Tim Melody Pratt
@timpratt.org
Writer and editor. Loser of Nebula, World Fantasy, Dick, and Stoker Awards (won a Hugo tho). Been published in Best American Short Stories AND Best American Erotica. Genderfluid. Any pronouns
I publish a new story monthly at www.patreon.com/timpratt (ooh)
I publish a new story monthly at www.patreon.com/timpratt (ooh)
3,700 words, and that's a draft of "Abjure Wife," my third short story in three days!
Done with two minutes to spare even!
(I'm writing from 10 to noon, basically, but really doing four 25-minute pomodoro sessions with 5-minute breaks between, so I'm done at 11:55)
Done with two minutes to spare even!
(I'm writing from 10 to noon, basically, but really doing four 25-minute pomodoro sessions with 5-minute breaks between, so I'm done at 11:55)
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
3,700 words, and that's a draft of "Abjure Wife," my third short story in three days!
Done with two minutes to spare even!
(I'm writing from 10 to noon, basically, but really doing four 25-minute pomodoro sessions with 5-minute breaks between, so I'm done at 11:55)
Done with two minutes to spare even!
(I'm writing from 10 to noon, basically, but really doing four 25-minute pomodoro sessions with 5-minute breaks between, so I'm done at 11:55)
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
Reposted by Tim Melody Pratt
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
Was looking up something about House on Haunted Hill on IMDB and found this in the cast list and clicked on it and huh
Not very prolific, kinda typecast, long career though
Not very prolific, kinda typecast, long career though
December 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Was looking up something about House on Haunted Hill on IMDB and found this in the cast list and clicked on it and huh
Not very prolific, kinda typecast, long career though
Not very prolific, kinda typecast, long career though
3,100 words, and that's a draft of "Haunted House Makeover"! Which I might submit to magazines, or save for my Patreon for next October, not sure yet.
I won't be able to write a new story *every* day, my creative well is not infinite, but I have a couple more ideas that are ripe
I won't be able to write a new story *every* day, my creative well is not infinite, but I have a couple more ideas that are ripe
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
3,100 words, and that's a draft of "Haunted House Makeover"! Which I might submit to magazines, or save for my Patreon for next October, not sure yet.
I won't be able to write a new story *every* day, my creative well is not infinite, but I have a couple more ideas that are ripe
I won't be able to write a new story *every* day, my creative well is not infinite, but I have a couple more ideas that are ripe
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Hey writers! There's a last minute opening in the February novella workshop Wayward Wormhole, with @catrambo.bsky.social, Karen Lord, and @premeemohamed.com instructing. More info on Cat's Patreon (and in thread):
www.patreon.com/posts/144993...
www.patreon.com/posts/144993...
Last Minute Opening in Wayward Wormhole Barbados | Cat Rambo
Get more from Cat Rambo on Patreon
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December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Hey writers! There's a last minute opening in the February novella workshop Wayward Wormhole, with @catrambo.bsky.social, Karen Lord, and @premeemohamed.com instructing. More info on Cat's Patreon (and in thread):
www.patreon.com/posts/144993...
www.patreon.com/posts/144993...
Today I will once again write from ten till noon and welcome any who wish to toil virtually alongside me
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Today I will once again write from ten till noon and welcome any who wish to toil virtually alongside me
As part of my irregular series of posting holiday songs I like, have Jill Sobule’s lively cover of “Merry Christmas from the Family”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwe...
Jill Sobule "Merry Christmas from the Family"
YouTube video by reglist
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December 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM
As part of my irregular series of posting holiday songs I like, have Jill Sobule’s lively cover of “Merry Christmas from the Family”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwe...
I love this series so much
For a limited time, the preview text for ALL THE WAY, book two of my trans lesbian cheerleader series WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN, is available to all $5 and up patrons!
The final book will be available to buy in ebook and paperback later in December :)
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The final book will be available to buy in ebook and paperback later in December :)
www.patreon.com/posts/previe...
