Aimee Ogden
@aimeeogdenwrites.com
Nebula Award Finalist for WHAT ANY DEAD THING WANTS; new novella STARSTRUCK out June '25 🌱🦊🪨 👦🏽 Rep: Eric Showers at Morhaim Lit. Bi. She/her. An American werewolf in Noord-Brabant. Fix your hearts or die. https://www.aimeeogdenwrites.com
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Aimee Ogden
@aimeeogdenwrites.com
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Starstruck, by Aimee Ogden | Psychopomp
a radish, a fox, and a boulder walk into the world... check out the cover for Aimee's amazing novella STARSTRUCK, and preorder your copy today.
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Pssst, hey kid. what are you doing this weekend. You wanna try some heartbreak? goes down real easy. there's a rock and she's funny (but then also the other thing)
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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Do I like Christmas? No! Do I like excuses to talk about books? Yes! So I'm going to do twelve days of bookmas - starting today and running up to Christmas Eve - where I talk about twelve books I read this year that were cool, fun, interesting or discussion-worthy.
December 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Do I like Christmas? No! Do I like excuses to talk about books? Yes! So I'm going to do twelve days of bookmas - starting today and running up to Christmas Eve - where I talk about twelve books I read this year that were cool, fun, interesting or discussion-worthy.
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i wrote this one after re-reading "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter and wanting to pay homage.
Hope and Despair are contentious lovers. one is a house, and the other a road. their children are many, and one finally decides tackle their contentious and complicated relationship.
Hope and Despair are contentious lovers. one is a house, and the other a road. their children are many, and one finally decides tackle their contentious and complicated relationship.
BCS of 2025! "The Messengers of Despair" @jordankurella.com BCS #431 "an impossible house that had neither foundation nor stairs. Instead it had roots, growing out of the earth like a tree, and knots and bark instead of shingles or thatch." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Messengers of Despair by Jordan Kurella
It was a house. Impossibly a house; an impossible house in the wood that had odd angles and wrong doors. It had neither foundation nor stairs. Instead it had roots, growing out of the earth like a tre...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
i wrote this one after re-reading "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter and wanting to pay homage.
Hope and Despair are contentious lovers. one is a house, and the other a road. their children are many, and one finally decides tackle their contentious and complicated relationship.
Hope and Despair are contentious lovers. one is a house, and the other a road. their children are many, and one finally decides tackle their contentious and complicated relationship.
Are you missing out on the Ogden Monologueden? New newsletter went out this afternoon with all my 2025 publications and a little bit of year-end navel-gazing. Check it out here (or you could subscribe and bring my navel directly to your inbox a few times a year? magic inbox navel wow)
if we make it through December we'll be fine
Year-end summaries are always a struggle for me. I always seem to take it as an opportunity to collect my regrets for the year: I didn’t write enough, didn’t...
buttondown.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Are you missing out on the Ogden Monologueden? New newsletter went out this afternoon with all my 2025 publications and a little bit of year-end navel-gazing. Check it out here (or you could subscribe and bring my navel directly to your inbox a few times a year? magic inbox navel wow)
Hey, I know that fox!
HUZZAH!!
it's Starstuck by @aimeeogdenwrites.com on this list of December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books!!
check all the goodness out here:
lithub.com/memory-rehab...
it's Starstuck by @aimeeogdenwrites.com on this list of December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books!!
check all the goodness out here:
lithub.com/memory-rehab...
Memory Rehab and Future History: December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
The mornings are brisker, the evenings are darker—the year is winding down. You may, like me, be reevaluating your TBR from the past year and recalling books you had meant to read when you got them…
lithub.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hey, I know that fox!
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I've collected several short stories in a Google Sheet that are up for award consideration. Read! Stories by @reasie.bsky.social @grigorylukin.bsky.social @cornellwriter.bsky.social @japrenticewrites.bsky.social @duncanshepherd.bsky.social, @jheijndermans.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com, and me.
Nebula Short Stories
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December 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I've collected several short stories in a Google Sheet that are up for award consideration. Read! Stories by @reasie.bsky.social @grigorylukin.bsky.social @cornellwriter.bsky.social @japrenticewrites.bsky.social @duncanshepherd.bsky.social, @jheijndermans.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com, and me.
Sometimes I feel like the more I like a book, the worse I am at talking about it. This is a problem, because I LOVED @kateheartfield.com's MERCUTIO. (short 🧵)
Mercutio
Check out Mercutio - <p>From <em>Sunday Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The Embroidered Book</em> and <em>The Valkyrie</em> comes an opulent 13th century epic retelling of the life of Mercutio be...
uk.bookshop.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sometimes I feel like the more I like a book, the worse I am at talking about it. This is a problem, because I LOVED @kateheartfield.com's MERCUTIO. (short 🧵)
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends" by Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/1cTxHh1
Try the novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends" by Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/1cTxHh1
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends" by Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/1cTxHh1
Try the novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends" by Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/1cTxHh1
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Are you looking for a stack of genre-convention defying Premee-ium speculative fiction?
Look no further!
Come get @premeemohamed.com 's military Pteranodons, REALLY messed up co-dependent friendships, searingly prescient examinations of war and pacifism, eldritch cosmic horrors and SO much more!
Look no further!
Come get @premeemohamed.com 's military Pteranodons, REALLY messed up co-dependent friendships, searingly prescient examinations of war and pacifism, eldritch cosmic horrors and SO much more!
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Are you looking for a stack of genre-convention defying Premee-ium speculative fiction?
Look no further!
Come get @premeemohamed.com 's military Pteranodons, REALLY messed up co-dependent friendships, searingly prescient examinations of war and pacifism, eldritch cosmic horrors and SO much more!
Look no further!
Come get @premeemohamed.com 's military Pteranodons, REALLY messed up co-dependent friendships, searingly prescient examinations of war and pacifism, eldritch cosmic horrors and SO much more!
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
I am “hurt my back by coughing too hard” years old
December 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I am “hurt my back by coughing too hard” years old
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and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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With the Nebula and BSFA nominations open, I’d be honored if you’d consider my novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. It's a story of friendship, love, and fireflies✨🪲
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
With the Nebula and BSFA nominations open, I’d be honored if you’d consider my novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. It's a story of friendship, love, and fireflies✨🪲
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
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This story is written with the precision of a scalpel and it takes no prisoners when it comes to the revelation. Perhaps you want to read a non-linear story about heat and the chill of a ghost against your skin.
by @cjtavares.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social
by @cjtavares.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social
Ghosts of Summer
September, 100° F
The apartment is dark when I return, the blackout curtains doing their job of keeping the late afternoon sun...
www.apexbookcompany.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This story is written with the precision of a scalpel and it takes no prisoners when it comes to the revelation. Perhaps you want to read a non-linear story about heat and the chill of a ghost against your skin.
by @cjtavares.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social
by @cjtavares.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social
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Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!
Flash Roundup * October-November 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
mynachang.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!
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🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - OCTOBER 2025🏳️🌈
I round up over 30 stories by @sentencebender.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @thesuiway.bsky.social @straith.ca & MANY MORE!!!!
www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
I round up over 30 stories by @sentencebender.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @thesuiway.bsky.social @straith.ca & MANY MORE!!!!
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Some Queer Short SFF - October 2025 | Charles Payseur
Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon
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November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - OCTOBER 2025🏳️🌈
I round up over 30 stories by @sentencebender.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @thesuiway.bsky.social @straith.ca & MANY MORE!!!!
www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
I round up over 30 stories by @sentencebender.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @thesuiway.bsky.social @straith.ca & MANY MORE!!!!
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bluesky wrapped but it’s all the times you got yelled at by strangers off the Discover tab for posting that you like pancakes or saw a pretty bird
bluesky wrapped but it's how many times you got a non-sequitur scolding reply to a joke post
bluesky wrapped but it's how many meaningless arguments you got into. and also your win/loss ratio
December 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
bluesky wrapped but it’s all the times you got yelled at by strangers off the Discover tab for posting that you like pancakes or saw a pretty bird
I remembered another holiday cooking story, from when our kids were little and we'd taken over hosting Christmas dinner. (This one's a little gross; you've been warned.) Traditionally I made a Yule log for dessert, and traditionally there was a crisis involved in the making. 1/4
Senior yr: roasted a Butterball, made stuffing, everything smelling great, except I COULD NOT get the gravy to thicken in the least. Added more and more flour - nothing.
Tasted it and discovered someone had reused the plastic container that used to hold flour to hold powdered sugar instead.
Tasted it and discovered someone had reused the plastic container that used to hold flour to hold powdered sugar instead.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I remembered another holiday cooking story, from when our kids were little and we'd taken over hosting Christmas dinner. (This one's a little gross; you've been warned.) Traditionally I made a Yule log for dessert, and traditionally there was a crisis involved in the making. 1/4
Senior yr: roasted a Butterball, made stuffing, everything smelling great, except I COULD NOT get the gravy to thicken in the least. Added more and more flour - nothing.
Tasted it and discovered someone had reused the plastic container that used to hold flour to hold powdered sugar instead.
Tasted it and discovered someone had reused the plastic container that used to hold flour to hold powdered sugar instead.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Senior yr: roasted a Butterball, made stuffing, everything smelling great, except I COULD NOT get the gravy to thicken in the least. Added more and more flour - nothing.
Tasted it and discovered someone had reused the plastic container that used to hold flour to hold powdered sugar instead.
Tasted it and discovered someone had reused the plastic container that used to hold flour to hold powdered sugar instead.
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we have overlooked the most likely reason raccoons are self-domesticating rapidly, which is that they have become aware of rfk jr & his dietary preferences
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
we have overlooked the most likely reason raccoons are self-domesticating rapidly, which is that they have become aware of rfk jr & his dietary preferences
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A fascinating and heartbreaking story of love, science, fey and desire, both named and unnamed for a person, or the idea of a person. And how that desire can cage us forever or set us free.
by @aimeeogdenwrites.com in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
by @aimeeogdenwrites.com in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
Because I Held His Name Like a Key
When I met the young Mr Turing, I had not yet ascended as Autumn’s King. Nowadays it has become fashionable for the sons and daughters of the lesser fey gentry to improve their position in the shif…
strangehorizons.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A fascinating and heartbreaking story of love, science, fey and desire, both named and unnamed for a person, or the idea of a person. And how that desire can cage us forever or set us free.
by @aimeeogdenwrites.com in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
by @aimeeogdenwrites.com in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
thank u for your service Dutch Socialism Cat ♥️
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
thank u for your service Dutch Socialism Cat ♥️
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John Brown’s soul isn’t marching on while his body is lying a moulderin’ in the grave for you to be a doomer
I would like everyone who's been pearl-clutching about the hopeless and terminal descent into fascism in my replies to take a moment, look around, and think twice before telling me these guys are unstoppable.
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
John Brown’s soul isn’t marching on while his body is lying a moulderin’ in the grave for you to be a doomer