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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Elizabeth Moon, CJ Cherryh, and now Gene Wolfe? Oof, Humble Bundle is getting all my book money this month! #AmReading #Booksky

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She was idly sifting through beach pebbles looking for agates when something launched out of the water and landed at her feet. She picked it up. A fishing #lure, still bright and shiny but line-free. She pocketed and thought no more of it until the next day, when it happened again. #vss365 (lure)

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Mathew L Reyes, Chaos Gremlin of Time @mathewlreyes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Twin Cities! Do you wanna support your local indie bookstore and indie author? I’m giving a reading this Wednesday at the splendid DreamHaven Books, a store for all things sci fi, fantasy, and horror. Join me as I do a reading from my book, and stay for a gift card raffle 👀

Meet the author:
Wednesday October 7 @ 6:30pm
DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis

An image of my book, God’s Own Country, next to a photo of me with the name Mathew L Reyes

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is so cool! TIL this podcast exists.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only! We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard! www.havenspec.com/submit/

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Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page

Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delighted to announce my story is included in Her Horrorween, a Halloween horror audio anthology! Free on all podcast platforms 10/26/26. Listen to the awesomely chilling trailer on Spotify (1m27s): open.spotify.com/episode/73qj... #Booksky #SpookySeason #Horror #podcast #AmWriting #ShortStory

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OMINOUS THRILL: HER HORRORWEEN Trailer

OMINOUS THRILL: Her Horrorween · Episode

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I DEEPLY wish all streaming services offered the "never show me this ad again" and "I am deeply offended and hate this ad payer" options. So much. Like. Some things are just annoying. But some are enraging in their very existence.

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" (lurve that the "it's a bet" trope goes both ways here), and as a writer, that you have to write a thing no matter what just isn't that much of a threat! C'mon! Grab some guts, subvert the title of the article, make it "but upbeat" and everybody will love it!

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I used to say, "I reckon..." so easily. Before the Reckoning became real. Before "I reckon" summoned forces that, to tell the truth (a wise thing these days), we'd never reckoned on. I never figured I'd #reckon again, after that first series of events. #vss365 (reckon)

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These folks ARE the on-the-ground community aid we all say we want to support. If you have $5, that'd be lovely. If you don't, boosts help. Thank you.

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mommy, I #hunger. I hunger for all the world and the sun and the birds that nest outside my window and the books on the shelves in the library and the nice librarians you tell me about who pick my books, such good books. And Mommy, I hunger for the marrow in your bones. #vss365 (hunger)

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

" #Passion, I understand. But--a passion for paperwork?" She smiled serenely. "Is there any pleasure so exquisite as the evaporation of pain and fear by properly filled out paperwork? The joy of expunging uncertainty?" "Since you ask..." "That was hypothetical." #vss365 (passion) Read on Gavagai

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 22/09/2026

Amazing. Also--you never know what will make an impact, no matter how small it seems.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 22/09/2026

Welcome to the autumnal equinox, Northern Hemisphere folks, this might be a good day to get your full spectrum lamp and/or Vitamin D supplements back out of storage why wait until things are bad a month from now when you could prevent it from happening by starting now!!

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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember)

Alt: That clip from Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember) that everyone posts today because it says "Do you remember/the 21st night of September?"

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This makes me deeply want to get an apple and some extra sharp cheddar cheese.

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Having already named one of my least favorite tropes ("it was all a dream!"), let's make this an open question: what trope or plot device would you fire into the sun, never to be seen again? (Take it as a given that offensive tropes like fridged women and magical Negroes are already on the rocket.)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reposting this would be very helpful. We're having a tough month at Skype a Scientist between much of my energy being devoted to Academy of Natural Sciences stuff. I need help!!

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Margin Note What's your preference: hero or antihero and why? I want a character I can root for, and whose head I don't mind living in (or who I don't mind living in my head??) for a long period of time. Funnily enough, that doesn't actually limit it to either hero or antihero. #AmWriting

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"We will show you #marvels and wonders," they had promised. And so they did, though they hadn't warned me I'd be too busy mopping up ectoplasm or getting the tarnish off the silver (knives, that is) to appreciate it. I also hadn't paid attention to that "lifetime career" clause. #vss365

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#WritingCommunity help! If you have a lot of publications, especially unrelated ones (eg. short stories), how do you organize them on your website? It seems like there should be a better way! Know any authors whose website organization you love? #AmWriting #SFF #ShortStories

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#Minneapolis rabies exposure! Do you know this person? "25-to-30 year old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog." Rabies: not much fun at all.

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Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com · 17/09/2026

Tonight at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social in Minneapolis! A twofer! @marissalingen.bsky.social and @naomikritzer.bsky.social discuss A DUBIOUS CLAMOR and you’d best believe there will be cake!

You’re invited
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT
Join Marissa Lingen for the release of her new book A DUBIOUS CLAMOR and a conversation with Naomi Kritzer!
SEPTEMBER 17 2026 6:00 PM -7:00 PM
MOON PALACE BOOKS
3032, MINNEHAHA AVE
MINNEAPOLIS, MN

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Margin Note How far is too far when asking someone to suspend their disbelief? Readers, when have you said, "Nope, you went too far, writer!" Writers, have you ever wondered, "Are the readers really going to let me get away with this?!" 🤣I write fantasy, SF, and horror. Sky's the limit! Most

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

She needed to #sustain the dream because she had seen the things that crept behind it. The demon braiding her hair so prettily with taloned fingers. The cook asking her favorite fruit while gnawing on a child's arm. She surmised the dream usually faded. #vss365 (sustain)

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/09/2026

So Think, Write, Edit, Romance has a lot about prose and a whole section on self-editing. In a moment of wild surmise, I asked the literal Final Boss copyeditor if he'd take a look at it. (When I said I was taking a punt on blurbs...) And he did, and this is some of what @bcdreyer.social said.