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I love this series so much
After writing, I walked four miles, did some economical holiday shopping at the bookstore where I had scads of credit, and bought a Xmas tree and wrestled it into the stand. A rich full day
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
After writing, I walked four miles, did some economical holiday shopping at the bookstore where I had scads of credit, and bought a Xmas tree and wrestled it into the stand. A rich full day
It's the first day of my full-time writer schedule and:
3,800 words, and that's a draft of "The Blitzen Party," going up on my Patreon later this month! It's a holiday horror story and I love it.
3,800 words, and that's a draft of "The Blitzen Party," going up on my Patreon later this month! It's a holiday horror story and I love it.
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It's the first day of my full-time writer schedule and:
3,800 words, and that's a draft of "The Blitzen Party," going up on my Patreon later this month! It's a holiday horror story and I love it.
3,800 words, and that's a draft of "The Blitzen Party," going up on my Patreon later this month! It's a holiday horror story and I love it.
Writing from ten to noon today. And... GO
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Writing from ten to noon today. And... GO
in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god
14. How would you describe yourself?
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god
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Reposting with Alt text (this one is too good to miss!)
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposting with Alt text (this one is too good to miss!)
Mila Kunis doing some very subtle and effective acting in the otherwise rather un-subtle Jupiter Ascending
Defend a terrible film by picking something from it that saves it.
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Mila Kunis doing some very subtle and effective acting in the otherwise rather un-subtle Jupiter Ascending
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
City and the City… Viriconium… the Sprawl Trilogy… A Year in the Linear City… Roofworld… King Rat… The City, Not Long After…
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
City and the City… Viriconium… the Sprawl Trilogy… A Year in the Linear City… Roofworld… King Rat… The City, Not Long After…
I was telling @sundew.bsky.social about the Patreon holiday story I’m writing this week and started laughing so hard I had to pause our walk to recover and then I showed her this
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I was telling @sundew.bsky.social about the Patreon holiday story I’m writing this week and started laughing so hard I had to pause our walk to recover and then I showed her this
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I named my fists Great and Gatsby because they're about to beat on
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I named my fists Great and Gatsby because they're about to beat on
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It will be Merry and Bright. It's not optional.
🦌✨❄️✨🎄✨~Happy December~✨🎄✨❄️✨🦌
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It will be Merry and Bright. It's not optional.
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BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
Anyway, this Cyber Monday, support a newly minted full-time freelancer by joining my Patreon! Get a new story every month and a decade or archives!
www.patreon.com/timpratt
www.patreon.com/timpratt
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Anyway, this Cyber Monday, support a newly minted full-time freelancer by joining my Patreon! Get a new story every month and a decade or archives!
www.patreon.com/timpratt
www.patreon.com/timpratt
I was planning to take a few weeks off. But I spent the long weekend reading, watching movies, and playing video games, and I’ve already got the itch to write
I think tomorrow I’ll start working on some short stories
It turns out, to be truly happily idle, I require the presence of a swim-up bar
I think tomorrow I’ll start working on some short stories
It turns out, to be truly happily idle, I require the presence of a swim-up bar
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I was planning to take a few weeks off. But I spent the long weekend reading, watching movies, and playing video games, and I’ve already got the itch to write
I think tomorrow I’ll start working on some short stories
It turns out, to be truly happily idle, I require the presence of a swim-up bar
I think tomorrow I’ll start working on some short stories
It turns out, to be truly happily idle, I require the presence of a swim-up bar
I woke up and…. Don’t have to go to work?!? This is so weird
My (former?!?) co-workers took me out for a lovely farewell dinner last night, and I got all fancy because I knew there’d be photos. You can never trust magazine people
My (former?!?) co-workers took me out for a lovely farewell dinner last night, and I got all fancy because I knew there’d be photos. You can never trust magazine people
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I woke up and…. Don’t have to go to work?!? This is so weird
My (former?!?) co-workers took me out for a lovely farewell dinner last night, and I got all fancy because I knew there’d be photos. You can never trust magazine people
My (former?!?) co-workers took me out for a lovely farewell dinner last night, and I got all fancy because I knew there’d be photos. You can never trust magazine people
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This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad