Anthony M. Abboreno
@anthonymabboreno.bsky.social
He/him. English teacher. Fiction writer.
PhD @ University of Southern California.
Words @ Redivider, Copper Nickel, Story Magazine, American Short Fiction, Outlook Springs, Planet Scumm, Future Fire
PhD @ University of Southern California.
Words @ Redivider, Copper Nickel, Story Magazine, American Short Fiction, Outlook Springs, Planet Scumm, Future Fire
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Theoretically, ChatGPT can aid your brainstorming in the following fashion:
1. Brainstorm in the traditional fashion.
2. Ask ChatGPT to brainstorm.
3. If anything on your list is also on ChatGPT's list, cross it off.
Of course you can achieve the same thing just by knowing the market.
1. Brainstorm in the traditional fashion.
2. Ask ChatGPT to brainstorm.
3. If anything on your list is also on ChatGPT's list, cross it off.
Of course you can achieve the same thing just by knowing the market.
“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement.
YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.
YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.
September 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Theoretically, ChatGPT can aid your brainstorming in the following fashion:
1. Brainstorm in the traditional fashion.
2. Ask ChatGPT to brainstorm.
3. If anything on your list is also on ChatGPT's list, cross it off.
Of course you can achieve the same thing just by knowing the market.
1. Brainstorm in the traditional fashion.
2. Ask ChatGPT to brainstorm.
3. If anything on your list is also on ChatGPT's list, cross it off.
Of course you can achieve the same thing just by knowing the market.
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"Manosphere"... you mean this thing?
September 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Manosphere"... you mean this thing?
Book haul from “One of Us” horror fest! @horrorsong.blog @patrickbarb.bsky.social @matthewmitchell.bsky.social @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social @filthyloot.bsky.social @clashbooks.bsky.social @cursedmorsels.bsky.social @flameswallower.bsky.social @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I have been enthusiastically following Thomas Ha since encountering “Window Boy” in Clarkesworld, a story so haunting I still vividly remember the rainy morning I first read it. Very excited for this.
The cover is OUT!!! So stoked! Pre-orders now open at Undertow/Amazon/B&N. The Gillan foreword and @kellylink.bsky.social's kind words blew me away. Also you can see more of Ove Tøpfer's wild surreal oil paintings at his IG below.
Can't wait until Sept!! 🥳
www.instagram.com/p/CeBHuBKoGtI/
Can't wait until Sept!! 🥳
www.instagram.com/p/CeBHuBKoGtI/
Thrilled to reveal the cover for @thomasha.bsky.social's astonishingly original debut UNCERTAIN SONS. Cover art by Ove Tøpfer. Design by Vince Haig. Foreword by @megapolisomancy.bsky.social. Praise from Kelly Link. Importantly, pre-orders open now. Get in!
undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...
February 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I have been enthusiastically following Thomas Ha since encountering “Window Boy” in Clarkesworld, a story so haunting I still vividly remember the rainy morning I first read it. Very excited for this.
People will try to shoot down social justice rhetoric saying it smacks of “elite universities” knowing damn well we all learned it for free on the internet.
December 16, 2024 at 7:09 PM
People will try to shoot down social justice rhetoric saying it smacks of “elite universities” knowing damn well we all learned it for free on the internet.
Very pleased to announce that Redivider has nominated my most recently published story, “A Better Man,” for this year’s Pushcart!
Read it here! redivider.emerson.edu/a-better-man/
Read it here! redivider.emerson.edu/a-better-man/
November 23, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Very pleased to announce that Redivider has nominated my most recently published story, “A Better Man,” for this year’s Pushcart!
Read it here! redivider.emerson.edu/a-better-man/
Read it here! redivider.emerson.edu/a-better-man/
New story up in the Fall issue of Redivider! Riyl: dark fairy tales, fish monsters, bad men getting their commeuppance.
redivider.emerson.edu/a-better-man/
redivider.emerson.edu/a-better-man/
November 16, 2024 at 3:15 PM
New story up in the Fall issue of Redivider! Riyl: dark fairy tales, fish monsters, bad men getting their commeuppance.
redivider.emerson.edu/a-better-man/
redivider.emerson.edu/a-better-man/
Great essay by Joe Koch on Turn of the Screw, a novel that has always confounded me.
November 1, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Great essay by Joe Koch on Turn of the Screw, a novel that has always confounded me.
The phrase “Vancian magic” always trips me up because it describes magical rules, when the actual magic in Dying Earth is so unruly.
“You have to memorize spells before casting them” strikes me as the least salient property of those books. It just incidentally made a good rule for D&D.
“You have to memorize spells before casting them” strikes me as the least salient property of those books. It just incidentally made a good rule for D&D.
January 12, 2024 at 9:46 PM
The phrase “Vancian magic” always trips me up because it describes magical rules, when the actual magic in Dying Earth is so unruly.
“You have to memorize spells before casting them” strikes me as the least salient property of those books. It just incidentally made a good rule for D&D.
“You have to memorize spells before casting them” strikes me as the least salient property of those books. It just incidentally made a good rule for D&D.
Worth noting that Poe was vocally opposed to the idea of spontaneous inspiration implied by “I love ravens.” He claimed his process was rigidly mathematical and the raven was chosen to be “emblematical of Mournful and Neverending Remembrance.”
