Graham (Gray) Scott

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#Writer, PhD, and professor of #writing. #ShortStories in Pithead Chapel, Nature, Pulp Literature, HAD, jmww, and Necessary Fiction. Forgot he created the @shortstory account.
Contacthttps://hemicyon.wordpress.com/contact/
Storieshttps://hemicyon.wordpress.com/creative-works/
An online story: Amundsen Sea (via Necessary Fiction)http://necessaryfiction.com/stories/GrahamRobertScottAmundsenSea/
Guppe group@[email protected]
Graham (Gray) ScottNov 25, 2022
For #FlashFicFriday and Black Friday, I thought I'd share a dark humor (okay, mostly dark) autumn horror story titled "The Johnson Farm Outbreak." The Barrelhouse editor who selected it tweeted that she was surprised to have published a story with zombies in it, which is pretty much the highest praise, don't you think? https://www.barrelhousemag.com/onlinelit/2017/10/14/the-johnson-farm-outbreak
THE JOHNSON FARM OUTBREAK — BARRELHOUSE

BY GRAHAM ROBERT SCOTT When the zombies came, they were kinda lame. 

BARRELHOUSE
Graham (Gray) ScottNov 19, 2022
I've lately acquired a few mutuals from a server called toot.site, and I'm thinking someone missed a trick by just one letter -- by not calling it toot.suite.
Graham (Gray) ScottNov 18, 2022

For #FlashFicFriday, I'd like to share a sci-fi story I published in Nature, titled "Cold Comforts."

https://www.nature.com/articles/544132a

Nature ran the story on their podcast, selected and voiced brilliantly by Shamini Bundell. Nature's audio version can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/nature-extra-futures-april-2017/id81934659?i=1000384880103

Cold comforts - Nature

Message from the abyss.

Nature
Graham (Gray) ScottNov 16, 2022

All my writer friends are doing eligibility posts, and I feel left out.

Alas, I've spent most of this year encumbered by university accreditation deadlines. Almost no writing.

But there's one. A shy little huddle of a story. A darksome and speculative flash.

Published in HAD in February, it's titled "Noteworthy Characteristics of the Monster under Your Bed."

https://www.havehashad.com/hadposts/noteworthy-characteristics-of-the-monster-under-your-bed

Noteworthy Characteristics of the Monster under Your Bed by Graham Robert Scott

It possesses more teeth than you can count, if you can only count to four. Its claws are as sharp as whiteboard erasers. If you dangle a leg over the edge of your bed, and it clamps its jaws around your foot, you’ll feel something wet. For

Graham (Gray) ScottNov 14, 2022

Thanks to @wordsmith, I'm now going to be playing around with this key-shortcut menu for Mastodon for the next week at least.

(To see what I'm talking about, click the mastodon image -- nothing obvious will happen -- and then type the ? key. It'll pull up a menu of keyboard #shortcuts for folks who want or need them.)

Graham (Gray) ScottNov 12, 2022
OuroNov 12, 2022

Let me present to you the P.I.L.E.S. model of creative motivation.:

P - Pragmatic
I - Intrinsic
L - Learning
E - External
S - Self-concept

Like "look at these PILES of projects and the different textures they all have. Why do I currently feel motivated to do this one thing but not the others? Ahhhhhhhh!" [1/8]

Graham (Gray) ScottNov 11, 2022

No one from my campus is following me on this thing (yet!), so for #FlashFicFriday I'll share a piece of university satire that I'm kinda proud of.

Titled "Cargo Cult," it appeared in JMWW: https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/flash-fiction-cargo-cult-by-graham-robert-scott/

@shortstory

Flash Fiction: Cargo Cult by Graham Robert Scott

JMWW
Graham (Gray) ScottNov 11, 2022

@shortstory #shortstory

@kcmeadbrewer 's creepy-beautiful "Rapunzel House," published at The Rumpus, is a great read for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

Graham (Gray) ScottNov 11, 2022
For any writers or magazines that are interested, I've created a Guppe group for sharing recently published short stories: @shortstory . If you tag that group, it'll share with anyone who follows the group.
Graham (Gray) ScottNov 7, 2022

A beautiful confusion erupted in 1993 when AOL granted #Usenet access to subscribers.

Usenet grognards call the period after that point #EternalSeptember. Before, every September, a new class of freshmen would join and have to be taught how things worked. Suddenly it wasn't students at all. People joined in such herds that training became impossible.

I suspect veteran #Mastodon folks will have nicknames for this moment.