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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The engineers brought me a new friend. First of many?

A yeehaw cowboy Halloween skeleton, complete with outfit, hat, and a piece of wheat in its teeth, has been stood up in an office window. It's posed to stare out at the cubicles. Behind it is a view of a parking lot and a building with a giant American flag on the side. Because of course this in America.

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ONE WEEK until Issue 3 is up on our website. But if you can't wait, here are all the places you can snag a digital copy: Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/othersides... Weightless: weightlessbooks.com/otherside-ma... Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK144FTR Elsewhere: books2read.com/u/boLZ60

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Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

💫 GRANDMA FINA'S WONDERFUL UMBRELLA has received a starred review! Congratulations, Raúl the Third! Read the full review from School Library Journal! ⭐ Out on September 29 and available for preorder now! 📚 @raulthethird.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social

GRANDMA FINA'S WONDERFUL UMBRELLA has received a starred review from SLJ!

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've put so much of myself into this series over the past 7 years, I'd love it if you checked it out. It's about some outcast millennial teens growing up in a tourist town in Northern WI. The 3rd book is currently on Kickstarter. Webcomic: rigsbywi.com KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okay you know what, I suddenly love sharing an office with engineers. They're planning something for our Halloween decorating contest that involves motors, forty feet of wall space, and annexing my cubicle when they already had twenty cubes to start with. Ganbatte y'all. Can't wait to see.

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I guess we've only had the conversation about what "speculative" means four times in ten years

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today I learned that my husband thinks I write something called "special" fiction.

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if I follow enough creatives on bluesky, will it make me start using bluesky? experimental results pending

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

No longer Saturday, yet Issue 15 is still there!

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The next graphic novel installment of Stuart Gibbs's Moon Base Alpha saga lifts off in one week! Illustrated by yours truly. 😊 This one was a whole lotta fun to draw! @simonkids.bsky.social #graphicnovel

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Woooo guess whose library finally has a copy of The Everlasting

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I can't hold a plate in my own kitchen anymore because my cat's pattern recognition doesn't extend past the *one time* a plate had wet food on it. Ma'am this is rice and kimchi!!!

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

hello everyone. The kickstarter for Rigsby WI Volume 3: Flux will launch in the fall. I will be a few pages from Flux every day in this thread, in the hopes that someone will see it and think "hey that's cool" You can also read the entire series FOR FREE at rigsbywi.com

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tuesdays with the Space Unicorn! The Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter is 84% funded with just 8 days to go! LET'S GET THIS YEAR FUNDED SO WE CAN ALSO GET THREE ORIGINAL COVERS! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Covers by Paul Lewin, Katy Shuttleworth, and Galen Dara

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 04/08/2026

Reminder: The Art of Over the Garden Wall: Expanded Edition, releasing in a Standard Hardcover and Deluxe Edition, releases in February! Details and pre-order: bit.ly/4gRXUQS Written by Sean Edgar, with developmental material from Patrick McHale, and much more!

3D render of the Art of Over the Garden Wall: Expanded Edition HC Deluxe Edition's slipcase

3D render of the Art of Over the Garden Wall: Expanded Edition HC Deluxe Edition

3D render of the Art of Over the Garden Wall: Expanded Edition

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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

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Tom the Dog @tomthedog.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

RECENT READING THE NEFARIOUS NIGHTS OF WILLOWWEEP MANOR, w. @shaenon.bsky.social a. Christopher Baldwin. A very fun follow-up to the very fun DIRE DAYS. Our heroes' Gothic Novel pocket universe is invaded by refugees from a Murder Mystery universe. Everyone's a suspect... EVEN THE CHICKEN

Cover of THE NEFARIOUS NIGHTS OF WILLOWWEEP MANOR by Shaenon K. Garrity and Christopher Baldwin

A very suspicious chicken looking around with narrowed eyes and ominously saying "Bawk."

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The paperbacks were all there, in the Deichman's open archive. Finding them in another country, in a language I'm just learning, but with the same cover art, the same shape, and published almost the same year as my cherished childhood copies--utterly surreal. Like being surprised by an old friend.

