Chloe N. Clark
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Patterns of Orbit Escaping the Body, & more
Every Galaxy a Circle forthcoming
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
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Every Galaxy a Circle forthcoming
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
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I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
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The most important thing about the gremlins from Gremlins is that they're just total assholes. That's more important to them than murder or even survival.
December 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The most important thing about the gremlins from Gremlins is that they're just total assholes. That's more important to them than murder or even survival.
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forgot to hit "publish" on this yesterday. wrapping up the year on Short Story, Long with some lists — some more best & fave stories of the century (so far) this week, and some of our fave story collections of 2025 next week.
check out some of these faves! add some of your own in the comments!
check out some of these faves! add some of your own in the comments!
"25 for 25" — a few more contributor lists
wrapping up the year with a few more Short Story, Long contributor lists of "best" and favorite short stories from the last 25 years
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December 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
forgot to hit "publish" on this yesterday. wrapping up the year on Short Story, Long with some lists — some more best & fave stories of the century (so far) this week, and some of our fave story collections of 2025 next week.
check out some of these faves! add some of your own in the comments!
check out some of these faves! add some of your own in the comments!
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thinking fondly of the DEAR (drop everything & read) hours in school when we were kids & wishing we could still have that happen as adults, all at the same time no matter what we’re busy doing
December 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
thinking fondly of the DEAR (drop everything & read) hours in school when we were kids & wishing we could still have that happen as adults, all at the same time no matter what we’re busy doing
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They're online now. I'm going to 🧵 them here, starting with my editor's note.
December 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
They're online now. I'm going to 🧵 them here, starting with my editor's note.
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I'm not sure what to say about this story by @mattkendrick.bsky.social in @thecitronreview.bsky.social, except that you have to read it. So entirely fresh & experimental, but at the same time taps into a nostalgia that cuts so deep. [face holding back tears] Amazing. citronreview.com/2025/12/22/e...
Efficiency measures
by Matt Kendrick It’s [sunrise through mist] and I’m sitting with [old woman] in the [kitchen]. My [laptop] is open on the [table] in front of me. [Old woman] is scratching the yellowing [na…
citronreview.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm not sure what to say about this story by @mattkendrick.bsky.social in @thecitronreview.bsky.social, except that you have to read it. So entirely fresh & experimental, but at the same time taps into a nostalgia that cuts so deep. [face holding back tears] Amazing. citronreview.com/2025/12/22/e...
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I also started a new email interview series for that same local arts organization, KickstART Farmington, called Inbox Wisdom. I'd be honored if you read those too!
kickstartfarmington.org/blog/
kickstartfarmington.org/blog/
KickstART Farmington
Explore Inbox Wisdom, an insightful interview series highlighting creativity and the literary world through candid discussions with writers.
kickstartfarmington.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I also started a new email interview series for that same local arts organization, KickstART Farmington, called Inbox Wisdom. I'd be honored if you read those too!
kickstartfarmington.org/blog/
kickstartfarmington.org/blog/
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Zero new poems or stories published! (Very few submissions, though.) But! My first poetry collection came out with @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social, whose first year of titles was amazing.
matchfactoryeditions.com/books/The-Si...
matchfactoryeditions.com/books/The-Si...
The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees by Mitchell Nobis | Books | Match Factory Editions
The Size of the Horizon explores parenting, uncertainty, and injustice, weaving nature, gun violence, and joy into poetry that embraces life’s chaos.
matchfactoryeditions.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Zero new poems or stories published! (Very few submissions, though.) But! My first poetry collection came out with @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social, whose first year of titles was amazing.
matchfactoryeditions.com/books/The-Si...
matchfactoryeditions.com/books/The-Si...
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We are officially on winter break over here, so here's my year-end writing roundup. As stated earlier, it's short. Mostly I want to shout-out a bunch of other great writers I interacted with. 🤘🏼 So, I give you Mitch's Writing 2025:
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We are officially on winter break over here, so here's my year-end writing roundup. As stated earlier, it's short. Mostly I want to shout-out a bunch of other great writers I interacted with. 🤘🏼 So, I give you Mitch's Writing 2025:
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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I cannot wait to read this!
