mere rain
@mererain.bsky.social
Author of speculative fiction of all genres.
Pubbed by JMS Books, Mischief Corner, Flametree, CossMass, Mad Scientist Journal, Astral, Things in the Well...
Pubbed by JMS Books, Mischief Corner, Flametree, CossMass, Mad Scientist Journal, Astral, Things in the Well...
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Some college romance for the back-to-school season!
(Tonight and Didn't Know have sx scenes, the others don't. Fake Boyfriend's Best Friend is ace.)
www.jms-books.com/mere-rain-c-...
www.amazon.com/stores/Mere-...
(Tonight and Didn't Know have sx scenes, the others don't. Fake Boyfriend's Best Friend is ace.)
www.jms-books.com/mere-rain-c-...
www.amazon.com/stores/Mere-...
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The time is NOW, friends. The 2027 Lambda Literary Awards season is officially open. ✨
lambdaliteraryawards.submittable.com/submit
#lammys2027
lambdaliteraryawards.submittable.com/submit
#lammys2027
September 14, 2026 at 8:53 PM
The time is NOW, friends. The 2027 Lambda Literary Awards season is officially open. ✨
lambdaliteraryawards.submittable.com/submit
#lammys2027
lambdaliteraryawards.submittable.com/submit
#lammys2027
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👁️EBOOK GIVEAWAY👁️
Under a Malevolent Eye is surveillance horror and Weird fiction anthology. For a chance to win an ebook copy, reply here with your favorite piece of art (any medium) about watching or being watched.
Under a Malevolent Eye is surveillance horror and Weird fiction anthology. For a chance to win an ebook copy, reply here with your favorite piece of art (any medium) about watching or being watched.
September 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM
👁️EBOOK GIVEAWAY👁️
Under a Malevolent Eye is surveillance horror and Weird fiction anthology. For a chance to win an ebook copy, reply here with your favorite piece of art (any medium) about watching or being watched.
Under a Malevolent Eye is surveillance horror and Weird fiction anthology. For a chance to win an ebook copy, reply here with your favorite piece of art (any medium) about watching or being watched.
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The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
nbcnews.to
September 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
Okay, maybe if enough of us send KJ chocolates and love letters... 🙏
...okay, no, now *I* want to write a Jack Reacher type novel starring fotherington-tomas, dammit.
September 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Okay, maybe if enough of us send KJ chocolates and love letters... 🙏
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We weren't expecting to be posting this quite so soon... but good news: we're reopening to submissions! 🎉
September 17, 2026 at 7:40 AM
We weren't expecting to be posting this quite so soon... but good news: we're reopening to submissions! 🎉
bat era coming to and end
#FinalDailyBatPost 🖤🦇🖤
Feels like the end of an era. This pic has always been my favourite ☺️ My spirit mammal 😛 If anyone would like to carry on #DailyBat posts plz feel free to do so. I'll be sticking around, for how long idk, just limiting my time on social media 🙏🏼🖤🫶🏻
Feels like the end of an era. This pic has always been my favourite ☺️ My spirit mammal 😛 If anyone would like to carry on #DailyBat posts plz feel free to do so. I'll be sticking around, for how long idk, just limiting my time on social media 🙏🏼🖤🫶🏻
September 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM
bat era coming to and end
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Finally made a page on my website that lists all my reports, briefings etc I've done! Man it has been a busy year :)
ketanjoshi.co/reports/
ketanjoshi.co/reports/
Reports
This page contains reports, analyses and other major or ongoing work I’ve led for various clients. Enjoy! February 2026 – The AI Climate Hoax The first investigation into greenwashing n…
ketanjoshi.co
September 17, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Finally made a page on my website that lists all my reports, briefings etc I've done! Man it has been a busy year :)
ketanjoshi.co/reports/
ketanjoshi.co/reports/
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And now I get to say that Muñeca won the Octavia E. Butler award! And I got to be there in person:) This is the first time I've won anything for my writing, and I'm so happy.
So this is still a true thing that I get to say: Muñeca is a finalist for the Octavia E. Butler award!
September 16, 2026 at 1:37 PM
And now I get to say that Muñeca won the Octavia E. Butler award! And I got to be there in person:) This is the first time I've won anything for my writing, and I'm so happy.
