Wm Henry Morris
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gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him
[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
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Wm Henry Morris
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· Oct 7
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
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No story collection is worth buying for just one story, and I’m definitely not suggesting mine is.
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
bigger rivers, bigger cities
December 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
bigger rivers, bigger cities
I graduated from SF State in 2002. “Tenure density” (what a term) was lower than would be ideal even back then given the mandate of the CSU system, which was not only to provide degree/training to build CA’s professional-level workforce but also to provide tenured employment to UC/CSU PhD graduates.
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I graduated from SF State in 2002. “Tenure density” (what a term) was lower than would be ideal even back then given the mandate of the CSU system, which was not only to provide degree/training to build CA’s professional-level workforce but also to provide tenured employment to UC/CSU PhD graduates.
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“You are here because we let death ride the night,” the Host said.
“Yes,” Dagard replied. “I will make no secret of that—nor have I been asked to, although, I am, I will admit, a rather low-level representative of the Ministry.”
(from Death, Full Clamor)
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
“Yes,” Dagard replied. “I will make no secret of that—nor have I been asked to, although, I am, I will admit, a rather low-level representative of the Ministry.”
(from Death, Full Clamor)
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
wmhenrymorris.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“You are here because we let death ride the night,” the Host said.
“Yes,” Dagard replied. “I will make no secret of that—nor have I been asked to, although, I am, I will admit, a rather low-level representative of the Ministry.”
(from Death, Full Clamor)
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
“Yes,” Dagard replied. “I will make no secret of that—nor have I been asked to, although, I am, I will admit, a rather low-level representative of the Ministry.”
(from Death, Full Clamor)
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
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The fragmentary > the complete
December 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The fragmentary > the complete
Dear publishers and awards bodies: please feed our cravings.
I think it also might be to do with the fact that I've been really enjoying the litfic-SF borderland niche, but have been much less successful at finding the fantasy equivalent of that. There's something I'm clearly craving here that exists in that border (probably character work, let's be real).
December 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Dear publishers and awards bodies: please feed our cravings.
“You are here because we let death ride the night,” the Host said.
“Yes,” Dagard replied. “I will make no secret of that—nor have I been asked to, although, I am, I will admit, a rather low-level representative of the Ministry.”
(from Death, Full Clamor)
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
“Yes,” Dagard replied. “I will make no secret of that—nor have I been asked to, although, I am, I will admit, a rather low-level representative of the Ministry.”
(from Death, Full Clamor)
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
wmhenrymorris.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“You are here because we let death ride the night,” the Host said.
“Yes,” Dagard replied. “I will make no secret of that—nor have I been asked to, although, I am, I will admit, a rather low-level representative of the Ministry.”
(from Death, Full Clamor)
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
“Yes,” Dagard replied. “I will make no secret of that—nor have I been asked to, although, I am, I will admit, a rather low-level representative of the Ministry.”
(from Death, Full Clamor)
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
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Finished it in less than an hour.
It’s, as expected, many universes in 41 squat* pages
*the book is not normal size—it’s maybe 4x5?
It’s, as expected, many universes in 41 squat* pages
*the book is not normal size—it’s maybe 4x5?
December 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Finished it in less than an hour.
It’s, as expected, many universes in 41 squat* pages
*the book is not normal size—it’s maybe 4x5?
It’s, as expected, many universes in 41 squat* pages
*the book is not normal size—it’s maybe 4x5?
Finished it in less than an hour.
It’s, as expected, many universes in 41 squat* pages
*the book is not normal size—it’s maybe 4x5?
It’s, as expected, many universes in 41 squat* pages
*the book is not normal size—it’s maybe 4x5?
December 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Finished it in less than an hour.
It’s, as expected, many universes in 41 squat* pages
*the book is not normal size—it’s maybe 4x5?
It’s, as expected, many universes in 41 squat* pages
*the book is not normal size—it’s maybe 4x5?
The Gladmania continues in the Morris household:
December 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The Gladmania continues in the Morris household:
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The whole thread, but this especially. Please. Just value translation. It is creative work, especially if it's literary translation. It can be incredibly hard and challenging work. It is deeply rewarding work. It deserves to be valued and cherished.
