Graham (Gray) Scott
@graythebruce.bsky.social
PhD. Professor of English. Pushcart nom. BSF noms (x2). Stories in Pithead Chapel, Maudlin House, HAD, Barrelhouse, Necessary Fiction, JMWW, others. Large Language Human.
For now at https://hemicyon.wordpress.com/
For now at https://hemicyon.wordpress.com/
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Honoured to have my weird wee flash appear in this great publication. Thx to Tobias and all the Minor Lits team. If you need a story containing shape-shifting couriers and paramedic cats, scroll no further, my friends. 🛋🚪🩺
ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...
— new fiction from @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social
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— @yanisiqbal.bsky.social on The Kills' Tape Song
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— new fiction from @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2026/02/03/t...
— @yanisiqbal.bsky.social on The Kills' Tape Song
minorliteratures.com/2026/02/05/y...
You Have Got to Go Straight Ahead: The Aesthetics of Insistence in The Kills’ “Tape Song” — Yanis Iqbal
In The Kills’ “Tape Song,” there is enjoyment, but enjoyment of a peculiar kind, enjoyment that doesn’t come from aiming at enjoyment, but enjoyment that is simply picked up, assumed along the way,…
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February 8, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Honoured to have my weird wee flash appear in this great publication. Thx to Tobias and all the Minor Lits team. If you need a story containing shape-shifting couriers and paramedic cats, scroll no further, my friends. 🛋🚪🩺
A bunch of former WP news staff should start a new publication called Ex Post Facto.
February 5, 2026 at 6:21 PM
A bunch of former WP news staff should start a new publication called Ex Post Facto.
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Reminder you can really help us out by pre-ordering our 2026 titles.
Thank you!
Weird Horror #12 (Shipping March)
Weird Horror #13 (Shipping August)
Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 (Shipping November)
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Thank you!
Weird Horror #12 (Shipping March)
Weird Horror #13 (Shipping August)
Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 (Shipping November)
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2026 Pre-Order Bundle — Undertow Publications
Pre-order all 3 of our 2026 titles: Weird Horror #12 (Shipping March) Weird Horror #13 (Shipping August) Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 (Shipping November)
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February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Reminder you can really help us out by pre-ordering our 2026 titles.
Thank you!
Weird Horror #12 (Shipping March)
Weird Horror #13 (Shipping August)
Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 (Shipping November)
undertowpublications.com/shop/2026-pr...
Thank you!
Weird Horror #12 (Shipping March)
Weird Horror #13 (Shipping August)
Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 (Shipping November)
undertowpublications.com/shop/2026-pr...
Loved the first installment. Just pre-ordered the next.
THE OTHER cover reveal! The second book in @annieneugebauer.bsky.social's The Outsiders Sequence, out June 9th in paperback and eBook. Pre-orders are available now everywhere books are sold.
Cover design by @alandistro.bsky.social
More info and shop links:
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Cover design by @alandistro.bsky.social
More info and shop links:
shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/the-...
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Loved the first installment. Just pre-ordered the next.
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You can also buy the entire issue for just three bucks, or get a subscription, or get their "Best of Year One" here:
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Small Wonders Magazine
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February 4, 2026 at 10:17 PM
You can also buy the entire issue for just three bucks, or get a subscription, or get their "Best of Year One" here:
store.smallwondersmag.com
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Heads up: for anyone who stopped by to chat with us at the book fair this weekend, if you're feeling poorly you may want to test for Covid and/or stay away from vulnerable friends and family. I tested positive this morning. So far it's stuffy nose/head, sneezing, fever, and quite painful body aches.
February 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Heads up: for anyone who stopped by to chat with us at the book fair this weekend, if you're feeling poorly you may want to test for Covid and/or stay away from vulnerable friends and family. I tested positive this morning. So far it's stuffy nose/head, sneezing, fever, and quite painful body aches.
I have long admired Niamh's voice. Immersive, rich, dark, and poetic. And Peor is a great micro story. I can see why it was selected.
I'm honoured to have had my little piece selected for Best Microfiction, thanks so much to the judges, and to Editor Laura Black at the great Fictive Dream to have published it! 🤩
Thrilled that Peor es Nada by @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social has been selected for Best Microfiction 2026. Congratulations to Niamh and thank you to judge @dseuss.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social. If you missed it the first time, please follow the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/08/p...
