Karlo Yeager Rodríguez

@kjy1066

BSFA-nominated, Brave New Weird Winning writer, and all around TropiWeirdo. Stories in Typebar, Strange Horizons, BCS, khōreo, more. Host of @podside-picnic.bsky.social. He/Him 🇵🇷

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· 24d

I'm back from vacation, and wanted to remind everyone to pre-order The Speculative Detective Agency for my new story, "That Old Black Magic We Call Empire"!

Cover for The Speculative Detective Agency anthology (case files of the supernatural and fantastic), edited by Matthew David Goodwin and Richie Narvaez

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· 25d

These are all excellent. I'm guessing you know about Uni?

Uni, a black and white tuxedo munchkin cat, looking up at the camera

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· 25d

Ya gonna go to the Otter sea?

A sea otter, floating on its back and looking at the camera

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jul 10

Though hold on a sec 🧐

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jul 9

Saoirse, the way I read their methodology and remembered every one of my recent stories racking up rejections in the double-digits. . .

Bert from Sesame Street looking stunned, overlaid with Vietnam war footage presented as a PTSD flashback

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jul 8

Evangelical Christians, a split second after having a moment of conscience:

A police officer, flanked by two others, saying "we investigated ourselves and cleared ourselves of any wrongdoing"

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jul 6

Not the worst, but the BEST

Goodreads page for the Weirdpunk limited printing version of "As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood"

Two reviews, one has a 5-star rating and is extremely positive, contrasted with a 1-star rating that says, "I have no idea what I just read"

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jul 6

Read the first story in this one, "All the Truth the Ocean Holds" by J.P. Oakes manages to weave the slow transformation of the surrounding land into Area X and the distant threat of Lovecraftian entities Strong opener

The cover for "The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird" edited by Marissa Van Uden

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jul 4

"Kos or some say

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jul 2

Geordi La Forge no: Papal Schism

Geordi La Forge yes: PayPal Schism

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jun 29

These people need to be told

Baby Billy from The Righteous Gemstones saying "Go outside Nerd!"

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jun 26

FYI

Out where the West begins to die the first standing stones lay, long-since tumbled into irrelevance, whatever god or spirit they were meant to exalt as forgotten as the old shapes of the stars. Their incongruously sharp corners marked the concourse into the Overcity, a glassy black line connecting the Tumulus Wastes to the carven doorstep of the Starward Palace on the outskirts of the City of Cities.

Overcity. The remnants of a thousand thousand metropoli, heaped one atop the other like the flotsam of ages past. The muddy lilac of its sky divided by the stark black line of the Pilgrim's Road. Below, in a thousand thousand smoke-filled bazaars and drug dens, cutthroats, wanderers, and vagabonds have been lured to its crooked streets by the whispers of what lies at the end of that skybound road, what rewards await those penitent enough to travel it. Whosoever ascends can claim the Throne of the Ancients - whose hollow eyes may still watch over us - and all their treasures gathering dust in that lightless and dead heaven.

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jun 25

Marco Rubio's stockinged foot positively swimming inside an oversized black Florsheim shoe

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jun 24

One that'll really get hands on

Still from In the Mouth of Madness. . . Sutter Cane's agent's crazed double-pupil eyes stare out at you

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jun 24

Ngl this reminded me of this excerpt:

Excerpt from my novella, Iron Kelwas, The Raven Knights, and Their Little Sister:

"...Yes, you have likely heard the Stone was none other than the egg the Tzirae - one of whom now perches over the gate to Paradise; the other guards the entrance to the Night Lands - guarded and crooned over in that endless twilight before time began. You have likely heard the Tzirae are sisters, or perhaps lovers, but lest you pass judgment do not forget they are - above all else - goddesses. Whether their egg contained their daughter and another of their kind, a perfect world struggling to emerge, or the brothers and deities of the bitter waters and sweet already striving one against the other within, none of the stories can agree. After the great sundering, however, that time before time ended, and the Tzirae - who sang to each other under that eternal twilight and preened each other, always sleeping with their heads on the other's wing - found themselves apart. Each on the far side of Creation. Singing, always singing, in the hopes the other might hear, lamenting a world that is no more and grieving a world that could have been..."

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jun 23

Hey everybody, our publisher's arranged a sale on all pre-orders made through B&N, so if you've been waiting to get THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY, you have from today 6/23 to this Friday 6/26/26!

Barnes & Novle 25% off pre-orders for: Premium & Rewards members (premium members save an extra 10%) for THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY (edited by Matthew David Goodwin and Richie Narvaez) - includes audio- and ebooks)

Tuesday 6/23 to Friday 6/26 with code: PREORDER25

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jun 23

Ah, another chance to bring this one back

A large bullfrog's head is visible above the water with the caption, "turning the frogs antifa"

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jun 22

Popped into my head, sorry

View of the Lincoln Memorial from the very green waters of the reflecting pool

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jun 22

Ged's feeling watched

Ged the bearded dragon, curled up to sleep in his water bowl. His basking lights are off and natural sunlight falls in stripes over him. One eye is looking back at the camera

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jun 11

Old guy in a red turtleneck shrugging from the "I guess I'll die, now" meme

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· Jun 10

## FOR SDA EYES ONLY ## [[FROM SDA PERSONNEL FILES; [[CONCEPCIÓN DOMÍNGUEZ, P. [[INGRESS INTERVIEW (FAMILY STRUCT.)]] Agent Pura Concepción Domínguez of the Speculative Detective Agency: (1 of 2)

excerpt from "That Old Black Magic We Call Empire" (from The Speculative Detective Agency anthology):

I have two sisters. I'm the oldest. After me is Clara, who you might recognize as "Clara V." in her new TV comercial, all curls and dimples in a dazzling white robe, promising to help YOU achieve all your dreams. She'd been so proud this one had aired all the way up in Miami. Clara was the literal magical girl of our family, in tune with the ancestors, the spirits, you name it. Which of course made Ramona, the youngest, feel like a tagalong.

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· May 27

He heard it was Pennsylvania Avenue and figured he'd oblige

Breezewood, Pennsylvania's hell of gas station billboards plastered over every possible eyeline

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· May 16

I mean

Headline: Iran can't hit back over Soleimani's killing because America has only fictional heroes like SpongeBob SquarePants, a prominent cleric said

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· May 12

Finished "Things We Lost In the Fire": Standouts for me were "Adela's House", "The Neighbor's Courtyard", and "Under the Black Water"

Cover of "Things We Lost In the Fire" by Mariana Enriquez

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· May 12

FBI agent on computer meme, captioned with "sorcerer scrying your anti-Familiar posts"

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· May 12

Also, may I add

Steam tag labeled "America" circled, and indicated with 100%

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· May 9

Tom Cruise, looking over the rims of his Wayfarers. A speech bubble extends downward to quote the post: "Well if that ain't just some cybershit"

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· May 9

Tim Cruise, looking over the rims of his Wayfarers. A speech bubble extends downward to quote the post

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· May 8

Really wish M. Rickert was talked about more because everyone should pick this collection up just for "The Chambered Fruit" (a mythic retelling - I won't say of which because so many of the middling ones don't get anywhere near the comingled rage and grief and joy in this one)

M. Rickert's collection (with alternate byline of "Mary Rickert"), You Have Never Been Here

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066· May 7

Once again adding to this (with a nod to one of my early influences)