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Madeehah 🍉 ORPHAN PLANET OUT NOW!
@madeehahwrites.bsky.social
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spec fic writer / sometimes a pharmacist / ORPHAN PLANET (2025) / Future Worlds Prize 2021 shortlist / best of the net nominee / editor of Overtly Lit

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It's mad to think I debuted this year. My own book! Out in the world! A physical book! In other people's hands! Ahh 🥰
October 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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This summer and September have so far been science/fiction flavoured 🌝

*note only one of these has been read to completion because I am an appallingly slow reader
A pile of books: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake Orbital by Samantha Harvey A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke Exhalation by Ted Chiang Alien Earths by Lisa Kaltenegger On the Kindle: City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams
September 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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01.09.2025
September 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I rather like this poster I got today
An illustrated poster showing two diagrams of a lunar and solar eclipse
August 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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If you see this, post a monster
A brown tabby cat laying at the top of a grey computer chair, looking off camera
August 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
madeehahwrites.bsky.social
Honoured that @thefantasticother.bsky.social have published another short story of mine! Check out AT THE FEET OF GUARDIANS in their tenth issue with other brilliant contributors and a stunning cover 😍
AT THE FEET OF GUARDIANS by Madeehah Reza The Seven Guardians have always been there. They are etched into our country’s history, each one holding a legend of its own. Each one stands as one of our protectors at the borders of our vast country. They are as ancient as the Earth itself, we are told, looming over us as colossal towers of men. If you stood beneath one, we are told, you’d lose sight of its head
August 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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My contributor copy of @exposedbonemag.bsky.social vol 2 has arrived! I was absolutely not anxiously checking the UPS tracker...

Free to read online but definitely consider snagging a physical copy of this excellently produced volume with several talented writers 🦴
A physical book copy of Exposed Bone volume 2. An excerpt of my short story THE SUNSHINE HOUSE
March 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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When that first cup of tea on Eid hits different...

Eid meowbarak to all over the next couple of days!
A brown tabby cat facing the window eyes closed, his face bathed in warm sunlight
March 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This one crept up on me! Check out my latest fantasy short story published by the wonderful editors at @exposedbonemag.bsky.social, THE SUNSHINE HOUSE 🐤

www.exposedbonemag.com/pieces/the-s...
The Sunshine House Madeehah Reza ​ Ammu had painted the whole house yellow. She stood on the grass in front of the house, a big smile on her long face. Mustard streaks were smeared across her forehead and arms, and a loose curl of hair stuck out from her dupatta, dyed in lemon.
March 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
madeehahwrites.bsky.social
✨️GIVEAWAY TIME✨️

I'm giving away two copies of my upcoming novella, ORPHAN PLANET!

To be eligible, you just need to:
❤️ Like this
🔁 Retweet this
💬 Comment with what three things you'd bring with you on a mission to an uninhabited planet

Open until Jan 31.

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A copy of the book ORPHAN PLANET standing on top of four other copies
January 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
madeehahwrites.bsky.social
Mario Party can get exceedingly violent as we all know
January 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
madeehahwrites.bsky.social
I love when you're reading as normal and are completely blindsided by a beautifully written passage. How do words in black and white have the ability to take my breath away
A photo of a passage from Ursula Le Guin's THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS: "How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."
January 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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My first ever book, ORPHAN PLANET, comes out in less than a month with @lunapress.bsky.social! This is a childhood dream come true ☺️
A selfie of me holding up the novella ORPHAN PLANET. It hides half my face but you can see I'm smiling from behind!
January 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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A long day brightened up by some very lovely bookmail from @lunapress.bsky.social 😊

My very first book!!
A photo of me, a hijabi, holding up my novella ORPHAN PLANET against my face Two piles of the novella ORPHAN PLANET in a cardboard box
November 26, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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If you see this, post a pet!

Someone was very cosy this rainy Caturday
A brown tabby cat curled up asleep on me
November 23, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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I am pinching this in an attempt to get to know my new followers 😆 I'll also post a little bit about the story and I why I wrote it!
Get to know my writing for every like I will post one piece I wrote
November 19, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Very honoured that the lovely folks at @apparitionlit.com have nominated my short story for the Pushcart Prize, I was not expecting this ☺️
An email that reads: Hi Madeehah! Thank you so much for working with us on the Harbinger issue. That story has swamped itself into our souls and will last throughout the end of time. We are sending this message across time and space to let you know that the team tallied votes for our annual noms, and we are excited to nominate Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City for consideration in the Pushcart Prize for short fiction. Best of luck, all our fingers and toes are crossed! Stay well, Rebecca, Amy, Clarke & Tacoma Apparition Lit
November 16, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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Pretty sure I walked in on some private time
A brown tabby cat sitting with one hind leg up in the air. He's staring at the camera, looking rather annoyed.
November 15, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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THE ASTROLORIST OF ZUMAR VALLEY - a socially awkward academic revisits her family in the Bengal countryside and stumbles upon a revelation from the stars 🎇

smallworldcity.com/THE-ASTROLOR...
November 3, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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First time trying to figure out how to do one of these awards eligibility posts. My published works this year are the most true to the kind of writing I'd like to develop in the future 🤗 links below! 🔗
Awards Eligibility 2024 Madeehah Reza Short stories Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City Apparition Lit Oct '24 The Moon-Drenched Dead The Fantastic Other Aug '24 The Astrolorist of Zumar Valley Small World City May '24
November 3, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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*weep* is there anyone who will consider a cosy sci fi of 1200 words? No high stakes, just space vibes and optimism 🪐 #amwriting #WritersCommunity
really enjoyed your story, but we're sorry this isn’t the right story for us right now. We did find much to admire in your work, though, and we hope you'll send us more to consider soon.
October 10, 2023 at 1:21 PM
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Happy Caturday from my fellow writer
A tabby cat with green eyes sitting on my lap looking up at the camera, his paw outstretched over the iPad screen where I'm trying to write
October 7, 2023 at 12:29 PM
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Current read and belated #Caturday
The book Midnight Doorways by Usman T. Malik with a sleepy tabby cat sitting next to it
October 1, 2023 at 11:47 AM
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Thought I'd share some of my recently pub'd work for people to get to know me on here. First up is 'THE MUSEUM OF BOTANICAL DELIGHTS' in issue 31 of Wildness magazine. Anxiety is a weird thing to write but I had fun creating a story with an anxious protagonist!

readwildness.com/31/reza-bota...
Text: It was by far his favourite thing to do every Sunday. When he listened inside the atrium of the Museum of Botanical Delights, Samir heard only silence. He could never find this anywhere else. All the noise in his mind washed away. His muscles relaxed as he listened intently to the silence, almost melting into it. It was not the flat quiet of an empty house but a buried calm that he knew was deep inside him. He’d sought it out for so long and here it was, inside a peculiar museum. The wizard could hold on to nothing as his mind tried to wrestle with this noise, this ceaseless clamour. So he did what he had always done when this noise filled the air: he dug his fingers into the soil. The cool, dry earth tickled his skin. He kept his eyes shut and felt the sensation, the grit of stones beneath the soil, the squelch of moisture when he wriggled his fingers.
September 19, 2023 at 6:55 PM
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Curled feetsies are my weakness
A tabby cat looking down sitting on the floor with one paw tucked into a curl Now the tabby cat looks away with his paw still tucked into a curl
September 18, 2023 at 9:33 PM