Love is good, that’s the takeaway. And: bad movies are also good, that’s the other takeaway.

Ah, thank you for reading! I didn't WANT to make people cry with this one... but I didn't not want that, either. 😇

Ahhhh, I love this one. 💜

This first sentence DID totally hook me! Loved this story, so incredibly tender.

Read this one all the way back in January and I still feel like I just read it for the first time, that’s how much it stuck with me 💜

My mother has texted to inform me that she saw this post and SHE is FF’s 500th follower 😂 Everyone else competing for the honor, you’re too late, tough luck!

Like I said, I'm still reading, but these are at the tippy top of my brain going into November. I'll post more as the months pass.

And I'd also like to drop a note about one of my own stories, "Six People to Revise You," from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...

"Handsomest Gentlest" by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social . Everything they wrote this year slapped. This was one of my favorites. @havenspec.bsky.social

www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...

I’ve seen a handful today! It’s freaking me out, I refuse to accept that it’s November 😭

I love this question (and this parenthetical, as someone with a December story on the way 🥲). For me, it’s got to be this love letter to my dog disguised as a short story: www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...

Oh, Courtney, I am so incredibly sorry. Thinking of you, and thinking of Nelson.

Fantastic! Congrats, Emmi!

Thanks, Marty!! And let me seize this opportunity to tell you how much I enjoyed “At the Bottom of the Bonfire” when I was catching up on a bunch of Lightspeed stories last week! 🔥

Thank you!! I’m so excited about this one, it is so gross/weird/sad… a winning combo 😅

Thanks so much! ☺️