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Highlight of my visit to the Deichman in Oslo last month. Emily Rodda was my first favorite author. The Deltora Quest series were the books that got me reading. That post-apocalyptic fantasy world, with its monstrous guardians, will never leave me.

Three slim paperbacks with gold covers being held, fanned out, by a teenager whose face is off camera. Only the first cover is really visible. It says, "Deltoras Belte," the title, at the bottom, and Emily Rodda across the top. The cover art is like a painting within the gold frame. It shows a blood-red, oval ruby floating above a massive, sharp-toothed fish that's rising out of the water. The near shore, in the foreground, is covered in worms and mutated reptiles.

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The tl;dr for my thoughts on The Speed of Dark, the Nebula-winning novel about a guy getting his autism cured: Neurotypical people are allowed to squander their “true potential” without dangling what-if scenarios where it’d be awesome if they got bodysnatched by a superior version of themselves.

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Book report where I autistically critique the portrayal of an autistic narrator in an award-winning book published when I was a kid jordalwrites.com/autism-in-sp...

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Autism in The Speed of Dark (2002) - Emry Jordal

The abridged book report on autism in The Speed of Dark.

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Wrote another book report about a famous autistic protagonist. Apologies if I'm yucking anyone's yum; I had some issues with this story that weren't about the character voice. jordalwrites.com/autism-in-sp...

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Autism in The Speed of Dark (2002) - Emry Jordal

The abridged book report on autism in The Speed of Dark.

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

reposting a thing that made me very happy in 2024

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Did you know that they make music specifically for causing divorces? Such as the bagpipe cover of Amazing Grace.

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Hiron Ennes (WORKS OF VERMIN out now!) @hironennes.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW! "A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book" - Christopher Buehlman "A hallucinatory scorpion sting" - Elizabeth Bear "My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that." - My barber Get your copy from your local bookstore!

The WORKS OF VERMIN by hiron ennes surrounded by leaves and plants and shit

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

An Anonymous Correspondent has a couple of suggestions: Sunflower Loop by @bethgoder.bsky.social a time loop story about finding resolve - and riding your bike through space (as one does) translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/s...

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Sunflower Loop, by Beth Goder

I’m riding through space on my bike (as one does) when I see this enormous sunflower.

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p.v. vamsidhar 🌞 @pvvamsidhar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

my story about gender and past lives is now online in @othersidespec.bsky.social and YOUU can read it!!! i love this story and i am so happy to see it in a magazine that i adore 🧡🐅 othersidespec.com/pieces/we-wh... some thoughts on this piece in the thread !

A photo of Henri Rousseau’s “Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo.” The painting has a landscape of lush green foliage and fruit trees bearing bananas and oranges. In th center, a tiger has buried its face into a buffalo’s neck. Text reads, “We Who Have Been Raised by Tigers.”

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

now, since apparently I can't have sci fi, do I want to spend a road trip listening to Charles Dickens, Wimpy Kid, Sarah J Maas, or something called "The Christmas Tree Farm"??

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

oh my god, I just spent what felt like my entire natural life trying to check out any audiobook from my public library. I solved the mystery of why they had nothing and nobody. it's because they have nothing and nobody. 129 titles available, total, across all platforms.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/06/2026

A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.” A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says. The frog is sweating.

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Signs the Frog Has Been Boiled

A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.” A ma...

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WizardBOOOOOO @wizardru.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Lavender Jack by @danschkade.bsky.social is filled with so many good characters, they can very no favorites, but DAMN I love Detective Madame Ferrier. She’s smart, but sympathetic to people, burdened with tragedy but still committed to truth. I love this comic SO DAMN MUCH.

A picture of two planes from Lavender Jack volume 1, showing Detective Madame Ferrier looking at a painting by her wife.

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

they're making the toasters Cory Doctorow warned us about. and the toasters are like four hundred fucking dollars.

a photo of a toaster that aspires to be a smartphone. it has a touch screen. the screen shows various toastable foodstuffs. as soon as the tech bros figure out how to get the toaster to reject unauthorized third-party bread, it's over for the rest of us.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

FF #27 and Saros SF #5 have arrived! Get your copies for free (or toss us a few bucks!) all in one handy download at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-27/ Or head downthread for more info on the great stories in these two issues!

