Wm Henry Morris
@wmhenrymorris.com
gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him
[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
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[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
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Wm Henry Morris
@wmhenrymorris.com
· Oct 7
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
wmhenrymorris.com
No story collection is worth buying for just one story, and I’m definitely not suggesting mine is.
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
At just 5k words with another 800 or so to go. Then a revision or two, and if all goes well, it'll go up on wmhenrymorris.com on Dec. 1.
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
At just 5k words with another 800 or so to go. Then a revision or two, and if all goes well, it'll go up on wmhenrymorris.com on Dec. 1.
walking is nice
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
walking is nice
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
walks are a great time
we should reorient all of society around time and spaces for walking
Call me basic and belated, but I just listened to Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt for the first time, and I love it.
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Call me basic and belated, but I just listened to Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt for the first time, and I love it.
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You can doomscroll or you can make zines
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
You can doomscroll or you can make zines
_ In fact, this past May at the Google I/O developer conference, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said that he thinks we might not need to render web pages at all in an agent-first world_
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
_ In fact, this past May at the Google I/O developer conference, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said that he thinks we might not need to render web pages at all in an agent-first world_
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
[so what’s the incentive for the content and service providers to continue to provide content and services?]
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This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
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NBA Executives around a summoning circle working around the clock to prove that magic is real so they can cast Cure Light Wounds on all the players instead of having them play 1 less game a season
Shams: NBA launching league-wide biomechanics assessment program in attempt to reduce injuries moving forward.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
NBA Executives around a summoning circle working around the clock to prove that magic is real so they can cast Cure Light Wounds on all the players instead of having them play 1 less game a season
This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This is from Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, which I finished reading at the very end of my commute to campus this morning & it is an astounding thing.
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_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
_Cousins, when you are writing, it is always the other place that haunts you. The place you just were_
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more coverage of this administrative buzzword coup
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
more coverage of this administrative buzzword coup
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
“vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression”
"eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
_For those of us who care about art and books and, at some cost, both the continued production of new work and survival of what has been made, this is a challenging time. But from my tiny perch here, I encourage anyone reading this to stop playing rigged games_
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
(Joanne McNeil's latest newsletter)
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_When there is so little left you do not give it to one, you fight to keep that thing in the mainstream_
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
_When there is so little left you do not give it to one, you fight to keep that thing in the mainstream_
This is a major part of why the lack of progress in improving the Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF contracts is such a loss for the field as a whole: it means not just losing venues for writers to submit to—it also leads to limiting the reach and work of excellent editors.
I'm in the current issue of Analog. I managed to negotiate to a contract I was willing to sign. Naively, I thought that established writers giving this feedback would eventually make a dent.
It hasn't. I don't know that it will. I just wrote to Trevor withdrawing a story I'd sold to him.
It hasn't. I don't know that it will. I just wrote to Trevor withdrawing a story I'd sold to him.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is a major part of why the lack of progress in improving the Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF contracts is such a loss for the field as a whole: it means not just losing venues for writers to submit to—it also leads to limiting the reach and work of excellent editors.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
_When there is so little left you do not give it to one, you fight to keep that thing in the mainstream_
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
_When there is so little left you do not give it to one, you fight to keep that thing in the mainstream_
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This has been two months in the making. The essay was written in September, the podcast recorded in October, and now both are available in November.
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
Reading “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova
In which I return to Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian (2005), a literary fiction vampire novel about historians fighting against Dracula across three generations—which once meant so much to …
seanguynes.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This has been two months in the making. The essay was written in September, the podcast recorded in October, and now both are available in November.
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
"But what if -- and here Adorno and Lacan have some very distant echoes of each other -- what if desire can never be satisfied? [Pounds fist on desk]"
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"But what if -- and here Adorno and Lacan have some very distant echoes of each other -- what if desire can never be satisfied? [Pounds fist on desk]"
been looking forward to this one (even though I've never read the novel)
Coming Monday, a double-hitter:
(1) My 10k word essay reflecting on Elizabeth Kostova's THE HISTORIAN (2005).
(2) An episode of @mealofthorns.bsky.social that I guested on to talk about Kostova's really rather mediocre novel. Sorry to have made @casella.bsky.social read this 700-page monstrosity.
(1) My 10k word essay reflecting on Elizabeth Kostova's THE HISTORIAN (2005).
(2) An episode of @mealofthorns.bsky.social that I guested on to talk about Kostova's really rather mediocre novel. Sorry to have made @casella.bsky.social read this 700-page monstrosity.
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
been looking forward to this one (even though I've never read the novel)
2025 is dudes vibe coding software synths and posting them to reddit for everyone else to ignore (or, on occasion, take the bait and get mad about)
November 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
2025 is dudes vibe coding software synths and posting them to reddit for everyone else to ignore (or, on occasion, take the bait and get mad about)
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_Kristee says you shouldn't believe anything in the Twin Cities Voice story, but one detail is true: Kristee was out dancing the night Andrea was murdered_
~~the opening line of an urban fantasy + alternate/secret history story found in my collection Oddities: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
~~the opening line of an urban fantasy + alternate/secret history story found in my collection Oddities: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
wmhenrymorris.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
_Kristee says you shouldn't believe anything in the Twin Cities Voice story, but one detail is true: Kristee was out dancing the night Andrea was murdered_
~~the opening line of an urban fantasy + alternate/secret history story found in my collection Oddities: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
~~the opening line of an urban fantasy + alternate/secret history story found in my collection Oddities: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
_Kristee says you shouldn't believe anything in the Twin Cities Voice story, but one detail is true: Kristee was out dancing the night Andrea was murdered_
~~the opening line of an urban fantasy + alternate/secret history story found in my collection Oddities: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
~~the opening line of an urban fantasy + alternate/secret history story found in my collection Oddities: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
wmhenrymorris.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
_Kristee says you shouldn't believe anything in the Twin Cities Voice story, but one detail is true: Kristee was out dancing the night Andrea was murdered_
~~the opening line of an urban fantasy + alternate/secret history story found in my collection Oddities: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
~~the opening line of an urban fantasy + alternate/secret history story found in my collection Oddities: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
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Enclosures of historical documents are erasures of historical documents.
Digitization is not preservation, digitization is precaritization.
Word processing is, exactly as it sounds, techne which treats writing as rent-seeking.
Print is a rent strike.
Digitization is not preservation, digitization is precaritization.
Word processing is, exactly as it sounds, techne which treats writing as rent-seeking.
Print is a rent strike.
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Enclosures of historical documents are erasures of historical documents.
Digitization is not preservation, digitization is precaritization.
Word processing is, exactly as it sounds, techne which treats writing as rent-seeking.
Print is a rent strike.
Digitization is not preservation, digitization is precaritization.
Word processing is, exactly as it sounds, techne which treats writing as rent-seeking.
Print is a rent strike.
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I hereby declare the day after US Thanksgiving as Turkey Boxing Day
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I hereby declare the day after US Thanksgiving as Turkey Boxing Day
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I'm the tenth member of the Fellowship who was written out of the books. I went running across the vast, beautiful fields of Middle Earth with Aragorn and Legolas and immediately tripped on a stone and fell down completely dead in the dirt.
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I'm the tenth member of the Fellowship who was written out of the books. I went running across the vast, beautiful fields of Middle Earth with Aragorn and Legolas and immediately tripped on a stone and fell down completely dead in the dirt.