Matthew Rettino
@matthewrettino.bsky.social
Posting about 110 stories in The Weird. 💀 #WeirdFictionChallenge.
Poetry chapbook Pilgrimages 🏴 out now. Author in NewMyths.com, Lantern Magazine. Interviewer, blogger. Odyssey '16, Codex. He/him. 🇨🇦
📬 https://buttondown.com/MatthewRettino (free story)
Poetry chapbook Pilgrimages 🏴 out now. Author in NewMyths.com, Lantern Magazine. Interviewer, blogger. Odyssey '16, Codex. He/him. 🇨🇦
📬 https://buttondown.com/MatthewRettino (free story)
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Pilgrimages by Matthew Rettino
The language and structure of the poems are controlled with clarity, precision, and word economy.
miramichireader.ca
My debut poetry chapbook Pilgrimages has been reviewed in The Miramichi Reader:
miramichireader.ca/2025/10/pilg...
miramichireader.ca/2025/10/pilg...
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Beaucoup de neige #Montreal #photos #photography #Quebec #Canada @monmontreal.bsky.social @mtl.org @meteomedia.bsky.social @weathernetwork.bsky.social #snow
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Atwood has way more witch cred.
Oates nuked Musk.
I think Maggie would wipe out J.K.
I think Maggie would wipe out J.K.
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Atwood has way more witch cred.
Oates nuked Musk.
I think Maggie would wipe out J.K.
I think Maggie would wipe out J.K.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Oates nuked Musk.
I think Maggie would wipe out J.K.
I think Maggie would wipe out J.K.
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This rugged and breathtaking island in Scotland is home to one of the 'most remarkable' and bumpiest football pitches in the world 👀
Scottish island that's home to one of the world's 'most remarkable' football pitches
www.thenational.scot
November 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This rugged and breathtaking island in Scotland is home to one of the 'most remarkable' and bumpiest football pitches in the world 👀
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Excellent critique of Montreal's recent mayoral election: vapidly beige all the way.
The winner has absolutely no plan for anything, none at all. Pure sloganeering, just opportunistic public-relations-agency focus-group-tested blah-blah-blah.
Author contrasts that bla-fest with NYC's 🔥💥🎉.
The winner has absolutely no plan for anything, none at all. Pure sloganeering, just opportunistic public-relations-agency focus-group-tested blah-blah-blah.
Author contrasts that bla-fest with NYC's 🔥💥🎉.
Montréal la beige, New York en couleur
Dire qu’il fut un temps où nos valeurs progressistes québécoises étaient la référence pour l’Occident.
www.ledevoir.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Excellent critique of Montreal's recent mayoral election: vapidly beige all the way.
The winner has absolutely no plan for anything, none at all. Pure sloganeering, just opportunistic public-relations-agency focus-group-tested blah-blah-blah.
Author contrasts that bla-fest with NYC's 🔥💥🎉.
The winner has absolutely no plan for anything, none at all. Pure sloganeering, just opportunistic public-relations-agency focus-group-tested blah-blah-blah.
Author contrasts that bla-fest with NYC's 🔥💥🎉.
This week on my #WeirdFictionChallenge, I've written about Jeff VanderMeer's story, "The Cage"--the anthology editor's own entry in his weird fiction collection.
It's a reflection on the forces that drive us to pursue the strange and unusual.
matthewrettino.com/2025/10/30/t...
It's a reflection on the forces that drive us to pursue the strange and unusual.
matthewrettino.com/2025/10/30/t...
Weird #96: “The Cage” by Jeff VanderMeer (2002)
In which a cage has something to hide
matthewrettino.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This week on my #WeirdFictionChallenge, I've written about Jeff VanderMeer's story, "The Cage"--the anthology editor's own entry in his weird fiction collection.
It's a reflection on the forces that drive us to pursue the strange and unusual.
matthewrettino.com/2025/10/30/t...
It's a reflection on the forces that drive us to pursue the strange and unusual.
matthewrettino.com/2025/10/30/t...
November 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"The sheep will eat the men."
-a prophecy of the Brahan Seer
-a prophecy of the Brahan Seer
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"The sheep will eat the men."
-a prophecy of the Brahan Seer
-a prophecy of the Brahan Seer
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"Brave new world" || @IndiaToday reviews The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF --
www.indiatoday.in/magazine/lei...
www.indiatoday.in/magazine/lei...
Gautam Bhatia's 'Between Worlds Vol. 1' | Brave new world
Edited by Gautam Bhatia, Between Worlds Vol. 1 gathers young, first-time authors in a bold anthology that reimagines Indian speculative fiction
www.indiatoday.in
November 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"Brave new world" || @IndiaToday reviews The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF --
www.indiatoday.in/magazine/lei...
www.indiatoday.in/magazine/lei...
Eyyyyy, whatsa comina go?
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Eyyyyy, whatsa comina go?
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well, hotdog!
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
well, hotdog!
Watched Chopping Mall on Kanopy. A perfect movie in every regard.
November 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Watched Chopping Mall on Kanopy. A perfect movie in every regard.