The covers of FF #27 (featuring a skull with plants/flowers blooming from it) and Saros SF #5 (featuring a sound wave). Overlaid text reads:

FF#27 and Saros #5: Dual Release Day
Now Available!!

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

DON'T TELL MY WIFE except I think I gotta tell my wife. I put the spider in one of her socks... it was wet... legs limp... I thought the baby needed to dry off to breathe.... 🥺 (Don't worry, it can move totally fine now!! I know because I was playing with it. 🫠)

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Me: I wonder who the charming fella I just rescued from my shower and gently tucked into the laundry pile to dry off is? Me: "illinois light brown tan house spider plain back round butt really long front legs" Me: oh. um. it didn't look like the Common House Spider. uh.

A ID chart of fifteen common Illinois spiders. There are two categories: "less venomous" and "highly venomous." The spider that matches the description is the brown recluse. The author really hopes that this chart is AI slop and lies.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The most interesting part of this essay to me is dredging up that the earliest single-genre magazines included nautical fiction and sports fiction alongside Westerns and detective stories. There's an alternate history waiting to happen right there!

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 31/03/2026

Comic artist @danschkade.bsky.social's Webtoon webcomic Lavender Jack Volume 1 is now available in a beautiful print edition! Order your copy: bit.ly/4rn9h6e By Dan Schkade, @jennmanleylee.myatproto.social and @dylantodd.bsky.social

Cover of Lavender Jack Volume 1 illustrated by Dan Schkade, Jenn Manley Lee

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

it's hard to remember that Amazon started out as a book seller, because now, every time someone's foolish enough to order a book from them, they do this to it

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a brown dog is playing with a ball and the word pokose is visible

Alt: a little dachshund violently death shaking a rope toy. kill kill destroy.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Last minute reading for the Locus Awards? The novelette “Kaiju Agonistes” by Scott Lynch is on the Locus Recommended Reading List! You can read it here! buff.ly/CY6GJ8G

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 62, “Mermay - Golden Hour" by Maxine Vee: In a forest of brown, orange, and golden leaves, a mermaid with orange/gold hair sits on a rock in a small light blue pond. She stares at her open palms, illuminated by a beam of sunlight. Purple flowers in shade lie scattered on the ground in the foreground. The quote reads: "Hence, a watchseed, with the best of intentions. Let’s give the seed-planters that much. They mean well. Crawling from star to star at not-quite-c, they make their surveys, consult their charts, launch a seed now and then. Old thinkers, they make an endless circuit of the galaxy on behalf of young thinkers."

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

There's a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope today! www.kaleidotrope.net

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

FFer Read of the Day: "Love in the Time of Meebs" by @vivianhchou.bsky.social in @chmmagazine.bsky.social cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/love...

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Love in the Time of Meebs – Cosmic Horror Monthly

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

This was beautiful. A story that made me wish for a happy ending.

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This is one of the funniest things I have ever read

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Emry J Writes @ejordal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

To all the engineers in the tri-state area: *please* don't mail my office Scooby Doo mysteries. Per upper management, we're not allowed to bring a great dane in here. This isn't getting solved.

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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

My sci-fi romance "Meet Cute at the Inter-Dimensional Cafe" is included in this issue! Keep the Valentine's Day vibes going this weekend and follow Jeffreylynn and Gabe as they navigate baking, relationships, and inter-dimensional rifts! 💗 translunartravelerslounge.com/2026/02/15/m...

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David Anaxagoras @davidanaxagoras.com · 15/02/2026

The rumors are true! The greatest science fiction story ever told (about testicles) is out of the bag! My short story “‘We Require an Engine,’ Said the Testicle Collective” is free to read and out now in Translunar Travelers Lounge! translunartravelerslounge.com/2026/02/15/w...

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“We Require an Engine,” Said the Testicle Collective by David Anaxagoras

This is the story of you, a man—simple, uncomplicated, perhaps a little stubborn, getting on in years, but still vital. And some of the stupid fucking choices you’ve made.

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