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My short story collection is live! Ten stories, ten story notes, eleven illustrations. Character-driven science fiction inspired by real science. Where are my nerdy readers? Come find me. #Booksky

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am living for these fresh blueberries in my overnight oats right now.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Between playing D&D at a game cafe this morning, watching the 2004 Phantom of the Opera this evening, and seeing pics from an online acquaintance’s polyam handfasting ceremony at a ren faire just now, I’m having major nostalgia for being a starry-eyed young poly nerd in the mid-2000s.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That chapter I thought I finished? Had to add four more pages to it; it feels much more complete now. Also began work on the final two chapters, one climax in each timeline. I may or may not need an additional chapter for falling action and resolution, who knows. Wordcount: 76825.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi #queerwriters! I managed to make some progress on my kids-on-bikes novel. Just two more chapters until the first draft is done! I might not complete it this month like I’d hoped, but I’m hopeful I can send it to my readers soon.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TLR progress! Finished a chapter. Have maybe two chapters left, unless the narrative surprises me. Current wordcount: 75630.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The best part of pantsing is finding where the story wants to go. The worst part of pantsing is having to find where the story wants to go.

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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today, my poem "Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers" comes out at @smallwondersmag.com and I feel a lot of things...It's a piece dedicated to single women who raised children on their own and the young growing without a father. For me, it was my abuela who raised me smallwondersmag.com/piece/single...

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Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers - Small Wonders

Mother: “Where night is full of hungry mouths, / I lost my dream. I gave it to a coyote passing."

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey there. Latest story now available to read online! "Jempo." A maquinista out to advance her career encounters someone with a different approach to competition. A (relatively?) light story in terms of tone, for me. Hope you enjoy!

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Jempo - Lightspeed Magazine

Jempo took a deep bow on the iron platform. His body flopped forward, limbs like thick braided wire. No obvious weapons in his large and rubbery hands. Little digital eyes and a bright smile that lit ...

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN AUGUST 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's July's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

we need to return to sci-fi book covers being little people in the foreground with immense looming wonders in the background

the cover for The Last Legends of Earth, which shows people fishing in a hamlet of thatch-roof catches while vast sci-fi pylons loom in the background

the cover of Shadow of the Torturer which shows Severian walking away from a city of spires

some art by Eddie Jones that shows people getting out of a UFO and walking towards a massive gate, beyond which is a blood red moon

tiny figures in the foreground observe a giant woman sleeping in a lake of blood

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 16/09/2026

oh and everything is run by like ten dipshit pedophile billionaires

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1. Jack-in-the-pulpit berries. 2. White snake root. 3. Turkeytail mushrooms and lichens. 4. White wood aster.

Up-close photograph of a bundle of red berries of the Jack-in-the-pulpit plant, growing low to the forest floor.

Photograph of bundles of small white flowers of white snakeroot growing in the forest undergrowth.

Photograph of an old fallen log now grown with turkeytail mushrooms, lichen, and moss.

Photograph of the flowers of white wood aster growing in a patch of sun in the woods.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Finished the chapter I’d been stuck on since May. I think I have three chapters left before the first draft TLR is done. Maybe we’ll need an epilogue too, we’ll see. Maybe not. Current wordcount: 74236.

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C.Quince🌈 Author @cquince.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's one thing to say "support trans authors" but maybe y'all could also buy our books, rate/review our books, and repost our book posts so more people could find us. Would be nice, is all im saying. 🙂

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I tiredly parsed “mhm” as “men harming men,” and just nodded and said, “Hey, that’s just like my ex.”

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The road to Ys is open, for those with eyes to see.

Nighttime photograph of the exterior of a Wendy’s restaurant. The sign is half dark, leaving only “Ys” lit.

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Jane, actually @maidofbeans.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The best revenge is living well, unless you own a crossbow.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of my most personal stories, "Kwong's Bath," is out now in @podcastle.org with a moving narration by Pine Gonzalez. It's about siblings, the ghosts we live with, and takes place in the same world as my story, "Barbershops of the Floating City." So happy to see this one get a second life 🛀

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PodCastle 960: Kwong's Bath - PodCastle

Kwong’s Bath by Angela Liu The visits start a week after Kwong’s first surgery. Despite the stinging January cold, the high school boyfriend sits on the tiled floor in his boxers, scrubbing the ba...

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The polka rock band at the amusement park did a cover of REM. Now they’ve moved on to Neil Young. Just North Woods things.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My partner @craftyrowan.bsky.social is introducing me to the 2012 movie version of Les Misérables.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible: Modest Mousse

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking of those who died, disappeared, were tortured, arrested, detained, and forced into exile. 53 years ago today thanks to a coup made possible by the U.S. government that resulted in 17 years of dictatorship. We Chileans have our own history with September 11.

Chile, September 11, 1973.
In the early hours of September 11, 1973, the Chilean Armed Forces led by General August Pinochet began their coup against democratically elected Socialist President, Salvador Allende.
The coup, which was supported politically and materially by the U.S. government, began one of the bloodiest periods in the country's history.
2,279 MURDERED
1,248 DISAPPEARED
28,000 TORTURED
250,000 DETAINED
38,254 IMPRISONED
200,000 SENT INTO EXILE

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Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 10/09/2026

why are men

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think I need to scrap this chapter and entirely rethink how this climax needs to go. The scene just isn’t coming together.

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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

hi yes I'm SO excited that my trans giant robot flash fic is out now at @lightspeedmagazine.com. please enjoy "The Chrysalis of Moth One" 💜 this one is a bit Pacific Rim drift compatibility but make it angry and defiantly trans. I'm so proud of this one ✨ www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

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The Chrysalis of Moth One - Lightspeed Magazine

They didn’t want either of us to live this long. Sucks for them—we’re good at living in spite. We’re good at surviving, at fighting, at never stopping. Today is the last day we exist in spite of Comma...

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Taking better care of my corporeal form. Learning the kinds of skills I always coveted (cosplay, kink, crochet, roller skating) but had never learned before. Slowly and belatedly learning not to lavish my time and energy on those who wouldn’t give the same to me. Writing books.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“There is rarely catharsis in life. That’s why people get into kink.” — @craftyrowan.bsky.social

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

First day of school. My partner and I went to the gym. Now I have my novel doc open. Coffee by my side.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is it, we’re finally starting the week that my teenager goes back to school. That means blowing the summer dust off my draft (though I didn’t do so hot with it in the spring, either). I’m gonna be ambitious and say I want to finish a chapter by next weekend. #queerwriters

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

TLR doesn’t have ignite, does have ignition. #queerwriters #lgbtqwriters

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Frankie's van stank of stale cigarettes and what Samuel, in his worldly wisdom, recognized as pot. A small amp took up the middle of the seat. Frankie told him to brush the cassettes off the backseat to make room: Tracy Chapman, The Slits, a bunch of recorded tapes with legends like "Climx Cavn 5/16/92." When Frankie turned the ignition, the stereo was so loud Rocket winced. She cranked it down until Samuel could hear only tinny snares and a whine of screeching guitar.

They ran into the dinosaur just a few blocks away.

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Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca · 06/09/2026

I need all the novels written by poets. Need.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Had a lovely (if unexpectedly buggy) morning in Massachusetts with @craftyrowan.bsky.social. 1. White turtlehead flowers. 2. Maidenhair fern. 3. Water in a rocky gorge. 4. The two of us.

Photograph of the closed-off flowers of white turtlehead.

Photograph of the radially spreading fronds of a maidenhair fern.

Photograph looking down a schist ledge at a small waterfall foaming into a deep rocky pool in the woods.

Selfie photograph of two nonbinary individuals smiling in the woods.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

After a gap of almost seven years since the last time I did this in person, I’m thinking of putting together a queer TTRPG table here in NY’s capital region, starting in November.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sometimes I wish the general SFFH industry at large would admit, and when I say at large I include everyone writers, publishers, and other entities, that there has been a big turn against Black and brown writers and then also within that group queer, women, disabled people

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

At this point in my career, I’ve never engaged a professional editor. But I usually do 1.5 or maaaaaybe 2 drafts before sending stories off on sub. I could really do more editing, though. #QueerWritersChat

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m more in the “needing editing tips” camp, since I barely edit once a story feels “done.” I think I particularly want to develop a better sense for structural editing, shaping the story to maximize its pacing and emotional weight. #QueerWritersChat

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I almost always edit as I go. It makes my first drafts take forever, but I almost never do a full second draft. Draft 1.5 is usually final. I suppose I should change it up to get more projects done, and probably improve the quality of my final drafts. But this is how I work. #QueerWritersChat

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hi #QueerWritersChat, I’m Rick, a genderfluid queer author, and I’ve been chronically not writing this year. Now that my teen is heading back to school, I hope to finally finish the first draft of my queer kids-on-bikes-meet-dinosaurs novel this month.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Going to a ren faire dressed like Bananarama.

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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 04/09/2026

Pssst. It's my birthday today. Please share my work? You can find all my links here: www.conquerthyfear.com/links Upcoming BackerKit here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... And some recent-ish art! (I've been so busy this year I haven't done super much 🥲 reopening comms soon) #WritingCommunity

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Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️‍⚧️ @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you only read one of my poems this year, I hope you'll make it 'The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub', pub'd by @strangehorizons.bsky.social! ✨ Complicity in societal injustice 🌊 Weird fantasy 🧜‍♀️ Mermaids? 🏳️‍⚧️ Queer undertones (+ trans-written!) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub

Change requires examination of the initial errors

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dizzying with grief and beauty and fear and rage. I couldn’t stop crying from the first paragraph. “I mean: hold on, dear friend, we’re really going through this.”

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Alina Lee, Yurisaurus Regina @typewriterlizard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

guys, i survived surgery (a complicated cholycystectomy) can i get some help surviving the highway robbery that is for-profit healthcare? ko-fi.com/alinalee91

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