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M.M. Olivas
@olivasthewriter.bsky.social
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Mara can't spell.
🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽 Xicane futurist and horror writer, author of Sundown in San Ojuela. Ignyte finalist, longlister for Stokers. Clarion 22.
Stories at: olivasthewriter.wtf
Sundown available at: https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/sundown-in-san-ojuela
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M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social · Nov 14
Finally jumping onto this app and want to start by sharing thay I am M. M. Olivas trans chicana horror author with a debute novel, Sundown in San Ojulea, out in one week ~

Sundown being a gothic spaghetti western with aztec vampires and queer necromancers in the Inland Empire

More info in bio
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plaguingpossum.bsky.social
No Child Soldier Left Behind, & Other Unfathomable Cruelties, in-progress table of contents.

Any publisher looking for a hideous weird-horror short story collection?
Table Of Contents 1. Bottom-Eyes The Barrel Of The Future, Pulp Princess! 2. Fumata Nera Carousel 3. The Last Kangaroo Funeral 4. Touch Me Terror Complex 5. You Are Breaking My Heart With The Bluntest Instrument Imaginable 6. It's All In The Execution 7. Iron Lung Liquid 1: White Phosphorous Psychonova 8. Charles McLaughton Was Radicalized By Pain 9. Stood By Herself Against The Hills 10. Hard Times At The Apostle Ranch
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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uncannymagazine.bsky.social
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Whale Fall of Yours" by M. M. Olivas!

You can read it here!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 66, “Listen To Me And I'll Tell You A Story" by Ejiwa "Edge" Ebenebe: In the depths of the sea a little girl sits on what looks to be a giant pink/green octopus tentacle. Several other tentacles extend in the background, curling in the depths. Towards the front and surrounding the little girl is a school of pink fish, some of them stop to listen as she holds one finger up. She looks like she is about to start telling a story. On the lower right corner, another school of fish is making its way over the tentacles, towards the edge of the cover. The quote reads: "The year is 2084, and this is the spot you always come to—just a walk from UNAM’s Instituto de Astronomía but far enough so none of your peers ever bother to trek the long exhale of asphalt to reach you—where you can tuck yourself away between the brick walls and slide away from the world, slip into your studies, forget that you’re a person at all."
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
olivasthewriter.bsky.social
Posting a reminder bc I never talk Abt my work all that much, but I recently had a story out in Uncanny!! Abt a greiving lesbian and her starship stranded under the body of a dying space whale ~
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/whal...
Whale Fall of Yours - Uncanny Magazine
Notebooks, Conchas, y Un Café con Leche Those are the items that make up your world the day the girl with the side buzz and brown bomber jacket says to you, in the back of a crowded cafetería, “Explíc...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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plaguingpossum.bsky.social
It’s #TransAwarenessWeek, so be aware that I am that weird-horror baddie and buy my book!
plaguingpossum.bsky.social Persephone Possum 🔞🇵🇸 @plaguingpossum.bsky.social · Aug 21
HARD TIMES AT THE APROSTATE CRATER is serializd psychotic-erotic weird-horror for the neverending end times. Wile E Coyote’s Disco Elysium.
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Rainbow hyena swirled into a spiral against a violent hot pink background. The title of the book, “Hard times at the Aprostate Crater” is centered, with the author name, “Persephone Possum”, below it The dolphin-pussy of the firmament contracts. Lakes of bubblegum-cum boil in a vast crater at the end of history. Hyena-Man, feral and insane, spends his undying days locked in an endless cycle of Wile E. Coyote cum-denial with the only other living being on earth: The Ωstrich. At the neverending end of the fucking world, what is there to do but beat off the blues and kill that stupid fucking bird once and for all? That is, until repressed horrors bubble up from the tarpits of the old world to finally break Hyena-Man beyond all hope. HARD TIMES AT THE APROSTATE CRATER is a serialized weird-horror hybrid-novel, roadkill tap-dancing at the intersection of Grant Morrison comics, Disco Elysium, Looney Toons, transsexual extremity fiction, and 80s pop diva music. An erotic-psychotic episode for the end times, grasping for hope while circling the drain of despair and collapse.
November 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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cfpharmd.bsky.social
Sundown in San Ojuela by M.M. Olivas is a creepy tale of Aztec folklore merged with modern day family secrets. Unique and unsettling. #Horror #BookSky 💙📚 #SSBA2025
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@lfpbooks.bsky.social @specawards.bsky.social

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Book cover of Sundown in San Ojuela by M.M. Olivas. Green cactus like monster arms with red claws next to an actual cactus. That sounds weird, but it’s gorgeous!
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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A wonderful discussion full of interesting and distinct perspectives on writing, advocacy, and imagination. www.youtube.com/live/7Mt4KAU...

