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D.A. Straith (they/them). Toronto-adjacent fiction person • nonbinary trans & queer settler • work in Augur, Fusion Fragment, SHATTER THE SUN • Clarion West Novel Workshop ‘25 • #straithenfrancais • agent: Laura Zats @ Headwater • straith.carrd.co

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14h
“where do you get your ideas” idk man my brain just shitposts at me about laterally related things whenever I look at something
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 15h
this is essentially a mad max demake isn’t it
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 15h
A western where everybody is on bikes
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 29/09/2026
wait how did I get here I’m sposed to be offline !!!!!!! BACK, BACK
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Story #8 in FF#26: "Once Upon the Crossing of Mars" by @straith.ca If you need a story with: -"I hallucinated on Mars and all I got was this t-shirt!" -carbo-loading -ecstatic mysteries Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
"Once Upon the Crossing of Mars" by D.A. Straith

The dust clears. The runner leads him through the darkness into a tunnel. He follows. His sacred duty. Random lines shiver, cross and uncross on his HUD. His machined proprioception tells him there are walls on all sides. Oh, yes. He is within. He is truly inside the planet now: part of it. He’s crying again. Thank you, thank you, he murmurs, as he dusts fingers along the channel wall and descends.

ultramarathons / belonging / finding truths in the dust
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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
FINAL FLASH OF 2024! This story closes out our EcoFutures issue and a wonderful year here at FFO. It is a story about hope and renewal. Happy release day D.A. Straith and all the creatures of the Bellmarsh Wastewater Plant…even the human 🌱 www.flashfictiononline.com/article/a-ye... #flashfiction
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A Year in the Life of the Drowned Wastewater Plant East of Bellmarsh Village
In spring we swell full with waters from upstream, brought down from broken mountains under the power of the nearer sun. Our pale ice-blanket weakens, then cracks, then splits into floes, then rein…
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 27/09/2026
coming soon FEAR THEM 🌌
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
I have now reached a point in my week, my year, my creative cycle if you will, where I need to be Offline in order to make magic happen. so DM or @ me if you need my attention on something, but otherwise don't worry if I'm not here. I am writing B)
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
samsung smart fridge. smart enough to connect to wi-fi for some reason, not smart enough to know that the freezer is open and therefore it should NOT spit out a whole tray of ice cubes onto the floor at that very moment
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 24/09/2026
GREETINGS. today's task is simple: clean the kitchen.
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Erik Buchanan @erikbuchananauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have some bunnies, in lieu of a sticker, because knuckling down and doing the work is always the hardest part.
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Bunny Bunny Kiss
ALT: Bunny Bunny Kiss
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 23/09/2026
GOOD MORNING. I have no specific writing task to do today, but I do have to do a bit of a house clean while my partner is out getting a chemo infusion no sticker rewards this time, just moments of elbow grease between day job tasks 😤
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 22/09/2026
posting to create the conditions where if I DON’T get up from my low-stim time in bed, everybody will know about it
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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 22/09/2026
hey! been a slow month and i really do need to book some clients this week
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Coyote vs. LinkedIn @knabewolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
September, but I lost my 45 adapter
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 22/09/2026
I have made the ugliest ever graphic to go into my newsletter on Friday, but it gets the job done. You, too, can sign up to experience truly hideous graphic design, along with my thoughts about writing and publishing:
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I'm Kate Heartfield, a writer of historical fantasy novels and other things. My newsletter is a way to let you know what I'm up to, and to talk about books and ideas. It comes out every second Friday.
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 22/09/2026
Reacher is so funny to me because it’s another one of those shows that’s like “how many places can we pass Toronto off as”
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 21/09/2026
need to start thinking about my next dollar store sticker reward system. I feel like I can justify a new sticker sheet having finished with my existing project
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 21/09/2026
HAPPY TIME ZONE. For me, it is Monday morning. I am about to read back the edits I made to my mss yesterday so that I can send them to my agent one-last-time-for-now. I have my lil caffeine drink and am on my walking pad to help with focus. time to GO.
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 21/09/2026
HELP I laid down on the floor after stretches and now do not want to get up
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Flights of Foundry @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Let's talk $$$ We spent 3x on the convention this year. Last year's convention raised more than $17k. This year? We're sitting at $13.5k. That sounds like a lot, but friends, we TRIPLED how much we spent on the event. And we've made a LOT less. Help us out? flights-of-foundry.org/donate/
A graphic with a teal background. The Flights of Foundry logo is prominent in the middle, with the word DONATE beneath. The text is surrounded by gryphons - Hoodini, a barn owl gryphon walks along the top of the logo; Toast, a white cockatiel gyrphon sits up straight on the right side of the logo; Bartholomew, a purple harpy eagle gryphon stretches on the bottom, and Swooperton, a bald eagle gryphon is swooping up in the bottom corner.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 18/09/2026
I've set up this link so folks can support all the survival funds I host in one place. As we head steadily to zero, I’m distributing what you give to least-supported families. This brings help to everyone; if you make it recurring, you can sustains it. Simple yet powerful math. tiny.cc/divyafunds
A colorful graphic decorated with an illustration of an Arabic coffee cup and paint streaks. Text: today’s most stagnant fund. Filling each cup gradually builds stable help, especially if you click “weekly/monthly” on a coffee. Build solidarity. tiny.cc/divyafunds
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 20/09/2026
GOOD MORNING. yesterday I did absolutely nothing and it was nice in some ways but also ... probably something I had to do for disability reasons? that's not the topic at hand the topic at hand is: I have comments on my mss back from my agent!! only four!!!!
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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
👇💯💯💯!!!!!!!! #canpoli
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 20/09/2026
