Laila Amado
@amadolaila.bsky.social
Book lover and cat worshiper, I observe people and write words for a living. She/They. Codexian. SFWA. HWA. Best Small Fictions 2022. Best Microfiction 2024.
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Laila Amado
@amadolaila.bsky.social
· Apr 29
amazing, Inventive new story today from Laila Amado!
"When the alarms, signaling the breach of dams that keep the ocean away from the shore, go off all at once, do they sound like: a) trumpets blaring from below the waves; b) a category five hurricane..."
https://www.havehashad.com/ewn5l
"When the alarms, signaling the breach of dams that keep the ocean away from the shore, go off all at once, do they sound like: a) trumpets blaring from below the waves; b) a category five hurricane..."
https://www.havehashad.com/ewn5l
Fishbone Crown, Bleeding Eyes by Laila Amado
When the alarms, signaling the breach of dams that keep the ocean away from the shore, go off all at once, do they sound like: a) trumpets blaring from below the waves; b) a category five hurricane…
www.havehashad.com
I’ve earned my first skull!
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There are those who just look at you, but then there are some who can see straight into your soul!
👀 😳
The 15 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#OBSERVE
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
👀 😳
The 15 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#OBSERVE
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
There are those who just look at you, but then there are some who can see straight into your soul!
👀 😳
The 15 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#OBSERVE
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
👀 😳
The 15 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#OBSERVE
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
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We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So thrilled to have this story published in @thedeadlands.com 💀💀💀
"The ghost has always been here. You just didn’t notice her before."
TODAY, beloveds!!
a bit of ghost FLASH, just for you 🖤
The Ghost of Cerrera Orbital Station Makes Herself Known by @amadolaila.bsky.social
TODAY, beloveds!!
a bit of ghost FLASH, just for you 🖤
The Ghost of Cerrera Orbital Station Makes Herself Known by @amadolaila.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So thrilled to have this story published in @thedeadlands.com 💀💀💀
Reposted by Laila Amado
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It was a persistent rumor. A constant buzz. Fans whispered that the band’s most #famous song is cursed. Radio DJs laughed but removed the track from their lists. Tribute bands pretended it didn’t exist. One girl sang it on tiktok for hype and lolz. And was never seen again. #vss365
November 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The best education he found was between the cutting stems of tall grasses in the wetlands of his homeland. Winds of change carried him half across the world, over mountains and planes, but he never forgot the letters written in sharp cuts on his skin. #vss365
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The best education he found was between the cutting stems of tall grasses in the wetlands of his homeland. Winds of change carried him half across the world, over mountains and planes, but he never forgot the letters written in sharp cuts on his skin. #vss365
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UTTERLY BRILLIANT NOVEL. The construction, voice, emotional heft, and conversations with the cat.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
UTTERLY BRILLIANT NOVEL. The construction, voice, emotional heft, and conversations with the cat.
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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It's a café! It's a bookshop! It's both! Caffè San Marco in Trieste, which dates back to 1914. My first visit to Italy in 25 years, and I'd forgotten how fucking stylish the Italians can be. Photographs by Anne Billson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3...
October 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It's a café! It's a bookshop! It's both! Caffè San Marco in Trieste, which dates back to 1914. My first visit to Italy in 25 years, and I'd forgotten how fucking stylish the Italians can be. Photographs by Anne Billson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3...
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Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : About
gonelawn.net
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Those who can hear the #drama in the eastern winds, have no comfort in the soft shells of their homes. No matter how many pillows go into the walls of theirs forts, no matter how many book pages stand between them and the endless night, the darkness #creeps inside, cold and hungry. #vss365
October 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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What a trilogy, these characters, this world, this ending 💜thankyou @premeemohamed.com for Reid and Henryk
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
What a trilogy, these characters, this world, this ending 💜thankyou @premeemohamed.com for Reid and Henryk
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AN ANCIENTE MAPPE of FAIRYLAND newly discovered and set forth. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918. I have a copy of this map of fairyland by Bernard Sleigh in my study to ponder other worlds. It's filled with awe and wonder.
