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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Coming up soon! Free workshops in the Poconos!

Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The best one-star review I've ever gotten for The Splendid City: If Ray Bradbury dated a tumblr witch and then went on a 30-day coke binge, I imagine he’d write this

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I looked thru the photos and I am so loving them!

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

How many "new" emails do you have in your inbox? I've had over 300 up until two weeks ago when I started making decisions to answer, move them to folders, or delete. I'm down to 230 and going tougher.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

what the hell? I. missed this story. will check history

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The cat loves tacos, but only “American” tacos. He also has a gun (“You know I only shoot once a day”) and he's loving every minute of it. The book, which is ridiculous and snarky and filled with lies, endorses no party but its own. “The Splendid City” is published by Angry Robot Books

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

turned into a large cat who thinks all of this is just damn funny. The novice witch that messed up the spell turning him into a cat is stuck with him as punishment while she tries to redeem herself with her coven.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

“vacations,” who has animatronic heads lining the boulevard that ask people if they’re happy with the president—or if they know anyone who isn’t? Meanwhile, there’s a stolen river that makes water prices rise every day and sometimes every hour—and a man

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

How many of you think we’re living in a poorly written satire? Why not read a well-written satire instead? For instance—in The Splendid City, Texas has seceded from the U.S. and is ruled by a man who insists on daily parades, cars that roam the streets taking people away

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

he runs a circle in their camp, over and over again, just a circle. They stand and watch. When he's finished, the head shaman runs his circle backwards, to undo whatever charm Mcintyre is trying to cast on them.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Years ago I read "The Encounter" by Petru Popescu, about Loren Mcintyre's travels in the Amazon. He ended up staying with an "uncivilized" tribe while on his own. They take his sneakers and his watch while he's sleeping and burn them. In response, See less

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Asimov gave us the Three Laws of Robotics. What should the Three Laws of AI be?

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work. --Colette

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I'd rather it didn't. It's perfect as it was

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

An FB memory: I went to a thing at the Museum of Natural History, on neuroscience. I found out that mouse and rat brains are flat not folded (!). I also played a sort of Jeopardy game -- and I discovered that MY brain has slowed down to a terrible crawl. This has been both interesting and awful.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

There's a wonderful sale over at Arc Manor, offering reduced prices, some free ebooks, special pre-orders, and a glittering list of authors! Do NOT miss out! www.arcmanorbooks.com/spring

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Spring | Arc Manor

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The underground pipes froze, so no water for 12 days. Now that it's back, should I take the dirty dishes out of the snow and bring them inside?

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

IF YOU'RE GOING TO BOSKONE, Stop by and say hello Fri 5:30pm Marina III Myths, Fairy Tales, and Folklore Sat 1:00 PM Harbor II Transitioning from Short Stories to Novels *Sat 3:30 PM Independence *Reading Sat 4:00 PM Marina IV Weaving Magic into the Modern World

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

When I finally settle down to do a task I'd been putting off, I find I become obsessed with another task I had also put off--maybe for longer or for shorter. So I put down the one and take up the other, then find myself despairing of ever finishing anything again.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I'm tempted to read it just to dismiss it

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Betty Tuch's Lit Mag News discusses The Fathoms, a new magazine publishing only AI-generated work. Its editorial staff consists of an AI program evaluating submissions and choosing content. No people involved. Part of me wants to check it out (it's open for subs for its first issue). What think ye?

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I once had an editor try to remove every semicolon in my novel. Obviously she hated my style, but in the years since then I've come across more people who don't approve of semicolons. What do you think? Do you hate them or love them? Why? They are dear to me, so I'll stand up for them forever.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Road block! Thankful they made it past Thanksgiving!

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I have saved this and reposted it over the years because it is both wonderful and thought-provoking www.facebook.com/reel/1015133...

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3.8K views · 20K reactions | simply amazing :) | Tee Crane

simply amazing :)

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Arc Manor has reissued my first collection--reviewed by the NY Times in 1995, when they had a page devoted to University presses: “Haunting and quirky, these modern-day fables are told with such arresting attention to the details of daily life that the line between reason and reverie is dissolved"

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

there's a magic eye looking back at you

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It pleases me (for some reason) to know that Walt Whitman used to ghost-write rave reviews for his "Leaves of Grass"

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Nick, she promised you ATTRACTIVE READERS.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Was that me, Nick? Did they finally find me?

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A new very short story is now up on SciFi Journal. It's about a short-circuit in the Rapture. If you didn't ascend a few days ago, this may be why. www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20...

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Half-Rapt - Sci Phi Journal

What if the Rapture comes and... doesn't go according to plan? By Karen Heuler.

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

If you missed Story Hour live, you can catch the replay here! @karenheuler.bsky.social's "The Stray Curse" is an incredible dark fairy tale, and I read my corvid story "One for Sorrow" from Blanket Gravity #1. ▶ youtu.be/CutdQgqel20 ◀

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September 3, 2025 Story Hour: Karen Heuler and RJ Aurand

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