Malina
@iridescentwords.bsky.social
Writer of literary and speculative fiction. Published in Odin by Flame Tree Press, Cast of Wonders, Gwyllion, Ellipsis, Eye to the Telescope, WestWord Journal, NFFD Antho & more.
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Happy Imbolc! As returning light shines on the winter snow, a day for purification, inspiration, hope and new beginnings. ✨
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The snow-laden shrub off our back deck looks magical with uplighting
January 18, 2026 at 11:02 PM
The snow-laden shrub off our back deck looks magical with uplighting
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The anthology I'm in is up for pre-order 🥰
A story featuring correct spelling of the word "torsos," without an extra E.
Because who would do that? A person who while trying to turn off all AI functions, turned off spellcheck too? Leading to a mortifying editors note?
Not me. You can't prove it.
A story featuring correct spelling of the word "torsos," without an extra E.
Because who would do that? A person who while trying to turn off all AI functions, turned off spellcheck too? Leading to a mortifying editors note?
Not me. You can't prove it.
Trust me, you've never encountered monsters like these... ENCOUNTERS with cryptids is out Friday 13th March '26.
Pre-order now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4BLN1GR
Pre-order now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4BLN1GR
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The anthology I'm in is up for pre-order 🥰
A story featuring correct spelling of the word "torsos," without an extra E.
Because who would do that? A person who while trying to turn off all AI functions, turned off spellcheck too? Leading to a mortifying editors note?
Not me. You can't prove it.
A story featuring correct spelling of the word "torsos," without an extra E.
Because who would do that? A person who while trying to turn off all AI functions, turned off spellcheck too? Leading to a mortifying editors note?
Not me. You can't prove it.
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Locus Awards voting is OPEN!
Anyone can vote, and you can write in any eligible titles, editors, publishers, artists, magazines, and more!
Even the Hugos usually see only two or three thousand votes, far fewer in some categories - your votes matter!🗳️
poll.voting.locusmag.com
Anyone can vote, and you can write in any eligible titles, editors, publishers, artists, magazines, and more!
Even the Hugos usually see only two or three thousand votes, far fewer in some categories - your votes matter!🗳️
poll.voting.locusmag.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Locus Awards voting is OPEN!
Anyone can vote, and you can write in any eligible titles, editors, publishers, artists, magazines, and more!
Even the Hugos usually see only two or three thousand votes, far fewer in some categories - your votes matter!🗳️
poll.voting.locusmag.com
Anyone can vote, and you can write in any eligible titles, editors, publishers, artists, magazines, and more!
Even the Hugos usually see only two or three thousand votes, far fewer in some categories - your votes matter!🗳️
poll.voting.locusmag.com
Watch out!
RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.
Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3
February 5, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Watch out!
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A popular press recap of all the cool stuff that @schmidtocean.bsky.social recently found off the coast of Argentina
Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife share.google/99B8UnGPRL7y...
Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife share.google/99B8UnGPRL7y...
Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife
The rare giant phantom jelly was spotted during a science expedition off the coast of Argentina.
share.google
February 4, 2026 at 7:39 PM
A popular press recap of all the cool stuff that @schmidtocean.bsky.social recently found off the coast of Argentina
Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife share.google/99B8UnGPRL7y...
Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife share.google/99B8UnGPRL7y...
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The latest issue of Aurealis is out now. aurealis.com.au for details. Subscribe and don’t miss an issue
February 5, 2026 at 1:25 AM
The latest issue of Aurealis is out now. aurealis.com.au for details. Subscribe and don’t miss an issue
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When @alwayscoffee.bsky.social & I co-wrote "I Know Why Ophelia Picked Her Own Bouquet", we ended up crafting an incantation made from moonlight & moss, freedom & flame.
🥀🌹❤️🔥 #poetry
🥀🌹❤️🔥 #poetry
January 16, 2026 at 2:03 AM
When @alwayscoffee.bsky.social & I co-wrote "I Know Why Ophelia Picked Her Own Bouquet", we ended up crafting an incantation made from moonlight & moss, freedom & flame.
🥀🌹❤️🔥 #poetry
🥀🌹❤️🔥 #poetry
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🦔 Please nominate Prickles & Paws Hedgehog Rescue for a chance to win £1,000 💚
Takes under a minute and really helps our hedgehogs!
👉 movementforgood.com/draws/1000
#MovementForGood #HedgehogRescue #NominateUs
Takes under a minute and really helps our hedgehogs!
👉 movementforgood.com/draws/1000
#MovementForGood #HedgehogRescue #NominateUs
January 19, 2026 at 9:16 AM
🦔 Please nominate Prickles & Paws Hedgehog Rescue for a chance to win £1,000 💚
Takes under a minute and really helps our hedgehogs!
