Jess
@jesswriting.bsky.social
Fantasy, science fiction, and horror writer. TTRPG writer. Working on a novel. Tries too hard. Reads too much. Probably dressed weird.
S&M's
change one letter, ruin a candy.
Peppermint Potty
Peppermint Potty
change one letter, ruin a candy.
Knickers
Knickers
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
S&M's
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Had the thought that the deluge of AI slop is likely to lead to a resurgence in human editors whose job is to review and recommend content.
Which would be HILARIOUS.
Which would be HILARIOUS.
October 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Had the thought that the deluge of AI slop is likely to lead to a resurgence in human editors whose job is to review and recommend content.
Which would be HILARIOUS.
Which would be HILARIOUS.
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A FINAL ROUND of Kickstarter add-ons are here! 🔮🌙
Grab an ebook from author @aijiang.bsky.social or a critique and SIGNED COPY from @ivygrimes.bsky.social, author of Violet Lichen's upcoming folk horror THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR. Available only on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Grab an ebook from author @aijiang.bsky.social or a critique and SIGNED COPY from @ivygrimes.bsky.social, author of Violet Lichen's upcoming folk horror THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR. Available only on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A FINAL ROUND of Kickstarter add-ons are here! 🔮🌙
Grab an ebook from author @aijiang.bsky.social or a critique and SIGNED COPY from @ivygrimes.bsky.social, author of Violet Lichen's upcoming folk horror THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR. Available only on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Grab an ebook from author @aijiang.bsky.social or a critique and SIGNED COPY from @ivygrimes.bsky.social, author of Violet Lichen's upcoming folk horror THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR. Available only on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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What environmental issues give nightmares to horror writers? Bestsellers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stephen Graham Jones, and Elizabeth Hand shared their fears. https://therevelator.org/horror-writers-environmental-scare/
The Ask: What Environmental Issues Give Nightmares to Horror Writers? • The Revelator
Who needs zombies and serial killers when you have global warming, the extinction crisis and other environmental horrors?
therevelator.org
October 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
What environmental issues give nightmares to horror writers? Bestsellers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stephen Graham Jones, and Elizabeth Hand shared their fears. https://therevelator.org/horror-writers-environmental-scare/
Apoca-lapse (noun): When you stop thinking about how the world is going to hell for a few minutes.
October 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Apoca-lapse (noun): When you stop thinking about how the world is going to hell for a few minutes.
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"They grow on the trees with wings like white petals and shining green halos like the portraits of saints that hang beside her bed." 🌼⛪
Announcing the First Place winner of our FLORA - FAUNA - FUNGI microfiction contest: "Angels in the Forest" by @jesswriting.bsky.social! 🌟
Announcing the First Place winner of our FLORA - FAUNA - FUNGI microfiction contest: "Angels in the Forest" by @jesswriting.bsky.social! 🌟
ECO24 Microfiction Contest - First Place! - "Angels in the Forest" by
In honor of Violet Lichen's upcoming collection, ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, out on November 18th, we hosted a microfiction contest inviting you to draw inspiration from our natural...
www.apexbookcompany.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"They grow on the trees with wings like white petals and shining green halos like the portraits of saints that hang beside her bed." 🌼⛪
Announcing the First Place winner of our FLORA - FAUNA - FUNGI microfiction contest: "Angels in the Forest" by @jesswriting.bsky.social! 🌟
Announcing the First Place winner of our FLORA - FAUNA - FUNGI microfiction contest: "Angels in the Forest" by @jesswriting.bsky.social! 🌟
My story, "Angels in the Forest," won first place in @apexmag.bsky.social and Violet Lichen Press' ECO24 microfiction contest. I'm very excited to see it published. www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
ECO24 Microfiction Contest - First Place! - "Angels in the Forest" by
In honor of Violet Lichen's upcoming collection, ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, out on November 18th, we hosted a microfiction contest inviting you to draw inspiration from our natural...
www.apexbookcompany.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My story, "Angels in the Forest," won first place in @apexmag.bsky.social and Violet Lichen Press' ECO24 microfiction contest. I'm very excited to see it published. www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
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The "Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet" aspect of this REALLY speaks to me. Like, this man just needed to let a map POUR out of him and used whatever piece of paper was closest.
The first Silmarillion map. Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet.
October 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The "Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet" aspect of this REALLY speaks to me. Like, this man just needed to let a map POUR out of him and used whatever piece of paper was closest.
I am loving the trend in publishing right now where they spray the edges of the books in pretty colors. I see a book with sprayed edges and a little voice in my head goes "my precious..."
October 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I am loving the trend in publishing right now where they spray the edges of the books in pretty colors. I see a book with sprayed edges and a little voice in my head goes "my precious..."
I recently discovered that a library in Wisconsin used a short story of mine that @apexmag.bsky.social published years ago for their short story book club. And they paired me up with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Probably the best compliment I've ever recieved. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
September 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I recently discovered that a library in Wisconsin used a short story of mine that @apexmag.bsky.social published years ago for their short story book club. And they paired me up with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Probably the best compliment I've ever recieved. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
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I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration
September 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration
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It's been more than six months since I first came across this short by @catvalente.bsky.social, but I also find myself thinking about it again since reading her latest.
August 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It's been more than six months since I first came across this short by @catvalente.bsky.social, but I also find myself thinking about it again since reading her latest.
