Cynthia Gómez
@cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
2024 Ignyte nominee for "Lips Like Sugar." Member HWA. "The Nightmare Box and Other Stories" out now from cursedmorselspress.com. Stories in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Tree & Stone. Rep @LaurenBajek.
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We need these people to face accountability. They should face accountability.
None of these people ever has. Kissinger died without facing trial. The U.S. does not recognize the ICC. Getting away with genocide is the U.S. brand, and no USian has ever been punished for their genocidal crimes.
None of these people ever has. Kissinger died without facing trial. The U.S. does not recognize the ICC. Getting away with genocide is the U.S. brand, and no USian has ever been punished for their genocidal crimes.
Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
We need these people to face accountability. They should face accountability.
None of these people ever has. Kissinger died without facing trial. The U.S. does not recognize the ICC. Getting away with genocide is the U.S. brand, and no USian has ever been punished for their genocidal crimes.
None of these people ever has. Kissinger died without facing trial. The U.S. does not recognize the ICC. Getting away with genocide is the U.S. brand, and no USian has ever been punished for their genocidal crimes.
I *love* this topic. Looking forward to digging into this later.
I took a look at the inter-generational trauma of the Poltergeist franchise, of busted patriarchal myths, maternal heroes and suburban nightmares for #NightTideMag
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THEY’RE HERE: HAUNTING, INHERITANCE, AND THE FRAGILE AMERICAN FAMILY IN ‘POLTERGEIST’
The Freelings think their nightmare begins in a haunted house. It begins with what the house was built on, and what their family refuses to face.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I *love* this topic. Looking forward to digging into this later.
@watchyourrepssc.bsky.social posted that AI video and ignored people telling them that it was fake.
When I called them out for spreading misinformation, they blocked me.
When I called them out for spreading misinformation, they blocked me.
The woman yelling at the ICE officer from behind the counter is fake. We don't need to use AI to show people standing up to fascism. There is tons of real video already doing that. You don't defeat fascism by using its own tools against its victims.
This video is AI (notice her hands, spatula, background details). Misinformation is the real purpose of these tools and everyone knows it.
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
@watchyourrepssc.bsky.social posted that AI video and ignored people telling them that it was fake.
When I called them out for spreading misinformation, they blocked me.
When I called them out for spreading misinformation, they blocked me.
Hey, so if your account posts an unsourced video and later more than a dozen people tell you it's AI, and you don't apologize or take it down, but still post other stuff, you're a disinformation page and you're doing harm.
So, anyway, I'm blocking @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social. You all should too.
So, anyway, I'm blocking @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social. You all should too.
November 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Hey, so if your account posts an unsourced video and later more than a dozen people tell you it's AI, and you don't apologize or take it down, but still post other stuff, you're a disinformation page and you're doing harm.
So, anyway, I'm blocking @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social. You all should too.
So, anyway, I'm blocking @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social. You all should too.
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Whale Fall of Yours" by M. M. Olivas!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/T0lToFo
Try the short story "Whale Fall of Yours" by M. M. Olivas!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/T0lToFo
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Whale Fall of Yours" by M. M. Olivas!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/T0lToFo
Try the short story "Whale Fall of Yours" by M. M. Olivas!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/T0lToFo
Sometimes I like to mess with would-be scammers.
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Sometimes I like to mess with would-be scammers.
Please someone write this ideally someone who is Native thank you please
being visited by three spirits to learn the true meaning of Thanksgiving but they're the spirits of Wampanoag people who died of smallpox and it's a straight up horror story
I keep starting and deleting grinchy Thanksgiving posts, because I'm not really trying to kill anyone's vibe, but if you also find this holiday just entirely uninteresting, come sit here by me.
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Please someone write this ideally someone who is Native thank you please
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Some Indigenous/First Nations science fiction, fantasy, and horror recs for your Wednesday!
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Some Indigenous/First Nations science fiction, fantasy, and horror recs for your Wednesday!
This looks like fun, folks :)
Did you ever play Mad Libs as a kid? Well, it's still fun as an adult! And it's the most fun with your favorite speculative fiction authors! Help them rewrite their masterpieces, but make it *WEIRD*!
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November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This looks like fun, folks :)
YES PLEASE
Alex Le Domas: Are you ready for this?
Grace: Oh fuck no.
Episode 107, READY OR NOT out this Wednesday!
Grace: Oh fuck no.
Episode 107, READY OR NOT out this Wednesday!
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
YES PLEASE
Yeah, no. The reason people -- I mean developers -- are pushing to build these is because they are, on a per-square-foot basis, much more profitable for developers to build. And much more profitable, long term, for landlords, since higher turnover means rents can get raised all the time.
Single-room apartments once symbolized everything wrong with New York City. But today, city officials say the solution to the housing crisis involves building a lot more of them. Here's why.
The ‘New’ Solution for the N.Y.C. Housing Crisis: Single-Room Apartments
There is a push to revive single-room occupancy housing, where kitchens and bathrooms are shared among apartments as small as 100 square feet each.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Yeah, no. The reason people -- I mean developers -- are pushing to build these is because they are, on a per-square-foot basis, much more profitable for developers to build. And much more profitable, long term, for landlords, since higher turnover means rents can get raised all the time.
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Every economy op-ed writer: No see, you can't buy a house because you buy too many avocado toasts but you're hurting the economy by not buying a new $1,000 phone each year. I am very smart. Also don't ask me about my emails with Epstein.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Every economy op-ed writer: No see, you can't buy a house because you buy too many avocado toasts but you're hurting the economy by not buying a new $1,000 phone each year. I am very smart. Also don't ask me about my emails with Epstein.
@ericraglin1992.bsky.social has edited a bunch of my stuff and is really good at giving sharp, specific suggestions that help my story sing.
By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day.
Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.
So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.
So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
@ericraglin1992.bsky.social has edited a bunch of my stuff and is really good at giving sharp, specific suggestions that help my story sing.
In case you needed more reasons to hate Amazon: I just saw an ad where they encourage people to do online shopping on their phones during a family dinner.
a close up of a man 's face with the words get a rope written above him .
Alt: a close up of a man 's face with the words get a rope written above him .
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November 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
In case you needed more reasons to hate Amazon: I just saw an ad where they encourage people to do online shopping on their phones during a family dinner.
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
I feel sad.
I replied to a writer's discussion about how fucked up book piracy is (it is) and I think he didn't get that I was being sarcastic, because he blocked me :(
Also, don't fucking pirate books. Piracy is good when it's Spanish doubloons, not humans making art.
I replied to a writer's discussion about how fucked up book piracy is (it is) and I think he didn't get that I was being sarcastic, because he blocked me :(
Also, don't fucking pirate books. Piracy is good when it's Spanish doubloons, not humans making art.
a cat dressed in a pirate costume is holding a screwdriver .
Alt: a cat dressed in a pirate costume is holding a screwdriver .
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I feel sad.
I replied to a writer's discussion about how fucked up book piracy is (it is) and I think he didn't get that I was being sarcastic, because he blocked me :(
Also, don't fucking pirate books. Piracy is good when it's Spanish doubloons, not humans making art.
I replied to a writer's discussion about how fucked up book piracy is (it is) and I think he didn't get that I was being sarcastic, because he blocked me :(
Also, don't fucking pirate books. Piracy is good when it's Spanish doubloons, not humans making art.
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Eligibility post! Here’s my new work for 2025. Thanks for your consideration 🖤
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Eligibility post! Here’s my new work for 2025. Thanks for your consideration 🖤
You guys, the prose in this book is so enchanting and the central premise so gripping. It'll make a great audiobook.
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
You guys, the prose in this book is so enchanting and the central premise so gripping. It'll make a great audiobook.
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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 2:51 PM
England in the Middle Ages was in fact quite brightly colored (interiors, costumes, etc.) and, yes, people bathed.
Is there a word for where films have created such a distorted picture of a time & place that seeing an accurate depiction actually confuses people?
I bet there is in German.
Is there a word for where films have created such a distorted picture of a time & place that seeing an accurate depiction actually confuses people?
I bet there is in German.
A new werewolf film is currently being recorded and there are some set photos... are we taking bets on this film having the blue filter, it's never sunny and pretty much everything and everyone is constantly being covered in muck?
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
England in the Middle Ages was in fact quite brightly colored (interiors, costumes, etc.) and, yes, people bathed.
Is there a word for where films have created such a distorted picture of a time & place that seeing an accurate depiction actually confuses people?
I bet there is in German.
Is there a word for where films have created such a distorted picture of a time & place that seeing an accurate depiction actually confuses people?
I bet there is in German.
For the Sunday crowd: my novel, Muñeca, out June 2026, is Gothic historical fiction about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
You can pre-order it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
You can pre-order it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: 9798217047574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. It is 1968 Oakland, and Nat...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
For the Sunday crowd: my novel, Muñeca, out June 2026, is Gothic historical fiction about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
You can pre-order it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
You can pre-order it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
You guys! Jonathan has written some of my favorite short stories!
(This is at the top of my list.)
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(This is at the top of my list.)
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November 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
You guys! Jonathan has written some of my favorite short stories!
(This is at the top of my list.)
pseudopod.org/2020/07/03/p...
(This is at the top of my list.)
pseudopod.org/2020/07/03/p...
Sharpen thy quills, friends!
🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Sharpen thy quills, friends!