It’s like the show Is It Cake? only this season you are trying to figure out if the periodical cicadas in front of you are full of a amphetamine-producing behavior-modifying fungus that produces an abdominal pudding so horrific and bizarre that it eventually eats their genitalia…

Early Bird is running out and they added some new bonus items. Worth the click through.

50 years ago today, Bill Masen woke up in the hospital to find everyone else in the world blind after a freak, green meteor shower. And walking killer plants are on the loose! The Day of the Triffids has begun!!!

Here is Victor Hugo's bench in Peter Port. He gazes pensively in the direction of his beloved France, apparently unaware of the large octopus preparing an ambush... #Guernsey

We're scurrying around here today. Want anything? 🐀🐁

Is there a doctor on the flight? Specifically a PhD in English literature? A passenger is angry about an evil character and we need someone to explain how fiction works

Episode 917 is Henry, by Phyllis Bottome. Narrated by @hawkeyemeds and hosted by @AlasdairStuart

All the details are in this thread:
twitter.com/PseudoPod_org/…

This story rules

The PseudoPod story is “Spirit Husband” by Uchechukwu Nwaka and narrated by Opie Ogundiran. Listen here:

pseudopod.org/2024/04/05/pse…

I yelped when I saw my name in the newsletter! Thank you, KC—it's so exciting to be part of such an amazing roundup of fiction!
Check out my 'sad mammoth who is a mortuary manager' story here:
hexliterary.com/?p=2123

fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories from Lindz McLeod, Uchechukwu Nwaka, P. Djèlí Clark, & lucas 🔎 procura-se livro desaparecido! check it out! 🦇⚡

Episode 918 is The Dreadful and Specific Monster of Starosibirsk, by Kristina Ten | @kristinaten on Bluesky, narrated by Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне and hosted by @AlasdairStuart

All the details are in this thread:
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you should get a certain number of “reading days” per year along with your allotted sick days, so that you can phone your boss and say “I can’t come in to work today, I’m reading in bed” and then you spend the day reading in bed

Submission Grinder users: Nonfiction listings are now supported!
They are pretty simple for now, like a fiction listing minus the genre. I expect the existing keyword search may be helpful to find markets that match a piece's topic.

FOMO alert! There are early bird specials if you jump on this now and there's some unique add-ons that will disappear fast!

cinematic in the best way, dripping with Southern heat. Emma's prose is luxurious; you can relax right into it—but don't get TOO comfortable...

pair with: Star Shapes, by Ivy Grimes, or perhaps Ink Vine, by elizabeth broadbent!

crown the witch, leo.

Happy birthday to the cinematic masterpiece The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz 💙

Episode 917 is Henry, by Phyllis Bottome. Narrated by @hawkeyemeds and hosted by @AlasdairStuart

All the details are in this thread:
twitter.com/PseudoPod_org/…

girls will be like “it’s fine” then start drawing a pentagram in blood on their floorboards