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Elijah 🎃. Mears
@elijah.mea.rs
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eastern-style guy in lexington-style country • writing sci-fi & fantasy • former classicist • transit nerd • gay married to @beryl.rubacky.dev • 🏳️‍🌈✡️ • he/him

📍  Greensboro, NC (👖🔜🌳)
🌐 www.elijahjmears.com
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Elijah 🎃. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · Oct 5
This is apropos of nothing except that I need to get better about occasionally mentioning I send a twice-monthly newsletter about my writing if I want people to actually sign up to receive it!

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Can I send you an email? | Elijah J. Mears
Hey! So this is the dedicated page where I try my hardest to get you to give me your email. Usually, people will promise to give you some kind of cookie in exchange for it—usually a free eBook, or a s...
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Happy Thanksgiving! Who wants apple pie?
A somewhat rustic apple pie in a glass dish cooling on a wire rack on a counter, with a cook book and toaster visible in the background. The pie crust is a golden brown with a fork crimped edge.
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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ok late to this for sure but ngl florence popped off with the chamber music versions
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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bobbylewis.bsky.social
some good news: kim davis publicly ate shit, again
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18d
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL. The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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porksweats.bsky.social
this is just to say
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
elijah.mea.rs
Need to be revising my novel and also revising an old trunked short story this month, which of course means today I wrote almost 2,000 words of something brand new which doesn't remotely adhere to my normal process and I have no idea where I'm going with it 🙃
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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MAMDANI: “While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
elijah.mea.rs
for no particular reason at all, may i suggest reading "the memory of you is contained in the crab rave" in @crepuscularmag.bsky.social this morning?

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November 29th: Elijah Mears | Crepuscular Magazine
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November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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a reminder to everyone to turn on your seasonal depression at midnight! cellphones should adjust automatically.
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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parkeriswriting.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! I can’t recommend you read this one while eating, but I can recommend you read it over and over for every other waking minute of your day today
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
elijah.mea.rs
it is such "go get a little latte" weather today 🙂‍↕️
October 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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which is to say hi yes despite what my rude brain says (the imposter syndrome has been awful lately), it's still extremely cool and humbling to that I have a queer cyberpunk story in Lightspeed 💜

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To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter - Lightspeed Magazine
Zan’s supervisor tossed the glass square onto their rusting desk. A glass-rendered construct of a silver ticket hovered in the air, text shimmering. Zan held their breath as they re-read it until they...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
elijah.mea.rs
This weekend was a cute time :)
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Dinner tonight! Maybe I'm kind of decent at this whole cooking thing.
A plate with creamy orzo, a medium steak, and asparagus with parmesan flakes.
October 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Outside of school, I never really tried my hand at short stories until about 2022, when I took an unfinished idea for a novel and turned it into an 11k-word novelette that I very ambitiously started submitting to any market that would take novelettes (and racked up some *very* swift rejections).
cypayseur.bsky.social Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · Oct 20
I was thinking about early writing recently and I'm curious—short fiction writers: what is the earliest short story you remember finishing that wasn't for a school project or anything?
October 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I had a story come out today!

If you think too much about fairy tale witches and also murder and complicated relationships, this one is for you.

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Tasting notes
Issue seven: flash fiction by Cislyn Smith
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October 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Ok! Think I'm finally in a place to momentarily look away from my shorts this month and really focus on my novel. So, put on some smooth jazz & banged out ~1.8k words of rewrites this evening—and sinking back into Parson's story didn't even feel like pulling teeth this time

#AmWriting 🌈🚀💫 🪐📚
October 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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They are called writers
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Oct 5
we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out
October 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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WE DID IT!! WE HIT OUR $11K STRETCH GOAL—we are officially funded for TWO YEARS! You all did that in FOUR DAYS. We're emotional at the resounding support for queer stories, poems, and art. Thank you 💜

AND we revealed a further stretch goal as well! 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." The first three goals, of $6900, $8300, $9700 and $11000 are now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to them. The remaining goals of $12000 (Reprints!) and $13000 (More Art!) and $14000 (Nonfiction!) show a closed lock next to them.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
elijah.mea.rs
please help bean get turnt 🙏⬇

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
October 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
WE'RE FUNDED! BASE GOAL ANNIHILATED IN FOUR!! HOURS!!

We're full of SO MANY emotions. OTHERSIDE means a lot to us, and we're so grateful to everyone who wants queer stories, poems, and art to have more space to exist. Now more than ever, that matters 🪐🗡️

Now onto stretch goals?? 👀
OTHERSIDE KICKSTARTER FULLY FUNDED! There is a screaming kitten in the bottom left.
September 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Another story day for me! "Bad Advice" is available at @crepuscularmag.bsky.social today, and in 30 days if you don't subscribe (but you should it's cool over there).
September 29th: Bad Advice | Crepuscular Magazine
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September 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
HI YES WE JUST PASSED $2,000 IN 30 MINUTES?!? THANK YOU SO SO MUCH?????? WE'RE ABOUT 37% FUNDED!!!!

AND if we get 6 more backers we unlock 1000 more words per issue due to a lovely anonymous donation!
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · Sep 29
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.
September 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
elijah.mea.rs
GO GIVE QUEER PEOPLE MONEY TO MAKE QUEER ART
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · Sep 29
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.
September 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM