Shannon Phillips
@joshannonphillips.com
Writer and mom living in Oakland. Short speculative fiction and serialized novels at https://joshannonphillips.substack.com/. I like old things, wild places, tall tales, and the people who tell them.🐉
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Shannon Phillips
@joshannonphillips.com
· May 28
Journey
Journey - Kindle edition by Phillips, Shannon, Yanovsky, German. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Journey.
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JOURNEY is out now ( www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8WTJXHJ , or can be ordered through your local bookstore). Reviewers interested in getting a copy, feel free to message me!
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is going into the public domain on January 1st in case anyone wants to make a horror film about an adorably drunk couple and their dog chasing, like, a killer clown or something.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is going into the public domain on January 1st in case anyone wants to make a horror film about an adorably drunk couple and their dog chasing, like, a killer clown or something.
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Not now carnivorous death-ball
Carnivorous 'death-ball' among odd deep-sea finds. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge is team's oddest deep-sea find
The unusual creature lurks more than two miles (3.2km) deep in a trench in the Southern Ocean.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Not now carnivorous death-ball
I wish someone would reorganize my pell-mell & ontologically upsetting silverware drawer
Watched my brother’s family’s pups this weekend & reorganized their pell-mell & ontologically upsetting silverware drawer (little forks no longer in the same slot as big forks, jam spoons disassociated from teaspoons) & I didn’t say anything & just got a text from my brother that reads, “🙄.”
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I wish someone would reorganize my pell-mell & ontologically upsetting silverware drawer
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Nightmare.
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Nightmare.
Monday chapter: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-9-journey
Ch. 9: Journey
Niels pried his fingers under her chin and forced her gaze abruptly upwards. “What happened in the missing hours?” he roared
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November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Monday chapter: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-9-journey
Real art installation vibes
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Real art installation vibes
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Urgent help wanted, as mention by Tonda in this talk. One of the lead playtesters really urgently needs a living kidney donor. Read www.iggyland.org and then consider reposting, please.
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Urgent help wanted, as mention by Tonda in this talk. One of the lead playtesters really urgently needs a living kidney donor. Read www.iggyland.org and then consider reposting, please.
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If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
June 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
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dr mccoy was right. ban transporters and ban them now
what star trek political opinion would you have if you lived in universe? would you still be weird about the xindi? would you be one of the people who protests the Klingon embassy in Paris? Me, i'd be a borg truther
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
dr mccoy was right. ban transporters and ban them now
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The nice people at ThinkyCon made me a poster! Also, don't forget ThinkyCon starts on Wednesday 5th - I'm on day two.
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The nice people at ThinkyCon made me a poster! Also, don't forget ThinkyCon starts on Wednesday 5th - I'm on day two.
Monday chapter: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-8-journey
Ch. 8: Journey
“I will kill those pirate bastards myself if nobody beats me to it.”
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November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Monday chapter: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-8-journey
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it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
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happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
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ALL SOULS EVE (2024)
Acrylic on Canvas - 9 ½” x 7”
With leaves starting to fall and temperatures cooling, the color patterns on this scrap of canvas shifted me right into the Halloween spirit. 1/2
Acrylic on Canvas - 9 ½” x 7”
With leaves starting to fall and temperatures cooling, the color patterns on this scrap of canvas shifted me right into the Halloween spirit. 1/2
October 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
ALL SOULS EVE (2024)
Acrylic on Canvas - 9 ½” x 7”
With leaves starting to fall and temperatures cooling, the color patterns on this scrap of canvas shifted me right into the Halloween spirit. 1/2
Acrylic on Canvas - 9 ½” x 7”
With leaves starting to fall and temperatures cooling, the color patterns on this scrap of canvas shifted me right into the Halloween spirit. 1/2
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October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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one of the big problems of my life is that I absolutely would, in a heartbeat, go through those gates
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
one of the big problems of my life is that I absolutely would, in a heartbeat, go through those gates
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"Lilith in the Valley of a Thousand Sculptures"
Mixed media: coffee, graphite, and gold leaf on Arches paper.
The first piece to surface from the Labyrinth.
In pale marble, she carves a tree.
The Golden Serpent coils nearby — patient, watchful.
Mixed media: coffee, graphite, and gold leaf on Arches paper.
The first piece to surface from the Labyrinth.
In pale marble, she carves a tree.
The Golden Serpent coils nearby — patient, watchful.
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A surreal artwork in warm sepia and gold tones.
