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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy to share that my story « Food Lion » found a home in this issue!
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
There should be a music documentary series called Grocerycore and the first episode should be about the 1987 remix of Steve Winwood’s “Valerie”
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Translunar Travelers Lounge is open for submissions from writers of color. We're looking for speculative fiction short stories of 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines before submitting. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
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Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I hope Sinners inspires other filmmakers to include scenes of their leads abruptly gunning down racists after the plot has logically ended.
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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Sinners, Weapons, Frankenstein and K-Pop Demon Hunters all won Oscars. Marty Supreme took out its vampire attack scene, and came away empty handed. The lesson is clear. Always bet on horror.
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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Very happy to be part of Strange Horizons’ Criticism Special this year!
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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
this is why he was first boot on his Survivor season
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Jason Takes Man-Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New Patreon post! Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social tells us why she loves "The Monsters of Heaven" and "Sunbleached" from Nathan Ballingrud’s collection "North American Lake Monsters"
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Sally Parlier recommends "The Monsters of Heaven" and "Sunbleached" by Nathan Ballingrud | Seize The Press Magazine
Get more from Seize The Press Magazine on Patreon
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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
My only piece of writing advice is that if your thing DOESN'T include characters saying things like this, it is bad and you should throw it out
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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
f for fuck this
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The reviews are in! Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder by Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill reviewed by Sally Parlier Dark Worlds We Wander by Kristin Kirby reviewed by David Lewis Ley Lines by Tim Welsh reviewed by Cameron Miguel Link to latest issue in bio!
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cover of Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder by Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill featuring a person made up of solid white sections with an orange bird on their right arm and riding a the solid white form of a cat. 

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"What is radical about Bacchilega and Greenhill’s book is that, through the border crossing inherent to their interdisciplinary work, they draw our attention to the fact that meaning, and therefore transformation, is not made in isolation."
reviewer: Sally Parlier

18 August 2025
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cover of Dark Worlds We Wander by Kristin Kirby featuring a blurry image of five figures walking one behind the other with a large planet looking in the background with another planet behind it and an overlay of a splotchy red circle in the bottom right.  

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"These unspoken, yet evident, resonances tie many of these stories together and place the book in SFF’s long tradition of social critiques hiding in plain sight. You’ll find reasons for terror and comfort sitting side by side throughout Dark Worlds We Wander."
reviewer: David Lewis

18 August 2025
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cover of Ley Lines by Tim Welsh featuring a psychedelic shining mountainous landscape with four solid black figures walking towards a boat and a lone ear in the middle of the image.  

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"It is Welsh’s chief argument: that the greatest highs inevitably have their even greater lows; but that, despite the insistence on destruction in these bust cycles, something remains to rebuild, usually that’s people."
reviewer: Cameron Miguel

