Stephen Granade
@granades.com
Science presenter, robotics researcher, fiction writer, interactive fiction person, award-winning Virgo. Co-editor of @smallwondersmag.com SFF magazine.
website: https://stephen.granades.com
website: https://stephen.granades.com
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This is a surprisingly cozy apocalypse, one with salsa packets instead of bottle caps.
What will you bring to trade with Katherine Quevedo's "The Sauce Packet King of the West Hills" when times get lean and you want a taste of what was?
The Sauce Packet King of the West Hills - Small Wonders
“Heard I might find you here.” She pulled out an honest-to-goodness glass bottle of ketchup, swaddled in bubble wrap.
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January 23, 2026 at 5:36 PM
This is a surprisingly cozy apocalypse, one with salsa packets instead of bottle caps.
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"The Duchess of Summer tells you" by Melissa Anne Tolentino hints at stories small & large in margins and between lines. Step into fairyland and try to find your way out again. Bring something to snack on. We hear that plums are good for the heart.
The Duchess of Summer tells you - Small Wonders
Her season is for stone fruits. / You say nothing grows back home, / but she won’t hear it.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
"The Duchess of Summer tells you" by Melissa Anne Tolentino hints at stories small & large in margins and between lines. Step into fairyland and try to find your way out again. Bring something to snack on. We hear that plums are good for the heart.
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Get your fancy clothes on and head out to "Another Cemetery Wedding" - and don't forget to bring a gift for the ghoul and goblin! This poem by Belicia Rhea in our 7th issue is a delight:
Another Cemetery Wedding - Small Wonders
Aria is brave for a girl who is tough as a fish, / she sends an invitation via carrier owl / whose talons tear that love letter to shreds.
smallwondersmag.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Get your fancy clothes on and head out to "Another Cemetery Wedding" - and don't forget to bring a gift for the ghoul and goblin! This poem by Belicia Rhea in our 7th issue is a delight:
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Thread yourself through the light and lines of "Half of a green fall" by Eva Papasoulioti today and see where you land:
Half of a green fall - Small Wonders
One moment you’re smiling / at her, the next you’ve disappeared down, down into the— / whole is a word you never owned
smallwondersmag.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Thread yourself through the light and lines of "Half of a green fall" by Eva Papasoulioti today and see where you land:
Can’t wait for the bots to manage my project GitHubs, too, because how else would I see a loop of issue label adding and removing to rival the worst reply-all thread ever? github.com/google-gemin...
"Allow for session" only allows once for shell commands that include a path · Issue #16750 · google-gemini/gemini-cli
What happened? The agent prompted for confirmation before running commands like tools/autotest.py foo or testing/xvfb.py bar. I select "allow for this session". The agent continues to prompt me for...
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January 21, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Can’t wait for the bots to manage my project GitHubs, too, because how else would I see a loop of issue label adding and removing to rival the worst reply-all thread ever? github.com/google-gemin...
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We love "Contellations of Flesh, Bone, and Memory" by Timothy Hickson for the hopeful way it approaches remaking oneself, finding oneself beyond the body but also in it. Read it in our issue 7 here:
Constellations of Flesh, Bone, and Memory - Small Wonders
Safa knew that twenty-five million years ago her ancestors decided the forests were no longer for them and left her with a coccyx instead of a tail.
smallwondersmag.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:00 PM
We love "Contellations of Flesh, Bone, and Memory" by Timothy Hickson for the hopeful way it approaches remaking oneself, finding oneself beyond the body but also in it. Read it in our issue 7 here:
A friend over dinner started talking about his procgen game and my entire skull unhinged and all my thoughts on storylets came pouring out, anyway, book me for birthdays and bar/bat mitzvahs, I’m excellent entertainment.
January 20, 2026 at 5:27 AM
A friend over dinner started talking about his procgen game and my entire skull unhinged and all my thoughts on storylets came pouring out, anyway, book me for birthdays and bar/bat mitzvahs, I’m excellent entertainment.