January 29, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I have long admired Niamh's voice. Immersive, rich, dark, and poetic. And Peor is a great micro story. I can see why it was selected.
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Copies of The Faery Handbag by @kellylink.bsky.social, with three full-color plates by one of our favorite artists, Rovina Cai, are en route from Conversation Tree Press to our warehouse. Our quantities are very limited. Preorder: subterraneanpress.com/newscopies-o...
Copies of THE FAERY HANDBAG by Kelly Link Shipping Soon
Copies of The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link, with three full-color plates by one of our favorite artists, Rovina Cai, are en route to our warehouse.
Our quantities are very limited.
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The Faery Handba...
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January 29, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Copies of The Faery Handbag by @kellylink.bsky.social, with three full-color plates by one of our favorite artists, Rovina Cai, are en route from Conversation Tree Press to our warehouse. Our quantities are very limited. Preorder: subterraneanpress.com/newscopies-o...
I felt this one. Cool hook and premise with very tight worldbuilding. It also nails how I've been feeling lately, a feeling for which I cannot think of an appropriate label.
This wasn’t a case of my imagination running wild. Wasn’t a case of brains fried, tripping out on futures past. This was real, goddamnit. Whatever it was.
WELCOME TO YOUR FUTURE by @badguybirnie.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/Birnie_Future
WELCOME TO YOUR FUTURE by @badguybirnie.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/Birnie_Future
January 29, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I felt this one. Cool hook and premise with very tight worldbuilding. It also nails how I've been feeling lately, a feeling for which I cannot think of an appropriate label.
Love the braiding here and the build up to the final image.
Flash Fiction: Laika by Sydney Koeplin
I think about how the technicians kissed Laika’s wet nose before closing the hatch. How she trusted them, and they killed her anyway.
I think about how the technicians kissed Laika’s wet nose before closing the hatch. How she trusted them, and they killed her anyway.
Flash Fiction: Laika by Sydney Koeplin
I think about how the technicians kissed Laika’s wet nose before closing the hatch. How she trusted them, and they killed her anyway.
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January 28, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Love the braiding here and the build up to the final image.
I took a year off from submitting stories and only started up again around November. Just got my first acceptance since then, and it's from a mag I've been trying to get into for years. So that feels good.
January 26, 2026 at 11:27 PM
I took a year off from submitting stories and only started up again around November. Just got my first acceptance since then, and it's from a mag I've been trying to get into for years. So that feels good.
At my job, digital authentication now has as many steps as Alcoholics Anonymous.
January 21, 2026 at 7:09 PM
At my job, digital authentication now has as many steps as Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Learn to tell the diff between Art tutorials/advice that actually improve your skills vs ones that declaratively say you're "doing this wrong" & kill your style
Your weird quirk that's not "technically correct" may be what gives your art its unique style.
How boring if everyone made "perfect" art
Your weird quirk that's not "technically correct" may be what gives your art its unique style.
How boring if everyone made "perfect" art
January 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Learn to tell the diff between Art tutorials/advice that actually improve your skills vs ones that declaratively say you're "doing this wrong" & kill your style
Your weird quirk that's not "technically correct" may be what gives your art its unique style.
How boring if everyone made "perfect" art
Your weird quirk that's not "technically correct" may be what gives your art its unique style.
How boring if everyone made "perfect" art
Fascinating review of recent scholarship on King James VI and I.
‘James loved language and rhetoric. He could swear like a sailor, but coined new words – Anglican, anorexia, Highlander – and is quoted more than 650 times in the 𝘖𝘌𝘋.’
@alicehunt.bsky.social on James VI and I.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@alicehunt.bsky.social on James VI and I.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alice Hunt · Out of Rehab: Two Kings or One?
Above all, Jackson presents James as a ‘king of words’. No king before or since has written so thoughtfully about...
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January 10, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Fascinating review of recent scholarship on King James VI and I.
LOL. Okay then. <cracks knuckles>
You know how people hang marketing materials, like laminated cardstock, from front door knobs? On rubber bands?
After a long, bad day I got home to one and yanked on it to pull it off. Instead, I created a whip.
It shot under my glasses and lacerated my eyeball.
You know how people hang marketing materials, like laminated cardstock, from front door knobs? On rubber bands?
After a long, bad day I got home to one and yanked on it to pull it off. Instead, I created a whip.
It shot under my glasses and lacerated my eyeball.