September 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
AN ANCIENTE MAPPE of FAIRYLAND newly discovered and set forth. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918. I have a copy of this map of fairyland by Bernard Sleigh in my study to ponder other worlds. It's filled with awe and wonder.
All shutters slam closed
when a stranger comes to town
bleached bones, hat, two guns
#scifaikusaturday #stranger #spooktober
when a stranger comes to town
bleached bones, hat, two guns
#scifaikusaturday #stranger #spooktober
October 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
All shutters slam closed
when a stranger comes to town
bleached bones, hat, two guns
#scifaikusaturday #stranger #spooktober
when a stranger comes to town
bleached bones, hat, two guns
#scifaikusaturday #stranger #spooktober
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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What Renan said. If you want to see @apexmag.bsky.social stick around and keep publishing great fiction, help them reach their goal. Donate if you can spare it, share either way.
6 days to go so @apexmag.bsky.social can fund their 2026 Kickstarter! Don't want to sound dramatic, but I always feel bad when I see markets go away. But that's what might happen, and just when we need art more than anything.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
What Renan said. If you want to see @apexmag.bsky.social stick around and keep publishing great fiction, help them reach their goal. Donate if you can spare it, share either way.
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The 25 October 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#STRANGE or #STRANGER
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
#STRANGE or #STRANGER
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
October 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The 25 October 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#STRANGE or #STRANGER
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
#STRANGE or #STRANGER
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
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Fun fact #3: in my previous career, I did some work in Cryptography (encrypting & decrypting written messages/cyphertext)
Since #cryptography is still a pretty big passion of mine, I've hidden lots of "secret messages" throughout all my books.
The LARGEST SECRET of all still remains undiscovered💙📚
Since #cryptography is still a pretty big passion of mine, I've hidden lots of "secret messages" throughout all my books.
The LARGEST SECRET of all still remains undiscovered💙📚
October 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Fun fact #3: in my previous career, I did some work in Cryptography (encrypting & decrypting written messages/cyphertext)
Since #cryptography is still a pretty big passion of mine, I've hidden lots of "secret messages" throughout all my books.
The LARGEST SECRET of all still remains undiscovered💙📚
Since #cryptography is still a pretty big passion of mine, I've hidden lots of "secret messages" throughout all my books.
The LARGEST SECRET of all still remains undiscovered💙📚
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Proofs are in! A huge thank you to @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for sending these my way. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK will be out in April, and these proofs will be going out into the world imminently. Terrifying! Exciting! Mostly terrifying!
October 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Proofs are in! A huge thank you to @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for sending these my way. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK will be out in April, and these proofs will be going out into the world imminently. Terrifying! Exciting! Mostly terrifying!
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 31ST!
The Speculative Detective Agency
Co-Editors: Matthew David Goodwin and Richie Narvaez
Call for Stories:
tinyurl.com/2kw9kd85
The Kickstarter:
tinyurl.com/2x4rp52h
---TRUST THE MYSTERY---
The Speculative Detective Agency
Co-Editors: Matthew David Goodwin and Richie Narvaez
Call for Stories:
tinyurl.com/2kw9kd85
The Kickstarter:
tinyurl.com/2x4rp52h
---TRUST THE MYSTERY---
September 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 31ST!
The Speculative Detective Agency
Co-Editors: Matthew David Goodwin and Richie Narvaez
Call for Stories:
tinyurl.com/2kw9kd85
The Kickstarter:
tinyurl.com/2x4rp52h
---TRUST THE MYSTERY---
The Speculative Detective Agency
Co-Editors: Matthew David Goodwin and Richie Narvaez
Call for Stories:
tinyurl.com/2kw9kd85
The Kickstarter:
tinyurl.com/2x4rp52h
---TRUST THE MYSTERY---