Rex Burrows
@improbablerex.bsky.social
Writer, biologist, various other things. Stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Weird Horror Magazine, Supernatural Tales, Horror Library, etc.
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Here's a thread listing all of my published stories. I've noted the ones that are available to read for free, but please consider supporting these (across the board excellent) magazines, anthologies, etc. And thank you for reading! Here we go...
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If you are stopped by ICE, or see someone stopped by ICE, record everything. They've shown they'll murder individuals in cold blood and lie about it. Make a record of it. #Minneapolis
January 7, 2026 at 7:59 PM
If you are stopped by ICE, or see someone stopped by ICE, record everything. They've shown they'll murder individuals in cold blood and lie about it. Make a record of it. #Minneapolis
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Disclaimer: We do not give out actual crowns.
January 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Disclaimer: We do not give out actual crowns.
Me trying to access previously untapped telekinetic powers every time I see a certain motorcade passing through DC.
January 6, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Me trying to access previously untapped telekinetic powers every time I see a certain motorcade passing through DC.
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FIRST ISSUE OF THE YEAR IS HERE
Grab single issues of CHM #67 here: https://bit.ly/4q5dz0P
January 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
FIRST ISSUE OF THE YEAR IS HERE
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It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
January 5, 2026 at 7:36 PM
It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
I’d forgotten one of my favorite LOTR nuggets of wisdom, delivered via Treebeard: Say much less than you might, and no more than you should.
Also, more Huorn lore please.
Also, more Huorn lore please.
For the past few years, I’ve made a holiday tradition of revisiting a book from the Tolkien canon. This year, I’m up to The Two Towers.
January 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I’d forgotten one of my favorite LOTR nuggets of wisdom, delivered via Treebeard: Say much less than you might, and no more than you should.
Also, more Huorn lore please.
Also, more Huorn lore please.
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Highly recommend, again
Might have to revisit How to Hide an Empire a little sooner than expected. Christ. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
How to Hide an Empire
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneA Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff PickA pathbreaking history of the ...
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January 4, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Highly recommend, again
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at least part of everything this government does is to impress a handful of psychos on twitter
Several of the photos have Twitter up on a screen in the background but I can’t make out what search term appears
January 3, 2026 at 7:38 PM
at least part of everything this government does is to impress a handful of psychos on twitter
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Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: “Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.
“Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”
“Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”
January 3, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: “Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.
“Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”
“Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”
Follow up: there are very few things in life better than stumbling across a specific piece of information that a vague set of ideas suddenly congeals around and a story with a beginning, middle, and end locks itself into place. Feels like magic every goddamn time.
A significant part of my writing process involves pouring a bunch of new information into my head and then seeing what fiction brain spits back out.
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Follow up: there are very few things in life better than stumbling across a specific piece of information that a vague set of ideas suddenly congeals around and a story with a beginning, middle, and end locks itself into place. Feels like magic every goddamn time.
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Welp! Something I never envisioned in all my wildest dreams — my name on the front of Locus magazine.
January 1, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Welp! Something I never envisioned in all my wildest dreams — my name on the front of Locus magazine.
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December Speculative Flash Roundup! Some truly phenomenal stories this month, and a bonus craft article!
Flash Roundup * December 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
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December 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
December Speculative Flash Roundup! Some truly phenomenal stories this month, and a bonus craft article!
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What better way to start the new year than to be OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! We're open for the next seven days, send us your best!
Guidelines here: https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA
Guidelines here: https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA
January 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
What better way to start the new year than to be OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! We're open for the next seven days, send us your best!
Guidelines here: https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA
Guidelines here: https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA
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Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only!
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page
Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
www.havenspec.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only!
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
Happy New Year folks. I ended 2025 with a case of food poisoning, which felt about on the mark.
January 1, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Happy New Year folks. I ended 2025 with a case of food poisoning, which felt about on the mark.
The winter issue of CMQ showed up on an appropriately frigid day. Looking forward to digging into this one (somewhere warm).
December 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The winter issue of CMQ showed up on an appropriately frigid day. Looking forward to digging into this one (somewhere warm).
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All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.
Genre fiction and female authors top U.S. libraries' most-borrowed lists in 2025
All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.
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December 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.
I personally aim to be jittery to the point of vibrating through solid matter, but you do you.
December 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I personally aim to be jittery to the point of vibrating through solid matter, but you do you.
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I’ve been so excited to share this one.
Much gratitude to @nightshadesmag.bsky.social for making the blend of English/Arabic dialogue work on the page (not easy, it turns out).
It’s a tale of gaps (between languages, between worlds, and between who we are and who we ought to be). Hope you enjoy.
Much gratitude to @nightshadesmag.bsky.social for making the blend of English/Arabic dialogue work on the page (not easy, it turns out).
It’s a tale of gaps (between languages, between worlds, and between who we are and who we ought to be). Hope you enjoy.
The Wound I Watch
by Yasmeen Fahmy
Mama asks on the phone “شو شكلها؟” What does it look like?
I’m not sure how to respond.
So I start scribbling in my A6 notebook in between shifts: like a glistening wound at sunris...
www.nightshadesmag.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I’ve been so excited to share this one.
Much gratitude to @nightshadesmag.bsky.social for making the blend of English/Arabic dialogue work on the page (not easy, it turns out).
It’s a tale of gaps (between languages, between worlds, and between who we are and who we ought to be). Hope you enjoy.
Much gratitude to @nightshadesmag.bsky.social for making the blend of English/Arabic dialogue work on the page (not easy, it turns out).
It’s a tale of gaps (between languages, between worlds, and between who we are and who we ought to be). Hope you enjoy.
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Sneaking one last story into 2025! I've got a new piece up at The Archive today! The Monument is about art and memory and was inspired by "The Matter of Time" installation by Richard Serra I saw at the Guggenheim in Bilbao this year
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
December 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Sneaking one last story into 2025! I've got a new piece up at The Archive today! The Monument is about art and memory and was inspired by "The Matter of Time" installation by Richard Serra I saw at the Guggenheim in Bilbao this year
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
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It's been a good year, and we have the horror to prove it. The Fifth Year Box Set of CHM is available to order here: https://bit.ly/44Nyf51
December 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's been a good year, and we have the horror to prove it. The Fifth Year Box Set of CHM is available to order here: https://bit.ly/44Nyf51
In which I roll my eyes at people with strenuously non-expert opinions.
December 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
In which I roll my eyes at people with strenuously non-expert opinions.
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What an honour! Incredibly grateful to Paula and Locus magazine for shouting out my work, it really means so much to me!
2025 Stories We Loved: “His Most Feared Constellation” by R.L. Summerling locusmag.com/2025/12...
December 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
What an honour! Incredibly grateful to Paula and Locus magazine for shouting out my work, it really means so much to me!
Just me poring over the evolutionary phylogeny of mollusks as normal people do on a Saturday morning.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology
Extreme morphological disparity within Mollusca has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups—gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods—e...
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December 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Just me poring over the evolutionary phylogeny of mollusks as normal people do on a Saturday morning.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The “yelling at strangers” phase of the Internet was fun while it lasted. But with the advance of AI, that age is coming to an end. Do not engage in the era of “yelling at robots on the internet.” No good can come of it.
December 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The “yelling at strangers” phase of the Internet was fun while it lasted. But with the advance of AI, that age is coming to an end. Do not engage in the era of “yelling at robots on the internet.” No good can come of it.