New Uncanny Magazine Podcast 71 B features “The Cinema of Babel” by Sam J. Miller, as read by Matt Peters; “I called the swan down” by Laura Cranehill, as read by Erika Ensign; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Sam J. Miller! buff.ly/ec9TFuM
Anj Baker
@anjbaker.bsky.social
They/them from Appalachia now in suburban Illinois. Clarion 2024. First reader at Fusion Fragment. Writer--supposedly. anjbaker.neocities.org
"This is a weird, mindfuck of an issue, exploring liminal spaces, realities far removed from our own, and characters who … change." 🌀🧠🌗 New today by @lesleyconner.bsky.social: "Musings from Maryland" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...
"In the hospital, they say my brain is melting out my nose. They don’t say it like that. They say I’m dying of a prion disease." 🦠🦌🧫 New fiction today by @anjbaker.bsky.social: "Cervidae, New and Sharp" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...
A piece of advice for new writers: read the magazines you're submitting stories to. Not only will it help you understand their tastes, but you'll probably find some cool writers who will broaden your horizons.
I have a story out tomorrow and I am metaphorically eating the drywall about it
Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2d agoWe're thrilled to reveal the cover of Apex Magazine Issue 154, featuring the beautiful "Dark Thoughts" by @jeleynai.bsky.social, with cover design by Justin Stewart! 🌕🐦⬛🌿 For the full list of contributors and other updates, check out "Apex in August 2026" on Patreon: www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...
I saw a post saying that any critic would get a backlash after trashing a popular film. And I'm just not sure that should be normal. It's fun when a critic hates something! We should want reviewers with high standards and weird/obtuse opinions. A film isn't a sports team you support!
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
“You haven’t been gone from here for very long. Seconds, maybe,” she says. “It’s July 31st. Still summer. School’s in a couple of weeks.” July 31st is an EXCELLENT day to read “Remade, Reshaped, Remembered,” a gorgeous post-portal fantasy story by @sydneyficant137.bsky.social.
Remade, Reshaped, Remembered - OTHERSIDE
“I didn’t think the portal would choose you.” This is the first thing Ma tells you when she finds you standing in your childhood bedroom, unable to remember how you got there. You are grasping for a nonexistent blade at your waist, completely baffled by your child-soft hands and your oversized basketball shorts and the […]
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Any of my friends who have witnessed my mental state as I have gone through edit after edit of this book can attest that every individual letter and punctuation mark has been ripped painfully out of my very own soul 😣
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 5d agoFor writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why
I am in the funniest possible situation I am trying to go see The Odyssey but may not get there because of transportation delays
Claude write this story for me. Claude go outside and appreciate the birdsong please. Describe it in detail. Claude can you take my wife on a date to a nice French restaurant and figure out why she's crying all the time.
People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
NEW: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is demanding in a new letter that Mitch McConnell "directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign."
Speak or resign: Beshear ups demand for McConnell health status
McConnell's absence is fueling speculation about his capacity to serve.
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I'm terrible at marketing my own books but it's posting here or dancing on tiktok and I can't dance to save myself
Sascha Stronach🏳️⚧️, The Sunforge out now@understatesmen.bsky.social · last yr.yo you should read my books, if The Locked Tomb is a goth girl they're her punk friend who reeks of tobacco www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-E...
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
Oral rehydration therapy was invented by public health heroes from Bangladesh (with support from my PhD advisor Richard Cash) during a cholera epidemic in the 1970s, saving millions. We don't think much about dying from diarrhea in the US, but here we are. Cyclospora often needs antibiotics. 6/
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
I am a birthright citizen, like my parents before me
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · last mo.I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.
Fusion Fragment is now open to submissions! Full details at www.fusionfragment.com/submissions/
Here's what the media won't show you: three formerly incarcerated Black men who are now authors. You can learn a lot from their stories. This BLACK-owned online bookstore has their books in stock ✊🏾📚 #booksky #blackbooksky #blacksky
Fusion Fragment is opening soon for subs!! Send us stuff!!
Fusion Fragment@fusionfragment.bsky.social · last mo.Next up, @anjbaker.bsky.social! Another writer published in the pages of FF who later joined the reading team, Anj's "Infinity and a Spelunker" is exactly what I mean when I say I want more weird fiction. Go check it out in FF#22: www.fusionfragment.com/issue-22/ 15/
