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Nadia Bulkin
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
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Horror writer (SHE SAID DESTROY, RED SKIES IN THE MORNING, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY). Co-editor of WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE.

📍 DC, raised in Jakarta/Nebraska, she/her ♠️💜

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye is the first venue that published me back in 2008 (I'd received so many rejections that I forwarded the response to my mom for her so she could read it for me) and I'm so glad 3LBE is still thriving in 2025. A quality horror+ magazine. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/
Three-Lobed Burning Eye Issue 46 Untitled #5 BY NADIA BULKIN 5499 WORDS ALEXANDRA The other girls in Alexandra's fourth-grade class got Paradise Barbies and tickets to Disney On Ice for their birthdays, but Alexandra got a tulpa. Well, no, not a tulpa. Her mother called it a "thoughtform," but those were just two already-shapeless words mashed together into an even cloudier whole - like theosophy and causeless cause. Tulpa was what Uncle Webster called it when he heard about it ("What is this, Baby's First Tulpa?") and although her mother scoffed and rolled her eyes and said it was not a tulpa, the word had already burned its way into Alexandra's brain like a cattle brand. Tulpa. She liked the way the "tul" sat on her tongue and the "pa" bubblegum-popped from her lips like a spell. Like a command.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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[we're all trying to find the guy who did this.gif]
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity." Megyn Kelly questions whether Jeffrey Epstein's desire for "very young teen types" made him a pedophile
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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DMV Democratic leadership locked 🔒 Abigail Spanberger, VA Wes Moore, MD Sandwich Guy, DC
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Issues With Authority mentioned! 😍😍 Bonus: there are actually 2 novellas in the book named after Mitski songs: "Your Next Best American Girl" and the first one, new to this volume: "Cop Car."
Reactor article headline: Can't Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for September and October 2025 File Under: Is It Me Or Is This Place Haunted? Critically acclaimed author Nadia Bulkin returns this fall with a new collection, titled Issues With Authority. Bulkin's a writer capable of combining heady concepts with a visceral sense of dread (or, sometimes, just the visceral). And it has one story whose title is a riff on an excellent Mitski song, which is a nice bonus. (Ghoulish; Sept. 16, 2025)
September 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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On that character that loves the smell of napalm...
Kilgore from Apocalypse Now He is introduced in the movie when Willard and his allies ask him for help in getting up to the Nùng. Kilgore scoffs but befriends Lance after discovering his surfing experience and agrees to escort them through the Nùng's Viet Cong–held coastal mouth. They successfully raid at dawn, with Kilgore ordering a napalm sortie on the local cadres. He and his men then proceed to mercilessly kill, shoot and blow up numerous innocent civilians, showing a complete and utter disregard for civilian and human life, and showing Kilgore as what he is, a bloodthirsty, sadistic and amoral warmonger. This arguably makes him eviler than the film's main antagonist, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, as he is willing to involve innocent civilians in his reign of mass murder and destruction, and shows no guilt for his deeds.
September 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement *today* at 2?
September 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Somehow not as shocking as it should be.
AP headline: Beloved 'Walking Tall' sheriff killed wife, faked attack, probe finds
September 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Tell your relatives.
Dave Statter @STATter911 Absurdity at its best: Despite all of this law enforcement and the National Guard in DC right now, a @dcfireems fire engine has been babysitting a crash on 1-295 at Malcon X for about 90 minutes. And a ladder truck was recently sent to help safely block traffic. Why? Because DC911/@OUC_DC says that there are no @DCPoliceDept officers available to respond to the crash scene. washingtonianprobs This happened last night. Every action has a cause and effect and one of the harmful effects of police not being able to focus on the job they're supposed to be doing is that real public safety matters suffer. 11 minutes ago
August 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Post your last photo of DC to show what a hell hole it is.
View from the Dumbarton Oaks Park Loop, in the middle of the city
August 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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What a wonderful world.
NYT: Gunman in Deadly C.D.C. Shooting Fixated on COVID Vaccine, Officials Say NBC: RFK Jr. Cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research
August 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Roommate now that I've permitted tennis to be watched in the house after 3 years
"I used to pray for times like this" meme
July 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Our contributors ❤️❤️❤️
TOC (1/2) “AITA for setting my dad's trailer on fire" by Max Booth III "Anagen" by Rhiannon Rasmussen "Because It Was Worse Outside" by Victoria Dalpe "Exposure" by E.M. Linden "Good Company" by Suzan Palumbo "Kin" by Raquel Castro "Lamai" by J.A.W. McCarthy "Mother Nature Knows Best" by Tonia Ransom "No Joy Exists Anywhere Beyond Your Front Door" by Corey Farrenkopf She Has Me She Holds Me She Hands Me The Emptiness" By R. Diego Martinez “Spend-A-Penny" by Die Booth TOC (2/2) “TEETH" by I.S. Belle "Tell Me Your Sins and I'll Tell You Mine" by Cassandra Khaw "The Head Harvest" by Joe Koch "The Spirit Bed" by Eden Royce "The Walls in This House" by Lyndsey Croal "The World Ended There" by Alberto Chimal "To the Moon and Back" by Christa Carmen "Unread Messages" by Gabe Converse "Where There's Smoke" by Alexis DuBon "Wolves in the Little Pig's House" by Shauntae Ball "Your Application to Vacate 372 Wicker Avenue is Still Pending" By Steve Loiaconi
July 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Still can't believe I'm in this, haha. For the first time in my writing career, my retired American lit professor uncle said "ohhh I think I've heard of that..."

