David Anaxagoras

IT'S ROBOT DAY! My new novelette “Ladd’s Robot Repair” is free to read today in Lightspeed! A fiercely independent scavver boy. An overprotective robot butler. Mutant children, signal-beasts, and the end of the world. This was an absolute joy to write. I hope you enjoy it!

I'm where i need to be but not where i want to be

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title. "Angst in My Pants" Oh, wait! Sorry. That's the ACTUAL title of the song.

Diminish an anime! Akira-kun

Went to make an appointment with a health provider via phone and an automated voice said the call was being transcribed by AI. I asked them to turn it off and they said they couldn't, it was company protocol. They could not tell me what their privacy policy was or who processes the call.

My go-to recurring stress dream used to be that I was back in grad school. Now my stress dream is I'm back in a notes meeting with Amazon Studio execs.

My mother said, to get things done You'd better not mess with Major Tom

I too longed for Speed Racer's Mach Five. When I was SIX. Now I'd rather sit on a bus, read a book, and let someone else drive.

we need a word nor the sensation of walking into a room and immediately knowing someone has just eaten an orange.

Congratulations to Lightspeed & Nightmare for funding but especially to all of us who love great short fiction. Everybody wins! If you supported this campaign you've helped the SFFH community thrive. And there's still time to help out if you haven't yet!

Featuring a new Ladd's Robot Repair story, RUSTY ON THE RUN. I can't wait to share and I'm so proud to be among so many great authors in this anthology!

Lightspeed has $10K to go to reach its Kickstarter goals and only 4 days left. Lightspeed published my first short story and has been a great home for my fiction over the years. They respect writers, pay professional rates, and run a tight ship. Please consider supporting!

Carrie: What if we made a TV series out of that one episode of Stranger Things everyone hated?

A gardener like that one No one can replace

I'm watching that TV show, what's it called? The High School Where All The Girls Have the Same Hair and You Can't Tell Them Apart and The Students Are the Same Age as the Teachers.

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

Question for any authors who have had recent contract dealings w/ Must Read Magazines & ASIMOV’S. Have they asked you to surrender copyright of your stories to them? They want me to create new cover art & they want to own copyright of the art. Seems like a pretty outrageous rights grab.

It's Anti-Prime day and you don't need Audible to enjoy my Nebula-nominated audiobook original THE TOWER. Grab it from Libro.fm and benefit your indie bookstore!

When you are Brian Fuckin May but you have astrophysics to do.

"SKYDANCE: THE FUTURE IS UNSINKABLE!" Titanic sinks. Enterprise explodes. Grail temple collapses. Sirius falls through the veil "A CENTURY OF DREAMS" Joker slow claps.

First of all, it was October...

I just don't think we need, in 2026, a story about a high school student bullied to the point of bloody homicidal revenge on the other students. Who are we supposed to root for? The bullies? The school shooter?

Generals and majors always Seem so unhappy 'less they got a war

Music for a weird western.

In high school, every Saturday me and my buddy would hit the record shop, buy a new album, then hit the comic book store and load up on new floppies and back issues. Then we'd sprawl out on his bed and listen to music and read and swap comics all day. PERFECT DAY.

Silk or leather or a feather Respect yourself and all of those around you

I'm feeling very grumpy about story today.

Exit 8 > Backrooms

Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto, you're beautiful!

Can you really say you have lived an authentic life if you have not tried to watch Saturday morning cartoons through the TV static induced by your mom's vacuuming?

I have reached the "Am I gong to survive writing this novel?" part of this novel.

Glitch Techs and the whole crew behind it deserved so much better. Some of the best people I've ever worked with who loved animation and cared deeply about the show. I'm always glad to see it mentioned and not forgotten.

Writers, if you have a hard-to-sell speculative Christmas / Winter Holiday story (more speculative than simply "Santa exists," please), we're love to consider it. hellitself.com/submission-g...

This is a horror story called I need to write in my journal and all my fountain pens are clogged.

Power outage at the Dave Cave. EVERYONE ASSUME CRASH POSITIONS!

In a bad mood today for reasons. If I don't write, I'll still be in a bad mood but have no words done. If I do write, I'll still be in a bad mood but have some words done. So I should write. But my bad mood doesn't care about my logical mumbo jumbo.

Welcome to the world, Hot Ranch Loaded Wedges.

slow day on the internet what am i supposed to do work on my outline?

Ever do that thing when you wake up in the middle of the night, take inventory of your life, decide everything is terrible, and go for a walk to enjoy the city lights while a smooth saxomaphone follows you around?

What's that, son? Puberty? Hm. That's complicated. It's a bit like a carnival ride. There's dancers, and a fog machine, and a guy playing boob drums... Look, just watch this educational explainer video:

People who stick their heads in the sand are the first to get their asses burned.

David is typing...

Happy Breakaway Day to all who celebrate.

This is literally how we lived in the 80s. We each carried keytars, moved like androids, and asked each other in computer voices, IS THIS REALITY?

If The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension were made today there would be 7 movies about each individual Hong Kong Cavalier with a post-credit scene in which Banzai recruits them, plus an animated prequel series and a prestige live-action series about the World Crime League.

Never change a character's hairstyle in the middle of a movie if you want me to know it's the same character.

I demand we all use "sockdolager" in conversation at least once per day.

Pervert glasses? Apple watch eavesdropping? I have the perfect solution.