Rick Hollon
@mimulus.bsky.social
Genderqueer SFF writer & poet. They/them. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Words in F&SF, Strange Horizons, Analog, Kaleidotrope, Crow & Cross Keys, ALOCASIA, Trollbreath, Prismatica. Loves dinosaurs, wildflowers, photography, human rights. ACAB.
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Something is chiming in the tower this evening. We've looked everywhere but we still can't find it. What we can find is today's short story...
"The Last and First Loves of Hayrum Bellmaker" by @mimulus.bsky.social
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"The Last and First Loves of Hayrum Bellmaker" by @mimulus.bsky.social
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My short story “The Last and First Loves of Hayrum Bellmaker” is now up at Crow & Cross Keys! 🖤
First snow of the season blankets a late aster.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
First snow of the season blankets a late aster.
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There is power in a union. There is strength in what might otherwise fall in between. Stand up and be counted in @mimulus.bsky.social's new poem "Shapeshifters’ Local."
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November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
There is power in a union. There is strength in what might otherwise fall in between. Stand up and be counted in @mimulus.bsky.social's new poem "Shapeshifters’ Local."
kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...
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My poem 'The Olive Tree of Vouves' is in the latest issue of
@poetrybrum.bsky.social 🌳 You can read Issue 11.5, exploring the fragility and endurance of nature, here: poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue
@poetrybrum.bsky.social 🌳 You can read Issue 11.5, exploring the fragility and endurance of nature, here: poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My poem 'The Olive Tree of Vouves' is in the latest issue of
@poetrybrum.bsky.social 🌳 You can read Issue 11.5, exploring the fragility and endurance of nature, here: poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue
@poetrybrum.bsky.social 🌳 You can read Issue 11.5, exploring the fragility and endurance of nature, here: poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue
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My story "In the Zone", about a young woman with a special power that allows her to rescue immigrants, is now available to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com. Check it out! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...
In the Zone - Lightspeed Magazine
As her head hit the pillow, Yadira felt exhausted and relieved. Exhausted, because she’d worked on a very large collage almost the whole day straight. Her shoulder blades ached from hunching over her ...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My story "In the Zone", about a young woman with a special power that allows her to rescue immigrants, is now available to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com. Check it out! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...
It’s okay if I don’t have the energy to write right now.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It’s okay if I don’t have the energy to write right now.
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We need some people to start announcing Dem Senate primary challenges TOMORROW
There are 358 days until the next election and some senators who need to not be on the ballot when that happens
There are 358 days until the next election and some senators who need to not be on the ballot when that happens
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
We need some people to start announcing Dem Senate primary challenges TOMORROW
There are 358 days until the next election and some senators who need to not be on the ballot when that happens
There are 358 days until the next election and some senators who need to not be on the ballot when that happens
Our neighbors across the street are standing in their driveway staring up at the sky. Crows are yelling somewhere out of sight. What in the folk horror is going on today?
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Our neighbors across the street are standing in their driveway staring up at the sky. Crows are yelling somewhere out of sight. What in the folk horror is going on today?
Squeezed out 320 words for TLR, my first writing in weeks. The book is now at 54648 words. 🦖
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Squeezed out 320 words for TLR, my first writing in weeks. The book is now at 54648 words. 🦖
Forever inspired to write when in the woods or driving a car, never when the laptop is open in front of me.
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Forever inspired to write when in the woods or driving a car, never when the laptop is open in front of me.
Walked around Vassar Farm with @craftyrowan.bsky.social on a weirdly warm day.
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Walked around Vassar Farm with @craftyrowan.bsky.social on a weirdly warm day.
Watching Frankenstein (2025) with @craftyrowan.bsky.social. I’m obsessed with this consistent, heightened, pseudo-historical aesthetic.
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Watching Frankenstein (2025) with @craftyrowan.bsky.social. I’m obsessed with this consistent, heightened, pseudo-historical aesthetic.
