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For such evasive dust Can make so little clear: Much less is known than not, More far than near. MA Creative Writing (Distinction), University of Bristol Currently querying queer sci-fi coming-of-age novel.

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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#QueerPit Project Hail Mary meets I Saw the TV Glow? - Nostalgia of the past + regrets of the future - Unconscious aboard a long-haul spaceship - World's digital data has disappeared - Midwest childhood + interstellar adulthood - Sci-fi/lit-fic/magical realism blend - Queer woman MC #A #MR #SF #LF
Image from the film I Saw the TV Glow: "there is still time" is written in chalk on a street.Image from the film Project Hail Mary: an astronaut attached to a spaceship gazes at the green and orange swirls of a planet's surface.Artwork from Sunset at Zero Point by Simon Stalenhag: a person stands at the edge of a lake on a snowy day. On the other side, a bright orange flame-like orb glows within a dilapidated spherical structure.Promotional image for the film I Saw the TV Glow: a person's head is silhouetted by the pink static glow of a CRT television.
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R. E. McManus @earthkids.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
13 GOING ON 30 x ANNA KARENINA Kitty wakes up 10 years in the future learning she's miserable despite now living in outer space. She decides to better her life w/ a scheme to win her ex back from the woman who stole him only to realize he wasn't the one she was interested in. #QueerPit #A #SF #R
A background featuring the moon looking at earth with a retrofuturistic space station in the background. The main character from 13 Going on 30 is skipping in her pink pajamas with a little moon habitat at her feet to the left and then to the right there are people dressed in 1960s clothes while a woman is in space above them. The top says:10 Years Time
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leah holler writes @leah-holler-writes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND x MONK & ROBOT by Becky Chambers 🌳☀️🌈🍄 In an eco-utopia where people’s spirits are bonded with trees, an anxious teen seeks a cure for the suspicious blight that’s killing her best friend’s soul. SPIRITS FED BY SUN AND STREAM is a #solarpunk #YA #SF #F #QueerPit
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#QueerPit Alice has a crush on a girl from her middle-school class, but something feels off: Whenever they're together—whenever her heart races, whenever she's in a moment she treasures most—her grip on reality loosens, and she sees visions of a future that's becoming difficult to ignore. #A #LF #SF
Collage art: A young girl runs across a field toward a big blue planet as the horizon disintegrates into blocky pixels.
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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Final post for #questpit ✨ Thank you everyone! Here’s a streamlined look at THE LAST WORD for agents and readers who want a quick glance.🧡 Emotion is outlawed. Memory is rewritten. Soft rebellion, found family, slow-burn epic romance—and hope in the dark. #W #A #S #SF
Title slide: “THE LAST WORD – Upmarket Speculative Fiction” with comparison books Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. Dark atmospheric background with glowing white title text.Pitch text: “Emotion is outlawed. Memory is rewritten. Nova erases memories for the regime, but when a glitching implant shows her a phantom in the code, she must choose obedience—or a truth she was never meant to remember.” Themes listed include found family, soft rebellion, trauma and recovery, slow-burn romance, and hope in the darkness. Images of a woman walking in misty mountains, a glowing neural network, and a silhouette at sunset.Quote: “I saw you under the maple tree.”
Followed by atmospheric pitch lines: “A voice she can’t forget. A past they tried to erase. A choice that could break her—or set her free.” Visuals of blood on a wall, a tactical soldier, and a futuristic city skyline.Nine-image aesthetic grid: futuristic cityscapes, a cabin in the woods, digital patterns, a forest, broken glass, and a lone figure walking into mist. Emphasis on contrast between nature and surveillance tech.
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John Zeleznik @johnzeleznikauthor.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
1988. Suburbia. Wannabe writer Vinny goes on an epic kids on bikes adventure w/ his friends to find a crashed UFO. Along the way they find an exact duplicate of their neighborhood, a creepy mansion and uncover a dangerous conspiracy, all in one night. #MG #SF #questpit
Clockwise from top left: the Goonies, the Losers Club, the Hellfire Club and the kids from Bob’s Burgers.
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
#QuestPit #Q Is it better to live or remember? A young girl in a post-digital-data world realizes she is actually deep in space aboard a malfunctioning spaceship, unconsciously reliving her childhood as her oxygen and fuel run low. Can she save her future without losing touch with her past? #A #SF
Collage image of a young girl running across a field toward a large blue planet hanging in front of her as the horizon disintegrates into blocky pixels. Against a TV static background with the hidden words "all that time they spent trying to recall the past could have been spent living"
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Niki Zenobia @nikizenobia.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#Q Update Required #NA Dani awakens from a natural disaster unscathed & no one remembers it. The world has changed, & her crush Sam is gone. Dani begins to question her existence in a world that no longer follows the rules of reality. #ghostpit #Spec #R #SF THE NIGHT SHIFT x WE USED TO LIVE HERE
A beach, a beach with meteors, a wave, and the San Francisco ferry building
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#GhostPit #Q Is it better to live or remember? A young girl in a post-digital-data world realizes she is actually deep in space aboard a malfunctioning spaceship, unconsciously reliving her childhood as her oxygen and fuel run low. Can she save her future without losing touch with her past? #SF #A
Collage image of a young girl running across a field toward a large blue planet hanging in front of her as the horizon disintegrates into blocky pixels.
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Gus Ryer @gusryer.com · 30/10/2025
ASHES OF THE SUN ➕ NOTES FROM THE BURNING AGE When a machine god severs the world from ancient nanotech, two engineer priests, a blademaster & her warrior-poet twin must hunt it for a cure—and revenge. Failure will doom the world to divine wrath. Success may be deadly #GhostPit #Q #A #SF #F
A giant, spaceship hovers over a dusty, walled fantasy cityscape. In the foreground, two figures stand in shadow looking out over the scene. The words 'An Agent's Guide to CASCADE, by Gus Ryer' is along the top. His website, gusryer.com, is below.A slide with metadata and story elements for CASCADE:

Genre:               Science Fiction w/ Fantasy Elements
Wordcount:      +-130,000

It also shows the book covers for the following:
ASHES OF THE SUN, Django Wexler
THE ARCHIVE UNDYING, Emma Mieko Candon
ELDER RACE, Adrian Tchaikovsky
NOTES FROM THE BURNING AGE, Claire North
Ps5's Horizon Zero Dawn

Below that are the following phrases:
Found family
Failed terraforming
A vast, hidden history
Nanotech magic system
Epic fantasy quest in a sci-fi world
Ancient mechanical gods
Arachnid mammals & guard drones
Sword (1) vs. Railguns (lots)A warrior woman w/ a winged helmet, armor, cape, and spear is along the right side of the image, fractured into triangles. Part of the following pitch is along the left: 

2,000 years in the future, a galactic human empire fell, severing TRAPPIST-1e from other inhabited worlds before its terraforming could be completed. Wild nanotechnology ravaged the land, and civilization fell into a dark age. Eventually, the God Keepers—engineer priests who restored ancient nanotech—rose to power.

While Lendi dreams of life outside the God Keepers, Falder is desperate to keep his best friend from abandoning their order—and him. But, when an ancient machine god crash-lands in a ball of fire and gray death, it severs Keepers from nanotech, plunging the world back into chaos.
 
Meanwhile, Sedna and Renfrik have little patience for Keeper rules or mysticism. But, when a flood of nanites in the god’s wake consumes their home, they’re left with nothing to protect but each other...Chapter 1

THE RUSH IS ON! This Tuesday, Planetfall, Inc. announced it would join the rash of megacorps racing to deploy terraforming infrastructure through the newly stabilized Taurine Strait. Previously dominated by New World Corporation, the franchised development of pseudoterra worlds is slated to be the hot market sector of the twenty-fifth century.
-Excerpt from InvestSyder: Stellar Ed., June 15, 2398
  
The streets of Mahyan never fully slept. Night’s darkness, not yet broken by either the sun’s rise or the blinding, baleful Eye of Toros, wrapped Lendi more completely than her robes. Still, she couldn’t shake the feeling that eyes were on her. She wanted nothing more than to run.
An eager vendor barred her way with his stringy arm. “A fine morning calls for a fine meal, miss.” He smiled and fanned out a selection of skewered mutton and whalemeat wrapped in sea grass. Pungent, spiced oil dripped onto the dusty street.
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Ayman Eckford @aymaneckford.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A queer autistic journalist hides his secret life as a serial killer, while a trans autistic detective hunts the Ritualist, unaware their lives are fatally entwined by a cult that hates them both. On Halloween night, secrets will be revealed… 👻 #GhostPit #A #C #Q #MM #T #LGBT
The Forest Sheffield City CentreTrans flagYoung man with the knife
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Laurel Hill @laurelhillbooks.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
GOING BACK TO WHEN WE BEGAN Beautyland x Five First Chances Life takes a turn for Kat when she (and the world) finds out two extraterrestrial species—one good, one evil—are responsible for our existence. And the evil one wants this life to be Kat’s last. 👻👽🛸🏳️‍🌈 #ghostpit #A #UP #Spec #LGBT #C #Q
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Barrows @barrows.itch.io · 30/10/2025
FIRST LIGHT Rihannsu X The Positronic Man X a dash of Rama The year is 2568. Humanity has spread itself thin across the stars. An introverted scientist stumbles into the recruitment ledger of a spacefaring organization—and realizes it might be her only shot at finding home. #Q #SF #NA #GhostPit
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#GhostPit #Q #SF #A 📺 TV in the woods 💭 girl who dreams of being an astronaut 💞 young queer crush 🪞 perilous glimpse into the future 🚐 roadtrip across USA 🚀 a collision in space, an unconscious astronaut 👻 something lurking in the shadows at every turn 🌌🌊 extraterrestrial sea with cosmic mysteries
A television displaying an image of a blue planet, backdropped by various fragmented newspaper clippings with headlines and text variously reading the following:

