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Lisa Cai

@lisacai.bsky.social
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She/her | From Toronto, Canada | Writes SFFH | Head of ToWriMo | Stories in Diabolical Plots, The Dark, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, and others | Brave New Weird nominee | #amquerying lisacai.carrd.co

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 21/09/2026
The Authors Guild is grateful the Court has unsealed some of the most important filings in our case against OpenAI and Microsoft. (1/7)
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Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI: Top Execs Knew Their Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal And Would Put Authors Out of Work
(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their p...
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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Canadians: As part of a global effort to demand regulation for artificial intelligence developers, The Writers’ Union of Canada has launched a Parliamentary Petition calling for radical transparency for AI training processes & the works they subsequently produce. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7774 - Petitions
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks for attending my reading! It was a great experience :)
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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reminder, this weird fiction anthology is a benefit for Transgender Law Center and National Immigration Project. Pre-orders are fairly low so far, please share this link far and wide: dimshores.bigcartel.com/product/suff... (bit.ly/4x9WHJQ also works.)
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Suffering the Other (anthology)
**PRE-ORDER OPEN, EXPECTED TO SHIP IN OCTOBER** A new benefit anthology of dark weird fiction based on the concept of othering -- the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundam...
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I just backed LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...
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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror
We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Do you want to hear me read my short story 'Blood and Tea Leaves' ? I'll be reading it at Flights of Foundry! My reading panel will be on Sun, Sept 20 at 10 AM ET #flights2026
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All AI generated content can do is waste your time. It is, in this sense, stealing your life, the precious finite time you have on this earth from you, every second you are forced to interact with it, forcing you to look at its meaninglessness. It is a mindless vampire.
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Flights of Foundry @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Flights of Foundry commences in 1 week!!! Have you registered yet??? flights-of-foundry.o...
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shintigercurl @shintigercurl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Ruby (ft. Jimin) @lapsedbard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
CANADIANS, this petition to regulate data centers in Canada is open until September 24, please sign! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7550 - Petitions
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 25/08/2026
Canadians, we can donate to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library in Canadian communities through CanadaHelps: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Maybe I'm in the minority here but if people who support AI are being shamed into silence then it's working. The shame is working as intended. The left's biggest problem is that it's afraid to hurt the feelings of folks who need to have their feelings hurt. Let them experience introspection for once
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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The cat is out of the bag. Pre-order for SUFFERING THE OTHER is now open, with the book expected to ship in late September. I’m on my way back home from an incredible NecronomiCon, more about all this after I’ve recovered. #NecronomiCon #WeirdFiction #exhausted
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Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It’s time for LITTLE GHOSTS FESTIVAL again! Free to attend! Catch 20+ vendors, 6 panels, and a Sunday night showing of indie short films all curated by the ghostly team. Grab great local art, indie horror books, VHS tapes and more! Sept 26 & 27 , 1-6pm 🖤👻 www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...
Little Ghosts Festival (2)!

Saturday & Sunday Sept. 26 & 27th 1-6pm
THE TRANZAC CLUB 292 Brunswick Ave Toronto ON
Horror Vendors, Panels, Short Films
www.littleghostsbooks.com/littleghostsfest
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Chocobone💀Skare🎺Paradie🪦 @chocoboskaparadise.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Friendly reminder
A woman with tall hair, glasses, and a cigarette holds a paper. A luck cat jumps in the background
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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Finally, some updates. All copyedits for SUFFERING THE OTHER have been rolled in, and we have a new ARC. A few last tweaks and some proofreading, then it will be ready for publication. I plan to open up pre-orders this week, with shipping in late September.
Two Advance Reader Copies of the book SUFFERING THE OTHER, next to a stack of small promo postcards advertising the book. The cover art (by Rew X) shows a magnificent many-tailed and winged golden creature soaring towards the upper right, while dozens of evil-looking snake creatures rain down towards the lower left. It is beautiful.

Suffering the Other – table of contents

16 original stories and 8 reprints (indicated with **), arranged here alphabetically by author name.

Nadia Bulkin -- Infested **
Lisa Cai -- The Eighth Cigarette **
Matthew Cheney -- Queer Horror, and Other Stories
Jennifer DeLeskie -- You Shall Love Your Crooked Neighbor with Your Crooked Heart
Kurt Fawver -- The KnowQuest AI Chatbot Answers All Your Questions About Britemol C
Robin Rose Graves -- Her True Face
Alexander Hay -- LEAD **
Bitter Karella -- The Divine Feminine
Gwendolyn Kiste -- My Sister, the Abyss
Jonathan Lees -- To Those That Have Lost Hope
Laura Mauro -- Ptichka **
David Peak -- Crawling Out of Black Sun
Marigold Rowell -- Salt Blossoms
Erica Ruppert -- Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea
Cheyenne Shaffer -- Ursula the Powerful **
A. J. Sharpe -- Sore Thumb
Clint Smith -- “January Sick”
J. J. Steinfeld -- The Suicide Inspector **
Bogi Takács -- A Technical Term, Like Privilege **
Jeffrey Thomas -- Song of the Loved
Lee Thomas -- Kisses from the Pain Chamber
Pamela Weis -- An Abomination
A.C. Wise -- Sea-Wives
Wen Wen Yang -- Ghost Festival in the Desert **

Cover art and design by RewX
Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
One thing I can confidently say is that more than a few other books have been canceled for AI use--including by established authors and non-fiction books--that have just not made the news yet.
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I just backed The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven
Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I've deleted my Submittable account. Others can do so here: gdpr.submittable.com/submit/16957...
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.
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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 17/07/2026
Remember those summer reading lists you used to get as a kid? While they could have a few gems, for the most part, they weren't all that exciting. But what if your teachers had given you manga and light novels to read?
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ANN Manga and Novel Summer Reading List 2026
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Free to download, and printable on standard Avery 5164 shipping label stickers. Enjoy!
Hand drawn text reading: Oh no! ANOTHER HIDEOUS GENERATIVE AI FLYER
Looks like they:
-don’t care about the harm to the planet and our drinkable water
-devalue human artists and creativity
-lined a billionaire’s pocket instead of hiring a local artist
-want everyone to become more lazy, stupid and misinformed
HOW EMBARRASSING 
The text image from the other image in this post, printed six times to fit on mailing label stickers when printed
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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖
game-oracle.com
AI in Games: The Impact On Sales
Explore how AI influences game success on Steam. This data-driven analysis uncovers the link between AI usage and sales performance, revealing whether AI-generated content in Steam games is impacting ...
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Flights of Foundry @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Want to participate in Flights of Foundry? Interested in appearing on a panel or giving a presentation? Want to host a meetup or run a workshop? Whatever the activity is, let us know who you are and what your interest is! flights-of-foundry.o...
Cuddle pile of Flights of Foundry gryphons including a harpy eagle, a bald eagle, a barn owl, and a cockatoo.
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A Coup of Owls Press @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
In the 2050s, detective Mrs Sui enters a fundamentalist commune to investigate human trafficking incidents. She arranges a temporary marriage with Madame Fern to find out what happened. Madame Fern by Lisa Cai Read now in our Summer 2026 issue: acoupofowls.com/2026/06/15/s...
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Rosamund Pike Holds Radium Vial
ALT: Rosamund Pike Holds Radium Vial
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
My latest short story "Madame Fern" can be read starting on page 31!
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Time to move over to carrd.co
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I just backed Tales & Feathers: A Pro Slice of Life Fantasy Mag | Year 5+ on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/aug...
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Tales & Feathers: A Pro Slice of Life Fantasy Mag | Year 5+
Fund the next two years of our pro-rate slice of life fantasy magazine—and help us create our inaugural print edition.
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Ash @ashrowan.design · 27/05/2026
yikes :(
Instagram post from Loryn Brantz. Text reads,

