Katharine Tyndall

The Trump regime purged one of its top generals

Fusion Fragment #27 Table of Contents “A Prescription for Suicide” by Anya Leigh Josephs: controversial pills / ethical debates / at what cost, freedom? “Digital Love Spell – 78% Effective!” by Katharine Tyndall: amoral dating apps / the ends justify the means / be careful what you wish for “Extinction” by Ross Showalter: the last Deaf person on Earth / inventory / the end remains a question “One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods (Or, Asan and the Lion)” by Ewen Ma: invisible (?) lion cub demons / authoritarianism / escaping the exorcists “Overgrowth” by Cate W. Tam: the plant apocalypse / stagnancy vs. potential / writhing towards the light “The Animal Years” by Jaye Case: language augments / the liquid ones / you are not the center “The Sum of Her Parts” by J.Y. Zhang: migrant workers / abuses of power in the doll factory / therapy

It's official: We got ourselves a release date for FF#27!

Mark those calendars for
March 23rd
and get ready for stories by Anya Leigh Josephs, @katharinetyndall.bsky.social, Ross Showalter, @ewenmaer.bsky.social, @catenotkate.bsky.social, @julialicia.bsky.social, and @jyzh.bsky.social!

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel silhouetted against the plastic seat back of a train.

#bookreview no. 5. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. A page turner. The plot was largely engaging and the threads of it were well tied together but I found the ending somehow muted. She built a beautiful and perilous world in this novel, and the horror of it is rivalled only by the beauty.

Travel Advisory: Qatar March 3, 2026 - U.S. Embassy in Qatar

"You're on your own, babe" from the US government for citizens stuck in Qatar (and other places in the region):
"Americans who wish to depart should take advantage of commercial transportation options.
"Have a plan to depart in an emergency that does not depend on U.S. government help."

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....

"I’m pretty sure technological progress is a law of nature, like gravity or death. The power loom, as we know, is inevitable, preordained by God, who works His miracles through the hands of rich and wise inventors. It’s foolish to resist it."

Basking in Glory At the booths, I’m unable to decide whether to enter II or III. I wonder if there is an expectation as to which side of a glory hole belongs to the giver and which to the receiver. I wonder if it w…

Folks, I’m very proud of this (long) new story. If you can find a spare half hour today, I’d love for you to tuck into Basking in Glory. @courtlandavenue.bsky.social was such an incredible editor to work with! FFO: glory holes, bugs fighting, Midwest sex shops

Currently explaining NASCAR to my dutch partner who is mystified

Top 5 Nottinghamian Brain-Rotte Characters:

-Gruellino Piratino
-Georgione Hamone
-Chamberpotta Apricotta
-Pinaforo Semaforo
-Bridgertony Bombaloni

🥳🥳🥳 can't wait to read everyone's work!!

Please, my vibes-based commas are all I have left

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Wow, what a fabulous lineup! So excited to read everyone's stories!

Omg, this lineup 😱 so excited to be in Adventitious Issue 2!

As someone who spent her entire adult life in Germany idek what AWP is but it seems like it's all the time

Back in McSweeney's with a tale of ye olde eckonomicke anxiety. Go give it a read!!

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....

"The new waterwheel they built to power the loom made the river undrinkable, and when the boss cut my hours in half, I couldn’t buy food anymore, which really made the whole rickets situation get out of hand. But that’s exactly the sort of time you need a laugh, right?"

Idk how people write micros. Every flash story I write is like 999 words lmao

The ancient US discovery predating the pyramids A series of millennia-old canoes are being unearthed from the bottom of a lake in Wisconsin, spurring a renewed interest in Indigenous culture.

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

I am feeling sundorlice geleornad now

The heralds of the dreaded Emo Phase!!!

Oh no 😂 is he a fan??

And Tiny Tim, who did not die, revelled in the dancing follies of Giorgione Hamone and Gruellino Piratino until the end of his days

On my Luddite historical fiction call that Hillary Dis-Mantel

Back in McSweeney's with a tale of ye olde eckonomicke anxiety. Go give it a read!!

Trump jokes he’d be ‘impeached’ if he excluded women’s hockey team from White House Both teams won gold against Canada, but it’s unclear if the women’s hockey team was invited to the State of the Union address

I hate him so much. And the whole US men's team can go f themselves for laughing and partying with fadcists. share.google/u6Snv8uo9sMW...

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

Hard not to see my new walking pad as a human hamster wheel but DAMN I can see why hamsters go for that shit

2026 Fusion Fragment Lineup Natasha Ali: “Parthenogenesis” in FF#29 Sophie Casarico: “Diet Tips for the Apocalpyse” in FF#28 Jaye Case: “The Animal Years” in FF#27 Chloe N. Clark: “The Rocket Equation” in FF#29 Corey Farrenkopf: “Grave Bells” in FF#28 Elliott Gish: “The Stone Garden” in FF#29 Louis Inglis Hall: “The Children of Cadmus” in FF#29 Claire Jia-Wen: “In the Wake of Whales” in FF#28 Anya Leigh Josephs: “A Prescription for Suicide” in FF#27 Ewen Ma: “One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods” in FF#27 Escher McDonnell-Maulsby: “Giant” in FF#29 Tuesday Pil: “u last saw hana in the mageverse” in FF#28 Sarah M. Saif: “Graftage” in FF#29 Ross Showalter: “Extinction” in FF#27 Erin Strubbe: “Birdguts” in FF#28 Cate W. Tam: “Overgrowth” in FF#27 Katharine Tyndall: “Digital Love Spell - 78% Effective!” in FF#27 Francis Van Ganson: “Iso E Super” in FF#28 Allison Wall: “Chutes, Slides, and Ladders” in FF#28 Bree Wernicke: “May It Please the Profit” in FF#29 J.Y. Zhang: “The Sum of Her Parts” in FF#27 Audrey Zhou: “(Non)Deterministic Finite Automata” in FF#28

The full FF 2026 lineup is officially set and I can't tell you how excited I am for what we've got in store for you!

We've got:
-writers making their second appearances in FF!
-writers you'll likely recognize from their work in other mags!
-writers making their debuts in SFFH short fiction land!

The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold and I am a mushroom. My gills expand, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough strands of a mycelium network. She must have transformed into spores and floated out the window with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping