Abra Staffin-Wiebe
@abracanabra.bsky.social
Writer of horror-inflected SF/fantasy. Mostly post daily freewriting and writing-related things, gruesome writing tidbits, and science facts because SIENSE! Likely to reshare cat pictures, weird science facts, books and short stories, art.
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THE POPE HAS THROWN A RAVE
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
THE POPE HAS THROWN A RAVE
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
I have discovered an excellent new editing hack. I read out loud as if I am going to perform for an audience, and mark all the bits I'd have to cut because they would lose the audience due to being too complicated or off-topic. About half can permanently go. #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritingCommunity
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I have discovered an excellent new editing hack. I read out loud as if I am going to perform for an audience, and mark all the bits I'd have to cut because they would lose the audience due to being too complicated or off-topic. About half can permanently go. #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritingCommunity
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Let's bring this back!
Standing offer, always valid: Name five books you love, and I will recommend a book I think you'll like. It will likely be queer. It will definitely be sff.
Standing offer, always valid: Name five books you love, and I will recommend a book I think you'll like. It will likely be queer. It will definitely be sff.
April 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Let's bring this back!
Standing offer, always valid: Name five books you love, and I will recommend a book I think you'll like. It will likely be queer. It will definitely be sff.
Standing offer, always valid: Name five books you love, and I will recommend a book I think you'll like. It will likely be queer. It will definitely be sff.
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If you think your friend group doesn’t have one, please consider YOU may be the entity.
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you think your friend group doesn’t have one, please consider YOU may be the entity.
#vss365 (action) Her hands shook as she watched the ox-sized slime approach from the ranch. Bits of bone and horn floated suspended in it like a jell-o desert. The bolt-action shotgun wasn't enough to stop it, but she had nothing else. She was in the middle of preserving... #AmWriting #Microfiction
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
#vss365 (action) Her hands shook as she watched the ox-sized slime approach from the ranch. Bits of bone and horn floated suspended in it like a jell-o desert. The bolt-action shotgun wasn't enough to stop it, but she had nothing else. She was in the middle of preserving... #AmWriting #Microfiction
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I wanna open an Escape Room
It'll just be a nice soft room full of stuff to help you escape from the real world. Games, puzzles, kittens, musical instruments, books, writing supplies.
Someone will ask you if you've had any interesting dreams lately.
You can't leave until you've fully escaped.
It'll just be a nice soft room full of stuff to help you escape from the real world. Games, puzzles, kittens, musical instruments, books, writing supplies.
Someone will ask you if you've had any interesting dreams lately.
You can't leave until you've fully escaped.
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I wanna open an Escape Room
It'll just be a nice soft room full of stuff to help you escape from the real world. Games, puzzles, kittens, musical instruments, books, writing supplies.
Someone will ask you if you've had any interesting dreams lately.
You can't leave until you've fully escaped.
It'll just be a nice soft room full of stuff to help you escape from the real world. Games, puzzles, kittens, musical instruments, books, writing supplies.
Someone will ask you if you've had any interesting dreams lately.
You can't leave until you've fully escaped.
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short fic folks should read this post -
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
short fic folks should read this post -
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They're trying to fit in
What’s surprising to me is that all the cars are pretty normal family cars. They have blacked out windows but they’re not big SUVs.
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
They're trying to fit in
She was the most #goal -driven of the petty nobles. And their ever-involved ruler loved knowing what drove people. He always asked what they wanted. But knowing her goals would be...unpalatable...she had to come up with another. That was how the expedition began.
#vss365 (goal) #Microfiction
#vss365 (goal) #Microfiction
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
She was the most #goal -driven of the petty nobles. And their ever-involved ruler loved knowing what drove people. He always asked what they wanted. But knowing her goals would be...unpalatable...she had to come up with another. That was how the expedition began.
#vss365 (goal) #Microfiction
#vss365 (goal) #Microfiction
Prompt: Goal — by Abra Staffin-Wiebe
She was the most goal-driven of the petty nobles. And their ever-involved ruler loved knowing what drove people. He always asked what they wanted. But knowing her goals would be...unpalatable...she had to come up with another. That was how the expedition began.
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She was the most goal-driven of the petty nobles. And their ever-involved ruler loved knowing what drove people. He always asked what they wanted. But knowing her goals would be...unpalatable...she had to come up with another. That was how the expedition began.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Prompt: Goal — by Abra Staffin-Wiebe
She was the most goal-driven of the petty nobles. And their ever-involved ruler loved knowing what drove people. He always asked what they wanted. But knowing her goals would be...unpalatable...she had to come up with another. That was how the expedition began.
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She was the most goal-driven of the petty nobles. And their ever-involved ruler loved knowing what drove people. He always asked what they wanted. But knowing her goals would be...unpalatable...she had to come up with another. That was how the expedition began.
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There are still spots available in this workshop! Vertigo peeps take note! No writing experience needed, but also since it's writing prompts it should be fine for people with loads of writing experience.
