Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I have a new story out in @radonjournal.bsky.social. A lot of wild stuff in this issue. Worth checking out!radonjournal.comThe Hummingbird War | Issue 14Radon Journal Issue 14 featuring science fiction and anarchist literary works. Poems and short stories to make you rethink the social schema. 052
Reposted by Mark S BailenRadon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🐛💻💚 Our penultimate day of author reveals is here!! RADON #14 is packed with sci-fi poetry and fiction. Today's author reveals are @marksbailen.bsky.social @ajvolante.bsky.social and @olusegunajayi.bsky.social 0145
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 25/08/20264LPH4NUM3R1C published one of my little favs, "The Occubot." www.zoeticpress.com/an-26-the-fu...zoeticpress.comAN 26 The Future is Here — Zoetic Press 000
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I recently visited Montreal and the Adirondacks in search of fake nature. . . see more at my blog fakemountain.com. 000
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Unidentified Funny Objects 10 is out, and I have a little story in it. . . I'm so happy to be part of this series. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... 000
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Well, I finally wrote a romance story… it’s in the following anthology and to read it, you might want to throw a few bucks at their kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...kickstarter.comBad Romance: An Anthology of Trash CouplesThe 23rd annual Triangulation Anthology: fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories and poems. 000
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Japan and all its wonderful fake nature. . . fakemountain.comfakemountain.comFake Mountain – the website of Mark S Bailen. . . writer, illustrator, and fake-nature photographer 000
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Posted a little montage of wildvertising at LAX. . . fakemountain.com 000
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I have a new piece up at McSWEENEY's! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/peo...mcsweeneys.netPeople Are Dying to Eat at Our Insufferable Pop-Up RestaurantHooray, you’re on the list. Take this buzzer, stand across the street in that puddle, and wait for a little shock. The estimated wait time is six h... 151
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Spent a few weeks hanging out in Sydney. . . more at fakemountain.com. 130
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025I spent a week a few weeks in New Zealand where I learned about a pernicious invasive species: Lord of the Rings Film Locations. More at fakemountain.com 020
Reposted by Mark S BailenThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/08/2025In Zed Nelson’s photographs of zoos, aquariums, resorts, and other artificial settings, the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle.newyorker.comThe Futility of Simulating NatureIn “The Anthropocene Illusion,” the photographer Zed Nelson captures how the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle. 910619
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025posted some fake-nature pics (fakemountain.com) from my a week in Bali where I got to experience DREAM EARTH ALIVE FUTURE. . . or DEAF for short. . . Probably from the sound of all those motorbikes. 000
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025So my wife and I braved the lush plastic jungle and now I’m convinced. . . Rainforest Cafe is a portal to hell. fakemountain.com 110
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Went to Kansas this weekend and took a lousy photo of a Pony Express Rider (little smudge on the right). . . not sure how he’s gonna get around that fence. 000
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025www.noemamag.com/how-to-build... Let's go!noemamag.comHow To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree | NOEMAA set of experimental techniques and technologies that might seem harmful to trees is actually helping ancient forests survive. 000
Reposted by Mark S BailenEcotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Mark S Bailen’s short story “Bears Discover Time Travel” is free to read online for the next two weeks! ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/bear... @marksbailen.bsky.socialecotonemagazine.orgBears Discover Time Travel - EcotoneFirst of all, nobody gets eaten by a bear in this story. Nor does a tree fall on anybody. That’s not what this story is about. And I apologize for 032
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Here's a snotty little kid reading my picture book, Earf. Love when I get pics like this! BTW, Ingram is now letting folks buy direct, so you don't have to go through Amazon (cheaper too): shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... 021
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024In the Atocha train station in Madrid, we found the platform that leads to Jumanji. 010
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Vertical garden at CaxiaForum in Madrid. What an amazing work of art, like a living tapestry. 021
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024After leaving Berlin we spent a few days in Madrid where I took a lousy photo of Guernica. This is a famous painting by Picasso with a long political history that delves into how the horrors of war are viewed by outsiders. Fascinating to see how people react to this painting today. 010
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Bison at the Berlin Zoo. . . with odd-looking totem poles? And Pacific NW tribal art? Um. . . okay. 010
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Lousy photo of favorite exhibit at the Berlin Zoo, a wonderfully messy fake mountain atop which mountain goats skirted dangerously on the edges of little cliffs. The critters were very active and I watched them for a long time. If you look close at the photo, you can see 4-5 of em. 000
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Bear discovers mini-monolith at the Berlin zoo. . . 000
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 11/11/2024warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/boei...warfarehistorynetwork.comBoeing Wonderland: The Fake Cities on America's West CoastThrough Boeing Wonderland's clever visual trickery, vital West Coast warplane plants were made invisible to prying enemy aerial eyes. 000
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 10/11/2024The inside of the Empire of Cats at the Berlin Zoo had this modern concrete brutalist bunker feel, with spurious explosions of nature. 010
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 07/11/2024The fake sky at Charlottenburg Palace. Back in the day, the skies were much more intense, full of trumpeting cherubs, golden crowns, and epic battles. Our present-day skies need to up their game. 140
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 07/11/2024Tour guide at the Brandenburg Gate talks about military states, forced occupation, and damage that can occur from bombing campaigns. Luckily we don’t have to worry about these problems today. 020
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 04/11/2024Here’s a lousy photo of a small section of the Tempelhof, an old airfield turned into an over-900 acre park. These dudes were playing a massive game of four-square. 230
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 01/11/2024I love little hidden urban green spaces, the wilder the better. And #Berlin was full of these. 040
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 30/10/2024Another pic from #Berlin. . . Learned what you get after passing through Checkpoint Charlie. A Big Mac. 010
Mark S Bailen @marksbailen.bsky.social · 29/10/2024visited Berlin recently and learned what was behind the Berlin Wall. . . KFC! 0160
