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Writer, editor, art publisher. My strange little stories have appeared in Cleaver Magazine, Philadelphia Stories, Hobart, Daily Science Fiction, 365 Tomorrows, and other places.

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Contributor Spotlight: David Updike - Sequestrum “Blood Locusts” by  David L. Updike appeared in Issue 45 and can be found here. We’d love to hear more about this story. Our culture is steeped in conspiracy theories—black helicopters, FEMA camps, mi...

Hey, here’s a brief Q&A with yours truly in the current issue of Sequestrum Magazine, which includes my dystopian story “Blood Locusts”! If anything, seems more plausible now than it did a few years ago when I wrote it. sequestrum.org/contributor-...

06.03.2026 21:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Any thoughts on morbidly obese commanders-in-chief?

30.09.2025 15:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

11.06.2025 15:16 👍 6725 🔁 1756 💬 53 📌 36

It was a horrifyingly stupid decision, and those of us in Philly remember it well

13.05.2025 13:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mars is as dead as Elon Musk’s soul.

10.05.2025 11:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not the main point here, but the fact that someone who goes by the name “Retard Finder” can’t spell big words is a major self-own.

02.05.2025 11:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Holy fuck

25.04.2025 14:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t forget that she stopped to say a little prayer on the way to deliver this vitriolic nonsense.

15.04.2025 17:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump has this uncanny valley thing going on with his head lately and I'm a bit fixated on it. I mean, look at this. This is like a sweet potato in your cabinet went bad, got moldy, and suddenly announced it had a trade policy.

09.04.2025 00:01 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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08.04.2025 12:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ready to rally in Philly

05.04.2025 15:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is the coffin for the kids who die unnecessarily from preventable diseases?

31.03.2025 16:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I grew up in Pennsylvania, and I have to say that the only place I’ve ever seen this creature mentioned is in that book by Borges.

29.03.2025 17:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bravo

28.03.2025 11:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

25.03.2025 21:00 👍 36271 🔁 6090 💬 443 📌 220

Stop electing Republicans. Problem solved.

25.03.2025 16:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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24.03.2025 18:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s here! My story “Council Rock” is out in Chicago Quarterly Review, vol. 41, available now from booksellers. Big thanks to editor Elizabeth McKenzie and the other good folks at ChicagoQuarterlyReview.com. I'm truly honored to be in such great company!

18.03.2025 23:41 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Tell your colleague Fetterman to wake TF up!

13.03.2025 17:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Announcing the Spring 2025 issue of the CQR! Featuring work by: Genevieve Abravanel * Alison Braid-Fernandez * Christine Byrne * Roger Camp * William Virgil Davis * Sarah Dunphy-Lelii * Dawn Dupler * Brian Ellis * Julie Esther Fisher * Patty …

Very pleased to announce that my story “Council Rock” is out in the latest issue of Chicago Quarterly Review! Three teens, some weed, and an abandoned quarry. What could go wrong? www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com/2025/03/11/a...

13.03.2025 15:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just called Fetterman’s Philadelphia office, 215-241-1090

12.03.2025 15:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He neither drives nor uses a computer

12.03.2025 01:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nowadays we’d just say “Weed Dispensary This Way”

09.03.2025 12:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The algorithm “does its own research”

09.03.2025 12:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And then the bears moved in.”

09.03.2025 12:41 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I, for one, welcome our ursine overlords

08.03.2025 12:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let me guess, that polio vaccine he received in 1955 finally caught up with him?

08.03.2025 12:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if you want a vision of the future, imagine a cartoonist pounding his head against the desk, forever

07.03.2025 00:53 👍 114 🔁 11 💬 8 📌 0

That’s very quotable

07.03.2025 01:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nice example of Photoshop as well

06.03.2025 19:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0