Michael Haynes

Hands cupped around a firefly at the top of the image next to the test: Your Childhood was Magic Crowdfunding Launch Below that, a forest floor with ferns and wood and a single mushroom growing out of it toward the light. Text reads: Magical Drama short film by Camille Jackson Inspired by Your Childhood Was Witchcraft by Eden Royce

Student filmmaker Camille Jackson is adapting my story, "Your Childhood Was Witchcraft" into a short film that celebrates Black joy, childhood whimsy, and connection to magic we often lose growing up. Shares & donations appreciated!

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Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers, 1929-55. Edited by Timothy R. Granger and Michael W. Phillips Jr. Volume 1: The Black Stockings by William Thomas Smith + Tales of Black Robin by H.L. Faggett Introduction by Cauleen Smith, cover art by Daimon Hampton A Black guerrilla group fights against a racist presidential candidates, plus an undercover avenger rights racist wrongs one punch in the jaw at a time. Volume 2: The Creeping Thing by Cora Jean Moten + The Baron of Harlem by Nick Lewis Introduction by Charlotte Carter, cover art by Julie Anderson One of the first zombie stories in English, and one of the best. Plus a white gangster changes places and skin color with a scheming Black musician. Volume 3: From Outer Space & Orbit of Doom + short stories about Jacques Lenglet and Jiggs Bennett by James H. Hill Introduction by Ytasha L. Womack, cover art by Maurice Buckley Aliens visit Earth with a dire warning about humanity's nuclear ambitions, plus stories about a Black WW1 ace and a reporter who punches racists in the face. November 2026.

Coming in November! Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers, 1929-55. Stories of daring rogues, alien encounters, zombies, future technologies, and punching racists. Co-edited by Timothy R. Granger (aka Timaeus Bloom) and Mike Phillips.

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Super-invested in the Swiss penalty kill just now. It’ll be interesting to see if they can kill off the second half of it when the next period starts!

Columbus' own Great 8 Behold Zach Werenski

There have been technical difficulties with emailed newsletters. Failures to email, it appears. I'm sorry. I don't know the problem. I'm looking into it with my publishing platform. My last column here: www.thedisrespected.com/columbus-own...

I’ve really enjoyed that series. I’ve read seven or eight of them so far, among the better PI-type novels I’ve read in recent years.

a man wearing a baseball cap and a hoodie says this team will never lose again ALT: a man wearing a baseball cap and a hoodie says this team will never lose again

#CBJ

Unsettled Nature Once were a time on a jackalope when folks kept their thinking to themselves. People lived, and people died, natural-like, in...

The stories we get from @jordankurella.com are always some of the weirdest out there (praise), and this new one in @apexmag.bsky.social is no exception: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

I’m sure this has been noted elsewhere, but it’s wild that the only two teams in the NHL’s Pacific conference to have won more games than they have lost so far this season are currently fifth and sixth in their conference!

I’m sure I’m not the first person to note this but “Hurston Waldrep” sounds like a name from a Michael Schur show. (It is, in fact, possible that Michael Schur has noted this and that’s why it strikes me that way…)

New Story: "Murder in A-Flat" at Black Cat Weekly Without going back and looking at my records, I suspect it's been a while since I had two new stories released in the same month, but that's...

I think I forgot to share this here last week… I have a new story out in Black Cat Weekly! This is one of very few stories I’ve written which I would label as “mystery” (as compared to “crime”). michael-haynes.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...

I’ve sold a bunch of silver coins over the years on eBay and have generally had good luck with it. (And, yes, silver is something like double the price it’d been any time pre-2025.)

I know things are bad, and it is late, but if you live in a cold place, please moisturize your hands before going to sleep. Cracked skin is really painful.

Minneapolis, when the whistles blew.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:

When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

@GuntherEagleman on Twitter says, "BREAKING: The "No-Go-Zone" in Minneapolis is getting fully stocked like a pop-up leftist supply depot, free hand warmers, winter gear, coffee, food, milk, you name it. This is PROFESSIONAL-grade logistics. Someone is BANKROLLING this autonomous zone.

I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.

Let me say something very directly.

We are objectively in a fascist authoritarian moment here in this country.

Academics and historians have established indicators for this. We are well over the line on many of them.

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

And this is how *I* got said delightful news! 🎉

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Always excited to see new books from Neon Hemlock!

And What Can We Offer You Tonight Audiobook on Libro.fm In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious H...

The audiobook of AND WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU TONIGHT appears to still be on sale at @libro.fm and we're at #53 in horror! :D

A murdered woman seeks her revenge in a dystopian drowned city -- with or without the help of her living friends.

How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!

naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

Cover art featuring a big rig and the truck console in orange and red; favorable blurbs from PW, LJ and Grimdark Mag

Calling out the boss here:

As good as she is at supporting our writers, she is FOR SHIT at self-promoting, so allow me a moment of your time:

Tenebrous EIC @alexwoodroe.com has a new book out tomorrow, THE NIGHT SHIP! It fucking rocks. If you dig what Tenebrous does, you’ll dig it.

Link to buy ⬇️

Thanks for confirming!

The Doorkeepers - Uncanny Magazine It’s Sunday night, which means it’s our Friday night, which means the Doorkeepers go out and get absolutely blasted. It’s not as messy as it sounds. We’re polite drunks; we make a point of it actually...

Started reading January magazines and really liked the very first thing I read: @atgreenblatt.bsky.social 's grimly hopeful @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

My very first collection! Which came out over 10 years ago at this point. Yikes! We could all use some glitter these days, no?

Check out my list on Amazon

Hey friends! We're bringing back one of our wishlists specifically looking for hand & foot warmers for the folks who have to be outside to protect the community! With temps plummeting in the Twin Cities, this is a quick & easy way to help!

@naomikritzer.bsky.social will be collecting again!

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