C.Piveral
@cpiveral.bsky.social
SFFH writer. She/her/they. Purveyor of whimsy and angst. Work in Kaleidotrope, ApparitionLit, TFlatiron, FlameTreePress, ZNB Presents, and elsewhere. Grad presentation on Psychopomps in modern works.
Some days, well they really are the worst. And not in a big enough way that complaining helps but in that sort of way where you’re required to update something and it breaks it all. It’s not death by paper-cuts but by kilobytes.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Some days, well they really are the worst. And not in a big enough way that complaining helps but in that sort of way where you’re required to update something and it breaks it all. It’s not death by paper-cuts but by kilobytes.
I have just found myself uttering the phrase, “putting Darby O’Gill on Mars doesn’t make it science fiction.” 🤣
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I have just found myself uttering the phrase, “putting Darby O’Gill on Mars doesn’t make it science fiction.” 🤣
I have watched the 1922 Nosferatu
Next up the 1979 version which I have never seen
Next up the 1979 version which I have never seen
November 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I have watched the 1922 Nosferatu
Next up the 1979 version which I have never seen
Next up the 1979 version which I have never seen
This post says it all.
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
October 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This post says it all.
Nice work here Salt Lake City Tribune with your lead!
“I know sometimes it feels nice when you can try to help other people,” GOP council member Aimee Winder Newton said before voting to take away child care from more than 250 families.
“It’s not our job to provide this service.”
“It’s not our job to provide this service.”
Salt Lake County Republicans move to slash subsidized child care by year’s end
Over 250 Salt Lake County families could see a steep increase in child care costs as a result of a GOP-backed plan.
www.sltrib.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Nice work here Salt Lake City Tribune with your lead!
I was able to make a donation to my local Food Bank and if you can at all spare a few bucks I encourage you to do the same.
October 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I was able to make a donation to my local Food Bank and if you can at all spare a few bucks I encourage you to do the same.
What’s the purpose of the movie shot from inside the fridge looking at the protagonist? Seriously, is there something I’m missing?
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
What’s the purpose of the movie shot from inside the fridge looking at the protagonist? Seriously, is there something I’m missing?
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Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews
Kaleidotrope Autumn 2025 (12 originals, plus 7 poems) @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
A big issues as usual, covering a lot of thematic ground. A nice mix of fantasy and science fiction with plenty of horror elements thrown in for good measure.
Kaleidotrope Autumn 2025 (12 originals, plus 7 poems) @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
A big issues as usual, covering a lot of thematic ground. A nice mix of fantasy and science fiction with plenty of horror elements thrown in for good measure.
October 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews
Kaleidotrope Autumn 2025 (12 originals, plus 7 poems) @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
A big issues as usual, covering a lot of thematic ground. A nice mix of fantasy and science fiction with plenty of horror elements thrown in for good measure.
Kaleidotrope Autumn 2025 (12 originals, plus 7 poems) @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
A big issues as usual, covering a lot of thematic ground. A nice mix of fantasy and science fiction with plenty of horror elements thrown in for good measure.
Just read “Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective” by Spencer Nitkey in Lightspeed- It lingers like flash should
October 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Just read “Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective” by Spencer Nitkey in Lightspeed- It lingers like flash should
And then I think about horse sweat and how there are two different kinds; lather and watery but both nominally horse sweat.
My mind is a chaotic place.
My mind is a chaotic place.
October 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
And then I think about horse sweat and how there are two different kinds; lather and watery but both nominally horse sweat.
My mind is a chaotic place.
My mind is a chaotic place.
I often wonder how many great and beautiful works of art have been lost due to the artists lack of privilege and the need to survive extraordinary circumstances.
October 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I often wonder how many great and beautiful works of art have been lost due to the artists lack of privilege and the need to survive extraordinary circumstances.
Short fiction and flash are great ways to find new favorite writers. Someone who has been around and you should have read before but in reading short you can sample their work and fall in love quickly over and over again.
September 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Short fiction and flash are great ways to find new favorite writers. Someone who has been around and you should have read before but in reading short you can sample their work and fall in love quickly over and over again.
@hschofieldfic.bsky.social Congratulations on your story in Year’s Best!
September 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
@hschofieldfic.bsky.social Congratulations on your story in Year’s Best!
Got something good to share? Please do.
Cool or cute or beautiful or strange and wondrous?
Please share.
Cool or cute or beautiful or strange and wondrous?
Please share.
September 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Got something good to share? Please do.
Cool or cute or beautiful or strange and wondrous?
Please share.
Cool or cute or beautiful or strange and wondrous?
Please share.
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We have forgotten all the ways people used to get toxins out of their food before federal regulation. It's not that food and water used to be cleaner -- it's that domestic work used to include detoxing everything we put in our mouths!
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
September 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We have forgotten all the ways people used to get toxins out of their food before federal regulation. It's not that food and water used to be cleaner -- it's that domestic work used to include detoxing everything we put in our mouths!
For my followers in Missouri:
MISSOURI we need everyone to show up!
Tomorrow, Thursday 9/4, at the state capitol, there will be a hearing at noon for the illegal gerrymandering of our maps. Then at 1:00 pm, another hearing to gut our citizens initiative petition process. I’ll share more info shortly, but start planning. #MoLeg
Tomorrow, Thursday 9/4, at the state capitol, there will be a hearing at noon for the illegal gerrymandering of our maps. Then at 1:00 pm, another hearing to gut our citizens initiative petition process. I’ll share more info shortly, but start planning. #MoLeg
September 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
For my followers in Missouri:
If you haven’t had a chance to check out the @kaleidotrope.bsky.social newsletter you really should. In a generally bleak world it is quick and whimsically fun.
August 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If you haven’t had a chance to check out the @kaleidotrope.bsky.social newsletter you really should. In a generally bleak world it is quick and whimsically fun.
I loved the shared titles list in this week’s Kaleidonotes newsletter! Fun and inspirational @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I loved the shared titles list in this week’s Kaleidonotes newsletter! Fun and inspirational @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
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Reviewers wanted! Can you help out this new small press with a professional review? Please contact us:
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February 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Reviewers wanted! Can you help out this new small press with a professional review? Please contact us:
bannisterpress.com/contact/
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I just finished reading “You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb” by Paul Crenshaw in the July issue of Lightspeed, and wow! I felt such a deep sense of deep empathic, palpable rage. There are lines I will not soon forget.
August 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I just finished reading “You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb” by Paul Crenshaw in the July issue of Lightspeed, and wow! I felt such a deep sense of deep empathic, palpable rage. There are lines I will not soon forget.
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Alan reviews the latest edition of the excellent @shoreinf.bsky.social - Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.
Shoreline of Infinity #39 (Summer 2025)
Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states. Alan reviews the latest Shoreline of Infinity
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July 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Alan reviews the latest edition of the excellent @shoreinf.bsky.social - Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.
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Okay, question— when you are reading a work that references a particular song or album do you put it on while you read that work?
July 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Okay, question— when you are reading a work that references a particular song or album do you put it on while you read that work?
Just read “How to Win Against the Robots” by Katherine Crighton in Lightspeed and it was lovely.
July 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Just read “How to Win Against the Robots” by Katherine Crighton in Lightspeed and it was lovely.
Okay, question— when you are reading a work that references a particular song or album do you put it on while you read that work?
July 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Okay, question— when you are reading a work that references a particular song or album do you put it on while you read that work?
Just read Five Views of the Planet Tartarus by Rachel K Jones in @lightspeedmagazine.com (January 2024)
Wow! This flash piece does so much. And that ending—blew me away!
Wow! This flash piece does so much. And that ending—blew me away!
July 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Just read Five Views of the Planet Tartarus by Rachel K Jones in @lightspeedmagazine.com (January 2024)
Wow! This flash piece does so much. And that ending—blew me away!
Wow! This flash piece does so much. And that ending—blew me away!