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Rex Burrows

@improbablerex.bsky.social

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Writer, biologist, various other things. Stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Weird Horror Magazine, Supernatural Tales, Horror Library, etc. RexBurrows.com

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · Feb 8

Here's a thread listing all of my published stories. I've noted the ones that are available to read for free, but please consider supporting these (across the board excellent) magazines, anthologies, etc. And thank you for reading! Here we go...

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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Monday (if you're into that sort of thing). Start it off right with some short fiction. "Tongue-Tied" by Shelley Lavigne is FREE to read on the CHM website.

https://bit.ly/491CT2b

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 17h

Happy release day to @gemmafiles.bsky.social and LITTLE HORN, a new collection of 14 stories and novelettes!

Each story features an accompanying full-page illustration by the author.

Out today in hardcover, paperback, and ebook!
shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/litt...

The cover of Little Horn (title spelling out in bound sticks and twigs), flanked by the words "Out Today!" on both sides.

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 2d

“Hopeless and crushing, absolutely perfect” nicely separates horror genre devotees from dilettantes.

Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll sheepishly admit that I just watched this one for the first time. I’m forgiving a few (really distracting) editing flubs because of the awesomely bleak ending that slams shut plot holes like the lid of a coffin.

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 2d

It’s almost always the author telling you “here’s where I’m gonna do some weird shit.”

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 2d

What people don’t understand about gutting disability rights is that even if you think it doesn’t affect you today it can one day.

Today, it’s Special Education.

Tomorrow, it’ll be the Americans with Disabilities Act.

1 in 4 people 20 years old today will become disabled before they retire.

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, hello

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komodathrax66.bsky.social @komodathrax66.bsky.social · 2d

Last year I decided that I needed to draw Biollante more often.
A few minutes later, this is a start, at least!

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 2d

Any book chapters titled “Interlude” are automatically my favorite parts of books.

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 2d

important news! night shades will open for submissions again this coming friday october 17.

🛸 staying open to fill the calendar, 23 spots. all the details are here : www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

Submissions

Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is opening October 17, 2025. Staying open until the calendar is full through April. There ar...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 3d

I often miss when a book I've read as an ARC is finally released. Feel free to bombard us when your book comes out!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 3d

Outside. Would recommend.

Path through a forest crossing a small creek.

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 5d

Coffee n’ Chthonic Matter

Fall 2025 issue of Chthonic Matter Quarterly and a cup of coffee.

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 5d

Coffee n’ Chthonic Matter

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI, we're open to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds for this entire month!

We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and other folks whose voices must be heard!

www.havenspec.com/submit/

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 6d

Oh whoa, nice. UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (@undertow.bsky.social) is on New York Public Library's list of 2025 best adult horror. Many thanks to NYPL!

Best New Horror of 2025 for Adults

Our expert horror committee read more than 150 titles published since last Halloween to select their 20 favorites. There's something for everyone here—whether you're looking for jeepers, creepers, sca...

www.nypl.org

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 7d

My Weird Horror 11 story is now available to read online:

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 8d

New story up at Weird Horror. @jackklausner.bsky.social's chilling "We Didn't Used to Be Like This." It's sublime.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/we-didnt-use...

Screen grab of page from weirdhorrormagazine.com showing the story, title and front cover. Black text on ochre nackgrounb

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 8d

New story up at Weird Horror. @jackklausner.bsky.social's chilling "We Didn't Used to Be Like This." It's sublime.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/we-didnt-use...

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats! Looking forward to it!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8d

The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8d

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 9d

A screaming comes across the sky. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 11d

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 12d

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 10d

It is the spooky month, and we have a spooky cover for our spooky October issue! @elizabeth-space.bsky.social's art perfectly complemented our issue's stories and poems. Get your copy of Issue 28 or sign up for a subscription at our store! store.smallwondersma...

Cover for Issue 28 (October 2025) of Small Wonders magazine. The painting, by Elizaveta Nazarova, shows a bedroom in grayscale, with a focus on one end of the bed. Eyes glow in the dark under the bed, and two clawed hands reach out into the room. The authors and poets in the issue are Montanna Rayne Harling, S.M. Hallow, Gordon Brown, Rebecca E. Treasure, Amanda Mitzel, Stacie Turner, Rachel Gutin, Casey Aimer, and Karl G. Dandenell. Editors are Stephen Granade and Cislyn Smith.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 11d

We need to stop viewing our age as exceptional. People (including scientists) have been passionately wrong about the natural world for at least the history of the western world. As long as inquiry persists error gets corrected. What we need to advocate is continuing inquiry with minimum quackery.

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

www.nytimes.com

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