On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time A once-in-a-lifetime shot I'm thrilled to share with you. See the uncropped shot or get the print in the reply

It’s out!! My cursed tattoo story “A Contract of Ink and Skin” is in here alongside some of the best weird stories of 2024 (with one of my favorite covers in recent memory)! Loved Alex Woodroe's foreword and the idea of “a garden of Weird and wonder.” store.tenebrouspress.com/products/brave…

Last October, we published a sci-fi story about a future restaurant in San Francisco that serves diners cultured meats, sonic-aged drinks, and exotic GMO fruits. In April, we brought it to life. We opened a pop-up restaurant and served diners a futuristic meal from 2055. 🔻

The way Lydia Davis does this magic thing with small mirrors.

I have a new mini Q&A out with Tenebrous Press! Come read one of my weirdest Tokyo anecdotes from my grad school days. tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/6/24…

Subs open next week!

Someday I’d like to have a whole shelf of contributor copies. Huge thanks to The Deadlands for letting me add this gorgeous book to my collection and for giving my poem “The Language of Fireflies” a home. psychopomp.com/deadlands/issu…

A great, very weird (complimentary), story from worm_in_heaven. Loved this one!!

Ahhh, just saw my time traveler romance “Time Is An Ocean” was podcast on Strange Horizons! The narration is so good! I love that feeling of stepping into an old story and meeting characters you really cared about again, like seeing old friends. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/podc…

J. M. W. Turner, Sunrise

This paper is really elegant and beautiful. Researchers took a vesicle, filled it with a single type of enzyme and some protein pores, and showed that this "minimal cell," made from just three components (!!), could "actively propel itself toward an enzyme substrate gradient."

While making the second Asimov Press book, we asked CATALOG (a DNA computing company in Boston) if they could write it in DNA. And they said yes! But the encoding steps, or how the book was converted to nucleotides, wasn't obvious. Now a new paper explains it all in detail.

I'm (slowly) writing the book I've been thinking about for the last 3+ years. Nothing official yet, but I'm hoping to write a deeply mechanistic and interactive, Bartosz Ciechanowski-style book about how a single E. coli cell works. It will cover DNA, transcription, signaling,

“Bird Burning” by Spencer Nitkey appears in Issue Fifty-Four. Read the full piece via the link in our bio. 🕊️🔥