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This Sunday is the opening of my show at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA as one of four new shows there. I hope some of you can attend. #artcomplex #duxbury #quilts #art #artquilts
September 16, 2026 at 10:42 AM
This Sunday is the opening of my show at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA as one of four new shows there. I hope some of you can attend. #artcomplex #duxbury #quilts #art #artquilts
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If you used an allegory like this in a novel, the editor would tell you it was too much.
In Elmhurst, Queens, a burial ground where nearly 300 freed Black people were laid to rest in the 1800s has been paved over and is now used by an NYPD contractor to store abandoned cars.
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/24/n...
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/24/n...
They Paved a Historic NYC Black Burial Ground. Now It’s a Lot for Abandoned Cars.
The bodies of nearly 300 free Black people buried during the 1800s lie under the asphalt in East Elmhurst, Queens. The lot was used by an NYPD towing contractor.
www.thecityreporter.nyc
August 24, 2026 at 4:34 PM
If you used an allegory like this in a novel, the editor would tell you it was too much.
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Unexpected expenses means uhhh did u know I have books for sale on my Kofi?? Including a few DYKES! ko-fi.com/lormaggot/shop
Visit lor gislason's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
ko-fi.com
September 16, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Unexpected expenses means uhhh did u know I have books for sale on my Kofi?? Including a few DYKES! ko-fi.com/lormaggot/shop
and Night Shades rejection notes are professional and not weird! don't be scared!
all the information you’ll need is on the submissions page, including what the “contract” looks like. spoilers it’s just an email agreement because i’m not buying any rights
do it! submit a story! once you do one the rest are easier! i believe in you 🛸
www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
do it! submit a story! once you do one the rest are easier! i believe in you 🛸
www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
Submissions
Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes two speculative stories per month.
Night Shades is OPEN
Closing October 11, 2026 at 11:59pm Eastern Time
Night Shades opens sporadically...
www.nightshadesmag.com
September 15, 2026 at 5:41 PM
and Night Shades rejection notes are professional and not weird! don't be scared!
Add to the public domain art thread! 🎨
(that's an invitation, not an order)
(that's an invitation, not an order)
Welp, confirmation from a market that gen AI art is used when there are "no other options."
No other options?? SEriOSLy? 🤔
Let's start a thread of where you can find art to use in the public domain because I'm sick of this shit! Please reply below with your favorite resources. 👇
No other options?? SEriOSLy? 🤔
Let's start a thread of where you can find art to use in the public domain because I'm sick of this shit! Please reply below with your favorite resources. 👇
September 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Add to the public domain art thread! 🎨
(that's an invitation, not an order)
(that's an invitation, not an order)
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IT'S TODAY!!! My fantasy novella, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, is out today! From here on out, if you suddenly have the urge to read about harpies, opinionated weapons, and a bunch of misfits fighting the fash, you can just DO THAT! Order direct or from bookstores: hornedlarkpress.com/product/a-du...
September 15, 2026 at 11:49 AM
IT'S TODAY!!! My fantasy novella, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, is out today! From here on out, if you suddenly have the urge to read about harpies, opinionated weapons, and a bunch of misfits fighting the fash, you can just DO THAT! Order direct or from bookstores: hornedlarkpress.com/product/a-du...
Anybody feel like organizing a charity antho of horror stories inspired by outsider art?
You’re Getting In My Hair, created c.1968 by Mavis Oultram, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live.
This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us
This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us
September 15, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Anybody feel like organizing a charity antho of horror stories inspired by outsider art?
Trollbreath closing early, writer friends! Get your subs in by Sept 30!
Schedule Update: we are closing to submissions on September 30th instead of the end of October to reduce staff burn out, and provide additional time to focus on the anthology launch and website performance updates.
We will reopen on January 1st, 2027.
magazine.trollbreath.com/submissions/
We will reopen on January 1st, 2027.
magazine.trollbreath.com/submissions/
September 15, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Trollbreath closing early, writer friends! Get your subs in by Sept 30!
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Good morning. Today, I start teaching again for the next six weeks, and you know what that means: everyone gets a FREE ebook copy of Bitter Apples, our fictional teacher horror stories written by teachers anthology. These stories are dark, strange, and a little too real:
dl.bookfunnel.com/aq9wzj3aql
dl.bookfunnel.com/aq9wzj3aql
Fictional teacher horror stories, written by teachers.
Cursed Morsels Press presents tales of teacher horror from Corey Farrenkopf, Emma E. Murray, Cynthia Gómez, Christi Nogle, D. Matthew Urban, Eric Raglin, and Aurelius Raines II. These writers have wor...
dl.bookfunnel.com
September 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Good morning. Today, I start teaching again for the next six weeks, and you know what that means: everyone gets a FREE ebook copy of Bitter Apples, our fictional teacher horror stories written by teachers anthology. These stories are dark, strange, and a little too real:
dl.bookfunnel.com/aq9wzj3aql
dl.bookfunnel.com/aq9wzj3aql
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Lovely news: The Butcher’s Daughter has been nominated for Newfoundland’s Killick Capital Fiction Award. Congrats to @corinneleighclark.bsky.social @sohopress.bsky.social and me 🖤
September 14, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Lovely news: The Butcher’s Daughter has been nominated for Newfoundland’s Killick Capital Fiction Award. Congrats to @corinneleighclark.bsky.social @sohopress.bsky.social and me 🖤
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this blew up! check out my totally ~*free*~ sci-fi eBooks and support a trans disabled indie author!
all i ask is that you leave an honest review. seems like a fair trade, right?
constelisvoss.com/collections/...
all i ask is that you leave an honest review. seems like a fair trade, right?
constelisvoss.com/collections/...
CONSTELIS VOSS eBooks by K. Leigh
Need some LGBT+ indie eBooks to read? We've got you covered. Sci-fi, action, adventure, and much more. Every download comes with multiple formats to make e-reading a breeze. Shop quality novels by K. ...
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September 14, 2026 at 12:37 AM
this blew up! check out my totally ~*free*~ sci-fi eBooks and support a trans disabled indie author!
all i ask is that you leave an honest review. seems like a fair trade, right?
constelisvoss.com/collections/...
all i ask is that you leave an honest review. seems like a fair trade, right?
constelisvoss.com/collections/...
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for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it.
I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance:
recordsofenemysurveillance.com
I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance:
recordsofenemysurveillance.com
September 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it.
I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance:
recordsofenemysurveillance.com
I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance:
recordsofenemysurveillance.com
Some college romance for the back-to-school season!
(Tonight and Didn't Know have sx scenes, the others don't. Fake Boyfriend's Best Friend is ace.)
www.jms-books.com/mere-rain-c-...
www.amazon.com/stores/Mere-...
(Tonight and Didn't Know have sx scenes, the others don't. Fake Boyfriend's Best Friend is ace.)
www.jms-books.com/mere-rain-c-...
www.amazon.com/stores/Mere-...
September 13, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Some college romance for the back-to-school season!
(Tonight and Didn't Know have sx scenes, the others don't. Fake Boyfriend's Best Friend is ace.)
www.jms-books.com/mere-rain-c-...
www.amazon.com/stores/Mere-...
(Tonight and Didn't Know have sx scenes, the others don't. Fake Boyfriend's Best Friend is ace.)
www.jms-books.com/mere-rain-c-...
www.amazon.com/stores/Mere-...
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✨And the unicorn sweater is finally done ✨
September 13, 2026 at 10:03 AM
✨And the unicorn sweater is finally done ✨
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I jumped out of my seat and had to take a lap around the house when I first saw FOUR recommendations for @othersidespec.bsky.social stories in this issue of Locus. If you haven’t yet, give these stories a read! They’re “devastating,” “luminescent,” “heartbreaking.”
othersidespec.com/issues/issue...
othersidespec.com/issues/issue...
September 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I jumped out of my seat and had to take a lap around the house when I first saw FOUR recommendations for @othersidespec.bsky.social stories in this issue of Locus. If you haven’t yet, give these stories a read! They’re “devastating,” “luminescent,” “heartbreaking.”
othersidespec.com/issues/issue...
othersidespec.com/issues/issue...
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I just started reading this book about infrastructure, and it's so well written and so smart and appealing about what infrastructure is and what it means and how it connects us in ways people don't always think about on a daily basis.
September 12, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I just started reading this book about infrastructure, and it's so well written and so smart and appealing about what infrastructure is and what it means and how it connects us in ways people don't always think about on a daily basis.
New to me holiday.
@authorhollyday.bsky.social
@authorhollyday.bsky.social
Pollinators are struggling in a lot of places, but no scientist can be everywhere at once. September 12 is Butterfly Big Day, a worldwide day of heading outside to notice local butterflies — and helping protect them through community science.
September 12, 2026 at 8:41 AM
New to me holiday.
@authorhollyday.bsky.social
@authorhollyday.bsky.social