Maria Haskins
@mariahaskins.com
Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Reviewer for LOCUS. Editor @ Ruadán Books & Many Worlds. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, The Deadlands & more. she/her 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
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Maria Haskins
@mariahaskins.com
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Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories
Available now! Buy Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories: Paperback & ebook from JournalStone Paperback & ebook from Amazon Paperback & ebook from Indiebound / B&N…
mariahaskins.com
I write speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror & points in-between), and I also write reviews & essays.
My short fiction is available in two short story collections:
🛤️ SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN: mariahaskins.com/six-dreams-a...
🐺 WOLVES & GIRLS: mariahaskins.com/wolves-and-g...
My short fiction is available in two short story collections:
🛤️ SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN: mariahaskins.com/six-dreams-a...
🐺 WOLVES & GIRLS: mariahaskins.com/wolves-and-g...
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"She’s already seen the deep paw prints in the flowerbeds outside, the muddy tracks leading across the nursing home’s parking lot towards the greenbelt by the creek."
An @electricsheepsf.bsky.social favorite!
@mariahaskins.com @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
An @electricsheepsf.bsky.social favorite!
@mariahaskins.com @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Silver and Shadow, Spruce and Pine
When Grandmother disappears from the nursing home, Marika is the only one who understands what’s happened. The family and staff, they wonder how and why a 96-year-old woman could walk out of …
www.flashfictiononline.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:37 PM
"She’s already seen the deep paw prints in the flowerbeds outside, the muddy tracks leading across the nursing home’s parking lot towards the greenbelt by the creek."
An @electricsheepsf.bsky.social favorite!
@mariahaskins.com @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
An @electricsheepsf.bsky.social favorite!
@mariahaskins.com @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
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February issues are in at Weightless! We've got @clarkesworldmagazine.com, Forever, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @nightmare-magazine.com, Dirty Magick, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, @foofarawpress.bsky.social, The Dark, @locusmag.bsky.social... (1/2) weightlessbooks.com/2026/02/
February 2, 2026 at 3:07 PM
February issues are in at Weightless! We've got @clarkesworldmagazine.com, Forever, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @nightmare-magazine.com, Dirty Magick, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, @foofarawpress.bsky.social, The Dark, @locusmag.bsky.social... (1/2) weightlessbooks.com/2026/02/
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Swooping back this very fine MLK Day with our first unthemed issue of 2026! Behold! Get yours! Tell a friend!
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
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FIYAH # 37
FIYAH Issue 37 is available in downloadable PDF and EPUB formats. Buying for someone else? Hit up the Gift Issue for transferable download codes. See the description below for content details.
fiyahlitmag.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Swooping back this very fine MLK Day with our first unthemed issue of 2026! Behold! Get yours! Tell a friend!
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
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A reminder that we are gathering stories for AFTERLIVES 2025, curated by @mariahaskins.com. psychopomp.com/afterlives-2...
Afterlives 2025: Reprint Call - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
You may have read about Psychopomp’s recent reorg, but we are still doing Afterlives 2025: The Year’s Best Death Stories!
psychopomp.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
A reminder that we are gathering stories for AFTERLIVES 2025, curated by @mariahaskins.com. psychopomp.com/afterlives-2...
You can read a part of my short fiction review column in this issue in Locus Online: locusmag.com/review/fiyah...
Featuring stories from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social and @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!
Featuring stories from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social and @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!
Fiyah, Flash Fiction Online, and GigaNotoSaurus: Review by Maria Haskins
Fiyah Fall ’25 Flash Fiction Online 11/25 GigaNotoSaurus 10/1/25 The theme for FIYAH #36 is “Gods & Monsters”, and the short fiction in this issue ranges across time, space, and speculative ge…
locusmag.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 PM
You can read a part of my short fiction review column in this issue in Locus Online: locusmag.com/review/fiyah...
Featuring stories from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social and @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!
Featuring stories from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social and @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!
My latest short fiction reviews, and my 2025 Year In Review are both in the February issue of LOCUS. So much to read in this issue: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...
Buy February 2026 | Locus Magazine
The February 2026 Locus magazine, issue #781, is the annual Year in Review overview with the Locus 2025 Recommended Reading List, essays from our reviewers and others recommending their favorite…
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February 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
My latest short fiction reviews, and my 2025 Year In Review are both in the February issue of LOCUS. So much to read in this issue: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...
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Some of the performers from the Bad Bunny halftime show kept the music going outside the stadium after the show and it turned into an impromptu street party.
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Some of the performers from the Bad Bunny halftime show kept the music going outside the stadium after the show and it turned into an impromptu street party.
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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Do you wanna make sure you didn’t miss a single second of symbolism from Bad Bunny’s halftime show? This thread gotchu!
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Do you wanna make sure you didn’t miss a single second of symbolism from Bad Bunny’s halftime show? This thread gotchu!
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Would love to see these two get together on a date. bsky.app/profile/dj-a...
Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.
February 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Would love to see these two get together on a date. bsky.app/profile/dj-a...
