P H Lee 🪬
@p-h-lee.bsky.social
pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of [their] own tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous and scornful
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P H Lee 🪬
@p-h-lee.bsky.social
· Oct 29
Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves - Reactor
Is it bad to cheat on your boyfriend with the fabric of space and time?
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Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves in @reactorsff.bsky.social
A story about general relativity, space mining, and extremely poor relationship choices.
reactormag.com/timelike-cur...
A story about general relativity, space mining, and extremely poor relationship choices.
reactormag.com/timelike-cur...
it is completely possible to have a metaphor next to the real thing in fantasy. it's not "breaking" the metaphor. in fact, it often deepens it.
example:
discworld has metaphorical alcoholics (vampires) next to real alcoholics (sam vimes.) they don't like each other.
example:
discworld has metaphorical alcoholics (vampires) next to real alcoholics (sam vimes.) they don't like each other.
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
it is completely possible to have a metaphor next to the real thing in fantasy. it's not "breaking" the metaphor. in fact, it often deepens it.
example:
discworld has metaphorical alcoholics (vampires) next to real alcoholics (sam vimes.) they don't like each other.
example:
discworld has metaphorical alcoholics (vampires) next to real alcoholics (sam vimes.) they don't like each other.
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Introducing my YA debut, THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS (Dutton, Fall 2026).
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Introducing my YA debut, THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS (Dutton, Fall 2026).
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Approximately six months, three lost deliveries, over 100 emails, and more refreshes of the UPS tracking page than bears thinking about, I have my author copies!!!
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Approximately six months, three lost deliveries, over 100 emails, and more refreshes of the UPS tracking page than bears thinking about, I have my author copies!!!
one of the most important writing lessons i learned from my decade+ doing RPG books is:
If you want a reader to absorb something, you need to tell them _at least_ three times in _at least_ three different ways.
equally true for fiction.
If you want a reader to absorb something, you need to tell them _at least_ three times in _at least_ three different ways.
equally true for fiction.
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
one of the most important writing lessons i learned from my decade+ doing RPG books is:
If you want a reader to absorb something, you need to tell them _at least_ three times in _at least_ three different ways.
equally true for fiction.
If you want a reader to absorb something, you need to tell them _at least_ three times in _at least_ three different ways.
equally true for fiction.
one of my favorite examples of the ways that social consensuses can coalesce around convenient lies-- with no malicious actor behind them!-- is that every recipe lies about how long onions take the cook.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
one of my favorite examples of the ways that social consensuses can coalesce around convenient lies-- with no malicious actor behind them!-- is that every recipe lies about how long onions take the cook.
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Good news! You can read an oldie but a favorite of mine in Apex today! "Before, After, and the Space Between", first published in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, is about the fraught relationship between a daughter and her mother and their magic 💜🖤
"It surprises me to find you, after a childhood of rejecting your heritage, preparing for a spell this frigid evening." 🩸🌿
New fiction today by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social: "Before, After, and the Space Between"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
New fiction today by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social: "Before, After, and the Space Between"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Good news! You can read an oldie but a favorite of mine in Apex today! "Before, After, and the Space Between", first published in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, is about the fraught relationship between a daughter and her mother and their magic 💜🖤
if you want to read a book, and can't afford it, requesting it at a public library is both free to you and benefits the author.
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
if you want to read a book, and can't afford it, requesting it at a public library is both free to you and benefits the author.
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Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...
The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For - Reactor
In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets her replacement.
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...
of all the artist words-- author, sculptor, etc-- "playwright" is by far the coolest.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
of all the artist words-- author, sculptor, etc-- "playwright" is by far the coolest.
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bad art saves lives
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
bad art saves lives
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Incredible to see THE DOOR ON THE SEA in on this list!
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Incredible to see THE DOOR ON THE SEA in on this list!
greatest novel ever written. i don't think it's particularly close. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/BVJ/s...
going to do a reread soon, so might be posting about it.
going to do a reread soon, so might be posting about it.
Story of the Stone
Buy books online and find book series such as Story of the Stone written by Cao Xueqin and Gao E from PenguinRandomHouse.com
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November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
greatest novel ever written. i don't think it's particularly close. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/BVJ/s...
going to do a reread soon, so might be posting about it.
going to do a reread soon, so might be posting about it.
i wish that we had more sophisticated vocabulary for relationships with texts.
like "i love what this is trying to do and i am sad that it failed so spectacularly to do it."
or "i am glad this work exists but i would be even gladder if someone did a good job with the same idea."
like "i love what this is trying to do and i am sad that it failed so spectacularly to do it."
or "i am glad this work exists but i would be even gladder if someone did a good job with the same idea."
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
i wish that we had more sophisticated vocabulary for relationships with texts.
like "i love what this is trying to do and i am sad that it failed so spectacularly to do it."
or "i am glad this work exists but i would be even gladder if someone did a good job with the same idea."
like "i love what this is trying to do and i am sad that it failed so spectacularly to do it."
or "i am glad this work exists but i would be even gladder if someone did a good job with the same idea."
the degree to which Ishamael is full of shit is also important for a Watsonian analysis of Moby Dick.
at any level of reading, you cannot escape Ishmael's bullshit.
at any level of reading, you cannot escape Ishmael's bullshit.
