Katie Story
@katiestory.bsky.social
SFF writer, fosterer of cats, graphic designer, migraineur, Brooklyn NY.
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Katie Story
@katiestory.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Hello followers! I write SFF, and am currently working on revising two novels at the moment, a Blade Runner meets Princess Mononoke SF, and post-apocalyptic gaslamp fantasy with romance. @bsfwriters.bsky.social has taught me almost everything I know and has great free resources for writers.
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“They just told me where to stand, and they said: ‘Don’t move. Stand here and be one with the grass.’”
A fun read:
A fun read:
February 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
“They just told me where to stand, and they said: ‘Don’t move. Stand here and be one with the grass.’”
A fun read:
A fun read:
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Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
lataco.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies. “This is a protest quilt. It was made by an artist whose day job puts her on the front lines of one of the most grotesque realities in America today. She is a teacher.” [kottke.org]
What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies
In 2024, schoolteacher Ginny Robinson won the Best in Show award at a quilting convention for her quilt called What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies.
This is a protest quilt. It was made by an artist
kottke.org
January 5, 2026 at 4:42 PM
What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies. “This is a protest quilt. It was made by an artist whose day job puts her on the front lines of one of the most grotesque realities in America today. She is a teacher.” [kottke.org]
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I’m excited to announce that ARIA UNSUNG, my book with mech-driving witches who use resonance magic with crystal technology, has been acquired by @inkedingraypress.bsky.social for publication in the Spring of 2027!
Check out the blog announcement: inkedingray.com/aj-super-and...
Check out the blog announcement: inkedingray.com/aj-super-and...
AJ Super and Inked in Gray Press Announce Aria Unsung |
Inked in Gray Press has acquired world English rights to Aria Unsung by author AJ Super.Aria Unsung is an adult/crossover science fiction novel about power, ...
inkedingray.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM
I’m excited to announce that ARIA UNSUNG, my book with mech-driving witches who use resonance magic with crystal technology, has been acquired by @inkedingraypress.bsky.social for publication in the Spring of 2027!
Check out the blog announcement: inkedingray.com/aj-super-and...
Check out the blog announcement: inkedingray.com/aj-super-and...
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I made a punch card for my short fiction reading this year! Each dragon represents 10 stories. Let’s see when I can finish this one. I’ll be logging stories under this post:
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
I made a punch card for my short fiction reading this year! Each dragon represents 10 stories. Let’s see when I can finish this one. I’ll be logging stories under this post:
this is a pretty good summary of the project I’m writing
February 3, 2026 at 11:30 PM
this is a pretty good summary of the project I’m writing
Reread the last third of my draft today and yesterday. Got a good feeling about [most of] this!
February 1, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Reread the last third of my draft today and yesterday. Got a good feeling about [most of] this!
5 classes you took in college:
Heretics Bandits and Rebels
Crime Fiction
Anatomy Drawing
Cooking is Chemistry
Typography
Heretics Bandits and Rebels
Crime Fiction
Anatomy Drawing
Cooking is Chemistry
Typography
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
Viking literature
Theories of human rights
Constitutional History of the US
Satanic Figures in Literature
The Short Story
Viking literature
Theories of human rights
Constitutional History of the US
Satanic Figures in Literature
The Short Story
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
Geography of Alaska
Newspaper Production
The Celluloid Indian: American Indians in Popular Film
Philosophy of Leisure & Recreation
Wilderness in the American Mind
Geography of Alaska
Newspaper Production
The Celluloid Indian: American Indians in Popular Film
Philosophy of Leisure & Recreation
Wilderness in the American Mind
January 31, 2026 at 12:46 AM
5 classes you took in college:
Heretics Bandits and Rebels
Crime Fiction
Anatomy Drawing
Cooking is Chemistry
Typography
Heretics Bandits and Rebels
Crime Fiction
Anatomy Drawing
Cooking is Chemistry
Typography
moving snow, making cookies
January 25, 2026 at 9:21 PM
moving snow, making cookies
Said the Black Horse is fantastic, give that free sample a read.
anyways may as well promo my ko-fi, i have some old sketchbooks there, a compilation of all my art from a monster world setting, and also some actual novels you can read (incl free samples). ko-fi.com/searrachdubh
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January 25, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Said the Black Horse is fantastic, give that free sample a read.
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grateful for this moving dispatch from @erikhane.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
There is no such thing as other people’s children
It is intolerable
www.welcometohellworld.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:37 AM
grateful for this moving dispatch from @erikhane.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
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I just want to say that 1) AltWatcher is doing the lord's work and 2) the altnps account, in my opinion, needs to be outright banned - and I don't say that merely because I loathe it, but because it's unbelievably unhealthy for this fake, plagiarizing, qanon-lite account to have this influence.
AltNPS posted about Alex Pretti's murder 25 times since this morning. During that time, they spread misinformation about the shooting, lied about knowing the shooter's name, and generally flooded the zone with shit.
They're trying to milk this story for all it's worth.