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"The Metabolism of Grief" by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska explores emotion in a surprisingly physical and visceral way. Warnings for infant death and cannibalism. We recommend sitting with this one, letting the cathartic beauty of its images sweep you away.
The Metabolism of Grief - Small Wonders
The comma of you nestles against my aching body as if you’re merely asleep and I wonder what you might be dreaming of.
smallwondersmag.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"The Metabolism of Grief" by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska explores emotion in a surprisingly physical and visceral way. Warnings for infant death and cannibalism. We recommend sitting with this one, letting the cathartic beauty of its images sweep you away.
me, earlier, pre-reaping: what the fuck.
me, post-sowing: ha ha, yes
me, post-sowing: ha ha, yes
guess i took the wrong-ass side of the protestant reformation
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT
January 19, 2026 at 3:16 AM
me, earlier, pre-reaping: what the fuck.
me, post-sowing: ha ha, yes
me, post-sowing: ha ha, yes
guess i took the wrong-ass side of the protestant reformation
January 19, 2026 at 2:47 AM
guess i took the wrong-ass side of the protestant reformation
This pigeon in Honolulu earlier this week wanted to fight me.
January 18, 2026 at 10:11 PM
This pigeon in Honolulu earlier this week wanted to fight me.
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We hope that when you come apart, you keep track of your teeth. Janna Miller's "The Sternum Ties It All Together" shows us that if you don't keep track of every little piece, it leads to trouble:
The Sternum Ties It All Together - Small Wonders
My teeth wandered off their tether in the night, bringing back the taste of calcium bones and morning dew.
smallwondersmag.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:00 PM
We hope that when you come apart, you keep track of your teeth. Janna Miller's "The Sternum Ties It All Together" shows us that if you don't keep track of every little piece, it leads to trouble:
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Ghosts come in all kinds, and sometimes scent brings the strongest of them out to haunt us. H. Pueyo's "A Bitter Orange Perfume" in issue 25 is a story of a haunted house, and three sisters:
A Bitter Orange Perfume - Small Wonders
“Now we have to decide what we’ll do with mother’s house,” said Maria Clarinda, watching the grave from above. The priest had left, and with him went the visitors.
smallwondersmag.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Ghosts come in all kinds, and sometimes scent brings the strongest of them out to haunt us. H. Pueyo's "A Bitter Orange Perfume" in issue 25 is a story of a haunted house, and three sisters:
This one will linger in your head for a long, long, long time.
We have a science fiction horror piece from Guan Un today, and we urge you not to read "Take Root" aloud. For your own safety. For all our sakes.
Take Root - Small Wonders
This is my last report on the loss of transmission from the radio outpost on Ganymede 13.
smallwondersmag.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:04 PM
This one will linger in your head for a long, long, long time.
Today in dystopia: a car rental company whose name rhymes with “Hertz” has a generative AI handling their “your car broke down and you need help” line, and it will ask for your last name and then say “this call is outside what I can handle” and hang up on you every time, ask me how I know!
January 16, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Today in dystopia: a car rental company whose name rhymes with “Hertz” has a generative AI handling their “your car broke down and you need help” line, and it will ask for your last name and then say “this call is outside what I can handle” and hang up on you every time, ask me how I know!
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Let yourself be tempted by forgetting today, and slip into the river Lethe alongside the protagonist of Casey Lucas's "Lekythos" in our 7th issue:
Lekythos - Small Wonders
It is said that all wives / inherit the sorrows of Persephone: / 3000 years of seasonal death
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January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Let yourself be tempted by forgetting today, and slip into the river Lethe alongside the protagonist of Casey Lucas's "Lekythos" in our 7th issue:
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Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi uses poetry like a bullet to shatter the window of one world so you can see into another. Look, unflinching, into "i beg; spare me the music, my people do not have mouths for songs" today:
i beg; spare me the music, my people do not have mouths for songs - Small Wonders
outside, the bullet is going round; blood is swallowing / the city. home is closing in on my people like lost poems.
smallwondersmag.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi uses poetry like a bullet to shatter the window of one world so you can see into another. Look, unflinching, into "i beg; spare me the music, my people do not have mouths for songs" today:
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It's #PortfolioDay again and I'm urgently looking for remote work in game writing/narrative design‼️
I’ve been an indie dev for 10 years and I have worked with clients in the industry since 2019. I also create the Twine Grimoire and volunteer with IFTF.