Doylist analysis of Moby-Dick is fun because a. Ishmael is intentionally written as full of shit about a great many things, and b. Melville himself is also full of shit about a great many things, so every time Ishmael is full of shit you get to play a game of ON WHAT LEVEL is he full of shit?
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
the degree to which Ishamael is full of shit is also important for a Watsonian analysis of Moby Dick.
at any level of reading, you cannot escape Ishmael's bullshit.
at any level of reading, you cannot escape Ishmael's bullshit.
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Doylist analysis of Moby-Dick is fun because a. Ishmael is intentionally written as full of shit about a great many things, and b. Melville himself is also full of shit about a great many things, so every time Ishmael is full of shit you get to play a game of ON WHAT LEVEL is he full of shit?
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Doylist analysis of Moby-Dick is fun because a. Ishmael is intentionally written as full of shit about a great many things, and b. Melville himself is also full of shit about a great many things, so every time Ishmael is full of shit you get to play a game of ON WHAT LEVEL is he full of shit?
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This is my poorly-drawn meme pitch for you all to read Asunder by @kerstinhall.bsky.social aka My Favorite Book I Read This Year And It's Not Even Close. I actually NEED more people to read this book so we can yap about it together!!!!!!
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is my poorly-drawn meme pitch for you all to read Asunder by @kerstinhall.bsky.social aka My Favorite Book I Read This Year And It's Not Even Close. I actually NEED more people to read this book so we can yap about it together!!!!!!
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Awards season is upon us!
On December 1st, voting for the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards will officially open 🩷
Today, I'm sharing a mock ballot with the final slate of categories, the voting rules, and the schedule for the awards on the request of those who want to prepare their ballots early.
On December 1st, voting for the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards will officially open 🩷
Today, I'm sharing a mock ballot with the final slate of categories, the voting rules, and the schedule for the awards on the request of those who want to prepare their ballots early.
2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards Mock Ballot
AWARDS SCHEDULE Monday, December 1st: Indie Press nominations announced, voting opens Sunday, December 7th: Best Fiction Longlist released Sunday, December 21st: Shortlists for the five marquee cat...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Awards season is upon us!
On December 1st, voting for the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards will officially open 🩷
Today, I'm sharing a mock ballot with the final slate of categories, the voting rules, and the schedule for the awards on the request of those who want to prepare their ballots early.
On December 1st, voting for the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards will officially open 🩷
Today, I'm sharing a mock ballot with the final slate of categories, the voting rules, and the schedule for the awards on the request of those who want to prepare their ballots early.
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Thank you so much for the post!! 🥹 Channelled as much of my inner doomer into humour as I could, and somehow it became noir-ish. I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
A funny, sad, and heartwarming tale of a taxi driver just trying to live among the ghosts and the living and do the occasional good deed. Unnoticed, undetected, until that's not an option anymore. Sometimes you have to do the right thing.
By @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
By @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine
Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Thank you so much for the post!! 🥹 Channelled as much of my inner doomer into humour as I could, and somehow it became noir-ish. I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
i love this story so much.
On the surface, a dark academia story with a vicious bite and wistful reminiscence. Beneath the surface, a raw aching memory for anyone who had once sacrificed a part of themselves to survive and thrive on hostile soil.
Really love this story by @wenyilee.bsky.social
Really love this story by @wenyilee.bsky.social
The Name Ziya - Reactor
A girl reckons with what she must lose--and who she has become--in order to be accepted at the empire's most prestigious university.
reactormag.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
i love this story so much.
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A funny, sad, and heartwarming tale of a taxi driver just trying to live among the ghosts and the living and do the occasional good deed. Unnoticed, undetected, until that's not an option anymore. Sometimes you have to do the right thing.
By @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
By @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine
Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A funny, sad, and heartwarming tale of a taxi driver just trying to live among the ghosts and the living and do the occasional good deed. Unnoticed, undetected, until that's not an option anymore. Sometimes you have to do the right thing.
By @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
By @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
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COVER REVEAL: My next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller starring aging corporate samurai. The Last Contract of Isako will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Can't wait to share it with you. Thank you to @tommypocket.bsky.social for this kickass cover ⚔️
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
COVER REVEAL: My next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller starring aging corporate samurai. The Last Contract of Isako will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Can't wait to share it with you. Thank you to @tommypocket.bsky.social for this kickass cover ⚔️
one of the formative texts for all my creative work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foo...
The Fool's Errand - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
one of the formative texts for all my creative work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foo...
what a cool project!
One day I woke up and decided I wanted to do a stop motion animation. So I animated a simple run cycle, printed each frame and stuck them around my city ✨️
(Which btw, I felt super guilty about)
(Which btw, I felt super guilty about)
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
what a cool project!