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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Jan 7

You wondered if it would actually happen this year. IT DID! SWEET LORD JESUS IT FINALLY DID!

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2024 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest/Anthology Results Show

The North Pole just got way behind this year. Apologies! – Mgmnt. Listen here, on your favorite podcast app, or on the Podbean site. Right to it: 2024 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest Wi…

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Ryan Leslie @ryan-leslie.bsky.social · 17d

🚨🚨🚨 It's pub day for THE GARDEN OF BEFORE, the sequel and conclusion to THE BETWEEN! What a journey these books have been. Please help me spread the word and give this book a huge sendoff into the world of readers! 🚨🚨🚨@parliamentbooks.bsky.social

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · 22d

I am...or...wait...

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A Daily Postcard @apceveryday.bsky.social · 23d

Fun category: Can you still have Christmas if everything sucks?

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · 23d

I think I am singularly prepared to answer in the affirmative. All kinds of horrible shit happened in the past, and people still did Christmas. It's always been a celebration of absurdity, of making the most sacred time the WORST time of the year when everything's dying, so you throw a party.

Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · 24d

When should one begin...? Probably once one has actually tested the new posting script since the APIs all changed since last time.

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Brian K. @briank.bsky.social · 27d

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The Jazz Tome @thejazztome.info · 27d

Had to take a second and share this neat early Columbia records ad from the 11/19/1954 issue of the Hammond Times (Hammond, Indiana). #jazzsky #musicsky

A Columbia Records ad for J.W. Millikan on 449 State Street in Hammond, Indiana advertising a Rosemary Clooney record, a Walt Disney record, and Dave Brubeck's Storyville LP. At the top is an adorable Santa Claus imploring you to give the gift of Lasting Pleasure.

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hate those people. Woos and yays are acceptable. Loudly bitching about your sister in law, not so much.

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 30

This thing is just cool. The SciFi Tarot.

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm open to ideas for fun categories for the flash fiction contest this year.

And if you don't know what I'm talking about, I do this annually:

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2024 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest/Anthology Results Show

The North Pole just got way behind this year. Apologies! – Mgmnt. Listen here, on your favorite podcast app, or on the Podbean site. Right to it: 2024 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest Wi…

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 28

Soon.

Some weird Christmas shit. A pudding, crackers, snow. And a pig or a dog and a child.

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 25

Yes, there will be a story contest next year.
Yes, I normally put out the announcement by now.
No, I don't have the categories figured out.
No, I don't know the deadlines or the prizes.
Yes, you can still think of any weird Christmas/winter holiday thing, and it will still work.

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Ryan Leslie @ryan-leslie.bsky.social · Aug 16

Such a cool honor to be a guest on the ReReading Wolfe Podcast talking about The Between its sequel, The Garden of Before! Check it out and enjoy @weirdxmas.bsky.social's late night AM DJ voice. Ahhh. @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social rereadingwolfe.podbean.com/e/bonus-ryan...

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 15

Their versions of various "hits" are still the originals to me.

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 14

So it's Area X...Files? Love it.

Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 9

(I once told Jeff VandM that his stuff reminded me of someone -not HPL - and he stormed off in a huff. Luckily he'd forgotten that next time we met. Heh heh.)

Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 9

Anything she writes is worth reading. (Don't tell anyone I consider her a kind of Terri Windling, Jr... Those kind soft comparisons are always meant well, but never seem to land like you want them to, especially since to authors it suggests something derivative. Nonetheless....)

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 4

@rereadingwolfe.bsky.social , @csecooney.bsky.social

Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 4

Got to meet CSE Cooney, a protege of sort of Wolfe's while I was at GenCon. Our next author interview is therefore "in the can." She and her husband Carlos Hernandez are amazingly fun and smart.

Also, they were literally the fourth and fifth heads of Cerberus.

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 3

Truly, tho, lemme know.

Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 3

Damn, if it's really that much, I'll send you this copy. You'll enjoy it more than me. Not that I won't enjoy it. I just know you.

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 3

What!?!? My copy was $5.

Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 2

@benitocereno.bsky.social You know this one?

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · Aug 2

What's the strangest or most surreal one you've seen? I'm hunting down the unlikely and odd. ;)