Thanks for your enthusiasm! Hope you enjoy it.

I’m sure nothing got to them. They were staying fresh. Staying cool.

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

Istani - Trollbreath Magazine Istani

My story, "Istanai" is now free-to-read at Trollbreath!

It's a fabulist story about friends and comrades who pass away and how we hold on to their dreams for a better world.

Plus, eating mountain lion glands, ghosts in televisions, and strange waterfall worlds.
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Everyone should go check out this horrifying deranged awesome collection. The story “Shrike” alone is worth the price of admission.

Just realized I was using the Uncertain Sons bookmark while reading through Shirley Jackson.

Your Honor, I would like to submit the following evidence:

Carmen
Maria
Machado

I rest my case.

The Tooth

Shirley Jackson

I rest my case.

I might be visiting this summer so that sort of counts?

Great chance to check out two amazing writers working in weird fiction today:
@thomasha.bsky.social and @kjy1066.bsky.social

youtu.be/vMWyg6vFDs8

It’s time folks!

Just got Gore Poetics by @spicycloaca.bsky.social from @cursedmorsels.bsky.social .

If you like horror, if you like weird and if you like weird horror, this is gonna be your jam.

#booksky

I love this book. It’s so good.

Later seasons get much much better. Hang in there!

If you haven't checked out Trollbreath 7 yet, there's an amazing story by Amy Kitcher, right before mine, "The Messenger of Budapest" about a pigeon who brings messages back and forth between sentient statues in Budapest. Deep work on memory, resistance & history.

@trollbreathmag.bsky.social

A hooded figure with cosmic patterns in his cloak, shooting a rainbow at some poppies over the ocean

Not sure how this image came up on my YouTube algorithm for a music playlist.

But whatever it is, I’m all for it. I think this is kind of the vibe of a lot of my stories.

The LA Worldcon Community Fund is now open for applications and donations!

If you need assistance from the Community Fund, you can apply for money or a membership for LAcon V. We are also looking for people to donate money or memberships to the fund.

Trollbreath Magazine Spring 2026. Issue 7 - Fiction The Messenger of Budapest by Amy Kitcher Istani by Z.D. Dochterman A Study of Cats in Low-Gravity Mining Stations by B. Morris Allen We Die with the Snowfall by Ash Horn Ghosts of Rouyi by V. Zixin Inheritance by Jennifer Skogen Schema by Wren Douglas The Frayed Edges of Souls by Azure Arther The Physics of a Gunshot by Chris Barnham On the Subject of Moonwhites by Erin Keating Image of a cartoon troll in a bowler hat and chain mail holding a ray gun

Time to subscribe - issue 7 is dropping on March 1st! Only $5 a quarter or $20 a year for access to these amazing stories, plus poetry and non-fiction!
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A very personal story for me. It's about my time in college and an amazing group of friends who were convinced we could radically change the world for the better. Twenty years later, I wish more people had the kinds of utopian dreams we did, even if naive. The world might've looked different.

New slipstream/horrorish story out: "Istanai."

A young man searches for his dead girlfriend in TV static and psychedelic realms, guided by her theory that consciousness survives death and that the universe longs for revolution. When should we let go of utopias, if ever?

@trollbreathmag.bsky.social

I've enjoyed your stories that have made it through that gauntlet! Good reminder for me when I'm down on the constant stream of Rs to keep going.

In case you couldn’t tell from the title, it’s full of weird horror.

One of my absolute favorite magazines out today.

Major edit: can’t recommend next generation ENOUGH! Just saw that ha ha ha

Well, you picked a great one! I can’t recommend next generation for your next watch

I grew up on Star Trek the next generation, but after watching the entire Deep Space 9, it made me a convert. Best Star Trek series for the depth of the characters, the moral complexity, and the darkness of the plot.

I appreciate that so much!! I’m so honored when people take the time to not only read my story, but let me know it resonated with them.

Can we also add Emily Dickinson as an undercurrent of weird poetry while we’re at it?

Poppin Taco & Boogaloo Shrimp 1983 YouTube video by DJ Hector

Futuristic music and break moves from 40 years ago.

youtu.be/QJ6IAouIyLA?...

As someone who writes weird fiction and teaches first year composition I live this paradox every day

I don’t like typing on the phone either, but I do sometimes dictate notes. Have you tried that? I use an app called Obsidian.You can always go back and clean up spelling or things that didn’t catch later. Also, thanks for the follow! I’m team Petrichor as well.