Ausiàs Tsel
@ausiastsel.com
País Valencià. Mediterranean Gothic in Catalan/Valencian & English. Forthcoming in The Rumpus & Chthonic Matter. Pithead Chapel, Neon & Smoke, Flash Fiction Magazine & Dark Horses. Creator of zenodot.app (Publishers Lunch, Jane Friedman, LSE Impact).
The Bell That Never Rang made the shortlist for the Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize, judged by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. Twenty-two stories. Mine is about a bell that refuses to do its one job. @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Judged by Melissa Llanes Brownlee Shortlist | Fractured
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📅 Aquest setembre el Grup de Lectura Obert de Filosofia (GLOF) enceta curs de lectura a l’Espai Godmar de #Callús. 📗 El volum protagonista serà «Entre els déus i el no-res», del filòsof Jordi Corominas. Una oportunitat per posar en diàleg diverses maneres d’entendre el món. 👉🏽 tuit.cat/gC0BE
My "The Bell that Never Rang" longlisted at Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Judged by Melissa Llanes Brownlee @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/ghost-fable-...
Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Judged by Melissa Llanes Brownlee Longlist | Fractured
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Our annual short story contest opens in 1 week! See what guest judge Deesha Philyaw has to say about writing that has surprised her lately and what she is looking for in contest submissions.
Tomorrows Frightening Tale! Season 6's pivotal 13th Episode! And Premier story by author Ausiàs Tsel!
The story is this weeks tale by @ausiastsel.com. Available tomorrow. I am so nervous that I pronounced everything properly. Fingers crossed.
We changed how Zenòdot tells you where to find a book. Every edition with an ISBN now shows it, copyable, with one line: with the ISBN, any bookshop or library can order it for you. The humblest gesture, and the one that actually works.
Hem canviat com Zenòdot et diu on trobar un llibre. Ara cada edició amb ISBN el porta copiable, amb una frase: amb l'ISBN, qualsevol llibreria o biblioteca te'l pot demanar. És el gest més humil de tots i el que més funciona.
In March I launched a tool to answer one question: has this book been translated into my language? Back then it crossed four databases. Four months later, Zenòdot correlates 50+ sources: 61.9M editions, 12.9M works, 638 languages documented, 70M+ author name variants. Zenodot.app
Zenodot — Find book translations across languages
Discover book translations across languages. A documentary tool for readers worldwide.
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Al marge de les qüestions nacionals -que pesen, i com!-, al futbol sempre vull que guanye qui celebre la victòria més lluny de mi.
"The Devil Takes You Home” is fucking my brain the good way. I need to keep remembering myself to stop because I have things to do. Haven’t read anything like this in a really long time.
Primera peça de premsa en la llengua de Zenòdot. «El català, entre les onze primeres llengües d'un catàleg mundial de 62 milions d'edicions». Gràcies a @naciodigital.bsky.social per explicar tan bé per què una edició en occità o en amazic mereix el mateix tractament documental que una en anglés.
El català, entre les onze primeres llengües d'un catàleg mundial de 62 milions d'edicions
Un valencià crea Zenòdot, un cercador de traduccions de llibres capaç de creuar dades d'arreu del món i reconèixer-les en alfabets diferents
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In March I launched a tool to answer one question: has this book been translated into my language? Back then it crossed four databases. Four months later, Zenòdot correlates 50+ sources: 61.9M editions, 12.9M works, 638 languages documented, 70M+ author name variants. Zenodot.app
Zenodot — Find book translations across languages
Discover book translations across languages. A documentary tool for readers worldwide.
zenodot.app
...her hand lifts, two fingers separating as if they remember the path: forehead, chest. The small private choreography that once meant: keep us safe. Her hand drops to her side. She sees me watching and her face closes, polite and empty. READ @ausiastsel.com in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
The Bread
Ausiàs Tsel My son leaves the bread upside down because he is six and the world is a surface you can rearrange. It’s a barra—too long for the plate, too warm for patience—resting on the tab…
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The Tribunal de les Aigües has met outside the cathedral of València every Thursday since the Middle Ages. Fines counted in a currency dead everywhere else. In 1974 it fined a plot of land that no longer existed. open.substack.com/pub/ausiasts...
Denunciats de la Séquia de Rovella
Set down in writing, the accused not having appeared.
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Fellow writer types, without context, 1st line of a current work-in-progress? "L’olor d’encens li saturava els narius i li impedia olorar la seua pròpia sang, barrejada amb restes de femta i pixum que s’escolaven pels camals d’uns texans bruts i mig esguerrats."
DR LUKANSTEIN ⚧️@beastcutter.bsky.social · 4w agoFellow writer types, without context, 1st line of a current work-in-progress? "Who is the King of the forest?"
