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Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam)
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
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BSF 2025 B Microfic 2024
Trauma writing workshops. Yeah Nah Monthly Zoom
Will probably rearrange your dishwasher.
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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Apparently a few of you are, so without further ado, here is the cover of my forthcoming NiF Mother Karma. It’s a wee piece of my heart, and I hope you’ll all love this family as much as I do 🧡🧡🧡. Cover art @nmals.bsky.social Publisher @publishedbyjake.bsky.social Forthcoming in December
Cover of my Novella-in-Flash “Mother Karma” rich, dark yellow background with a line drawing of an Indian mother with black bindi and hair in a bun with flowers in it, holding a baby. Text “Mother Karma A Novella-in-Flash Sumitra Singam”
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Thank you all so much for your lovely wishes yesterday. This is 49, and quietly happy on a Sunday making a banging playlist for a cool kid 🧡
Picture of a 49-year-old woman a day after her birthday feeling pretty happy about life
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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See you later X
Picture of my x.com account page saying “your account is deactivated”
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Picture of me and Kathryn Reese
October 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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So, about a year ago, @miniskirtmag.bsky.social kindly nominated my CNF for BOTN, along with some other amazing writers. Read it here:
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Miniskirt magazine best of the Net 2024 nominations prose: Renee Bibby "Mood Booster", Taylor de la Pena "Right Reasons", Sumitra Singam "How the Netflix Show 'Heartstopper' Made Me Cry in the Shower aged 46" (why my title got to be so damned complicated?) and Shane Wilson "Wanted: Fourth Wall Repairman" Sepia background. Miniskirt Magazine Best of the Net 2024 Nominations poetry. Rivka Clifton "Abduction narrative", Kathryn Reese "FWB", Emily Sperber "Sluts Like Flowers", Tommy Wyatt "It's 11:11, make a wish", Lily Nobel "the wild blue night ends but then there is the next morning" and Georgia Hertz "In dreams my ex-lovers show up unannounced"
October 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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I have a poem (😳) in this issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social, about an act of wanton thievery! Thanks Danielle McMahon, EIC!

Read on for the story behind the poem involving Heartstopper, a BOTN nom, twitter, something ending and something beginning 🧡🏳️‍🌈

