Moving, and a new story
My move back to Canada is well underway; so far it's consisted largely of calling up various utility and service providers and informing them that no, they cannot persuade me to stay, not even if they give me a special discount, as their service is not available at my new address (across the fucking ocean).
Anyway, this newsletter's schedule may slip a bit while I get everything sorted.
New Flash Fiction: "Witching Hour"
If Sebastian hadn’t woken up yet, it was probably safe for Jay to check his phone. But as he reached toward the bedside table where he’d left it charging, a soft pained noise sounded from the other side of the bed.
Jay rolled to face him. “Sebastian?”
Sebastian’s body was a vague outline in the dark; he didn’t answer, but after a second or two made another sound, low in his throat, and shifted uneasily beneath the covers.
Sebastian Moran has a nightmare in Jay Moriarty's bed, and things go sideways. This interlude takes place between "Jay Moriarty Ruins Everybody’s Childhood" and "Jay Moriarty Has Seen You Naked," and you can read it for free here!
This Week's Links
The Philosophy of Final Destination
I think the presence of artistic trash is a very good indicator of the health of a pop culture ecosystem. You can only subvert standards of taste if those standards exist to begin with.
UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought
Like so many other systemic issues linked to climate change and how people live in the 21st century, small-scale personal solutions like “delete your old emails” won’t solve the problem. The individual water bill for a person’s old photos is nothing compared to the gallons of water required by large corporate clients running massive computers.
Queer Authors Withdraw From Writing Prize En Masse Over Inclusion of Self-Proclaimed TERF
The 2025 prizes became mired in controversy after an author and self-proclaimed TERF, John Boyne, was named to the longlist for the Polari Prize. Boyne had recently published a tribute to J. K. Rowling in the Irish Independent in which he proudly stated his support for Rowling’s extreme anti-trans views. Those views include a recent call by Rowling to boycott a department store for employing a tall woman an irate customer believes was trans.
Thanks so much to everyone who's donated to the Trans-Atlantic Cat Transport Subsidization Fund, especially whoever the hell this was:
-K
