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Was it not ready

Have I already made an audience-facing error

Admin,, design guru,, artiste,, pls

Which brings me to my final, uh, *crosses out 'Eligibility' with a squeakie Sharpie, scrawls "ANNOUNCEMENTS"*

My sci-fi flash story, "Uncontrolled Emotion" has been accepted at @radonjournal.bsky.social and should come out in February!

So, like. Not NOW. Later! You can nominate it NEXT year! <3

Speaking of @ktsimpson.bsky.social designs, she also helped me with...

The impending newsletter I set up before my recent in-person reading?

Probably quiet for a while as I figure out exactly How I Want it to Work, but if nothing else, I will be announcing new story releases (several are pending!)

Thanks for the graphics goes to @ktsimpson.bsky.social , who came up with lovely designs when I went:

"I dunno. Last year both my publications had a whole HOUSE theme, but this year they're all just steeped in varying levels of melancholy??"

She saved you from my own "passion for graphic design."

Listen your credit is coming, I ran out of characters in the first post faksvsnsg

And then I believe "What the Witch Needs" is currently paywalled in the double-sized Issue 61 of @lunastation.bsky.social . It features a classic, hermitous old witch living in an isolated swamp, who just wants to know why villagers keep materializing in her garden... (1,000 words).

The shortest new story I released this year, "Time Capsule From a Crumbling Earth" is a sci-fi drabble at @100footcrow.bsky.social , featuring some of the last posts in the Goodbye forum before Earth's last time capsule is shot into space... (100 words).

My longest new story released this year, "Who Could Feel Haunted with Luck in Their Pocket?" at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social is about a woman who accidentally exposes the ghostly source of all her estranged family's luck... (5,600 words).

I start new day job tomorrow, so this is my last opportunity for MAXIMUM LAZE for a while.

Loved hearing your reading at Flights of Foundry this year and keep thinking about that jackalope story.

Your narration is so Good!!

This girl with alopecia swept into all-dorm meeting late, cackling, laugh-tears streaming, about the 5-min. shower she just rushed.

"I just kept thinking--" she wheezed, "how much longer it would have taken if I had hair!!"

& something about that pure, concentrated shot of amusement stuck with me.

Brings new meaning to the "breath you didn't know you were holding."

(and hope you are okay asdvhn)

I was very happy to have "Who Could Feel Haunted With Luck in Their Pocket" at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social in June!

Thanks for opening up this thread!

Brain has a tendency to downplay my own work the second I get it done...

But then every time I reread "Who Could Feel Haunted with Luck in their Pocket" at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social from June 2025, I tear up all over again <3

Those family dynamics get me every time...