They're trying to milk this story for all it's worth.
January 25, 2026 at 7:04 AM
I just want to say that 1) AltWatcher is doing the lord's work and 2) the altnps account, in my opinion, needs to be outright banned - and I don't say that merely because I loathe it, but because it's unbelievably unhealthy for this fake, plagiarizing, qanon-lite account to have this influence.
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Reading rec inquiry: Does anyone have stories about cutting someone off (justifiably) and then that person *earning* being allowed back into the community/life/etc? Not in a handwavy 'of course Id forgive you eventually!' logic but that the person must make real reconciliations
January 20, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Reading rec inquiry: Does anyone have stories about cutting someone off (justifiably) and then that person *earning* being allowed back into the community/life/etc? Not in a handwavy 'of course Id forgive you eventually!' logic but that the person must make real reconciliations
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January 20, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Draft 2 has surpassed 100,000 words which must mean the new ending is around here somewhere, probably just two or three more scenes left.
January 20, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Draft 2 has surpassed 100,000 words which must mean the new ending is around here somewhere, probably just two or three more scenes left.
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"An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal."
It is a good day to read Dr. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. It is a good day to do something.
It is a good day to read Dr. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. It is a good day to do something.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
www.africa.upenn.edu
January 19, 2026 at 1:41 PM
"An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal."
It is a good day to read Dr. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. It is a good day to do something.
It is a good day to read Dr. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. It is a good day to do something.
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i was just gonna watch a minute and ended up watching the whole dang thing. hilarious.
This is light-hearted and doesn't touch on cases of fuckaroundits, but maybe it'll spark joy. Mid 90s local PBS.
youtu.be/oiSzwoJr4-0
youtu.be/oiSzwoJr4-0
How To Talk Minnesotan | Full Length Film
YouTube video by Twin Cities PBS
youtu.be
January 18, 2026 at 2:22 AM
i was just gonna watch a minute and ended up watching the whole dang thing. hilarious.
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Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
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heart, soul, and body, lungs and life, old Ahab is bound
January 17, 2026 at 1:47 AM
heart, soul, and body, lungs and life, old Ahab is bound
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Hi everyone, we've a bit of an emergency. BSFW members @Mimi Mondal and Zin E. Rocklyn (Teri Clarke) are in Mexico for a workshop and having an extremely hard time. Both are freelancers and, as we all know, being fantastic people and writers doesn't pay for food.
gofund.me/ffd7d8cbc
gofund.me/ffd7d8cbc
Donate to Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey, organized by Teri Clarke
hello, all!
my name is Teri Clarke and I write horror and dark fantasy under the… Teri Clarke needs your support for Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey
gofund.me
January 16, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Hi everyone, we've a bit of an emergency. BSFW members @Mimi Mondal and Zin E. Rocklyn (Teri Clarke) are in Mexico for a workshop and having an extremely hard time. Both are freelancers and, as we all know, being fantastic people and writers doesn't pay for food.
gofund.me/ffd7d8cbc
gofund.me/ffd7d8cbc
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Anybody have any good readings on/examples of willfully contrarian readings of a text against the prevailing interpretation (or, uh, reading)?
January 16, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Anybody have any good readings on/examples of willfully contrarian readings of a text against the prevailing interpretation (or, uh, reading)?
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The sad thing about writing cozy fantasy is that you'll spend the day writing about a meal in a snug inn--sitting around with friends by a fireplace and eating beef roasted on a spit over an open fire, fresh bread and butter--and then you realize it's dinnertime, so you go nuke your Lean Cuisine.
January 13, 2026 at 11:04 PM
The sad thing about writing cozy fantasy is that you'll spend the day writing about a meal in a snug inn--sitting around with friends by a fireplace and eating beef roasted on a spit over an open fire, fresh bread and butter--and then you realize it's dinnertime, so you go nuke your Lean Cuisine.
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For the first 2026 episode of @mealofthorns.bsky.social, @marmercurio.bsky.social is our guest and guide for Richard Marsh's THE BEETLE, a melodramatic Gothic horror-mystery with a lot going on under the carapace:
A Meal of Thorns 41- THE BEETLE with Marisa Mercurio
If you read Dracula and thought: “I like the ancient shapeshifting nemesis and the homoerotic subtext, but I don’t like how subtle the sexual and national anxieties are,” you&rsqu…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
January 12, 2026 at 9:42 PM
For the first 2026 episode of @mealofthorns.bsky.social, @marmercurio.bsky.social is our guest and guide for Richard Marsh's THE BEETLE, a melodramatic Gothic horror-mystery with a lot going on under the carapace:
There should be a Pitt style drama about the folks who work for the MTA. “Track fire is out. Reroute the trains past the passenger who was struck and the four emergency brake activations…” Really wonder what is going on behind the scenes.
January 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
There should be a Pitt style drama about the folks who work for the MTA. “Track fire is out. Reroute the trains past the passenger who was struck and the four emergency brake activations…” Really wonder what is going on behind the scenes.