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ICYMI, I spoke with @ivygrimes.bsky.social about my book and writing.

The Invisible Man by Joshua Hebburn I’d slept for only four hours that day. When I was looking at his face, I saw another face. It was as if an artist had drawn it smoothly into the natural lines, the fine hair, wrinkles, flecks of pigm...

"I’d slept for only four hours that day."

This week on hex, @joshuahebburn.bsky.social is back with a brief, perfectly written bit of delirium. A ripple in perception. A face and another face. Don't miss this wonder, "The Invisible Man," up now on the site! 🤔😐😶

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"I think writing is a form of howling. It can feel like a scream into the void. It’s always a thrill when someone hears it, echoes and returns the howl, and says a piece resonated with them."

I love this interview with @sabrinahicks.bsky.social by @ivygrimes.bsky.social so much! 💙💙💙

Thank you so much for your insightful answers!!

Thank you to @ivygrimes.bsky.social for the interview following my debut collection Coyote Girl! 🙏🌵💛

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

"I fell in love with the short form and the journals publishing short work; so much so that I stopped writing novel length fiction and for ten years grew a collection of flash, micro, and short stories."

Photo of a slim book on a table, book cover has text Terrestrial A Novella by Suzy Eynon on it. Ceramic blue cactus next to book on table.

Back cover of book Terrestrial by Suzy Eynon with blurbs, on table next to small cactus

Screen shot from The Lost Boys movie of scene between two characters in a comic book store with dialogue text "Phoenix, actually."

Terrestrial will be out next month from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social! Grateful to Joey Hedger, Emily Costa, and Drew Buxton for the generous blurbs, and to early reviewers and readers 🛸🌵

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"I grew up along the mountain foothills...which is why a lot of these stories are rooted in that landscape. My father moved us to a more rural area when I was around ten with horse stables and raw desert and an entire, remote mountain range to get lost in."

Interview with Sabrina Hicks flash, grit, howls

"True grit is seeing things for what they are and having the brass to change what needs to change. It’s a theme that is woven into every story in the collection."

-interview with @sabrinahicks.bsky.social

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

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Where post-apocalyptic fiction often engages with, or indulges in, a kind of rugged masculinity, the focus here is on women, on the protagonist Jane and her increasingly mysterious grandmother, as well as Jane’s own absent mother, and the practical work of getting by, day to day, following the disaster. Alongside the fairytale elements — the story reformulates the Russian story Vasilisa the Beautiful — ideas of community and mutual aid develop.

Some intriguing words about The Cellar Below the Cellar from one @seanbirnie.bsky.social

ICYMI pre-orders are LIVE for the audiobook of The Wingspan of Severed Hands!

ergot. innovative + experimental horror

"When night came and the floor was acrawl with glisters, Arnie talked to the girl at the bottom of the chute. Between his level and the one below sat a dumbwaiter, inoperable, collecting dust."

Today on ergot.: 'Late Bloomer' by Ian Kappos

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Oh, cool!! You'll have to tell me what you think!

Don't forget! It's Leonora Carrington-coded, too!

"Better to be aware of who you are, where you come from, and all that you bring to a piece of art. Better to acknowledge that you respond from who you are and how you feel."

(Claire Dederer, Monsters)

Good point! Okay, I’ll start practicing

Can't Americans admit we were wrong about spelling it "Acknowledgments"? It needs that extra e! We're generally bad at admitting fault, sure, but maybe we can start small.

Thank you so much!

shadow land by ivy grimes — scaffold literary magazine prose poetry

Before tomorrow’s new edition, stop what you are doing and have a look at this absolutely chilling micro by our recent contributor Ivy Grimes (@ivygrimes.bsky.social), “Shadow Land,” published in one of our favorite journals.

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Thank you so much for these great thought-provoking answers!!

So much fun talking to @ivygrimes.bsky.social about food, voices, and spiders. Thank you for having me 🫶🌠 And definitely read Ivy's "The Cellar Below the Cellar", which is twisting and prodding my mind around family, community lore, and faith, like nothing else 🖤

"At one point (i.e.: my quarter life crisis) I staged at a fine dining restaurant where I tweezed overpriced salads and painted china with sauce. These days I probably do two moderately appetising meals a week"

"Honestly, I have pre-Musk Twitter to thank for my writing life...it’s where I found nearly all my online writing friends."

Interview with Eliane Boey economics, cookbooks, the real and immediate

"...SF offered me the distance from the real and immediate to, actually, question the real and immediate....Now, I reckon I’m wandering again, because, maybe, a voice is a changing and multitudinous thing."

-interview with @elianeboey.bsky.social

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