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Screenshot of my poem "Toothbrush" Golden shovel after Maggie Rogers' Alaska. Poem is right aligned. "I wanted to be with your breath and so I took your toothbrush home with me - I told you it was unknowingly, but the curve of it in my palm walked so new and precious into me, that I made off with every bristle of it - an unashamed memento of you"
October 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Thank you so much @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for this BOTN nom! This story went through many iterations, much like my own coming out story, and though it is fiction, it holds a special place in my heart 🌈. Congrats fellow nominees! read it here: haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam
Blue background, text "Hayden's Ferry Review. Fiction. "The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Hand" by Sumitra Singam, "Reputations" by Lauren Barbato" referring to their Best of the Net noms
October 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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This is peak desk (I mean, not if you want to get any writing done, but still)
Picture of a desk strewn with paints and painting paraphernalia. Very messy
October 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Listen how’s your Sunday going? This encapsulates mine:
Screenshot of me repeatedly misspelling “ginger”
September 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Can’t sleep. Made art.
Rejection letter erasure: “thank you unfortunately definitely closer to warped illusion overall. Hope you little”
September 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Picture showing where lists are on your profile page Picture showing what happens when you click on lists Picture showing how to pin a list to your home feed
September 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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@nffr.bsky.social had a call on the theme “Ten”. I was a teen in the 90s. Only one thing came to mind. Thanks for reading 🙏🏾 newflashfiction.com/i-know-somed...
September 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I love @sagetyrtle.bsky.social for their amazing writing but also for their openness. This is what I do when I feel a bit stuck:
1. Sub to a super-fast place
2. Refresh inbox repeatedly
3. Go “Aha! That job’s done!” When the rejjie comes in
4. Fill out spreadsheet
5. Have chocolate biscuit
HAD quote-skeeting Doric Literary’s post re Duotrope’s response time for lit mags list which shows Scaffold is the fastest
August 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Boy. Anyone who comes to the house has obviously come to play and be licked. Oh. And cheese
August 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Listening to Dvorak’s 9th this morning like a fool with hope
The weather app that says it’s 2 degrees Celsius which explains why I can’t feel my fingers
August 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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#30in30
#RedRoomPoetry
Red Room Poetry #30in30 prompt for 9 August: Pastel sway fur bone slight flick / elder knowledge knows but does she remember /me why should she /I am unremberable in her remarkable world /View, I miss her now she is gone. Too many leaving /Too much removed Write a poem to/about/into/loss/silence Nardi Simpson A picture of my poem in response to the prompt: Your fountain pen With a stiletto nib a murder weapon bleeding royal blue - there was a haughtiness to the tilt of your chin sometimes softened by the light in your eyes reducing the things you saw into royal blue scribblings neither of us saw the cancer though perhaps if we had pierced it with the stiletto nib? perhaps if we had reduced it to royal blue perhaps this pen wouldn’t now be mine
August 9, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Oh I am VERY SCARY
Picture of me in an outrageous purple beanie
August 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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#RedRoomPoetry #30in30
This living beauty/reduced to cuts of meat/by the palette knife/thickly spread with the the voyeur’s bloody need/the gallery colluding with this theft in their sycophantic notes
Red Room Poetry Insta post with #30in30writing prompt “Visit one of the world’s galleries online. What impresses, surprises, angers or otherwise intrigues you? Look for what unsettles you. Lean into the discomfort. Write about it. - Amy Crutchfield Picture of “Yellow Cow (Gelbe Kuh)” by Franz Marc from the Guggenheim Museum. The notes say “His vision of nature was pantheistic; he believed that animals possessed a certain godliness that men had long since lost” and “yellow, a “gentle, cheerful and sensual” color, symbolized femininity, while blue, representing the “spiritual and intellectual,” symbolized masculinity.” I don’t see any of that
August 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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What makes memory slack with age/is the skin that holds it/that which held a cutting edge/now saws and champs futilely/blitz the images that can survive it/sip them through a straw
#30in30 #RedRoomPoetry
Red Room Poetry prompt day 4 #30in30 “If the human is the limit, the human is the limit” - Stan Grant. Write a poem responding to this
August 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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I have one here, you have to scroll down unfortunately. It’s the 3rd from the bottom. I’ll also screenshot it for you

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August 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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I have one here, you have to scroll down unfortunately. It’s the 3rd from the bottom. I’ll also screenshot it for you

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Screenshot of my mythic picnic micro on X Screenshot of my mythic picnic micro on X
August 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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#RedRoomPoetry #30in30

I see the road I have worn down/what seemed new/but was the road back/to the wordless place/each time/a chance/to consider if it was home
Red Room Poetry Instagram post, Day 3 a quote: “ nobody likes being stuck in their head. I like to be in my foot. Is it freedom or a whole new prison? Spend some time in your foot and see what you write” Suren Jeyamanne #30in30 writing prompt
August 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Not me getting flash collection no 2 together even though no one wants collection 1!!!
This is a picture of my office floor, with my flash collection printed and laid out in the order I think it should be in. It’s probably just since no one wants collection 1 lol
August 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Asking for me, is there a thing that you are able to eat in peace? Viz:
This is Mister Paco who is both a very good boy and has never been fed in his life and he just can’t understand it
July 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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@kathrynreese.bsky.social and I heartily recommend this anthology, and not just because we have work in it. It’s 🔥🔥. @epistemiclit.bsky.social is so awesome and supportive. Please support them!
Me and the poet laureate of Adelaide, Kathryn Reese holding a copy of Epistemic Lit’s first anthology and grinning cheesily into the camera
July 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM