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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 25m

Thank you so much Ruthanna - means a lot coming from you, really happy you connected with it.

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Ruthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social · 3h

This is an excellent, angry, queer-as-hell ghost story. Go read it.

Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 21h

This freshly-hatched horror story has possibly my favorite title of any story I've ever written. I give you....

"Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead"

Free to read, at @nightmare-magazine.com !!

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/cour...

Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead - Nightmare Magazine

Honey, the spirits are here with us tonight and they are deeply disappointed. [audience laughter] Momma, do you not own a mirror? Did you think you looked cute when you walked out of your house tonigh...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 17h

oh wowwww Nino thank you so much!!!!

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 19h

You gotta. You just gotta.

Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 21h

This freshly-hatched horror story has possibly my favorite title of any story I've ever written. I give you....

"Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead"

Free to read, at @nightmare-magazine.com !!

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/cour...

Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead - Nightmare Magazine

Honey, the spirits are here with us tonight and they are deeply disappointed. [audience laughter] Momma, do you not own a mirror? Did you think you looked cute when you walked out of your house tonigh...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 19h

Do you need something gorgeous this morning????

Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 21h

This freshly-hatched horror story has possibly my favorite title of any story I've ever written. I give you....

"Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead"

Free to read, at @nightmare-magazine.com !!

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/cour...

Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead - Nightmare Magazine

Honey, the spirits are here with us tonight and they are deeply disappointed. [audience laughter] Momma, do you not own a mirror? Did you think you looked cute when you walked out of your house tonigh...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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V. Astor Solomon @howsweetthewords.bsky.social · 2d

It's my birthday!

And, becasue I'm me, I now want to write more tiny stories after catching up with ones I owed. So yes, let's do this thing.

Leave me a prompt of some kind and get a tiny story in exchange.

(Optional themes: trick or treat, or secrets and confessions)

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Lara Elena Donnelly @larazontally.bsky.social · 1d

Have we mentioned if we hit the Kickstarter goal for WITCH OF PRAGUE, we'll open pre-orders for our second book? According to @courtneymilan.com, @zenaldehyde.bsky.social's THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO is "Poignant, beautiful, and incredibly meaningful."

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

The Witch of Prague, from Homeward Books!

Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.

www.kickstarter.com

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Sarah Loch (she/her) @sloch.bsky.social · 22h

My friend Penelope Wren has a new book out! I'm a little biased because I made the cover, but I think it looks pretty good! If you like:
- Witches
- Vampires
- Why choose
- Librarians

You might want to check it out! Free to read for KU: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS74B261

Marked by fangs
Scarred by blood
Claimed by herself
A book cover for Bitten and Burned by Penelope Wren; red roses on a green background. A silver pendant with a red stone on a silver chain is intertwined with the title text.

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 21h

This freshly-hatched horror story has possibly my favorite title of any story I've ever written. I give you....

"Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead"

Free to read, at @nightmare-magazine.com !!

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/cour...

Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead - Nightmare Magazine

Honey, the spirits are here with us tonight and they are deeply disappointed. [audience laughter] Momma, do you not own a mirror? Did you think you looked cute when you walked out of your house tonigh...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 1d

If you need some excitement from a different dimension (instead of ours), check out these new titles we received in the mail! #TheSovereign #Apprehension #RedStarHustle #Moonflow

@hachettelibrary
@clclark
@sentencebender
#MaryRobinetteKowal
@bitterkarella
@hachettelibrary

#LocusMagazine

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 2d

Yayyyyyyy congratulations!!!!

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 2d

Crying right now. This is my first ever award, and I am so honored. <3

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social's WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Short Story
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

2025 Winner Outstanding Short Story: WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ by Caroline M. Yoachim

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 4d

I can enjoy the ambient stuff, it is v pleasant and atmospheric, but yeah "sort of just there" is a v apt description

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, and I made peace with that, and knew it would be its own thing, I just hoped it could achieve a similar level of synthesis with the visuals and storytelling, which it did not.

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 4d

Eh, this felt enough like NIN's ambient / instrumental albums that they could definitely have fucked it up all on their own.

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 4d

I'm a Nine Inch Nails fan, so the thing I was *most* excited for in TRON:ARES was the score. And honestly? It was okay. It wasn't great. It wasn't anywhere near as good as the TRON:LEGACY score. Didn't make me feel anything. Didn't have a single melody; just loops. Probably fun to work out to tho.

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 5d

I have a lot of complaints about TRON: ARES, but my primary one is that Jodie Turner-Smith should have played the title character.

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 5d

That's a great one

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 5d

One hundred trillion percent

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 5d

Very very well said

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 5d

Hard same on Bradbury. The Golden Age Guys have some awesome ideas and mostly can handle pacing and plot… but they have no ear for human speech, no sense of poetry, and very little interest in people who aren’t white dudes. It’s permissible when you’re a kid. As an adult, it’s hard to stick with.

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 5d

That's super helpful, thank you.

Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 5d

I can roll with a fair degree of sentimental breathlessness; I suppose slop is in the eye of the beholder. I've been meaning to read Cordwainer Smith for a while; where do you think is the best place to start?

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 5d

Oh, hello, @sentencebender.bsky.social and I are in here! www.grimdarkmagazine.com/grimdark-mag... There's an interview, plus a review in Issue #44 of @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social.

Cover of Issue #44 of Grimdark Magazine, with a many-tentacled monster emerging from the sea with a red laser eye.

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Brian Anderson @bganderson.bsky.social · 5d

One of my favorite Bradbury quotes, from "Zen in the Art of Writing," is: "We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 5d

So I dug deeper into why, with input from @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social @bbolander.bsky.social

Big big gratitude to them for sharing their awesome insights.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/why-do-we-st...

why do we still like Ray Bradbury?

Greetings, fellow undercover artists embedded in the apocalypse! It's a funny business, connecting with other covert operatives across time and space. Tracking what holds true and what changes. What ...

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