18 August 2025
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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
My latest book review!
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Israel is now bombing my father’s hometown of Yazd, so in lieu of talking about how terrified and furious I am in this moment, let me tell you a little about Yazd. 🧵
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
anyone wanna see an article that'll get your ass dead?
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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I did 2 terms as a VISTA. I’m a millennial—I graduated right after the market crashed & there were no jobs. AmeriCorps gave me meaningful work, even though it was minimum wage. The school pantry I started still serves 100s of students a year over a decade later 🧵
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Robert G. Reeve @robertgreeve.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.
On her first day in the facility, Becky asked for a scrap of paper and a pen, and began to draw the inmates on the table next to her. She was immediately inundated with portrait requests. A Mexican woman called Lopez, who had a photo of her children stored on one of the iPads, told Becky she would buy her some paper and colouring pencils from the commissary if Becky drew her kids. She soon became the dorm’s unofficial artist-in-residence, with women huddling around the dirty mirrors to make themselves look presentable before they sat for her. They would decorate their cells with Becky’s drawings, or send them to their families. Lopez declared herself Becky’s manager. “She kept saying, ‘Becky, you need to ask for stuff in exchange. Ask for popcorn.’ And I’d be like, ‘Lopez, I don’t need anything.’ I thought, I’m here briefly, you’re stuck here a long time. I’m not going to take your food away from you.”A three by three grid illustrating in blue pen cartoon portraits of women in an ICE detention center. “Mrs Kailey,” Bana, Lewelyn, Ikram, Asil, ‘Auntie,’ ‘F.Z,’ Kseniia, and “P.A.” Two have light hair, three have glasses, one wears a hijab, one poses, and one holds a drink.
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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
We did a DNA test because curiosity got the better of us. 13 different breeds listed.
Mabel, a purebred Heinz 57 dog, sits on a porch. She’s got Yoda ears and a black and tan coat with white spots.
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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It's Friday, it's review day! Here's @sallyparlier.bsky.social on José Maria de Eça de Queirós's Adam and Eve in Paradise: Margaret Jull Costa's new translation from @ndbooks.bsky.social offers the chance to consider that most interesting (and speculative?) of subgenres, prehistoric fiction.
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Adam and Eve in Paradise by José Maria de Eça de Queirós, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
I often think about orangutans when I’m driving to work. Although I’m sure I first saw this anecdote on Twitter, I’ll give you a real citation: Jacobus Bontius, a physician with the Dutch East Indi…
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Honeymoons in Temporary Locations by Ashley Shelby reviewed by Shannon Fay A Spectre is Haunting Greentree by Carson Winter reviewed by Marisa Mercurio Adam and Eve in Paradise by José Maria de Eça de Queirós, translated by Margaret Jull Costa reviewed by Sally Parlier Link to issue in bio!
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"Honeymoons in Temporary Locations is an inventive, sometimes glib, sometimes bittersweet meditation on climate change. It can be as subtle as an anvil, but to quote an old internet staple, TV Tropes, “some anvils need to be dropped."
reviewer: Shannon Fay

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"In literalizing Marx and Engels’s spectre, he cuts to the novella’s central concern: resistance to bourgeois violence. That’s not to say that A Spectre is Haunting Greentree drowns in economic theory. The result is quite the opposite..."
reviewer: Marisa Mercurio

24 March 2025
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"If it is violence, then, that ultimately makes us human, reading Adam and Eve in Paradise leaves me weighing where we are at present: We have not become gentler creatures, so are we more human now?"
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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
-This can be the beginning to so many towards less thoughtless consumption -it can help people towards incorporating things like the BDS list into their everyday life -this can help people figure out viable alternatives to what feels like inevitable use of Big Company sites It's not zero sum y'all
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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
New Aardman character drops: she's not mad, she's just very disappointed 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This is the 7,500-year-old "Red-haired Goddess", in the National Museum, Belgrade. It was found near Odžaci, Serbia 😁
A photo of a an ancient figurine, with exaggerated hips and bum, and boobs. Her arms are on her hips as if she's about to give you a good telling off
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A major reason to watch more silent film is that there are all kinds of hidden subgenres. For example, trade magazines discussed "lion pictures" alongside comedies and dramas.
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Nneka @nnekaboo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Kendrick had no plan to win any of this shit. He was just hatin and look where it got him. There’s a lesson there!
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 25/01/2025
I just learned that Michael Jackson allegedly would get up and set down tracks whenever the thought came to him because he was afraid if he didn't do it asap the muse/God/etc would give it to Prince instead and if this concept is true I have some work to do.
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/01/2025
Today, Donald Trump doubled down on his vows to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I was not expecting Outlander to go the GRRM route with getting beyond the books. Nor the incest. But I have to admit the choices are reawakening my obsession with the series.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 09/01/2025
this sucks man we coulda been living in one of the ones with terrifying sex aliens
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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
my year in review from @strangehorizons.bsky.social, very happy to be part of this team 💚
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
has anyone ever done a count of the number of guys named Bill in Stephen King’s works?
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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Yellowstone is made for people who love motion smoothing
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Jason Buel 🇵🇸 @jwbuel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Dog under blanket
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Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Not all who wander are lost. Except you.
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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
It's Wednesday, so there's another @strangehorizons.bsky.social review for you: @sallyparlier.bsky.social on @kaychronister.bsky.social's The Bog Wife, a "reflection on the necessity of creating new interactions with nature."
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The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
Ritual is ultimately a very human way of approaching the world and creating order and comfort. But a bog wife is not human.
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