A can of Heinz Maple Style Beans
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@tigheskye
Multi-disciplinary maker of things, mostly fiction and sewing right now | Very into storytelling as a thing we humans do | https://linktr.ee/tigheskye | Tighe (pronounced TEEg) for short, TighearnΓ‘n (TEER-nin) for long | they/them π³οΈββ§οΈ
A can of Heinz Maple Style Beans
not unprompted
Maple Style Beans has the same syllables as Apple Bottom Jeans
Hell yes, my debut novella GRIEF EATER is now live on Barnes and Noble for pre-orders!
I would greatly appreciate any help in spreading the word. Thank you!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grief-eate...
@interstellarflight.bsky.social
How to write a novelette in two steps:
Step 1) Huh this 3500 word old short story is kinda weak in the middle
Step 2) wait 10,000 words??!?!?!!!!
It's The End Of The Project For Awesome!! YOu HaVE To JoIN US!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYLH...
What a good one to be forced to watch!! Idk about you but i feel like I owe a gift basket to everyone who was like 'hey for real though you should read this what are you doing' π
There's this book I KNEW I'd love. It's so completely in my wheelhouse it actually hurts. AND YET I sat in a standoff with it for SEVEN YEARS and truly madly deeply I have never felt this much of a need to apologize to a book before.
Anyway, yeah I'm digging Gideon the Ninth WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED
Her loaf form is a rare treat we cherish β¨π β¨
A short haired cat on a knit blanket, her eyes are closed in contentment and she is a perfect bread loaf
#KittyTime at #P4A, meet Leia!
Cory Doctorow talks about the 3 stages of internet enshittification.
I have a short story in @lightspeedmagazine.com next month that's basically the 4th stage, when you don't need the humans involved in there at all.
bsky.app/profile/anil...
3LBE Issue 46 cover (featuring an antlered beast, hooded being with a bloody axe, and several small creatures in the glare of a dusty sun) along with text of the quote.
βThe entire house is dark, dark dark. There is nowhere we may not be. With the curtains pulled tight and the doors swelled shut we frolic, we thrive, we swell. The empty house, a shell we have expanded to fill.β
βBelly Full of Eyesβ
by K.S. Walker
Issue 46
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
You might, uh, commemorate this event by ordering the Rosalind Franklin memorial anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories for your local library.
www.atthisarts.com/product/rosa...
As a Libro.fm acolyte, it is my duty to inform you that audio that's purchased from your favorite indie bookseller sounds better and is also more emotionally fulfilling than the same audio purchased from a megacorp that's assisting the authoritarian federal regime.
New story day!
"Phantom View" is about a son caretaking for his father, and discovering a blurry person in all their family photos that he has no memory of. The same figure is in all his dad's paintings--and the figure may be in the house with them right now.
Well, not your OWN skull β¦ not unless we make some very specific arrangements
OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
HEY YOU SHOULD GET THIS ITS GOT A LOT OF COOL WRITING AND STORIES IN IT
Including something I was editing on WHILE evacuated! So support this bundle and maybe read 'The Invisible Hand' if weird urban fantasy is your thing.
The cover for WE'RE HERE 2024. An earth-toned wild hunt tapestry with muted rainbow-y accents being looked at by a trio of rad queer people in a museum-esque framing.
We're delighted to share the cover (by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social) and announce the table of contents for WE'RE HERE: THE BEST QUEER SPECULATIVE FICTION 2024, selected by editor @rykaaoki.bsky.social and working with series editor @cypayseur.bsky.social!
www.neonhemlock.com/news/were-he...
We hope you're excited for Licenseathon 2025, starting tomorrow at Noon EST! We're excited to support the Transgender Law Center in their mission to empower and protect LGBTQIA+ people across the United States.
Watch and donate all weekend at www.licenseathon.live!
I just picked up Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus and it's intriguingggg πποΈπ₯
bookshop.org/p/books/camp...
our team's been busy this morning! we've got so much going on, and we LOVE sharing it with you!
BUT, we also can't do this without your help.
consider joining us over on Patreon?
pretty please? every patron helps π€
www.patreon.com/the_deadlands
Trans and queer voices need to be celebrated more than ever these days. What queer fiction have you been reading lately, or are you looking forward to? π
The OTHERSIDE logo with a hazy purple-tinted fairyland, painted by Gustave DorΓ©, as the background. Text: OTHERSIDE. Queer. Fantastic. Coming 2026. http://othersidespec.com, http://patreon.com/othersidespec. Background art is public domain, courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Welcome to OTHERSIDE, a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers! This October, weβll be fundraising on Kickstarter. Until then, you can join us on our Patreon! Weβll open for submissions in January 2026.
See thread for details! πͺπ‘οΈ (1/5)
A simple little going live image that says spacevalkyries plays Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and celebrates five years of streaming with the Clair Obscur key art in the center over a blue to purple gradient background with my yay emotes on the side.
I am returning to streaming today! AND it's my five year streamerversary!!
And because I'm still enamored with it, we're catching up a bit and talking about what I've been up to and playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33!
www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries
FEED US
(It has to be human and it has to be yours!)
Our submission period closes May 31st so get those short stories and poems watered, fertilized, and...cut?
We want spec that is focused on a long-term relationships. Bonus points if Canadian π
www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
Put the word out that we're back. Think of us. We open 4/20 for a short window for a print issue in the fall. We want poems, prose, art, comics & beyond. Free to submit, free to read online always, we now pay $150 + comp copies + eternal literary infamy. More prestigious than the Paris Review.
That could be very cool π
I have a pretty solid one - if/when you're collecting feel free to shoot me a message
Text says: 2024 Awards Eligibility. "On Lunar Magic and Gryphons: Sofia's Edition" - Nov 2024, Flame Tree's Moon Falling anthology. "Sending Signals" - Feb 2024, Translunar Travelers Lounge Issue 10. The background is gray with stars and white feathers surrounding the text, with a crescent moon in the top left corner.
I'm anxious about posting awards eligibility but here goes! Hi, yes I had two pieces come out in 2024 π
"Sending Signals" - @translunartl.bsky.social Issue 10
"On Lunar Magic and Gryphons: Sofia's Edition" - Flame Tree's Moon Falling anthology
π Blog post: www.spacevalkyries.com/blog/awards-... β¨
Tell me about a short story you've read recently and loved. Links appreciated.
In oneβs personal canon, what is your load bearing story?