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J.A. Prentice
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social
He/they. SFWA Member. Stories published with Apex, Kaleidotrope, Big Finish, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Magazine of F&SF, Cast of Wonders, and more!
j.a.prenticewrites@gmail.com is my work contact email.
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“Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head” is available now in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s about a homeless orphan girl who discovers she can speak to one of the severed heads mounted over the city gate.
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This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.
Thinking about the many decisions that get made when you turn your notes into a draft and what that looks like when the bot is making all of those decisions, even if you get the "final say" after the decisions have been made. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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Jon Bernthal’s Punisher will reportedly receive a major upgrade to take on both Spider-Man and Hulk in SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY:
August 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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sometimes i see the most beautiful gifsets on tumblr and i think "WOW i simply MUST watch this film" and i scroll down and the caption just says "Goncharov (1973)"
February 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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If you’re nominating for the Nebulas, please also consider my friend Mel Watkins’ stunning short story, “Palimpsest” in @strangehorizons.bsky.social

She’s not on here often, so link below!

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
Palimpsest
After my mother died, Dr. Rostrow called to ask me if I wanted anything out of her brain.
strangehorizons.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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Time to dust off a classic
February 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Hi, I want this book to happen. Please make this book happen—back, hit repost, tell a friend. Four days to raise just over $3000, four days to bring more queer stories into the world.
✨ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding ✨

satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
February 16, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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I love you, ancient-aliens in fiction, I hate you, ancient-aliens in "history."
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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“What Am I This Time?” by @scottedelman.bsky.social (Kaleidotrope, Autumn ‘25) “is a mindbending sci-fi thriller set in a future high-tech rehab clinic.“ 🤯
Cast of Wonders, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Kaleidotrope: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...
February 16, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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“It Grows Back” by Grant Collier from Cast of Wonders, “Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed from Kaleidotrope, and more short fic recs from Maria Haskins -
Cast of Wonders, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Kaleidotrope: Review by Maria Haskins
Cast of Wonders 10/31/25 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/30/25 Kaleidotrope 10/6/25 “It Grows Back” by Grant Collier at Cast of Wonders is one of the more unsettling horror stories I’ve read this year. …
locusmag.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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TIL that LotR is a Gothic novel.
thinking about Nick Groom's suggested "seven types of obscurity" in Gothic novels, forming a handy "is it goth" checklist lmao
February 16, 2026 at 1:34 AM
I am always thinking about the time someone from a church group suggested that there could be other gods who really existed and had the power to fight capital-G God. Which is, uh, pretty much the biggest heresy you can commit. Top five at least.
Never not relevant
February 16, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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Never not relevant
February 16, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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It’s also a plot point and key location in Talons of Weng-Chiang, but I believe no filming took place there as Northampton was used.
Finally getting round to watching SMILEY'S PEOPLE (1982), and strangely finding it easier to recall a time of Cold War intrigue and pre-internet analogue telecommunications than I am one in which the Palace Theatre had something on other than Harry Bloody Potter:
February 16, 2026 at 12:39 AM
This also functions as a checklist of things to include to make your novel good.
thinking about Nick Groom's suggested "seven types of obscurity" in Gothic novels, forming a handy "is it goth" checklist lmao
February 16, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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thinking about Nick Groom's suggested "seven types of obscurity" in Gothic novels, forming a handy "is it goth" checklist lmao
February 15, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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I just finished this collection of speculative fiction short stories today, and WOW. Each one is a gem. I'm biased because I know Vanessa, but she truly is an amazing writer, and I highly recommend this magical collection.

Write more soon, please, Vanessa!
New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out.

vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
The House of Illusionists – Vanessa Fogg, Writer
vanessafogg.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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February 15, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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This is the way.
October 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Pointing this out because most people I know who have shared this don't realize it... Oliver Darkshire is in fact the author of the book she's talking about. Trust your editors!
February 13, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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I love him
February 16, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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What if we kissed under the skeletal limbs of an ancient tree god
September 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Now to start whatever episode is next in the queue and—
June 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Dragonpostening
(with bonus orb pondering)
February 16, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Due to an incorrect translation, historians believed the Spice Girls' hit song "Wannabe" featured the iconic lyric,

"I really, really, really wanna zig-a-zig-ah."

However, what they ACTUALLY said was,

"I really, really, really want the Ziggurat of Ur."

A shrine to the moon god, Nanna.
February 15, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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If I were a Democrat concerned about winning elections and was hearing that a significant number of voters wouldn’t support Gavin Newsom in 2028, I would simply stop pushing Gavin Newsom in 2026.
look if you want to freak out about people not voting newsom if he's the nominee a week before the 2028 general election, I kinda get it (but don't say you weren't warned). doing it now though is just a weird attempt to strong arm people into supporting him in the primary.
I think most (not all) of the "I will never vote for Gavin Newsom" people are communists who are mad that Americans don't like communism and want to destroy the Democratic party out of revenge. They don't care how many elections Republicans win or how many trans people die as long as the Dems fall.
February 15, 2026 at 9:50 PM