"this summer is the hundredth annivers-
-nd we said, if we could do it back then-
-ow. You just have to wake up. We-
-up. There's something out-"

"NASA DISSOLVED IN-
'Good riddance,' activist Gina Snow-
She, and many other protestors, were-"

"NEW YEAR, OLD WAYS"

"There are so many things
I can't remember anymore"

"traveled the cosmos-
even existing"

"LAUNCH DISASTER THROWS NEW SPACE RACE INTO QUESTION"

"Everything. I need you-
-stand that. Scientists are calling-
-significant global disaster"

"life without digita data-
-disease, something"

"scrambling to adapt-
were talking about it as if-
could be quarantined and conta-"

"world's digital data disappeared
overnight in a mysterious anomaly"

"-OF PROTESTS
-Congress Saturday m-
-the government's-"
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
An astronaut, or possibly a character from Singin' in the Rain
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My main character probably wouldn't (unless she has some substantial plot armor), as she has a habit of following strange noises and other anomalies that she should probably be running away from, and she otherwise has a penchant for being passive when it comes to getting out of bad situations.
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#GhostPit #Q decades-spanning #SF past: world's digital data disappears present: girl dreams of space and navigates young queerness future: unconscious astronaut relives childhood memories as her damaged ship burns fuel/oxygen comp Meet Me in Another Life x Light From Other Stars #A #Spec #LGBT
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A still from the film The Abyss. Underwater, a figure stands in front of a cloud of pink and green lights.
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#UnhingedPit #A #SF #Q #LGBT
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
#QueerPit Is it better to live or remember? Deep in space aboard a damaged ship, an unconscious astronaut relives childhood memories of her first love. Meanwhile, her ship is dying, and her family waits for her on Earth. How can she preserve her future without losing sight of her past? #A #SF #SPF
Collage image of a young girl running across a field toward a large blue planet hanging in front of her as the horizon disintegrates into blocky pixels. Against a TV static background with the hidden words "all that time they spent trying to recall the past could have been spent living"
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Kristy Gardner - Queer Sci-Fi & Horror Author @kristygardner.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS x LIGHT FRM UNCOMMON STARS What if your found family was lightyears away and one questionable choice from total disaster? Solo-traveler Audrey Tully came for the R&R, but got a crash course in friendship, self-love, and the messy magic of belonging. #QueerPit #A #SF #SPF
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
#QueerPit #SF #A 📺 TV in the woods 💭 girl who dreams of being an astronaut 💞 young queer crush 🪞 perilous glimpse into the future 🚐 roadtrip across USA 🚀 a collision in space, an unconscious woman 🌌🌊 extraterrestrial sea with cosmic mysteries comp Light From Other Stars x Our Wives Under the Sea
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Neira @neirawrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
SAPPHICS GONE GIRL IN SPACE When grieving widow Amani wakes up half way through a century long space mission, she must uncover the mystery of why she was awoken in the first place, haunted by an android with her dead wife's eyes. #queerpit #SF #A #D
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Holly Baldwin @hollyollybeeee.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Forty years after the fall of the internet, four women (and one genderless alien) embark on a journey that's one part saving the world, ninety-nine parts teaching each other how to survive when every reason they would've named to live is gone. #queerpit #A #SF #SPF #CLI #D
an overgrown train car in a field. the words "we expected more" in bold front and center, the words "optimistic dystopia at its queerest" at the bottom
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H :) @itsbeensnowing.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
#QueerPit decades-spanning #SF past: world's digital data disappears present: girl dreams of space and navigates young queerness future: unconscious astronaut relives childhood memories as her damaged ship burns fuel/oxygen comp Meet Me in Another Life x Light From Other Stars #A #UP #SPF #COA #MR
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