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Susan Taitel

@susantaitel.bsky.social
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Writer, crafter, searching for a third word

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Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 26/06/2026
Good day, sapient observers! This week we've got a fresh original for you, and it starts with an accident: "You Have Arrived at Your Destination" by @jomiles.bsky.social. Check it out!
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Escape Pod 1051: You Have Arrived at Your Destination
It starts with an accident. A dreary day, the road slick with rain. Emily’s letting the car’s auto-drive do the work because she’s brain-fried and exhausted, eyes glazed over from the weekday grind.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 01/04/2026
No fooling, the new issue of Small Wonders is awesome! If you subscribe now, you'll get the stories and poems delivered straight to your inbox for a little jolt of goodness Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. store.smallwondersma...
The Small Wonders issue 34 cover. The artwork by Pia Thrasher is of a looming shadow with grasping hands reaching for a small figure in the foreground. The predominant colors are red, yellow, and black. The text at the top reads: Small Wonders Issue 34 April." Along the right side are author names: Kristen Koopman, Lynne Sargent, Eleanor Lennox, M.R. Edgeworth, Faith Allington, Susan Taitel, Jeannie Marschall, Manuela Amiouny, Corrie Haldane. At the bottom: Cover art by Pia Thrasher, Edited by Cislyn Smith and Stephen Granade
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CB Droege (Manawaker) @cbdroege.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast presents: "Night Mare" by Susan Taitel Listen on any podcast app, or at www.patreon.com/posts/night-... Supported by Patreon patrons! #flashfiction #podcastfiction #narratedfiction #speculativefiction #weirdfiction #fantasyfiction #magicalfiction
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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 17/04/2026
This story has an understated approach to building really effective horror.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 17/04/2026
Reality gets blurry when you're playing with "The Numbers" by Susan Taitel Would you want to play yourself in the reality show about your own life?
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The Numbers - Small Wonders
The set looks exactly like her apartment. Down to the smallest detail. Except it’s larger and the walls can be moved to make room for the camera crew.
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Kat Out of Hell @katriddell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Maintenance: The breakers are behind Diddy—I mean! Dudley Do-Right! Annika: Those are two very different people Me: Dudley Do-Right would NEVER Annika: Diddy Do-Wrong, however…
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 03/12/2025
Really great coverage from @wired.com about our week of action against online ID verification and how these bills are setting a dangerous precedent by making the internet more exploitative rather than safer. www.wired.com/story/age-ve...
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The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back
Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 08/11/2025
"Choosing" by Susan Taitel is a different take on The Little Mermaid. Check it out in our issue 5:
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Choosing - Small Wonders
The silent girl concerns you. You’re told she materialized from the sea, naked and speechless. She follows your betrothed like a besotted puppy and dances with a grace that makes your chest constrict.
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Susan Taitel @susantaitel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Sofia Coppola's Troop Beverly Hills
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I enjoyed this short story. Who hasn't felt their skin tightening like this, and dreamed of such an ending?
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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 21/08/2025
Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon
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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This Story Hour's guests used sharp writing and exquisite craft to bring us on journeys of delight and melancholy. You can still watch Susan Taitel and B. Pladek read! @bpladek.bsky.social @susantaitel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBJJ...
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August 20, 2025 Story Hour: Susan Taitel and B. Pladek
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Cast of Wonders @castofwonders.org · 19/08/2025
Cast of Wonders 649: Little Wonders 46-Seize Your Future with stories by Race Harish and Susan Taitel, narrated by Mofiyinfoluwa Okupe and Emily Smith, produced by Jeremy Carter www.castofwonders.org/2025/08/cast...
Sunset-toned silhouette of a giant woman in the bay of San Francisco, with the Golden Gate Bridge behind her.
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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This Story Hour, B. Pladek returns, and Susan Taitel makes her Story Hour debut! Join us for the warmth, the wit, and the wisdom! Join us Wednesday, August 20 at 7:00 PDT! @bpladek.bsky.social @susantaitel.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Head-and-shoulders photo of writer B. Pladek, a fair-skinned man with auburn hair worn short and with a side part. He poses before a plain blue portrait background, wearing a white dress shirt with a dark blazer and roundish wire-rim glasses. He smiles warmly at the camera.Head-and-shoulders candid photo of writer Susan Taitel, a fair-skinned woman with dark, wavy hair dyed purple on one side and blond on top. She poses in an interior that includes framed art and a table lamp. She wears a smocked red top and large, plastic-framed cat-eye glasses. She smiles at the camera as if it amuses her.
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Susan Taitel @susantaitel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Do you like kaiju? Or pop stars? Or the systemic exploitation of the music industry? "What Doesn't Kill You" out in Cast of Wonders today!
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Susan Taitel @susantaitel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
You had me at Catherine of Aragon invents necromancy.
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Saga Press Books @sagapressbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We’re excited to announce the acquisition of @macey.bsky.social 's BLOOD OF QUEENS, a gothic historical fantasy featuring Tudor-inspired court intrigue, necromancy, and an audacious heist. For fans of M. A. Carrick’s The Mask of Mirrors and Holly Race's Six Wild Crowns, this hits shelves Spring ’27!
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Susan Taitel @susantaitel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I'll be on Story Hour on August 20th.
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CB Droege (Manawaker) @cbdroege.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast presents: “Dad and Ick” by Susan Taitel podcastaddict.com/episode/http... Supported by Patreon patrons: patreon.com/manawaker #flashfiction #podcast #scifi #parenthood #robots
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Susan Taitel @susantaitel.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is one of my favorite stories. I'm so happy to have an audio version thanks to Manawaker.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/04/2025
Trans Lifeline is a good place to direct resources if you’re looking to help here fuck everyone involved with this decision
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Home - Trans Lifeline
Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for
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Alex Acks @katsudon.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This, 100%.
