iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Having benefited greatly from the guidance of @ccfinlay.bsky.social , this is one I’ll be sorry to miss! (Unless I can write a new novel by July…)

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Is once again ✨vague✨ -- the writer's life is not for the faint!

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Convincing you to read my flash fiction with the first sentence. “You are fungus, a kingdom unto yourself.” The Life and Times of Coprinus Comatus. moondaymag.com/coprinus-com...

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Moonday Mag - The Life and Times of Coprinus Comatus

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Trollbreath is one to watch (never mind they’ve published me twice!). Each issue is splendidly diverse, compulsively readable.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Absolutely delighted to be making the trek. Who else??!

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

“We could’ve eaten it if it was younger and not quite so drippy,” the largest says, pulling a face of regret. Isn’t that just life, you think, a soporific sigh escaping what might once have been your lips. moondaymag.com/coprinus-com...

The cover of a magazine in Halloween colors with a spooky aesthetic. An eerie painting of a woman sitting on a chair graces the cover. She is not smiling.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I swear not all of my short story titles are Article + Noun + Verb + Adjective (or dismantlingly dark), but this one, at least, has a lil ray of light at the end (in the form of a waste chute but still...!)

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Now I am become Jeff, the destroyer of Whorls @trollbreath.com · 19/09/2025

If you want to see a really great use of repetition of word/phrase, you should check out this story. @maressakate.bsky.social nails a vibe and voice, and her theme is on point for the world we are being reluctantly driven towards by our tech lords.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Part allegory, part slipstream rage of consciousness little piece I wrote last year about why you really have brain fog and what happens when AI takes an interest in gardening. You honor me by reading!

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Thrilled to be a repeat offender in Trollbreath Magazine, alongside some really special stories. This was one that extruded out in one long exhale (read: silent scream). The Machines Are Hungry (please don't feed them!)

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I have a short (short) piece in this issue, a work of slipstream, inspired by *gestures vaguely all around*… The Machines Are Hungry. Please don’t feed them.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

World Con! Who’s going?? let’s meet up!

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Get in losers, we’re going digital!

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Over the moon to share that I am now represented by the wondrous Susan Armstrong at C&W. It’s been a wild ride these last few weeks, approaching this terminus at high speed after five years of striving/toiling/hoping (and clearly I don’t know what to do with my hands just yet)…

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

...unbelievably, irrepressibly vague !! 👀

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 29/03/2025

I have committed an act of newsletter: I finally wrote up what I got from @catrambo.bsky.social's Wayward Wormhole workshop back in November (spoiler alert: it was a lot, and was not what I expected). buttondown.com/sarahday/arc...

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What the desert says: Wayward Wormhole 2024

I meant to do a writeup of my time at Wayward Wormhole, Cat Rambo's residential writing workshop, as soon as I got home, but life had other plans. I'd like...

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

3 AM typing marathon. Heart racing. Not inspiration -- just forgot to eat again. The muse: not bad to look at but a terrible roommate.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Many have said that When Shadows Grow Tall has A Wizard of Earthsea sensibility.

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

New story day! "The Matador and the Labyrinth" is up at Diabolical Plots. Borges meets Hemingway. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1... The image is from a kylix drinking cup, c. 515 BC. The inscription around the edge reads "The boy is beautiful."

The image of a black mintoaur crouches in the center of an rust-orange circular cup in a kylix tondo from c. 515 BC. The inscription around the edge reads "The boy is beautiful." Courtesy of Marie-Lan Nguyen and wikimedia. Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tondo_Minotaur_London_E4_MAN.jpg

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A reviewer here and there has expressed discontent about how my villains are unrealistic, a touch too mwa-ha-ha. To them, I ask, “Did you watch the press conference yesterday?” *me, watching, taking notes for book two* JD: “Say thank you.” *me, scribbling, “Bow to your overlord”*

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

@beardofdarkness.bsky.social was gracious to have me on his channel and we had a very chill chat about avenues to publishing, how to grease the creative gears, why I’m not a plotter, the function of beards in the generative phase, etc.

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Beard of Darkness Book Reviews @beardofdarkness.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Tonight at 8:30pm EST, I will FINALLY have the opportuingty to chat with the author of "When Shadows Grow Tall", the wonderful @maressakate.bsky.social! Topics will include her writing journey, inspirations, writing fantasy in particular, women in fantasy, and more! Join us & bring your questions!

