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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · 10d

Welcome to October — care for a mind-bending sci-fi cocktail? I have a recipe for one in the current issue of Abyss & Apex, if so…

Mixing Your Own Apotheosis | Abyss & Apex

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Sep 12

My advice to people, as it has been since the USENET days, is simply this: Everything that can be made public on the Internet one day will be made public. Say what you want and what you feel is necessary, and remember it will be found.

Neil Mick @thornsoftristan.bsky.social · Sep 11

"Only post comments that you'd feel comfortable reading aloud in a courtroom" is a recent meme I read and a good policy in general.

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Sep 8

For the Monday morning crowd: my first-ever poetry chapbook is now available from Bottlecap Press! While Changing Lanes is a long commute, and bad weather, and eldritch horror, and moments where the sun finally comes out. 19 poems, 40 pages. Check it out!

While Changing Lanes, by Brian Hugenbruch

Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. WHILE CHANGING LANES is the story of a commute that leads through eldritch horror, the lands of the dead, skies on fire, and people who drive slowl...

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Sep 5

Happy Friday -- I have *checks notes* 19 new poems for you today.

While Changing Lanes, by Brian Hugenbruch

Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. WHILE CHANGING LANES is the story of a commute that leads through eldritch horror, the lands of the dead, skies on fire, and people who drive slowl...

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Sep 5

Reading contracts isn't the most awe-inspiring part of this work, but it is one of the most important. Please go read this thread up and down and remember that this stuff all matters, whether we're talking individual haiku or brick-sized doorstoppers.

P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · Sep 5

Get this clear: part of your job is to look out for your and your art’s best interests. And you have every right to expect fair compensation and professional conduct. If it’s not immediately there, then by God demand it. 3/5

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Aug 31

Also: two (2) new poems available just this morning in Issue 2 of SpecPoVerse! One about a life trying to begin; the other about ideas trying to live after the end.

Specpoverse

Join us in our mission to create a multicultural vision of speculative poetry.

specpoverse.org

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Aug 31

I'm a little late in posting this, but I had to dust and disinfect my promotional drum before I started the beat.

New poem today at @bfbzine.bsky.social! "Citation may be required" is blank verse, and about A.I., but don't let either of those scare you.

"Citation May Be Required" by Brian Hugenbruch

An AI society searches for harmony in the echoes of a church. By Brian Hugenbruch. Featured in Baubles From Bones: Issue 6.

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Jul 4

They may be an experiential food, where it’s less about the taste and more about the act; and they’re flavored at least in part by nostalgia.

(Can take or leave them, myself.)

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · May 16

There's a spider outside the bathroom window this morning, working on a web in the fog. It's an architectural marvel, and large enough to catch a bear. I don't know what they're procrastinating on doing, but it's working wonders.

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · May 12

What's better than one new issue of Worlds of Possibility? That would be *two* new issues. Check them out! (I'm in the one on the right, but this isn't Left Twix v. Right Twix -- they both look amazing.)

Julia Rios @omgjulia.bsky.social · May 12

At long last, the April issues (yes, plural!) of Worlds of Possibility are here! Featuring work by @the-lettersea.com, @spencerorey.bsky.social, @ayidashonibar.bsky.social, @lettie-prell.bsky.social, @keyanbowes.bsky.social and many more!

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Introducing the April 2025 Issues of Worlds of Possibility

This issue is special, as it’s actually two issues releasing at the same time!

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · May 5

My villanelle "Lesson's End" (Samjoko, Summer 2024) is a finalist for the Rhysling Short Form category! You can find it at www.samjokomagazine.com/beyond-the-d... -- it's the one in the middle.

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Apr 29

show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

Text which reads: “Note to self: Stay out of your mind!”

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Apr 27

They're not wrong. 😇

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · Apr 26

If you missed Brian Hugenbruch's "Techniques for Folding Time and Space to Fit Into Your Nightstand" last June, you should check it out today!

"The universe was a recursive heirloom; one simply can’t leave it to gather dust."

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Techniques for Folding Time and Space to Fit Into Your Nightstand - Small Wonders

She creased our second-hand Space-Time before cramming it into our rickety nightstand, next to the aspirin. It didn't fit there, but she didn't listen.

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Apr 26

Context: my cousin convinced my sister that if she watched this movie more than 200 times in a single week, the ending would change.

Reader, it did not.

Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Apr 26

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Apr 26

Dreams last night about tornadoes ripping through and narrowly missing the house. Could feel the ground shuddering and smell grass and sod falling back off the roof.

But I’m not sure why Dream Me decided that “in an open doorway in the center of the house” was a good place to take cover. 🤷‍♂️

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Mark @markw.bsky.social · Apr 25

¿TRES leches?
¿En esta economía?

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Apr 24

Share a movie scene that lives rent-free in your head.

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Apr 20

I was going to say “Exactly this,” but now I can’t remember if I saw Clue or Legend first. (Annie still wins, but Rooster only half registered.)

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Brian Hugenbruch @the-lettersea.com · Apr 12

100– though I’m hoping modern programmers just put these on their private SoundCloud* so their companies can’t take the royalties?

*or whatever the kids use these days

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · Apr 11

Thank you to all the contributors in April's #Penumbric! Vekhan Sametyaza, @swpisciotta.bsky.social, @the-lettersea.com, Denny E. Marshall, Martins Deep, Janis Butler Holm, Eric Wampler, @mynachang.bsky.social ...

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