Adria Bailton
@adriabailton.com
Author of SFF/H, published most recently at Pulp Lit Mag, Worlds of Possibility, The Colored Lens,
queer, ND, she/they
Member of SFWA, Codex
See more at www.adriabailton.com
queer, ND, she/they
Member of SFWA, Codex
See more at www.adriabailton.com
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It's my birthday! A fantastic gift would be if you read and reviewd my debut YA science fiction 'issues' novel from NetGalley!
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Today's throwback story rec is Felt Along the Seam by Kelly Sandoval at Flash Fiction Online 2020 www.flashfictiononline.com/article/felt...
Felt Along the Seam
I’m standing in the school bathroom, peeling off a ghost, when the new girl walks in. She’s a mess, all running snot and smeared mascara, and I’ve got my hands full of wet, writhi…
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December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Today's throwback story rec is Felt Along the Seam by Kelly Sandoval at Flash Fiction Online 2020 www.flashfictiononline.com/article/felt...
this is too funny!
Here we go! #10: The Black Cat Detectives is not an outdoorsy self-discovery saga! ⚡📚💙 ☕💀📚 🌈📚 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛📚 #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
this is too funny!
Today's throwback story rec is Babang Luksa by Nicasio Andres Reed at Reckoning (2022) reckoning.press/babang-luksa/
Babang Luksa | Reckoning
Salt had crept in while he was away, and now the freshwater wetlands of Gino’s childhood are a marsh, brackish and fickle. There is the soccer field where he’d stained his knees; it had been a low, dr...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Today's throwback story rec is Babang Luksa by Nicasio Andres Reed at Reckoning (2022) reckoning.press/babang-luksa/
December 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I have a deep fear of jellyfish. I'm not a fan of Queen Latifah in the jellyfish colony.
Liev, jellyfish are *not* harmless. WTF.
#horrorwatch
Liev, jellyfish are *not* harmless. WTF.
#horrorwatch
December 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I have a deep fear of jellyfish. I'm not a fan of Queen Latifah in the jellyfish colony.
Liev, jellyfish are *not* harmless. WTF.
#horrorwatch
Liev, jellyfish are *not* harmless. WTF.
#horrorwatch
Busy trying to read last week's #horrorwatch notes since I decided to watch on my own tonight and Sam Jackson just got sucked off into the sphere and now there's tense music for Dustin Hoffman to get there and I have no idea why.
Sometimes you can't create tension just with music.
Sometimes you can't create tension just with music.
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Busy trying to read last week's #horrorwatch notes since I decided to watch on my own tonight and Sam Jackson just got sucked off into the sphere and now there's tense music for Dustin Hoffman to get there and I have no idea why.
Sometimes you can't create tension just with music.
Sometimes you can't create tension just with music.
I asked my partner if that was Sabretooth before he was Sabretooth because I swear that's my only touchstone.
#horrowatch
#horrowatch
Is that Baby Liev Shrieber? #horrorwatch
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I asked my partner if that was Sabretooth before he was Sabretooth because I swear that's my only touchstone.
#horrowatch
#horrowatch
Because I was sick, I missed #horrorwatch last week. But I'm watching Sphere now. I'm 100% certain I've seen this before.
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Because I was sick, I missed #horrorwatch last week. But I'm watching Sphere now. I'm 100% certain I've seen this before.
Have you read?
Marías Mazahuas by Fausto Guadarrama López, originally written in the Mazahua language
Translated from the Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris
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Marías Mazahuas by Fausto Guadarrama López, originally written in the Mazahua language
Translated from the Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris
wwb-campus.org/literature/m...
Marías Mazahuas
The indigenous Mazahua (maz-a-wa) people have traditionally lived in Central Mexico. In recent years, however, they have been migrating to cities, often for economic reasons. The poem below, about…
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December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Have you read?
Marías Mazahuas by Fausto Guadarrama López, originally written in the Mazahua language
Translated from the Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris
wwb-campus.org/literature/m...
Marías Mazahuas by Fausto Guadarrama López, originally written in the Mazahua language
Translated from the Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris
wwb-campus.org/literature/m...
I'm a few days late getting my short story round-up of all the stories I suggested in November up, but it is here!
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Short Story Round-Up #104 - Adria Bailton
This is back-dated because I came down ill and got very behind. In November, I suggested twenty (20) stories from a few different markets. Still trying to keep up on my reading. Diabolical Plots…
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December 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I'm a few days late getting my short story round-up of all the stories I suggested in November up, but it is here!
adriabailton.com/short-story-...
adriabailton.com/short-story-...
Have you read?
