Abra Staffin-Wiebe
@abracanabra.bsky.social
Writer of horror-inflected SF/fantasy. Mostly post daily freewriting and writing-related things, gruesome writing tidbits, and science facts because SIENSE! Likely to reshare cat pictures, weird science facts, books and short stories, art.
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Verified this is authentic. It's the Blues Brothers Pope.
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Verified this is authentic. It's the Blues Brothers Pope.
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Read your contracts, friends.
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Read your contracts, friends.
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There are still a few of my '26 calendars left in this final printrun.I create each of my 📷s using recent research into the beneficial effects on the brain of looking at plants & items arranged neatly.
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
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Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
There are still a few of my '26 calendars left in this final printrun.I create each of my 📷s using recent research into the beneficial effects on the brain of looking at plants & items arranged neatly.
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
The #measure of her days became tight and confined, marked by how many skeins of other people's pain she could card and twist into yarn. The plague went on and so did she, helping the sick to survive or at least pass without pain. Then one day it ended. Her yarn stash remained. #vss365 #MicroFiction
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The #measure of her days became tight and confined, marked by how many skeins of other people's pain she could card and twist into yarn. The plague went on and so did she, helping the sick to survive or at least pass without pain. Then one day it ended. Her yarn stash remained. #vss365 #MicroFiction
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Still thinking about them 🥹
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Still thinking about them 🥹
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We perceive the world through our own unique lens of beliefs and feelings.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We perceive the world through our own unique lens of beliefs and feelings.
Angry MN folks, hey, maybe this?
I just sent @angiecraigmn.bsky.social and @peggyflanagan.bsky.social an email. Please feel free to copy.
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Angry MN folks, hey, maybe this?
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
People look at him and me. They say that by all the #laws of nature, we should not be together. It's OK. I know I'm not fashionably pretty--or unfashionably pretty, either. And I still know my worth. It's amazing how powerful a bond murder is. And who doesn't like costumes? #vss365 🧵 1/2
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Absolutely delightful
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Absolutely delightful
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*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
When a trader knocked on her cottage door, she found that they didn't speak the same #language. That was no hindrance to trade. He recoiled from iron horseshoes but loved her blown glass beads. After the trade, he vanished into the ring of mushrooms that had appeared overnight. #vss365 #MicroFiction
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
When a trader knocked on her cottage door, she found that they didn't speak the same #language. That was no hindrance to trade. He recoiled from iron horseshoes but loved her blown glass beads. After the trade, he vanished into the ring of mushrooms that had appeared overnight. #vss365 #MicroFiction
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If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
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Second Harvest Heartland has information to find food resources in Minnesota during this increased hunger crisis. Find the help you need or ways to help others if you are in a position where you can help. www.2harvest.org
Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org
There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Second Harvest Heartland has information to find food resources in Minnesota during this increased hunger crisis. Find the help you need or ways to help others if you are in a position where you can help. www.2harvest.org
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We need to bring back “go fly a kite”. It has to be the nicest way to insult someone.
Hey, jerk, why don’t you go experience a moment of pure wonderment? Go heal your inner child, ya little punk!
Hey, jerk, why don’t you go experience a moment of pure wonderment? Go heal your inner child, ya little punk!
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We need to bring back “go fly a kite”. It has to be the nicest way to insult someone.
Hey, jerk, why don’t you go experience a moment of pure wonderment? Go heal your inner child, ya little punk!
Hey, jerk, why don’t you go experience a moment of pure wonderment? Go heal your inner child, ya little punk!
It is necessary to consider a person's romantic #history before attempting to move into their home and take over their family. I learned that the first time I tried it. Nearly got exorcised and/or arrested that time, and I have no desire to spend the next 100 years in jail. #vss365
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The #geography of dreams is a tricksy thing. It *does* exist, unique to itself and not to the dreamer, though there are those who argue otherwise. Magritte and Dalí hid their maps in their art, but me? I'm willing to sell, for a very reasonable price.
#vss365 (geography) #MicroFiction #AmWriting
#vss365 (geography) #MicroFiction #AmWriting
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The #geography of dreams is a tricksy thing. It *does* exist, unique to itself and not to the dreamer, though there are those who argue otherwise. Magritte and Dalí hid their maps in their art, but me? I'm willing to sell, for a very reasonable price.
#vss365 (geography) #MicroFiction #AmWriting
#vss365 (geography) #MicroFiction #AmWriting
He gave up acting and decided to become a god on the same day that he was sitting in a cafe and ignoring whispers of, "He's someone #famous, isn't he? Wasn't he in that thing that won all the awards? No, not the main character, the other one. The one who died."
#vss365 (famous) #MicroFiction
#vss365 (famous) #MicroFiction
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
He gave up acting and decided to become a god on the same day that he was sitting in a cafe and ignoring whispers of, "He's someone #famous, isn't he? Wasn't he in that thing that won all the awards? No, not the main character, the other one. The one who died."
#vss365 (famous) #MicroFiction
#vss365 (famous) #MicroFiction
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I learned about it from someone posting this photo.
The internet is an interesting place.
The internet is an interesting place.
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I learned about it from someone posting this photo.
The internet is an interesting place.
The internet is an interesting place.
It was the little #domestic mysteries that kept her in love with her home: the new doors appearing in the hallways; the number of hobs that lived in the walls and drank the milk she left for them in exchange for their cleaning services; and the rustling noises in the inky shadows. #vss365 #AmWriting
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It was the little #domestic mysteries that kept her in love with her home: the new doors appearing in the hallways; the number of hobs that lived in the walls and drank the milk she left for them in exchange for their cleaning services; and the rustling noises in the inky shadows. #vss365 #AmWriting
The #creature oozed along the floor, leaving a trail of evaporating ectoplasm. Truly a disgusting sight, but...she noticed the floor was clean where it had passed. Now THAT had potential. "I'll take it," she told the gibbering apartment agent. "Flatmate and all." #vss365 #MicroFiction #AmWriting
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The #creature oozed along the floor, leaving a trail of evaporating ectoplasm. Truly a disgusting sight, but...she noticed the floor was clean where it had passed. Now THAT had potential. "I'll take it," she told the gibbering apartment agent. "Flatmate and all." #vss365 #MicroFiction #AmWriting
Tried the "giving ramen (or candy) for Halloween" thing this year. Observations! Less than half took ramen, mostly teens, and the trending brands were way most popular, LOL. Got some repeats in that age group. Little kids didn't even. They were just there for the candy, man.(🧵1/?) #Halloween
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Tried the "giving ramen (or candy) for Halloween" thing this year. Observations! Less than half took ramen, mostly teens, and the trending brands were way most popular, LOL. Got some repeats in that age group. Little kids didn't even. They were just there for the candy, man.(🧵1/?) #Halloween
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My timeline is *hilarious* right now, cheers to all y'all posting through the game
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
My timeline is *hilarious* right now, cheers to all y'all posting through the game