So anyway I don't have a right answer there but just
*throws up hands*
Please value translation more? This shit is so difficult (end)
*throws up hands*
Please value translation more? This shit is so difficult (end)
December 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The whole thread, but this especially. Please. Just value translation. It is creative work, especially if it's literary translation. It can be incredibly hard and challenging work. It is deeply rewarding work. It deserves to be valued and cherished.
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IS IT PROOFREADING?
December 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
IS IT PROOFREADING?
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_I am a philosopher howler. My ideas, if ideas they are, bark; they explain nothing, they explode_
(from Cioran's notebooks: dustyhope.com/translation/...)
(from Cioran's notebooks: dustyhope.com/translation/...)
Emil Cioran Notebooks: Years 1957 + 1958 – DUSTY HOPE
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December 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
_I am a philosopher howler. My ideas, if ideas they are, bark; they explain nothing, they explode_
(from Cioran's notebooks: dustyhope.com/translation/...)
(from Cioran's notebooks: dustyhope.com/translation/...)
_I am a philosopher howler. My ideas, if ideas they are, bark; they explain nothing, they explode_
(from Cioran's notebooks: dustyhope.com/translation/...)
(from Cioran's notebooks: dustyhope.com/translation/...)
Emil Cioran Notebooks: Years 1957 + 1958 – DUSTY HOPE
dustyhope.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
_I am a philosopher howler. My ideas, if ideas they are, bark; they explain nothing, they explode_
(from Cioran's notebooks: dustyhope.com/translation/...)
(from Cioran's notebooks: dustyhope.com/translation/...)
I read the first three Ravicka books in November, and they broke then reshaped my brain in the best ways.
Holiday review reading break to catch up on some Dorothy Project oddities
December 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I read the first three Ravicka books in November, and they broke then reshaped my brain in the best ways.
Did deciding my ancestral ties to London meant it was a good idea to become a fan of Tottenham bring me happiness & fulfillment?
No, not really.
But it did bring me into contact with fans who I feel a kinship with even though I don't know them.
(make sure you also check the replies/quotes)
No, not really.
But it did bring me into contact with fans who I feel a kinship with even though I don't know them.
(make sure you also check the replies/quotes)
My thoughts regarding Tottenham Hotspur Football Club at this time.
December 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Did deciding my ancestral ties to London meant it was a good idea to become a fan of Tottenham bring me happiness & fulfillment?
No, not really.
But it did bring me into contact with fans who I feel a kinship with even though I don't know them.
(make sure you also check the replies/quotes)
No, not really.
But it did bring me into contact with fans who I feel a kinship with even though I don't know them.
(make sure you also check the replies/quotes)
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On leaving academia:
The second best thing that happened to me in college was taking a class senior year in Censorship in Romania and meeting the grad student who I soon realized would be (rightfully) getting the one position I was aiming for with a Ph.D. in comp lit.
The second best thing that happened to me in college was taking a class senior year in Censorship in Romania and meeting the grad student who I soon realized would be (rightfully) getting the one position I was aiming for with a Ph.D. in comp lit.
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
On leaving academia:
The second best thing that happened to me in college was taking a class senior year in Censorship in Romania and meeting the grad student who I soon realized would be (rightfully) getting the one position I was aiming for with a Ph.D. in comp lit.
The second best thing that happened to me in college was taking a class senior year in Censorship in Romania and meeting the grad student who I soon realized would be (rightfully) getting the one position I was aiming for with a Ph.D. in comp lit.
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It’s Midwinter’s Eve, and the Walker is abroad. This night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.
December 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It’s Midwinter’s Eve, and the Walker is abroad. This night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.
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I grew up in an era of “colour capitalism”. Back then, everything was designed to catch the eye. To be as vibrant, vivid, and distinct as possible.
We’re now in a time of “monochrome capitalism”. Beiges and greys reign supreme. Everything must appeal to everyone. It’s indifferent to individuality.
We’re now in a time of “monochrome capitalism”. Beiges and greys reign supreme. Everything must appeal to everyone. It’s indifferent to individuality.
December 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I grew up in an era of “colour capitalism”. Back then, everything was designed to catch the eye. To be as vibrant, vivid, and distinct as possible.
We’re now in a time of “monochrome capitalism”. Beiges and greys reign supreme. Everything must appeal to everyone. It’s indifferent to individuality.
We’re now in a time of “monochrome capitalism”. Beiges and greys reign supreme. Everything must appeal to everyone. It’s indifferent to individuality.