Regardless of lines like these, IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND is a horror romance.
"Further down, a torso without legs. A leg without a torso. A helmet still strapped to a head which had its face blasted off by enemy fire."
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803654...
"Further down, a torso without legs. A leg without a torso. A helmet still strapped to a head which had its face blasted off by enemy fire."
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803654...
It Came From Neverland by Cynthia Pelayo: 9798892424448 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Peter Pan meets Stephen King's It in this twisted horror retelling of a classic childhood fairy tale set during WWI. 1914, Wendy Darling works by day as a school teacher, and by night, she assists so...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I cannot wait to read this!
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This is that good shit. Straight to my veins.
BE LOUD ABOUT HOW YOU HELP PEOPLE. Signal the fuck out of your virtue. Peer pressure people into kindness. Make it cool and badass to help strangers not for clout but because it feels good for everyone to partake in their society. It rocks! Do it!
BE LOUD ABOUT HOW YOU HELP PEOPLE. Signal the fuck out of your virtue. Peer pressure people into kindness. Make it cool and badass to help strangers not for clout but because it feels good for everyone to partake in their society. It rocks! Do it!
This is my Christmas gift to my homeless neighbors, to the volunteers who get great joy from helping them…and, yes, to myself. Merry Christmas to all!
🧵 9 of 9
🧵 9 of 9
December 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is that good shit. Straight to my veins.
BE LOUD ABOUT HOW YOU HELP PEOPLE. Signal the fuck out of your virtue. Peer pressure people into kindness. Make it cool and badass to help strangers not for clout but because it feels good for everyone to partake in their society. It rocks! Do it!
BE LOUD ABOUT HOW YOU HELP PEOPLE. Signal the fuck out of your virtue. Peer pressure people into kindness. Make it cool and badass to help strangers not for clout but because it feels good for everyone to partake in their society. It rocks! Do it!
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Things that are bringing me joy this year number 6. @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's weekly ukulele videos are always a balm to the soul. This is her latest. Melissa is a "triple threat" or whatever the expression is that all the kids are using these days 😂 - music, writing, art - a master of all three!
December 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Things that are bringing me joy this year number 6. @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's weekly ukulele videos are always a balm to the soul. This is her latest. Melissa is a "triple threat" or whatever the expression is that all the kids are using these days 😂 - music, writing, art - a master of all three!
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One of my faves IN one of my faves! Congruatiations to the extraordinary @joybaglio.bsky.social !!! 😍✨🔥
My short story “We Are Sorry For Your Suffering” - a sci-fi epistolary tale about the end of the world - is the December issue of @onestorymag.bsky.social! Read an excerpt and an interview with me (and/or order a copy!) here. It’s surprisingly hopeful! one-story.com/product/we-a...
December 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
One of my faves IN one of my faves! Congruatiations to the extraordinary @joybaglio.bsky.social !!! 😍✨🔥
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Every time I see another thing about AI, I wish to retreat to the depths of a subterranean cave system and howl laments for hours.
Unfortunately, it comes up 57 times a day, and there are simply not enough hours in existence for that kind of cave-lamenting.
Unfortunately, it comes up 57 times a day, and there are simply not enough hours in existence for that kind of cave-lamenting.
December 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Every time I see another thing about AI, I wish to retreat to the depths of a subterranean cave system and howl laments for hours.
Unfortunately, it comes up 57 times a day, and there are simply not enough hours in existence for that kind of cave-lamenting.
Unfortunately, it comes up 57 times a day, and there are simply not enough hours in existence for that kind of cave-lamenting.
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You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance
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It's your birthday, Duane.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's your birthday, Duane.
My most desired unnecessary kitchen tool is one of those tiny little baby blowtorches so I can scorch meringue to my heart's content. Unfortunately, I am jobless and I shall have no such unnecessary little magic tool.*
*Even with a job, I would not buy this because i am much too sensible 😭
*Even with a job, I would not buy this because i am much too sensible 😭
People with those cookie dough scooper things: is it mostly an aesthetic effect or do you think it actually helps the bake in some way?
