S.L. Harris
@slharris.bsky.social
Writer, educator, sometime archaeologist | husband & dad | roots and beginnings | fiction website: ifchanceyoucallit.wordpress.com
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My only excuse for missing @locusmag.bsky.social's review featuring @slharris.bsky.social "The Pelican in its Piety," Jacqueline Roberti's "New Niches," & E.L. Mellor's "Blue Speck" is I've spent the summer on a very cool @reckoningmag.bsky.social project (more to come)
locusmag.com/2025/05/flas...
locusmag.com/2025/05/flas...
Flash Fiction Online, Reckoning, and Fiyah: Reviews by Charles Payseur
Flash Fiction Online 1/25 Reckoning 1/25 Fiyah Winter ’25 The January Flash Fiction Online is thematically appropriate for those in the Northern Hemisphere with a focus on winter and the cold (it h…
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September 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My only excuse for missing @locusmag.bsky.social's review featuring @slharris.bsky.social "The Pelican in its Piety," Jacqueline Roberti's "New Niches," & E.L. Mellor's "Blue Speck" is I've spent the summer on a very cool @reckoningmag.bsky.social project (more to come)
locusmag.com/2025/05/flas...
locusmag.com/2025/05/flas...
Slightly diminish a book…
The Moderately-Sized Nap
The Moderately-Sized Nap
Slightly diminish a book...
The Sum of All Trepidations...
The Sum of All Trepidations...
Slightly diminish a book
Lord of the Gnats
Lord of the Gnats
September 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Slightly diminish a book…
The Moderately-Sized Nap
The Moderately-Sized Nap
Slightly diminish a book…
The Noise and the Irritation
The Noise and the Irritation
Slightly diminish a book...
The Sum of All Trepidations...
The Sum of All Trepidations...
Slightly diminish a book
Lord of the Gnats
Lord of the Gnats
September 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Slightly diminish a book…
The Noise and the Irritation
The Noise and the Irritation
Desperados Under the Eaves in a crowded field. Mohammed‘s Radio, Studebaker, and Empty-Hearted Town all up there too.
What's your favorite Warren Zevon tune? 🎶
Remembering Warren William Zevon, who was born in Chicago on January 24, 1947. Warren studied modern classical music with Igor Stravinsky in his mid teens. Although he was successful as a session musician, jingle writer, and bandleader, it wasn't until 👇
Remembering Warren William Zevon, who was born in Chicago on January 24, 1947. Warren studied modern classical music with Igor Stravinsky in his mid teens. Although he was successful as a session musician, jingle writer, and bandleader, it wasn't until 👇
September 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Desperados Under the Eaves in a crowded field. Mohammed‘s Radio, Studebaker, and Empty-Hearted Town all up there too.
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Listen: Fall is in the air, and with that comes all the delicious apple desserts. Curious City listener Theresa Flanagan looks back fondly on one such autumnal pastry: apple slices. trib.al/ZMMI1ou
Apple slices: What happened to the once-popular Midwest pastry?
Bakery apple slices were pretty popular in Chicago back in the 1950s. Not a lot of bakeries still sell them today, but there are still avid fans of the pastry.
trib.al
September 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Listen: Fall is in the air, and with that comes all the delicious apple desserts. Curious City listener Theresa Flanagan looks back fondly on one such autumnal pastry: apple slices. trib.al/ZMMI1ou
In Our Time is one of the great institutions of…our time, and Melvyn has obviously been the beating heart of it. I hope the show goes on!
Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.
September 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
In Our Time is one of the great institutions of…our time, and Melvyn has obviously been the beating heart of it. I hope the show goes on!
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Some time ago, I came to feel that my work here on Earth ought to be building topsoil of one kind and another, and it enheartened me to no end to read Fred Rogers talking about his work as "tending soil."
The Mister Rogers No One Saw (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Some time ago, I came to feel that my work here on Earth ought to be building topsoil of one kind and another, and it enheartened me to no end to read Fred Rogers talking about his work as "tending soil."
Some time ago, I came to feel that my work here on Earth ought to be building topsoil of one kind and another, and it enheartened me to no end to read Fred Rogers talking about his work as "tending soil."
The Mister Rogers No One Saw (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Some time ago, I came to feel that my work here on Earth ought to be building topsoil of one kind and another, and it enheartened me to no end to read Fred Rogers talking about his work as "tending soil."
"The last wish: the only wish, in fact. That things could be, not as they are, but some different way instead.... That I could know it to have once been remade and so able to be remade again, all new, all other. Then perhaps this grief would at last be lifted from my heart." - John Crowley, Ægypt
September 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"The last wish: the only wish, in fact. That things could be, not as they are, but some different way instead.... That I could know it to have once been remade and so able to be remade again, all new, all other. Then perhaps this grief would at last be lifted from my heart." - John Crowley, Ægypt
Find the River (among many, many other favorites)
September 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Find the River (among many, many other favorites)
I just read this post on Opicinus de Canistri, and it’s phenomenal!
Each month for paying subsribers on my patreon, I write a post a map history post. This month's post is about "the psychotic artist of the middle ages" Opicinus de Canistri!
For $3 a month, you get all my regular posts *and* a map history one. What a deal!
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For $3 a month, you get all my regular posts *and* a map history one. What a deal!
www.patreon.com/posts/let-bo...
