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Wen Wen

@muteddragon.bsky.social

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Chinese American short fiction writer in Fantasy, Cast of Wonders, Apex, Small Wonders & more WenWenWrites.com She/her. Codex, SFWA, Viable Paradise 2025. Fast talker from the Bronx. Picture of Snow White from Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall

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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 18d

If you missed "Martian Wallpaper" when it was originally published on _The Daily Tomorrow_ earlier this year, the whole story's now on one page: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/martian-wa...
content warning for everything in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", post partum depression.

Martian Wallpaper — Full Story

By Wen Wen Yang

dailytomorrow.substack.com

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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 3h

Wow, you gotta slap the book vending machine

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Angela Yuriko Smith @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social · 3h

Calling the Coven! Our Kickstarter is in the final week!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ang...

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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 3h

Thanksgiving, you get no food. Christmas, you get no presents. You get no invites to friends giving. No one sends you a card with a photo of their kid and dog. Pariah. Prosecuted.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 7h

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Pauline Chow (My gothic fantasy is Chasing Moonflowers!) @paulinechow.bsky.social · 4h

When you think of #witchcraft, what image to mind? 🔮

For centuries, the magical histories of Asian women have been quiet.

Help us eleveate the seers, healers, and keepers of ancestral wisdom. Only 7 days left to support #CovenoftheEast Kickstarter:
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ang...

Coven of the East

An anthology of essays and fiction reimagining Asian women's magical histories.

www.kickstarter.com

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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 17h

I get that the margins for the pretty books are better, but sell cheap paperbacks to diversify your portfolio! Everyone can become book owners.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 2d

Im hoping to achieve Legendary status by taking grandma to the library that has an anthology I'm in.

Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 3d

In 7 days, I'll be traveling to Viable Paradise for a week-long writers workshop. Then family for 5 days of 'you aren't eating enough' and gossip. I'll be home by Halloween, shutdown-willing.

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 5d

very honored to have a short story in this anthology and extremely excited to be in such company❤️do check SILK & SINEW and the other works on this list out!!

Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social · 5d

New York Public Library names SILK & SINEW in Best New #Horror List for 2025!!!

Thank you #NYPL for this incredible honor. It means so much to be recognized by the best people-- #librarians! Contributors, YOUR words have given us the most amazing, fabulously bloody, 3-legged crow wings!!