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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 19/04/2025
If you are promoting AI art, you need to not follow me. If you follow me, that's a block.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Many changes took effect at #Patreon today, all devastating to creators' income,especially those of us who rely on Patreon to...not die I woke up to my income slashed by 28% despite no change in patrons. I'm not alone--all while our economy burns I'm not sure what to do, but there's a few things 🧵
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Everyone I see using the “AI” to create a Ghibli-like image is participating in exploitation and theft. The way I see people happily doing so doesn’t surprise me because those same people have been trained to exploit by pirating books and movies and making excuses for doing it for decades.
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Points in Case @pointsincase.com · 31/03/2025
Jump to conclusions why don’t you? I did not lock her in a basement. I’m not a monster. We live in a tower.
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Am I the Asshole for Giving My Daughter a Haircut?
Jump to conclusions why don’t you? I did not lock her in a basement. I’m not a monster. We live in a tower.
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Infrequent SF Microreviews @infrequentsf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Bookish Tastes, by Susan Taitel in Small Wonders. I love when flash fiction takes a metaphor and literalizes it, and this is a great example about taste, independence, and how much of us is made of others. smallwondersmag.com/piece/bookis...
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Bookish Tastes - Small Wonders
I ate The Hobbit once. I don’t mean I "devoured" it, although I was a voracious reader. I mean that I masticated, swallowed, and digested The Hobbit.
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Susan Taitel @susantaitel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Clang clang clang goes the trolley, click click click goes my joints.
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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
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Susan Taitel @susantaitel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Vibrainum this, adamantium that, the strongest substance in the MCU is whatever the hulks' pants are made of.
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Bluesky is for trans people! 🏳️‍⚧️
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Susan Taitel @susantaitel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
My other toxic trait is going to the grocery store for a few staples and leaving with four distinct types of cheese.
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Susan Taitel @susantaitel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
My toxic trait is that I talk to animals and objects and gadgets as if they were people but do everything in my power to not have to talk to people.
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Susan Taitel @susantaitel.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
At 5 I snuck into my parents' room while they were watching the Godfather. I fell asleep, no memory of the movie. The Color Purple was the inflight movie on a trip when I was 7. I didn't have headphones to hear the dialog. Fell asleep again. Next was Four Weddings and Funeral at 14. Stayed awake.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 12/10/2024
In today's library program I asked the kids to start by writing down some things that they're afraid of (so a character might be afraid of them too) Shout out for this kid's terrifying grandma I guess??? And another kid's literal mother!
writing in marker on a white sheet of paper reading: snakes, my brother, tight spaces, MOM, shapes in the dark!, my nonna, abandoned buildings, hospitals
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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Just in time for autumn, I have finished knitting THE NECK KRAKEN
A smiling woman with her head cocked to the side stands in front of a brick path, with a lawn and trees in the background. She's wearing a khaki jacket and pants, and an orange knitted scarf in the shape of a KRAKEN with large eyes and white suckers on the backs of the tentacles
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 29/09/2024
*sets up a little pillow fort with a 🏳️‍⚧️ flag on top* Hi darlings. SFF is for everyone. We're here and we're writing and no one can stop us. You matter. Don't let anyone try to tell you otherwise. 💚
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Luke Burns @lukevburns.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
In last week's newsletter, @jamesfolta.com and I highlighted great writing by Steve Macone, @susantaitel.bsky.social, Sam Weiner & Joey Dundale, and @wendiaarons.bsky.social. Plus, some of James' recent writing for Lit Hub, and my upcoming workshop! Check it out and subscribe at the link below ⬇️
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A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
by Luke Burns & James Folta A weekly newsletter dedicated to humorous writing and humorous writers. We round up the best short humor pieces and funny articles every week, and have some fun extras ever...
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
I'm Laura Blackwell, and I write short stories (and am querying a novel) of quiet horror that address injustice and complicity. Some of it's Gothic, some contemporary, some in SFF settings. I also write dreamy, hopeful fantasy. Obit would include words "Shirley Jackson Award." #HorrorWritersChat
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
This is a fun one.
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Ahaha this story is a DELIGHT :D "Character from My Unfinished Epic Fantasy Novel or IKEA Product?" by @susantaitel.bsky.social www.pointsincase.com/articles/cha...
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Character from My Unfinished Epic Fantasy Novel or IKEA Product? | Points in Case
SNARJVK: A rubber vegetable-scrubbing glove, $7.99 or A giant wolf with ivory tusks and purple bioluminescent fur?
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Susan Taitel @susantaitel.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Every been so in the weeds with a work in progress you can't remember if the file created on two hours of sleep was a draft or your shopping list? Just me? Out today on @pointsincase.com www.pointsincase.com/articles/cha...
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Character from My Unfinished Epic Fantasy Novel or IKEA Product? | Points in Case
SNARJVK: A rubber vegetable-scrubbing glove, $7.99 or A giant wolf with ivory tusks and purple bioluminescent fur?
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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
I love this story!
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Meg W @winikat.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
Do you and your family/friends have entire conversations in book quotes? Or do you find yourself sounding like your favorite author by accident? This is a good read for you.
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Prince Zexu @princezexu.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
Saw this sign this week. Thought it was punk af
The sign says, "A world without Trans People has never existed and never will".
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 09/09/2024
oh i loved this! this was a fun one, and has a really lovely turn
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 09/09/2024
Do you, too, have "Bookish Tastes"? Today Susan Taitel's story reminds us that we are what we eat, so we should be careful about all we ingest... smallwondersmag.com/...
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Bookish Tastes - Small Wonders
I ate The Hobbit once. I don’t mean I "devoured" it, although I was a voracious reader. I mean that I masticated, swallowed, and digested The Hobbit.
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