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Free Range Organic Suffering

September 19, 2024

Shortly after sending my last newsletter, I opened my front door to my landlord’s realtor informing me the owner wanted to sell the house, and I had a...

Life Is Pain, Highness

I’ve been thinking about art and punishment. That is, how we punish people for making art. There’s the more nuanced form, where we project our own...

Oh, Protestant Work Ethic, We're Really In It Now

February 25, 2024

When I was in elementary school, I had it made. I would steal bars of soap from home, carve them into crude animal shapes, and sell them to my schoolmates...

February 22, 2024

Hello! At long last, I am finalizing my migration to buttondown, and I want to make sure I bring you along. If you received this email in your inbox, you’re...

What I Did, What I Loved 2023

December 29, 2023

With any luck, this will be my last post on Substack. I am working on migrating elsewhere. However, if you unsubscribe now, I can’t take you with me. So,...

Awards Eligibility 2023

December 1, 2023

It’s December, which means people are reading for the next round of literary awards. I have three publications this year eligible for the Hugo, Nebula,...

OUT NOW: "Where the God-Knives Tread" Part 2 (finale)

October 19, 2023

Ghost planets. Lost shipwrecks. Bloody secrets.

OUT NOW: "Where the God-Knives Tread" Part 1

October 5, 2023

Ghost planets. Lost shipwrecks. Bloody secrets.

September 28, 2023

I had an entire space-themed newsletter drafted for this month, but there are more important things at hand. As of September 4th, Amazon has discontinued the...

OUT NOW: "Beasties Forever"

Two sisters stuck in a time loop seek help from the one person who could unmake them both: their mother. My story, “Beasties Forever,” is now free to read...

My Little Phonies: Friendship Is Money

I'm not good at networking. People don't believe me when I say this, because they know of me and think I'm everywhere. But I found my first tech job through...

I want my treats!

I'm not very good at celebrating my wins. I'm the type of person to withhold a reward until the work is done, then tell myself the work itself was the...

January 24, 2023

(I have a new story out! Details under Writing News.) It's the end of January, and we've seen at least three cultures herald a new year. There were...

Winding Down, Winding Up

December 27, 2022

Up until the age of nine, I was a fish; that is, I loved to swim. I took to it easily, whether splashing in a summer creek or in swimming lessons at the...

November 19, 2022

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