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This flash is so packed with emotion. A metaphor for what we judge as worthy of saving and what we think should be let go. But every small thing counts and everything adds up. In the end we might end up much lonelier than we thought.
by Will McMahon in @lightspeedmagazine.com
This flash is so packed with emotion. A metaphor for what we judge as worthy of saving and what we think should be let go. But every small thing counts and everything adds up. In the end we might end up much lonelier than we thought.
by Will McMahon in @lightspeedmagazine.com
Fragments of a Symbiotic Life - Lightspeed Magazine
I was born normal enough, except that I was four days late, which isn’t so much, and slightly jaundiced, which isn’t unusual, and had a raccoon for an arm, which is admittedly strange. It wasn’t my wh...
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March 7, 2024 at 10:19 PM
😭😭😭
This flash is so packed with emotion. A metaphor for what we judge as worthy of saving and what we think should be let go. But every small thing counts and everything adds up. In the end we might end up much lonelier than we thought.
by Will McMahon in @lightspeedmagazine.com
This flash is so packed with emotion. A metaphor for what we judge as worthy of saving and what we think should be let go. But every small thing counts and everything adds up. In the end we might end up much lonelier than we thought.
by Will McMahon in @lightspeedmagazine.com
I just read "Through the Machine," a story about actors becoming commodities in the world of AI from @lightspeedmagazine.com. It made me think about writers. When people ask AI to write a story in the style of ____, the writer isn't going to get royalties. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
Through the Machine - Lightspeed Magazine
“Steve, over here! Turn to your right. Can we get a smile?” He falls back on his training easily enough, turns to the cameras, gives them his famous crooked smile, tilts his head just so as the flashe...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I just read "Through the Machine," a story about actors becoming commodities in the world of AI from @lightspeedmagazine.com. It made me think about writers. When people ask AI to write a story in the style of ____, the writer isn't going to get royalties. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
Descendent by @aliettedebodard.com is about as woman called to become a dragon -- about leaving the ones you love behind and what it means to be left behind. I lost my dad a few years ago and this story resonated beautifully. It meant a lot to me. frictionlit.org/descendant/
Descendant - F(r)iction
Aliette de Bodard's short story Descendant explores one person's unique connection to the ocean, and it's undeniable pull in F(r)iction.
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August 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Descendent by @aliettedebodard.com is about as woman called to become a dragon -- about leaving the ones you love behind and what it means to be left behind. I lost my dad a few years ago and this story resonated beautifully. It meant a lot to me. frictionlit.org/descendant/
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I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years.
So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
July 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years.
So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
"seven ribbons" by @bethgoder.bsky.social from @apexmag.bsky.social is about sisterhood, rebellion and borders: their power, their arbitrariness, and how the way we think about borders shapes us. Beautiful story and very inportant right now. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
seven ribbons
seven ribbons
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July 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"seven ribbons" by @bethgoder.bsky.social from @apexmag.bsky.social is about sisterhood, rebellion and borders: their power, their arbitrariness, and how the way we think about borders shapes us. Beautiful story and very inportant right now. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Spec fiction is full of retellings of timeless classic tales. "When He Calls Your Name" by @catvalente.bsky.social from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social breaks the mold by choosing a much more modern source. It's beautiful, thoughtful, and very clever. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
When He Calls Your Name - Uncanny Magazine
There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...
www.uncannymagazine.com
July 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Spec fiction is full of retellings of timeless classic tales. "When He Calls Your Name" by @catvalente.bsky.social from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social breaks the mold by choosing a much more modern source. It's beautiful, thoughtful, and very clever. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
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June 18, 2025
June 18, 2025 (Wednesday)
Tomorrow is the federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, the celebration of the announcement in Texas on June 19th, 1865, that enslaved Americans were free.
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June 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
June 18, 2025
I recently read "By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars" by @premeemohamed.com from @strangehorizons.bsky.social. The story uses magic and mentorship to talk about creative burnout. As someone whose burnout cost me, for a couple years, the creative spark that keeps me writing, this story means a lot.
June 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I recently read "By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars" by @premeemohamed.com from @strangehorizons.bsky.social. The story uses magic and mentorship to talk about creative burnout. As someone whose burnout cost me, for a couple years, the creative spark that keeps me writing, this story means a lot.
Phoebe and I are watching Leverage: Redemption together. Look at this magnificent floof.
May 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Phoebe and I are watching Leverage: Redemption together. Look at this magnificent floof.
I need a to-do list that hunts me down with the ruthless tenacity of the Duolingo owl.
April 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I need a to-do list that hunts me down with the ruthless tenacity of the Duolingo owl.
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Thank you.
👋 Sorry, but they’re still extinct. #NHMLAC experts weigh in on why dire wolves have not, in fact, been successfully cloned, and the surprising perils of de-extinction: bit.ly/SryDrWlvs
April 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thank you.
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Mallory, a Luther College student (biology / anthropology) made this amazing nod to the white rabbits in the Southern Reach novels.
April 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Mallory, a Luther College student (biology / anthropology) made this amazing nod to the white rabbits in the Southern Reach novels.
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Really enjoyed "Red, Scuttle When the Ships Come Down" by @wenyilee.bsky.social over at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. Really well written, well told story that unfolds perfectly.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/red-...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/red-...
Red, Scuttle When the Ships Come Down - Uncanny Magazine
Content note: Ableism and racism The British plucked us from our prisons and sailed us here, this jungle island in the Nanyang with their treasure striated into the bedrock. More precious than gold,...
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April 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Really enjoyed "Red, Scuttle When the Ships Come Down" by @wenyilee.bsky.social over at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. Really well written, well told story that unfolds perfectly.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/red-...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/red-...