I am horrified and disgusted by BuzzFeed taking my character, The Good Advice Cupcake, and giving it to an Al platform. My time at BuzzFeed was marked by continually being taken advantage of and lied to. They repeatedly assured me in good faith that they would never do anything with Cuppy without my input, yet offered me no legal options, insisting that I would never need them. The news that this character, who is based on my own personality and whom I created as a microphone to spread love and positivity, has been taken and turned into a soulless Al puppet feels like having my intestines pulled out of my body.
Somebody leaked the news to me early on that there were talks happening, and I pleaded with the CEO Jonah Peretti directly not to do it. Instead, he tried to talk me into signing an NDA. Obviously, I did not.
This is an assault on artists everywhere.
I encourage you to boycott BuzzFeed and any Al-produced or adjacent animation.
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I just backed Anathema: Spec from the Margins on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...
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Anathema: Spec from the Margins
Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!
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Leah Rambadt 🦊🌸 @leahrambadt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
QL6 A SFF Premise sounds interesting, good use of comps. Some reordering is needed. Unclear of POV for the MS. GMC is also unclear. #RevPit #10Queries
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My poem 'The New Ophelia' is out in SpecPoVerse! It's on page 32 of the latest issue: specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-iss...
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Specpoverse
Join us in our mission to create a multicultural vision of speculative poetry.
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Any day now. @just-eirik.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This was my novel. Thank you so much for the feedback. I'll definitely take it into consideration as I continue to edit my work.
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
One last meme to send off #revpit . Congratulations everyone; we all worked very hard to reach this point, regardless of the results.
Confused Math Lady meme. Text at the top: 'Madison imagining life without capitalism'.
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I just backed Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 4 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/kot...
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Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 4
Award winners. Award nominees. Hidden gems. All Canadian. All in one anthology.
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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I am unlike other marionettes. My form is made of flesh and bones and my hair grows from my scalp. -from "Blood and Tea Leaves" by Lisa Cai (@lisacai.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstory #horror
"Blood and Tea Leaves" by Lisa Cai (@lisacai.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/caiBlood.html
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Last one, I swear. #revpit #revpitwaiting
Left Exit 12 Off Ramp Meme. One choice is to 'wreck a billionaire business'. The car chooses to turn towards the 'Grow tomatoes' path.
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Rosalind is an automaton maid. Vered is her copy. #revpit #revpitwaiting
Spider Man Double Meme. One Spider Man has 'Rosalind' labelled on him. The second Spider Man has 'Vered' labelled on him.
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
One more, because why not? It makes sense in context. #revpit #revpitwaiting
Drowning kid + skeleton Meme. Zeta Corp supports Aiko, Madison is drowning, and the Generation Zero robots are at the bottom of the sea.
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Eileen's grand scheme, in meme form. #revpit
Girl house on fire meme. The burning house's text is 'Zeta Corp'. The text underneath the smiling girl is 'Eileen', a former employee of the company.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“It’s inevitable” “you can’t roll it back” “you just have to accept it”
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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
After a record 450+ submissions, IT'S TIME! Click below for an alert the moment we launch the Kickstarter campaign for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 4 (Tuesday, April 7). Early bird backers (first 50 & 100) will be entered in giveaways! Pls SHARE WIDELY--thx!
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Coming soon: Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 4
Award winners. Award nominees. Hidden gems. All Canadian. All in one anthology.
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Lisa Cai @lisacai.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I just backed On Spec 2026: New Canadian Literature of the Fantastic on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/edw...
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On Spec 2026: New Canadian Literature of the Fantastic
An anthology of science fiction and fantasy by Canadian authors, following in the footsteps of the late, great On Spec Magazine.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 11/03/2026
BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Grammarly Pulls Down Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission
Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly's owner Superhuman, has announced that the company is "disabling" a feature that impersonated journalists.
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is obscene, ghastly, unacceptable.
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