Laila Amado
@amadolaila.bsky.social
Book lover and cat worshiper, I observe people and write words for a living. She/They. Codexian. SFWA. HWA. Best Small Fictions 2022. Best Microfiction 2024.
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Laila Amado
@amadolaila.bsky.social
· Apr 29
amazing, Inventive new story today from Laila Amado!
"When the alarms, signaling the breach of dams that keep the ocean away from the shore, go off all at once, do they sound like: a) trumpets blaring from below the waves; b) a category five hurricane..."
https://www.havehashad.com/ewn5l
"When the alarms, signaling the breach of dams that keep the ocean away from the shore, go off all at once, do they sound like: a) trumpets blaring from below the waves; b) a category five hurricane..."
https://www.havehashad.com/ewn5l
Fishbone Crown, Bleeding Eyes by Laila Amado
When the alarms, signaling the breach of dams that keep the ocean away from the shore, go off all at once, do they sound like: a) trumpets blaring from below the waves; b) a category five hurricane…
www.havehashad.com
I’ve earned my first skull!
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Also, if your story has a hot wizard it will increase my enjoyment by at least 80% 😂
What we’d love to see in our submissions box for our Ruins & Rituals issue (by 28 Feb):
- fantasy horror set in the ruins of civilisation
- forgotten rituals turned folklore
- tricksy protagonists
- swoony romance and queer HEAs
- nothing that isn’t fantasy!
- also cats
www.silversunbooks.com
- fantasy horror set in the ruins of civilisation
- forgotten rituals turned folklore
- tricksy protagonists
- swoony romance and queer HEAs
- nothing that isn’t fantasy!
- also cats
www.silversunbooks.com
Indie Bites | Indie Fantasy Magazine
A non-profit quarterly magazine of indie fantasy authors, bloggers and illustrators.
www.silversunbooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Also, if your story has a hot wizard it will increase my enjoyment by at least 80% 😂
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Reading at the airport, and what a book! Dear Stupid Penpal by @rascalhartley.bsky.social and @tenebrouspress.bsky.social is so good! I’m enjoying it immensely.
#booksky
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#booksky
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November 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Reading at the airport, and what a book! Dear Stupid Penpal by @rascalhartley.bsky.social and @tenebrouspress.bsky.social is so good! I’m enjoying it immensely.
#booksky
📚🩵
#booksky
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Just what is a “world?” 🤔🌏🪐🌔
The 29 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#WORLD
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
The 29 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#WORLD
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Just what is a “world?” 🤔🌏🪐🌔
The 29 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#WORLD
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
The 29 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#WORLD
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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YEAR OF THE MER by @ldlewiswrites.com is an explosive epic fantasy of revolution and dark magic, as the Little Mermaid’s granddaughter marches to war.🧜♀️
Perfect for fans of H. M. Long & Samantha Shannon. Coming April 2026! https://tinyurl.com/yvs4d29t
Perfect for fans of H. M. Long & Samantha Shannon. Coming April 2026! https://tinyurl.com/yvs4d29t
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
YEAR OF THE MER by @ldlewiswrites.com is an explosive epic fantasy of revolution and dark magic, as the Little Mermaid’s granddaughter marches to war.🧜♀️
Perfect for fans of H. M. Long & Samantha Shannon. Coming April 2026! https://tinyurl.com/yvs4d29t
Perfect for fans of H. M. Long & Samantha Shannon. Coming April 2026! https://tinyurl.com/yvs4d29t
It was really lovely to see my story in @translunartl.bsky.social 😊
We have reached Day 11 of the TTL 2025 re-read party and today we have @amadolaila.bsky.social with For The Love Of Drowning Isles in which the last nightmare warden faces an unusual challenge - and uses their bottle of nightmares in a very different way
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It was really lovely to see my story in @translunartl.bsky.social 😊
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I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
This 👇🙁
I think it's really unfair that the only person who can really get me back on track is me. I'm the one who went off roading in the first place!
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This 👇🙁
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We should absolutely see this as a betrayal, and we should vote and act accordingly. @ec.europa.eu has to be held accountable for selling out Europe - and the world at large through it.
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
We should absolutely see this as a betrayal, and we should vote and act accordingly. @ec.europa.eu has to be held accountable for selling out Europe - and the world at large through it.
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
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This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026!
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
The Cellar Below the Cellar
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...
www.apexbookcompany.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026!
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
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There are those who just look at you, but then there are some who can see straight into your soul!
👀 😳
The 15 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#OBSERVE
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
👀 😳
The 15 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#OBSERVE
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
There are those who just look at you, but then there are some who can see straight into your soul!
👀 😳
The 15 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#OBSERVE
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
👀 😳
The 15 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#OBSERVE
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
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We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So thrilled to have this story published in @thedeadlands.com 💀💀💀
"The ghost has always been here. You just didn’t notice her before."
TODAY, beloveds!!
a bit of ghost FLASH, just for you 🖤
The Ghost of Cerrera Orbital Station Makes Herself Known by @amadolaila.bsky.social
TODAY, beloveds!!
a bit of ghost FLASH, just for you 🖤
The Ghost of Cerrera Orbital Station Makes Herself Known by @amadolaila.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So thrilled to have this story published in @thedeadlands.com 💀💀💀
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November 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It was a persistent rumor. A constant buzz. Fans whispered that the band’s most #famous song is cursed. Radio DJs laughed but removed the track from their lists. Tribute bands pretended it didn’t exist. One girl sang it on tiktok for hype and lolz. And was never seen again. #vss365
November 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The best education he found was between the cutting stems of tall grasses in the wetlands of his homeland. Winds of change carried him half across the world, over mountains and planes, but he never forgot the letters written in sharp cuts on his skin. #vss365
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The best education he found was between the cutting stems of tall grasses in the wetlands of his homeland. Winds of change carried him half across the world, over mountains and planes, but he never forgot the letters written in sharp cuts on his skin. #vss365
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UTTERLY BRILLIANT NOVEL. The construction, voice, emotional heft, and conversations with the cat.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
UTTERLY BRILLIANT NOVEL. The construction, voice, emotional heft, and conversations with the cat.
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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It's a café! It's a bookshop! It's both! Caffè San Marco in Trieste, which dates back to 1914. My first visit to Italy in 25 years, and I'd forgotten how fucking stylish the Italians can be. Photographs by Anne Billson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3...
October 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It's a café! It's a bookshop! It's both! Caffè San Marco in Trieste, which dates back to 1914. My first visit to Italy in 25 years, and I'd forgotten how fucking stylish the Italians can be. Photographs by Anne Billson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3...
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Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Those who can hear the #drama in the eastern winds, have no comfort in the soft shells of their homes. No matter how many pillows go into the walls of theirs forts, no matter how many book pages stand between them and the endless night, the darkness #creeps inside, cold and hungry. #vss365
October 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM