Chelsea Davis
@chelsead.bsky.social
Writer. Audio producer @Pseudopod.org. https://chelseamdavis.net/writing/
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Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 3w agoBooker longlist week continues with @chelsead.bsky.social on Missouri Williams’ The Vivisectors. Love how this review focuses on that traditional “literary” effect of characterisation, while siting it in the book’s interesting approach to that supposedly “speculative” technique of “worldbuilding.”
Booker longlist week continues with @chelsead.bsky.social on Missouri Williams’ The Vivisectors. Love how this review focuses on that traditional “literary” effect of characterisation, while siting it in the book’s interesting approach to that supposedly “speculative” technique of “worldbuilding.”
The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams
This novel cues us to distrust metaphor.
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The portal opens tomorrow… are you ready? We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).
I'm thrilled that "Othertongue", my weird horror story about disembodied alien language and a xenophobic fascist response, joins this collection of trippy, au courant horrors. I ADORE how PseudoPod rendered my "subliminal" boldfaced words in Pine Gonzalez's excellent audio. It even creeped me out!
PseudoPod 🎙️@pseudopod.org · 4mo agoPseudoPod 1032, FotB 78: Terraeque urbesque recedant • Jacob Street, by L. Marie Wood • Everyone Drinks at Sunrise, by SC Mills • Othertongue, by Rajiv Moté • Six Best Things to Do in Dim (and/or Lost) Carcosa, by Rich Larson C/W: racism, xenophobia, road death pseudopod.org/2026/06/05/p...
Tool had me passionately singing Sartre this whole time? Disgusting. This story is good.
Chelsea Davis@chelsead.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy short story about friendship, plastic surgery, & the problem of other minds is now available on ergot. ◾◼️⬛◼️◾ www.ergot.press/authors/Chel...
"The problem...was...the yawning abyss that separated their respective brains... You could look and talk and think alike, but none of these were the same as occupying a single physical space." Today on ergot.: 'One and One and One are One' by @chelsead.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Chel...
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innovative + experimental horror
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"An orgy was as good a place as any to start. Television said that sex brought people closer together, and greater closeness was what they wanted." Today on ergot.: 'One and One and One are One' by @chelsead.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Chel...
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innovative + experimental horror
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My short story about friendship, plastic surgery, & the problem of other minds is now available on ergot. ◾◼️⬛◼️◾ www.ergot.press/authors/Chel...
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innovative + experimental horror
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ergot.@ergot.bsky.social · 4mo ago"An orgy was as good a place as any to start. Television said that sex brought people closer together, and greater closeness was what they wanted." Today on ergot.: 'One and One and One are One' by @chelsead.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Chel...
Tomorrow on ergot. (we're doing an early one this week): getting together with some good friends, with Chelsea Davis chelseamdavis.net
Chelsea Davis
writer & radio producer
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I loved it! The last line just killed it. (Well, literally)
My short story about meth, estate disputes, and swamps appears in this week's PseudoPod with a pitch-perfect narration by Rae Lundberg 🌴 Read or listen in celebration of National Siblings Day!
PseudoPod 🎙️@pseudopod.org · 6mo agoPseudoPod 1024, FotB 77: The Only Enemy You Can't Live Without • Witchcraft, by Arthur Machen • How I Turned My Little Brother Human, by D. Matthew Urban • Visit Seahaven, by Courtney Farr • Get Nourished, by Chelsea Davis Narrators: Kaitlyn Zivanovich, Elie Hirschman, Kat Day and Rae Lundberg
A very special call: Over our 20 (!) years we’ve published stories from all the continents of the world, except Antarctica. We want to remedy that. We’re looking for stories between 2000–6000 words from writers who are in, have recently been to, or have plans to visit Antarctica in the near future.
In the latest edition of my essay series on horror & comedy, I discuss the films SOUL PLANE and CARNIVAL OF SOULS. Both are nightmarish fantasies of social & geographic mobility. shrieksandhowls.substack.com/p/carnival-o...
CARNIVAL OF SOUL PLANES
Before we get into this edition of S&H, here are a few pieces I’ve recently published elsewhere:
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It's week 2 of #WiHM. A grandmother warns her new granddaughter of the world of men (by @l-foxauthor.bsky.social, read by @michelle-kane.bsky.social). Then, two sisters try to banish their visions of otherworldly beings (by @chelsead.bsky.social). talestoterrify.com/episodes/737-l-fox-chelsea-davis
I could keep going day by day, tbh: @deanleetal.bsky.social on Magica Riot, @chelsead.bsky.social on Julia Armfield, @tristanbeiter.bsky.social on North Continent Ribbon. We really are gifted with - and grateful for - excellent, lovely writers.
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
There’s a plodding pace to things in Private Rites, and by design.
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For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social ), I reviewed Katherine Dunn’s first, and posthumous, collection of short fiction. Violence, motherhood, resilience, boxing. lareviewofbooks.org/article/fles...
Flesh Under Pressure | Los Angeles Review of Books
Chelsea Davis considers Katherine Dunn’s posthumous story collection ‘Near Flesh.’
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"'Near Flesh' often treats motherhood and violence as two sides of the same coin, or sword." @chelsead.bsky.social considers Katherine Dunn’s posthumous story collection "Near Flesh." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/flesh-under-pressure/
In the latest edition of my essay series on horror & comedy films, I discuss SORRY, BABY and THE DEVIL'S BATH. St. Agnes, suffering, and specialness. shrieksandhowls.substack.com/p/agni-dei
Absolute dream speaking with @chelsead.bsky.social for @electricliterature.com about the great Dorothy Allison, the agency in body horror, my perpetual motion sickness, where people-pleasing gets dangerous, being your own absent babysitter, and more.
A Provocative Story Collection About Immigrants, Bodies Under Siege, and the Horror of Being Perceived - Electric Literature
Kristina Ten’s “Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine” gets spooky about girlhood
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Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other
Hey! I'm reading in SF this Thursday! Et al. Gallery at 6pm with @milesklee.bsky.social @spookymeatball.bsky.social @chelsead.bsky.social, Colin Winette and Lucy Corin
Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'! Official Double--Negative announcement here: www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg Add it on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... Order it on Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
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It was a total delight to interview @annaleen.bsky.social about their new queer sci-fi novella, Automatic Noodle. You can read the interview online now, or in print this Thursday ✨ tinyurl.com/yc53d83u
Annalee Newitz’ ‘Automatic Noodle’ – Queer robots in futuristic California
“I love writing gay robots,” Annalee Newitz says. It’s clear the Lambda Literary Award-winning author and science journalist had a ball writing “Automatic Noodle” (Tor), their fourth queer sci-fi book...
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Well, we tried to stop the portal, but it looks like it’s opening anyway. Oh well. We open for submissions at midnight. Ish. Horror. Up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don’t agonise over your cover letter. Just send us a brilliant story.