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🏳️🌈 Granola-crunching, bird-watching, mushroom-marveling swamp-stomper. Southern; sometimes mad about it. Autistic ADHDer. Writer. Editor. Managing Editor @reckoningmag.bsky.social. Find her elsewhere at www.cgaubrey.com
This is beautiful.
Catherine Rockwood@martin65.bsky.social · 2d ago"And then – the icons rustled, exclaimed – music. Ann always forgot it was coming. Followed by the dogs, cream-colored and dapple, sweeping in through the leftward gate in a soft and living wave." www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/let-me-...
Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d agoPeople still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.
Our online release of IT WAS PARADISE is now complete, and print preorders are en route! Thanks so much to editor @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, everybody on Reckoning staff who worked long and hard to make this happen, and to ARLA for sponsoring it! What an educational experience this has been
Reckoning@reckoningmag.bsky.social · 6d agoThe very last poem from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on environmental justice in war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, is "Nature Knows A Little About Blooming" by Prosper C. Ìféányí. We always like to end on a high note: reckoning.press/nature-knows...
And today's poem at @reckoningmag.bsky.social, by Fatima E. -- "A rubāʿī for the rescued pangolin of Ravi flood." I love this one so. "a stranger’s hands became a shore: gathered him whole." reckoning.press/a-ruba%CA%BF...
A rubāʿī for the rescued pangolin of Ravi flood | Reckoning
Carried like wreckage on restless currents, a hushed syllable of scales and fear adrift on brown water. But a stranger’s hands became a shore: gathered him whole. The flood itself seemed to bless the ...
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what a nice surprise to click on a link and see my forthcoming @adventitiouswords.bsky.social story “A Hole in My Heart the Shape of the Multiverse” reviewed—and to see so much love for @reckoningmag.bsky.social, where I’m on staff! clearly Jay has excellent taste
Jay@tarvolon.bsky.social · last wk.Guess what? I've got an *extra* short fiction review this month! I took a look at a handful of stories from Adventitious, Kaleidotrope, and Reckoning. All had stories worth reading, with Reckoning in particular standing out: www.tarvolon.com/2026/07/27/t...
From Reckoning X, an essay on how to survive and remain creative while the world is plunged into chaos: "The Main Thing Is to Not Be Afraid: Tove Jansson, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Art in the Era of Climate Change" by Moshe Schaffzin reckoning.press/the-main-thi...
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Ruth Joffre@ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 2w agoI’ve been keeping this secret for MONTHS and now I can finally scream about it: I’VE GOT A FLASH CHAPBOOK COMING OUT!!!! it’s called Lies I Tell My Children and it has an amazing cover!! order it from Bottlecap Press: bottlecap.press/products/lie...
A short but very good thread on why you should definitely read "Herkimer Inquiries"
Asakiyume/Morinotsuma@asakiyume.bsky.social · 3w agoI *loved* this story "Herkimer Inquiries," by @rathmercury.com, about a psychogeographer and a neighborhood of Albuquerque. What's a psychogeographer do? Well this one works "for the land, the graffiti, the spirits, the water, the birds, the people." reckoning.press/herkimer-inq... (1/?)
From IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on environmental justice in war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "Life According to Tabeeb", a story about a decidedly humanist medical AI assigned to a hospital in Cairo, by @yoakeim.bsky.social: reckoning.press/life-accordi...
Life According to Tabeeb | Reckoning
It may take a decade or longer to train a human clinician, but it took a team of Ministry of Health technicians only seven days to certify me a Clinically Adept Machine Sentience (CAMS) and hand me co...
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New from @reckoningmag.bsky.social today, "Herkimer Inquiries" by @rathmercury.com: a canny, queer tussle with the supernatural and with City Hall, in Albuquerque. reckoning.press/herkimer-inq...
Herkimer Inquiries | Reckoning
I watched the clip again: the lifeless body of a white-winged dove entered the shot at the top of my screen and plummeted off the bottom a half second later. Whoever was holding the camera didn’t noti...
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Yes, please don't forget that the Dust Bowl during the US Great Depression happened in part because the westward pressure of farming disrupted native soil and ecology and grasses, so once you hit a drought, you had a bunch of dirt that wasn't held down by anything at all.
THIS. THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS you may have seen @reckoningmag.bsky.social's post. we found multiple publications for that person that had certain hallmarks.... to be clear, you can't be sure unless the person tells you or there's tags/prompts left in the text, but sketchy behavior is suggestive!
Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼@bonabooks.bsky.social · 4w agoMaybe you thought, like us, that if you read AI fiction you’d just *know*. We thought they’d feel obvious, but AI stories are already passing editorial scrutiny with magazines and presses around the world. That’s the most alarming lesson in this.
One day, my nervous system will stop identifying a video call as BIG DANGER, but it is not this day. Actual danger? BEARS? fine. normal. no adrenaline! Zoom call with a (perfectly lovely!) human??? No, we're gonna panic about it.
Staying current & informed requires constant balancing of: "I do this for the love of reading/writing" and "If I do this too much I will love my love of reading/writing" Which is exhausting in an industry already losing great presses to overwork, under-staffing, low/no pay, and constant burnout.
Litbowl@litbowl.bsky.social · last mo.Yeah. I think unfortunately my best take is: 1) if you’re gonna be reading/judging/selecting for any contest or mag or publisher, you probably should have at least a baseline awareness of slop tropes. Maybe JUST a baseline! Too much slop hurts your brain even if you’re reading it for a purpose.
If you're interested in this post by @reckoningmag.bsky.social, a plea: please also go read some of the gorgeous human-written work we've published. It's all online for free, except for some of the current issue (our 10th anniversary issue) which will follow in due course! reckoning.press
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Reckoning@reckoningmag.bsky.social · last mo.Today, in place of a new piece of writing from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, here's a word of explanation from publisher @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social as to why we felt we had to remove a poem from the issue: reckoning.press/ai/
Today, in place of a new piece of writing from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, here's a word of explanation from publisher @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social as to why we felt we had to remove a poem from the issue: reckoning.press/ai/
Hey kids, Milkweed Editions have apparently lost their mind & are offering 50% off on every title published before this year, from now until Bastille Day. Yes, that includes Braiding Sweetgrass, everything by Ada Límon and, yes… …my first three poetry collections, & both translations! 🙃
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It is July. Grandma reports on her evening news viewing, grief spoken between the flowers of our gardens. Too hot to sleep, midnight, I walk to the lake, check for cops, the algae bloom report... --hope y'all will read this long, gorgeous COVID-lockdown elegy by @dyanisabin.bsky.social
Reckoning@reckoningmag.bsky.social · last mo.New today from Reckoning X, our 10th anniversary issue: "On Leafing" by @dyanisabin.bsky.social, a poem about living through crisis, grieving, and growing into the person who can carry on your ancestors' principles: reckoning.press/on-leafing/
From IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "SOWING KOTTRAVAI", a story by Tehnuka about a group of young women working to reassemble the pieces of their homeland and themselves in the aftermath of diaspora: reckoning.press/sowing-kottr...
Issue 2 is out now on our website! To celebrate, we'll be sharing quotes from each piece in the coming days 🪐🗡️ First is "Masquerade." by @chideraoffor.bsky.social. This poem opens the issue with a knock at the door and a tender, moonlit embrace. 🌒 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/masqu...
New from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on environmental justice amid war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "Original Mandate" by @joeannhart.bsky.social, a thorny, far-future take on whether humans are fit to participate in nature's restoration reckoning.press/original-man...
I have only ever defaced one book: my grandmother's copy of Reader's Digest's North American Wildlife. At all of four year's old, I crossed out "bush tit" because I thought "tit" was a bad word and and the bird was too beautiful for that. In ink, I renamed her "The Cristal Bird" after myself. 😂
america.is.not.free@antifapatriot.bsky.social · 2mo agoAmerican Bushtit western North America, Canada through the western United States, Mexico, and into Guatemala 📷: Colin Franks Photography #birds
Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social Burn Barrel Astrology by Fendy S. Tulodo, a very quotable poem about habitat theft, home loss, and the persistence of wild & human things. Uncle says: next time, we burn the maps. We stop pretending this was ever about directions. reckoning.press/burn-barrel-...
Burn Barrel Astrology | Reckoning
My uncle swears you can tell what kind of man someone is by how he stacks wood in a burn barrel. We don’t use those anymore but he still talks like they matter. Still keeps one in the back, rusted and...
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This morning’s latest flash from @reckoningmag.bsky.social hits right for me today reckoning.press/burn-barrel-...
Burn Barrel Astrology | Reckoning
My uncle swears you can tell what kind of man someone is by how he stacks wood in a burn barrel. We don’t use those anymore but he still talks like they matter. Still keeps one in the back, rusted and...
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ICYMI, ECO25 editor Marissa Van Uden chose two stories from Reckoning 9 to include in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction: "The Piano Player Has Eight Arms" by @ideofmarch.bsky.social and "We Will Not Dream of Coral" by @mariocoelho.bsky.social! Congratulations, friends!
Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo agoApex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵
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Reckoning@reckoningmag.bsky.social · 2mo agoReckoning is a nonprofit, which means everything we publish comes out online for free! Subscribe to our email list to get new creative writing and art about environmental justice in your inbox: reckoning.press/subscribe/ It also means we'd really appreciate your support! reckoning.press/support-us/
New poem today from Reckoning X, our collectively-edited 10th anniversary issue themed around communication: "Recollection", by Adegboyega Kayowa, an elegy for a dead river reckoning.press/recollection/
From Reckoning X, our special issue on communication in environmental justice, "Chickasaw Bluff Blues", a poem in which @shereereneethomas.bsky.social does amazing things evoking music with rhythm and repetition: reckoning.press/chickasaw-bl...
Chickasaw Bluff Blues | Reckoning
Mississippi flows carries secrets in silt the bronze serpent’s scales Cicada static rasps against the high noon sun Trilobite locked in the bluff’s ancestral stone silence Oil refinery flare stains th...
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