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Caroline Shea
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She/her. Freelance writer and editor living in New York. Author of Lambflesh (Kelsay Books, 2019). Open to editorial clients now: https://caroline-fitzgerald-shea.squarespace.com/editorial-consultations
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It's really impressive how Carolyne manages to bring all the seemingly unconnected elements of the story into one gloriously constructed whole of intricate architecture. As complicated as mankind (and feykind) itself.

by @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War - Uncanny Magazine
Kestrel House  There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement pa...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
Daniel Dawn Lewis (youngest clone)

Daniel Day Lewis (middle clone)

Daniel Dusk Lewis (oldest clone)
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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bfletcherwatson.bsky.social
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Reporter @dfriedman.bsky.social was working on a story about a top aide to Pete Hegseth. Then Pizzagate promoter Jack Posobiec threatened to write a scurrilous story about him. ow.ly/EpQp50XHpYo
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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K262.1
Devil is made sick
of his bargain.
December 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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D361.1.1
Swan Maiden finds her hidden wings
and resumes her form.
December 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
therealcshea.bsky.social
feeling fucked up and weird. time to play: Is it a.) the Inherent Rot at My Core or b.) just December
December 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Do you live in NYC? Please send a letter about supporting our public libraries to your council member today.

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City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
therealcshea.bsky.social
hell yeah
freyamarske.bsky.social Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 2d
Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙

BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 2d
We are THRILLED to announce @freyamarske.bsky.social's Bodies of Magic, a new medical dark academia featuring mages and murder coming September 16, 2026 from Tor Books!
December 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
It is still one of the greatest joys of my life that I wrote a book of poems about John Wick and that VA Press published it and let me design the cover. Sometimes I grab this off my shelf just because it gives me joy.
The cover of Every Songs a Vengeance is a collage that forms the shape of a man in a suit pointing a gun Table of Contents Think of John Wick, in the Club, about to Take More Revenge than Most Ever John Wick Watches Another Zombie Movie. 7 8 John Wick and Baba Yaga Walk Into a Bar 9 John Wick, in the Classroom, explains his Pedagogy. 10 John Wick Ends Up in a Taco Bell Wondering Where To Go Next. 11 Guns. Lots of Guns. 12 In Which We Let John Wick have a Little Coffee, as a Treat 15 John Wick Does a Crossword Puzzle, While Waiting for Revenge. 17 John Wick Plays a Song by Sufjan Stevens on the Jukebox 18 John Wick Never Books First Class 19 Portrait of John Wick as an Object. 21 John Wick Finds Shapes in Clouds. 22 Bogeyman.. 24 John Wick finds a twenty-dollar bill on a sidewalk. 25 John Wick Gets Lost in a Corn Maze Outside Reedsburg, Wisconsin. 26 I'm Thinking I'm Back. 31 John Wick as Ghost Story 33 ed in the work may hor. For Milwauke John Wick, On a Beach, After the Fall of Civilization 35 John Wick Dreams of Dogs. 37 38 If I were a monster 40 John Wick Meets Ted "Theodore" Logan Portrait of John Wick as an Astronaut John Wick Plays as John Wick in Fortnite John Wick Writes a Single Love Poem A Poem in Which John Wick Dies John Wick Tells You a Ghost Story
December 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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holy smokes, some truly incredible art work attached to my article on S&S as a Literature of the Body! Incredible stuff!
newedgeswordmag.bsky.social New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 3d
🪓Old friends drop by to visit NESS, brought to us from the pen of @samjroyale.bsky.social for an article by Eric Williams in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6 - available now! ⚔️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
A black and white illustration, cropped, of Conan and Jirel of Joiry posing in the foreground while a mysterious city sits in the background, shrouded in mist. The art is by Sam J Royale, @samjroyale.bsky.social on Bluesky. A photo of issue six of New Edge Sword & Sorcery laying on a white background, with its awesome cover by Goran Gligovic of a black, dreadlocked warrior woman bursting triumphantly from the belly of a giant snake while her pet lion watches. A caption above the magazine reads "Get great art, stories, and more in..." and below "www.newedgeswordandsorcery.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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fliglman.bsky.social
Gordon Ramsey's Small Press Nightmares
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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jael.bsky.social
trump’s executive order banning wind permits has been ruled illegal @bloomberg.com
Trump Ban on Wind Energy Projects Ruled Illegal by US Judge
Less than a year after President Donald Trump banned new wind projects, a federal judge ruled the president’s executive order was illegal.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
Me: Damn, it's cold out
Jim, the guy who got to first base with a witch: You know what it reminds me of
Me (sighs): What does it remind you of, Jim
December 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars For The Holidays
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --