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I hate the phrase, “It’s not left vs. right, it’s top vs. bottom!” It’s like… what do you think the foundational tenet of leftism is. The core principle. Please tell me.
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I hate the phrase, “It’s not left vs. right, it’s top vs. bottom!” It’s like… what do you think the foundational tenet of leftism is. The core principle. Please tell me.
Post you from a different era.
Also an archaeologist, 2007.
Also an archaeologist, 2007.
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Post you from a different era.
Also an archaeologist, 2007.
Also an archaeologist, 2007.
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A billion dollars is an immoral consequence of doing business in the way prescribed by society at large. It is necessarily exploitative and evil, and any decent person would actually give that money away before getting there.
A Trillion dollars is LITERALLY A THOUSAND TIMES WORSE.
A Trillion dollars is LITERALLY A THOUSAND TIMES WORSE.
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A billion dollars is an immoral consequence of doing business in the way prescribed by society at large. It is necessarily exploitative and evil, and any decent person would actually give that money away before getting there.
A Trillion dollars is LITERALLY A THOUSAND TIMES WORSE.
A Trillion dollars is LITERALLY A THOUSAND TIMES WORSE.
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
Reading a book on Neanderthals, I was particularly drawn to its depiction of the Eemian interglacial (marine isotope stage 5e). Warm forests, high sea levels, macaques and elephants in northern Europe. It would certainly make for an interesting Spear & Fang setting.
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Reading a book on Neanderthals, I was particularly drawn to its depiction of the Eemian interglacial (marine isotope stage 5e). Warm forests, high sea levels, macaques and elephants in northern Europe. It would certainly make for an interesting Spear & Fang setting.
It’s weird having zero submissions out.
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It’s weird having zero submissions out.
I was a stay-at-home parent for nine years. Sometimes I miss when my teen was little. Not enough to want another kid, but enough to wish I had community and could, like, babysit for a friend once or twice a month.
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I was a stay-at-home parent for nine years. Sometimes I miss when my teen was little. Not enough to want another kid, but enough to wish I had community and could, like, babysit for a friend once or twice a month.
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I want jail time for every ICE agent.
And public shunning. So that finding out someone worked for ICE gets the same reaction as finding out someone was a nazi guard back in the day. When people understood nazis were BAD.
And public shunning. So that finding out someone worked for ICE gets the same reaction as finding out someone was a nazi guard back in the day. When people understood nazis were BAD.
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I want jail time for every ICE agent.
And public shunning. So that finding out someone worked for ICE gets the same reaction as finding out someone was a nazi guard back in the day. When people understood nazis were BAD.
And public shunning. So that finding out someone worked for ICE gets the same reaction as finding out someone was a nazi guard back in the day. When people understood nazis were BAD.
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I have a new flash story out today! “How To Set Up Your Mourning Robot” is now free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...
How to Set Up Your Mourning Robot - Lightspeed Magazine
Fill tear ducts with provided saline solution. Do not mix or combine with non-approved third-party solutions. Open the mouth of your robot when ready to activate. Press the purple button under the to...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I have a new flash story out today! “How To Set Up Your Mourning Robot” is now free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...
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Cover reveal for Carnalis, my lesbian cannibal novella, which is out in MARCH from @nictitatingbooks.bsky.social!!
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Cover reveal for Carnalis, my lesbian cannibal novella, which is out in MARCH from @nictitatingbooks.bsky.social!!
The City We Became (2020).
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The City We Became (2020).
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Only losers hate on trans kids 🏳️⚧️
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Only losers hate on trans kids 🏳️⚧️
I’m planning two short story collections set in my Timeworlds universe. I’m also completely out of publishable short stories. Every once in a while my neurons spark together and I realize: if I actually write the stories I have planned for my collections, I can then submit them to magazines! 🤯
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m planning two short story collections set in my Timeworlds universe. I’m also completely out of publishable short stories. Every once in a while my neurons spark together and I realize: if I actually write the stories I have planned for my collections, I can then submit them to magazines! 🤯