I got a bit of a scare when I opened Tor.com today and saw a sketch of Harlan Ellison. Usually when David A. Johnson draws a picture like that for the blog, it's because someone important to SF/F has recently died. Luckily, it was really his eightieth birthday.

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First off we have a nice Slice of Life story by Snapp Apple called Invasion of the Candy Snatchers! Don't let the Dark tag scare you away; there's zero violence and it's about as scary as the first story arc of the IDW comics. Also, I should probably mention that I helped the author edit it, so I might be biased.

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Rookiewompus, a MLP Vlogger, has started a new show about stories involving girls who kiss other girls. The first episode is about last season's Sakura Trick. Please consider watching it and telling others about it.

The newest Friends Forever features Trixie & Rainbow Dash! Trixie finds herself the queen of a new kingdom and calls on Rainbow Dash to wow her subjects with some amazing flying stunts. However Trixie has a hidden agenda. When Rainbow discovers the truth, just how much of a friend will she want to be?

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Recently, I’ve found that I’ve become sort of a cheerleader for Online Short Fiction. If you don’t already know, a number of sites have opened up shop and started buying original short stories, many of which post the stories online to read for free. It’s becoming a hassle, fetching the links and typing it all out, every time I find someone who looks like they’d be interested. So I’ve decided to collect all of the E-zines that I know of into one blog post that I can pass around.

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So Bad Horse started plans for a new project last night. Today I had a little debate with a friend of mine about whether or not it would be successful. I've made a poll to help settle it. If you could take a moment to fill it out, I'd really appreciate it.

Inspired by Bad Horse's annotation of Torn Apart & Devoured by Lions, I am going to do the same with the last scene of Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, available here and here.

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So I made a new group. I saw that there was an under-appreciation for "Weird Fiction" on this site, so this is an attempt to remedy that.

Welcome to Screwball's Library!

This is a group for Weird Fiction.* These are absurd stories and silly stories and stories that are crazy awesome. They're often hilarious, sometimes scary, but they're always far different from what you humans would call "normal."

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The AppleShy group is currently one member shy of reaching 100. I normally wouldn't care enough to make a blog post, but it was an AppleShy story that made me realize how adorable lesbian kissy face is. So there's a chance that my shipping stories might not exist if it wasn't for the pairing.

So, yeah. Go help push it into three digits, please.