Let the Bodies Hit the Maps: The Very Strange Worlds of Opicinus de Canistris | Surprised Eel Maps
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September 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I just read this post on Opicinus de Canistri, and it’s phenomenal!
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Terrible news: American Science & Surplus is closing.
The stores in Geneva and Milwaukee may have a future if they can work out terms of a proposal for current workers to buy the business, but Park Ridge (which moved there from Jefferson Park) is permanently shuttering.
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The stores in Geneva and Milwaukee may have a future if they can work out terms of a proposal for current workers to buy the business, but Park Ridge (which moved there from Jefferson Park) is permanently shuttering.
sciplus.com/important-in...
August 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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“Not now, dog! Can’t you see that @thomasha.bsky.social’s Uncertain Sons has arrived?”
August 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“Not now, dog! Can’t you see that @thomasha.bsky.social’s Uncertain Sons has arrived?”
A week or so left to read my story about the ghost horses of the Hermitage in Intergalactic Rejects! Also check out the delightfully twisty “Upsized Savior” by David Boop. Both available at: calendaroffools.com/stories/
August 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
A week or so left to read my story about the ghost horses of the Hermitage in Intergalactic Rejects! Also check out the delightfully twisty “Upsized Savior” by David Boop. Both available at: calendaroffools.com/stories/
Just in case you’re looking for a good early-season apple, I’ve really enjoyed Pristine this year.
August 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Just in case you’re looking for a good early-season apple, I’ve really enjoyed Pristine this year.
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I don't think AI will either become a totally revolutionary tech or be a nothing tulip/NFT bubble. I think it will be like social media: something that everyone knows is mostly bad and stupid but gets addicted to as it degrades our quality of life, politics, and culture in a million small ways.
August 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I don't think AI will either become a totally revolutionary tech or be a nothing tulip/NFT bubble. I think it will be like social media: something that everyone knows is mostly bad and stupid but gets addicted to as it degrades our quality of life, politics, and culture in a million small ways.
I'm just finishing Ægypt/The Solitudes, by John Crowley, and it's a feast.
In response to this, name the last book that you read that you would recommend.
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Americans spend less time reading for fun and more time on screens: Study
Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study published Wednesday found.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I'm just finishing Ægypt/The Solitudes, by John Crowley, and it's a feast.
When the Wikipedia article name is as good as a Raymond Carver title: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of names for the biblical nameless - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
August 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
When the Wikipedia article name is as good as a Raymond Carver title: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this humorous illustration of a cat herding geese on a flake of limestone.
From Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
#Archaeology
From Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
#Archaeology
August 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this humorous illustration of a cat herding geese on a flake of limestone.
From Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
#Archaeology
From Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
#Archaeology
Lovely piece.
New today from Reckoning 9, “Before Times Shells & Gifts” by @lauramcknight.bsky.social, a quiet story about tideflat salvage, species loss and the imaginative work of growing up: reckoning.press/before-times...
Before Times Shells & Gifts | Reckoning
Dustin picks up the sand dollar and rubs it between his fingers, feels the strange chalkiness of it. He studies the delicate etchings, the five-pointed flower, before putting it in his mouth and closi...
reckoning.press
August 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Lovely piece.
Great set of resources!
Hey, history and medievalist friends. If you're doing any teaching on maps this semester, I have a couple of digital resources you might find useful.
#skystorians 🗃️
1. Matthew Paris's Map
A fully annotated & interactive copy of Paris's c.1250 map of England.
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historiacartarum.org/annotated-cl...
#skystorians 🗃️
1. Matthew Paris's Map
A fully annotated & interactive copy of Paris's c.1250 map of England.
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historiacartarum.org/annotated-cl...
Matthew Paris Annotated Map - Historia Cartarum
A fully annotated and clickable version of Matthew Paris's map of Britain. Clicking on any label gives a translation, transcription, and Wikipedia link.
historiacartarum.org
August 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Great set of resources!
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I’ll stop beating this dead horse soon, but just in case you missed it, my story of ghost horses, family, and finding legs strong enough to stand on is free to read for a limited time. calendaroffools.com/stories/the-...
The Horses of Pazyryk
by S. L. Harris
All those long black winter afternoons, I hid in the belly of the museum surrounded by the ghosts of horses screaming. Their golden bridle ornaments shone in the greenish light, their ...
calendaroffools.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I’ll stop beating this dead horse soon, but just in case you missed it, my story of ghost horses, family, and finding legs strong enough to stand on is free to read for a limited time. calendaroffools.com/stories/the-...
I’ll stop beating this dead horse soon, but just in case you missed it, my story of ghost horses, family, and finding legs strong enough to stand on is free to read for a limited time. calendaroffools.com/stories/the-...
The Horses of Pazyryk
by S. L. Harris
All those long black winter afternoons, I hid in the belly of the museum surrounded by the ghosts of horses screaming. Their golden bridle ornaments shone in the greenish light, their ...
calendaroffools.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I’ll stop beating this dead horse soon, but just in case you missed it, my story of ghost horses, family, and finding legs strong enough to stand on is free to read for a limited time. calendaroffools.com/stories/the-...
"[O]ne question leads to another, and that one to another, and that one to others, and so on, unfinishably, a life's work." - John Crowley, Ægypt
August 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"[O]ne question leads to another, and that one to another, and that one to others, and so on, unfinishably, a life's work." - John Crowley, Ægypt