Do you suffer from vertigo? Or do you care for someone who does? Would you like to explore your experiences through creative writing? If so, please sign up for this online workshop with the wonderful @marissalingen.bsky.social 5pm GMT, 23rd November. Email ar220@st-andrews.ac.uk to register.
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
There are still spots available in this workshop! Vertigo peeps take note! No writing experience needed, but also since it's writing prompts it should be fine for people with loads of writing experience.
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This is a zone of judgment.
And I judge you... as pretty cool. Good job on being yourself.
And I judge you... as pretty cool. Good job on being yourself.
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This is a zone of judgment.
And I judge you... as pretty cool. Good job on being yourself.
And I judge you... as pretty cool. Good job on being yourself.
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I hung out with Lois yesterday and we talked about these things. She is NEVER involved in ANYTHING like this. If you get a message or a social media DM claiming to be her, IT NEVER IS.
I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I hung out with Lois yesterday and we talked about these things. She is NEVER involved in ANYTHING like this. If you get a message or a social media DM claiming to be her, IT NEVER IS.
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Also HAPPY CROWMAS which i did as a joke to amuse myself but some fine folks did appreciate a festive corvid
THANK YOU! (regular spooky crow is also available :-D )
THANK YOU! (regular spooky crow is also available :-D )
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Also HAPPY CROWMAS which i did as a joke to amuse myself but some fine folks did appreciate a festive corvid
THANK YOU! (regular spooky crow is also available :-D )
THANK YOU! (regular spooky crow is also available :-D )
The dragon's #issue was ... at #issue. The dragon king's head bowed as he stooped to inspect the child. Scales, yes. Wings, yes. Little nubs of ruminant horns?
"A goat, really? You sired a child on a goat?"
"A wish-giving goat!"
"The kind of wishes that backfire?"
#vss365 (issue) #AmWriting
"A goat, really? You sired a child on a goat?"
"A wish-giving goat!"
"The kind of wishes that backfire?"
#vss365 (issue) #AmWriting
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The dragon's #issue was ... at #issue. The dragon king's head bowed as he stooped to inspect the child. Scales, yes. Wings, yes. Little nubs of ruminant horns?
"A goat, really? You sired a child on a goat?"
"A wish-giving goat!"
"The kind of wishes that backfire?"
#vss365 (issue) #AmWriting
"A goat, really? You sired a child on a goat?"
"A wish-giving goat!"
"The kind of wishes that backfire?"
#vss365 (issue) #AmWriting
"Because who would want to steal someone else's dingy old dental floss container? Who would even bother to pop the lid and see that instead of the expected white plastic top with the tip of a reel of floss poking up and a metal tooth to cut it..." 1/2
#WIPSnips #AmWriting #WIP
#WIPSnips #AmWriting #WIP
November 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"Because who would want to steal someone else's dingy old dental floss container? Who would even bother to pop the lid and see that instead of the expected white plastic top with the tip of a reel of floss poking up and a metal tooth to cut it..." 1/2
#WIPSnips #AmWriting #WIP
#WIPSnips #AmWriting #WIP
The #transport of turtles between realms is a fraught business, especially when one sees them as holy and the other sees them as food. (No, I only take them one way, I'm not a *monster*.) But it's their main point of conflict, so argument breaks out as soon as they see what's in the cart. #vss365
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The #transport of turtles between realms is a fraught business, especially when one sees them as holy and the other sees them as food. (No, I only take them one way, I'm not a *monster*.) But it's their main point of conflict, so argument breaks out as soon as they see what's in the cart. #vss365
Important writing research question: In "Josie and the Pussycats," is it, "DuJour means crash positions!" or "Du Jour means crash positions!"?
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Important writing research question: In "Josie and the Pussycats," is it, "DuJour means crash positions!" or "Du Jour means crash positions!"?
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
Verified this is authentic. It's the Blues Brothers Pope.
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Verified this is authentic. It's the Blues Brothers Pope.
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Read your contracts, friends.
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Read your contracts, friends.
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There are still a few of my '26 calendars left in this final printrun.I create each of my 📷s using recent research into the beneficial effects on the brain of looking at plants & items arranged neatly.
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
There are still a few of my '26 calendars left in this final printrun.I create each of my 📷s using recent research into the beneficial effects on the brain of looking at plants & items arranged neatly.
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
The #measure of her days became tight and confined, marked by how many skeins of other people's pain she could card and twist into yarn. The plague went on and so did she, helping the sick to survive or at least pass without pain. Then one day it ended. Her yarn stash remained. #vss365 #MicroFiction
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The #measure of her days became tight and confined, marked by how many skeins of other people's pain she could card and twist into yarn. The plague went on and so did she, helping the sick to survive or at least pass without pain. Then one day it ended. Her yarn stash remained. #vss365 #MicroFiction
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Still thinking about them 🥹
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Still thinking about them 🥹
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We perceive the world through our own unique lens of beliefs and feelings.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We perceive the world through our own unique lens of beliefs and feelings.