J.A. Prentice
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social
He/they. SFWA Member. Stories published with Apex, Kaleidotrope, Big Finish, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Magazine of F&SF, Cast of Wonders, and more!
[email protected] is my work contact email.
[email protected] is my work contact email.
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New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
“Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head” is available now in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s about a homeless orphan girl who discovers she can speak to one of the severed heads mounted over the city gate.
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are the fae
open source
open source
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
are the fae
open source
open source
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After an eventful summer, Gamer Mom: The Mom Who Games is rapidly speeding toward completion. Here the characters are, all dressed up to re-enact the Franco-Prussian War for reasons which are unclear even to them. @monoapilas.bsky.social is - let me be clear - an incredibly talented artist.
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
After an eventful summer, Gamer Mom: The Mom Who Games is rapidly speeding toward completion. Here the characters are, all dressed up to re-enact the Franco-Prussian War for reasons which are unclear even to them. @monoapilas.bsky.social is - let me be clear - an incredibly talented artist.
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And here's one we made earlier! My short story, OPEN JAW (2,495w) is about identity, and the lives of other people. www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
And here's one we made earlier! My short story, OPEN JAW (2,495w) is about identity, and the lives of other people. www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...
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The foul are accumulating our back catalogs and are gonna do tragic things with them. We must be vigilant and crave the New Weird Good and celebrate when it is good or great and just be excited about the future of art and the present moment of art
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The foul are accumulating our back catalogs and are gonna do tragic things with them. We must be vigilant and crave the New Weird Good and celebrate when it is good or great and just be excited about the future of art and the present moment of art
When you add in "Little Thief and the Martyr's Head," I've had a story in Beneath Ceaseless Skies every year since Godmaker was published! (2021 me would have been amazed to know I got in even once!)
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/authors/j-a-...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/authors/j-a-...
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
When you add in "Little Thief and the Martyr's Head," I've had a story in Beneath Ceaseless Skies every year since Godmaker was published! (2021 me would have been amazed to know I got in even once!)
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/authors/j-a-...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/authors/j-a-...
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I occasionally draw swords!
If you like dark fantasy femme swords, consider hiring me to draw u a sword!
If you like dark fantasy femme swords, consider hiring me to draw u a sword!
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I occasionally draw swords!
If you like dark fantasy femme swords, consider hiring me to draw u a sword!
If you like dark fantasy femme swords, consider hiring me to draw u a sword!
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Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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Star Trek is always so relatable. I’m human and I also don’t have any money…
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Star Trek is always so relatable. I’m human and I also don’t have any money…
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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TFW you realize the alien you're insulting doesn't know what a walnut is (the line delivery by Bakula here was actually very funny)
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
TFW you realize the alien you're insulting doesn't know what a walnut is (the line delivery by Bakula here was actually very funny)
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material prosperity is kinda dependent on a livable environment
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
material prosperity is kinda dependent on a livable environment
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BCS #446 ebook is out early today at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social , behind cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #446
Issue #446 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by J.A. Prentice and Samuel Chapmanand cover art by Jereme Peabody.
weightlessbooks.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
BCS #446 ebook is out early today at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social , behind cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...
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I'm sure many people have mentioned this, but I think it needs to be mentioned again: women do not have yearbooks. Children do. Because yearbooks contain photos of high school students. Or younger.
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I'm sure many people have mentioned this, but I think it needs to be mentioned again: women do not have yearbooks. Children do. Because yearbooks contain photos of high school students. Or younger.
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This sounded familiar. It took me a while to remember, but this was similarly described in Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles by @manruss.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This sounded familiar. It took me a while to remember, but this was similarly described in Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles by @manruss.bsky.social
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On around this day in First Age 495: Tuor, guided by Voronwë, passes through the Seven Gates and reaches Gondolin. He delivers a message from Ulmo to King Turgin that the Elves should leave Gondolin. They do not.
Image: Tuor Reaches the Hidden City of Gondolin by Ted Nasmith #Tolkien #BookSky
Image: Tuor Reaches the Hidden City of Gondolin by Ted Nasmith #Tolkien #BookSky
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Really lovely story from Anita Moskát in @apexmag.bsky.social , a creative magical take as well as having emotional depths: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Liecraft
For a long time now I’d been practicing liecraft five or six times before breakfast. I’d roll over to Khao’s side of the bed and...
www.apexbookcompany.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Really lovely story from Anita Moskát in @apexmag.bsky.social , a creative magical take as well as having emotional depths: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
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Thank you so much to everyone who's shared & donated for your generosity. The fundraiser's at 82% to Archita's goal and support has slowed a lot. She'd be most grateful if people keep sharing & giving so she can reach her goal & get some security in this terrible time.
