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It's that time of year again*

*it is always that time of year

An awards eligibility post
Across the top in bold font it reads FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, and below
"The Last Spiderbox" Cosmic Horror Monthly #58, April 2025
"Enselfening" The Dark #125, October 2025
There is a pale blue paisley background, at the bottom is an old clip art image of two faceless men and a faceless woman all pointing at and/or making notes in a ledger of some sort. their skin appears to be transparent, and the paisley background shows through their faces and hands but not through their hair or their clothing

November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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Yeah its so goddamn good!
Oh hey by the way look what i got on the mail just the other day

October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM

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Unsolicited Slick Rick pic

A photo of rap legend Slick Ric, wearing a purple hat and jacket, his trademark eyepatch and much gold jewelry including very ostentatious rings on every finger

October 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM

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Posting the logo of this old punk band I like for no reason

October 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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whoa somehow a whole-ass fortnight has gone by and i still havent shared the August newsletter here where i talk about stuff from @kayv.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social and more
buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

a collage of images related to the three short story publications discussed in this month's edition of Short Story Rex

September 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM

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w/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

August 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM

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All the homies sending Joe strength

August 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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Finally getting around to mentioning that my short story "Enselfening" will appear sometime in the nearish future in The Dark and despite everything else going on on this planet I am of course thrilled and honored and psyched and all the typical things people say in such announcements...!

August 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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A bit bummed the YouTube links inexplicably don't work on this months newsletter but whatever it's short story rex not black sabbath rex

feat. @rlsummerling.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social @christinogle.bsky.social and more

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August 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM

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You know the old saying, "Lottery in June, va va voooom"

The cover of an old edition of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery and Other Stories" which features a depiction of a pulpy, bosomy redhead which is possibly not all that appropriate for said book

July 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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Your reply to joes skeet mentioning discourse was immediately followed in my feed by this disc horse bot post so im just gonna assume thats what youre referring to lol

July 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM

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Disagree, controversial Gundams in general rule superhard

Character designs of various ethnically streotyped Gundams (windmill gundam, from the netherlands, toro gundam from Spain, zebra gundam from africa, etc) from the classic anime G Gundam

June 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM

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Um, rude?
Seriously though for all you lovers and respecters of Blemmyes aka akephaloi i wrote a story a while back about one and about his relationship with a shipwrecked lizard queen
www.seizethepress.com/2024/05/08/m...

Two images side by side, on the left a full-color painting of a reptilian humanoid standing at the controls of a spaceship, on the left a woodcut of a Blemmye (a humanoid with no head, and its face on its chest)

May 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM

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We used to do Inocentes with my nephews when they were younger, yknow, switch out the salt and sugar, etc or stealthily pin little paper dolls on folks' backs like a kick me sign, that tradition still kind of exists at least in Southern Spain but like, the actual historical Santos Inocentes?

The Michael Jordan " fuck them kids" meme

April 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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a photograph of a bearded Julio Cortazar, probably sometimes in the 1970s, sitting and smoking a pipe in front of a bookshelf, with a speech bubble coming downward from his mouth as though he is pronouncing the sentence being quote tweeted

March 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM

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here have some Short Story Rex with work from @ivygrimes.bsky.social @ergot.bsky.social @notasentence.bsky.social @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social and more buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

a collage of images related to the stories featured in the Feb 2025 Short Story Rex

March 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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Not on social media much these days but i should point out that i did a newsletter last week about
@spicycloaca.bsky.social & @rlsummerling.bsky.social & @maxinesophiawolff.bsky.social & @gdholloway.bsky.social and more

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A collage of images related to stories from the January 2025 edition of Short Story Rex

February 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM

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in addition to my upcoming novel THE STEPLADDER IN THE TREE-PLACE* i also have a newsletter where i recommend short stories, and i just posted one about aalll the stories i recommended this year: buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

*i have not written a novel entitled THE STEPLADDER IN THE TREE-PLACE

a collage of images related to the stories listed in the Short Story Rex Year Two in Review post

January 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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me: hey, if you had to choose a favorite municipality in the province of Granada in Spain, what would it be

Robert Plant in the Led Zeppelin song "In My Time of Dying":

A screenshot of the Wikipedia page for Chauchina, a municipality in the province of Granada in Spain

January 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM

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"You will be visited by three spirits"

The three spirits:

The cover of the 12" single "Word Up" by classic R&B group Cameo
They are dressed in extravagant 80s garb and have flat-top hairdos except the guy on the right who is rocking little dreads

December 24, 2024 at 11:24 AM

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Oh hey heres some short stories that recommend, ie Short Story Rex for December feat. @thomasha.bsky.social and @addisonzeller.bsky.social and @timmaughan.bsky.social and more buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

December 21, 2024 at 10:06 PM

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people got really hung up on the whole 'Luigi' thing when they IDed the UHC shooter guy

however if like me you spent part of your youth flipping through bins of dusty dollar records at thrift stores then its possible this was actually the first image that came to mind: