🌌 Nebula Awards Countdown 🏆
If you’re reading eligible short stories, check out “Affinity Gradient” by Miah O’Malley, recommended on Reactor’s list for must read speculative short fiction for 2025 and free to read at Phano.
www.phano.com/articles/aff...
🌌 Nebula Awards Countdown 🏆
If you’re reading eligible short stories, check out “The Only Good Billionaire” by Andrew Kozma, shortlisted for Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. 4 and free to read at Phano.
www.phano.com/articles/the...
Nice progress! Hope it continues, and take care.
i have been newly released into the world!!!
Thank you! Really trying to get my hand and eye back in after not practicing for a bit. Now to see if I can handle a bit of writing, too. Hope your projects are going okay!
Portrait of actor Cary Grant, done in graphite with a loose style and some reference marks. He is a white man with a cleft chin and prominent nose and eyebrows, along with very slicked back hair.
Graphite drawing of a young white woman with a bob, striking eyes, and generally small features.
Graphite drawing (partially incomplete) of a white man with his arm raised, looking slightly down upon him so his eyes half disappear under his eyebrows.
Graphite drawing of an Asian woman in a turtle neck with her hair in a high bun, her mouth slightly smiling.
Portrait practice. I can never get a single drawing method to work for me. I've tried the Loomis method so many times and, honestly, if I follow it all the way through I just end up with muddled proportions. I don't mind starting that way and veering off depending on the reference, though.
Thank you! And the same to you as well. 💙
Sometimes I'll spend time around some very nice and funny people, and afterwards, even if I enjoyed most of it, feelings of social ineptitude and post-social malaise will eat all the good until the memory becomes warped with a sense of inferiority.
I lost my keys. I got really worked up because everything feels big right now, and I'm keyed into things going wrong. Five full house searches. Much upset. They were deep in the pocket they should have been all along. This constant greyness of sky is not good for my brain's grey matter.
My recommendation for end of the week read! I was lucky enough to see an early draft, and it remain a poignant, philosophically-informed piece of science fiction.
More SFF short story recommendations! Amazing stories by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @nadiaradovich.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @sharangbiswas.bsky.social @bethgoder.bsky.social @cjtavares.bsky.social
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Today we launch our Feb ‘26 issue w/ new stories from @christinehanolsy.com @elijah.mea.rs @thomasprice.bsky.social Christopher Blake & Christopher Degni
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Cover art by @owengent.bsky.social
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Thank you! Hope you're not having the opposite problem and suffering in a severe heat wave!
I know! 😭
Thank you, that means a lot coming from a writer whose work sticks with me!
It was already good when I saw it! I had to take a break not long after you left, but I'd happily read any future pieces of yours if you need eyes.
(Also, congrats on finding a home for "Endling" - it's one of those pieces that stuck with me after I critiqued it. Phano buddies!)
I know! It's so good. I think I have more quotes saved from it than any other book.
Buddies is miserable bastardry. It's got to be better with company. Yes, the rain is ceaseless at the moment!
Feeling like a miserable bastard this evening. I hate winter. I hate the cold, the damp, and the fire in the fireplace, spewing particulates. I hate candles. Actually, I generally hate naked flames around the home. Work provides enough burning smells. But it brings my friends joy, so I grump here.
This flagrant lying has been one of the most unnerving things for me about recent events. There's seems no response that came make any dent.
Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though
This morning was beautiful. So I sat inside and looked at a screen and read. Now I want to go for a run, and of course, I've left it until it's raining.
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It never feels like I've eaten that many until I see the dragon's hoard of empty shells piled before me. (So for me, the answer is apparently very many.)
I feel a bit that way about litfic in general, genre-mixed or not. I keep thinking that maybe I'm just not the right reader, and then I'll find something that blows me away.
A lot of my favourites there too, and a good few that I'll add to my reading list!
Crawling back from a very nasty bout of flu by posting some of my favorite stories I read last year. Is it a perfect list? No, there's a ton of amazing stuff out there. But I am happy with it and I hope you can find something in here for you <3
Have you read my 2025 short story, "Dare Seize the Fire"?
Awards-eligible! Contains sirens! and smoke jumping!
I read a lot about sheep behavior for the sake of a couple of paragraphs!
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My colleague's hair is turning purple. He claims his housemate, another colleague, has sabotaged his product, though he also said his barber suggested something odd is going on in town, because he's the second bloke whose hair has a purple tint. I'm not convinced he didn't try to dye it Arsenal red.
