Samuel M. Moss
@perfidiousscript.bsky.social
Novel: 'The Veldt Institute' (Double--Negative, 2025) https://double--negative.com/003-the-veldt-institute.html
Stories: Always Crashing, 3:AM, minor lit[s], Seize the Press
More: perfidiousscript.com
Runs @ergot.bsky.social
Photo: linktr.ee/doomstache
Stories: Always Crashing, 3:AM, minor lit[s], Seize the Press
More: perfidiousscript.com
Runs @ergot.bsky.social
Photo: linktr.ee/doomstache
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2025 recap.
This was the best year I have had for publishing, so far:
- 1 set of poems
- 4 short stories (including 1 novel excerpt and 1 flash piece)
- 1 novel
This was the best year I have had for publishing, so far:
- 1 set of poems
- 4 short stories (including 1 novel excerpt and 1 flash piece)
- 1 novel
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wondrous dreams, day or night
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
wondrous dreams, day or night
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"as the butcher measures and marks // My skin staring at Goya’s dog I discovered it was not looking up"
>>> "Missouri Pastoral: 5 Poems" by Brooke Spalding / New at AC
>>> "Missouri Pastoral: 5 Poems" by Brooke Spalding / New at AC
BROOKE SPALDING / MISSOURI PASTORAL: 5 POEMS — always crashing
PRAIRIE MADNESS [SCENE 1] mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead * mead mead mead mead * mead mead mead mead mead mead mea...
www.alwayscrashing.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"as the butcher measures and marks // My skin staring at Goya’s dog I discovered it was not looking up"
>>> "Missouri Pastoral: 5 Poems" by Brooke Spalding / New at AC
>>> "Missouri Pastoral: 5 Poems" by Brooke Spalding / New at AC
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Everything became miracles.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Everything became miracles.
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I feel like it is important to let you know that tomorrow we will be publishing a poem called "Ass-Up in the Garden [Missouri Pastoral 69]"
(It is a very good poem)
(It is a very good poem)
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I feel like it is important to let you know that tomorrow we will be publishing a poem called "Ass-Up in the Garden [Missouri Pastoral 69]"
(It is a very good poem)
(It is a very good poem)
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In honor of this year's Turkey Discourse, please enjoy this clip from Errol Morris's 1982 documentary Vernon, Florida, which if you haven't seen... hoo boy
youtu.be/I_B432x0OL8?...
youtu.be/I_B432x0OL8?...
Turkey Fever
YouTube video by JohnnyBoy0713
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November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In honor of this year's Turkey Discourse, please enjoy this clip from Errol Morris's 1982 documentary Vernon, Florida, which if you haven't seen... hoo boy
youtu.be/I_B432x0OL8?...
youtu.be/I_B432x0OL8?...
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Hello everyone here is my favorite story of mine I have ever published www.drabblecast.org/2024/10/28/d...
Drabblecast 495 – Jared Chapel’s The First Car Ballet
Lights! Wheels! Wipers! Curtain! This week, a marvel of machines and carbureted choreography awaits you. Kay Vaindal (she/her) is a coastal ecologist and weird fiction writer. Her work has appeare…
www.drabblecast.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Hello everyone here is my favorite story of mine I have ever published www.drabblecast.org/2024/10/28/d...
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New #WriterBeware blog post: Among the most frequent publisher complaints I receive: non-payment of royalties and failure to provide sales reports. A look at three recent offenders, who collectively owe thousands that it seems unlikely authors will be able to recoup writerbeware.blog/2025/11/21/r...
Royalties in Arrears: Mango Publishing / Blushing Books / Bottlecap Press - Writer Beware
Publishers do a lot of bad things (as the archives of this blog attest), but among the most infuriating–and, often, the hardest to remedy–is the failure to pay authors the money they are due. Non-paym...
writerbeware.blog
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New #WriterBeware blog post: Among the most frequent publisher complaints I receive: non-payment of royalties and failure to provide sales reports. A look at three recent offenders, who collectively owe thousands that it seems unlikely authors will be able to recoup writerbeware.blog/2025/11/21/r...
Many thanks to @sd-stewart.bsky.social for putting down some (very astute and kind) thoughts on 'The Veldt Institute' and to HFR for hosting!
My review of Sam Moss's debut novel The Veldt Institute is up at Heavy Feather Review:
heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/11/20/t...
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heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/11/20/t...
