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Monica Wang demon huntee

@monicawang.bsky.social

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Taiwanese Canadian writer & putzfrau living in Europe. Electric Lit, Southword, Salamander, Augur, Malahat Review, EVENT, Banshee, etc. W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize shortlist. WHEN SAD ONES GO OUTSIDE (Black Sunflowers Press). she/they

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · Jul 30

A writer acquaintance/litmag issuemate posted a video about how you should always buy your friends' books and weeks later I was still the only "like" on her post and she did not buy my book

My photo of the roundest white cat with brown tabby hood crouched in a marsh in the near dark, just visible below the edge of a jetty

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

I keep forgetting that English people add a phoenetic 'r' where there's a vowel. That's why I didn't get that name 'Shaun the Sheep' was a pun for a good 10 years.

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't George Orwell say working in a bookshop eventually kills your love of books 🥲

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 1d

Sad to hear that the indie bookshop by my aunt's place is going out of business even though the owner's response when asked for novel recommendations is "[incredulous snort] You think I've read all the books here?"

My photo taken from inside a bright cheery bookshop stuffed with books up to the window, outside of which is a narrow road, then tall trees, then elevated metro

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 2d

Your shiny new tuxedo!!💛

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Tim Culpan @tculpan.bsky.social · 7d

The state of AI explained in one image.

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sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you @100wordstory.bsky.social for choosing my entry as winner for the photo story for the month of April 🥤 #100words #flashfiction #writingcommunity

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Photo Story: Milkshake - 100Words

The afternoon sun and Lloyd Lovell’s bull-eyed stare were hot on Mandy’s back as she waited for the bus.

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 6d

Hahaha I was about to privately apologise for the walls in this flat!!

Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 6d

Bookmail! Reading this beautiful thing from @suzyeynon.bsky.social first 💜🌿

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Photo of Suzy Eynon's chapbook (heathery purple cover with stitched binding and gold eyeball flower) entitled Being Seen and Ethel Zine's little note with a bear, held up against a green wall in one hand

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HAD @havehashad.com · 8d

Upcoming submission call!

Theme "LUCK"

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"

guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

The theme is "LUCK".

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry".

POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don't go over this cap.
PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece.
Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under.
Tanya Žilinskas will curate the "prose" submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the "poetry".
All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 8d

Huge congratulations, Jenny!! And oooh that title!! 💚💙

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Tapetenvogel @tapetenvogel.bsky.social · 11d

Und dein Inhaltsverzeichnis klingt schon wie ein Gedicht 💖 Savouring your poems slowly, loving each.

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 9d

Brown?

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 9d

Nooo if the bead holes were intact you could've washed them right? Like if he'd accidentally sat on them. Pets sit on everything...

Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 9d

It looks like he broke them off the wire and they wouldn't function as beads anymore anyway? Imagine the gem-studded poop though 🥲✨

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 10d

!! You're reading my book! Vielen Dank! 💚

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Tapetenvogel @tapetenvogel.bsky.social · 25d

Lichtspiele, Marienseide und (ganz klein im Hintergrund) eine Niströhre für den Steinkauz

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 11d

Du hast schon den Titel deines Gedichts

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Anna Quent @annaquent.bsky.social · 21d

Goldfinches love the forget-me-not seeds.

Stieglitz auf einem Blumenkasten, neben dem Vergissmeinnicht blühen, reckt sich mit geöffnetem Schnabel zu einem Samen.
Er wird teils von Stielen und Blüten verdeckt.

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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 12d

Three weeks to go!

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 19d

FFF Competition Thirty
flash fiction 100/300 Words
1 W £165.00
2 HC £77.00
3 SL £66.00
Judge: Nish X. Hegde
@nishxhegde.bsky.social

£4.40 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe
£2.95 fee per entry via BACS -
ends 23/10/25

#writingcompetitions #flashfiction

freeflashfiction.com/current-comp...

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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 19d

Was teaching a class the other day about the technical aspects of LLMs when I student said AI understands them more than their boyfriend and oh man did we spend the next hour discussing what the word “understand” means! (Also boyfriend better get it together)

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 16d

Eyyy I remember that piece!! Congratulations Suzy!!

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 17d

A-side B-side

Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 17d

Hang on I have a friend for him

My photo of a white & brown tabby peering & leaning out from behind a fridge, next to his mirror self on its white door

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Kate Louise Powell @katelouisepowell.bsky.social · 19d

I feel truly honoured to have been chosen to design this year’s Radical Book Fair poster hosted by Edinburgh’s Lighthouse Bookshop 🖤📖 I’m so happy with how this turned out and I can’t wait for the event 📚

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Monica Wang demon huntee @monicawang.bsky.social · 17d

Gouda is lovely

The punishment for not getting cheese in Gouda is being crammed into a train that smells like armpit cheese

My photo of a small bridge covered in fuchsia flowers and peachy orangey balloons, built over a narrow canal half full of algae and other greenery. Background is small connected Dutch buildings

My photo of an empty road bordered in red bike paths with cyclists in far distance, next to a canal and row of colourful Dutch houses

My photo of a distant row of traditional Dutch houses raised over water, with tall reeds and grasses filling the foreground

My photo of a lone pheasant in the grass next to a green wire fence, behind which is gravel path