private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."

www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Breaking news: Ukraine will not surrender territory, President Zelensky declared, rejecting a central Russian demand that President Trump had incorporated into his latest proposal to end the Kremlin’s war.
Zelensky rules out ceding land to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not give up territory, not to hasten peace talks, not to satisfy Washington and not under pressure from Moscow.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
Then Ged pitied her. She was like a white deer caged, like a white bird wing-clipped, like a silver ring in an old man's finger.
December 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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heksenhaus.bsky.social
zachary gillan has, in the past few years, become of our best critics and anyone with an interest and weird and horrific literature should be reading him.
megapolisomancy.bsky.social After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 4d
A few other pieces that I was hoping would publish this year - my Jeffrey Ford essay, in particular - but I guess I'll go ahead and call it and say this is my 2025 summary. Go to doomsdayer.wordpress.com and follow some links to some criticism of weird fiction. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.
2025 Good and Evil and Other Stories – Samanta Schweblin, trans. Megan McDowell – Knopf (Los Angeles Review of Books) Profane Illuminations II: On Weird Fiction by John Langan, Rebecca Campbell, and B. Catling (Ancillary Review of Books) Foreword – Uncertain Sons and Other Stories – Thomas Ha (Undertow Publications) Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism (Ancillary Review of Books) Profane Illuminations I: On Weird Fiction by Steve Rasnic Tim, Ananda Lima, and Christi Nogle (Ancillary Review of Books) Profane Illuminations: An Initiation (Ancillary Review of Books) The Profane Illumination of the Weird: Distinguishing Weird Fiction and Horror (Nightmare) Model Home – Rivers Solomon – MCD (Seize the Press) Red Skies in the Morning – Nadia Bulkin – Dim Shores (Seize the Press)
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these creatures.
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
therealcshea.bsky.social
Boosting this again as December is flying by! I published 2 stories and a poem this year that are SFF awards eligible. If you need some pre-holiday reading to help you procrastinate whatever you should be doing, I hope you'll check them out.
therealcshea.bsky.social Caroline Shea @therealcshea.bsky.social · Nov 11
I get to hop on the bandwagon this year and do an awards eligibility post! I had two poems and two short stories published this year. If you're nominating for awards, I'd appreciate your consideration. All work is SFF/speculative except for "Greyhound." Links in replies.
An image formatted like a library card lists each eligible piece by magazine, title, and genre. Pieces listed are : "Greyhound," (Stone Circle Review, Poetry, General/Non-Genre), "Argent," (Cold Signal Magazine, SFF Short Fiction), "The Interrogation of Saint Winifred," (The Deadlands, SFF/Horror Poetry), and "Something Broken, Something New," (Luna Station Quarterly, SFF Short Fiction).
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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They haven’t grown older. They’ve grown stranger instead.

from "Something Broken, Something New" by Caroline Shea

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#ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
June 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Caroline Shea Interviews John Clute and Dave Langford About The SF Encyclopedia
Caroline Shea Interviews John Clute and Dave Langford About The SF Encyclopedia
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June 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
therealcshea.bsky.social
Thanks to @saraluckelman.bsky.social for this kind review of "Something Broken, Someone New."

"...an intimate portrayal of sibling rivalry and love. It’s a strange little story; I enjoyed it."

You can read the story here: www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/062/
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM