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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

On A Húlíjīng Always Keeps One Tail Hidden by @melisfluous.bsky.social: "Rich and sumptuous and felt like it contained far more than its mere 4 pages. It was marvelous and unexpected." 🦊🧵 www.adventitious.net/stories/a-hu...

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A Húlíjīng Always Keeps One Tail Hidden

A woman makes a deal with a tricky fox spirit to bring her sister back from the dead in this dark short story from Melissa Ren.

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Mark down your calendars 👀‼️ 🍃🌬️🌊A RIVER FROM THE SKY🌊🍃🌬️ events forthcoming— release date: April 28th with @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫

A RIVEE FROM THE SKY BOOK COVER WITH IMAGES OF AI JIANG ANS SONIA URLANDO

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IN CONVERSATION
WITH SONIA URLANDO
BAKKA-PHOENIX BOOKS
SATURDAY APRIL 18TH 3-5PM
84 HARBORD ST
TORONTO
ON M5S 1G5

A RIVER FROM THE SKY BOOKCOVER AND PICTURES OF AI JIANG AND MELISSA REN

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IN CONVERSATION WITH MELISSA REN LITTLE GHOST BOOKS
SUNDAY APRIL 26™H
1-3PM
930 DUNDAS ST W
TORONTO
ON M6J 1W3

A RIVER FROM THE SKY BOOK CIVER AND PICTURE OF AI JIANG

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AI JIANG
BOOK SIGNINGS
APRIL 25™H
INDIGOSPIRIT MAPLEVIEW
900 MAPLE AVE
BURLINGTON, ON L7S 2J8
MAY 2ND
INDIGO SQUARE ONE
100 CITY CENTRE DR #1-706
MISSISSAUGA, ON L5B 3C1
MAY 9TH
INDIGO BURLINGTON CENTER
777 GUELPH LINE M30
BURLINGTON, ON L7R 3N2

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

My love letter to Chinatown. And to fox spirits 😏

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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Factually accurate! Hugh at @turnandwork.com calls @melisfluous.bsky.social's A Húlíjīng Always Keeps One Tail Hidden "another stunner." I (biased) agree.

Red quote card featuring white serif text reading “Another Stunner” attributed to Hugh of Turn and Work. Below, the text states that Melissa Ren’s “A Húlíjīng Always Keeps One Tail Hidden” appears in Issue One. In the lower left corner is a small illustrated figure resembling a teal astronaut with a dark helmet, against the solid red background.

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 02/02/2026

we are SO THRILLED to see several of our novellas and a collection on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list we want you to read those books! (and vote for them, YES, if you love them) so we put them on SALE OMR - $2.99 Starstruck - $1.99 NTHTDD - $1.99 you can get them here:

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The Entire Psychopomp Book Collection - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Looking for something to read? Check out our entire collection of books that we've published--from novellas to collections and more!

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This book is now a British Science Fiction Association awards longlister! Get it while it's hot! (it's always hot)

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Collaboration baby!! So excited to see where this brilliant anthology I’m very lucky to be part of is going next 👏👏 Huge congrats to @lindzmcleod.bsky.social and the rest of the collaboration gang. #shortstory #craft #collaborativewriting

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Want to read An Honour and a Privilege but can't justify the cost of a paperback right now? Get the e-book instead for only $4—it's packed with amazing fiction as well as incredible craft tips and techniques to help you write deeper, more intricate prose in easier ways!

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An Honour & A Privilege PDF | Stanchion

In collaboration with eleven writers, including The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee, and Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou, award-winning a...

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Thrilled to be nominated! Thank you so much 💞

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Oooh! I have a new story out today. This is one of my favourites, but mind the cw: perceived suicide, graphic death, implied addiction. Handle yourself with care ❤️

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Today's the day! Look at what we created! 😍

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Psssssst, this is my agent 😊😊

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Psychopomp is one of the best publishing teams on the planet and I love being a part of it. They consistently put out amazing work. But most of all, they are such good people. Please support The Deadlands if you're able. We can't lose another. ❤️❤️

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm a big fan of Terese and I can't wait to read all the stories in this book. Canlit and Canspec should get right behind this. A speculative anthology filled with Black writers from Canada? Let's go.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

My unhinged literary opinion is that you should buy all my small press and indie pub friends books. ALL.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

ICYMI I finally dove back into my newsletter, in which I talk about my novella's birthday, @psychopomp.com awesomeness, and some most excellent short fiction recommendations.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Ahhh, Melissa's a fantastic writer and one of my favorite people and now she’s AGENTED. Can’t wait for y’all to read her books! 🎉

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Some news! 👀 In a crazy ass turn of events, I have somehow found myself ✨AGENTED!✨ I'm THRILLED to now be represented by Hana El Niwairi @hel-no-wai.bsky.social. I cannot wait to see what shenanigans we get up to together. 🥰

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Oh.... Hey! I have a story in this! 🥰 Thanks so much to @takahemagazine.bsky.social for taking such great care of my work. ❤️

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I am THRILLED to be in this along side all of these amazing writers! 🎉

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If you didn't read this one in FF#20, check out "The Memory Shop" by @melisfluous.bsky.social in audio! (Plus an author interview!)

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Well played CBC, well played. (also, it me.)

a screenshot on CBC of a still from Something's Gotta Give of Diane Keaton sobbing. The caption in the screen shot reads: Diane Keaton applying for a grant, probably. (Something's Gotta Give/Columbia Pictures)

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I have a new story out today in Singapore Unbound, about the superstition surrounding the number 4 in Chinese culture and the avoidance of bad luck singaporeunbound.org/suspect-jour...

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The Number Death — Singapore Unbound

How far would you go to avoid bad luck? Read the new story by Melissa Ren to find out.

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

First acceptance of 2025 landed in my inbox. Feeling feels. 🥰

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The #BogiReads short story recommendation thread for today, starting here: "The Memory Shop" by Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social in @fusionfragment.bsky.social February 2024! www.fusionfragment.com/issue-20/ ("Pay what you want, including free" - I did try and the free option does work)

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Issue #20

“Dirt Retreat” by Eugénie Szwalek: places to rest / deer-borne cake / GREG”Give Me English” by Ai Jiang: language as currency / diaspora / frenemies”In Pursuit of the …

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Cladophora vagabunda @killerhailsuffers.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I read this I'm so intrigued by this concept

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Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Last year at @maryrobinette.bsky.social's Space Camp workshop, I met a flight systems engineer at Nasa who was one of the workshop's experts. On the last day, somehow, we started talking about kpop. And now, all we do is send each other rando pics of stray kids. This friendship is so wholesome.

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