Jamie M. Boyd

Hello! I write speculative fiction centering the natural world relationships and weird stuff from biology/anthropology. Recent stories on: The anxiety of parenting & kids turning into creepy animals strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-... Love, regret & aliens www.heartlines-spec.com/the-architec...

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Highly recommend Bliss Montage by Ling Ma. It's strange and surreal (but not *that* Severance). Tho if it gets you to read the book ...

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It's always a good time to tell a teacher or mentor you appreciate them--and if you can't think of the words, send them this wonderful poem by @ianli.bsky.social: smallwondersmag.com/piece/your-cause-and-your-effect/

Nope, that's not a dog standing at my neighborhood entrance. Our City Coyote is back! He's pretty, but I think I will be a little more aware now when walking my dogs at night. 👀🐺

Me (trying not kill another orchid): It's impossible. It won't bloom. My mom (She of the Green Thumb):

“This place was never about saving anyone. It was about preying on the desperate, taking their money, their hope. And I fell for it." Still thinking about @tammykomoff.bsky.social 's story "Clearance Items at the Underground Dark Magic Night Market" in Lady Churchhill's Rosebud Wristlet. 💔🐈‍⬛

More rain during the day means more snails at night.

Cool visuals if you are looking for otherworldly inspiration ... www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

I’m excited to announce my story “The Shearing of the Beasts” will be published by @castofwonders.org. It’s a coming of age story set in a world w/ wild and domesticated unicorns, examining the things we do to and for the creatures we claim to love. Many thanks to editor Katherine Inskip & team.

Rainy weekend has me looking forward to whatever mushrooms will bloom next.

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

This story by @ksommerberg.bsky.social is weird and wonderful and way too apt a metaphor for the US right now. therumpus.net/2026/08/23/l...

New life goal: To be a crab who does not let the bucket change me. 🦀🪣 Also, to write with this much poetry, humor and common sense about … anything.

Issue 067 has landed! 🚀 Would you like to read about an octopus in space? Maybe an enchanted toad, incense magic and forbidden love? Where else but Luna Station Quarterly can you get all that plus a visit to Baba Yaga's house?
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Happy surprise stumbling across this Locus review of my Wild West murder mystery Blood & Talent: "A powerful and emotionally fraught story." Not sure how I missed it in March but thanks @mariahaskins.com! locusmag.com/review/fantasy-magazine-podcastle-and-cast-of-wonders-review-by-maria-haskins/

@vajra.me is spot on: "He wishes to skip past the difficult part, to fast forward the boring bits, to sidestep history & arrive in the golden city, fully automated&luxurious. But see him..frozen as history passes w/out him, a self-fulfilling failure" lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-age-of-cancer/

Lovely story abt whatever happened to the young woman from the portal fantasy, after she returned to Earth and became a mother. 💔❤️

I LOVED this novel. Can't wait for the rest of the world to read it. Congrats, Julie!

I couldn't resist buying these furry little guys when I saw them in the grocery store. They're called rambutan and taste like lychee. Yum!

Glad my youngest prefers making elaborate models of historic battles and scenes from his favorite novels to attending expensive summer camps. This one came out really well — not just the electricity he used to simulate cannon fire but the dramatic movie soundtrack playing in the background. 😂

Weekend reading has me thinking a lot about all I'm "unseeing" these days -- and how to undo that training.

Happy 1st Birthday to the New Puppy who is officially no longer new or a puppy. 🥳🎉 Henceforth, I hereby nickname her Trouble and submit into evidence for name change: one leather chair with a big bite missing on the arm, two gnawed wood side tables, a pillow and many many disembowled stuffed toys.

This is so gross -- tho I have to smugly point out I sorta predicted it in my story "All You Ever Wanted," that ran last year in Shorelines of Infinity @shoreinf.bsky.social. For the record my virtual AI teacher was cooler. I assumed school boards would have higher standards. 😒

Less than two days left. Stretch goal to pay 9 cents a word has been hit! Let's get it to 10 cents.

Excited to see my name on this cover with so many other great writers! Many thanks to @rickandwrite.bsky.social and @bsfa.bsky.social.

The Broad in Los Angelos was a surprise hit for my whole family, which normally prefers outdoor adventures to museums. Lots of color, movement and contrasting styles. Free admission was nice too.

I will miss you, California. We toured colleges, walked beneath redwoods, biked the Golden Gate Bridge, went to a cool art museum, ate giant fruit-shaped confections, and caught a World Cup game that we lost but thoroughly enjoyed. Until next time.

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

We got Doodled.

I'm taking the reappearance of screwworm in the U.S. as a reminder to listen to the 1977 classic sci-fi horror novelette "The Screwfly Solution" by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon). pseudopod.org/2014/08/22/p...

Finished writing a story, so I rewarded myself with a pretty new fern.

I love fiction with unusual form and structure. If you can, support this cool project. Proud to be the 36th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for [RECORDED] — An Anthology of Found Media Fiction!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Annals of AI fuckups: an author forwarded me the email below, in which the book club scammer mistakenly sent the AI output instead of the intended email pitch. Note the "strategic analysis", which illustrates the scammers' boiled-frog approach

I've only watched the first two episodes, but I'm really enjoying Star City. Love the switch to the Soviet perspective. www.ign.com/articles/sta...

Can you spot him? We lost a lot of our iguanas in the cold weather, and my flowers were really enjoying the break from being on the menu. But it appears they're baaaaaaaaack. 🦎💐🥬 😩

#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #mushrooms Dancers of the Forest. 🦋 📷 credit unknown

“When they talk about spells of obedience they mostly don’t mean literal spells. You can come under someone’s thrall without any magic. You can feel desperate in any number of ways, and you can convince yourself...” www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ten-...

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I love how our banyan tree keeps remaking itself through the years. Almost alien in its beauty.

Great suggestions below. Saving for future reading ...