When Herodotus wrote about Scythian funerary practices, he described sacrificial 'spectral riders'. A royal burial mound in Siberia corroborates his account, with horses and riders possibly positioned atop the mounds using birch wood stakes.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Halloween #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Halloween #Archaeology
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Today's story on my #WeirdFictionChallenge is Neil Gaiman's "Feeders and Eaters."
I treated it like any story in the anthology and wrote my thoughts, but it really sucks he turned out to be awful.
You can read my post on the story here. I save my quick take on Gaiman for the postscript.
I treated it like any story in the anthology and wrote my thoughts, but it really sucks he turned out to be awful.
You can read my post on the story here. I save my quick take on Gaiman for the postscript.
#WeirdFictionChallenge
I’m Matthew Rettino, a speculative fiction writer from Montreal, Canada. In my Archaeologies of Weird Fiction project, I am reviewing all 110 stories contained in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s ma…
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October 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Today's story on my #WeirdFictionChallenge is Neil Gaiman's "Feeders and Eaters."
I treated it like any story in the anthology and wrote my thoughts, but it really sucks he turned out to be awful.
You can read my post on the story here. I save my quick take on Gaiman for the postscript.
I treated it like any story in the anthology and wrote my thoughts, but it really sucks he turned out to be awful.
You can read my post on the story here. I save my quick take on Gaiman for the postscript.
Reposted by Matthew Rettino
The Lord of the Rings ys about how learninge, love, and gardeninge save the worlde.
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The Lord of the Rings ys about how learninge, love, and gardeninge save the worlde.
My debut poetry chapbook Pilgrimages has been reviewed in The Miramichi Reader:
miramichireader.ca/2025/10/pilg...
miramichireader.ca/2025/10/pilg...
Pilgrimages by Matthew Rettino
The language and structure of the poems are controlled with clarity, precision, and word economy.
miramichireader.ca
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
My debut poetry chapbook Pilgrimages has been reviewed in The Miramichi Reader:
miramichireader.ca/2025/10/pilg...
miramichireader.ca/2025/10/pilg...
Deep, immersive, first person story told from the POV of psychopathic serial killers who kill with the casualness of a shrug.
Easily the most messed up story in The Weird and that includes Michael Shea's deeply unnerving story, "The Autopsy."
#WeirdFictionChallenge #serialkillers #weirdfiction
Easily the most messed up story in The Weird and that includes Michael Shea's deeply unnerving story, "The Autopsy."
#WeirdFictionChallenge #serialkillers #weirdfiction
Weird #94: “The Genius of Assassins” by Michael Cisco (2002)
In which a boy delivers food to an elderly lady who sees things in walls coming closer to her
matthewrettino.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Deep, immersive, first person story told from the POV of psychopathic serial killers who kill with the casualness of a shrug.
Easily the most messed up story in The Weird and that includes Michael Shea's deeply unnerving story, "The Autopsy."
#WeirdFictionChallenge #serialkillers #weirdfiction
Easily the most messed up story in The Weird and that includes Michael Shea's deeply unnerving story, "The Autopsy."
#WeirdFictionChallenge #serialkillers #weirdfiction
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Ensemble Montréal may take the city two steps back — on housing and the climate crisis
“Bike lanes make all modes of transport more safe. This has been proven by experts so many times that politicians campaigning against bike lanes reveal themselves to simply not know what they’re talking about.”
“Bike lanes make all modes of transport more safe. This has been proven by experts so many times that politicians campaigning against bike lanes reveal themselves to simply not know what they’re talking about.”
Ensemble Montréal may take the city two steps back — on housing and the climate crisis
Soraya Martinez Ferrada and Ensemble Montréal may take the city two steps back — on housing and the climate crisis.
cultmtl.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Ensemble Montréal may take the city two steps back — on housing and the climate crisis
“Bike lanes make all modes of transport more safe. This has been proven by experts so many times that politicians campaigning against bike lanes reveal themselves to simply not know what they’re talking about.”
“Bike lanes make all modes of transport more safe. This has been proven by experts so many times that politicians campaigning against bike lanes reveal themselves to simply not know what they’re talking about.”
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Started reading A DARK MATTER and becoming convinced that it’s Peter Straub riffing on M John Harrison’s THE COURSE OF THE HEART — Straub collected a novella-length version under the name “The Great God Pan” in his “Poe’s Children” anthology from ‘08 — but further departures await, I’m sure.
October 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Started reading A DARK MATTER and becoming convinced that it’s Peter Straub riffing on M John Harrison’s THE COURSE OF THE HEART — Straub collected a novella-length version under the name “The Great God Pan” in his “Poe’s Children” anthology from ‘08 — but further departures await, I’m sure.
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wrt to the electric lit interview going around, here's Farnsworth Wright's take on realism:
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
wrt to the electric lit interview going around, here's Farnsworth Wright's take on realism:
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In 1982, Scrivener published four original poems by Leonard Cohen. In 2025, we published them for the first time online. Read more of Cohen on our website.
scrivenerreview.com/archive/four...
scrivenerreview.com/archive/four...
October 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In 1982, Scrivener published four original poems by Leonard Cohen. In 2025, we published them for the first time online. Read more of Cohen on our website.
scrivenerreview.com/archive/four...
scrivenerreview.com/archive/four...