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Moonlight spills on comic books and superstars in magazines

The mail brought my contributor's copy of Weird Fiction Quarterly Winter 2025: Ghosts. It leads off with my poem "The Ghost Summer," inspired by the season I wrote it at the end of and given a gorgeously night-eyed illustration by Sarah Walker. Other contributors to its store of specters include Natasha Liora, Andy Joynes, Brandon Barrows, David Barker, Rebecca Buchanan, Maxwell I. Gold, Christopher Ropes, John Claude Smith, Lisa Morton, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Daniel Braum, Can Wiggins, Mark McLaughlin, Duane Pesice, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Peter Rawlik, M Ennenbach, Robert Jeschonek, Michael Thomas Ford, Adam Bolivar, Russ Parkhurst, and dozens more. Check it out! Feeling like an apparition yourself is not compulsory.

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Congrats on the poem!

Congrats on the poem!

Thank you! I think it may be my first publication all year!

Oh gosh, then triple congratulations! :D

Oh gosh, then triple congratulations!

*hugs*

Thank you. It has actually been the worst spring for anyone wanting my poetry since I first started submitting twenty-five years ago, including formerly reliable markets. It has been very difficult not to feel that whatever passed for my career was an indulgent flash in the pan, confirmation of my pointlessness generally, etc.