Jonathan Louis Duckworth

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Author of Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? & Other Rumors. Horror Writer, regular type dude, Godless leftist, Visiting Lecturer at University of North Texas

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Joe Koch: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the invaginies Stephen King: whoa joe that sounds kind of adult, is this appropriate for dean? Koch: oh it's fine, it's not like super adult Koch: or rather anything dean could parse as adult

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Live BCS #409: "Under the Reaching Tree" @jduckwriter.bsky.social. "Suddenly Mika is afraid to go back to the Stead. It strikes her that as long as she is here, in the Tween, standing in the shade of the Reaching Tree beside Birdy, she’s still a free girl. But when she goes back, she’ll be a woman."

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Under the Reaching Tree by Jonathan Louis Duckworthwww.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com Suddenly Mika is afraid to go back to the Stead. It strikes her that as long as she is here, in the Tween, standing in the shade of the Reaching Tree beside Birdy, she’s still a free girl. But when sh...

Hey look, a new story by me!

New Issue: BCS #409 out today, featuring stories of drifting into other (other) worlds by Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social and Cara Masten DiGirolamo, podcast of the DiGirolamo read by MK Hobson, behind cover art by Scott Harris.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #409 by Scott Andrewswww.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com Under the Reaching Tree by Jonathan Louis Duckworth. An Uncanny Patch and Uncanny Hole: The Final Account from the Records of Ptaten, Imperial Surveyor by Cara Masten DiGirolamo. BCS 333: An Uncanny P...

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This is one of the biggest achievements of my career thus far. Thrilled to be part of such an amazing TOC

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BCS #409 ebook out early today at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social and Cara Masten DiGirolamo, behind cover art by Scott Harris: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

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The first cut is always the strangest. Much is revealed in this “Note from the Angel’s Autopsy” by @jduckwriter.bsky.social. kaleidotrope.net/winter-2024/...

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Swan song: the final issue of Vastarien has arrived, including five poems by me & one excellent piece by @dyanisabin.bsky.social 🖤 as well as work by @emmaemurray.bsky.social @lauracranehill.bsky.social @jduckwriter.bsky.social & more 💀

Check out my story, “A Return to the Fragrant Mountain” in this new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies

New Issue: BCS #399 out today, featuring stories of travel and overcoming by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael!) and @jduckwriter.bsky.social, a From the BCS Archives story by Timothy Mudie, behind cover art by Michal Kváč.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #399 by Scott Andrewswww.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com The Angel Azrael and the Dead Man’s Hand by Peter Darbyshire. A Return to the Fragrant Mountain by Jonathan Louis Duckworth.

So, this is kind of exciting. Congratulations to everyone on the preliminary ballot

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Congratulations to @rebelsam94.bsky.social, @rachelunger.bsky.social, @jduckwriter.bsky.social, @tobithedreamer.bsky.social, @wtalabi.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, @christinogle.bsky.social, @michaelwehunt.bsky.social,@sillysyntax.bsky.social, and @mariahaskins.bsky.social on the BFSA noms! 1/?

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BCS #399 ebook is out early at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) and @jduckwriter.bsky.social, behind cover art by Michal Kváč: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

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The new Winter Kaleidotrope features poetry by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, William Doreski, Rick Doyle, @jduckwriter.bsky.social, @writerjencrow.bsky.social, & Elizabeth R. McClellan!

New year, new poem! My latest work is out today with the new issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! “Note from the Angel’s Autopsy” is exactly what it sounds like kaleidotrope.net/winter-2024/...

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BCS of 2023! "Little Red Hands" @jduckwriter.bsky.social, BCS #390: "He was taking care to be quiet, when a coyote howled from somewhere near, somewhere dangerously close, and for a second he forgot he was inside a house, and he forgot coyotes don’t hurt people on account of they’re too small."

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Little Red Hands by Jonathan Louis Duckworthwww.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com Ree snored in her cot, and Loaf listened to the snoring till it got heavy and guttered, and that’s when he started to search around for what he could take with him. He was working at it, taking care...

Always very exciting to have a story featured in Locus Magazine! t.co/PUc1b1M0EH

Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fusion Fragment, and Fantasyt.co Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/7/23, 9/21/23 Fusion Fragment 9/23 Fantasy 9/23 September’s Beneath Ceaseless Skies covered a lot of ground, with its first issue focusing on young people fleeing violent �...

AHAB-Assigned Hero at Birth: characters that the plot/writer insists are heroic despite all their actions being gray if not outright evil. Example: Jack Bauer from 24.

I saw a Reddit post arguing you should add 2 points to any IMDB score for a horror movie to get the movie's real rating & I have yet to find an example where this doesn't work. Case in point: It Follows, 6.8 (8.8), The Witch, 7 (9), Shadow of the Vampire, 6.9 (8.9), The Thing, 8.2 (10.2). See?

Hey hey hey, look, my newest story is out today with the fantastic podcast, Pseudopod! This tale about a disgruntled magician with a secret is brought to life by the stellar narration of Jon Padgett! pseudopod.org/2023/10/27/p...

PseudoPod 889: Darke’s Last Showpseudopod.org I’m still smiling when the rideshare car pulls up. Silver Honda Accord. Driver: Raul. 4.9 star rating, meaning some monster gave him a petty 4-star review once—there is no circle of Hell low enoug...

My story about a sentient (haunted?) smart fridge is the featured archive story of the week on the Submission Grinder! Much thanks again to @diabolicalplots.com for publishing “21 Motes” and giving Dave the smart fridge a home! www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-8...

DP FICTION #86B: “21 Motes” by Jonathan Louis Duckworth – Diabolical Plotswww.diabolicalplots.com

If American politics was a scripted TV show it would have been canceled decades ago. Why do the idiot characters keep failing upward? Totally unrealistic, ruins my immersion

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Only 0.7% of BCS readers support the magazine. Any readers interested in helping us pay authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of their work writing all rejections personalized, please support us on the BCS Patreon. Thank you! www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas...

All of them, actually. If you'd like some suggestions: Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, FIYAH, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, Analog, Asimov's, Apex Magazine, and the Magazine of F&SF is a good starting point.

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FINALLY I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT THE NEW BOOK

These are the old books. Soon, very soon, I'll be able to tell you about the new book.

New story alert! My Southern historical horror story, “Co’ Cola,” a blend of Brian Evenson and Flannery O’Connor, is out today with the new issue of Uncharted! www.unchartedmag.com/stories/co-c...

Not nearly enough people have read Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker

My sense of smell has returned. It’s amazing how much I’ve taken each of my senses for granted, and how much I now appreciate the simple ability to smell things, even unpleasant things

No sense of smell and limited ability to taste. Whee!

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AHEM Story day! First time I'm in khōréō! With a novelette! Feng, a hapless research assistant, on trip to a nature reserve to study a dead dragon with her professor and a park ranger - but everybody has dark secrets from the war with dragons and the mysterious Dragonsworn.

Feng, once indentured to the university in return for her studies, accompanies the Professor who bought her debt to the mountains. There, they expect to find a rare and tragic treasure: a dead dragon. "Dragonsworn" by L Chan is the first novelette that khōréō has published!