Cliff Hensley

Former Publisher/Co-Founder @subtlebodypress. Author and award-winning filmmaker.

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Body Shots is back! Herein, we are genre blind. If we love it, we publish it. The conventional rubs shoulders w/ transgression, sci-fi w/ fantasy, horror w/ comedy, realism w/ surrealism, slice of life, crime fiction... and I am so excited for this year’s lineup. Go check it out!

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We’re back for another round! BODY SHOTS returns for its Fall 2025 issue, featuring an eclectic variety of 15 all-new tales from established and emerging masters of the craft. Shipping begins soon; order now from our website to secure release window discount pricing.

[Guilherme Gomes Santos @guilherme94jose]

99 years ago, they made a film about 2026:

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Reminder: You don't want to be liked. You want to be respected.

[Jason Wilde @JasonWilde108]

Forget Plato's Cave

The learned helplessness experiment bothers me more.

In 1967, Martin Seligman and Steven Maier ran experiments where dogs were exposed to shocks they could not control. Nothing they did stopped what was happening.

Later, the dogs were put into a situation where they actually could escape. They just had to cross a small barrier. They didn't.

They had already learned that trying was pointless. The door was basically open and they still stayed there. Some pretty ugly implications for humans.

Keep someone in a system long enough where working harder changes nothing. Complaining changes nothing and following the rules changes nothing. Trying again changes nothing.

Eventually they might stop trying. Then one day an opportunity appears and everyone looking from the outside says, “Why don't they just do something?”

They already did.
A hundred times.

People don't rebel when conditions get bad. Not always.

People will shut down and withdraw. They distract themselves and accept shit they once would have fought against. They have learned that fighting changes nothing.

Who has to convince people that the cage is good? You don't.

You need to convince them the door doesn't open.

Eventually you can unlock it and they will never even check.

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@Maya_X_0 Edsel.

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@EllenDatlow 🙌 🎉 🥳

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@guilherme94jose This is the film that made me decide to become a filmmaker.

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@DrDavidVernon Beckett is the GOAT.

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Nailed it.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️This sharpens the housing thesis.

The important signal is the dispersion.

Miami is only about 2% below peak while Cape Coral is down 22%, Fort Myers 19%, Sarasota 14%. They all live under the same national mortgage-rate regime. That means rates explain the broad freeze, but they do not explain who breaks first.

The deeper variable is carry.

Insurance. Taxes. HOA and condo assessments. Maintenance. Storm exposure. Investor ownership. Rental economics. How much speculative demand was embedded in the prior price.

Once monthly carrying cost rises faster than income or rent, the house has to reprice until somebody can justify owning it again.

That is why Florida is so revealing. A home can be nominally worth $500,000 and still be economically worth far less if the annual cost of simply possessing it has exploded.

And investor-heavy markets crack harder because investors do not have the same emotional attachment as owner-occupiers. When the return disappears, the asset becomes inventory.

So the sequence is:

cheap money created the boom
→ migration and speculation amplified it
→ insurance, taxes and financing changed the carry
→ investor demand retreats
→ sellers pile up
→ price falls until the yield and monthly payment make sense again

That last step can go much further than people expect.

The dangerous part is that housing corrections do not need forced foreclosure waves anymore. Negative carry alone can create voluntary capitulation.

Someone does not need to be bankrupt.

They only need to realize that owning the asset has become irrational.

That is why Cape Coral matters more to me than Miami. Miami still has international capital, wealth concentration, scarcity and trophy demand supporting it. Cape Coral is closer to the pure economic test.

And the market is giving the answer:

when the carry breaks, the price follows.

[Cliff Hensley @cliffhensley]

@MapQuest Y’all’s ad campaigns these days are just banger after banger; I love it.

[Ellen Datlow @EllenDatlow]

A new interview with me just dropped. Enjoy! Interview With an Editor: Ellen Datlow | Los Angeles Public Library https://t.co/YVv5OG2Esy

[Mary allison @maryisalien]

According Jung's Union of Opposites, the division will get so extreme that humanity collapses before it regenerates.

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@StarWarsDaily_ These scenes are such great parallels.

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@Bruwulf Still got mine in storage.

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@TheCinesthetic I was there. Mind blowing.

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No, seriously. If I wanted indoors energy I wouldn’t fuckin sit outside.

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Normalize not having outside speakers playing music on coffee shop or restaurant patios.

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@atlurbanist Was caught out in it. Hunkered down in America’s Mart and grabbed dinner to wait it out. Good times!

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@aakashgupta Similar thinking behind why a lot of municipalities have begun shifting from traffic lights to roundabouts.