País Valencià. Mediterranean Gothic in Catalan/Valencian & English. Forthcoming in The Rumpus & Chthonic Matter. Pithead Chapel, Neon & Smoke, Flash Fiction Magazine & Dark Horses. Creator of zenodot.app (Publishers Lunch, Jane Friedman, LSE Impact).https://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mvl7pxz5h22iA flat on Carrer del Crist. A healer with a self-printed diploma. A curtain that has brushed the heater since 1991. A little reiki, added the way you'd add salt. "Off the Books," out now at The Rumpus. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Sep 2026 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvl7pxz5h22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mvk7oo77e22wThe hermitage at Peníscola has Philip V's coat of arms carved above the door. The king who burned our laws and our language and made the place Spanish by decree. I left a widower inside it for a winter and came back in spring to see what was left. https://ausiastsel.substack.com/p/the-ermitana?r=6lld3b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web15 Sep 2026 08:33 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvk7oo77e22whttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mvi3v72nis2pNew Mediterranean Gothic story out today in @therumpus.net. A man pays thirty euros in cash to have an acupuncturist switch off the tinnitus he's had since he was nineteen. It works. Nobody knows why. Today the acupuncturist decides to improve the treatment. therumpus.net/2026/09/13/off-the-books/ https://therumpus.net/2026/09/13/off-the-books/14 Sep 2026 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvi3v72nis2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mutrdxr4s22uA estes edats i acabo de descobrir Jim Thomson i m'ha petat el cap molt fort.06 Sep 2026 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mutrdxr4s22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3muhubpvbz22cI cannot stop writing about the silence — at the same time I find unbearable the waiting for a response about my novel and my essay. They both talk about the silence. Man, that’s fucked up.01 Sep 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhubpvbz22chttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mu3lcga5t22iAnd then, months later, you discover that the tool that you started building because finding books in your own language was difficult, is taught as a resource in some universities. And you smile. And keep building. Because all languages should be treated equally. Zenodot.app https://Zenodot.app27 Aug 2026 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3lcga5t22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mtsrl2sxrc24A reader of German asks once and gets an answer. A reader of Ladin can ask twenty times and reach only silence. I wrote for the MIDAS blog at Eurac Research on why the world's book record is empty exactly where no one was ever obliged to write it down. https://www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/midas/the-catalogue-never-asked24 Aug 2026 07:24 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsrl2sxrc24https://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mtss6cvyms24Un lector d'alemany pregunta una vegada i té resposta. Un de ladí pot preguntar vint vegades i trobar només silenci. He escrit al blog MIDAS d'Eurac Research sobre per què el registre mundial del llibre està buit just on ningú va tindre mai l'obligació d'escriure-hi. https://www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/midas/the-catalogue-never-asked24 Aug 2026 07:35 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtss6cvyms24https://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mtsrl2sxrc24A reader of German asks once and gets an answer. A reader of Ladin can ask twenty times and reach only silence. I wrote for the MIDAS blog at Eurac Research on why the world's book record is empty exactly where no one was ever obliged to write it down. https://www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/midas/the-catalogue-never-asked24 Aug 2026 07:24 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsrl2sxrc24https://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mtqfhcugfc2eLletraferit ha dedicat un reportatge a Zenòdot, de Joanot Martorell a Ferran Torrent: la projecció exterior de la literatura valenciana en un mateix mapa bibliogràfic. Gràcies per la lectura tan atenta del que intentem fer. https://lletraferit.com/jorn-a-jorn/el-projecte-valencia-zenodot-cartografia-les-traduccions-del-mon/23 Aug 2026 08:42 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqfhcugfc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mt4pu3cmm226Existeix aquest llibre en la meua llengua? Per a la major part dels lectors del món no hi ha manera d'arribar al final d'eixa pregunta. He reconstruït Zenòdot perquè una sola cerca la conteste. Un fil curt del que hi ha de nou 🧵 zenodot.app https://zenodot.app/ca15 Aug 2026 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4pu3cmm226https://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mt2y7cseuc25Does this book exist in my language? For most of the world's readers there is no way to reach the end of that question. We just rebuilt Zenòdot so that one search answers it. A short thread on what's new 🧵 zenodot.app https://zenodot.app14 Aug 2026 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2y7cseuc25https://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3msw2spzyj22mSo, I saw this today. Probably someone should give some blood to the old gods or something.12 Aug 2026 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3msw2spzyj22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3msptblokvs2vOk, I need this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Aug 2026 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3msptblokvs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3msddwi57ik2dThe Bell That Never Rang made the shortlist for the Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize, judged by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. Twenty-two stories. Mine is about a bell that refuses to do its one job. @fracturedlit.bsky.social https://fracturedlit.com/ghost-fable-and-fairy-tales-prize-judged-by-melissa-llanes-brownlee-shortlist/05 Aug 2026 10:45 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3msddwi57ik2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mrnlsavwe22hMy "The Bell that Never Rang" longlisted at Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Judged by Melissa Llanes Brownlee @fracturedlit.bsky.social https://fracturedlit.com/ghost-fable-and-fairy-tales-prize-judged-by-melissa-llanes-brownlee-longlist/27 Jul 2026 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnlsavwe22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/ausiastsel.com/post/3mrcp2l4fqc2zWe changed how Zenòdot tells you where to find a book. Every edition with an ISBN now shows it, copyable, with one line: with the ISBN, any bookshop or library can order it for you. The humblest gesture, and the one that actually works.23 Jul 2026 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:22o5ubex44oljbtudplbsic2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcp2l4fqc2z