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Keira Perkins

@thatkeira.bsky.social
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Scientist by day. Sometimes i write things at night. keiraperkins.com

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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 27m
I'm at a lit festival and I'm trying to make friends but also very much trying to respect the introverts that just want to be left the fuck alone. But oh my gosh, we would have so much fun if you wanted that.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 3h
The image is of a four panel comic. The title reads "Poltergeist".
In the first panel we see a woman with a worried expression on her face. She says, "stuff keeps moving around my house."
In the second panel the same woman says "I'm terrified. I can't sleep."
In the third panel we see a ghost holding a candle and a pillow that reads "live laugh love". The ghost is zooming through the house.
In the fourth panel we see the same ghost hanging up a frame and thinking, "home decor is my passion".
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 5h
Lists titled things like, “100 places to visit before you die” almost make me laugh because I get it’s supposed to convey a sense of urgency to your one wild beautiful life But Instead I just imagine these places being very unfriendly to ghosts & adorned with signs like, “No ghosts allowed”
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Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · 21h
It's 5:00 on Friday, which means you can start your weekend off right by checking out our brand new issue. Be among the first to check out next year's Nebula and Hugo finalists 🤭 www.radonjournal.com/issue14
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Issue 14 | Radon Journal
Fourteenth issue of Radon Journal, featuring science fiction, anarchist, and a little bit of horror. Poetry and short fiction stories to widen your perception.
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Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social · 21h
Happy Proof (Midwest Litfest) weekend for those who celebrate! You can join me in-conversation with the esteemed poet, Januarie York, about Black Horror. 10/3 10a at the Harrison Center
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I complimented a hijabi on her outfit and she told me that I made her day But for REAL, her dress was a black and white print, and she paired it was a solid forest green scarf. Everything just flowed and harmonized so well. She reminded me of a willow tree.
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look what showed up! USPS in Indiana can be super slow but packages eventually (mostly!) make it to their destinations. I love it so! Thanks @radonjournal.bsky.social for the reprint opportunity
The cover of Radon Journal, Issue 13

It’s a lot of blue, on a maybe alien planet. A person stands on a rocky hill in the foreground. They are dwarfed by a rocky spire in background. The spire is framed partially by a giant yellow moonIt’s the table of contents for Issue 13.

Look at all those great contents
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
15+ years ago my husband drove Uber on the weekends to help pay down student loans. Once a group of drunk girls poured a drunker friend into his car and then they left. She passed out on the drive home. 1/?
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I want to go to the Galapagos and have a picnic with the tortoises. I think that might fix a lot of stuff.
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
annoyed that my colleagues are repeatedly misspelling my name as Kiera, which is silly of me, because I repeatedly sign my name Keria when I type too quickly. What even are names?? Wouldn't a rose smell as sweet, etc. and so on?
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Having a corporate job is so weird because what do you mean I was so fed-up yesterday I wanted to walk off the job…but today I’m at our inclusion conference (that can’t be called DEI or we’ll be a politician’s target) and FREAKING BABYFACE is singing to us b/c his MOM worked here for 20+ years???
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GIF of me posting (/positive, actual angel) GIF of you posting (/negative, literally possessed)
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Jenny Slate in Parks and Rec: 'I have done nothing wrong'
Alt: Jenny Slate in Parks and Rec as the character Mona-Lisa. The text reads, “I have done nothing wrong, ever, in my life”
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My hound stole a package of spicy ramen from my work bag because she can unzip zippers The cocker spaniel stole it from her immediately, then ran upstairs to show me her treat Spaniel is sad I made her drop it. Hound is unrepentant. Work bag appears to be undamaged
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Men who mock women for traveling in packs are the reason women travel in packs. Contempt for us is a big neon sign that you aren’t safe.
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is" - Bill Clinton and also every fucking day at work
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Choosing violence today - just told an Ops manager that I can't keep defining words for him and that dictionaries exist. (and I would define the words for him, but he's actually doing this as a rhetorical trick to argue instead of listening)
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is it, friends. This is the coolest I have ever looked. This is the apex. Be ready for the downward slide.
Me, taking a selfie. Hair in 2 messy pigtail braids with a bandana tied over the top. 

There’s a banner of a skeleton cowboy smoking a cigarette behind me.
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
drunk history wolf 359
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I dare you to lick a sweaty armpit
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How can onions taste so delicious but smell like foulest of body odor at the same time??
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you have smallish hands (i wear latex gloves 6.5-7, dependent on brand) do you have any tips or tricks for shuffling Magic commander decks??
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This post is actually about like 10 things that are annoying the shit out of me right now.
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is absolutely no diagnosis or condition that gives another person license to abuse you. You don’t have to tolerate it or minimize the harm. I too am a neurodivergent person who has struggled with her mental health. It’s not an excuse to hurt people
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Normal Me: Oh no, my Miraculous Medal fell off. I hope I can find it by retracing my steps. Neurotic Me: We have been CURSED Normal Me: … Neurotic Me: DOOOOOOOOOOMED
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Man Points and Screams in Shock
Alt: Donald Sutherland gif from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” A curly-haired blonde man in a khaki trench-coat is pointing and yelling in horror
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Three-Lobed burning Eye is at $9,921 out of their $10,000 initial goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2027
Publishing original horror, fantasy, and science fiction since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales!
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every single damn day on social media Person 1: Social norms exist because we live in society and no one individual is the center. Person 2, their first day on Earth: * Surprised Pikachu Face *
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Pikachu Shocked Face
Alt: Pikachu Shocked Face
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So mad that iced coffee discourse broke into TikTok. For context, the original video was from a recruiter for FORTUNE 500 companies who had gotten feedback that it can read as too casual. That is it. Then everyone lost their minds at the idea that some situations call for more formality.
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Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🐛💻💚 Our penultimate day of author reveals is here!! RADON #14 is packed with sci-fi poetry and fiction. Today's author reveals are @marksbailen.bsky.social @ajvolante.bsky.social and @olusegunajayi.bsky.social
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
so it's no longer sad horror summer, but consider: now we're in fall, which is when Tara went missing to begin with
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Patient Zero wormed its way into my brain immediately and ate it. There are no thoughts today there is only Taylor 🎶 If you wanna party with somebody who might know About the devil on his shoulder under his halo🎶
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am excited about the new nearly-here Taylor Swift songs, BUT ConcernedApe also dropped Easter eggs for Stardew Valley today and I am going to lose my mind. What does it mean???
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Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
COMING OCTOBER 1: 🌏🦠⚗️📺 More author reveals for Radon #14!!!! Featuring works from @olusegunajayi.bsky.social, @bchase9.bsky.social, @mynachang.bsky.social, and @shanaross.bsky.social
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
up to $7821 out of a $10,000 base goal! ONE WEEK left!!! share! donate! share! tell your friends! tell your enemies!
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How many pepperonis can my cat eat before she gets sick? Five? Five seems right. That’s the number she ate.
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s for the best that no one responded because the shirts sold out. Well done 👏 I still backed them though.
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Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This Spring is going to be stacked...
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 23/09/2026
.Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ is back with a poem about a child learning about their coyote father from their mother, and about how they will always have a place with her. "You are not the mistake of my body. You are my only forgiveness of his touch."
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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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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Climate change is making me a damn liar. The cicadas finally stopped s̶c̶r̶e̶a̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ singing me to sleep this week. www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/30/str...
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Keira Perkins > Strange Eons > Bourbon Penn
The elder gods arrived in the sky in early September, like an unholy aurora borealis stretching across a midnight sky. Their vastness blocked the sun, an unending eclipse, a liminal state, a breath th...
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Astrology is bullshit. But also Knowing I’m a Virgo with an Aries ascendant and a Gemini moon is all you really need to clock my personality.
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Where are my short story nerds at?? No one wants a bitchin’ shirt?? I’m giving them the money, regardless. But interactions may get them more eyes on the Kickstarter
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Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
COMING OCTOBER 1: 🌏🦠⚗️📺 Radon's fall issue with all-new science fiction! Our first day of author reveals features @ericfomley.bsky.social, Colleen Anderson, Tomias Keno, and Tyler Lemley
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
HEY. Do YOU, yes YOU want a FREE 3LBE t-shirt? Tell me the following: 1) a favorite story 3LBE has published 2) a genre mag you love that didn't make the Hugo list this year 3) a spec poem you've loved I'll leave this open for 48 hrs then draw a name from the responses. Winner gets the t-shirt
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Had a stress dream last night that had me yelling in the dream and likely making some sort of noise in the bed. Dog got concerned, shoved her muzzle into my mouth, and THEN LICKED THE ENTIRETY OF IT 10/10 for Good Girl Initiative -10000/10 for enjoyment
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Have you ever been at a concert where the music has transformed you to something else, something fierce and powerful? Remember that feeling. Hold it. Then imagine a man there that keeps grabbing you by the hips despite your “friendly” efforts to make him stop. You get to kill him in this poem.
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Aeryn Rudel @aerynrudel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Got a new piece of crime #flashfiction out at Shotgun Honey called “Dog Eat Dog.” Now, as a bona fide cat person, I don't often write about dogs, but sometimes a story needs what it needs. 🐶 #writingcommunity ##writersofbluesky shotgunhoney.com/fiction/dog-...
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Dog Eat Dog by Aeryn Rudel
I sit in a dark hotel room facing the door. One hand rests on Boris’s head, and I idly scratch the Caucasian Shepherd’s ears. The dog is silent, well trained, but I feel the tension vibrating throu…
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You know when people are so confidently wrong but you’re so taken aback by something awful they believe that you don’t even know where to start??
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Virgo: Love and prosperity are in the stars this week! A gazillion miles away. Pretty to look at, though.
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
To be loved is to be seen. Husband built me a Magic commander deck for my birthday, chockfull of cats and dogs after I told him how fun that would be to play. He even made our pets the tokens. 💕
Cat and dog token cards on flower play mat. There are 3 dogs and 4 cats looking super cute
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don’t have much on submission right now and I should do something about that, but I’m going to play Magic instead with a deck my husband built me for my birthday.
Cropped screenshot from The Submission Grinder of 4 submissions. One yellow, one red, two black
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How am I supposed to snoop on people now that Clearsky is dead? What even am I going to do with my time? Something good and productive??? Ugh
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