Salamander breeding season is here in my neck of the woods; sharing my short horror story, "Salamander Season," in a celebration of sorts...? Happy listening!

digital painting of a unicorn running inside an ornamental frame

obsessed with unicorns lately
absolute weirdos🐎
#art

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Gouache and pencil on aqua board!

Thinking about how the barn swallows will be returning soon as spring draws closer... and the protagonist of this story of mine is a barn swallow!

✷ Unicorn ✷

Today is Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ This is your reminder to support trans people (and their art) year-round. I'm one of those trans art-makers - I'm a trans man and author of fantasy and horror fiction. You can find links to read (and listen!) to my published stories here: linktr.ee/trsteeleauthor

a digital risograph-like poster of a pink and blue dragon curled around a stone hearth, blowing fire into it. a chicken roasting on a spit can be seen behind the fire, and the dragon has an intent expression on its face.

🌸🔥 WYRM OF HEARTHS 🔥🌸

this piece sponsored by my patrons <3 i'll be sending a 6x8" print to everyone signed up to a print tier this month!
patreon.com/ratwednesday

#art #dragonart #dragon

Solarpunk Magazine submission portals will be open from April 1-14. Send us your hopeful climate fiction, poetry, essays, and art for consideration! Guidelines and sub link can be found at solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions

Birding (often just in my neighbourhood parks), going to a free admission botanical garden, going to a garden centre and treating it like a botanical garden (lol), attending free/PWYC poetry readings, and searching event listing sites for free/PWYC online workshops are a few I turn to!

😊 Thank you so much Madi! ✨

Cover artwork by Gay Famous (Adam Ponto) for the story "Home" by T.R. Steele. A trans man stands facing a flock of chimney swifts coming down the chute of a grey chimney. The lighting is eerie, dark but highlighted red, and the bright eyes of the birds are highlighted with red as well.

My short horror story "Home" is out now in the special Trans Eco Horror issue of smoke and mold! Read it here: smokeandmold.net/issue-13-spr...

Wonderful story cover art by Gay Famous (Adam Ponto).

New Volume www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

I’ve been so excited to share this one!

My flash story about two envoys each searching for a new home is out now in vol 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social

You can read the whole issue here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

a halftone bearded iris with a green to purple gradient next to text that reads "if i cannot find trans joy i shall create it"

now more than ever 🌷

This little piece was inspired by my experience encountering flowering bloodroot for the first time; it evoked a lot of feelings about life, death, ephemeral plants, and the liminality that comes with the changing of seasons.

I'm so happy to have my springtime ghost story flash fiction piece in the latest issue of The Sprawl Mag (@thesprawl.bsky.social)! Read it here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1 🌱

Poster announcing the contributors in the upcoming Sprawl Mag volume, featuring a fairy with wings and blue hair, a rabbit and stars.

Now announcing our contributors for the Sprawl Mag 3.1. We are so excited to share this volume with you! Featuring:

Pablo Andrés Palo
Viviana De Cecco
@francesboyle19.bsky.social
@themaust.bsky.social
@sidellwrites.bsky.social
Ivan Ndoma-Egba
@lucienrstarchild.bsky.social

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Contract is signed! I'm so excited to say I have a story set to publish in @podcastle.org this year! Can't wait to share it with everyone when it's released. It's a grim (but ultimately hopeful) story about searching, doors, fey beings in owl-shapes, and much more... 🦉✨

Silk and Foxglove anthology, a BIPOC erotic eco-horror anthology, with a collaged artwork of a red circle, a dragonfly, and a sensual rear end!

Due to the sudden closure of the small press publishing our anthology, we're looking for a new home!

"Silk and Foxglove" is a BIPOC anthology of 13 stories of erotic-eco-horror! It's weird, gorgeous, evocative, & unnerving as hell!

Please boost! If any small presses are interested, let me know!

a calf surrounded by flames

If you're looking for a calfing good time, check out "A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" by @srinivassimo.bsky.social

We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/a-pale-herd-...

Issue 4 is now available on our website!

Scroll to the bottom of the pages for Issue 4: plotthoundmag.com/issues/

And, Issues 1 and 2 are free to read online at the same link!

Planted some native wildflower seeds for cold stratification today. Wishing them all the best! 🌱

"Bird-watching," I repeat, eyebrow quirked. "In the middle of my apartment?"

"Built over my favorite place." The ghost nods, peaceably eyeing up my kitchen cupboards. "You should have seen how it was-oh!" Her eyes shine.

"There's nothing here," I say.

She wipes her eyes. "Birds have ghosts, too."

A painting of a hare surrounded by large snowflakes, limbs and ears all pulled into a loaf shape.

Loafing hare ❄️

All of this. Writing can be fun. Writing can be annoying. You can sit down and stare at the blank page and feel like there's nothing inside your head except for a cymbal-banging monkey. Other times, you'll sit down and the writing will pour from your fingers like magic. That's human. That's art.

“At the Edge of the Tale” by T.R. Steele – Plott Hound Magazine A sharp nose for amazing animal stories

Are unicorns your jam? Well grab a slice of toast and give "At the Edge of the Tale" by @authortrsteele.bsky.social a go

We love it, and we hope you will, too!

year of the fire horse risograph 🐎🔥

A painting of a raven, head lowered and throat feathers raised, making a "CRROAK" sound.

he go 🐸

One of the best (and one of my favourite) stories of 2025! ✨