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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 27/05/2026

Being Aro came out today!! its a big day, and I'm beyond delighted to have a story in such a wonderful anthology. Please get your copy wherever books are sold and if possible, @ me with your pictures

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 21/02/2026

Friends, "To Kill A Language" was voted as the Best Flash Fiction in Apex Choice Awards 2025. I'm officially an award winning writer!

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 30/08/2025

I don't think I shared it here yet but I will have a story about an aroace archivist fighting book banning by turning books into dragons in Being Ace y'all!!

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 03/08/2025

The Book Eaters is part thriller, part body/social horror, part a deep dive into motherhood, and what it means to love a child who may be monster. I have loved this one for years now

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 03/08/2025

There's simply no one quite like Mieko Kawakami who can trap the loneliness bird within pages, and make you hear every desperate beat of its wings. All The Lovers In The Night is what feels like to cry to yourself alone inside a cafe.

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 03/08/2025

Impressively original and impossibly haunting, Saint Death's Daughter follows a Miscellaneous "Lanie" Stones, a necromancer allergic to violence--the problem is, she's born into a family of royal assassins. It is tender, beautiful and horrifying in equal measure.

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 27/04/2025

Hello friends, I've been hit with an emergency bill, so I'm opening up a few slots for editorial services. I'll cover the details in thread but would appreciate any shares. I'm a Tessera Editorial alum, have several short fiction credits, and have helped several writers with their query materials.

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 23/04/2025

But I guess the choice let them bring in Kerene Nagashi very briefly, aes sedai of the Green Ajah, one of the strongest channelers to enter the tower, second only to Cadsuane Melaidhrin

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 06/04/2025

We are here, friends, for your writing. More than ever before, its important to reject here and now, and believe in a better world, a queerer world. Join us on the Otherside.

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 22/02/2025

More of Luka, the ragdoll kitten born as a pup

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 22/02/2025

New kid has absolutely 0 survival instincts (I love him)

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 28/01/2025

for myself lol. I think of this Ocean Vuong interview often because I write entirely to please myself. I don't know if my work is going to be enough for others but it is (and should be) enough for me.

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 22/12/2024

Sometimes I feel very defeated but then remember that Ryka Aoki wrote Light From Uncommon Stars "You can always, always rewrite your song"

With no need for a beginning, nor any reason to end, the music continues. And so, no matter who you are, where you came from, what sins you have committed or hurt you have endured... when you are alone and there is no universe left to remember you.
You can always, always rewrite your song.
Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 13/12/2024

"Planting Trees As Graves", a weird horror story on grief, trees and gardens is out at @innerworlds.bsky.social today. I'm incredibly proud of it and I would be honoured if you gave it a read inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds...

Inner worlds issue 5 cover featuring the painting ""Waiting For a Single Taco at 8pm on a Tuesday" by Anka Yanovna". A blue-green girl is holding a phone among a kaleidoscope of colors. Cats stretch, move, and fluff. Stars, hearts and moons of various colors abound. Its beautiful

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 12/12/2024

The opening to my dark fantasy short story that the lovely folks at Tasavvur pubbed. Its been 2 years and I still do love it. #SFFchat

What Tales Demand by Rukman Ragas

When it snows, think of me. You taste those words on your silent lips, trace their shapes across your inkstained palms. The weight of a story in them is unmistakable, and for a seasoned storykeeper, they taste like metal, like gold, like blood. You stand before the hired boat and look at where your chase has led you.

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 03/12/2024

Another formative media is Sun Sword Saga. This series is what started my love affair with court fantasy and epic fantasy.

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 03/12/2024

If you asked me what was formative media, i would point to An Ember In The Ashes. So much of what I write is because I read and deeply connected to this series as a brown teenager who desperately needed to see books featuring and by us are possible, they can be complex and ambitious.

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 03/12/2024

My favourite horror series. Super satisfying, still think about the cinematography, narrative choices and the characters

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 03/12/2024

Naomi Novik's work means so much to me. She takes the most simple fairytales and builds upon them to an astounding degree. I've been so consistently impressed with everything she writes but Temeraire and Uprooted take up most of the real estate inside my head

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 03/12/2024

Currently very much into Genshin. I love this lol because it doesn't require any consoles or strong machines

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 03/12/2024

"She who became the sun" is absolutely my brainrot book, I think about it everyday, about desire, about remaking a world that has no place for you. Also Lord Lettuce Robe, i love you

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 29/11/2024

This story, "Planting Trees As Graves" is upcoming from Inner Worlds. Its about subjective kinds of worlds, of all the possibilities of grieving, and how much you can hold inside yourself #SFFchat

"You tend to the trees with stipulated grief"

Against a black background with a white, dead tree

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 24/11/2024

Thank you, my dearest Shouka, for tagging me. 5 favs, Food: always the dosai Season: the monsoons, bright days, midday rains, coastal winds Drink: peach ice tea Game: genshin lol Color: Usually its green wnd blue but today, i'm feeling burgundy

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 02/11/2024

I failed out of graphic design, so please consider my notes app awards eligibility post! This was my debut year and I am so fortunate to be able to share my work with all of you. Thank you for reading, sharing, and talking about stories. 🖇️below!

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 21/10/2024

Stealing from the TL, let's do this, new friends. Either you are going to run or we are going to be besties

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 21/10/2024

And I offer a Northern Cardinal! Shall we hunt each other down throughout timelines writing increasingly desperate letters?

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