I’m sure there’s a fantastic indie author writing this right now but I crave roving-large-justice-man à la Reacher but where the hottie of the week is always some flavour of queer activist. Idk I think we all deserve a large justice person who want one
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Emmanuel Chastellière @gillossen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Une bonne nouvelle pour entamer le week-end ! #traduction @annaleen.bsky.social
Une belle nouvelle pour « Le restaurant des robots rêveurs » ! 🏆 Annalee Newitz vient de remporter le prix Octavia E. Butler dans le cadre des CALIBA Golden Poppy Book Awards 2025 pour sa novella de science-fiction « Le restaurant des robots rêveurs ».
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 19/09/2026
you will be glad to know I did NOT decide to go to grad school but instead signed up for a university continuing ed course. I think I just need mental stimulation
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 18/09/2026
the more responsibilities I am given, the less time I have, so my new policy at day job is, you want to give me more stuff to do? I'm going to make all decision making and strategy your problem 👍
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 18/09/2026
🦇 Happy Friday 🦇
i've seen enough summer.. release the bats
[Picture of a sky filled with bats and a crescent moon in the middle of it all]
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 18/09/2026
love 2 brainstorm a page of notes and characters and realize it’s just twin peaks but with more industry
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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's a duck simulacrum. — Jean Baudrillard
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 17/09/2026
Just started reading this last night and I dont think I’ve EVER read a book where I’ve seen my family history so thoroughly embedded and echoed within it. Like, you ever read a book and learn about the people you came from? Not proud, just kind of self reflective houseofanansi.com/products/cob...
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Cobalt
Finalist for the 2023 Trillium Book Award The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled...
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 16/09/2026
ok ok it’s a gritty reboot of the Chipmunks about the horrors of being dehumanized by the media machine and being exploited for gain by one’s parent as a child entertainer. it’s called SQUEAK NO EVIL
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Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW QUEER JANE AUSTEN ALERT!!! IT’S LYDIA AND SHE’S A HOTTIE!
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 16/09/2026
every day I tell myself at least a little bit that I need a new job, but damn, I really really need a new job lolll
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dom jordan @domjordan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
trial and error #dungeoncrawl #dungeon #traps #rpg #ttrpg #rpgart #ttrpgart #videogameart #fantasy #fantasyart #osr #nsr #art
a stone staircase spirals up towards us: at the bottom, a figure in a tunic and phrygian cap looks about as he approaches the first steps; a short way up, the figure is sprawled on the steps, his head cleanly sliced off; further up, his hand is vanishing into green sludge which fills a pit that has opened in the steps; a few steps higher, he is pinned in place by a vertical row of spears jutting from holes in the wall; up a few more steps, he has been crushed by a block of stone cut to fill the width of the stairs; almost at the top, only a pair of smoking shoes remain by the metal grille in the floor through which the glow of fire can be seen; at the top, having reached the landing, the figure looks down at his foot as the floor tile he's stepped on has just depressed with a 'click!'
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 16/09/2026
this is not directed at anyone but design tip, please make sure you zoom way out on your book covers, whether you designed them yourself or had them designed for you, until they are thumbnail sized. assess that thumbnail. that’s often what people’s experience of the cover will be on ecommerce
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 16/09/2026
wow lying down in the dark doing nothing after weeks of doing So Much can be so nice actually
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
You should read SHATTER THE SUN, yes, YOU!!
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 15/09/2026
you want true crime? try reading about coal operators and the black lung movements in the 60s and 70s. a new horrific crime against workers on every page
In 1970, after a year of examining claimants under the new compensation law, the three physicians who composed the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board of the West Virginia workers’ compensation system recommended the following preventive action: “A vigourous and persistent campaign should be carried on by all authorities interested in preventing lung disease in coal miners to point out the hazard of cigarette smoking and to encourage all coal miners to become nonsmokers.” From DIGGING OUR OWN GRAVES, revised edition, by Barbara Ellen Smith with photographs by Earl Dotter
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 15/09/2026
the fact that fermented foods can be a migraine trigger feels like a cursed directed at me specifically
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14/09/2026
AI this, AI that, Paint doesn't need copilot integration or whateverthefuck to be incredibly powerful software, it remains the only thing on my work computer that can handle a .webp
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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Somebody please write a delightful romance novel about the life and adventures of Emmanuel Pateca, trans man of the 17th century.
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14/09/2026
I may have sent my revised mss to my agent, but now begins the difficult slog of I Hate The Book And Must Distract Myself By Working On Something I Don't Hate Yet
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 14/09/2026
GOOD MORNING I ... do not have a manuscript to revise today! SO THAT MEANS today I'm dedicated to: (1) rest (2) tackling a few things I've been ignoring to make this deadline 😵‍💫
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 13/09/2026
GOOD MORNING I have 8 chapters left to review in my manuscript before sending it to my agent. I’d like to send today if possible, so the work includes manuscript prep
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Majoras Mask: Dawn of The Final Day
Alt: The words “Dawn of The Final Day: 24 Hours Remain” slowly appear in white text against a black background. The animation is from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.
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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
drawings about love
4 drawings of bryony vines
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 12/09/2026
Meant to say that this is newly on Shudder- which is how I was able to watch it :)
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 12/09/2026
GREETINGS. tis the last weekend of working on this book before I hand it back to my agent on Monday! I have 20 chapters left to read and make any last line edits to that's at least 10 chapters to read back today 🥲 I can do it, but it'll take a big push!!
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