Summer Fletcher
@summerfletcher.com
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Hugo & Ignyte finalist.
Formerly: PodCastle, Nightmare Magazine, Lightspeed
Code Coven IGM Ghost
they/them
Hugo & Ignyte finalist.
Formerly: PodCastle, Nightmare Magazine, Lightspeed
Code Coven IGM Ghost
they/them
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YES!! Mother nature took the fate of the Gävle Goat into her own hands. GOAT DOWN! 2026 is gonna be a good year
December 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
YES!! Mother nature took the fate of the Gävle Goat into her own hands. GOAT DOWN! 2026 is gonna be a good year
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Heading into 2026, I'm still looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Heading into 2026, I'm still looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
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It's been ages since I was in school, so I'm sure there are new resources... does anyone have suggestions for a Cliffs Notes type thing (besides CN itself, of course)? Something if I'm reading an older literary work on my own that points out stuff like historical context and other teachery stuff?
December 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
It's been ages since I was in school, so I'm sure there are new resources... does anyone have suggestions for a Cliffs Notes type thing (besides CN itself, of course)? Something if I'm reading an older literary work on my own that points out stuff like historical context and other teachery stuff?
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My final publication of this year is now free-to-read. If you missed it on Christmas Day, here you Go!
My flash “The Space Between Us” is now free-to-read at @lightspeedmagazine.com! Get it in print or audio (with not one, but TWO amazing narrators). And Happy Holidays to all!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
The Space Between Us - Lightspeed Magazine
Xylina The first date had that delicious awkwardness that makes you self-conscious in the moment, but in retrospect seems endearing and makes you nostalgic for a more innocent and hopeful time. Adis ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My final publication of this year is now free-to-read. If you missed it on Christmas Day, here you Go!
quote this with what you've accomplished in 2025, no matter how small:
-escaped the purgatory where I'd been trapped since the 2017 total solar eclipse
-went swimming a bunch
-tried 3 new sports
-ate a lot like seriously a glorious amount of food
-escaped the purgatory where I'd been trapped since the 2017 total solar eclipse
-went swimming a bunch
-tried 3 new sports
-ate a lot like seriously a glorious amount of food
quote this with what you've accomplished in 2025, no matter how small:
- published my second standalone book (novella)
- traveled without Stella twice
- finalist for a Nebula Award (short story)
- finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (same story)
- ended up on the Hugo Long List (same)
- published my second standalone book (novella)
- traveled without Stella twice
- finalist for a Nebula Award (short story)
- finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (same story)
- ended up on the Hugo Long List (same)
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small
- Had one short story published
- Wrote most of a novel
- Made comics
- Posted like 360-odd musical improvs
- Learned to play the Greek lyre
- Kept my apartment's humidity in the safe zone
- Had one short story published
- Wrote most of a novel
- Made comics
- Posted like 360-odd musical improvs
- Learned to play the Greek lyre
- Kept my apartment's humidity in the safe zone
December 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
quote this with what you've accomplished in 2025, no matter how small:
-escaped the purgatory where I'd been trapped since the 2017 total solar eclipse
-went swimming a bunch
-tried 3 new sports
-ate a lot like seriously a glorious amount of food
-escaped the purgatory where I'd been trapped since the 2017 total solar eclipse
-went swimming a bunch
-tried 3 new sports
-ate a lot like seriously a glorious amount of food
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You may have heard there are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese. However, in California, the Pacific Ocean flows with champagne and shrimp.
![...gathered at a California resort with dazzling views of the Pacific Ocean, where champagne and shrimp flowed freely.
[from The New York Times]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gthl7kdyryv5lylos55da747/bafkreiabr2brjytotsqooln5oecpsut2pvcvsoly4yly2f4ud63ob2hcge@jpeg)
December 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
You may have heard there are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese. However, in California, the Pacific Ocean flows with champagne and shrimp.
Completely erased and cleaned the whiteboard I feel so free
December 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Completely erased and cleaned the whiteboard I feel so free
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In a writer networking workshop I run, I ask attendees to think about the coolest person they want to meet.
Then I ask what they’d offer them as a peer (this could be anything!).
If there’s no answer, it isn’t time to network in that room.
…a specific type of attendee rarely has an answer.
Then I ask what they’d offer them as a peer (this could be anything!).
If there’s no answer, it isn’t time to network in that room.
…a specific type of attendee rarely has an answer.
This shit is made up, actually
December 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
In a writer networking workshop I run, I ask attendees to think about the coolest person they want to meet.
Then I ask what they’d offer them as a peer (this could be anything!).
If there’s no answer, it isn’t time to network in that room.
…a specific type of attendee rarely has an answer.
Then I ask what they’d offer them as a peer (this could be anything!).
If there’s no answer, it isn’t time to network in that room.
…a specific type of attendee rarely has an answer.
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Scott Hawkins' second novel comes out in 2026!!!!!! The Library at Mount Char is one of my favorite books of all time and I have been waiting for this day for almost a decade oh my goddddd bookshop.org/p/books/blac...
Blacktail: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
December 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Scott Hawkins' second novel comes out in 2026!!!!!! The Library at Mount Char is one of my favorite books of all time and I have been waiting for this day for almost a decade oh my goddddd bookshop.org/p/books/blac...
Latkes (sour cream)
Hash browns (salt, pepper, maple syrup)
Roasted wedges as a carrier for garlic-rosemary-salted-butter.
As part of a breakfast burrito.
Hash browns (salt, pepper, maple syrup)
Roasted wedges as a carrier for garlic-rosemary-salted-butter.
As part of a breakfast burrito.
Name your fav way to eat potatoes
December 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Latkes (sour cream)
Hash browns (salt, pepper, maple syrup)
Roasted wedges as a carrier for garlic-rosemary-salted-butter.
As part of a breakfast burrito.
Hash browns (salt, pepper, maple syrup)
Roasted wedges as a carrier for garlic-rosemary-salted-butter.
As part of a breakfast burrito.
My words: I think I blew out my coracobrachialis muscle
My brain: my crow-arm knows weakness and suffering
My brain: my crow-arm knows weakness and suffering
December 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My words: I think I blew out my coracobrachialis muscle
My brain: my crow-arm knows weakness and suffering
My brain: my crow-arm knows weakness and suffering
"packed like sardines" is now a paleologism.
Fully an inch of unused space in these tins.
Fully an inch of unused space in these tins.
December 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"packed like sardines" is now a paleologism.
Fully an inch of unused space in these tins.
Fully an inch of unused space in these tins.
Anecdotally, sneaking into aspirational writing spaces before you're ready can do more harm than good.
I behaved really badly the times I've done it, because ignorance combined with the pressure to "prove yourself" creates poor outcomes. Peer friendships are more sustainable.
I behaved really badly the times I've done it, because ignorance combined with the pressure to "prove yourself" creates poor outcomes. Peer friendships are more sustainable.
Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.
They have come to the convention hoping to "break in" and then find themselves -- shocker! -- a "nobody in the book world." Yeah no shit! We all are! I have gently told guys like this a million times that it takes most of us *years* of hard work but they do not believe that could be true for them. +
December 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Anecdotally, sneaking into aspirational writing spaces before you're ready can do more harm than good.
I behaved really badly the times I've done it, because ignorance combined with the pressure to "prove yourself" creates poor outcomes. Peer friendships are more sustainable.
I behaved really badly the times I've done it, because ignorance combined with the pressure to "prove yourself" creates poor outcomes. Peer friendships are more sustainable.
"I knew you were clever, I didn't know you were smart."
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"I knew you were clever, I didn't know you were smart."
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You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
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He ys ridinge a horse
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
December 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🎶
Just started this today on my morning commute, instantly hooked.
2025 Books We Loved: Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
2025 Books We Loved: Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
It’s Locus’s 2025 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks! In case you missed it, Locus contributor Jake Casella Brookins picks Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman: Everything and anything I try to say…
locusmag.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just started this today on my morning commute, instantly hooked.
Stray Gods: The Musical is way fun.
December 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Stray Gods: The Musical is way fun.
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BEEEEES!
What did Sera put in everyone's stockings for Makermas? A jaunty hat.
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
BEEEEES!
We should be playing more Yawhg during the holidays.
December 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We should be playing more Yawhg during the holidays.
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How does Good King Wencelas like his pizza?
Deep pan, crisp and even.
Deep pan, crisp and even.
December 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
How does Good King Wencelas like his pizza?
Deep pan, crisp and even.
Deep pan, crisp and even.
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And Tiny Tim, who did knot dye
December 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did knot dye
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i hate that everything that everything is an arbitrage opportunity now. people should get real jobs instead of hyper-financializing children’s toys
December 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
i hate that everything that everything is an arbitrage opportunity now. people should get real jobs instead of hyper-financializing children’s toys