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Join me at 5:30 PST tonight (!) with @beardofdarkness.bsky.social for a live interview. Bring your cat and questions of the burning/unhinged variety. www.youtube.com/live/E3fEG_1...

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A Peak into Prose: Maressa Voss

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Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

roma fatum est. roma est in aeternum. @maressakate.bsky.social took sargassa on a field trip to the very source. ☀️

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"Just once, 347 would like to know what it feels like not to hit the drip. An impossibility—Tutrix is always there, ready to hook her up—but a curiosity nevertheless. What would it be like, to carry a feeling to its natural end; not have its rumpled edges smoothed over, its color faded to grey?"

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It's Free Fiction Friday! Enjoy the story and consider subscribing or sending virtual coffee to keep the good stuff coming! magazine.trollbreath.com/the-instruct... ko-fi.com/trollbreathm...

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Text: Free Fiction Friday, The Instructions are Explocot by Maressa Voss

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My story, Instructions are Explicit, is free from the paywall today. Click on for a little jog through imperial space. Our story begins in the Dominion Ward, where Bound no. 347 grapples with challenges inherent to the postpartum period. magazine.trollbreath.com/the-instruct...

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The Instructions are Explicit - Trollbreath Magazine

The Instructions are Explicit

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

High times tabling at @sbplibrary.bsky.social’s local authors event. We were in the newly renovated plaza and as all locals know, the library has been under construction for an eon. Pretty wonderful to revel in the space after so many years of it being under wraps.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Out here just trying to grab people and keep them reading 📍

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Now I am become Jeff, the destroyer of Whorls @trollbreath.com · 30/11/2024

The new issue is coming in less than 24 hours! A membership gives you access the moment it drops. If you can't afford a membership, the schedule of Free Fiction Fridays is below, when each piece is released from the paywall. Non-fiction pieces are always free.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Out now! I have a short story in here. The Instructions Are Explicit is my weird lil far-future take on baby-rearing in a totalitarian space state (fun!) More notes about context and content on the ‘gram. Will you give it a read? (I hope so!)

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Major league headshot by the very generous and talented @lunatiquerob.bsky.social, taken during our time at the #waywardwormhole in New Mexico. A step up from my previous 4 yr. old selfie in an Airbnb in Barcelona, doctored on Canva. Big leagues, here I come! Just need to keep batting above .300

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Five days from now you get to meet Bound no.347 (!)

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Today’s the day! I’ve only just cracked this epic tome but it’s plain to see that Lamia has done something truly special.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It’s not about all the darlings you kill but the friends you made along the way. Missing all the (talented, very cool, funny, etc) people who made #waywardwormhole so special.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The kind of confidence I aim to exude going into this rewrite. As seen in Bisbee, AZ.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Fun fact: If you shine a black light on me at night my carapace also glows neon.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Fourteen hour drive ahead of me for the Wayward Wormhole Workshop in the Land of Enchantment (not a metaphor) — hit me with your finest audiobook recs (non-fiction and fiction, if the latter, narration must be excellent). Many thanks!

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Woke up to a lot of new followers — hi! — on the heels of weeks & weeks of my For You on X looking like it…wasn’t…for me. So that’s that! I believe in Free Speech, but don’t condone it if there’s a modifying noun sandwiched in the middle, lurking like a sad flavorless hot house tomato (Hate).

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Subscribe! Invest! Don’t miss my dark little far-future piece about social pressure, resistance and human instinct within the matrix of early motherhood, coming in December with @trollbreathmag.bsky.social

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

There is a lot of great short fiction to be had out there: go.bsky.app/UokuX5r

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Positive news! On top of other recent stealth first volumes (@sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social, @kerstinhall.bsky.social), and readerly consternation (@amalelmohtar.com on SRB, @niallharrison.bsky.social on Rajaniemi), there’s a trend emerging here. Normalise presenting as a first volume?

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

*squeak* bowled over by the treatment ye olde book received by @tristanbeiter.bsky.social — second print’ll address that ambiguity (heretofore, a Prequel, in essence Book 1 but I shan’t define it as such due to *publishing politics about which I must be vague*) YES, there will be more books.

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Hell of a write up from @edcrocker.bsky.social who seems to understand the subtleties of the themes present in WSGT as well as (if not better than) its author 😊

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