Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 1hMy Thai roommate back in grad school was a former cook & made the most amazing scrambled eggs I ever had in my life & I asked him what he did to them and he said it was simple, just eggs and oil and salt. And one day I saw the salt and it was this ginormous bag of monosodium glutamate 020
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 1hlove love love chili crisp & delighted w/ this particular brand bc it’s made w the two most important ingredients: love & MSG 370
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 2hSOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME is in this @wbez.org list of 10 new books to read this fall with a Chicago flair www.wbez.org/books/2026/1...wbez.org10 new books to read this fall with a Chicago flairOur curated list, assembled with the help of local authors and booksellers, includes anticipated tomes from big names, including the pope. 050
Reposted by Juan MartinezCait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Friday July 31: "Mechanical Servants LLC." by Juan Martinez. "For the past seven years, roughly at the same time every day, I've been receiving an eBay email alert for mid-twentieth-century vending machine novelty products from the Mechanical Servants company of Elgin, Illinois." 022
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 17hNew season of THE PLOT THICKENS and it’s on Stanley freaking Kubrick!!!!! www.tcm.com/articles/021...tcm.comTCM Presents: The Plot Thickens 000
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 23hI’ve been scrolling for like 30 minutes & ingesting nothing but low-cal internet content instead of doing what I’m supposed to be doing, which is clean the litter boxes. know what? no regrets 260
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 02/10/2026BIG SAME & were it not for those jerks I’d be 10x productive 120
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 01/10/2026said hi to some friends on the rainy walk to the reading 030
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 01/10/2026& huge shout out to @sbfeldman.bsky.social , John Kessel, and Robertson Davies, whose ghost stories are freaking amazing. 120
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 01/10/2026Here it is in my website if S*bstack is not your jam: www.fulmerford.com/shrovisbisho...fulmerford.comShort-Story Source Tags & Codes: Mechanical Servants LLC — FulmerfordOn how a weird story took shape, what and where it borrowed from, and what it taught me about narrative Tonight—Thursday, October 1st at 7pm, in one of the world’s loveliest bookstores—is the Chica... 132
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 01/10/2026Ahead of tonight's book launch, I wrote a long post about how this particular (and particularly) weird story took shape, what and where it borrowed from, and what it taught me about narrative: substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comShort-Story Source Tags & Codes: Mechanical Servants LLCOn how a weird story took shape, what and where it borrowed from, and what it taught me about narrative 122
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 01/10/2026Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is another day at space ranch. 051
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 30/09/2026Here’s the EventBrite link: www.eventbrite.com/e/authors-on...eventbrite.comAuthors on Tap: Cynthia Pelayo with Ananda Lima and Juan MartinezAuthors on Tap: Cynthia Pelayo with Ananda Lima and Juan Martinez 000
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 30/09/2026The Chicago launch for SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME is tomorrow Thursday October 1 at 7pm in Exile in Bookville. Join Cynthia Pelayo & Ananda Lina & me. See you there? I promise you it will be fun & that there is literally no better way to ring in October. This anthology is as October as it gets. 152
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 30/09/2026Hi, Bob! That makes me so happy to hear. Thank you so much for sharing. 000
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 30/09/2026Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is a very special ABC Mystery Movie Event: Columbo in the Land of the Giant Bugs 040
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 29/09/2026THANK YOU! And I freaking love "El Jíbaro de Puerto Rico" and happy publication day to you!!! What an amazing project: thank you for making it happen. 110
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 29/09/2026and yes, Mechanical Servants was a real company! Here are some of their items (lifted, appropriately enough, from a couple of random eBay listings): 020
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 29/09/2026SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME is out today! I've got a story in there I'm super proud of, and I'm freaking delighted by the writers & stories in there: buy it from your favorite bookstore, share the good news, send me a photo of the book out in the wild pls. bookshop.org/p/books/some...bookshop.org 061
Reposted by Juan MartinezStoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy pub day to our wonderful instructor @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social, who is the editor of this new anthology of Latiné horror stories, Something Followed Us Home. Also includes stories from instructors @fulmerford.com and staffer @anandalima.bsky.social! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Someth...simonandschuster.comSomething Followed Us Home“Insightful, humane, and original, Something Followed Us Home features the most exciting voices in dark fiction today and is a must read for any we... 176
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 29/09/2026Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is a car-dealer-parking-lot balloon confrontation. 030
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 26/09/20265yo, watching BOSS BABY: "that's imaginary, babies don't talk." me: "that's right, babies--" 5yo: "Babies don't have brains." 1100
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 26/09/2026So excited for this landmark anthology to be out in the world & super proud that my story is in there in such awesome company: first time that anything I’ve written has been translated to Spanish. 071
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 24/09/2026i'm trying to! i keep accusing the wrong people and everyone has a good alibi 010
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 24/09/2026yes the wear-a-tie-every-time-I-go-to-campus thing is still happening 270
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 24/09/2026Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is collective action at work. 040
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 23/09/2026he totally redeems himself in the very last line of the book 150
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 23/09/2026Congratulations to you both!!! So excited for the books & so ready to pre-order 120
Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 21/09/2026— Juan Martinez ‘s “Mechanical Servants LLC” is a delightfully weird tale with echoes of Ray Bradbury and Al Sarrantonio. — ❤️ 032
