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I grew up in a house where the shutters were always closed. Not because of the cold. Because of the neighbors. I finally wrote down what that means. #HorrorWritersChat open.substack.com/pub/ausiasts...
Ausiàs Tsel
@ausiastsel.com
País Valencià. Mediterranean Gothic in Catalan/Valencian & English. The Rumpus, Pithead Chapel, Neon & Smoke, Flash Fiction Magazine & Dark Horses. Forthcoming Chthonic Matter. Creator of zenodot.app (Publishers Lunch, Jane Friedman, LSE Impact).
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I grew up in a house where the shutters were always closed. Not because of the cold. Because of the neighbors. I finally wrote down what that means. #HorrorWritersChat open.substack.com/pub/ausiasts...
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🏆 #Cultura | 'La Institució Alfons el Magnànim lliura els Premis València i València Nova 2026' La Beneficència va acollir la gala d'unes convocatòries de referència que celebren la creació literària, l'assaig i la novel·la gràfica. revistasao.cat/la-instituci...
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Needles in, on my back, in his mother's flat, next to a heater. I asked my acupuncturist what would happen if there was a fire. He laughed. No one had ever asked. The narrator of my story at @therumpus.net never asks. Here's why.
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We want your stories! The 2026 Larry Brown Short Story Award is officially open for submissions 1st prize: $500 Guest judge: Deesha Philyaw More info: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/
I’m the first author in the Poets & Writers directory that listed my mother language as fluent in, it wasn’t listed, so I asked. And they were kind enough to list it with this denomination. If you read me far from here, probably you’ll think “so what?” — but for me, this feels like a little victory.
The earth hasn't changed. The moon hasn't changed. Only who says it has changed. New story: a patent, a cooperative in the Maestrat, a butane heater, and an old man who knows when to plant tomatoes.
Cada traducció és un llibre que torna a nàixer. Avui és el Dia Internacional de la Traducció. Gràcies a totes les persones que fan que un llibre parle una llengua en què no es va escriure. Zenòdot és un catàleg obert d'eixos llibres, amb totes les llengües en peu d'igualtat. zenodot.app
Every translation is a book born again. Today is International Translation Day. Thank you to everyone who makes a book speak a language it wasn't written in. Zenòdot is an open catalogue of those books, with every language on equal footing. zenodot.app
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Poets & Writers checked my publication credits and let me into their Directory of Writers. I listed Ligotti, Joan Fuster and Richard Stark as favorites, which should warn people off. #PWDirectory www.pw.org/directory/wr...
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A man lies face down with twenty-two needles in him. The healer steps out to take a phone call. The heater stays on. Off the Books, The Rumpus. Mediterranean Gothic. therumpus.net/2026/09/13/o... #StorySky #ShortStory #HorrorWritersChat
Do you have a new short story out today/this week? If you do, share it with a comment OR a quote post! Don't forget to add > the hashtag #StorySky > a link to your new story > genre details > any alt text for images #ReaderSky #ShortStory #AuthorSky #IndieAuthor
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A flat on Carrer del Crist. A healer with a self-printed diploma. A curtain that has brushed the heater since 1991. A little reiki, added the way you'd add salt. "Off the Books," out now at The Rumpus.
"He rests his palms on my shoulder blades. He breathes audibly through his nose. He believes the silence was his hands. He has decided to be of further use." From "Off the Books," new fiction by @ausiastsel.com. ➡️ buff.ly/KxkbX2n
The hermitage at Peníscola has Philip V's coat of arms carved above the door. The king who burned our laws and our language and made the place Spanish by decree. I left a widower inside it for a winter and came back in spring to see what was left. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/the-ermita...
New Mediterranean Gothic story out today in @therumpus.net. A man pays thirty euros in cash to have an acupuncturist switch off the tinnitus he's had since he was nineteen. It works. Nobody knows why. Today the acupuncturist decides to improve the treatment. therumpus.net/2026/09/13/off-the-books/
@gabino.bsky.social took this one for @therumpus.net. A story set in a flat in a place most of his readers couldn't find on a map. He didn't ask me to make it more legible to anyone. He left the Valencian where it was. That's not a small thing.
