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Maria Haskins
@mariahaskins.com
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Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Editor at Ruadán Books. Part of Many Worlds. She/her. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, Deadlands & more. 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · Oct 11
I write speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror & points in-between), and I also write reviews & essays.

My short fiction is available in two short story collections:

🛤️ SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN: mariahaskins.com/six-dreams-a...

🐺 WOLVES & GIRLS: mariahaskins.com/wolves-and-g...
Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories
Available now! Buy Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories: Paperback & ebook from JournalStone Paperback & ebook from Amazon  Paperback & ebook from Indiebound / B&N…
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I'm speechless. Literary icon @tananarivedue.bsky.social has graced THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS with the most incredible blurb. To have someone I admire so deeply say such wonderful things about my debut novel is a dream come true.
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
Link below.
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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These are the folks I adopted Horrible Babby Kitten from! Like all rescues they do a LOT of unpaid and invisible work for local animals, so if you have even $5 it would be awesome if you could kick in!
a large fluffy grey tabby on the top level of a beige carpeted cat tree, his legs hanging over the edge. on the second level, a fluffy and slightly dazed-looking black kitten, sitting up and facing the viewer.
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Just your occasional reminder that I have a new book out next April, now available for pre-order:
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Ode to the Half-Broken
Check out Ode to the Half-Broken - <b>In the abandoned New York Botanical Gardens, forty years after the world nearly ended, a worn-out robot is attacked, and realizes old evils are stirring<br> <br>W...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Love! this

“Everybody has an origin story. All these people in power have been rejected by polite society. There are two ways to handle that: reform, be a better person and look inward, or become a full fascist authoritarian. Most chose the second.”
Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’
The CEO of the leading US satirical website explains what to do when reality is crazy, and how he is trying to buy the website of a famous conspiracy theorist
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November 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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sfwa.org Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.org · 23h
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
N. K. Jemisin: SFWA's 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient.
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Alan Cumming: ‘After my rant about trans rights, I was worried I would be deported’
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"It’s happening, it’s here, it’s now. There is authoritarianism in America and I’m terrified"
The festival, he continues, will also be “a form of support and solidarity, at a time when LGBT people need it”, with hate crimes on the rise, hostile comment pieces in the British press, and the Trump administration issuing a flurry of anti-trans executive orders Tip Toe is all about this, says Cumming, who is bisexual. “It’s about the rage, and the radicalisation of certain people about various subjects, including anti-trans, anti-gay, anti-immigrants. All these things that are used by people as a smokescreen to gain power, to take attention away from the problems of our standard of living and our lack of a moral centre.” It’s a tactic, he believes, that is used “when you don’t really have any policies. Let’s just blame people who are already marginalised. It’s a slippery slope. Next, they’ll be coming for the rest of us.” We’re on the cusp of “something really horrible”, he insists. “And in America, of course, it’s already started. Trans people have no actual rights. They don’t exist, according to the Supreme Court. All these forms of decency, and caring, and support for you if you are different, have been ripped away in Trump’s new regime.” He references the case currently underway in the US – 10 years after the Supreme Court gave same-sex couples equal marriage rights – in which the justices are being asked to rule that those rights can be ignored on religious grounds. “We know where this is going,” he says. “Soldiers in the streets, taking citizens away, people being ‘disappeared’. It’s happening, it’s here, it’s now. It’s not imminent. There is authoritarianism, and a government that has no concern for a vast majority of its citizens and will do anything it can to stay in power... I’m terrified.” In July, Cumming guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and in his opening monologue, he tells me, he “did a big rant about trans rights... People around me were like, ’You’re going to be deported.’” He worried about it the next time he left the country. Cumming has been a US citizen since 2008, and notes how frightened people are at the moment. “They’re scared for their physical safety. They’re scared when they go to the airport that they’re going to be held... I mean, those are real fears and I feel them too. But luckily, I have another home, I have another passport, another country, and another life there.” That safe haven, Cumming believes, is also under threat, and we should be “standing up to the rhetoric of Farage, and reminding people that this refugee problem is the way it is because we don’t have a deal with Europe, because he brought us out”. He thinks we should also be “asking our government to stop trying to pander to the sort of moral lack that Farage represents”. He elaborates: “I’ve always thought this about Keir Starmer, [that] he just needs to be more of a leader, stop just trying not to get caught out all the time. It’s terrible the way that all these flags are now appearing behind him... just trying to sort of ape the aesthetics and messaging of Reform. Don’t do that. Have some f***ing balls and say that you stand up for decency, and you have a moral core that means you’re not going to let the most marginalised people in society be trampled on yet again.” He recalls a point that he made on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg before the election – “I said, Labour is just kind of Conservative-lite now, but [since then] it’s becoming sort of Reform lemonade He focuses his thoughts. “I’ve kind of moved away from being obsessed with the horror of things that have come out of that quarter, of trans rights being perceived as anti-women’s rights. But there’s several things that stick out to me – and I don’t want to get into a battle at all with her, because I feel that the best way to deal with her is to give her less attention. “But there was a thing,” he continues, “where she very kindly gave money to open a rape crisis centre in Edinburgh – a great thing to do. I mean, bravo. But then she said that trans women were not allowed... That’s transphobia. At the worst and the most awful time a person could experience, you’re saying, ‘No, I’m not going to help you, because you are trans.’ I just feel like we have to call it what it is.”
November 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
sfwa.org Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.org · 23h
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
N. K. Jemisin: SFWA's 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient.
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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This is a 100% true story.

