FUTURE HELL SLANG (formerly The Neon Church)
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"'Othello listening to Iago? Dumb as hell. I would never do that,' says a person who watches insanely toxic relationship advice videos on the internet." this essay is great
RS Benedict@rsbenedict.bsky.social · 10mo agoIs your writing stupid enough? rs-benedict.com/2025/11/29/s...
just finished THE NOH MASK MURDER by Akimitsu Takagi (translated by Jesse Kirkwood) and i don't remember the last time a book hit me this hard. a genuine classic that brought me to tears.
The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi | 9781782279655 | Pushkin Press
Can you solve the puzzle of the Noh Mask Murder? Death and madness have haunted the Chizui family for years. Now a strange figure has been seen wandering their
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in the hospital for a blood clot near my liver. i’m ok. take care of yourselves, friends.
working on a heartbreaking Pokémon story tentatively called “Flowers for Dragalge,” narrated by a Charmander who takes an experimental medicine that evolves it all the way to Charizard before failing and devolving back to Charmander again
maybe this time, he says, on the 6th repair of the espresso machine
one of Humble Bundle's offerings this month is 18 Maigret books by Georges Simenon, which is awesome.
Humble Book Bundle: Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret Series by Picador
Georges Simenon’s iconic Inspector Maigret detective novels are getting a revamp, and we have the first 18 new edition ebooks for the price of your choice!
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i'm thinking about doing a live reading of Nuzzi's entire book and selling tickets to raise funds for a charity that teaches kids not to read
link only, because the art's got an explicit tag in defiance of reason. The Neon Church #14, "Yourself," a story about thankless jobs, alienation, depression, parasitizing loneliness, practicing sounding like the old you, and none of it is metaphorical. theneon.church/issues/14-yo...
My new story, #14 from THE NEON CHURCH: "Yourself." "It takes practice. But you have to learn to sound like yourself." --- A story about memories, cabinets, thankless jobs, imposters, the body horror of performance, and bosses that don't listen because of unidirectional ear wires.
Yourself
You do not know how to sound like yourself. Or if it is worth it, to try.
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Finished @older.bsky.social 's POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES last night. It was very good, changing the rules before the series codifies a formula. I appreciated the clear-eyed portrayal of a 2nd party confronting a partner's "melancholy" with an open heart, as a melancholic myself.
Always a good day for new Brian Evenson
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag.com · 11mo ago3LBE Issue 46 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by K.S. Walker, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Corey Farrenkopf, Premee Mohamed, and Katie McIvor. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/
nothing will keep me up, vigilant for november tornadoes, like listening to the wind as the temperature drops 50 degrees overnight
My wife/bff @jeanschwab.bsky.social is crocheting a character from my WIP. This is both inspiring and incomprehensibly terrifying.
Just 6 days from the release of my new short story collection, TO WONDER AND STARSHINE, publishing via Trepidato! This is a charmer, filled with warm-hearted #fantasy and #scifi tales, from alternate realms to Appalachia to the galaxy! Order from your favorite bookseller. #books #newbooks
To Wonder and Starshine - Jendia Gammon
To Wonder and Starshine is a collection of fantasy and science fiction tales from Nebula and BSFA award finalist Jendia Gammon, published by Trepdiatio Publishing.
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800 new words in the novel project this morning. It feels good to get back to the routine.
Finished THE LADY KILLER, Masako Togawa's 1963 mystery novel last night. It's sharply drawn with a unique structure, and surprised even a jaded reader like me. Also Togawa herself led a life as fascinating as her fiction: "singer/songwriter, actress, feminist, novelist, lesbian icon."
“I’m making a pirate AI. His personality is based on Jack Sparrow from PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, and Jack Sparrow from DEAD MAN’S CHEST.”
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.Musk is prepping the male Grok “companion,” which he describes as a cross between “Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Grey from 50 Shades.”
People desperate to get to the wallet inspector’s before it closes, as all their push notifications from the wallet inspectors count down until the end of the early adopter bonus
Thinking about where educators & colleges are getting this pervasive idea that AI is inevitable and we have to jump on board or get left behind. For the record, I don’t think that’s true. That message is coming from the companies making & selling the tech. That should be a red flag to slow down.
Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · last yr.you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
For the first time in 2 years, Ava’s tests are clear. When her dad told me I was so relieved I cried. Today he told me NMDP has already identified matches through Ava’s drives. Thank you, everyone, so much, for everything.
Aden Albert@adenalbertcreative.com · 2y agoMy best friends' daughter is 3 and needs a bone marrow transplant. Anyone in the US 18-40 can text this number for a free cheek swab. If you're not a match for her, you could be a match for someone else. Times are tough, but we'll help each other. That's what we do.
Ten writers by whom you've read more than 5 books: 1. Guy Gavriel Kay 2. Oscar Wilde (I'm counting plays) 3. Brandon Sanderson 4. Robert Jordan 5. NK Jemisin 6. Ursula Le Guin 7. Tracy Hickman & Margaret Weis 8. CJ Cherryh 9. Clarence E Mulford 10. Robin Hobb
FUTURE HELL SLANG (formerly The Neon Church)@futurehellslang.com · last yr.Ten writers by whom you’ve read more than 5 books: 1. Keigo Higashino 2. Martha Wells 3. Jeff Vandermeer 4. Jo Nesbø 5. Jason Pargin 6. Malka Older 7. Seishi Yokomizo 8. Dan Abnett 9. Stephen King 10. P. Djèlí Clark
1. Tanith Lee 2. Rachel Pollack 3. Diana Wynne Jones 4. Ursula LeGuin 5. T Kingfisher 6. Victoria Goddard 7. Antonia Forest 8. Margaret Mahy 9. Terry Pratchett 10. Martha Wells
FUTURE HELL SLANG (formerly The Neon Church)@futurehellslang.com · last yr.Ten writers by whom you’ve read more than 5 books: 1. Keigo Higashino 2. Martha Wells 3. Jeff Vandermeer 4. Jo Nesbø 5. Jason Pargin 6. Malka Older 7. Seishi Yokomizo 8. Dan Abnett 9. Stephen King 10. P. Djèlí Clark
Ten writers by whom you’ve read more than 5 books: 1. NK Jemisen 2. Anne McCaffery 3. Andre Norton 4. Kelley Armstrong 5. Elizabeth Moon 6. Octavia Butler 7. Louise Cooper 8. Tad Williams 9. Greg Keyes 10. Mike Jefferies
FUTURE HELL SLANG (formerly The Neon Church)@futurehellslang.com · last yr.Ten writers by whom you’ve read more than 5 books: 1. Keigo Higashino 2. Martha Wells 3. Jeff Vandermeer 4. Jo Nesbø 5. Jason Pargin 6. Malka Older 7. Seishi Yokomizo 8. Dan Abnett 9. Stephen King 10. P. Djèlí Clark
Ten writers by whom you're read more than 5 books: 1. T. Kingfisher 2. . Seanan McGuire 3. Adrian Tchaikovsky 4. Terry Pratchett 5. N. K. Jemisin 6. Martha Wells 7. C. L. Polk 8. Guy Gavriel Kay 9. Naomi Novak 10. Nghi Vo
FUTURE HELL SLANG (formerly The Neon Church)@futurehellslang.com · last yr.Ten writers by whom you’ve read more than 5 books: 1. Keigo Higashino 2. Martha Wells 3. Jeff Vandermeer 4. Jo Nesbø 5. Jason Pargin 6. Malka Older 7. Seishi Yokomizo 8. Dan Abnett 9. Stephen King 10. P. Djèlí Clark
Ten writers by whom you’ve read more than 5 books: (every time one of these comes up my brain decides "am eepy, how read, what is book) Tanith Lee T Kingfisher Premee Mohamed Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire Terry Pratchett Alan Dean Foster Ursula Le Guin Sheri S Tepper C J Cherryh Isaac Asimov
FUTURE HELL SLANG (formerly The Neon Church)@futurehellslang.com · last yr.Ten writers by whom you’ve read more than 5 books: 1. Keigo Higashino 2. Martha Wells 3. Jeff Vandermeer 4. Jo Nesbø 5. Jason Pargin 6. Malka Older 7. Seishi Yokomizo 8. Dan Abnett 9. Stephen King 10. P. Djèlí Clark
in no particular order: 1. Stephen King 2. Aaron Allston 3. T. Kingfisher 4. Naomi Novik 5. Anne McCaffrey 6. NK Jemisin 7. Brandon Sanderson 8. Robert Jordan 9. Leigh Bardugo 10. Holly Black
FUTURE HELL SLANG (formerly The Neon Church)@futurehellslang.com · last yr.Ten writers by whom you’ve read more than 5 books: 1. Keigo Higashino 2. Martha Wells 3. Jeff Vandermeer 4. Jo Nesbø 5. Jason Pargin 6. Malka Older 7. Seishi Yokomizo 8. Dan Abnett 9. Stephen King 10. P. Djèlí Clark
Ten writers from whom you’ve read 5 or more books: 1. Brandon Sanderson 2. James S.A. Corey 3. Jim Butcher 4. Martha Wells 5. Erik Larson 6. Malka Older 7. John Scalzi 8. N.K. Jemisin 9. China Miéville 10. Anderzej Sapkowski
FUTURE HELL SLANG (formerly The Neon Church)@futurehellslang.com · last yr.Ten writers by whom you’ve read more than 5 books: 1. Keigo Higashino 2. Martha Wells 3. Jeff Vandermeer 4. Jo Nesbø 5. Jason Pargin 6. Malka Older 7. Seishi Yokomizo 8. Dan Abnett 9. Stephen King 10. P. Djèlí Clark
