👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏
Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
"Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail"
"About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation"
Buying ebooks with DRM isn't actually buying books, it's renting them. If you buy a print book, it's yours forever. Books don't go "obsolete". Ebooks should be the same. Don't buy ebooks with DRM.
@libreture.com has a huge list of DRM-free e-booksellers. Weightless is among them
Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.
Here's preview of the end of the current US administration
48 HOURS till the end of our fundraiser at locusmag.com/igg26 and we're only halfway to our funding goals.... Please take a moment to support what we do if you have the means! Thank you so much!
Fundraiser closes Tuesday 4/14!
Over 8 billion reasons to ditch fossil fuels in one photo.
Good luck, Hungary. We're rooting for you out here today.
Here at Nightmare, we firmly believe that dark fiction is a bulwark against the forces of the world eager to reduce our human experience to dollars and cents. Horror, dark fantasy, and all kinds of weird and bizarre literature is powerful nutrition for the creative soul—and it’s creativity that humanity will need to move forward in a time of conflict and environmental degradation. We’re not just here to entertain you; we are here to keep the bastards from grinding you down.
"We firmly believe that dark fiction is a bulwark against the forces of the world eager to reduce our human experience to dollars and cents."
From the NIGHTMARE April editorial:
www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...
Some writers are great at being public figures but others write, a solitary profession, exactly because we aren’t good at that.
Even a fantastic sum of money might not be enough to make you change your basic nature. What to do?
If you’re Helen DeWitt you write something funny & honest.
Translations that digest their own tongues. Expressions of the ephemeral creatures that blip in and out of existence when language is toggled. Threads that weave disparate voices together. We are looking for flash fiction about the things that fall away, transform, and negotiate new bodies as the words that create either their home or their prison shapeshift around them. Our usual submission guidelines apply. We define Flash Fiction as anything under 1000 words. No AI ever. We mean it.
Submissions are open for "Nabokov's Suspension"
Submissions are OPEN!
thecosmicbackground.moksha.io/publication/1
NABOKOV'S SUSPENSION
Edited by Jehanne Bell
👅🧵👻🎤✍️
We are looking for flash fiction about the things that fall away, transform, and negotiate new bodies as the words that create shapeshift around them.
Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d
#ShareGoodNewsToo
We're all here. ❤️
Framed citation "A Special Citation of Excellence: UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES.
Friends, am delighted to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social 's 'Uncertain Sons and Other Stories' has received a Special Citation of Excellence from the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Congratulations, Thomas!
Metrics as a substitute for thought has been catastrophic for the discussion of art
When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose.
AI will never fill that void.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...
Read my friend's blog
As part of a new wave of young socialist candidates, Madison’s Bobby Gronert is running for city council, bringing lessons learned from student organizing to city hall to challenge developers and shape what socialism looks like for a new generation.
FINALLY just rode an elevator with an elevator repairman WORKING on the elevator as we rode it, and asked him what I’ve always wanted to know: So, is Die Hard accurate, or possible? “Nope.” Alas. One more dream dies. For me AND Jake Peralta, I guess.
We are currently open for reprints from Anthologies and Collections published, or due to be published, in 2026.*
Books only, not magazines or periodicals. Anything up to 6000 words (we like flash!)
escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/...
(*Strictly 2026. We’ll open for general subs in August)
[walks to the fridge immediately]
Latest story, "Middle Song," now out in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social. Soldiers on a search for fugitives wander into a strange roadhouse. Standalone but loosely tied to a group of stories that started in 2022 right here in BP. Always glad to be back and in a ToC w/great fellow authors.
**SCREAMING** because our Modern Mummies horror anthology has been nominated for a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Classic Monster Fiction!
You can find out how to vote for Modern Mummies at the link below ⬇️
rondoaward.com/rondoaward.c...
oh damn it's been 6 months. a lot of dark things happening, but this is one of the better things drawing my focus. appreciate all the folks who went out their way for it. blurbs. reviews. recs to friends. every short fic editor, fellow writer, reader from over the years. grateful for the support.
Chuck Norris actually died when Bruce Lee killed him on the Way of the Dragon set, he just didn't figure it out till now
Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them.
Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.
Painfully relatable
I have a new story out today in @apexmag.bsky.social!
"The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood" is a happy love story on a remote island where everything is delicious and perfect 😀 (oh, the title? Don't mind that.)
Loosely inspired by the Japanese urban legend of Hanako-san.
Banner for hex literary, featuring the hex logo and text that says: Recent Contributors Z.K. Abraham * Stephanie Feldman * Julian Martinez Awards: Best Microfiction * Best Small Fictions * Brave New Weird hexliterary.submittable.com/submit
This Friday (March 20), at 12pm ET, the hex gates will open once more. We will have a cap of 200 submissions, so PLEASE only one submission per writer. hex recently celebrated our 4th (!!!) year of existence and we couldn't do it without all of you incredible folks! Thank you and C u soon! <3 😈
