Kit MacAllister
@kittrick.bsky.social
Portland based writer of speculative and literary fiction. Short story coming in The Pinch Journal, Spring '26. 🌲 📖 🌑
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Kit MacAllister
@kittrick.bsky.social
· Dec 10
Thrilled to announce that my short story, Horn of Plenty, will appear in the spring issue of The Pinch Journal. Look for more info in March, when you can pick up a copy of your own!
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Psst. Looks like Strange Horizons will be open to submissions for 48 hours starting on Jan 19th, 3pm UTC.
January 7, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Psst. Looks like Strange Horizons will be open to submissions for 48 hours starting on Jan 19th, 3pm UTC.
One of my favorite sci-fi tropes is the space-faring society that's so advanced that they've forgotten where earth is, or even that there once was an origin planet. It's like a reverse Atlantis.
January 7, 2026 at 2:48 AM
One of my favorite sci-fi tropes is the space-faring society that's so advanced that they've forgotten where earth is, or even that there once was an origin planet. It's like a reverse Atlantis.
I'm reading William Gibson's Burning Chrome and watching Arcane Season 2 at the same time and it's rewiring my brain.
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I'm reading William Gibson's Burning Chrome and watching Arcane Season 2 at the same time and it's rewiring my brain.
I just finished Calvino's Invisible Cities and I loved it SO MUCH. Fabulism isn't for everyone, but Calvino does it so well: gorgeous language, vivid imagery. I'd recommend this to readers who enjoy the surreal and who don't need a lot of plot to pull them through if the language is good.
December 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I just finished Calvino's Invisible Cities and I loved it SO MUCH. Fabulism isn't for everyone, but Calvino does it so well: gorgeous language, vivid imagery. I'd recommend this to readers who enjoy the surreal and who don't need a lot of plot to pull them through if the language is good.
For you, on this fine day, my favorite Christmas story: On a Winter's Night, by Kate DiCamillo.
December 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
For you, on this fine day, my favorite Christmas story: On a Winter's Night, by Kate DiCamillo.
A nice article on POV from Alexander Steele of Gotham Writers.
www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/arti...
www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/arti...
Faculty Article: Stop Using the First Person!
Next time you start writing a work of fiction, stop (or at least pause) before you type out that fateful word “I.” Why? The...
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December 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A nice article on POV from Alexander Steele of Gotham Writers.
www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/arti...
www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/arti...
Sometimes writing is just driving around street-view in Google Maps until you find your protagonist's house.
December 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Sometimes writing is just driving around street-view in Google Maps until you find your protagonist's house.
Finally watching season 2 of Arcane and I forgot how gorgeous every single frame of this show is.
December 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Finally watching season 2 of Arcane and I forgot how gorgeous every single frame of this show is.
From now on, I shall refer to my son as, "The Townsfolk."
The Townsfolk woke in the middle of the night, screaming about monsters.
I spent the next thirty minutes assuring The Townsfolk that monsters are entirely imaginary.
"What about gorillas?" The Townsfolk said?
The Townsfolk woke in the middle of the night, screaming about monsters.
I spent the next thirty minutes assuring The Townsfolk that monsters are entirely imaginary.
"What about gorillas?" The Townsfolk said?
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
From now on, I shall refer to my son as, "The Townsfolk."
The Townsfolk woke in the middle of the night, screaming about monsters.
I spent the next thirty minutes assuring The Townsfolk that monsters are entirely imaginary.
"What about gorillas?" The Townsfolk said?
The Townsfolk woke in the middle of the night, screaming about monsters.
I spent the next thirty minutes assuring The Townsfolk that monsters are entirely imaginary.
"What about gorillas?" The Townsfolk said?
Wow, I have officially been working on my novel for over 7 years. Surreal. I'm finally on draft three, and it's feeling really good. It's so nice to feel excited to write, for the writing to feel easy. I'm focusing on act 1 for now. We'll see how things go when I get into the weeds of act 3 again.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Wow, I have officially been working on my novel for over 7 years. Surreal. I'm finally on draft three, and it's feeling really good. It's so nice to feel excited to write, for the writing to feel easy. I'm focusing on act 1 for now. We'll see how things go when I get into the weeds of act 3 again.
Just finished Tidal Lock by Lindsay Hill, a gorgeous prose poem novel. I've never read anything like it. If you are into poetry and enjoy liminal spaces and metaphors that cut like a razor, give it a shot. I don't think people read outside their comfort zone enough!
