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Posting about 110 stories in The Weird. 💀 #WeirdFictionChallenge. Poetry chapbook Pilgrimages 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 out now. Author in NewMyths.com, Lantern Magazine. Interviewer, blogger. Odyssey '16, Codex. He/him. 🇨🇦 📬 https://buttondown.com/MatthewRettino (free story)

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 5d

My debut poetry chapbook Pilgrimages has been reviewed in The Miramichi Reader:

miramichireader.ca/2025/10/pilg...

Pilgrimages by Matthew Rettino

The language and structure of the poems are controlled with clarity, precision, and word economy.

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 2d

Prepping to work for Election Montreal tomorrow.

Remember, go vote!

#montreal

Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 2d

"The sheep will eat the men."

-a prophecy of the Brahan Seer

Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 3d

Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 2d

It does feel tempting sometimes to evoke that weird fic atmosphere and let it stand in for a resolution. I wonder if there's a teachable way to write good dream logic when it comes down to it.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 3d

"Brave new world" || @IndiaToday reviews The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF --

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Gautam Bhatia's 'Between Worlds Vol. 1' | Brave new world

Edited by Gautam Bhatia, Between Worlds Vol. 1 gathers young, first-time authors in a bold anthology that reimagines Indian speculative fiction

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 3d

Eyyyyy, whatsa comina go?

Robot from Chopping Mall with robo hands flexing like an Italian man. It’s standing in front of an Italian restaurant.

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a dubious little creature (she/her) 🐸 @marinda.org · 3d

well, hotdog!

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 3d

Watched Chopping Mall on Kanopy. A perfect movie in every regard.

Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 3d

Wondering what Kurghan would think of this. IYKYK.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 3d

When Herodotus wrote about Scythian funerary practices, he described sacrificial 'spectral riders'. A royal burial mound in Siberia corroborates his account, with horses and riders possibly positioned atop the mounds using birch wood stakes.

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🏺 #Halloween #Archaeology

Left: digital elevation model of a circular burial mound, annotated with locations of excavation and clusters of horse bones. Right: Oblique aerial photo of a circular burial mound on a vast green plain, with mountains rising up on the horizon.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 3d

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Candidate for the most French story ever reported.

Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag

A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Halloween from Bagel!

This year he's Everything.

#DailyDoggo #Dachsky

Bagel the dachshund-mix is dressed as a bottle of Everything But The Bagel seasoning blend, making him collectively Everything

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 3d

I had no idea that used to exist even though I‘ve walked around there quite often.

Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 5d

I also wrote about Tanith Lee's story "Yellow and Red." Reportedly, Gaiman stole his idea of the Endless from Lee without properly crediting her.

If you prefer to read my Lee post, you can do so here.

It's about spilled whiskey revealing disturbing creatures in black & white photographs...

Weird #89: “Yellow and Red” by Tanith Lee (1998)

In which a rational man finds himself haunted by a spirit revealed by spilled spirits

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 5d

Today's story on my #WeirdFictionChallenge is Neil Gaiman's "Feeders and Eaters."

I treated it like any story in the anthology and wrote my thoughts, but it really sucks he turned out to be awful.

You can read my post on the story here. I save my quick take on Gaiman for the postscript.

#WeirdFictionChallenge

I’m Matthew Rettino, a speculative fiction writer from Montreal, Canada. In my Archaeologies of Weird Fiction project, I am reviewing all 110 stories contained in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s ma…

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5d

The Lord of the Rings ys about how learninge, love, and gardeninge save the worlde.

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 5d

My debut poetry chapbook Pilgrimages has been reviewed in The Miramichi Reader:

miramichireader.ca/2025/10/pilg...

Pilgrimages by Matthew Rettino

The language and structure of the poems are controlled with clarity, precision, and word economy.

miramichireader.ca

Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 5d

Deep, immersive, first person story told from the POV of psychopathic serial killers who kill with the casualness of a shrug.

Easily the most messed up story in The Weird and that includes Michael Shea's deeply unnerving story, "The Autopsy."

#WeirdFictionChallenge #serialkillers #weirdfiction

Weird #94: “The Genius of Assassins” by Michael Cisco (2002)

In which a boy delivers food to an elderly lady who sees things in walls coming closer to her

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 6d

Ensemble Montréal may take the city two steps back — on housing and the climate crisis

“Bike lanes make all modes of transport more safe. This has been proven by experts so many times that politicians campaigning against bike lanes reveal themselves to simply not know what they’re talking about.”

Ensemble Montréal may take the city two steps back — on housing and the climate crisis

Soraya Martinez Ferrada and Ensemble Montréal may take the city two steps back — on housing and the climate crisis.

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~Swinton @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 7d

Started reading A DARK MATTER and becoming convinced that it’s Peter Straub riffing on M John Harrison’s THE COURSE OF THE HEART — Straub collected a novella-length version under the name “The Great God Pan” in his “Poe’s Children” anthology from ‘08 — but further departures await, I’m sure.

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 6d

wrt to the electric lit interview going around, here's Farnsworth Wright's take on realism:

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Scrivener Creative Review @scrivener1980.bsky.social · 7d

In 1982, Scrivener published four original poems by Leonard Cohen. In 2025, we published them for the first time online. Read more of Cohen on our website.

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 7d

"It’s almost like Kennedy joined the fight against chronic diseases, but is on the side of the diseases."

I hope something can be done about him. Sending solidarity!

Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote about how RFK Jr is making health worse for millions of Americans. He's slashed research and healthcare, and replaced them with "hAvE yOu TrIeD YoGa?"

Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 7d

San Francisco Chronicle: 'RFK Jr. has betrayed millions of Americans like me who suffer from chronic illness'

'Like millions of Americans, I live with a virally triggered chronic illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis...'

By Effie Seiberg

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 7d

You can follow this series by subscribing to my Buttondown.

New subscribers can download an ebook of my short story, "In the Ruins of Shambhala"!

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Welcome to my monthly newsletter! Subscribe and you can download my flash story “In the Ruins of Shambhala.” Read it as an ebook or listen to Maria Avix of 600 Second Saga read it. (Just open on the l...

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 7d

You can keep up with this series and my readings and appearances by following my newsletter!

Follow and you can download a free ebook of my short story, "In the Ruins of Shambhala"!

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 7d

"The devil is in the details."

What if that was literally true? What if you could see faces in brick walls, people moving around in them, and you could open a door, and step into them?

"Details" by China Miéville may just be the story for you.

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Weird #93: “Details” by China Miéville (2002)

In which a boy delivers food to an elderly lady who sees things in walls coming closer to her

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