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Olympian Jessie Diggins: “I get to decide who I’m racing for every single day, and how I want to live up to my values. For everyone out there caring for others, protecting their neighbors and meeting people with love—every single step is for you.” www.unchartedblue.com/olympians-sp...
Olympians speak out about Trump administration cruelty
'For everyone out there caring for others, protecting their neighbors and meeting people with love - every single step is for you.'
www.unchartedblue.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Olympian Jessie Diggins: “I get to decide who I’m racing for every single day, and how I want to live up to my values. For everyone out there caring for others, protecting their neighbors and meeting people with love—every single step is for you.” www.unchartedblue.com/olympians-sp...
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All of this. I am the first of my target audience.
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
"Why would I read something someone couldn't be bothered to write" is a great refrain but I would also add as a writer "I won't write something I couldn't be bothered to read" because that's what every one of my books are: something *I* want to read.
February 8, 2026 at 5:54 PM
All of this. I am the first of my target audience.
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
Cardin's album 99 Nights is one of my favourite albums from the last few years.
February 8, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Cardin's album 99 Nights is one of my favourite albums from the last few years.
Rhyming in two languages, sure why not!
February 8, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Rhyming in two languages, sure why not!
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NEW EPSTEIN SURVIVORS AD: “3 million files still not released — stand with us. Tell AG Pam Bondi to release the files. It’s time for the truth.”
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 PM
NEW EPSTEIN SURVIVORS AD: “3 million files still not released — stand with us. Tell AG Pam Bondi to release the files. It’s time for the truth.”
English version:
youtu.be/3pKfuNBMQW8?...
youtu.be/3pKfuNBMQW8?...
Charlotte Cardin - Confetti [Official Lyric Video]
YouTube video by Charlotte Cardin
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
English version:
youtu.be/3pKfuNBMQW8?...
youtu.be/3pKfuNBMQW8?...
Listening to Charlotte Cardin's Confetti, the French version, and finding it absolutely delightful when an artist writes lyrics to the same song in two languages and both versions are so damn good.
youtu.be/lNfAtaURtBI?...
youtu.be/lNfAtaURtBI?...
Charlotte Cardin - Confetti (VF) [Official Lyric Video]
YouTube video by Charlotte Cardin
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Listening to Charlotte Cardin's Confetti, the French version, and finding it absolutely delightful when an artist writes lyrics to the same song in two languages and both versions are so damn good.
youtu.be/lNfAtaURtBI?...
youtu.be/lNfAtaURtBI?...
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This female lemon shark graced us with three great passes this afternoon. We couldn’t figure out which to feature, so here’s all three. What other city but Miami can serve megafauna serving like this?? 🙌🍋🦈🍋🦈🍋🦈 #lemonshark #shark #catwalkswim #coralcity #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay
February 8, 2026 at 4:16 PM
This female lemon shark graced us with three great passes this afternoon. We couldn’t figure out which to feature, so here’s all three. What other city but Miami can serve megafauna serving like this?? 🙌🍋🦈🍋🦈🍋🦈 #lemonshark #shark #catwalkswim #coralcity #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay
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Around rainy Portland today.
February 8, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Around rainy Portland today.
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🧵 for any FIYAH authors with published story files/summaries appearing on The Writing Atlas. We weren't involved with this curation (and presumable theft) and are taking steps to protect your work.
Distraught, enraged, and tired. An author cc’d @fiyahlitmag on an email to The Writing Atlas, a site dedicated to “cataloging short stories.” There are 130 FIYAH stories listed with (presumably) AI summaries. Some have LINKS to a Dropbox folder. Our issues aren’t publicly available for scraping.
February 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
🧵 for any FIYAH authors with published story files/summaries appearing on The Writing Atlas. We weren't involved with this curation (and presumable theft) and are taking steps to protect your work.
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Loot that drops after defeating me:
-a bottle of tylenol
-a sheaf of sticky notes
-a cheese slicer
-a scream into the void
-a bottle of tylenol
-a sheaf of sticky notes
-a cheese slicer
-a scream into the void
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- whistles
- zines
- a Nikon FM2n and a Canon 5D Mark III
- anger
- whistles
- zines
- a Nikon FM2n and a Canon 5D Mark III
- anger
Loot that drops after defeating me:
-Fellow travel mug filled with cold brew
-Black hoodie
-Wad of napkins stuffed in the pocket of said black hoodie 18 months ago
-Carne asada burrito
-Pet Shop Boys 12” single (VG/VG+)
-Fellow travel mug filled with cold brew
-Black hoodie
-Wad of napkins stuffed in the pocket of said black hoodie 18 months ago
-Carne asada burrito
-Pet Shop Boys 12” single (VG/VG+)
February 7, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Loot that drops after defeating me:
-a bottle of tylenol
-a sheaf of sticky notes
-a cheese slicer
-a scream into the void
-a bottle of tylenol
-a sheaf of sticky notes
-a cheese slicer
-a scream into the void
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we got your genetic tests back and it’s definitely maybelline
February 7, 2026 at 4:54 AM
we got your genetic tests back and it’s definitely maybelline