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
😅
😅
January 5, 2026 at 10:27 PM
LOL. Okay then. <cracks knuckles>
You know how people hang marketing materials, like laminated cardstock, from front door knobs? On rubber bands?
After a long, bad day I got home to one and yanked on it to pull it off. Instead, I created a whip.
It shot under my glasses and lacerated my eyeball.
You know how people hang marketing materials, like laminated cardstock, from front door knobs? On rubber bands?
After a long, bad day I got home to one and yanked on it to pull it off. Instead, I created a whip.
It shot under my glasses and lacerated my eyeball.
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F) For the love of all that is good and holy stop wondering if your idea is any good! That way lies madness. Your idea, whatever it is, will live or die by its execution. Commit to your idea. Eat and drink your idea. Play with it, have fun with it.
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
F) For the love of all that is good and holy stop wondering if your idea is any good! That way lies madness. Your idea, whatever it is, will live or die by its execution. Commit to your idea. Eat and drink your idea. Play with it, have fun with it.
Excellent story -- and an excellent storyteller.
I have my coffee
December 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Excellent story -- and an excellent storyteller.
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December 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Seeing a lot of hot takes about that open letter on AI that make it clear the person either is so worked up about the issue that they cannot read clearly, they didn't read it at all, or they used AI to badly summarize the argument. There are points worth debating in there, but if you don't read it
December 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Seeing a lot of hot takes about that open letter on AI that make it clear the person either is so worked up about the issue that they cannot read clearly, they didn't read it at all, or they used AI to badly summarize the argument. There are points worth debating in there, but if you don't read it
A message always worth reposting. Scam ops are endemic because con artists know would-be authors are an easy source of income.
If you look at the folks who say what Ness says here, they're always experienced, published authors who make no money off of you by saying it. Listen to them.
If you look at the folks who say what Ness says here, they're always experienced, published authors who make no money off of you by saying it. Listen to them.
"But this agent says this is how it works these days -"
NO.
NO.
Ok, since this has come up four times in the last three days:
REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY.
IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.
REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY.
IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.
December 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A message always worth reposting. Scam ops are endemic because con artists know would-be authors are an easy source of income.
If you look at the folks who say what Ness says here, they're always experienced, published authors who make no money off of you by saying it. Listen to them.
If you look at the folks who say what Ness says here, they're always experienced, published authors who make no money off of you by saying it. Listen to them.
DMs #1-#111 on YouTube: "I've been DMing for over 20 years, and--"
Me, who started in 1978:
Me, who started in 1978:
a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on
Alt: Matt Damon rapidly ages in a GIF from Saving Private Ryan
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December 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
DMs #1-#111 on YouTube: "I've been DMing for over 20 years, and--"
Me, who started in 1978:
Me, who started in 1978:
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SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
December 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
Nearly anything involving grammar.
Context: I'm a writing professor. People don't realize how destructive over-emphasis on grammar can be. We have meta-analytic studies on this. If you hold too many rules in your head consciously, you have almost no cognitive load left to process your ideas.
Context: I'm a writing professor. People don't realize how destructive over-emphasis on grammar can be. We have meta-analytic studies on this. If you hold too many rules in your head consciously, you have almost no cognitive load left to process your ideas.
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Nearly anything involving grammar.
Context: I'm a writing professor. People don't realize how destructive over-emphasis on grammar can be. We have meta-analytic studies on this. If you hold too many rules in your head consciously, you have almost no cognitive load left to process your ideas.
Context: I'm a writing professor. People don't realize how destructive over-emphasis on grammar can be. We have meta-analytic studies on this. If you hold too many rules in your head consciously, you have almost no cognitive load left to process your ideas.
Ah. "Aura farming" is youngspeak for sprezzatura. Got it.
December 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Ah. "Aura farming" is youngspeak for sprezzatura. Got it.
Saw the "violence" viewer-discretion tag at the start of yesterday's installment of PLURIBUS and wondered what the heck that could be about, given the show's whole premise. Now that I understand it, I'm not sure I was sufficiently warned. First "violence" in a long time that got me to flinch.
December 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Saw the "violence" viewer-discretion tag at the start of yesterday's installment of PLURIBUS and wondered what the heck that could be about, given the show's whole premise. Now that I understand it, I'm not sure I was sufficiently warned. First "violence" in a long time that got me to flinch.