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@sethwade.bsky.social
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philosopher, poet, fiction writer / www.sethwade.info

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m forever grateful to The Hemlock Journal for publishing my poem “Even Mountains Slowly Crush Into Hills” in their digital edition of Issue 11. You can read my work and check out the work of other amazing artists and writers here: thehemlockjournal.com/2026/09/12/t...
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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My latest Words for Thought review for @apexmag.bsky.social is here, discussing stories where things are uncertain, shifting, expectations are upended, and not all is as it seems!
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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I also got to chat with Wil about the origin of the story, writer burnout, some short fiction writers + books I love, and more. You can check it out on the ”It’s Storytime” patreon page (and confirm I do not actually have an 8-bit face 👾):
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Get more from It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton on Patreon
Get more from It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton on Patreon. Become a member for just $5/month. Welcome to the behind-the-scenes of It's Storytime with Wil…
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
summer fun
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
University of Hawai'i at Mãnoa is hosting their Uehrio Philosophy Graduate Student Conference again this year, with the theme of “The Self & The Other”; please consider sending this along to your students and departments! See the call for papers below: philevents.org/event/show/1...
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2027 Uehiro Philosophy Graduate Student Conference: The Self & The Other
2027 Uehiro Philosophy Graduate Student Conference: The Self & The Other Dates: Thursday, March 11th, 2027 and Friday, March 12th, 2027 Keynote Speakers: Dr. Shaun Gallagher, University of Memphis...
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Florida State University’s chapter of Minorities and Philosophy will be hosting our annual Graduate Philosophy Conference, and our keynote speaker will be the wonderful Dr. Manuel Vargas! Please consider sharing this amazing opportunity: philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Florida State University's Minorities and Philosophy Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference
Florida State University’s chapter of the Minorities and Philosophy Club invites submissions of abstracts for its Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference to be held on 4/2-4/3. Our keynote speaker...
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Huge thanks to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social, who shortlisted me for their 2026 Poet of the Year Award; it's truly an honor. You can check out the winning poet, finalists, and others shortlisted here: onlypoems.com/poet-of-the-...
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm incredibly thankful to @hexliterary.bsky.social for having originally published my flash fiction "See Something, Say Something", and to @wigleaf.bsky.social for having just long-listed it for their for annual Wigleaf Top 50! Check out other long-listed works here: wigleaf.com/2026longlist...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/05/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Joe Dator and Kevin Maher.
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I started reading Izumi Suzuki's Terminal Boredom, and I am so enthralled: so funny, so sad ... a wonderful practitioner of the terrifyingly beautiful absurd! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667312...
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Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki: 9781788739887 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis Japan The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction...
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I just had the amazing opportunity to participate in a fiction workshop in Dublin! I am so thankful to my wonderful peers, my mentor Carol Goodman, and to Writing Workshops for organizing this experience. Ireland was lovely, and I am honored to have learned so much.
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
pet photo dump #3,459
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
All the developers 404 Media talked to were excited to try using LLMs at work at first, or were at least curious about them. Their feelings about the tools, based on their personal experience, are now overwhelmingly negative. AI is rotting their brains www.404media.co/software-dev...
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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What do we want? More superb short horror fiction! Very happy to report I’m now editing Sunday Scaries for @therumpus.net. A huge thank you to the great @roxanegay.bsky.social. Pro rates, no submission fee. Read more below and send us your best. Long live horror. therumpus.submittable.com/submit