This odious comic is a great example of how modern online anti-intellectualism looks: All literature is a simple declaration of fannish affiliation ("I'm on Team Raven!") and any attempt to find deeper meaning is gibberish invented by teachers to make themselves feel smart.
December 5, 2023 at 12:58 AM
Worth noting that Poe was vocally opposed to the idea of spontaneous inspiration implied by “I love ravens.” He claimed his process was rigidly mathematical and the raven was chosen to be “emblematical of Mournful and Neverending Remembrance.”
Is this a phishing attempt on my inner demons?
October 23, 2023 at 9:10 PM
Is this a phishing attempt on my inner demons?
I often feel this way, but I’m not sure if this is a byproduct of “weird time” or just a weird thing that twenty-somethings have always done. Lol. I used to love coming up with wild arguments to argue why everything I hated was fascist. I just didn’t post them on social media.
We're in this weird time where people think they have to justify their personal tastes with ideological principles. Like, it's not enough that you don't like hiking, you have to spin some weird theory about how hiking is Problematic.
But no! You can just not go hiking!
But no! You can just not go hiking!
October 23, 2023 at 2:41 PM
I often feel this way, but I’m not sure if this is a byproduct of “weird time” or just a weird thing that twenty-somethings have always done. Lol. I used to love coming up with wild arguments to argue why everything I hated was fascist. I just didn’t post them on social media.
Twitter is so well moderated that I can doomscroll through a long thread of posts about war and dehumanization and at the end a bot will have posted a picture of a naked lady: “Would you hit that?” Serious JG Ballard hours over there.
October 22, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Twitter is so well moderated that I can doomscroll through a long thread of posts about war and dehumanization and at the end a bot will have posted a picture of a naked lady: “Would you hit that?” Serious JG Ballard hours over there.
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Widespread cat culls and associated witch panics did not happen in Europe during the time of the medieval Black Death, medieval people loved cats, medieval cats had jobs, everyone stop it with this shit going-medieval.com/2023/05/16/o...
On cats
The other night I was mindlessly scrolling about on my phone through Instagram, as one does when they really ought to go to bed but are stuck being entertained instead of resting, when I came upon a v...
going-medieval.com
October 21, 2023 at 2:51 PM
Widespread cat culls and associated witch panics did not happen in Europe during the time of the medieval Black Death, medieval people loved cats, medieval cats had jobs, everyone stop it with this shit going-medieval.com/2023/05/16/o...
Part of what makes body horror body horror, imo, is that the transformation is not portrayed as unambiguously negative. The horror comes from radical disruption of the sense of self, but the transformation opens new realms of sensual experience.
October 20, 2023 at 12:05 PM
Part of what makes body horror body horror, imo, is that the transformation is not portrayed as unambiguously negative. The horror comes from radical disruption of the sense of self, but the transformation opens new realms of sensual experience.
One of my coworkers found out I had no plans to dress up for Halloween this year, and I tried to explain that my love of Halloween is that I get to do everything I normally do, but now it feels seasonal.
October 20, 2023 at 11:33 AM
One of my coworkers found out I had no plans to dress up for Halloween this year, and I tried to explain that my love of Halloween is that I get to do everything I normally do, but now it feels seasonal.
There is a new friendly cat in my neighborhood and he has a tusk! One of his bottom teeth sticks out over his upper lip and it’s very charming. I petted him extensively, but no picture this time.
October 19, 2023 at 12:48 AM
There is a new friendly cat in my neighborhood and he has a tusk! One of his bottom teeth sticks out over his upper lip and it’s very charming. I petted him extensively, but no picture this time.
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All I'm capable of doing right now is making little text videos for tiktok. This is the extent of my abilities.
October 18, 2023 at 4:45 PM
All I'm capable of doing right now is making little text videos for tiktok. This is the extent of my abilities.
Happy to announce that the new issue of Story magazine with my piece, “An Occult Basis for Grief” is now available. Featuring a monster from beyond time and a disastrous baby “gender reveal.” RIYL: ungodly rituals, sadness, regret.
October 18, 2023 at 12:34 PM
Happy to announce that the new issue of Story magazine with my piece, “An Occult Basis for Grief” is now available. Featuring a monster from beyond time and a disastrous baby “gender reveal.” RIYL: ungodly rituals, sadness, regret.
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The joke is on you, Baby.
October 16, 2023 at 6:45 PM
The joke is on you, Baby.
Bandcamp built a reputation as a place that cared about musicians and music scenes in an otherwise cynical industry. Songtradr’s “business as usual” statement about the firings is cruel and stupid. Proof they are ruining something they don’t understand.
October 17, 2023 at 1:15 AM
Bandcamp built a reputation as a place that cared about musicians and music scenes in an otherwise cynical industry. Songtradr’s “business as usual” statement about the firings is cruel and stupid. Proof they are ruining something they don’t understand.
Chemistry in 1934’s Black Cat is wild. Bela Lugosi as a WWI veteran and Boris Karloff as the war criminal who betrayed him, both radiating intensity, talking about death and the occult in a modernist chateau built on the remains of a battlefield. Also there’s a cheerful American tourist couple.
October 15, 2023 at 2:04 AM
Chemistry in 1934’s Black Cat is wild. Bela Lugosi as a WWI veteran and Boris Karloff as the war criminal who betrayed him, both radiating intensity, talking about death and the occult in a modernist chateau built on the remains of a battlefield. Also there’s a cheerful American tourist couple.