🪄 gcbaccaris.com
🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris
I’ve been an indie dev for 10 years and I have worked with clients in the industry since 2019. I also create the Twine Grimoire and volunteer with IFTF.
🪄 gcbaccaris.com
🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris
January 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
It's #PortfolioDay again and I'm urgently looking for remote work in game writing/narrative design‼️
I’ve been an indie dev for 10 years and I have worked with clients in the industry since 2019. I also create the Twine Grimoire and volunteer with IFTF.
🪄 gcbaccaris.com
🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris
I’ve been an indie dev for 10 years and I have worked with clients in the industry since 2019. I also create the Twine Grimoire and volunteer with IFTF.
🪄 gcbaccaris.com
🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris
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"A Keeper of Kingdoms" by Michelle Koubeck asks us to think small and big, at the same time. You are a whole world, and sometimes it is at war...
A Keeper of Kingdoms - Small Wonders
They’re weaving the kingdoms into your skin now, / The wheat farms, the castles, the villagers.
smallwondersmag.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"A Keeper of Kingdoms" by Michelle Koubeck asks us to think small and big, at the same time. You are a whole world, and sometimes it is at war...
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I enjoyed talking with Mel about their creative life! I think you will love reading their thoughts & seeing their luminous outdoor paintings! Go read the interview now! 🍄
misty.granades.com/2026/01/13/i...
#ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings
misty.granades.com/2026/01/13/i...
#ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings
Interview with Mel - Misty Granade
An ongoing series of interviews with folks talking about what their creative life is like. This month's interview is Mel Mitchell-Jackson.
misty.granades.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I enjoyed talking with Mel about their creative life! I think you will love reading their thoughts & seeing their luminous outdoor paintings! Go read the interview now! 🍄
misty.granades.com/2026/01/13/i...
#ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings
misty.granades.com/2026/01/13/i...
#ArtBlog #ArtBlogger #ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings
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What secrets would the bones of your house reveal to the future? Walk through "Scrimshaw" by Stephen James today, and consider what we leave behind and the world we shape for those who come after:
Scrimshaw - Small Wonders
She finds the house at night, in what were once suburbs. Now just another skeleton with bones bleached pure by the Great God-Sun.
smallwondersmag.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
What secrets would the bones of your house reveal to the future? Walk through "Scrimshaw" by Stephen James today, and consider what we leave behind and the world we shape for those who come after:
This has escaped containment, which is great because the fic is great, and I’m seriously bookmarking this for my Hugo ballot.
“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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January 13, 2026 at 1:51 PM
This has escaped containment, which is great because the fic is great, and I’m seriously bookmarking this for my Hugo ballot.
“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
January 13, 2026 at 4:55 AM
“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
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"I remember you as you were: strong, beautiful, screaming that you didn’t want to eat Grandma."
The opening line of "As You Were" by Adrian Ward grabs you hard and doesn't let go. Find out what happened next here:
The opening line of "As You Were" by Adrian Ward grabs you hard and doesn't let go. Find out what happened next here:
As You Were - Small Wonders
I remember you as you were: strong, beautiful, screaming that you didn’t want to eat Grandma.
smallwondersmag.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"I remember you as you were: strong, beautiful, screaming that you didn’t want to eat Grandma."
The opening line of "As You Were" by Adrian Ward grabs you hard and doesn't let go. Find out what happened next here:
The opening line of "As You Were" by Adrian Ward grabs you hard and doesn't let go. Find out what happened next here:
I named my Chrono Trigger save poorly and now I have to live with being creeped out by the game, part two of ???
January 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I named my Chrono Trigger save poorly and now I have to live with being creeped out by the game, part two of ???