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turkey vulture & black vultures by Richard Sloan

Max Bertolini cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2005

logging on. Nicholas Basilion, "American Photography Showcase 12" (1989)

Jon Juarez concept art for "Scavengers Reign"

i love JG Ballard so much. i dont think any other writer has influenced my ideas & work to the extent that he has

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‘Sometimes you gotta break out of your usual reading habits and try something new.’ Stoked to see R.T. Ester’s latest (& a @dntlz.bsky.social shout-out) alongside stories by Nadine Aurora Tabing, Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta and loads of other great writers in Alex Brown’s short fic column! Check it out

I'm back with my very belated April short spec fic spotlight! reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: April 2024 - Reactorreactormag.com Sometimes you gotta break out of your usual reading habits and try something new...

probably gonna post more here about my writing but i have a story coming out in a lil book next month that im very excited about

weird short story about suburban roadkill going well but something is definitely wrong with me

art from "L'Ordinateur Individuel" magazine (1987)

cover art by Chris Moore. "Ubik" & "Our Friends from Frolix 8" by Philip K. Dick; "The Foreigners" by James Lovegrove; "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman

Hiro Kimura box art for "Yars' Revenge" (Atari 2600, 1982)

Naoyuki Kato cover art for a 1980 Japanese SF convention program book

art by alex abel

azman yusof, 1987

hey y'all, im not on here much but ICYMI i recently got a short story published & one of my favorite publications, Interzone, was kind enough to shout it out!

‘Boredom was the mood of the times. The first half of the 21st century, with its dizzying technological advances and worldwide political upheaval playing out against the quiet horror of ecological collapse, had worn people out.’ — Aaron Thorpe apocalypse-confidential.com/2024/04/08/d...

i swear if i get suspended from that other site because some dumbass snitch tagged libsoftiktok in their quote tweet lol

virgil finlay cover art for weird tales, september 1952

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Leaving Twitter

zdzisław beksiński, 1975

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goblin mode

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Glad I got an agent and a couple of books out of Twitter before it died but I feel bad for all the upcoming writers who are going to have to learn Tiktok dances or whatever now

noriyoshi ohrai cover art, 1980s

something about juniper getting suspended kinda evaporated any desire i have to post on that awful site

"observatory outpost on rhea, satellite of saturn" by morris scott dollens, 1975

art by rallé for the short story "what i did to blunt the alien invasion" by barry n. malzberg in omni, april 1991

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Love these two! They're in my new art book as a two full-page illustrations in my section on post-apocalypse art. I'm hoping it comes across like a jumpscare in print form to turn the page and just be immediately faced with these bad boys

barbenheimer (art by philippe caza, 1981)

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Protocols of the Elders of Bluesky

that fucking dumbass