Asking for a friend*
*Me, a cookie dough scooper-less baker with a curious mind
Asking for a friend*
*Me, a cookie dough scooper-less baker with a curious mind
December 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
My most desired unnecessary kitchen tool is one of those tiny little baby blowtorches so I can scorch meringue to my heart's content. Unfortunately, I am jobless and I shall have no such unnecessary little magic tool.*
*Even with a job, I would not buy this because i am much too sensible 😭
*Even with a job, I would not buy this because i am much too sensible 😭
People with those cookie dough scooper things: is it mostly an aesthetic effect or do you think it actually helps the bake in some way?
Asking for a friend*
*Me, a cookie dough scooper-less baker with a curious mind
Asking for a friend*
*Me, a cookie dough scooper-less baker with a curious mind
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
People with those cookie dough scooper things: is it mostly an aesthetic effect or do you think it actually helps the bake in some way?
Asking for a friend*
*Me, a cookie dough scooper-less baker with a curious mind
Asking for a friend*
*Me, a cookie dough scooper-less baker with a curious mind
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Write deeper and weirder. More "meat space."
December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Write deeper and weirder. More "meat space."
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Thanks to @sfwa.org for being so responsive to concerns around the Nebula Awards and LLM use. The Nebula should honor human creativity, as the revised rules now state. However, we also don't want to see writers tripped up on eligibility or hit by witch hunts over minor LLM usage like spell check. 1/
Thoughts on the Nebula Awards, LLM usage, and where we draw the line | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
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December 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Thanks to @sfwa.org for being so responsive to concerns around the Nebula Awards and LLM use. The Nebula should honor human creativity, as the revised rules now state. However, we also don't want to see writers tripped up on eligibility or hit by witch hunts over minor LLM usage like spell check. 1/
Me waiting for King Arthur's new recipe of the year like:
a woman is making a face and saying please i really need this
Alt: a woman is making a face and saying please i really need this
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December 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Me waiting for King Arthur's new recipe of the year like:
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The scarves I made for donation. I’ve got two baskets and a takeaway laundry bag full of probably about 80+ scarves and soon, they’ll go out into my community to our most vulnerable because they, above all else, deserve the most beauty in our world right now
(I will take scarf pictures, I promise)
(I will take scarf pictures, I promise)
2025 has been a rough year. What's one piece of art that's brought you absolute joy despite everything?
December 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The scarves I made for donation. I’ve got two baskets and a takeaway laundry bag full of probably about 80+ scarves and soon, they’ll go out into my community to our most vulnerable because they, above all else, deserve the most beauty in our world right now
(I will take scarf pictures, I promise)
(I will take scarf pictures, I promise)
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My favorite first reads of 2025—new releases + older books I finally got to.
@ramseycampbell.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social @okokno.bsky.social @ivygrimes.bsky.social
#BooksOf2025
#BookSky
@ramseycampbell.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social @okokno.bsky.social @ivygrimes.bsky.social
#BooksOf2025
#BookSky
December 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My favorite first reads of 2025—new releases + older books I finally got to.
@ramseycampbell.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social @okokno.bsky.social @ivygrimes.bsky.social
#BooksOf2025
#BookSky
@ramseycampbell.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social @okokno.bsky.social @ivygrimes.bsky.social
#BooksOf2025
#BookSky
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Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP
December 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP
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Books make great Christmas presents. But reading taste is very personal. What if you know the sort of thing someone likes but don’t have the confidence to choose them a whole novel?
I suggest getting a short story collection! These are all great and all from independent presses!
I suggest getting a short story collection! These are all great and all from independent presses!
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Books make great Christmas presents. But reading taste is very personal. What if you know the sort of thing someone likes but don’t have the confidence to choose them a whole novel?
I suggest getting a short story collection! These are all great and all from independent presses!
I suggest getting a short story collection! These are all great and all from independent presses!