politics, this one is both entirely too specific and entirely, indulgently, too vague. In discussions with an artist friend of mine, we came to the conclusion that we're neither naive nor young enough to believe that art will save the world. It's a beautiful sentiment but it doesn't bear out. There's real work involved with that shit. Nonetheless, art has a role. Art can, and should, speak to the circumstances of our lives and the work we're attempting. I don't believe in a hopeless world. We are still here for a reason.

Today on Glass!

"today, i’ve started to roam" by Emma Johnson-Rivard (@blackcattales.bsky.social)!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.3 Contributors:

Jessie Atkin bluesky: @jessieatkin.bsky.social
Mallory Ann Caloca
Jack B. Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social
Ace Boggess
Aarik Danielsen @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social
Lana Eileen
Kate Efimochkina
K.J. Hannah Greenberg

The first of the Illustrations I did for @lostincult.co.uk's upcoming book "Perfect Organism" a celebration of Alien Isolation written by @ultrabrilliant.xyz

Go check it out now!

Greetings, vocal artisans! Escape Pod is looking for a Trinidadian woman narrator to narrate a story we've got on the conveyor belt. If you're interested, please see our narrator guidelines here!

On the left, the cover of issue 10.2 of Screen Bodies featuring an image of Sue (Margaret Qualley) from the film THE SUBSTANCE, laughing/crying at her toothless image in the mirror.

On the right, a famous image from SAW (2004) in which a woman's head is enveloped in a giant iron torture mechanism, known as the "reverse bear trap."

The latest issue of Screen Bodies cowers in awe of the monstrous-feminine in THE SUBSTANCE, the SAW series, and New French Extremity cannibal films. #MeganKenny #ChaseBucklew #LouisaJoy @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
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Towards the Afropastoral: What Nope Says About the Black Western Jordan Peele's 'Nope' refashions the Western as a genre that tells a story of American erasure by its survivors.

Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western

Hey, it's me!

the idea that making art is embarrassing if you don't do it well enough to make a career out of it is an objectively harmful and toxic brainworm.

"The Slide" by E.W.H. Thornton, in Dec's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/thorntonSlide.html

Consider this your final warning, and feel free to remove yourself from the classroom if you think it'll be too much for you.

-from "The Slide" by E.W.H. Thornton, in Dec's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#ShortStory #horror

I dream of having enough stability in our culture that anyone who wants to can pursue the arts, but the meaning comes from that pursuit, from translating human experiences through skills acquired over time. Art is labor, but it isn't just some commodity that can be pulped and reconstituted.

This is a good time. I'm always a sucker for stories in conversation with other stories and this is a really good example of one.

FICTION Quote From the window of the nursery, Wendy saw Jane wobbling her way down Kensington Park Road on a borrowed bicycle, hair unbraided and wild like she’d been flying. Wendy’s throat seized with fear. Was that gold glittering in the girl’s hair? Had the neighbors seen? Was that his laughter that rang out from Kensington Park across the way? end Quote Mother, Darling  by Allison Pottern 2 February 2026 Strange Horizons

Mother, Darling
by Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social

"Was that gold glittering in the girl’s hair? Had the neighbors seen? Was that his laughter that rang out from Kensington Park across the way?"

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#shortstories #fiction #fantasy

Eyyy check out my dinosaur poem