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
www.gofundme.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Thank you so much to everyone who's shared & donated for your generosity. The fundraiser's at 82% to Archita's goal and support has slowed a lot. She'd be most grateful if people keep sharing & giving so she can reach her goal & get some security in this terrible time.
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THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR won a British Fantasy Award, a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, and was nominated for the Locus Awards. It's also available in South Asia (with a slightly differently spelled title) as a paperback from @westlandbooks.bsky.social:
ICYMI; THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAAR, my British Fantasy & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winning novella about a 'boy from nowhere' coming of age in 90s/00s Calcutta, in a family that may be refugees from another reality, in a house that may be a dragons' nest, is now available in S. Asia.
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR won a British Fantasy Award, a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, and was nominated for the Locus Awards. It's also available in South Asia (with a slightly differently spelled title) as a paperback from @westlandbooks.bsky.social:
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[dying] Bruce you’re gonna be okay
I’ll avenge you dad
Don’t worry son be good for Alfred
I’m gonna dress up like a Bat, father
I … what
I’ll fight clowns for you
A lot of blood … Am I hallucinating
Instead of getting married I will practice defusing exploding mechanical penguins I love you
I’ll avenge you dad
Don’t worry son be good for Alfred
I’m gonna dress up like a Bat, father
I … what
I’ll fight clowns for you
A lot of blood … Am I hallucinating
Instead of getting married I will practice defusing exploding mechanical penguins I love you
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
[dying] Bruce you’re gonna be okay
I’ll avenge you dad
Don’t worry son be good for Alfred
I’m gonna dress up like a Bat, father
I … what
I’ll fight clowns for you
A lot of blood … Am I hallucinating
Instead of getting married I will practice defusing exploding mechanical penguins I love you
I’ll avenge you dad
Don’t worry son be good for Alfred
I’m gonna dress up like a Bat, father
I … what
I’ll fight clowns for you
A lot of blood … Am I hallucinating
Instead of getting married I will practice defusing exploding mechanical penguins I love you
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"There are no meaningful subsidies for fossil fuels"
The *direct federal* subsidies for the coal industry - so not the state stuff, not the pollution waivers, not other tax breaks, just 'the cash the federal government hands over to them' - is more than the industry pays in wages.
The *direct federal* subsidies for the coal industry - so not the state stuff, not the pollution waivers, not other tax breaks, just 'the cash the federal government hands over to them' - is more than the industry pays in wages.
KERNEN: Does the admin want to dismantle wind projects that are getting started?
WRIGHT: The track record is bad. We've spent hundreds of billions of subsidies for an energy source that's sometimes there. The main goal is to stop subsidizing. There are no meaningful subsidies for fossil fuels
WRIGHT: The track record is bad. We've spent hundreds of billions of subsidies for an energy source that's sometimes there. The main goal is to stop subsidizing. There are no meaningful subsidies for fossil fuels
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"There are no meaningful subsidies for fossil fuels"
The *direct federal* subsidies for the coal industry - so not the state stuff, not the pollution waivers, not other tax breaks, just 'the cash the federal government hands over to them' - is more than the industry pays in wages.
The *direct federal* subsidies for the coal industry - so not the state stuff, not the pollution waivers, not other tax breaks, just 'the cash the federal government hands over to them' - is more than the industry pays in wages.
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THIS ONE WAS SO GOOD
THANK YOU @asherelbein.bsky.social!!!
You can read Asher's amazing Magneto essay here:
THANK YOU @asherelbein.bsky.social!!!
You can read Asher's amazing Magneto essay here:
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
THIS ONE WAS SO GOOD
THANK YOU @asherelbein.bsky.social!!!
You can read Asher's amazing Magneto essay here:
THANK YOU @asherelbein.bsky.social!!!
You can read Asher's amazing Magneto essay here:
“Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head” is available now in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s about a homeless orphan girl who discovers she can speak to one of the severed heads mounted over the city gate.
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head” is available now in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s about a homeless orphan girl who discovers she can speak to one of the severed heads mounted over the city gate.
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New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...