👉 movementforgood.com/draws/1000
#MovementForGood #HedgehogRescue #NominateUs
Takes under a minute and really helps our hedgehogs!
👉 movementforgood.com/draws/1000
#MovementForGood #HedgehogRescue #NominateUs
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Would you like to read to poems? Are you nominating for the Rhysling, Hugos, or Nebulas?
I’ve got links in thread for you! I’m really proud of the work I did last year, especially the poem I cowrote with @kambriel.com !
**does Vanna White flourish**
I’ve got links in thread for you! I’m really proud of the work I did last year, especially the poem I cowrote with @kambriel.com !
**does Vanna White flourish**
Darlings! A fresh post.
I've got poems eligible for the Hugo @laworldcon.bsky.social), Nebula ( @sfwa.org), and Rhysling awards ( @sfpoetry.bsky.social). Links:
@strangehorizons.bsky.social -- "Of Water, Always Seeking" strangehorizons.com/poetry/of-wa...
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I've got poems eligible for the Hugo @laworldcon.bsky.social), Nebula ( @sfwa.org), and Rhysling awards ( @sfpoetry.bsky.social). Links:
@strangehorizons.bsky.social -- "Of Water, Always Seeking" strangehorizons.com/poetry/of-wa...
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January 29, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Would you like to read to poems? Are you nominating for the Rhysling, Hugos, or Nebulas?
I’ve got links in thread for you! I’m really proud of the work I did last year, especially the poem I cowrote with @kambriel.com !
**does Vanna White flourish**
I’ve got links in thread for you! I’m really proud of the work I did last year, especially the poem I cowrote with @kambriel.com !
**does Vanna White flourish**
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if you still have a pinterest account, today's a good day to delete it!!
Pinterest CEO says in layoff email: "We’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working"
So it's time for me to move to another platform to save images
So it's time for me to move to another platform to save images
February 1, 2026 at 8:34 PM
if you still have a pinterest account, today's a good day to delete it!!
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There is not a day where love doesn't help just a little. Where kindness won't matter. Kindness and love always matter.
I care to my marrow, and I love when people let me. I love when people respond in kind. Share in kind. Show in kind.
Things are ghastly. Love out loud. Share the good stuff.
I care to my marrow, and I love when people let me. I love when people respond in kind. Share in kind. Show in kind.
Things are ghastly. Love out loud. Share the good stuff.
February 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
There is not a day where love doesn't help just a little. Where kindness won't matter. Kindness and love always matter.
I care to my marrow, and I love when people let me. I love when people respond in kind. Share in kind. Show in kind.
Things are ghastly. Love out loud. Share the good stuff.
I care to my marrow, and I love when people let me. I love when people respond in kind. Share in kind. Show in kind.
Things are ghastly. Love out loud. Share the good stuff.
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This is a truly interesting fantasy novel that I very much enjoyed, and you cannot go wrong at this sale price. Go for it.
tell your friends, enemies, and anyone else in the vicinity who might have two dollars and ninety-nine cents.
url-shortener.me/ABSD
url-shortener.me/ABSD
February 2, 2026 at 3:27 AM
This is a truly interesting fantasy novel that I very much enjoyed, and you cannot go wrong at this sale price. Go for it.
I joined the Patreon and got my copy of Issue One today! Like stepping into a strange new world, I suspect it will be a wild ride...
The price is the same on our site and @weightlessbooks.bsky.social, so it's a nice way to support us AND Weightless at the same time.
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Adventitious Magazine 12-Month Digital Subscription
About Adventitious Adventitious is a speculative fiction magazine devoted to stories that feel slightly off, quietly dangerous, or unexpectedly beautiful. We publish original short fiction across scie...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:49 AM
I joined the Patreon and got my copy of Issue One today! Like stepping into a strange new world, I suspect it will be a wild ride...
This was an unsettling lecture indeed!
I say! "Recording of Professor Elizabeth Boucher’s Opening Lecture on Death Ages Novels, University of Presque Isle, March 32, 2667." by Stacie Turner is
👩🎓Lofty academic research
📖about major surviving works of the 21st century
🧛(like 'Bella Swan Pegs Satan')
www.adventitious.net/stories/prof...
👩🎓Lofty academic research
📖about major surviving works of the 21st century
🧛(like 'Bella Swan Pegs Satan')
www.adventitious.net/stories/prof...
Recording of Professor Elizabeth Boucher’s Opening Lecture
A dry, unsettling fictional lecture examines early twenty-first-century literature, censorship, and cultural decay from a distant future.
www.adventitious.net
February 3, 2026 at 2:47 AM
This was an unsettling lecture indeed!