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Just finished Tidal Lock by Lindsay Hill, a gorgeous prose poem novel. I've never read anything like it. If you are into poetry and enjoy liminal spaces and metaphors that cut like a razor, give it a shot. I don't think people read outside their comfort zone enough!
“Tenth of December”
“Wasn’t overcoming this feeling of fear what truly distinguished the brave?”
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December 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Thrilled to announce that my short story, Horn of Plenty, will appear in the spring issue of The Pinch Journal. Look for more info in March, when you can pick up a copy of your own!
@pinchjournal.bsky.social
@pinchjournal.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Thrilled to announce that my short story, Horn of Plenty, will appear in the spring issue of The Pinch Journal. Look for more info in March, when you can pick up a copy of your own!
@pinchjournal.bsky.social
@pinchjournal.bsky.social
A great holiday gift for the writer in your life: author photos! Nobody wants to self promote.
December 4, 2025 at 5:39 AM
A great holiday gift for the writer in your life: author photos! Nobody wants to self promote.
Found several back issues of The Missouri Review and AGNI in a little free library; a different library, mind you, than the one in which I found Fowler's Modern English Usage. I just love how literary my community is.
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Found several back issues of The Missouri Review and AGNI in a little free library; a different library, mind you, than the one in which I found Fowler's Modern English Usage. I just love how literary my community is.
This is too good.
Cormac McCarthy's The Mall
Cormac McCarthy's The Mall
Cormac McCarthy’s The Mall
If only there was not cause, thought the man, for the boy to accompany him here. To this place of commerce. But as the woman reminded him two hours...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is too good.
Cormac McCarthy's The Mall
Cormac McCarthy's The Mall
I have vague publishing news!
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I have vague publishing news!
If you've ever wondered how people find the time to write, this is how.
My Truck Desk by Bud Smith
October 29, 2025 – “Now that I had my Truck Desk, that vehicle was my very own rolling cubicle.”
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November 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
If you've ever wondered how people find the time to write, this is how.
Thank the deep ones for my beta readers, without whom, I would literally turn into a pile of ash.
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Thank the deep ones for my beta readers, without whom, I would literally turn into a pile of ash.
Notes to my arch nemesis:
"This antecedent to this pronoun is unclear, you buffoon!"
"You head hop in this paragraph a pogo-stick, you sniveling wretch!"
"If I had a quarter for every adverb on this page, I'd have nine quarters, you profligate wastrel!"
Oh wait, that's me. That's notes to myself.
"This antecedent to this pronoun is unclear, you buffoon!"
"You head hop in this paragraph a pogo-stick, you sniveling wretch!"
"If I had a quarter for every adverb on this page, I'd have nine quarters, you profligate wastrel!"
Oh wait, that's me. That's notes to myself.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Notes to my arch nemesis:
"This antecedent to this pronoun is unclear, you buffoon!"
"You head hop in this paragraph a pogo-stick, you sniveling wretch!"
"If I had a quarter for every adverb on this page, I'd have nine quarters, you profligate wastrel!"
Oh wait, that's me. That's notes to myself.
"This antecedent to this pronoun is unclear, you buffoon!"
"You head hop in this paragraph a pogo-stick, you sniveling wretch!"
"If I had a quarter for every adverb on this page, I'd have nine quarters, you profligate wastrel!"
Oh wait, that's me. That's notes to myself.
If you like SF short fiction, I highly recommend Planet Scumm. The issue I'm reading now is joyfully bizarre, pulpy, and creative as hell. Really, a gem of a magazine.
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If you like SF short fiction, I highly recommend Planet Scumm. The issue I'm reading now is joyfully bizarre, pulpy, and creative as hell. Really, a gem of a magazine.
Reposted by Kit MacAllister
this story is legitimately a master class in flash fiction; it will blow your mind
Award season is upon us once more! If you like reading for these things, I'd love you to check out "Five Views of the Planet Tartarus", my 549-word sci-horror piece that has been described as "WTF" and "holy shit"
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five...
Five Views of the Planet Tartarus - Lightspeed Magazine
Once a decade, a titanium-nosed shuttle plows through the rings of the planet Tartarus with a new batch of prisoners destined for the Orpheus Factory. The debris that makes up the rings is so thick th...
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November 15, 2024 at 1:39 PM
this story is legitimately a master class in flash fiction; it will blow your mind
The new story is now off to beta readers, who are, without question, the best people on the planet. ❤️
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The new story is now off to beta readers, who are, without question, the best people on the planet. ❤️
Y'all. I finally read This is How You Lose the Time War, and it was so freaking good. What I learned 🧵
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Y'all. I finally read This is How You Lose the Time War, and it was so freaking good. What I learned 🧵