Flyer for Think Write Edit Romance. Quote: “...she offers up here the sort of expert advice on the nuts and bolts of prose, from punctuation to grammar, that makes my copyeditorial heart sing. And if that weren't enough, she does it all engagingly and wittily. I can't imagine a writer, of romance or of anything else, who won't find much that's invaluable in these pages.” --—Benjamin Dreyer, New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer's English and former Random House copy chief. Out 15 Dec in print, e and audio

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bats are awesome! I illustrated a picture book all about this special one with a suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper long tongue! Written by Gordon McMillan. info and links- www.globepequot.com/978149303660... #sciart

Bats Moonlight Feast bat with long tongue

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Personal Me: good thread demystifying the whole “AI will destroy humaniteeee!” thing going around. 👇🏻

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just gonna say, Princess Awesome is my go-to dress brand, very good quality AND pockets! Mostly designed for the 5'5" woman, though, except for their maxi dresses.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm home for the next 20 hours. Order a snail facts advent calendar right nowwwwww and I'll ship it out tomorrow morning! Get a snail fact every day for 24 days straight by scratching off a shell! It's like a big lottery ticket but everyone's a winner because you learn about snails. SquidFacts.net

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Before reacting with rage to something you see on these here internets, remember that the next sixty days is going to see a huge investment of bots and other propaganda tools aimed entirely at fomenting inter-left infighting in the run up to the elections. Divided, we lose.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Todayyyyy!!!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/09/2026

Spindle’s End here is the opening chapter I sometimes hold up as “how to do an establishing infodump spectacularly well.”

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com wants anti-authoritarian science fiction and fantasy novellas, 20K - 40K words, pays $2,000 advance plus royalties, no reprints. 🧵1/ hornedlarkpress.com/submissions/ #SubmissionCall #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SFF

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Submissions – Horned Lark Press

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Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com · 07/09/2026

If ye exist in Minneapolis, mark ye thy calendar and attend the hootenanny at Moon Palace Books! If ye do not exist in Minneapolis, call ye the store and order signed copies from @marissalingen.bsky.social and @naomikritzer.bsky.social!

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you are developing a faux-medieval society, for gaming or your novel or because you are Just Like That, and you care about the fictional economy or material culture (but only if you care!) I urge you to spend a moment contemplating salt. Salt.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 07/09/2026

Vida could use some support, and I can vouch for her work being excellent.

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 02/09/2026

an important update about The Deadlands:

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh my actual God. THE DREAM.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today's answer to the question what is Hookland?

What is Hookland?

Hookland is England as seen from the ghost train.

It is a fierce refusal to let psychogeographers tell you that when you talk about spirits of place you can’t really believe in them. It is all the books you borrowed time and time again from the library as a child – encyclopaedias of horror films, Usborne’s Worlds of the Unknown UFOs and Charles Berlitz’s The Bermuda Triangle.

It is walking home through the woods in November mist and feeling that the place has monsters, not the sort they made into Aurora model kits, but old, nameless things that are fed by the fear you’ve had of this place since that murder a few years back. It is the terror of living in a haunted landscape. It is the delight of living in a profoundly haunted landscape. Hookland is the place that you can almost allow yourself to believe in magic again before realising it is a territory you already inhabit. Shared space where all the broken memories of childhood are resuscitated and walking alongside you.

It is knowing the names of Soviet spacemen orbiting above and feeling the youthful power if recognising which mushrooms are poisonous. It is sneaking into fields to release crows from cruel traps and thinking up mad schemes to raise money to buy fireworks when the air becomes rich with the intoxicating smell of bonfires. It’s being more scared by gaudy movie posters for films that you haven’t ever seen than being afraid of the things your parents constantly warn you about.

It is knowing that everywhere is layers of story, layers of memory and realising you may be the ghost of someone else’s future.

It is a French radio station on AM, full of songs you hear and instantly love, but will spend the rest of your life trying to remember what the title was, which band it was.

On its jagged rocks, its snaring brambles, fragments of ripped cloth that you know are clues to something you have forgotten. Something important you cannot unlock.

It is home.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026

Oh my god, this is AWFUL

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I see them at sunset, moving across the beach. #Silhouettes of couples, hand-in-hand. Families playing. Pirates brandishing cutlasses. Runners with shadow dogs. I wonder if they would disappear if I went out with a flashlight. I wonder if I dare try. #vss365 (silhouette)

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 01/09/2026

The portal is OPEN! Send us your original flash fiction - hit us in the feels, give us some hope, make it weird, play with fun formats, or hey all of the above if you can manage it in 1000 words! smallwondersmag.com/submissions/

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Space Door

Alt: An open wooden door in a starry field. Through the door blue sky and clouds are visible.

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Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 01/09/2026

Good news, sophonts: Escape Pod is once more open to submissions! {{}}< And as soon as we deal with >{{}} all these trilobites, the website will say as much. For now, the submission link to Moksha does work!

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Short Fiction | Escape Pod

Escape Pod is open to submissions of science fiction short stories from September 1 - May 31.

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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine @utopiascifi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tangent happens to be looking for new reviewers. If reading brand new SF is your thing, send us a message on Bluesky and we'll put you in touch.

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Flights of Foundry @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨 REMINDER! The Flights of Foundry lottery for limited attendance for workshops, gaming sessions, and chill-n-chats closes today, August 31! To access the lottery all you have to do is register to FoF! flights-of-foundry.o...

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