Anyway, so honored to be part of Ploughshares' summer issue, and excited to read in Boston this week!
Cover of Ploughshares' summer issue
July 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I'm a week late in posting about this, but I'm so honored that both Red Skies in the Morning and Why Didn't You Just Leave were nominated for Shirley Jackson Awards!

Huge congrats to all the nominees. Special high fives to the WDYJL contributors.

www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2025/06/09/t...
Shirley Jackson Award Nominees, Novella: Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram (Titan Books) Hollow Tongue by Eden Royce (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Red Skies in the Morning by Nadia Bulkin (Dim Shores) A Scout is Brave by Will Ludwigsen (Lethe Press) A Voice Calling by Christopher Barzak (Psychopomp) Shirley Jackson Award Nominees, Anthology: Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, edited by Sofia Ajram (Ghoulish Books) The Crawling Moon, edited by dave ring (Neon Hemlock) Monsters in the Mills, edited by Christa Carmen and L.E. Daniels (IP [Interactive Publications Pty Ltd]) The White Guy Dies First, edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Publishing Group) Why Didn’t You Just Leave, edited by Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin (Cursed Morsels Press)
June 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Well someone's gotta say it
Pope Leo XIV lays out his vision and identifies AI as a main challenge for humanity
May 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Elon Musk's illegal attack on USAID and the millions of people around the world whose lives depend on it empowers our adversaries and makes America less safe. #saveforeignaid #standwithusaid
February 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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The vibes in DC
From No Country for Old Men: "I got a bad feeling, Llewellyn."
January 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Her. (Kim Wexler.)
Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul
January 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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We are perhaps too proud of ourselves for the new wifi name #breakingbad
Wifi name: Los Pollos Hermanos
January 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Since artists can apparently see what playlists their songs get added to, PSA to artists to not be alarmed if I add you to this playlist
Spotify playlist titled "Cop Car [Demon POV]"
December 23, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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When you accidentally break the television settings and your roommate who usually takes care of all of this is out of town
Text exchange showing I'm not accessing the right menu because I'm not even using the right remote Text exchange ending with roommate sending a Yoda "learning you are" gif
December 22, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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Sure it was.
Spotify wrapped: July was your Academic Football Rap moment
December 5, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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News from my hometown.
Headline: "Lincoln man testifies he didn't intend to cause damage by throwing fish around new DMV office"
December 3, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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Your regular reminder that Katie Featherston is just a regular girl who loves beading and hanging out with her friends
November 30, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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My dead parents who tried to make sure I didn't grow up in authoritarian Indonesia looking down on me in the US in 2024
November 17, 2024 at 10:00 PM