Hope yesterday was fun for everyone! Today? Maybe read a novel about the disease known as colonialism. Sincerely, An author born and raised in a US colony
Novedades programadas por el sello Obscura Editorial @obscuraed.bsky.social para el segundo semestre de 2026 (y algo de 2027): distopolis.com/novedades-pr...
“Harvest of Bone” is forthcoming in Chthonic Matter Quarterly, 2027. Another Mediterranean Gothic. Chthonic works the seam between Shirley Jackson and Ligotti, which is the right ground for this one. More when it’s out.
Els llibres sobre la condició col·lectiva dels valencians han estat una constant des de "Nosaltres, els valencians" (1962). Tanmateix... COLP CULTURAL | La crisi de l’assaig social valencià, per Vicent Flor #anàlisi www.eldiario.es/129_cba49c?u... #colpcultural
La crisi de l’assaig social valencià
D’omplir prestatges, els darrers anys ha disminuït notòriament. A casa nostra, ha sigut bandejat de la literatura
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Avui, per fi, he enviat l'assaig a una editorial. Parla de gent obligada a callar i d'un país que ha preferit oblidar-los. Encara no en puc dir el nom. Però no el podia callar. Em temo que se m'havia encomanat.
Every answer I gave today circled one idea: the servants God left behind when He turned His face away. Patient. Owed entry. Waiting longer than we live. I wrote a story where a man walks straight into it. The Hermitage, in Neon & Smoke. #HorrorWritersChat www.neonandsmoke.com/issue-2/the-...
The Hermitage | Neon & Smoke
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Eryn McCee@erynmccee.bsky.social · last mo.And here we go! Thank you again for diving in so wholeheartedly. I've enjoyed seeing the folk horror writers roll their sleeves up. Please, promo yourselves, promo each other. Repost. Like. Comment. And if you haven't answered questions yet, go do that then do this. I will know. #HorrorWritersChat
Invitations. Usually a one-time threshold. I’d make it permanent and unknowing; a four-year-old tells the thing in the hedge it can come to her party. Fifty years on, it’s still owed entry. Patient. Lawful. Waiting at a door she forgot she ever left open. #Horrorwriterschat
Eryn McCee@erynmccee.bsky.social · last mo.Last qu, and thank you to everyone who's interacted so far. Your minds never cease to thrill me. Outro in 10. Promo awaits. #HorrorWritersChat
The fairy returned the child exactly as promised. We had begged for all of him. We keep finding the rest. In the bread, behind the skirting, under the dog’s tongue. Every part accounted for. As promised. #HorrorWritersChat
Eryn McCee@erynmccee.bsky.social · last mo.I do love a good writing prompt. Thankfully, so do some of you. One more question after this, then the promo. Thank you to all but the one who did for not promo-ing already. #HorrorWritersChat
My twist folk belief: fairies are angels who fell, not wicked enough for hell, not good enough to keep their place. I took it at its word. In The Hermitage the saint behind the altar is one of them, still standing where the orders ran out. The paint is shedding. #HorrorWritersChat
Eryn McCee@erynmccee.bsky.social · last mo.Being a great horror writer is not always about talking about something scary. It's making something scary that people think is tiny, or harmless. How would you subvert your Tinkerbell? Actually she was probably scary too. #HorrorWritersChat
Ausiàs Tsel, Valencian Country. I write Mediterranean Gothic, the horror of a God who turns away. Here we don't have fairies. We didn't lost them. We found a Virgin at the spring where each one lived and built a hermitage over the water. They’re still there, drinking. #Horrorwriterschat
Eryn McCee@erynmccee.bsky.social · last mo.Q1 #Horrorwriterschat. We're going in. Tell me the tea.
Guillem Mascaró has been waiting since 1707, the year Felip V’s soldiers burned Xàtiva. Now he kneels in the Cathedral of València, certain of everything except whether anyone is listening. Yous truly is out today in Flash Fiction Magazine. An honor. #HorrorWritersChat
Still Waiting for an Answer?
The priest opened his eyes. Cassock pooling around his knees, hands folded, kneeling before a tomb that held more dust than bones. Beneath the wooden pew lay Ausiàs March, the engraved letters veil…
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Guillem Mascaró has been waiting since 1707, the year Felip V’s soldiers burned Xàtiva. Now he kneels in the Cathedral of València, certain of everything except whether anyone is listening. Yous truly is out today in Flash Fiction Magazine. An honor. #HorrorWritersChat
Still Waiting for an Answer?
The priest opened his eyes. Cassock pooling around his knees, hands folded, kneeling before a tomb that held more dust than bones. Beneath the wooden pew lay Ausiàs March, the engraved letters veil…
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