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This is something I've begun to come to in my own thinking, realizing that I'd focused too much of my sense of American academia on the generation of academics before me. (People I could talk to who told many tales of The Market.) Aaron has crystallized it here better than I ever could.
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is something I've begun to come to in my own thinking, realizing that I'd focused too much of my sense of American academia on the generation of academics before me. (People I could talk to who told many tales of The Market.) Aaron has crystallized it here better than I ever could.
here is my awards eligibility post:
buy stuff artists make, esp. if they offer it direct
read/watch/listen outside your normal genres/comfort zones
use your local library
tell people whose work you admire that you enjoy their work
buy stuff artists make, esp. if they offer it direct
read/watch/listen outside your normal genres/comfort zones
use your local library
tell people whose work you admire that you enjoy their work
December 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
here is my awards eligibility post:
buy stuff artists make, esp. if they offer it direct
read/watch/listen outside your normal genres/comfort zones
use your local library
tell people whose work you admire that you enjoy their work
buy stuff artists make, esp. if they offer it direct
read/watch/listen outside your normal genres/comfort zones
use your local library
tell people whose work you admire that you enjoy their work
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I've been following the "annual pleasures" roundups on the Aqueduct Press blog since they started, almost twenty years ago now (!!!), so it was a treat to be asked to contribute an entry this year: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt.9: Niall Harrison
The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing and Listening in 2025 by Niall Harrison When I sat down to think about the pleasures I gained ...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I've been following the "annual pleasures" roundups on the Aqueduct Press blog since they started, almost twenty years ago now (!!!), so it was a treat to be asked to contribute an entry this year: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Same!
And I’m worried that the AI demand for RAM and GPUs sucking up all the chips and causing prices to skyrocket is going to kill off Microcenter and other consumer-facing computer parts retailers that serve the build your own PC market.
And I’m worried that the AI demand for RAM and GPUs sucking up all the chips and causing prices to skyrocket is going to kill off Microcenter and other consumer-facing computer parts retailers that serve the build your own PC market.
I miss Radio Shack.
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Same!
And I’m worried that the AI demand for RAM and GPUs sucking up all the chips and causing prices to skyrocket is going to kill off Microcenter and other consumer-facing computer parts retailers that serve the build your own PC market.
And I’m worried that the AI demand for RAM and GPUs sucking up all the chips and causing prices to skyrocket is going to kill off Microcenter and other consumer-facing computer parts retailers that serve the build your own PC market.
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Yeah, I feel that.
Alas, it seems like for every one of us who walked away from these shitheads there are ten who made them their whole personality.
Alas, it seems like for every one of us who walked away from these shitheads there are ten who made them their whole personality.
Thinking about all the guys who were cool or at least tolerable in the '90s because that's all you could find, but who are now absolutely noxious. Dan Savage, Quentin Tarantino, most of the skeptic movement and standup comedians, your bootleg Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2 hookup
I somehow missed that Dan Savage was on Bluesky now. If you missed the memo, consider this your reminder that Dan Savage is a racist transphobe who has allied himself with Jesse Singal (!) and written racist screeds attacking Black people while dismissing the racism of white gays.
December 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Yeah, I feel that.
Alas, it seems like for every one of us who walked away from these shitheads there are ten who made them their whole personality.
Alas, it seems like for every one of us who walked away from these shitheads there are ten who made them their whole personality.
On leaving academia:
The second best thing that happened to me in college was taking a class senior year in Censorship in Romania and meeting the grad student who I soon realized would be (rightfully) getting the one position I was aiming for with a Ph.D. in comp lit.
The second best thing that happened to me in college was taking a class senior year in Censorship in Romania and meeting the grad student who I soon realized would be (rightfully) getting the one position I was aiming for with a Ph.D. in comp lit.
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
On leaving academia:
The second best thing that happened to me in college was taking a class senior year in Censorship in Romania and meeting the grad student who I soon realized would be (rightfully) getting the one position I was aiming for with a Ph.D. in comp lit.
The second best thing that happened to me in college was taking a class senior year in Censorship in Romania and meeting the grad student who I soon realized would be (rightfully) getting the one position I was aiming for with a Ph.D. in comp lit.
The turn from sentence one to sentence two says everything that needs to be said about the state of literature today.
Wondering if anyone would be willing to blurb this post. It isn't a long read!
December 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The turn from sentence one to sentence two says everything that needs to be said about the state of literature today.