Writer. Philosopher. Sky-dancer. They/She. Codex. LCP. Author of A REFUGE OF TALES. Poetry Editor at Utopia Science Fiction.
NOT JUST PLAYING MAKE BELIEVE forthcoming from ECW Press.
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Lynne Sargent
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"Benjamin fires 99...workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000 % productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage...in excess of $50 million [and] $5 million [in productivity loss] from his one remaining employee, who... [now] spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit."
The Cutting Edge ⛸️
Over on Whatever, I talk about the legit business email I got that was written with "AI," why I thought it meant the sender's domain was hacked by scammers, and why using "AI" in business emails automatically lumps you in with scammers and frauds. Don't do it!
whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/11/p...
It's new story day! Find "The Once Green Forest of My Lungs," out now with @rottingleafmag.bsky.social.
www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
A fun little story-behind-the-story... this is my first published work inspired by my dog Kerby! Aka Kerberos. Aka Prince-shrimp-full-bees. Aka (most relevantly) lover-of-flesh-water. He also loves sunbeams. I bet if he could read he'd love this story too. I hope you do!
even if libraries caused readers to buy fewer books* it would be worth it, in order to live in the kind of society that produces readers and books.
*they don't, and this survey doesn't successfully demonstrate that they do
For my TO peeps, The Tiger's Bride at Soulpepper is AMAZING. Yes, it's Angela Carter inspired and whoa is the whole thing INSPIRED. If you love fairytales, if you love weird spiky theatre stuff, please go see it before it closes!
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Last week Reactor announced their "Hidden Gems Book Club" in which folks read from Reactor's "Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century" list. Pretty cool! Check it out if you missed it when it was posted. Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell is on the list!
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"I have a waterskin at hand, and strip down naked, feeling the uncomfortable pulse of my bladder. I bear my skin to the moonlight, hoping it will be tempting enough, dreading it will be too tempting."
- @lynnesargent.bsky.social in "The Once Green Forest of My Lungs"
The other morning I was clearing out the multiple daily emails I get from scammers who have used “AI” to praise one of my books in order to get me to use their “marketing” s…
It's the final “regular” edition of GET LIT! Featuring GG award-winner and lovely human Anuja Varghese discussing A Kiss of Crimson Ash.
1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or pods or: tinyurl.com/mv9xb886 Next week is E500!
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @anuja-v.bsky.social
Lynne Sargent
Lynne Sargent
Premiering at Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto right now, Tiger Bride is not your average musical theatre show.