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The Rumpus Submission Manager
The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I actually cackled out loud when I read this. Brilliant and strange new piece by @ivygrimes.bsky.social!
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
So much love for my pets Edgar, Junji, Humbaba, & Sigrún, & for my partners Brandon & Reda—I’m always thankful for how much strength they all give me ❤️🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐍🐶❤️
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his did. Women and…
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I am so happy to share that my first philosophy article was published today by Philosophia: "Different Skies: Queerness and the Philosophy of Accidentality"! This article deals with Mexican exstentialism, queer theory, epistemic injustice, and mental health.
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Different Skies: Queerness and the Philosophy of Accidentality
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“The Reason Why the Closet-Man is Never Sad” by Russell Edson
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Huge thank you to the Los Angeles Review for publishing my flash fiction “Karl Marx Hates My Drag Show”! losangelesreview.org/karl-marx-ha...
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Karl Marx Hates My Drag Show by Seth Wade - The Los Angeles Review
I see him there in the dark, watching me and frowning. I skitter about on all fours in a tattered white dress, long black hair draping over my face. Tonight is Halloween. The theme is movies. I’m twit...
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I am so grateful to have presented my research “Different Skies: Queerness and the Philosophy of Accidentality” at the Uehrio Philosophy Graduate Student Conference at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa!
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I’ve been ill lately, so it’s a surreal burst of energy to share that my short story “Sirens Chasing Sirens” is featured today on PsuedoPod! Listen to my story and other horrifying tales here: pseudopod.org/2026/02/13/p...
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PseudoPod 1016: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVI (76): Illume the Kingdom of the Drowned
Were it not for that four-inch scar upon my forehead, I would have thought it a nightmare — some ghastly hallucination, even though it happened in broad daylight. But there is that scar…
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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 13/02/2026
Flash on the Borderlands LXXVI Illume the Kingdom of the Drowned Left by the Tide, by Edward E. Schiff 🌊 Sirens Chasing Sirens, by Seth Wade 🌊 Dread and Faith, by Ash Vale Narrators: Leeman Kessler, Scott Campbell & Amy H. Sturgis Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Graeme Dunlop
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PseudoPod 1016: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVI (76): Illume the Kingdom of the Drowned
Were it not for that four-inch scar upon my forehead, I would have thought it a nightmare — some ghastly hallucination, even though it happened in broad daylight. But there is that scar…
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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
My ecological horror poem "Stillborn" has been nominated for the Rhysling Award. It's my first time making it to that list. www.nightmare-magazine.com/podcast/stil...
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Stillborn - Nightmare Magazine
This poem was written in response to the LandBack movement and as part of the brainstorming process for my unpublished cli-fi novel The Everwhen.
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I’m so grateful for having had the opportunity to present my research on online behavior modification and social norm manipulation at the 2026 Florida Philosophical Association conference: huge thanks to the organizers, my university and colleagues, and everyone who participated—I learned a lot!
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Biscuit
YouTube video by Portishead - Topic
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Honestly? Iron Lung is one of the freshest horror films I’ve seen in a long time. An excellent job for an independent film, and a lot better than some of the bigger releases over the last few years. I highly recommend! youtu.be/x8E8Ryx49so?...
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Iron Lung | Official Trailer
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues  by Seth Wade @sethwade.bsky.social "A giant throbbing blob of eyeballs hovers at my front door, long wings flapping" Poem ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... Analysis ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
POETRY

