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Words in The Dark, Seize the Press, Cosmic Horro Monthly, Short Fiction, Cafe Irreal, Propagule, JAKE., and more
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/shortstoryrex
Music and more: https://linktr.ee/nmwhitley
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@nmwhitley.bsky.social
· Oct 2
Enselfening - The Dark Magazine
For several years, Winnie had been living on the north side of a town where nobody oriented themselves in terms of north, south, east, or west but rather in relation to the sea, the hills, and two riv...
www.thedarkmagazine.com
Hello all, my story "Enselfening" is now live in the new issue of The Dark!
I am finding it impossible to come up with a pithy sales pitch for it, apart from saying it's quite weird and I'm proud of it and hope you'll read it 🙏🙏🙏
www.thedarkmagazine.com/enselfening/
I am finding it impossible to come up with a pithy sales pitch for it, apart from saying it's quite weird and I'm proud of it and hope you'll read it 🙏🙏🙏
www.thedarkmagazine.com/enselfening/
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A happy All Hallows' Eve to all who celebrate! This month SSR's got (among other stuff) Samanta Schweblin(again?), Howard Waldrop, @thomasha.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @kjy1066.bsky.social and a sweet story of unrequited love 🤨😯😱 by @probablyharmless.bsky.social
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SHORT STORY REX Oct 2025
SOME PODCAST RECS: 1. “Towards Happy Civilization”, Samanta Schweblin I must confess I slept on Levar Burton Reads kind of hard, because looking back they...
buttondown.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A happy All Hallows' Eve to all who celebrate! This month SSR's got (among other stuff) Samanta Schweblin(again?), Howard Waldrop, @thomasha.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @kjy1066.bsky.social and a sweet story of unrequited love 🤨😯😱 by @probablyharmless.bsky.social
buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!
Uncertain Sons — Undertow Publications
undertowpublications.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!
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My man Sherman Hemsley did more acid than Leary and was into Gong and King Crimson.
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My man Sherman Hemsley did more acid than Leary and was into Gong and King Crimson.
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I've made @thomasha.bsky.social's original novelette "Uncertain Sons" - from his debut collection - available to read for those catching up on year-end reading, for awards eligibility and recommendations. Enjoy!
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I've made @thomasha.bsky.social's original novelette "Uncertain Sons" - from his debut collection - available to read for those catching up on year-end reading, for awards eligibility and recommendations. Enjoy!
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
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Includes a link to and kind words for my Schweblin review - please read! - but also a fascinating discussion between Due, Ruff and Martinez on religion and horror, which means it’s time for me to recommend RELIGION OF FEAR again. Jason was a very important mentor for me.
November 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Includes a link to and kind words for my Schweblin review - please read! - but also a fascinating discussion between Due, Ruff and Martinez on religion and horror, which means it’s time for me to recommend RELIGION OF FEAR again. Jason was a very important mentor for me.
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"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."
--Dick Cheney probably
--Dick Cheney probably
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."
--Dick Cheney probably
--Dick Cheney probably
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yeah the American Century is so over
Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
yeah the American Century is so over
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It's been a year, and she was always right about this. We miss you, Janey Godley.
November 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
It's been a year, and she was always right about this. We miss you, Janey Godley.
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i’m a thin-skinned libertarian cryptofascist who melts down at the slightest whiff of criticism from the user base of my website. time to add a ‘dislike post’ button and take a big sip of coffee,
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i’m a thin-skinned libertarian cryptofascist who melts down at the slightest whiff of criticism from the user base of my website. time to add a ‘dislike post’ button and take a big sip of coffee,
wait was there a twin peaks game for NES and I didn't know about it
why was i not informed
why was i not informed
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
wait was there a twin peaks game for NES and I didn't know about it
why was i not informed
why was i not informed
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Actually I lied! "This Movie Theater Sits on a Leyline" by Maxine Sophia Wolff is fun. If you find the descent into cosmic workplace madness fun.
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Actually I lied! "This Movie Theater Sits on a Leyline" by Maxine Sophia Wolff is fun. If you find the descent into cosmic workplace madness fun.
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Racists are using “A.i.” products created by fascist billionaires to produce racist, fake videos that fascist, billionaire-owned propaganda outlets are spreading.
None of this is accidental.
None of this is accidental.
So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!
This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Racists are using “A.i.” products created by fascist billionaires to produce racist, fake videos that fascist, billionaire-owned propaganda outlets are spreading.
None of this is accidental.
None of this is accidental.
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
A happy All Hallows' Eve to all who celebrate! This month SSR's got (among other stuff) Samanta Schweblin(again?), Howard Waldrop, @thomasha.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @kjy1066.bsky.social and a sweet story of unrequited love 🤨😯😱 by @probablyharmless.bsky.social
buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
SHORT STORY REX Oct 2025
SOME PODCAST RECS: 1. “Towards Happy Civilization”, Samanta Schweblin I must confess I slept on Levar Burton Reads kind of hard, because looking back they...
buttondown.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A happy All Hallows' Eve to all who celebrate! This month SSR's got (among other stuff) Samanta Schweblin(again?), Howard Waldrop, @thomasha.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @kjy1066.bsky.social and a sweet story of unrequited love 🤨😯😱 by @probablyharmless.bsky.social
buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
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A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see
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Hello all, my story "Enselfening" is now live in the new issue of The Dark!
I am finding it impossible to come up with a pithy sales pitch for it, apart from saying it's quite weird and I'm proud of it and hope you'll read it 🙏🙏🙏
www.thedarkmagazine.com/enselfening/
I am finding it impossible to come up with a pithy sales pitch for it, apart from saying it's quite weird and I'm proud of it and hope you'll read it 🙏🙏🙏
www.thedarkmagazine.com/enselfening/
Enselfening - The Dark Magazine
For several years, Winnie had been living on the north side of a town where nobody oriented themselves in terms of north, south, east, or west but rather in relation to the sea, the hills, and two riv...
www.thedarkmagazine.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hello all, my story "Enselfening" is now live in the new issue of The Dark!
I am finding it impossible to come up with a pithy sales pitch for it, apart from saying it's quite weird and I'm proud of it and hope you'll read it 🙏🙏🙏
www.thedarkmagazine.com/enselfening/
I am finding it impossible to come up with a pithy sales pitch for it, apart from saying it's quite weird and I'm proud of it and hope you'll read it 🙏🙏🙏
www.thedarkmagazine.com/enselfening/
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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This is an excellent point. Zohran ran a textbook campaign that the centrists are always talking about, just talking about rent control and free buses and cost of living, and the centrist Dems tried to make it all about Israel/Palestine and other identity issues (his Muslim faith) to smear him.
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is an excellent point. Zohran ran a textbook campaign that the centrists are always talking about, just talking about rent control and free buses and cost of living, and the centrist Dems tried to make it all about Israel/Palestine and other identity issues (his Muslim faith) to smear him.
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
I was wondering if this would be the year that the joke of saying 'a dracula' instead of 'a vampire' stopped being funny to me but it turns out nope still funny
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I was wondering if this would be the year that the joke of saying 'a dracula' instead of 'a vampire' stopped being funny to me but it turns out nope still funny