Undercover in the Apocalypse

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Sam J. Miller sends stories & writing insights...

...to covert operatives like you, trying to stay creative and hopeful in grim times.

vanilla soft serve ice cream cone with rainbow sprinkles at a county fairground at night

How to stay hungry (when every 10 minutes there's a new reason to lose your appetite)

Two murals on a DC alley wall: DC51 / YOU COMPLETE ME

Assata Shakur: words that power protest.

It's alive! Happy book birthday to RED STAR HUSTLE / APPREHENSION.

It's alive! Happy book birthday to RED STAR HUSTLE / APPREHENSION.

Red-tinted image of a crowd at a show.

New story alert: "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead."

The cover of the original edition of Ray Bradbury's short story collection "S is for Space," showing Bradbury on a bicycle and a humanoid figure spinning through a void

why do we still like Ray Bradbury?

Graffito of a stylized green monster on a wall in a European-looking city.

Microfiction: Badly-Drawn Monsters