A masked woman, Lilith, kneels on a wooden scaffold and carves a marble wall covered with the relief of a tree heavy with fruit. A golden serpent winds around her, its sinuous body catching the light. Below, the fragmented head of a colossal statue lies half-buried in stone. Thin lines of gold run through the composition like veins of memory, linking Lilith’s gesture, the serpent, and the fallen face. The atmosphere is quiet, sacred, and timeless.
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Une œuvre onirique aux teintes sépia et dorées.
Une femme masquée, Lilith, agenouillée sur un échafaudage de bois, sculpte dans le marbre la façade d’un arbre chargé de fruits. Autour d’elle, le Serpent d’Or s’enroule, son corps lumineux suivant le mouvement de la main qui taille. En dessous repose la tête brisée d’une statue colossale. De fines lignes d’or traversent la scène, reliant le geste de Lilith, le serpent et le visage effondré. L’atmosphère est silencieuse, sacrée, hors du temps.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qvkrtyirb73v5vkihcqtohjq/bafkreienio32xbjggx7eztoinv3gbfbdsrdyulz67drw2fuyw7lg5jwjja@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"Lilith in the Valley of a Thousand Sculptures"
Mixed media: coffee, graphite, and gold leaf on Arches paper.
The first piece to surface from the Labyrinth.
In pale marble, she carves a tree.
The Golden Serpent coils nearby — patient, watchful.
Mixed media: coffee, graphite, and gold leaf on Arches paper.
The first piece to surface from the Labyrinth.
In pale marble, she carves a tree.
The Golden Serpent coils nearby — patient, watchful.
Delighted that JOURNEY has received a positive verdict from the IndieReader Discovery Awards!
They write: "JOURNEY is an engaging and imaginative story that sweeps the reader into a future both strange and familiar. The characters stick with you—they make mistakes, take risks, and feel real...
They write: "JOURNEY is an engaging and imaginative story that sweeps the reader into a future both strange and familiar. The characters stick with you—they make mistakes, take risks, and feel real...
October 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Delighted that JOURNEY has received a positive verdict from the IndieReader Discovery Awards!
They write: "JOURNEY is an engaging and imaginative story that sweeps the reader into a future both strange and familiar. The characters stick with you—they make mistakes, take risks, and feel real...
They write: "JOURNEY is an engaging and imaginative story that sweeps the reader into a future both strange and familiar. The characters stick with you—they make mistakes, take risks, and feel real...
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have a silly lil rat warrior for y'all
July 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
have a silly lil rat warrior for y'all
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Do you ever feel in over your head about eels?
Well...sometimes it's the eels that are over your head! The Long Room at the Customs House at the Exeter Quay features a ceiling plaster decoration made by John Abbot in c.1680. And what is lurking among the leave?
Yup: eels! 1/2
🗃️🧪
Well...sometimes it's the eels that are over your head! The Long Room at the Customs House at the Exeter Quay features a ceiling plaster decoration made by John Abbot in c.1680. And what is lurking among the leave?
Yup: eels! 1/2
🗃️🧪
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Do you ever feel in over your head about eels?
Well...sometimes it's the eels that are over your head! The Long Room at the Customs House at the Exeter Quay features a ceiling plaster decoration made by John Abbot in c.1680. And what is lurking among the leave?
Yup: eels! 1/2
🗃️🧪
Well...sometimes it's the eels that are over your head! The Long Room at the Customs House at the Exeter Quay features a ceiling plaster decoration made by John Abbot in c.1680. And what is lurking among the leave?
Yup: eels! 1/2
🗃️🧪
I have become extremely suspicious of demands to boycott any publishing platform. It's always the most successful ones (Twitter, Amazon, Substack) and the effect is to push writers into marginalizing and silencing themselves
The *vast* majority of sales come through Amazon. And when readers boycott Amazon, they don't in general shift to buying indie books elsewhere. They simply stop buying indie books.
I detest Amazon, but as a self-published author, I simply cannot have a career without publishing there.
2/2
I detest Amazon, but as a self-published author, I simply cannot have a career without publishing there.
2/2
October 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I have become extremely suspicious of demands to boycott any publishing platform. It's always the most successful ones (Twitter, Amazon, Substack) and the effect is to push writers into marginalizing and silencing themselves
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Cookie Monster’s date: Can we talk about something else
October 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Cookie Monster’s date: Can we talk about something else
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Two of my favorite things together, and on a Monday! Thank you @70sscifiart.bsky.social for today's Halloween edition of 70s Sci-Fi Art!
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A Very 70s Sci-Fi Art Halloween
Today, I'm on the search for the most Halloweeny retro science fiction art.
You might think this 1983 tech magazine illustration would be in the running. The simplicity really makes it pop.
Ultimate...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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