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Alberto Chimal

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#Writer. Proudly made in #Mexico. 🇲🇽 #Writing, #books, #musings and #findings. Escritor mexicano. #EscrituraCreativa, #libros, pensamientos y hallazgos. #Español and #English. He/Him 🗝 https://linktr.ee/albertochimal

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · Oct 18

A new intro:
I'm a #writer from #Mexico, who used to dwell on the other site experimenting with very short #fiction. (As you can see below.)
I also write #novels, #shortstories and #screenplays. Married to the brilliant @raxxie.bsky.social.
👋🏽😃
Welcome!

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The Time Traveller - Asymptote

To Raquel, who since 2002 is the three times and the four dimensions and the seven magic cups, and to H.G. Wells, friend and companion of numerous conversations, walks, and cantinas between his d...

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 7h

Me pidieron una lista de grandes #cuentos de terror para #lectoras y #lectores adolescentes. Aquí está, con material y recomendaciones de #lectura adicionales.
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Cuentos de terror para leer en secundaria

Una lista de recomendaciones

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Santiago Ruiz Velasco @sruizvelascob.bsky.social · 19h

Descanse en paz, D'Angelo Barksdale. Un alma buena en un mundo difícil. Me estoy enterando apenas de que también hacía música.

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 20h

Ah, seguro. Nomás el abuelito Tolstoi se traumaba de no poder ser más conciso. 🤭

Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 20h

Leaving the book fair in Mexico City's central square, the Zócalo. A brief, happy time in the midst of so many lives and stories.

Night. The clouds are lit up by a city's lights. On the big concrete slab of a square, several well-lit tents host many people either browsing books or attending events. Behind them, an old cathedral is illuminated by golden lights.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20h

Your moment of calm: A white-tailed kite hunting above the Tomales Bay Trail, near Point Reyes Station.

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 20h

Monterroso dijo algo así pero apenas en este instante me estoy acordando.

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 1d

Entretanto, yo me siento como Superman: terminé un cuento.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 2d

Ya están en línea mis nuevos ejercicios de #EscrituraCreativa.
Son cinco, para hacer entre el lunes y el viernes, y el primero es gratis.
La palabra clave de la semana es ESENCIA:
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Ejercicios de escritura creativa - 107

La palabra de la semana: esencia

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Jose Luis Zarate @joseluiszarate.bsky.social · 2d

Mañana, 13 de octubre 5.45 PM en la Feria Internacional del Libro Zócalo Ciudad de México vamos a hablar de Ciencia Ficción con grandes amigos, Gerardo Horacio Porcayo, Nos Toy, Yoss José Miguel Sánchez, Irving Roffe, Juan José Rodriguez y yo Jose Luis Zarate. Los invitamos.

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 3d

#Aparición de tres #cuentos fantásticos.

Una sombra proyectada sobre una pantalla parece a punto de golpear a la persona que la emite.

Una silueta negra corre al fondo de un patio.

Un guardia uniformado y un pato miran hacia la calle desde una reja abierta.

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 3d

“i’ve always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women.

when someone says about a woman, ‘i’m sorry, that’s just wrong,’ i tend to think she must be doing something right”

rip diane keaton💔🕊️ (1946-2025)

Photograph of Diane Keaton by Norman Seeff

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · 4d

Dione in front of Saturn, captured by Cassini 20 years ago today on October 11, 2005 🌖🪐

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Spooky Boo @spookyboo.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry, not sorry, neighbors.

Multiple plastic skeletons bow down on the grass or kneel with their palms up towards their god - the 12’ plastic skeleton standing behind the fence line

Two plastic skeletons bow on their knees in the grass while one has a single knee down and his palms outstretched towards their god - the 12’ plastic skeleton standing behind the wood fence

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 3d

I agree. A deranged, horrible person.

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Santiago Ruiz Velasco @sruizvelascob.bsky.social · 4d

—¿Y qué fue lo que te motivó a trabajar en esto?
—Pues es la belleza, lo bonito.

Una señora en el radio. Resultó que se dedica a apagar incendios.

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 4d

So Peter Thiel, billionaire backer of J. D. Vance and right-wing extremist causes, is also a religious freak, equating the Antichrist with climate activists and other perceived enemies.
How pathetic can these "masters of the universe" be? 🤦🏽‍♂️
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Screenshot from a Washington Post article:

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

The Washington Post reviewed leaked audio from four off-the-record lectures the tech investor delivered in San Francisco over the past month that fused beliefs about religion and technology.

October 10, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 4d

Fue muy bonito mientras duró.

Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 4d

La esperanza no es un estado mental. Requiere esfuerzo para ser mantenida: luchar contra su opuesto, igual que el valor acaba siendo el sobreponerse a los propios miedos.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 5d

Fantasy is Hamlet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
It's Paradise Lost, The Odyssey, and the Divine Comedy.
It's Orlando, The Master and Margarita, One Hundred Years of Solitude, & Pedro Paramo.
It's Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
It doesn't have a ceiling or a limit.

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 5d

I got to write and publish three books based on things I first posted on #SocialMedia. I used some platforms to experiment with writing beyond conventional publishing / within online communities. I met some friends. All that happened years ago, though, and I wouldn't go back to those places now.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 5d

Throwing myself headfirst into a story I haven't planned for at all and doesn't fit in any genre or conventional structure.
It will have no "market". No one will understand it. Not even me, probably.
I was missing this feeling so much.

Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 6d

(There is a world outside the US.)

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 6d

Escribí sobre László Krasnahorkai, que no es el #PremioNobel que México esperaba, pero igual es un novelista extraordinario.
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László Krasznahorkai

Una nota sobre el ganador del más reciente Premio Nobel de Literatura

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 6d

Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!

- Brecht

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