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Fuck yeah, man, excited to read it one day

Bet that was just fantastic, lol. I saw it for the first time this summer and it took me right back to the miserable stoop of 2020

it really is a gorgeous movie

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yesterday a family came into the shop with their perhaps one year old baby boy, and when he saw Stella Luna he started screaming STELLA LUNA!!!! STELLA LUNA!!!!!!!!! So they had to buy him a second copy. The mother said she hides the book at home because he wants to read it so much kid loves bats

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"He is a minor; it's traumatic enough for an adult — for something like this to happen to him is really tough," said the mom of one of the teens. "It was eight hours without hearing from him; they wouldn't give me any information — they behaved very badly."

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‘Justice must be served': Family outraged after viral video shows ICE detaining 17-year-old in Alamo

A mother demands answers after a viral video captured ICE agents detaining her 17-year-old son in Alamo, sparking conflicting accounts between the family and DHS.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

some news!

Publisher's Marketplace Deal Report, Sons of Nod by Thomas Ha Imprint: Tordotcom, Imprint: Tordotcom. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Thomas Ha's SONS OF NOD, a novella about a group of boys laboring to build machinery for a reckless corporation on a strange and desolate island, to Avery Davis at Tordotcom, with Ann VanderMeer editing, for publication in fall 2027, by Michael Curry at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English).

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 17/09/2026

Finished a flash fiction horror yesterday for the first time in a while! Most of my stuff runs shaggy, so when I can keep a piece tight and refractive as flash demands, it feels like a little marvel

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And now I get to say that Muñeca won the Octavia E. Butler award! And I got to be there in person:) This is the first time I've won anything for my writing, and I'm so happy.

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the beautiful, pearly secrets that make our spirits gleam

Fun update!!! Reading with Adam Voith for the October 2nd event is gonna be myself & fellow Malarkey writer & general superstar @ljabouttown.bsky.social

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JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The dark and sexy allure of tattle-tell guerrilla marketing

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Flash Fiction: Friar’s Table by Alex Rost It's the son's birthday and they are headed to a steak restaurant and the dad is talking about steaks.

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Flash Fiction: Friar’s Table by Alex Rost

It's the son's birthday and they are headed to a steak restaurant and the dad is talking about steaks.

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You don’t have to pretend to know more about Amanda than you do! But me being a loudmouth and sharing my writing publicly doesn’t make me the head honcho. I would prefer to see the love of my life treated with more respect and courtesy. Its insane how often this shit flares up

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I love writing and publishing and making friends! But just because Amanda is a more private person does not mean they are less worthy of respect. They balance finances, curation, their taste is incredible, they are a fantastic writer and artist. They just put into the work.

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I feel like I have to say this more frequently than I do, but Amanda is the primary architect of the store. I’m happily second fiddle. We are life partners + we both work very hard at it, but if you always default to treating me as the primary/solitary authority, we both notice + it is a shitty look

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Beyond hype about these events, come out!!!

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As involved as organizing events can be, when we put them on, they become special, beautiful nights, and the books we promote in events become our best sellers for a long time to come. If you can join us, please do! We’d love to have you in the shop to chat about these exciting, one-of-one books

Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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The very first entry in my commonplace book.

“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.” —Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Beyond hype about these events, come out!!!

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For those in the NE Penn. or Western NY state area, I will be doing an event at @eveninghouse.bsky.social on Oct. 17 at 4pm for THE SHIP OF DEATH. Come out, say hi, buy a book! Can't wait to meet @johnchrostek.com in person and dig Buffalo.

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 14/09/2026

It really is something special. So tightly controlled yet expansive

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 14/09/2026

Had our first Strange Short Story Sunday bookclub today, discussing Liliana Colanzi's excellent collection YOU GLOW IN THE DARK, then got sushi for lunch and came home and watched IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS It was a nice, fun day. Still working on my blood pressure after last week, but getting there

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 14/09/2026

Don’t worry, it’s not yours! We’ve got yours boxed and ready to ship out Tuesday 🤘

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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also releasing work as a writer in 2026

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don't get me wrong, I love dramatic action + character, but my appetites are for serious punchiness in that regard with loads of implication and shadows around it

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Will always cherish stories that suggest more than they dramatize. A dream is a figment of thought that purifies the mind and abides no laws and so too is a story

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Growing up, I never imagined my cyberpunk future would be trying to keep my tiny bookshop's website alive

Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm at Endorphin Port level today

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If you’ve been interested in ordering books from us to support the shop but have struggled to use the website, it is currently running smoothly in a defensive mode protecting it from spam traffic overloading the servers Eveninghousebooks.com We’d love to connect you with great books

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I really don't understand this shit at all man

It's working now that Wordpress support has put the site in a defensive mode, which is keeping out the bad faith traffic, but they're getting a specialist on it bc this solution's temporary

It seems as though we're either being targeted by someone doing a DDOS attack or we're getting targeted by AI/crawlers for the metadata, which feels difficult to believe Both of which just goddamn suck

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 10/09/2026

We’ve been having serious issues with our website, especially in the last few days after the robbery. People wanting to support us being gated out w/ an unusable site. So we went to tech support & they are saying we seem to be getting targeted by unusual traffic slamming the servers???

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Happy birthday, LJ 🫂🍻❤️