Lynne Sargent

@lynnesargent.bsky.social

Writer. Philosopher. Sky-dancer. They/She. Codex. LCP. Author of A REFUGE OF TALES. Poetry Editor at Utopia Science Fiction. THOUGHT EXPERIMENT REVOLUTION forthcoming from ECW Press. https://linktr.ee/LynneSargent

UK friends! If you’ve have trouble preordering my collection locally, that issue has been fixed. Offerings for Ordinary Gods will be available within 24 hours! (Waterstones physical stores etc.) Pass it along!

It’s the day after, and the sound of erupting cheers for Elis Montgomery winning Best Poem still fills me with joy. May this be the energy next year. May this be the energy after 2029. May speculative poetry remain a beacon star in the constellation of our genre, forever and always.

Oh!! Bsky was down when I wanted to post this! I have a new poem out in @nightmare-magazine.com! "Shapeshifting Recovery Staff" www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/shape... A new piece in my series "Jobs for Magical People (That Do Not Involve the Military)". I'll thread the previous ones too:

Shapeshifting Recovery Staff - Nightmare Magazine

Your clients are—more often than not— helpless, a stack of unsorted organs kept pulsating by the will locked inside

nightmare-magazine.com

I had a wee spooky tale out this week 👀👀👀 If you like grumpy self-involved inventors getting bullied by a malevolent god on an island just off the coast of Newfoundland post-climate collapse, and they deserve each other, u know

Kerry C. Byrne@kercoby.bsky.social · last wk.

✨ Story time! “Recipe for Escaping the God of the Cove” is live with The Ex-Puritan! ✨ 🌊 Horror scifi canlit slipstream 🌊 Marriage falls apart in nature 🌊 Spooky God with jokes 🌊 Unreliable narrator 🌊 The cat lives THANK YOU to @anuja-v.bsky.social for plucking this strange tale from the slush 🖤

IT’S MY BOOK BIRTHDAY! 🥳 Thank you to everyone who’s pre-ordered this book. If you haven’t yet, I’m not mad. Here’s the order links just in case: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-as...

Stars and Sabers@starsandsabers.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy release day to @cornellwriter.bsky.social! The Astronaut Among the Flowers and Other Stories, her debut collection, is now available. With captivating and thrilling science fiction and fantasy stories, this collection is inspiring. Cover art by Loreto Salinas Retamal. #books #SFF #scifi

ALT: starry open book background and sparkly purple swirl with the cover of P.A. Cornell’s short story collection THE ASTRONAUT AMONG THE FLOWERS AND OTHER STORIES. Cover art by Loreto Salinas Retamal.
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"A Bookpothecary" by Lynne Sargent, (excerpt): The proprietor watches as Anna doesn’t even read the sign above the door before she pushes her way inside, eyes translucent with an unshed ocean of tears. Her face reveals months of pain, a boil of a boyfriend recently lanced...

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

TIL how to change footnotes from being continuously numbered to resetting every section. The mental load that has placed on the poor document for THOUGHT EXPERIMENT REVOLUTION means that apparently its time to take a break from edits. (Yes, I love footnotes)