Big congrats to @hhpak.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social, @tiatashiro.bsky.social, and @isabel.kim! They are Hugo Award finalists for their 2025 Clarkesworld stories. (Bonus congrats to H.H. Pak as a finalist for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer)
Thanks!
offline today for my birthday! back tomorrow!
favorite local bookstore had my novel stocked + I got the first season of THE LAST OF US on blu ray from a pawn shop (I haven’t seen it yet) for a steal, along with ARRIVAL, HOUSE OF WAX, and ALIEN: COVENANT (which I have a digital copy of, but I’m collecting physical releases when I can). good day!
You know, not to be a disgusting optimist about the rise of AI, but I'm old enough to remember when people were certain that ebooks would destroy the print market and that bookstores would die.
And now indie bookstores are making a comeback and becoming cool community spaces.
We adapt. We survive
🌠New story day!🌠 I have a short, "Restoration", about a decaying property tycoon, a disillusioned historian, and the temptation to re-create what we cannot have again; in the new Galaxy mag! Along with @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social's interviews of @renanbernardo.com and @pedroiniguez.bsky.social
In ⚒️🍜THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANIZING MANUAL🍜⚒️ faced with a rapaciacious majority owner, renewal-friendly en bloc law (60%), and few rights for transient workers, it's up to the cooks and enginners to save their community💥💪 Coming spring '27 via
@starsandsabers.bsky.social
this is really beautiful.
The accuracy
oh my god, that book is SO good
me: can’t wait to finish editing my backlog, so I can finally write new stories
also me: the edit-in-progress is 8k now
me: O.O
also me: the next one starts at like 5-6k
also me: and we have that novel
first pass on the bones story is done at, uh, 8k. what. is happening
“Operation Bear Claw”
NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.
This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.
Whoops! Just accidentally posted a call for our food systems horror and Weird fiction anthology, open to submissions this September. 👀
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...
My short story "Sleep-Depraved" has gone live at @unchartedmag.bsky.social. It's just under 5000 words of horror/fantasy/sf, originally published in Winter in the City: A Collection of Dark Urban Stories from Ruadán Books, and now online.
#fiction #writing
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/slee...
nailed it
No tears please, it is a waste of good suffering.
VAGUE CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Lady of Two Lands (Here and There)
Gemma Files’s The Mummy
Painting of a blue mountain landscape. There are paths between the peaks. On the right three black figures stand spread out. On the left a low red sun, and a vast shadowy figure looms behind it in the sky.
Unsummoning
#illustration
two characters standing on a bridge in front of a huge wall of glass. there's water behind it, and a giant jellyfish carrying a fetus inside it
incubation
"it's not vibe coding it's server issues, obviously. Bsky is so anti-AI just want to blame-"
You bolt bawake in the buntains af Carfage. You are nub online. It is 217 BC. Yu are the jenaral Bannibal, and you bave changed your bannibal. The future cannot come to bannibal. Rome must bannibal.
The cover for my next novel, CHIMERA, is here.
Skin dancers, cannibals, kinslayers, monsters. The Vargers are many things, but family always comes first.
Cover illustration by Xuanwei Su
Cover design by Esther S. Kim
Pre-order it here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The covers of Antifa Splatterpunk, Shredded, Bitter Apples, No Trouble at All, Why Didn't You Just Leave, The Nightmare Box, Lupus in Fabula, Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces, The Writhing, Verdant End, and Gore Poetics. Plus 19 cursed zines. $28 for the Whole Shebang.
We've updated our WHOLE SHEBANG deal to include Gore Poetics and the Flesh zine. All in all, that's ten horror and Weird fiction ebooks and 19 cursed digital zines for only $28! Support strange, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist indie horror: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...
Your bit of good news for the day
![mockup cover of an anthology called [RECORDED], showing an old fashioned film camera with colorful glitch overlays, and a skull vaguely visible in the background; smaller text says "edited by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:urwbiqpcjwskrgmvxjfgddpj/bafkreig2mawa7ewwonq23akpvgdhkkk3ixyovq5ikrrobcqphz3ys3fk4m)
mockup cover of an anthology called [RECORDED], showing an old fashioned film camera with colorful glitch overlays, and a skull vaguely visible in the background; smaller text says "edited by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor"
'sup, sickos — who likes FOUND FOOTAGE???? good, because SO DO I and I am going to spend my tax monies on BRINGING MORE FICTION INTO THE WORLD and editing an anthology this summer. because we need more weird art and I want YOU to help make it. 👀⬇️
mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho
priest: and so wise king solomon said “i will cut the baby in half”
me: ohhh. i get it. baby was a worm
priest: no it was a test
me: risky test. what if he’s not a worm
a car parked at a train crossing, something huge and fleshy and many limbed runs by
crossing