S.L. Harris
@slharris.bsky.social
Writer, educator, sometime archaeologist | husband & dad | roots and beginnings | fiction website: ifchanceyoucallit.wordpress.com
A more credulous man than I might have assumed that, here in the Singularity, with nations of LLM geniuses working round the clock to churn out decades’ worth of code in hours, the text note-taking app of the world’s largest software corporation would sort of basically function.
"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
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A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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@lmsacasas.bsky.social is always worth reading on technology and society. I was just thinking on a recent urban evening walk how much I missed the starry sky. theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-did-w...
What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?
The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 8
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ICYMI - this is my latest in BCS! It’s a story that is so dear to my heart. I hope folks enjoy it.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine@bcsmagazine.bsky.social · last wk.Live in BCS #462; podcast 363 "Dreams in Burnished Silver" @christinehanolsy.com "pressed a tiny metal disc into my hand as we passed: a minuscule mirror that captured my image in parts; a freckle here, an eyelash there. In return, I gave you my name." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/drea...
“Keep talking,” I say to her, as I round the corner into our bedroom. She says my name. Relief. She’s on the bed. I know this without seeing it. I know this house. Today on ergot.: 'Infinity Hotel' by J.R. Andrews www.ergot.press/authors/J.R....
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Hello Bluesky! Thought I’d start using this platform a bit more to promote some of my work. If you like Charles Dickens, then please check out my Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery — it contains around 2,100 illustrations from the originals up to 1912. Www.Charlesdickensillustration.org
The only Odyssey hot take you absolutely need to read is Lord Dunsany's.
![THE RAFT-BUILDERS
[by Lord Dunsany]
All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships.
When we break up under the heavy years and go down into eternity with all that is ours our thoughts like small lost rafts float on awhile upon Oblivion's sea. They will not carry much over those tides, our names and a phrase or two and little else.
They that write as a trade to please the whim of the day, they are like sailors that work at the rafts only to warm their hands and to distract their thoughts from their certain doom; their rafts go all to pieces before the ship breaks up.
See now Oblivion shimmering all around us, its very tranquility deadlier than tempest. How little all our keels have troubled it. Time in its deeps swims like a monstrous whale; and, like a whale, feeds on the littlest things—small tunes and little unskilled songs of the olden, golden evenings—and anon turneth whale-like to overthrow whole ships.
See now the wreckage of Babylon floating idly, and something there that once was Nineveh; already their kings and queens are in the deeps among the weedy masses of old centuries that hide the sodden bulk of sunken Tyre and make a darkness round Persepolis.
For the rest I dimly see the forms of foundered ships on the sea-floor strewn with crowns.
Our ships were all unseaworthy from the first.
There goes the raft that Homer made for Helen.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:utdci2ewhpqzfl6uukt4kdkc/bafkreifikhyonuxtvq335lsvoml4gbqzng6yxvposhuz6a7i7rae5nz3zy)
Very happy that my story, “The Red Sands of Time,” an homage to Moore’s Northwest Smith stories, appears in this issue!
@chmmagazine.bsky.social · 3w agoSingle issues of our C.L. Moore tribute issue are available on our webstore: zurl.co/6O3fv
@lmsacasas.bsky.social is always worth reading on technology and society. I was just thinking on a recent urban evening walk how much I missed the starry sky. theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-did-w...
What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?
The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 8
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This story by @rsagarcia.bsky.social is so very good. Please have a read. You’ll thank yourself (and consider subscribing to @clarkesworldmagazine.com while you’re at it!)
This Is an Emergency Broadcast by R.S.A. Garcia
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.
Wouldn't it be nice if Strange Horizons could continue paying 10c/word next year??
Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 3w ago📣 3 days left and we're $210 away from 9c/word! 📣 Our first stretch goal towards keeping our fiction rates the same is almost here! (That's also $5210 away from 10c/word! 👀)
Kid and I just made root beer floats with some homemade salted caramel ice cream in frosty mugs and it doesn’t get much better than that.
FFer Read of the Day: "The Island at the End of the World" by @slharris.bsky.social in The Dark: www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-island-a...
The Island at the End of the World - The Dark Magazine
Today three guests arrived from the sea. I had neither expected nor wished to see another soul for as long as I lived. Yet I made them welcome. I had been sitting above the waterfall, gazing into one ...
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As a Shirley Jackson scholar, this feels like a trap.
Re-upping for your Sunday
S.L. Harris @slharris.bsky.social · 4w agoNew story up at ergot. What if an insular patriarchal cargo cult founded on the New Testament epistles and a few soggy bits of Peter Pan were sacrificing its children to endless war with the birds? What if not all the middle kids and archaeopteryxes follow the script? www.ergot.press/authors/S.L....
New story up at ergot. What if an insular patriarchal cargo cult founded on the New Testament epistles and a few soggy bits of Peter Pan were sacrificing its children to endless war with the birds? What if not all the middle kids and archaeopteryxes follow the script? www.ergot.press/authors/S.L....
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Found in the Ljubljana Marshes in Slovenia, this incredible artifact dates back over 5,100 years. The wheel itself is made of ash wood, paired with a 124-centimeter oak axle. Photo credit Matevž Paternoster / MGML. mgml.si/en/city-muse...
🧵A thread of SOME things I'd love to see more of - ✨not✨ the ONLY things I'd publish: - Wuxia S&S - South Asian S&S - Middle Eastern S&S - Indigenous S&S - Comradery - Sincerity - Unique, Weird creatures & other supernatural elements you invented for your story. - Leiber-esque humor. 🧵 1/?
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 4w ago📩New Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine opens for submissions soon!📆 ✍️ Subs open on August 1st, run for the entire month, and we are hoping to buy more stories than ever before! Learn more here 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/
In case you didn’t know, a thing you can do is subscribe to Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet plus a chocolate bar, and then some days you will open your mailbox and there will be a lot of good writing and also a chocolate bar waiting for you. smallbeerpress.com/shopping/sub...
New story up at ergot. What if an insular patriarchal cargo cult founded on the New Testament epistles and a few soggy bits of Peter Pan were sacrificing its children to endless war with the birds? What if not all the middle kids and archaeopteryxes follow the script? www.ergot.press/authors/S.L....
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"First Peter scooped another little melon ball of flesh from his arm and fed it gently into Second Timothy’s joyful, upturned lips." Today on ergot. "Lively Stones" by S.L. Harris @slharris.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/S.L....
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A typically excellent piece by @thomasha.bsky.social. Psychological thriller with simulacra, doppelgangers (William Wilson!), and states & powers desiring (implausibly, it's just fiction, of course) to devour and consume everything. Great stuff. clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_07_26/
Our Revels Now Are Ended by Thomas Ha
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If, like me, you’ve been yearning for more archaeopteryxes/archaeopteryges in modern fiction, stay tuned.
ergot.@ergot.bsky.social · 4w agoTomorrow on ergot.: releasing some new feathered friends with S.L. Harris @slharris.bsky.social
