Wm Henry Morris

what if a novella that is really a novella (88 pages) a piece of fiction embracing and also rejecting both literary realism & weird fiction (and some other genres) a work that is absurd but gently so a work that is angry (under the surface) wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/elev...

I wrote about the Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy and how (and perhaps why) it is a sequel to The Goblin Emperor (and what that means for Celehar): wmhenrymorris.com/nonfiction/K...

It is such a pleasure to watch Kiah Stokes do her thing on the basketball court

_I feel as if my hands were embrued with the blood of monstrous alien altars_

I wrote about the Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy and how (and perhaps why) it is a sequel to The Goblin Emperor (and what that means for Celehar): wmhenrymorris.com/nonfiction/K...

Good morning. I have another piece of literary criticism for you—Neglected Ghosts: Katherine Addison's Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy wmhenrymorris.com/nonfiction/K...

The missing question mark: "What's that all about?". I wrote something about Rosalind Belben's Is Beauty Good. this-space.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-gh...

Good morning. I have another piece of literary criticism for you—Neglected Ghosts: Katherine Addison's Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy wmhenrymorris.com/nonfiction/K...

Award winning book from about a decade ago still good. More breaking news soon.

"How can I convey urgent social meanings while opening or subverting the possibilities of meaning itself?" – Robert Glück, Long Note on New Narrative

It arrives six months later than I anticipated (with lots of other writing in between), and I didn't land on the proper approach and structure until DRAFT 1E (the screenshot below is 1A), but: this goes live tomorrow (with a different title)

Continuing my slow read of The Ambassadors in the long gaps between NFL football action (Niners v. Falcons) and Strether is totally getting played—and yet it’s easy to see why he wants to be

Structure of Non-Feeling

I enjoyed Wickhills

Strether is such an idiot Why do I kind of like him, tho

I enjoyed Wickhills

At this point, I have no idea how either the Valkyries or the Dream are going to win this seven game series. I know how both will lose it but not how they will win it.

You know how some people claim "magic realism" is just writers of fantasy genre trying to sound literary? Well I accuse "new weird" of being writers of literary fiction trying to sound cool. All of you suckers reading new weird have been tricked into reading literary fiction.

yes! YES!! the cover is out!!! so BoQs is what happens when you shove three regency disaster bisexuals headfirst through a leverage episode then drop a game-of-thrones midseason catastrophe on their heads halfway thru the heist 🥀🗡️🏆 skellingtons! murder! genderfail! the creepiest cup in the world!!

"At least six feet six inches tall—a good head taller than anyone else on the street—and extremely thin, to the point of cadaverousness. His features are hawk-like, with a veritable beak of a nose. From sunken eye sockets, large coal-black eyes look out sharply."

“Two days after Grant discovered the sticky note in the library book he’d started reading, he found one of the bookmarks he’d purchased at the museum gift shop on the front steps of his townhome. ... He had no idea how it had left his study let alone how it had found its way back to him.”

Dippin' back into genre & I've been doin' just fine / Gotta, gotta put it on a shelf, because it's so confusing / It started with mystery, how did it end up like this? / It was only cozy / It was only cozy

“Two days after Grant discovered the sticky note in the library book he’d started reading, he found one of the bookmarks he’d purchased at the museum gift shop on the front steps of his townhome. ... He had no idea how it had left his study let alone how it had found its way back to him.”

_As a writer, I feel I am always negotiating that: when to give something^ explicitly to the reader and when to hold back, or when to give just a little of it so that it can be sensed rather than simply seen_ ^earlier one of those “somethings” is the physical description of characters

Thinking of starting the WHM Award for Damn, I Wish I’d Written That This current leading candidate for 2026 is Centroeuropa

Let’s goooooo!

Ya’ll, please read Audition and Notes from a Regicide if you haven’t yet

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

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This is excellent so far. I checked it out from the library because I saw it on the @dorothyproject.bsky.social website & Renee Gladman was mentioned. But Cain also invokes a lot of other favs of mine: Samatar, Woolf, Calvino, Lolly Willowes, Middlemarch, Anna Karenina.

me vs the discourse

now at the “spend some time with the heating pad on my lower back because today was a commute and work on campus day” stage of my life

ah, this space is so nice, so cosy, warm but not too warm, filled but not cluttered, not overwhelming but also not empty, abundant yet manageable, oh, but what now is this, the objects continue to pile up, the walls are closing in, the ceiling descends, so cosy but too close, too close, too