by Seth Wade
Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues

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A giant throbbing blob of eyeballs hovers
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Strange HorizonsPOETRY ANALYSIS

by Seth Wade
Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues 

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This poem was initially inspired by a line of dialogue near the beginning of So Long A Letter by Mariama Bâ, which is also the last line of the poem and the moment I tried to build up to: Lady, death is just as beautiful as life has been.

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Strange Horizons
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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I want also to spotlight the poetry in this issue. This is provided by our colleagues in that dept, and every year it’s a highlight: criticism is creative, too! This year, @sethwade.bsky.social and @swantower.bsky.social contribute not just a poem each but analysis of them. Fascinating self-crit.
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Welcome to the annual Strange Horizons criticism special!
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
And I’m also thrilled to have been invited to write an analysis on my poem, which explains the chaos behind this absurd creation: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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Poem Analysis: Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
Poet Seth Wade discusses his poem's connections to the novel So Long A Letter by Mariama Bâ, and to other works of philosophy, vaudeville, blues, and religion.
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
So grateful to @strangehorizons.bsky.social for publishing my poem today! What do you do when an angel knocks on your door? Check it out here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues
A giant throbbing blob of eyeballs hovers at my front door, long wings flapping
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Delighted and honored for Frontier Poetry publishing my bizarre little poem “Escape From the Filth Room”: www.frontierpoetry.com/2026/01/16/s...
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Poetry: "Escape From the Filth Room" by Seth Wade | Frontier Poetry - Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
“Escape From the Filth Room” is both dreamlike and nightmarish, blurring images of consuming insects and slurping ooze with a vision of God. Particularly arresting moments come in the second and third...
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I absolutely loved playing through Silent Hill f … so unnerving, so beautiful, so sad, so disgusting … one of my favorite horror videogames now. youtu.be/z1e1gmnNoj8?...
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Silent Hill f - Launch Trailer | PS5 Games
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Synthetic Warmth
YouTube video by Amos Roddy - Topic
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
So proud of my good friend and old colleague from BGSU Victor Kriska, who is getting their first philosophy article published today in Bioethics, on death and dying. Congrats! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Why Death Is Most in One's Self‐Interest, and Necessarily So
Most of us think that death is usually not in the self-interest of the one who dies. Let us momentarily put this belief aside and examine death in a new light. This paper presents a two-step argument...
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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Just thinking about the @sethwade.bsky.social piece we are featuring in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week again 🧿
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Surreal news that I’m finally allowed to share: somehow I will be a TIN HOUSE SCHOLAR this winter! I’ll be workshopping fiction, and I’m just so grateful for this amazing opportunity … hope to make the most of this and learn all I can!
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
So excited for this short prose piece today, and honored to be featured by @hexliterary.bsky.social again: hexliterary.com?p=2970
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See Something, Say Something by Seth Wade
So this twink in green tights swoops through your window, drugs you, then whisks you away to an island with gnashing crocodiles and famished cannibals and some madman with a rusty hook for a hand—that...
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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
"So this twink in green tights swoops through your window, drugs you, then whisks you away to an island with gnashing crocodiles and famished cannibals and some madman with a rusty hook for a hand..." It's a damn thrill to have @sethwade.bsky.social back in hex with another wonderful creeper! 👁️
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See Something, Say Something by Seth Wade
So this twink in green tights swoops through your window, drugs you, then whisks you away to an island with gnashing crocodiles and famished cannibals and some madman with a rusty hook for a hand—that...
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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The thing about @sethwade.bsky.social is that he just crushes it every time. So stoked we have this new story for @hexliterary.bsky.social, which is, in turn, human then monstrous. Don't miss this wonderful new creeper, up now on the hex site!!!
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See Something, Say Something by Seth Wade
So this twink in green tights swoops through your window, drugs you, then whisks you away to an island with gnashing crocodiles and famished cannibals and some madman with a rusty hook for a hand—that...
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"It surprises me to find you, after a childhood of rejecting your heritage, preparing for a spell this frigid evening." 🩸🌿 New fiction today by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social: "Before, After, and the Space Between" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Before, After, and the Space Between by Kel Coleman. Apex Magazine, Issue 151."
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"Disney is an analytics company that happens to do movies and parks”—I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the wealthiest corporations on Earth now make more money selling your personal data than selling you goods and services. Oh, what a world…. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
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Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Not the biggest fan of country, but I (finally) checked out Orville Peck: what a great artist! youtu.be/60MHmrtEuRY?...
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Orville Peck - Hope To Die [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Thrilled to have this odd little tale published by Witness Magazine today: read it and so many other wonderful works in their latest issue! witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/issues/winte...
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Born By Blobfish By Seth Wade - Witness Magazine
by Seth Wade At the bottom of the ocean floor a blobfish lays eggs in the widening crack of a small stone box protruding from the sand. There is no more life above the hydrostatic pressure of the deep...
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Bartosz Zaskòrski is one of my favorite surrealist and absurdist horror artist/writer/musician. Happy to be catching up with his work this Halloween. If you haven’t yet, check him out! Be warned though, his creations are baffling and very disturbing: hollow-press.net/collections/...
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Surprising no one, I stumbled across another song I love that I also somehow never heard before, despite it being a classic: youtu.be/gdpHAB7kZTU?...
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Bless the Telephone
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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Looking for some spooky poetry this Halloween? The SF&F Poetry Association is hosting their annual reading series: I have a poem featured at the bottom, but you should check out all the amazing work by other artists, too! sfpoetry.org/wp/halloween...
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Halloween Reading 2025 – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 11/10/2025
Granny would grin, teeth like neglected gravestones, activating all her laugh lines. “Don’t get old, I wouldn’t recommend it.” So begins Wen Wen Yang's story, "Granny's Spider," which goes places very quickly.
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Granny’s Spider - Small Wonders
Granny would grin, teeth like neglected gravestones, activating all her laugh lines. “Don’t get old, I wouldn’t recommend it.”
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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Whether a book makes sense or not has almost nothing to do with its merit as a work of literature. I mean "makes sense" here to refer to both the plot and individual sentences.
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