The Ants by Holly Lyn Walrath at Your Impossible Voice
This flash piece reads like poetry.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/the-ants/
The Ants by Holly Lyn Walrath at Your Impossible Voice
This flash piece reads like poetry.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/the-ants/
The Ants | Your Impossible Voice
Holly Lyn Walrath — "You lie in the grass and let ants crawl all over you. You lie so perfectly still that they start to think you’re just another part of the landscape—a rock, a log, a statue."
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December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Have you read?
The Ants by Holly Lyn Walrath at Your Impossible Voice
This flash piece reads like poetry.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/the-ants/
The Ants by Holly Lyn Walrath at Your Impossible Voice
This flash piece reads like poetry.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/the-ants/
Have you read?
When Eve Chose Us by Tia Tashiro at Diabolical Plots
This publishing at the same time Plur1bus is on is an interesting coincidence. Very interesting. And sad.
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
When Eve Chose Us by Tia Tashiro at Diabolical Plots
This publishing at the same time Plur1bus is on is an interesting coincidence. Very interesting. And sad.
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
DP FICTION #129A: “When Eve Chose Us” by Tia Tashiro – Diabolical Plots
Diabolical Plots
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December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Have you read?
When Eve Chose Us by Tia Tashiro at Diabolical Plots
This publishing at the same time Plur1bus is on is an interesting coincidence. Very interesting. And sad.
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
When Eve Chose Us by Tia Tashiro at Diabolical Plots
This publishing at the same time Plur1bus is on is an interesting coincidence. Very interesting. And sad.
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
Today's quote post is the content warning at the beginning of Worlds Divide.
body horror of embodying a different body
on-page domestic violence
fade-to-black consensual sex between minors
eating disorder
extreme anxiety
drug use
undiagnosed mental illness
death.
body horror of embodying a different body
on-page domestic violence
fade-to-black consensual sex between minors
eating disorder
extreme anxiety
drug use
undiagnosed mental illness
death.
December 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Today's quote post is the content warning at the beginning of Worlds Divide.
body horror of embodying a different body
on-page domestic violence
fade-to-black consensual sex between minors
eating disorder
extreme anxiety
drug use
undiagnosed mental illness
death.
body horror of embodying a different body
on-page domestic violence
fade-to-black consensual sex between minors
eating disorder
extreme anxiety
drug use
undiagnosed mental illness
death.
It's my birthday! A fantastic gift would be if you subscribed to my newsletter or told a friend.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's my birthday! A fantastic gift would be if you subscribed to my newsletter or told a friend.
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It's my birthday! A fantastic gift would be if you read and reviewd my debut YA science fiction 'issues' novel from NetGalley!
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Worlds Divide
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's my birthday! A fantastic gift would be if you read and reviewd my debut YA science fiction 'issues' novel from NetGalley!
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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Have you read?
Everybody Comes to the Velociraptor’s by Timothy Mudie at Small Wonders
I was super tickled by this story from the POV of a velociraptor running a bar.
smallwondersmag.com/piece/everyb...
Everybody Comes to the Velociraptor’s by Timothy Mudie at Small Wonders
I was super tickled by this story from the POV of a velociraptor running a bar.
smallwondersmag.com/piece/everyb...
Everybody Comes to the Velociraptor’s - Small Wonders
When the triceratops headbutted in my office door, I was at my desk, cigarette pinched between my claws and a whiskey in front of me. I expected him; he knew I expected him; no point trying to hide…
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December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Have you read?
Everybody Comes to the Velociraptor’s by Timothy Mudie at Small Wonders
I was super tickled by this story from the POV of a velociraptor running a bar.
smallwondersmag.com/piece/everyb...
Everybody Comes to the Velociraptor’s by Timothy Mudie at Small Wonders
I was super tickled by this story from the POV of a velociraptor running a bar.
smallwondersmag.com/piece/everyb...
Have you read?
A Pothos, Once Freed by Sarah Grace Tuttle at Ivy Lit
A pothos lives in a glory, a pothos struggles for fresh air.
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A Pothos, Once Freed by Sarah Grace Tuttle at Ivy Lit
A pothos lives in a glory, a pothos struggles for fresh air.
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A Pothos, Once Freed – ivy. literary magazine
In this universe, she kept the window closed. Her pothos plant pressed its leaves against the glass and stretched toward the sky as best it could.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Have you read?
A Pothos, Once Freed by Sarah Grace Tuttle at Ivy Lit
A pothos lives in a glory, a pothos struggles for fresh air.
ivylit.com/index.php/20...
A Pothos, Once Freed by Sarah Grace Tuttle at Ivy Lit
A pothos lives in a glory, a pothos struggles for fresh air.
ivylit.com/index.php/20...
Day 30 #MelsNoWriMo You Did It! Goals achieved and final snippet.
