My Middle Grade Flash Horror story "In Here" is out today in the latest issue of Haunted Words. Check it out!

I just tried to use the word "standed" in my WIP, and then didn't understand why it was flagged as a misspelling.

This week may have eaten my brain.

Take a sneak peek at the opening to the brilliant Sadie Leewood's feline middle grade short story In Here! You can read the full piece in all its glory when Issue Thirteen releases on Saturday 11th April 🖤

Providing a full list here would be difficult, so I'll say Chill Subs, filtering on fantasy/Open with wordcount will give your family member the best options, and checking periodically for new open calls. There's a ton out there!

A table covered by a progress pride flag with three protest signs on top. The first says "No Kings! Go Back to Queens" over an image of a crown with a red X over it. The second says "The price of your love's not a price that we're willing to pay" over an image of Trump dressed like King George from the musical Hamilton. The third sign says "No Kings! Go Fish" and depicts a King of Diamonds playing card with a red X over it.

Let's get out there! #nokings

Diana Wynne Jones has a bunch, like Witch Week and the whole Christopher Chant series.

If only we could drop a different creature into the fires of Mount Doom...

Don't forget the awesome "Season 8" graphic novels.

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Sam Altman wants companies to pay us in ThoughtCoins now? I better brush up on my digital gardening...
youtu.be/XQLdhVpLBVE

My fantasy story, "Dance it Trippingly," is available in the latest issue of Luna Station Quarterly (www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/065/).

What could possibly go wrong becoming a drug dealer on short notice?

A cabinet of DVDs

Sick of streaming video BS (& fascism)? Afraid or unwilling to sail the seven seas?

Then thrifting is for you!* Get DVDs, CDs, and even DVD players on the cheap. Own what you love, without supporting the regime and corporate greed.

*Also works for books!

This is Spy Van.

He inspired the novel I'm editing. Just seeing him makes me remember Boston and Hallelujah the Hills and trying not to slide down snowy hills on those crappy tires.

I still miss him.

I love the Muppetize-a-movie trend, but Hot Fuzz is already the perfect name for a Muppet movie.

Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.

Can you please leave some dystopian ideas for fiction to explore before you cram these nightmares down our gullets?

www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted...

What to call the feeling you get when you're on version 8 or 9 of a story and you look back at V1, and realize you like it SO much more than what it's become?

I shouldn't be jealous of past me's writing. It's supposed to go the other way!

#benjaminbuttoning #timeisanillusion #lunchtimedoublyso

A shot from a Simpsons Halloween episode showing aliens Kang and Kodos on the stairs of a government building flanking Homer Simpson. They are facing a crowd of people, and Homer has just removed the human masks the aliens had been wearing, revealing that they are aliens to the world.

Where are Kang and Kodos when we need them most?

bookshop.org is also an option that supports local bookstores. Amazon is a dumpster fire.

Found this beauty at a used book store. It smells like the golden age of science fiction short stories. It even has an ad for scientology inside! #classicscifi #usulaleguin #arthercclarke #raybradbury #usedbooks

As Beta Readers start on my manuscript, I find myself dreaming big. If/when my fist book is adapted to film, Hallelujah the Hills' song "Wave Backwards to Massachusetts (Big Digits Remix)" should 100% be the outro song. www.hallelujahthehills.com/music/portra...
#hallelujahthehills #hth @ryanhwalsh

January Flash Fiction Horror | Flash Phantoms For the month of January 2026, these are the horror stories of up to 1,000 words that entertain us most.

My first publication of 2026, "Dry Spell" at Flash Phantoms: www.flashphantoms.net/january-flas...
#shortstories #horror #flashfiction

An acceptance and a publication all in one day!

Check out my latest story, As Seen on Spirit TV, in Corner Bar Magazine: cornerbarmagazine.com/pdfs/corner-...
#shortstories #scifi

RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.

1% of the population is trans.
Even less than that are under 18.
They already made healthcare unaffordable for huge swaths of Americans, why not twist the knife a little harder?
The suffering is the point.
#protecttranskids #dontletbrainwormsrungovernment
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

His short story "The Phantom of Kansas" in a collection when I was a teenager was a revelation, and *Steel Beach* is still my favorite Scifi novel of all time (and its rogue AI is as relevant as ever). Farewell to a legend.

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My cozy horror story "Aunt Terry's Collection" is now available in the 2025 Edition of Midnight Ink by Livina Press. W00t!

#cozyhorror #midnightink #livinapress

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A lego minifigure with dark hair and spider-like eyes holding a shield and a coffee mug with an RPG ring that says "Blessed" hanging on it.

It's a good day to be a cleric.

#blessed #gravedomain #dungeonsanddragons #ravenqueen

Amazon's Stargate Announcement | Coming to Prime Video YouTube video by GateWorld

Indeed, Stargate is coming back, with original creators!

Star Trek is cool.
Star Wars is kinda meh.
But Stargate?

Undomesticated equines could not keep me away from that gate.

I'm only sad it's on Bezos' Evil Hub of junk.
#Stargate

youtu.be/OhYOOmkehIo

Just typed the last words on Novel #2, a contemporary, cozy Romantasy. Only 55K words, but I already know what pieces will be needed on my first edit pass.

Current mood:

Two cats intertwined in a cat bed with disappointed looks on their faces.

Why do Gobo and Mokey always look at me like parents disappointed in my life choices?

#catsofbluesky #judgementalcats