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"Quan Crist digué: «ensenyeu a totes les nacions i porteu-hi la bona nova», manava portar una nova, no una teologia". Des d'ahir mateix que ja podeu trobar a totes les llibreries del país aquesta barreja de bomba i meravella!💫 Molt orgullosos! www.fragmenta.cat/producte/car...
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🏆️ Actualitzada la llista d'obres guanyadores del premi Locus traduïdes al català🏆️ Aquest 2026 s'han publicat fins a 4 llibres que han guanyat un premi Locus, gens malament. Publicades per: @obscuraed.bsky.social, @dunallibres.bsky.social, @anagramaeditor.bsky.social
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And then, months later, you discover that the tool that you started building because finding books in your own language was difficult, is taught as a resource in some universities. And you smile. And keep building. Because all languages should be treated equally. Zenodot.app
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A reader of German asks once and gets an answer. A reader of Ladin can ask twenty times and reach only silence. I wrote for the MIDAS blog at Eurac Research on why the world's book record is empty exactly where no one was ever obliged to write it down. www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/mid...
Un lector d'alemany pregunta una vegada i té resposta. Un de ladí pot preguntar vint vegades i trobar només silenci. He escrit al blog MIDAS d'Eurac Research sobre per què el registre mundial del llibre està buit just on ningú va tindre mai l'obligació d'escriure-hi. www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/mid...
A reader of German asks once and gets an answer. A reader of Ladin can ask twenty times and reach only silence. I wrote for the MIDAS blog at Eurac Research on why the world's book record is empty exactly where no one was ever obliged to write it down. www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/mid...
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Lletraferit ha dedicat un reportatge a Zenòdot, de Joanot Martorell a Ferran Torrent: la projecció exterior de la literatura valenciana en un mateix mapa bibliogràfic. Gràcies per la lectura tan atenta del que intentem fer. lletraferit.com/jorn-a-jorn/...
Existeix aquest llibre en la meua llengua? Per a la major part dels lectors del món no hi ha manera d'arribar al final d'eixa pregunta. He reconstruït Zenòdot perquè una sola cerca la conteste. Un fil curt del que hi ha de nou 🧵 zenodot.app
Gratuït, independent, sense publicitat i amb totes les llengües tractades igual: no és una funció, és la raó per la qual existeix. Busca un llibre en la teua llengua: zenodot.app I si coneixes un catàleg obert que ens falta —sobretot d'una llengua minoritzada— escriu-me a ausiastsel@zenodot.app
Existeix aquest llibre en la meua llengua? Per a la major part dels lectors del món no hi ha manera d'arribar al final d'eixa pregunta. He reconstruït Zenòdot perquè una sola cerca la conteste. Un fil curt del que hi ha de nou 🧵 zenodot.app
Existeix aquest llibre en la meua llengua? Per a la major part dels lectors del món no hi ha manera d'arribar al final d'eixa pregunta. He reconstruït Zenòdot perquè una sola cerca la conteste. Un fil curt del que hi ha de nou 🧵 zenodot.app
Does this book exist in my language? For most of the world's readers there is no way to reach the end of that question. We just rebuilt Zenòdot so that one search answers it. A short thread on what's new 🧵 zenodot.app
Free, independent, no ads, every language treated alike. That is the reason it exists, not a feature. Search a book in your language: zenodot.app And if you know an open catalogue we are missing —especially for a minoritized language— write to info@zenodot.app.
Does this book exist in my language? For most of the world's readers there is no way to reach the end of that question. We just rebuilt Zenòdot so that one search answers it. A short thread on what's new 🧵 zenodot.app
Does this book exist in my language? For most of the world's readers there is no way to reach the end of that question. We just rebuilt Zenòdot so that one search answers it. A short thread on what's new 🧵 zenodot.app
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