Cindy Phan
@cindyphanauthor.com
A human going | Best of the Net Nom | Pushcart Nom | Stories in Augur Magazine, khōréō magazine, Baffling Magazine & more | Bi | She/her
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Author photo by Rosena Fung
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Author photo by Rosena Fung
Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want!
(If you like erotic stories about love, revenge and growing families, with gourds, "All Her Darling Little Ones" in A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology might just be for you) @hedonebooks.bsky.social
(If you like erotic stories about love, revenge and growing families, with gourds, "All Her Darling Little Ones" in A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology might just be for you) @hedonebooks.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want!
(If you like erotic stories about love, revenge and growing families, with gourds, "All Her Darling Little Ones" in A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology might just be for you) @hedonebooks.bsky.social
(If you like erotic stories about love, revenge and growing families, with gourds, "All Her Darling Little Ones" in A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology might just be for you) @hedonebooks.bsky.social
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🎉It's my book day!🎉
SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library!
Full of short fiction and poetry retellings!
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...
SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library!
Full of short fiction and poetry retellings!
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🎉It's my book day!🎉
SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library!
Full of short fiction and poetry retellings!
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...
SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library!
Full of short fiction and poetry retellings!
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...
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Jupiter says trans rights
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Jupiter says trans rights
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A noir boardgame where it doesn't matter what you do, you die
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A noir boardgame where it doesn't matter what you do, you die
HUNTR/X (of stuffies)
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
HUNTR/X (of stuffies)
Jesus Christ Joyce.
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Jesus Christ Joyce.
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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timeline cleanse
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
timeline cleanse
I don’t know man if Joyce Carol Oats doubted that I read I would do the honourable thing and curl up into a ball and die.
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I don’t know man if Joyce Carol Oats doubted that I read I would do the honourable thing and curl up into a ball and die.
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a title change for the debut novel forthcoming with @titanbooks.bsky.social in 2026 👀‼️
🎭🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS ☁️🪷🎭
a Chinese-inspired science fantasy set on a drowning continent of royal siblings striving to survive in a climate of murder and corruption.
🎭🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS ☁️🪷🎭
a Chinese-inspired science fantasy set on a drowning continent of royal siblings striving to survive in a climate of murder and corruption.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
a title change for the debut novel forthcoming with @titanbooks.bsky.social in 2026 👀‼️
🎭🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS ☁️🪷🎭
a Chinese-inspired science fantasy set on a drowning continent of royal siblings striving to survive in a climate of murder and corruption.
🎭🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS ☁️🪷🎭
a Chinese-inspired science fantasy set on a drowning continent of royal siblings striving to survive in a climate of murder and corruption.
The circulatory system walking through my kitchen better offer me some coffee too or we’re going to have a problem
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The circulatory system walking through my kitchen better offer me some coffee too or we’re going to have a problem
This one email chain I'm currently wrangling is so unwieldily I'm not entirely convinced it hasn't jumped dimensions, if not people (but maybe, also, people?)
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This one email chain I'm currently wrangling is so unwieldily I'm not entirely convinced it hasn't jumped dimensions, if not people (but maybe, also, people?)
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Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
reactormag.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
No, that’s coccyx. Raucous is when 5-6 raccoons become inebriated after eating the fermented apples littering the grounds of abandoned orchards.
No, that’s raucous. Caucus is the large bone in the ankle that articulates with the tibia of the leg and the calcaneum and navicular bone of the foot.
No that's Porthos. Caucus is disagreeably harsh or strident, hoarse.
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
No, that’s coccyx. Raucous is when 5-6 raccoons become inebriated after eating the fermented apples littering the grounds of abandoned orchards.
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Thank you @acwise.bsky.social for reviewing our 5.2 issue!
Join @ac_wise as she explores new short fiction from @KhoreoMag (@khoreo.bsky.social) -
khōréō: Review by A.C. Wise
khōréō 5.2 Diana Dima’s “The Traveling Mountain” in khōréō 5.2 tells the story of a mountain that learns of a land beyond the sea and goes on walkabout. She transforms herself into stones in a qua…
locusmag.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Thank you @acwise.bsky.social for reviewing our 5.2 issue!
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On Wednesday morning I leave for my VERY LAST in person lab exam and y'all have helped me get *so close* to meeting the need for that ask but I'm still about $225 short.
If you can help, it's deeply appreciated.
If you can help, it's deeply appreciated.
Oh Hai 👋🏿
If I can keep these gig contracts steady, the last 15% of this campaign (that I started in October 2022) will go to the bigger ticket items that I still need like neonate appropriate pulse oximeters, for ex., and my licensure exam fees.
This is what I came for.
If I can keep these gig contracts steady, the last 15% of this campaign (that I started in October 2022) will go to the bigger ticket items that I still need like neonate appropriate pulse oximeters, for ex., and my licensure exam fees.
This is what I came for.
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
On Wednesday morning I leave for my VERY LAST in person lab exam and y'all have helped me get *so close* to meeting the need for that ask but I'm still about $225 short.
If you can help, it's deeply appreciated.
If you can help, it's deeply appreciated.
Name a villain you sympathize with
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Name a villain you sympathize with
Tonight’s pick: Hellraiser (2022)
A rewatch of a film I really enjoyed, if not as much as the original (ah, but that one was formative).
Still, I like that Hellraiser 2022 stands on its own, with some interesting additions to the lore,
and of course Jamie Clayton is a revelation as Pinhead.
A rewatch of a film I really enjoyed, if not as much as the original (ah, but that one was formative).
Still, I like that Hellraiser 2022 stands on its own, with some interesting additions to the lore,
and of course Jamie Clayton is a revelation as Pinhead.
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Tonight’s pick: Hellraiser (2022)
A rewatch of a film I really enjoyed, if not as much as the original (ah, but that one was formative).
Still, I like that Hellraiser 2022 stands on its own, with some interesting additions to the lore,
and of course Jamie Clayton is a revelation as Pinhead.
A rewatch of a film I really enjoyed, if not as much as the original (ah, but that one was formative).
Still, I like that Hellraiser 2022 stands on its own, with some interesting additions to the lore,
and of course Jamie Clayton is a revelation as Pinhead.
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Sorry one more
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Sorry one more
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100% this.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
100% this.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.