@charliejane.bsky.social @olivasthewriter.bsky.social @tuck.bsky.social @codysiscowrites.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Tonight, hear from three wildly imaginative writers @olivasthewriter.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @tuck.bsky.social online with @bookswellclub.bsky.social and WeHo Reads www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
olivasthewriter.bsky.social
I've seen a lot of posts criticising GDT's choices for adapting Frankenstein, but I haven't seen ppl talk Abt how he's not just adapting Mary Shelly's novel. He made a love letter to ALL of Frankenstein's history, literary and cinematic.
He never set out to adapt just the original work.
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
olivasthewriter.bsky.social
If anyone knows me, they know I think Gretchen is one of the best and insightful horror writers in the business. This is such an honor ✨🩸🦷
scumbelievable.bsky.social Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17d
Reading SUNDOWN IN SAN OJUELA by my girl @olivasthewriter.bsky.social and boy can she spit. This is how it's done.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Reading SUNDOWN IN SAN OJUELA by my girl @olivasthewriter.bsky.social and boy can she spit. This is how it's done.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
olivasthewriter.bsky.social
The ppl of Bluesky should also have the pleasure of seeing my Frank N Further Halloween costume ~
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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thedoomshine.social
gender is a performance and im
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!

No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks

The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
Start Here (2025 Edition)
Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…
thetransfemininereview.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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lpkindred.bsky.social
And don't forget to check out her debut novel which is also from Lanternfish, SUNFOWN IN SAN OJUELA! [3.85 pm Goodreads and you know they're haters!]

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Sundown in San Ojuela by M.M. Olivas — Lanternfish Press
When the death of her aunt brings Liz back to San Ojuela, the site of a harrowing childhood accident that left her clairvoyant, she discovers a desolate landscape where monsters and ancient gods stalk...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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lpkindred.bsky.social
Collection, SANGRONAS AND OTHER THINGS WITH TEETH, from @lfpbooks.bsky.social in 2027! The collection's titular story is ¡SANGRONAS UNA LISTA DE TERROR! from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social last year and a @theignyteawards.bsky.social nominee for best novelette!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/sang...
¡Sangronas! Un Lista de Terror - Uncanny Magazine
Content Note: Queerphobia, religious trauma, police brutality, violence towards animals, domestic violence, & the sexualization of feminine bodies   I Our Most Detestable Shape Never forget you are th...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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lpkindred.bsky.social
Guess who's lil sis got a collection announcement st thr apex of spooky season!?!?

Mine!

Yes, I'm making this about me because her debut debuted on my birthday, stealing Thunder but, if I am anything, I'm a gracious older brother.

Checkout the announcement for @olivasthewriter.bsky.social debut
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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tkrex.bsky.social
So excited about this one
November 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
olivasthewriter.bsky.social
"My best-case scenario, Eleanor, is hair everywhere but my eyeballs, elongation of my spine until my skin splits, teats, and a growing tolerance, maybe even affection for, the smell and taste of feces - not just my own - and then, excruciating death."
November 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
olivasthewriter.bsky.social
YALL I CAN FINALLY SAY IT:
I have a short story collection coming out!!
Full with aztech God mechs, a t girl feeding memories to a man made of teeth, vampire lesbians, and more~
Stay tuned, ghouls~
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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lfpbooks.bsky.social
We have a special Halloween announcement:

Lanternfish Press is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the first short story collection by M.M. Olivas, Sangronas And Other Things With Teeth, for publication in Spring-Summer 2027.

Learn more: lanternfishpress.com/news/2025/10...
Acquisition: Short story collection by Ignyte finalist M.M. Olivas — Lanternfish Press
Lanternfish Press is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the first short story collection by M.M. Olivas, Sangronas And Other Things With Teeth , for publication in Spring-Summer 2027.
lanternfishpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
olivasthewriter.bsky.social
Literally so honored to be apart of this list. The transfeminine review has done wonders highlighting the work of our community 🖤🖤🖤🦷🦷🦷🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🩸🩸🙏🏽🦇
thetransfemininereview.com The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 28d
As the dread day approaches and the spirits begin to stir, now is the perfect time to hunker down with a horror novel! 😈🗡️

This Halloween, TFR shares twelve chilling tales from transfemme authors to match the mood 🖤

A handcrafted rec list with a scariness rating for each book.

#halloween #horror
12 Chilling Books by Transfemmes to Read This Halloween (CW #16)
Tales of Nazi censorship, haunted houses, and mushroom cults to keep you up at night.
thetransfemininereview.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
As the dread day approaches and the spirits begin to stir, now is the perfect time to hunker down with a horror novel! 😈🗡️

This Halloween, TFR shares twelve chilling tales from transfemme authors to match the mood 🖤

A handcrafted rec list with a scariness rating for each book.

#halloween #horror
12 Chilling Books by Transfemmes to Read This Halloween (CW #16)
Tales of Nazi censorship, haunted houses, and mushroom cults to keep you up at night.
thetransfemininereview.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
olivasthewriter.bsky.social
I knew Del Torro wouldn't disappoint me in making the Monster fuckable 🙏🏽
October 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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TONIGHT!
tamikathompson.bsky.social Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social · Oct 20
Got your pre-Halloween plans sorted? Add this to the agenda: "Scary Stories by the Campfire!"
​I'll be reading alongside @kristinaten.bsky.social, Cynthia Gomez, & @olivasthewriter.bsky.social THIS FRIDAY, 10/24 at Tally Ho Bookstore.

Join us! You won't regret it... probably.

#HorrorReads
October 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Hey party people, someone broke in while I was sleeping and stole my laptop. My books are all backed up, thank God, but my renter's insurance has a high deductible and if you like my work I'd appreciate some support right now

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October 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM