THIS WORLD IS NOT OURS - Kemi Ashing Giwa do you like off planet relationship drama in your sci-fi horror? then this novella is for *you!* an absolutely twist turn of a fun creepy read.
Nebula and Sturgeon Award Finalist. Wrote I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY (Lethe Press), WHEN I WAS LOST (Trepidatio), and THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS (Lethe Press). Got more stories, essays, and poems at JordanKurella.com. He/Him. GenAI is right out.
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THIS WORLD IS NOT OURS - Kemi Ashing Giwa do you like off planet relationship drama in your sci-fi horror? then this novella is for *you!* an absolutely twist turn of a fun creepy read.
SUPER GAY POEMS - edited by Stephanie Burt this book is not only a crash poetic course in *terrific poetry* but also a crash course in queer history. big recommend. do love.
Jordan's book, The Death of Mountains, is one of the books I've read (and loved) while the world is on fire
awwww gosh
THE DROWNED MAN'S DAUGHTER - CJ Lavigne this one comes out this month and i swear that all of you who love to immerse yourself in a good dark story? you wanna READ THIS ONE.
STAG DANCE - Torrey Peters a book in stories and a novella that had me going back to it and back to it. pausing in conversation to think about it. messy trans femme in every aspect and deft in every word choice.
holy shit, Todd
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
Friends don’t let friends write novels.
also read an ARC of a book that kept me up TWO WHOLE NIGHTS. no book has done this since i was 17. dunno if i'm allowed to talk about this book this publicly, but i cannot WAIT to.
HAUNT SWEET HOME - Sarah Pinsker listened on audiobook and do this if you can! full cast and great fun execution. a terrific horror book that flips on its end with Knives Out / Glass Onion precision.
THE STARVING SAINTS - Caitlin Starling started me off hungry, then put me off my snacks in a most furious page turning horrific cannibal fasion. fantasy horror at its grossest.
some terrific books i read while the world is on fire: TUSKS OF EXTINCTION - Ray Nayler if Jurassic Park had a conscience and consequences. leaving me gutted and thinking of the *shoulds* of the *could.* and why *shouldn't*
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
Updated my profile page with the cover of my upcoming book SONG OF SPORES - art by Galen Dara! You can preorder here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So...
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the National Guard of one state can’t invade another state. They are separate sovereigns
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
The brilliant Horror Grandmaster Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has left us at 83. Thank you for everything.
it's actually going to Huntsville but my joke is better
apparently the space force program is going mobile... to Alabama i'll be here all week
happy book birthday!!!
Palestinian families like Ahmad's are being displaced once again by the IDF as they're starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating so they can cover the cost of food, shelter & evacuation:
time to pull out this oldie but goodie
And happy book day to Elizabeth Bear's ANGEL MAKER! Karen Memory rides again!
My deranged splatterpunk horror book MOONFLOW about a trans shroom dealer getting lost in a haunted forest and running afoul of evil lesbian hippies and their bound fungus god is available for preorder!! Buy it today or look really uncool! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...
FUCK, MAN.
Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there. Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Anyway at least the City of Edmonton Shelterbuddy links are validated and live now! edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima... edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima...
happy birthday please Fiasco come home
Woot! TODAY ONLY, you can get all these cozy fantasy box sets on sale for only $2.99 - including my complete Harwood Spellbook! Check out all the cozy fantasy romance available in this curated set, and get ready to burrow into fall! 🍵💖 books.bookfunnel.com/cozy-fantasy... #romancelandia
wild that all the people in the quoted thread calling for trans genocide are foaming at the mouth. while all the trans folks i've ever met tend to avoid rabies.
happy that being trans made me into a better man than this senator
oh no!
" This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on who will be helped politically by the president's action."
JUSTICE FOR THE EM DASH (from @ellecordova.bsky.social) youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...
À la demande de @ebibi.fr je vous partage cette perle trouvée sur tiktok
Calling all Black visual artists! Submissions are OPEN for our 2026 covers! Artists should submit portfolios or work samples which illustrate an understanding of composition, and feature fantastical elements and/or can be categorized as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, & their related subgenres./+
okay but the Careless Whisper cover tho
the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching
You know what, fair play to Scooby Doo villains. They walk into a room dressed as a ghost, see a talking dog on its hind legs making the world’s biggest sandwich and somehow manage to stay in character.
drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future
"You'll get more conservative as you get older" Me:
When all my friend wants tk do is be herself, ride motorcycles and be loved And some people find that an abominable. When its their hatred that's the real abomination Freedom isnt free . When one person is oppressed we are all oppressed When it's ao easy to just mind your fucking business
IMPROVE a movie by making it about Gary 2 Gary 2 Furious
using one photo already in your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
friendly reminder that you can watch me talk about this in the upcoming Weeknight Writers panel. 😊
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes. They lobotomized it *for this*.
are we winning, son?
for example: - in heels - in a tree - in an elevator - on a stair
elevated literature is when the protagonist is their own antagonist, but up high
Squeezing in some promo while I stuff a sandwich in my face and do day job things: My new novella THE DEAD WITHHELD is out today! Because why wait for Tuesdays for good book news right? www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-de...
Just a reminder that writing is labor, and you should get paid for your work. Happy Labor Day!
as the son of a journalist who did war correspondence? all these journalists died at the hand of gross villainy. disgusting behavior. genocidal ideology.
My new book, A House Between Sea and Sky, is an Amazon First Reads pick for September! If you're a Prime member, you can acquire it for free; other people can get it for $1.99! So, what's it about? Well... amzn.to/4lb2R73 [promo link]
The 2025 #HugoAward nomination data report has been added to the Report section of this year's award winners page: seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw... . Check out the "long list" of nominees that didn't quite make the final ballot and fill out those reading lists a little bit more!
Casey!! <3
was super terrific to see "Evan: A Remainder" on the Hugo Awards Longlist. i am just floored and honored that people thought enough of me to vote for my Skeleton Boyfriend story for a Hugo. thank you so much to all of you.
Anyway, my friends at Bluesky proper should start marketing this place with these kinds of quotes. It makes this website seem like the fucking Thunderdome when in reality it's a place where I post pictures of Viscous Brown Food-Like Substance On A Plate solely to unnerve people.
ICYMI. Nominated for the Locus Awards (along with 2 of the stories in it, 'Encore' by @wtalabi.bsky.social & 'Autumn's Red Bird' by @aliettedebodard.com) & the Ignyte Awards
An important update from Francesca Albanese, special UN Rapporteur on Palestine. The flotilla fully complies with International Law. Any attempt to violate the flotilla’s mission is a violation of International Law which @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has said she will uphold. Empty words, Ursula?
Palestinian families like Mohammed's are being bombed, displaced, & starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can to help them cover the costs of the latest evacuation:
<3 <3 <3 <3
I think it's useful to unpack this. If Democrats agree with Republicans on excluding women's sports, what's the harm? Is it primarily harm to trans women who play sports, or is there something more to it? A reasonable person who doesn't know much about trans issues could ask these questions.
congratulations to everyone looking at the Hugo Awards Longlist and finding themselves on there and being super happy about it!!!!! this is huge and wonderful and amazing!!!!* *also includes me
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
awwww thank you, Rachel!!
Your pal @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social at the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. Genuinely hard to take a bad picture of this dude. That's the @nywfp.bsky.social float behind him - follow them and let's make this man mayor and get him the progressive caucus he needs to get things done, NYC!
CEO Has Big Ideas To Grow Company’s Problems https://theonion.com/ceo-has-big-ideas-to-grow-company-s-problems-1819578259/
okay I thought this was the part of the residence over the West Wing but now I think this is the East Wing as seen from one of the bars or hotels across 15th St NW? which would make this… *checks notes* oh the Lincoln Sitting Room
why now tooth? all the 🖤🖤🖤🖤
oh yeah well can ur man do THIS *listens to one song on loop continuously for weeks*
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
please keep Three-Lobed Burning Eye alive for another year!
9 former directors of the CDC penned an op-ed stating that what Robert F. Kennedy has done to the nation's public health system is "unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Rabies is not a joke. This podcast episode from 2014 still haunts my nightmares 😬 radiolab.org/podcast/rodn...
you can do it!!!
i loves him
post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September:
...Well. This thread was... educational. (And yeah, a cartoonist with multiple mansions used to be a thing, in the heyday of newspaper cartooning. It wasn't even unique.)
reposting image with alt text
post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September:
What would you put in your cuttlefish jar
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
Genocide. We all need to keep collectively calling it exactly what it is. Especially us cis folks. When they’re done gunning for the most vulnerable groups they’ll just go after the next most vulnerable and won’t stop because they never stop. Thats what hatred is. It’s Genocide, plain and simple.
happily!
I find it fascinating that even hardcore ChatGPT fans seem to be turning on it in recent weeks
LibreOffice has 2/3
1. No AI 2. No auto-backups into a Cloud Storage that i need a paid subscription to access 3. Converts to poetry and other documents to .docx without formatting fuckery
reminder to me: celebrate your (very small) milestones because someone has to and it's you, my guy
yay!
dang what an honor to announce that BURY YOUR GAYS has won the DRAGON AWARD for BEST HORROR NOVEL OF THE YEAR thank you so much buckaroos. full list of winners is here file770.com/2025-dragon-... if you have not yet read it yet then get bury your gays here us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Hey, if you haven't read THE MEMORY HUNTERS by @itsamia.bsky.social YOU REALLY FUCKING NEED TO I read it last tonight and today and was totally blown away by it all, from the plot to the characterization to the important question of memories/stories and who gets to pass them down