I finished my dev edits earlier this month and I'm extremely proud of the MS I handed in! (Except I think I have a continuity error right at the end. I'll fix it next pass.)
Final snippet is a line that made me cry. (Spoilers)
I finished my dev edits earlier this month and I'm extremely proud of the MS I handed in! (Except I think I have a continuity error right at the end. I'll fix it next pass.)
Final snippet is a line that made me cry. (Spoilers)
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Day 30 #MelsNoWriMo You Did It! Goals achieved and final snippet.
I finished my dev edits earlier this month and I'm extremely proud of the MS I handed in! (Except I think I have a continuity error right at the end. I'll fix it next pass.)
Final snippet is a line that made me cry. (Spoilers)
I finished my dev edits earlier this month and I'm extremely proud of the MS I handed in! (Except I think I have a continuity error right at the end. I'll fix it next pass.)
Final snippet is a line that made me cry. (Spoilers)
Today's throwback story rec is The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births by José Pablo Iriarte at Lightspeed (2018) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/subs...
The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births - Lightspeed Magazine
I seem to make an outcast of myself every time I’m a teenager. Which is fine, I guess. I’ll take one good dog and one good friend over being a phony and fitting in. Alicia points. “There he is, Jamie!...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Today's throwback story rec is The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births by José Pablo Iriarte at Lightspeed (2018) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/subs...
Reposted by Adria Bailton
OH NO A ROUND GOOPY CGI DEATH BALL APPROACHES! It must be one more hour until #HorrorWatch!
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
OH NO A ROUND GOOPY CGI DEATH BALL APPROACHES! It must be one more hour until #HorrorWatch!
I was so excited to watch Sphere with the #horrorwatch crew but I am coming down with something. My partner has a cold, so I've probably just caught that. But I don't have the late night that the movie will entail in me tonight. 🤒
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I was so excited to watch Sphere with the #horrorwatch crew but I am coming down with something. My partner has a cold, so I've probably just caught that. But I don't have the late night that the movie will entail in me tonight. 🤒
Day 29 #MelsNoWriMo Ideas for your dream cover.
Ooh, I actually went through this for reals. I don't have my cover yet, and I'm going to hold off on speaking about it so I don't jinx anything.
Ooh, I actually went through this for reals. I don't have my cover yet, and I'm going to hold off on speaking about it so I don't jinx anything.
November 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Day 29 #MelsNoWriMo Ideas for your dream cover.
Ooh, I actually went through this for reals. I don't have my cover yet, and I'm going to hold off on speaking about it so I don't jinx anything.
Ooh, I actually went through this for reals. I don't have my cover yet, and I'm going to hold off on speaking about it so I don't jinx anything.
I'm wondering if I should call my "throwback" story recs something else. I'm just trying to say that I recommended these previously. Anyway, here's today's:
Seen Small Through Glass by Premee Mohammed at Fireside Fiction (2022) firesidefiction.com/seen-small-t...
Seen Small Through Glass by Premee Mohammed at Fireside Fiction (2022) firesidefiction.com/seen-small-t...
Seen Small Through Glass
My upper lip was oozing sweat like syrup and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Thinking that months from now, someone would interview me in jail and I’d say...
firesidefiction.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I'm wondering if I should call my "throwback" story recs something else. I'm just trying to say that I recommended these previously. Anyway, here's today's:
Seen Small Through Glass by Premee Mohammed at Fireside Fiction (2022) firesidefiction.com/seen-small-t...
Seen Small Through Glass by Premee Mohammed at Fireside Fiction (2022) firesidefiction.com/seen-small-t...
Continuing my rewatch of Stranger Things, I'd thought Bob (Sean Astin) had made it through to the next season for some reason. 😭 Poor Bob.
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Continuing my rewatch of Stranger Things, I'd thought Bob (Sean Astin) had made it through to the next season for some reason. 😭 Poor Bob.
Day 28 #MelsNoWriMo Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot?
Omaha, Nebraska. It might get a little tough as Corey's version of Omaha is closer to the 1980s/90s with most (not all) locations referencing them. Some still exist, but many don't.
Omaha, Nebraska. It might get a little tough as Corey's version of Omaha is closer to the 1980s/90s with most (not all) locations referencing them. Some still exist, but many don't.
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Day 28 #MelsNoWriMo Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot?
Omaha, Nebraska. It might get a little tough as Corey's version of Omaha is closer to the 1980s/90s with most (not all) locations referencing them. Some still exist, but many don't.
Omaha, Nebraska. It might get a little tough as Corey's version of Omaha is closer to the 1980s/90s with most (not all) locations referencing them. Some still exist, but many don't.