FUTURE HELL SLANG

I came within a few hours of dying last Thanksgiving. It’s taken these last eleven months to get back to writing. The previous project, the Neon Church, was both 1) undiscoverable and 2) a reminder of what was different before the blood clot almost killed me.

My wife @jeanschwab.bsky.social got either a real email from an angry lawyer or the best phishing attempt of all time. It was an included pdf, the subject line was “late,” and the body said will you pay this fucking invoice already

Everyone who thinks they’re Mad Max will be a bleached skull in the establishing shot.

Last November, I almost died from a blood clot in my abdomen. But I’m still around, so I voted yesterday. So I could tell the shameful neo-confederates in this state to go fuck themselves. Some of us don’t side with racism, transphobia, or theocracy.

I wrote a new story, inspired by Ray Bradbury and 80s television and VIDEODROME and the calamities of growing up.

Keep fighting, authors. Cancel your dues and membership to this and any other group that capitulates to the LLM fraud machine and refuses to fight in your name to protect your rights as HUMAN creators. There is no ethical use of generative AI. Boycott the SoA. #AuthorsNotAlgorithms

hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀

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Ruined a legal pad with a short story outline the other day. Now I’m starting from scratch and convincing myself it’s better.

"'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

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.

ICYMI

in the hospital for a blood clot near my liver. i’m ok. take care of yourselves, friends.

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.

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...

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

nothing will keep me up, vigilant for november tornadoes, like listening to the wind as the temperature drops 50 degrees overnight

this was unintentional

My wife/bff @jeanschwab.bsky.social is crocheting a character from my WIP. This is both inspiring and incomprehensibly terrifying.

800 new words in the novel project this morning. It feels good to get back to the routine.

“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.”

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.

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.

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

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

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