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@nmwhitley.bsky.social

write drum teach, etc Words in The Dark, Seize the Press, Cosmic Horro Monthly, Short Fiction, Cafe Irreal, Propagule, JAKE., and more Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/shortstoryrex Music and more: https://linktr.ee/nmwhitley

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Seán Padraic Birnie@seanbirnie.bsky.social · 4d ago

“He has always been the sort of boy who picks at scabs. In class sometimes he digs the compass point into the webbing of his hands. It helps him concentrate: it quells the noise.” www.thedarkmagazine.com/baby-blue/ Very happy to return to The Dark Magazine today with ‘Baby Blue’.

Baby Blue - The Dark Magazine

The wound on his neck looks like a smile. The resemblance occurs to Darragh the moment he notices it, as he stands in the bathroom scrutinising his appearance in the mirror before school. The white co...

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Stelliform Press@stelliform.press · 2w ago

I spoke to an Ingram rep about this and it is, unfortunately, a real thing that they are forcing us all to do. Shit like this shouldn't be "opt out" and if you just happen to miss the notice the machines eat your art 🤬

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.

Future Revisitations@futurerevisited.bsky.social · 2w ago

Celebrating the legacy of renowned illustrator Virgil Finlay, born OTD 1914. Here’s a beautifully evocative piece (which I hadn’t come across before) representing J. G. Ballard‘s ‘The Crystal World‘, as advertised in a 1966 edition of ‘Things to Come’, the bulletin of the Science Fiction Book Club.

Illustration by Virgil Finlay inspired by J. G. Ballard’s 1966 novel ‘The Crystal World’ - with a crystalline figure of a man in reaching out in the foreground, with a larger representation of a women’s face (eyes closed) in the background.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3w ago

remember the conservative plan for schools: 1) elite secular academies for the wealthy, 2) religious instruction to brainwash the middle class and 3) a prison-like rump public school system to discipline the lower classes into mindless servitude

Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · 3w ago

New from @josephinelee.bsky.social, in our magazine: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young children children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

nm whitley@nmwhitley.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'll say one thing about Lindsey Graham, he was a brave man, brave enough to die of explosive diarrhea at a time when none of his Republican colleagues were doing so. Here's hoping many more of those Republican colleagues I'll follow his example and also die of explosive diarrhea

Ben Lockwood, PhD@benlockwood.bsky.social · 4w ago

This story, and all of Ivy's Glass Stories collection, is very cool and weird. I wrote a review of the collection for @speculativeinsight.bsky.social www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/glass...

Glass Geographies — Speculative Insight

Ben Lockwood explores how Ivy Grimes uses geography in powerful ways in her short story collection.

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Ivy Grimes@ivygrimes.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here's a throwback story of mine from Seize the Press: "Instead of eating food like a normal dog, he ate light. There weren’t many lights in grandmother’s house (she said they gave her a headache), but the dog had a special lamp, a very bright one." www.seizethepress.com/2023/01/19/g...

alexis simpson@amutepiggy.bsky.social · last mo.

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

Seize The Press Magazine@seizethepress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sneak peak at the cover art for Issue #14, by Ana Luna. With fiction from Nelson Stanley, Kay Vaindal, Steven Cline, Frederick Samuel, and Sylvia Warren. Plus essays and reviews from Gwen C. Katz, Daniel Lukes, and Zach Gillan. Subscribe and support our work while you're there, now is a good time!

Cover art sneak peak for Issue #14 | Seize The Press Magazine

Cover art sneak peak for Issue #14 by Seize The Press Magazine on Patreon. Join Seize The Press Magazine's community for exclusive content and updates.

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daryl "crap mode aesthetic" b 🏳️‍⚧️@hypercubexl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

people being able to speak like this without getting sued into oblivion or beaten within an inch of their life is maybe the key problem in our modern world

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2mo ago

That anecdote about how Tom Holland did The Odyssey and immediately showed up on the Spider-Man set going "what if we had a script?" like a kid coming home from his first semester talking about Marxism is still killing me