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Fiction Review: S. D. Stewart Reads Samuel M. Moss’ Novel The Veldt Institute
“Of course, the Veldt Institute is not commonly known—likely no one outside the Veldt Institute is aware of its existence—but it is clear that those who arrive do so at the exact time that is best …
heavyfeatherreview.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Many thanks to @sd-stewart.bsky.social for putting down some (very astute and kind) thoughts on 'The Veldt Institute' and to HFR for hosting!
Clocked in this morning to find that corporate put a new motivational poster on my rock.
Shows a big smiling face framed by shaggy hair, says 'Sisyphus is happy, why aren't you?'
Shows a big smiling face framed by shaggy hair, says 'Sisyphus is happy, why aren't you?'
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Clocked in this morning to find that corporate put a new motivational poster on my rock.
Shows a big smiling face framed by shaggy hair, says 'Sisyphus is happy, why aren't you?'
Shows a big smiling face framed by shaggy hair, says 'Sisyphus is happy, why aren't you?'
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🙃
@minorliteratures.bsky.social will open for fiction submissions December 1st
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🙃
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Sometimes I see a description or an image of a book, movie, etc., and it produces an immediate powerful and beautiful idea of what it might be like, and then I read or see the real thing and, however good it is, I feel disappointed that I've diminished or lost my original idea of it
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Sometimes I see a description or an image of a book, movie, etc., and it produces an immediate powerful and beautiful idea of what it might be like, and then I read or see the real thing and, however good it is, I feel disappointed that I've diminished or lost my original idea of it
What is the name of the phenomenon where all the open awards/prizes/residencies et c. that you see are those that you are NOT eligible for, and the ones that you ARE eligible for always seem to be closed?
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
What is the name of the phenomenon where all the open awards/prizes/residencies et c. that you see are those that you are NOT eligible for, and the ones that you ARE eligible for always seem to be closed?
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the secret to writing is writing, follow for more tips
June 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
the secret to writing is writing, follow for more tips
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A couple of brash and velvety ones up in the latest (really stacked) issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com — hope you’ll check them out (there’s two links, see)
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
Of the Lovers | Issue 33
By Addison Zeller — "They are first seen, despite the general darkness, close to the window, from which they draw back prudently, it is to be supposed, in a slow lateral glide along the surface of the...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A couple of brash and velvety ones up in the latest (really stacked) issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com — hope you’ll check them out (there’s two links, see)
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
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Cat is out of the bag.
All proceeds go to paying contributors.
All proceeds go to paying contributors.
One of my all-time favorite fiction venues (@ergot.bsky.social) is selling merch, y'all!
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November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Cat is out of the bag.
All proceeds go to paying contributors.
All proceeds go to paying contributors.
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Tuesday, a quoteday:
Here is a quote from protag Jane in my upcoming novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out Feb 2026:
Here is a quote from protag Jane in my upcoming novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out Feb 2026:
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Tuesday, a quoteday:
Here is a quote from protag Jane in my upcoming novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out Feb 2026:
Here is a quote from protag Jane in my upcoming novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out Feb 2026:
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The simple truth is that to solve climate change we need to abolish fossil fuel use. Nature-based solutions, carbon removal, and geoengineering are all false promises based on allowing the continued production of fossil fuels for profit. They will not work unless that production ends.
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The simple truth is that to solve climate change we need to abolish fossil fuel use. Nature-based solutions, carbon removal, and geoengineering are all false promises based on allowing the continued production of fossil fuels for profit. They will not work unless that production ends.
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I am, as always, taking suggestions and heads ups and etc from publishers and authors and unassociated but interested parties.
An ongoing thread of short story collections coming in 2026, of work weird/surreal/dark/uncanny/unsettling/ghostly/ghastly, across genres, so that they're all in one place that I can refer back to when I inevitably forget what books I was meaning to request review copies of:
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I am, as always, taking suggestions and heads ups and etc from publishers and authors and unassociated but interested parties.
*Joining the Zoom Call*
Oop! Sorry for the delay folks.
Had to wipe the smirk off me shirt!
Oop! Sorry for the delay folks.
Had to wipe the smirk off me shirt!
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
*Joining the Zoom Call*
Oop! Sorry for the delay folks.
Had to wipe the smirk off me shirt!
Oop! Sorry for the delay folks.
Had to wipe the smirk off me shirt!
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This might be something of an extreme take but we’re going to have to destroy the television news programs
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
This might be something of an extreme take but we’re going to have to destroy the television news programs
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Call me cynical, but the fact that fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber the actual delegates at COP30 doesn’t inspire much confidence that anything meaningful will happen there.
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Call me cynical, but the fact that fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber the actual delegates at COP30 doesn’t inspire much confidence that anything meaningful will happen there.