Happy Imbolc! As returning light shines on the winter snow, a day for purification, inspiration, hope and new beginnings. ✨
February 3, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Happy Imbolc! As returning light shines on the winter snow, a day for purification, inspiration, hope and new beginnings. ✨
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February 1, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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Excellent story, as pretty much everything Pinsker writes is.
ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine Poll? Try the novelette "The Millay Illusion" by Sarah Pinsker! You can read it here! buff.ly/9EmK4rt
February 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Excellent story, as pretty much everything Pinsker writes is.
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Hard to believe this book will be out in the world tomorrow. www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
My WIP (that may or may not be a novelette) is taking me far longer than normal. But I’m really loving the process. It’s the best when you feel like a story’s challenging you. I think I’m going to be really pleased with this one. Hopefully editors and readers will be too.
February 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Hard to believe this book will be out in the world tomorrow. www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
Let's support Nightmare Magazine
We've received more than 2,500 submissions at Nightmare this submissions period (and we don't close until midnight).
I don't know exactly how I'll get through all these subs, but I do know that if every submitter bought just one issue of the magazine, it would pay for a year of content.
I don't know exactly how I'll get through all these subs, but I do know that if every submitter bought just one issue of the magazine, it would pay for a year of content.
February 1, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Let's support Nightmare Magazine
I'm excited to read about the kraken hunter!
Contract signed and I am thrilled to share that my short story "Hunter Mother Sailor Wife" will appear in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social!!! Get ready to join retired kraken hunter Cara on the high seas as she tries to balance monsters and motherhood! 🦑
February 1, 2026 at 11:27 PM
I'm excited to read about the kraken hunter!
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so excited to see these on the Locus recommended reading list!!
One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com
Starstruck by @aimeeogdenwrites.com
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
“Garden of the Bloodpotter“ by @babblewocky.bsky.social
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com
Starstruck by @aimeeogdenwrites.com
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
“Garden of the Bloodpotter“ by @babblewocky.bsky.social
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
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February 1, 2026 at 9:29 PM
so excited to see these on the Locus recommended reading list!!
One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com
Starstruck by @aimeeogdenwrites.com
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
“Garden of the Bloodpotter“ by @babblewocky.bsky.social
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com
Starstruck by @aimeeogdenwrites.com
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
“Garden of the Bloodpotter“ by @babblewocky.bsky.social
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
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Listen, I cannot stress enough how awesome this issue is. I had the pleasure of reading some of these stories in their early stages, and they are SO GOOD. Stop reading this post and start reading this magazine.
Issue 12 is live!
Sixteen stories and poems are available on our site, and we have print copies + eBook + PDF version available.
www.radonjournal.com/issue12
A speculative commentary on the present world with just enough hope that we're sure you'll mourn freedom and cry beauty in equal measures
Sixteen stories and poems are available on our site, and we have print copies + eBook + PDF version available.
www.radonjournal.com/issue12
A speculative commentary on the present world with just enough hope that we're sure you'll mourn freedom and cry beauty in equal measures
February 1, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Listen, I cannot stress enough how awesome this issue is. I had the pleasure of reading some of these stories in their early stages, and they are SO GOOD. Stop reading this post and start reading this magazine.
"You cannot see Stories from the inside, not usually. You only see your life. It's only after, when they're done, that you can see the shape, the tropes which snared you."
Such a great story from
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social Issue 151
Such a great story from
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social Issue 151
February 1, 2026 at 3:48 PM
"You cannot see Stories from the inside, not usually. You only see your life. It's only after, when they're done, that you can see the shape, the tropes which snared you."
Such a great story from
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social Issue 151
Such a great story from
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social Issue 151
Check out this intriguing story, A Toast to Impossible Futures
Another lovely piece from @ladiwoods.bsky.social ❤️
And I’ve found a journal new to me -@inshortlit.bsky.social
And I’ve found a journal new to me -@inshortlit.bsky.social
New piece up with @inshortlit.bsky.social. They’re doing beautiful work, loved reading the other pieces. inshortjournal.com/lauren-d-woo...
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Check out this intriguing story, A Toast to Impossible Futures
What happens when a character doesn't do what they're supposed to? Can they break out of their story and shift into a new one?
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social explores this idea in "The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night" @apexmag.bsky.social
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social explores this idea in "The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night" @apexmag.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 3:39 PM
What happens when a character doesn't do what they're supposed to? Can they break out of their story and shift into a new one?
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social explores this idea in "The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night" @apexmag.bsky.social
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social explores this idea in "The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night" @apexmag.bsky.social