Damn this sounds fantastic! Thanks for the recommendation!

Seeing her next week for the first time!

Do you think everybody onstage with Nine Inch Noize has really weird dreams after doing that show?

So hot! We saw NIN last year and were completely blown away. Trent still being this awesome at 60 makes me feel a little less anxious about turning 40 this year 🤣

Hell yes!!!

...even when the community surrounding those things doesn't always love us back. Reminds me of that line from Adaptation: "You are what you love, not what loves you." When you gather enough underdog outcasts together, we can become a community of our own. Congratulations on the story, Ace! 2/2

Escape Pod 1038: Meet the Mets 1964 Bobby didn’t know who threw the first punch. A fist glanced off his cheek, then a smattering of blows rained down in the darkness, a private thunderstorm of focused pain. His head was empty of…

Do yourself a favor and check out this new story by my friend Ace mortuaryreport.bsky.social on escapepod.org! Without giving too much away, I think it's about the trials we endure to participate in the things we love... 1/2

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Wasn’t that an M John Harrison novel?

I don’t personally put much stock in awards shows, but I’m baffled it didn’t receive any Oscar nominations. Why wouldn’t Hollywood want to celebrate a piece of work like that?

Wow—I was completely unprepared for The Testament of Ann Lee. I thought it was absolutely fantastic. The singing, the dancing, the true Dionysian ecstasy. Just unreal work all around.

The trees in my backyard are legit spooky! Silhouettes of bare skinny trees and a few fluffy evergreens stand out in total blackness against a sky lit diffusely gray by lightning

Such gothic weather we’re having lately

A poster for the film The Bride! by Maggie Gyllenhaal. The two stars’ faces are close together and take up most of the poster. Bale’s face has suggestions of classic Creature scars, Buckley’s has a stain of black ink on one side of her mouth and cheek.

Really, really enjoyed Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! Jessie Buckley is volcanic as always, and Christian Bale shows a sweet, tender, conflicted Frank. Impressive across the board, and I’m usually pretty lukewarm on Bale. May Maggie Gyllenhaal live long and make many more strange, singular movies.

Yeah, nothing exists for me after the original S3 finale. It felt tragically cut short at the time but that final shot with “It Never Rains in Southern California” playing was perfect.

Wishing for more show after that, we had no idea how bad it could get!

Meg Elison. Caitlin Starling. Carmen Maria Machado. Tananarive Due. Gemma Files. Samanta Schweblin. Helen Oyeyemi. Mary Shelley. Shirley Jackson. Angela Carter. Anne Rice.

Just to name a few!

Oh nice, I never knew this existed! Buying my copy now!

“Show me slowly what I only know the limits of.”

“Dance me through the panic til I’m gathered safely in” is a line that just had no right to go so hard.

Leonard Cohen was a real one.

Thanks so much for sharing this. I’ve been beating myself up for not being more productive lately, so it’s nice to know I’m not the only one!

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As someone who’s moved to Philly in the last few years, I’d like to add that the local population’s enthusiasm for fireworks cannot be overstated. I think there’s a box or two ready to go in every basement at all times. Just putting that out there!

Watching Me Fall YouTube video by The Cure - Topic

I'm on a big Cure kick lately! The whole Bloodlowers album, but especially "Watching Me Fall." It's great writing music!

Amazing, thank you!

Your guidelines say 4000-ish words max—may I ask how strict that cutoff is?

For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction

Here’s a vote for Option 2. Finished reading Shriek earlier this year and I’m still hungry for more ways to engage with it

A black cat sits on a table with a red and black tablecloth. She has her nose buried in a bouquet of red and white roses, with a purple candle (unlit) beside her

Wednesday literally loves smelling flowers
#blackcat

There’s a newer horror mag called Remains if you haven’t tried them yet! @remainsmagazine.bsky.social

And now it's been fully deconstructed, rebuilt, polished, and sent off to my beta reader friends. After focusing on longer projects for a while now, this quicker turnaround is really refreshing. Getting excited to start subbing it hopefully early next year!

“The Mastermind” and “Sorry, Baby” were both instant classics for me!

Last Play of the Game — Vestal Review

Check it out: "Last Play of the Game," an urgent, breathless flash piece by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social that uses a single sentence to move laterally, backward, and forward in time. I love that the whole team is the protagonist rather than a single player!

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