Keep calling, keep protesting, keep organizing. Trump threatened to kill an entire civilization w/ nuclear weapons just last week. We can't sit around and ignore this for 2 weeks.
It's our duty to stop him. Get loud.
5calls.org/issue/stop-ira
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An image of the book cover of A Small Light in the Darkness by Christiane Knight is on a field of glowing lightning. The cover is a photo of two shadowy figures against a purple and blue sky with a few stars visible. Text reads: Launch Party; Join Christiane for a reading plus a fun chat and other surprises! April 4 2026, 2pm EDT. Free on Zoom and YouTube.
Join me for a Launch Party on April 4th 2026!
I'd love it if you joined me for a free event on Zoom, happening on April 4th 2026 at 2pm EDT. Sign up here!
www.christianeknight.com/join-me-for-...
#booksky #🪐📚💙
cover art, a swan alights on a swirling cosmic sea; behind it, the sky is the colors of the trans flag.
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM is available to preorder now: store.tenebrouspress.com
cover art by @mxmorgan.com
#transdayofvisibility #tdov
Very excited to be part of this!
My flash fiction "Apotropaic PPE" is now available to read at Quotidian Bagatelle by @foofarawpress.bsky.social! A wildlife vaccinator saddled with a trainee does her grumpy best to keep him safe.
Read the story here: qb.foofaraw.press/apotropaic-p...
New podcast episode today, produced and edited by Aaron Kling, has @annapele.eu reading @wordskatter.bsky.social's "Fixing the System in Tilt Town" from Reckoning 8, a story about a neurodivergent engineer who discovers the solution for dystopia is community: reckoning.press/podcast-epis...
we should all read gormenghast. we should all be reading more gormenghast by mervyn peake. everybody get more gormenghast now
Tomorrow! Still time to register!
shorturl.at/qe1Rj
I had the absolute pleasure of reading an early draft of this story and the final version is incredible! Everyone go read Pamela Jean Herber’s “Seen”!
FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A CAT This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some! He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not having enough saliva, he has to wash himself with water. He meows in a harsh voice and a great deal more than necessary. Sometimes in his sleep he purrs. Let me out! I don't know how he has made himself Master; perhaps he has eaten something sublime. He keeps my rooms clean for me. In his paws he carries a sharp black claw and he scratches with it on white sheets of paper. That is the only game he plays. He sleeps at night instead of by day, he cannot see in the dark, he has no pleasures. He never thinks of blood, never dreams of hunting or fighting; he never sings songs of love. Often at night when / can hear mysterious and magic voices, when / can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with his head bent and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. Don't imagine that I am at all interested in you. I am only listening to the soft whispering of your claw. Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and 1 meow softly in sweet and sharp discord. Then my Man picks me up and buries his hot face in my fur. At those times he divines for an instant a glimpse of a higher life, and he sighs with happiness and purrs something which can almost be understood. But don't think that I am at all interested in you. You have warmed me, and now I will go out again and listen to the dark voices. Translated by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally published in Intimate Things, 1935.
From the Point of View of a Cat ~ Karel Capek (translated by Dora Round - originally published in Intimate Things, 1935)
And reminder, this is why Hick is withdrawing.
These are the preliminary results for senate delegates in the counties that have finished the assembly process, and he is getting ROMPED.
You heard it from John Hickenlooper himself: Julie Gonzales can win this state as an abolish ICE, Medicare for all, no compromise with fascists, Democrat.
Let's get her elected.
Thank you! I'm charmed that a travel guide account commented on this, as the story was inspired by me reading a ton of travel suggestions and going "what if this, but in a fantasy world?"
Yay!!! Thank you! It will also be released on youtube a few weeks after the event - I know the time difference might be a lot for you (much as I would be delighted to see your name pop up in the zoom)
(I think outside of his short stories, King is very easy to get impatient with) (hot take)
"Printed Protection" for the "Block" prompt for @cbdroege.bsky.social 100 x 100 project.
A woman uses the wizardry of textile creation to save her village and family.
www.patreon.com/posts/100-wo...
#sciencefiction #speculativefiction #fantasy #drabble
I had two stories published this week!
"Mayfly Sun" in @ratbaglit.bsky.social
A once-in-a-lifetime emergence of a rare and wondrous species leaves a gathered crowd aboard a dozen spaceships waiting with baiting breath.
ratbaglit.substack.com/p/mayfly-sun
My newest science fiction story is out! Insects! Stellar phenomena! Melancholy! ☀️🕶️🪰
Check it out over @ratbaglit.bsky.social !
They also HAVE killed 160 schoolgirls and their teachers, and thousands of Iranians already, while allowing Israel to intensify attacks on Lebanon, displacing hundreds of thousands. I care infinitely more about the refugees and murdered children than anything else.
The director keeps saying if we want funding for (successful outreach, professional development, more staff, fancy equipment, basic equipment, acid-free tissue paper) we should seek out grant funding but the government gutted all the major granting agencies 🧛🏻♂️👻😱👿🧟♀️☠️💀🕷️
(the ree-ree-ree from Psycho playing) Adult admissions costs $32, but front of house staff only make $15/hour (screaming like Michael Meyers is about to get me) and those positions are part time, no benefits?!?
This object has been stored wrapped up in plain newspaper! ☠️☠️☠️ And worse! The newspaper was sealed with plain, household tape!! 💀(screaming, howling, gnashing of teeth). There are RUSTED STAPLES in the attendant documentation!!! (Shrieking, wailing, etc.)
😱The student worker went into the mannequin storage room last Thursday and hasn’t been seen since! 🧟♀️The horror!!
(They clocked out without telling anyone and then also went on a week-long ski trip without telling anyone)
The Mold Room
~Oooo~ this donor name is attached to multiple important donations but … (scare chord) no donor file exists!!! ⚡️⚰️🧛🏻♂️ (so scary)
The staff member who did pest management quit a year and a half okay and no one’s bothered to check the bug traps since! Ahhhh! AHHHH!
Immediately told my coworker about this call. We spent pur lunch telling each other one sentence (real) horror stories from the field at each other.
~wooo~ the collection uses a trinomial numbering system but for a brief period in 1997 they switched to a binomial system! ~spoooooky~
I am so stoked for this.