If you ever want to read an story about people moving for climate reasons, this story talking about people who moved to Asheville, NC, a listed climate haven, and having to deal with forest fires two years ago (plus the last few days) is…well.
As more people move to “climate havens” like Western North Carolina, they are learning nowhere is immune from climate concerns like wildfire.
We interrupt this stream of short story solicitations to remind you to give if you can to disaster relief in the south. Florida, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia have been hit hard and need our support. See links in the post below for more information.
Blue Ridge Public Radio has a vetted list of orgs to donate to: www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...
Hurricane Helene unleashed devastating flooding in the mountains of North Carolina. Here are ways to help local flood victims in Western North Carolina by donating relief funds or volunteering.
"Look at the fruit. Look at the stem, the branch, the root. The institution has always been, and always will be, about maintaining power; and its charge...is to invest in ensuring that its victims maintain, at all costs, silence." New essay: suyidavies.com/essays/maintain-at-all-costs-silence
Author Suyi Davies Okungbowa peers at institutions of power through the lens of Toni Morrison's 1995 essay, "Racism and Fascism".
I'm reading OKPsyche, by @adeniro.bsky.social , and it is *fantastic*--vivid, thoughtful, unsettling, emotionally powerful. This passage!
The student isn't the reason for the university any longer, they are just the product used to generate the real revenue which is handouts from the Ackmans of the world, and defective products that don't serve the company's purpose cannot be allowed to hit the market
Three people I know personally (of about 20 that I pestered to do it) who checked their registration were suspended. Check, and pass it on.
did you know... in addition to fantastic novellas, PSYCHOPOMP also publishes brilliant novelettes 💀 we are pleased to announce THREE forthcoming novelettes by: Shingai Njeri Kagunda @nassos.bsky.social@babblewocky.bsky.social full announcement + story previews:
Our mission at Psychopomp is to bring you the best fiction about death, multiverses, and more. In pursuit of that goal, we are pleased to present our next
Strange Horizons opens to fiction submissions on October 1st, 2024, at 9 a.m. UTC! There will be a 1,000 story cap on submissions. Once we receive 1,000 stories, we’ll close our portal. See our fiction guidelines for more information: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
