S.L. Harris
@slharris.bsky.social
Writer, educator, sometime archaeologist | husband & dad | roots and beginnings | fiction website: ifchanceyoucallit.wordpress.com
Five days left on the Lightspeed & Nightmare kickstarter, and they still need $10k to meet their funding goal! Love short fiction? Go pick up a subscription and help spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...
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I can't recommend BCS highly enough. Issue after issue of great fantasy. I subscribe through Weightless Books which sends each number right to my e-reader. weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine@bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 2d agoLess than 1% of BCS readers support us financially. Over 99% do not. If you'd like to help us keep paying our authors and First Readers, please consider supporting us, like on the BCS Patreon or with a donation. Thank you! www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/support-bcs/...
this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word
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We haven't mentioned our Kickstarter in a while, but we just made this new GIF which shows you all of the amazing authors who agreed to write stories for us should the Kickstarter fund. We're closing in on 75% funded with 10 days left to go. Please consider backing if you can! 💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. And this in particular.
Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 7d agoIn honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter has hit 24% of our initial funding goal! What a great first day! I'm heading to bed, but thank you all for the support! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2027
An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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Great to see these fanatabulous maps collected in a book!
Jason Bradley Thompson@mockman.bsky.social · 2w agoHey everyone! I'm so excited to announce this! If you like the D&D 'walkthrough maps' I've done over the years, I'm proud to present my new book... DUNGEONS! ILLUSTRATED MAPS OF CLASSIC DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ADVENTURES, coming from Ten Speed Press on April 27, 2027! (1/4) #dnd #ttrpg
It's my birthday! My birthday wish is for you to share your favorite work from this year and I'll boost it. Here's mine, "The Metamorphosis". Becoming disabled might feel like Kafkaesque horror, but there's a beautiful path to acceptance and a good life. Also there's sloths. gavagai.com/posts/3894
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Love Michael Hurley, and this is a great appreciation. "The Tea Song" is always a mid-fall afternoon for me. "Werewolf Song" also a great one from First Songs.
Emily Hilliard@emhilly.bsky.social · 2w agoGrateful to Smithsonian Folkways for the opportunity to write the bio for the late great Michael Hurley as they announce the reissue of his debut album First Songs. Miss the guy and have been thinking of him as cider sipping and tea tasting season rolls around. folkways.si.edu/artists/mich...
The fervent wish of every sorcerer, to have it said of him that "he could do more than boil pears without wetting the stems."
Jürgen Hubert@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 2w agoA man from Sistrans used magic for all sorts of impossible feats - he became a mighty brawler, bound thieves, and divined witches. But on his deathbed, the source of his powers was revealed... #Austria #folktale #folklore #magic https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Sorcerer_of_Sistrans
I'm very late to this party, but Twin Peaks S3 Part 8 (“Gotta Light?”) is one of the most amazing pieces of art I've ever seen.
Wonderful and terrible, how children love the world, and swallow it down daylong in spite of everything, everything. - John Crowley, Endless Things
Sharing a map a week from the walls of my map room. Mostly fiction, folklore, games, and film. #MapMonday 1. "Where Timothy and his Family go Home-Hunting on Mars in [Ray Bradbury's] "The Million Year Picnic." Back cover of the Dell MapBack book "Invasion from Mars". Art by Ruth O'Neal Belew (?)
Deceptively simple: Stonehenge as blocks on the real contoured surface — orbit on your phone, tap for coords, sun & moon for today or c. 2500 BC. A lot of work so it feels easy. timdaw37.github.io/stonehenge-b...
”It feels as if our Late Halaf-Northern Ubaid Transitional Period is ending.”
'You shouldn’t sit in an exit row / if you’re unwilling or unable / to help, but actually every row / is an exit row, and no one knows /whether they can help / until they’re called on to do so.'
Granta@grantamag.bsky.social · 3w ago‘You can see why all the freaks / end up in the desert. / Saint Anthony, Manson, / Brigham Young.’ Poetry by Michael Robbins. granta.com/people-keep-...
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Really enjoyed this story by @kjkabza.bsky.social in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine@bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 3mo agoLive in BCS #460 "The Ecstasy of the White Sea" @kjkabza.bsky.social "My body screamed at me to flee or to hide, but perhaps it did not matter. My death was still near, whether that be in the Comet's return or in the White Sea's soft and endless arms." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
'You shouldn’t sit in an exit row / if you’re unwilling or unable / to help, but actually every row / is an exit row, and no one knows /whether they can help / until they’re called on to do so.'
Granta@grantamag.bsky.social · 3w ago‘You can see why all the freaks / end up in the desert. / Saint Anthony, Manson, / Brigham Young.’ Poetry by Michael Robbins. granta.com/people-keep-...
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"It was his hopeless hope that some time he would have an experience that would act on his life like alchemy, turning to gold all the dark metals of events, and from that revelation he would go on his way rich with an inextinguishable joy... (1/2)
A nice appreciation of a wonderful speculative fiction magazine!
Bruce H. McCosar@bmccosar.bsky.social · last mo."Each issue generates a consistent sense of wonder and surprise. I think if independent speculative fiction were a small town, this would be the town square." Read my recommendation and profile of the magazine at bmccosar.com?p=47 @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