I never saw a roadrunner in person until I moved to the Texas Hill Country in 2011.

Because of Looney Tunes I legit thought road runners were tall, like ostriches.

I was 30.

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Coyote vs Road Runner… nature imitating Looney Tunes 😂🌵
YouTube video by Animalia Show
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November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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There are a few time-sensitive things HWA members should know about the Bram Stoker Award Recommended Reading List. PLEASE forgive my shouty caps and read this entire short thread before reposting/quote-posting. (1/3) horror.org/awards/curre...
HWA Bram Stoker Award Recommendations
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November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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I love the escapism and wish-fulfillment of video games. My character can sleep and wake up refreshed and energized? Wow. Oh, to live in this fiction.
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Thank you, soil bacterium.
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Uh

this is

enormous
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The Great Oak at Fredville: Jacob Strutt 1820

Majesty, the Fredville Oak - the Kingdom of Kent, was already famous 200 years ago

Both have humans for scale. My son Oliver is 6’ 6’’
The Great Oak at Fredville: Jacob Strutt 1820 The Great Oak at Fredville 2025
November 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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fiyahlitmag.bsky.social FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 3d
A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social

Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
sophiegilbert.bsky.social Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 1d
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Good morning
"I spent two years at a top university, was taught by some of the finest modern archaeologists and THIS is what I learned." Ancient civilizations Preppies: Persia, Mycenae Goths: Egypt and Assyria Nerds: Babylon, Greece Jocks: Sparta, Macedonia
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Steve Hogarty @misterbrilliant [gets olympic tickets to 100m butterfly] Oh my god this will be great. [sees the huge stadium] Oh wow that must be where they keep it.
December 4, 2024 at 5:35 AM
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free WORLDWIDE shipping ends today in my US print/poster shop!

And to all the folks spamming up my inbox lately asking me about N F flipping Ts, (go funge yourself) I'm going to pretend you mean

Nice
Friendly
Tortoises

like this fellow, available as a print! [hashtag seamless promotion ;-D ]
a giant tortoise with a landscape on its shell
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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a soft bed of stars ✨ #art
A painting of a blue bear peacefully sleeping upon a pool of starry sky. The moon hangs above, the sky dripping off of it like a waterfall. The moon is surrounded by bright blue sky and pink clouds. Larger star hang around it like ornaments. The scene is surrounded by a blue border segmented like the tiled edges of a pool.
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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"Curly" fries are actually straight, they only appear bent due to the curvature of the Earth
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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BREAKING: There’s a new Netflix show starring Claire Danes as a sad lesbian writer and Matthew Rhys as her shady neighbor. #TheBeastInMe
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM