Delightfully absurd!

I bet she had trouble peeling that dress off later on--probably took a couple of layers of skin with it.

book review: the cellar below the cellar by ivy grimes We are all awaiting catastrophe. Though our minds may not accept it, we feel it in our bones: the end of our modern way of life is coming. When will it happen? How will it arrive? Will we live thro…

My review of The Cellar Below the Cellar by @ivygrimes.bsky.social:
sd-stewart.com/2026/03/30/b...

New story of mine out today at ergot.

ergot. innovative + experimental horror

"What happened here could not have been prevented. Our language had become an abattoir, each word a fallen calf. The terms we so desperately needed had been taken from us."

Today on ergot. "The Violence of Displaced Reference' by S.D. Stewart @sd-stewart.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/S.D....

Tomorrow on ergot.: displacing a new reference with S.D. Stewart @sd-stewart.bsky.social

Maryland files lawsuit to block construction of an ICE detention center | Baltimore Brew The Williamsport facility would serve as the new “ICE Baltimore Detention Facility” with 1,500 beds.

Maryland files lawsuit to block construction of an @ICEgov detention center outside Hagerstown. tinyurl.com/5d4py63z The Williamsport facility would serve as the new “ICE Baltimore Detention Facility” with 1,500 beds.

Koyaanisqatsi

My favorite is when you see it going back and forth between locations. I've had packages get all the way to my city only to return to the previous facility.

2025 in reading:
sd-stewart.com/2025/12/26/2...

Fiction Review: S. D. Stewart Reads Samuel M. Moss’ Novel The Veldt Institute “Of course, the Veldt Institute is not commonly known—likely no one outside the Veldt Institute is aware of its existence—but it is clear that those who arrive do so at the exact time that is best …

My review of Sam Moss's debut novel The Veldt Institute is up at Heavy Feather Review:
heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/11/20/t...
@perfidiousscript.bsky.social

S.D. Stewart over on Insta @sd-stewart.bsky.social
www.erratumpress.com/its-tough-at...

It’s Sunday… so a Bible verse for you to share with Christians who need a reminder (like Congress):

Matthew 35-40

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

Bravo!

Are you serious? No. This is no longer a debate worthy of anyone's time. Go vegan. Trust me, if you really think you can't live without the taste of meat, there are plenty of plant-based options now that taste just like it.

I love your line from that book: 'To write of the self is to write in the shape of a wound that never stops opening.'

room temperature [film review] Last night, I uncharacteristically left my house near sunset and traveled to the Charles Theatre for a screening at the New/Next Film Festival. The film was Room Temperature—the latest collaboratio…

My review of Room Temperature, the new film by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley: sd-stewart.com/2025/10/05/r...

Today is the release of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html

Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

over at Global Bernhard a project to 'systematically map and contextualize international responses to the work of Thomas Bernhard' #UniversityofVienna #Bernhard
globalbernhard.univie.ac.at/en/authors/g...

Last couple of weeks I've noticed more here in south Lauraville area, which is uncommon.

Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.

Always worth reading Josipovici's thoughts. I wish he'd get more recognition.

✅ Yes, Snopes is unionizing. Fact-checkers deserve transparency too!

Good to hear. I'm prepared to wait years if necessary.

Please say this is from a work in progress? 🙏

You need space to read the world. Readability depends on distance. (Edmond Jabès)

literature, art, and rats — Blood+Honey by Michael Templeton “For Debré, literature needs to die to become the rat language that it needs to be, the language of the night that scurries beneath the dominant forms, the walls and towers of c...

'that which is called literature that exists within the bulwark of culture needs to die so that the cockroaches and rats of the world can come out and create something interesting'
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @mwtempleton.bsky.social
www.bloodhoneylit.com/wander-lines...

Keep this energy, kid

My review of Matthew Kinlin's novel So Tender a Killer: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...