Seconding what Gordon said, I truly admire your taste in books and have made a number of much-enjoyed literary discoveries thanks to your posts. And honestly I also admire your forthright posts regarding the miserable state of mental health and disability support in Canada.
Today, all proceeds from the Cursed Morsels store will go to rent relief for this family in Minneapolis, affected by the ongoing ICE occupation:
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Cover of The Writhing, Verdant End, featuring a skeleton clutching binoculars, gazing upon a foreground of red-tinted writhing, ghoulish animals.
"The spores and pollen flung into pores, concrete, every break and crack in a five-mile radius. The air was hazy with the gold dust, sticking and oozing, vomiting in its sweetness."
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it's *so* good!
For no reason, just posting this here as a reminder that art doesn’t need to be owned by a corporation and sold and conglomerated for billions.
Support indie art. It is (almost literally) the only art that remains🖤☠️
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I have been trying to finish this show for my entire adult life to date.
Granted, I am *terrible* at making time to watch a show, but still. There is so much of it.
Celebrate queer love and lots of heartbreak with @sillysyntax.bsky.social's phenomenal short story collection "Skin Thief" from @neonhemlock.bsky.social !
Happy Valentine's Day/Last Day to Send Us Rad Zine Submissions!
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I cannot stop thinking about it! What a ludicrously wild ride.
This is a blurred image of a collage with one clear image spotlight floating in it. In the spotlight, a woman's grainy cleavage and a beetle crawling over it are visible.
collection collage 2/19—🪰👩❤️👩🪺
"When does a chrysalis become a grave instead of a changing place?"
Gore Poetics (@cursedmorsels.bsky.social) debuts April 14th
Ailie Robertson and Karen Marshalsay, if you like harps! Robertson's new album Echoes from Torloisk is really fantastic.
Today, all Cursed Morsels store proceeds that would normally go to me will instead go to rent relief for 16 St. Paul families affected by ICE detention and occupation.
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These are ever so slightly pre-2020s but Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda and The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya are among both my favourite surreal/weird collections and my favourite works of contemporary Japanese literature. Also Life Ceremony is amazing.
Also, aw, I am touched to be thought of! I've been having a very weird/sick winter but making the most of it as best I can. I hope you're doing all right 🖤
As someone who's been reading your work for years, to me it seems like you continue to develop an ever more deft hand with a phrase/sentence/arc! Your stories were always great, IMO, but over time I do feel they've gotten even better at those little subtleties that unexpectedly take the breath away.
New Suzan Palumbo story = the good news I needed today! As always, a gorgeous and moving piece of prose from a writer who just keeps getting better and better and better. This one unfurls with such a delicate touch that almost belies how affecting it is in the end 🖤
I am so beyond emotional right now, because my @khoreo.bsky.social non-fiction essay about the importance of Greek and BIPOC voices in Greek myth adaptations, the angriest thing I’ve ever written, has been longlisted in the Best Short Non Fiction category in the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards.
Congratulations, Danai! This is such a perfect essay.
oh my gosh I love this game!
Do I know any scientists based in Antarctica? Or who can put me in touch with someone? Reposts gratefully accepted!
anything and everything by Naoko Ogigami but especially Kamome Shokudo (my favourite of many years), Rent-a-Neko (an incredible laughing-crying film), and Riverside Mukoritta (maybe my actual favourite now holy **** what a film)
I know things are frightening right now, but don't forget to share people's art alongside all the news! I feel like I haven't seen much of the writing community getting traction on the TL lately but art has never been more important
I really love this story. It's devastating.
These things don't have to happen on a daily or even weekly basis to still happen! It is incredibly difficult to *be* right now, let along to create. Rest. Sleep. Take in art that makes you feel things. Make stuff when you can, and work on not beating yourself up when you can't (hardest part!) 🖤
I wrote a ton in 2019-2023 and then barely anything until summer 2025. Had a good run, now in a slump again. It ebbs and flows but it comes back if you let your creative batteries recharge with whatever art form comes easier in the moment! I see you painting and I think it will help you write again.
Aw no, hope you get well soon 🖤
We're putting together a mailing list for short fiction reviewers and critics to get review copies of the magazine.
So if you're a short fiction reviewer - first off you're doing the lord's work - but also email me at jonny@seizethepress.com and I'll add you to our shiny new reviewers list.
THREAD: Some "state-of-the-mag" updates for Fusion Fragment now that 2025 is in the books. And don't worry--no negative news to share! Just wanted to share for the sake of transparency, celebrate, and get the table all set for 2026!
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