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Reader and writer living in Canada. I enjoy brothy soups and comfy chairs.
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The book i would carry in my backpack thru an apocalypse, no doubt.

My question is: what are the odds it lands on the White House

It’s good to see people mobilizing. Find a group near you that’s taking steps to fight what’s going on. Join. Help out as you can.

tang yau hoong -- a positive light on a negative space

Please listen, my dear literary fans, i've been dreaming of writing a novel immitating the structure of 'Chronicle of a death Foretold' by GGM 1/n

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.” EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣

I wish Democratic leadership and the press would be as alarmist and motivated about actual fascism as the GOP has been about imagined communism all these years.

Took a day off work tomorrow to read. Kids at school and reading a bit from each of these gems alll day:

If you’ve been wondering what Elon Musk and his lackeys are up to since taking control of the US government, look no further. Our latest story names six 19- to 24-year-olds working with his DOGE organization, which now has access to sensitive federal systems. wrd.cm/4jzpiSN

It is absolutely Black History Month and 2025 is just the latest installment in the horror franchise that is the United States. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609185...

I can't get enough of Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Reading Seiobo There Below.🥰

We're back with another great and intriguing piece! Today it's @clinforth.bsky.social's "Homesick" To read this great piece in full in visit: www.thedodgemag.com/christopherl...

Case : AI vs Me. AI: Total Operational Costs (for 5 days): $2,470 Hardware to run model, over a 1M$ I can write better for a fraction of the cost. I can code and draw and speak three languages.

Winter is here

I hate(love) when people are brilliant. "The ice cubes rattled in her glass like alien phrases." Gary J. Shipley

I'm a little scared to revisit this one rather than leaving it enshrined in my memory but it turns out it's available here: www.sfsfss.com/stories/new/...

i'm working! i'm working! -- art by serge ivantsev

"This book can be read as a climate change novel for human readers. We have now reached the ultimate topography of what language can achieve." - @kenjisiratori.bsky.social youtu.be/jaGy0DHpnXg?...

“Sunbleached,” the people clamor for “Sunbleached” by Nathan Ballingrud

See in the new year with a visit to the most fucked up cinema you've ever been to. "This Movie Theater Sits on a Leyline" by Maxine Sophia Wolff, new fiction from Issue #11.

Unsettle the dreary whiteness of weird fiction publishing

I'm starting to read for short fic rec lists this year. A lot of good ones, but the recs skew pro rn. Nothing wrong w/ that but want to round things out. If you read something great from (1) a semi-pro mag, and (2) that goes odd/weird, I'd love to hear about it. Will circle back after Dec. too. Thx!

Saving for later

Reading for 2024 awards? The following from Weird Horror magazine were recommended by Locus this year: www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/patience www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/haunting www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/blackwater www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/our-best-sel...

Check this out!

This is the bane of my existence: AI bros, facile reviews, thinly-veiled screenplay novels, all rely on this idea that a work of prose doesn’t live and die in its prose, but in The Story.